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mircea_popescu: <artifexd> Does a gag order require denying such a gag order exists? << usually.
mircea_popescu: meaning any info you upload to them, such as bank acct numbers, id scans, etc, is now held by the usg and by all the hacker groups.
mircea_popescu: they're also insecure, and have been hacked repeatedly,
mircea_popescu: artifexd it's a real thing. coindesk dumps all its data daily.
mircea_popescu: "all 12 men to have walked on the moon were either eldest or only children"
mircea_popescu: kinda why regressive tax is actually the only way for national/polis stability. it acts as a de facto offer.
mircea_popescu: also known as the view that locations have to make you offers, rather than vice-versa.
mircea_popescu: principally due to the important benefits one derives from... rootless cosmopolitanism,
mircea_popescu: spanish/european jooz were the merchant class pretty much.
mircea_popescu: there are people you do not mess with, or else your head.
mircea_popescu: they did the same exact mistake, much higher scale : got all the gold, pestered the jews,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform depending on what measure of wealth you use. but if you consider % of extant gold shipped to capitol, the us is way behind england, rome and pretty much every empire in between
mircea_popescu: buncha smartasses went wild coupla years ago, made coin*, base, desk, lab, what have you
mircea_popescu: fluffypony they're only different if you're into splitting hairs. otherwise, same people.
mircea_popescu: i mean i get it, the average us peon thinks oprah is one of the richest people in the history of the world,
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, none of this matters in any actual sense.
mircea_popescu: the whatsapp had "users", airbnb is "a success", coindesk is being pumped by gigaom as "relevant" and coindesk has a lot of users and etc.
mircea_popescu: there's no argbument that the us-based vc-scammers are very good at what they do : faking numbers.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony i guess after my extradition i can STILL make more than the average forum guy.
mircea_popescu: women stuff. it's incomprehensible, but required for a functioning society.
mircea_popescu: apparently 1mn buys you 2k sq feet of premium housing there.
mircea_popescu: all that followed followed from this simple principle, a hundred men wanted to sort out who sits where in the forum.
mircea_popescu: but the entire roman republic, pre empire, can be correctly summarized as a set of benches somewhere, and people vying for position on the best bench.
mircea_popescu: Having been both a student and teacher at MIT, my personal explanation for men going into science is the following: young men strive to achieve high status among their peer group ; men tend to lack perspective and are unable to step back and ask the question "is this peer group worth impressing?"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves all counted i would estimate there's between 100k and 500k popescus alive today.
mircea_popescu: "A lot more men than women choose to do seemingly irrational things such as become petty criminals, fly homebuilt helicopters, play video games, and keep tropical fish as pets (98 percent of the attendees at the American Cichlid Association convention that I last attended were male). Should we be surprised that it is mostly men who spend 10 years banging their heads against an equation-filled blackboard in hopes of lan
mircea_popescu: i guess this sort of scum populating the underbelly of the internet that makes up the redditors and wikipedians and bitcoin forum "investors" and quora experts and seo experts and so on and so forth
mircea_popescu: lol fucking spammer mental process. "it's close, only 3 bits of difference!!1"
mircea_popescu: "i'm the boyfriend of that chick you picked up at a traffic stop in 2011 ASSHOLE!11"
mircea_popescu: people no longer have the common fucking decency to self-identify when they're butthurt
mircea_popescu: mine was an entypus too, im pretty sure, but not exactly this one.
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> that's no criteria. obama has been trying to be a president for a while, he still sucks at it.
mircea_popescu: <ghengis_khan> because ive been doing it for 15 years now
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in #blackhatworld on irc.blackhatworld.com :
mircea_popescu: In December 2010, it was revealed that Sterling had been heckling his own players from his courtside seats, specifically focusing on point guard Baron Davis
mircea_popescu: Sterling once said he did not like to rent to Hispanics because they "smoke, drink and just hang around the building," and that "Black tenants smell and attract vermin."