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mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves maybe. was there a bubble last summer ?
mircea_popescu: im sure the practicak difference between acquittal and conviction is less than the difference between his life pre and post that nonsense.
mircea_popescu: putin the redbeard, the norwegian rapist cum invader ?
mircea_popescu: who are the hillbillies going to support ? bigus dickus, the roman bureaucrat ?
mircea_popescu: This also gives some credibility to the thesis that was popping up in the 19th century that the North African Jews had a Phoenician origin (or that the difference between Canaanite and Jew before the rabbinical period was not very pronounced for p
mircea_popescu: is wasy for a Punic speaker to progressively become an Arabic speaker, since he already knows 80-90% of the vocabulary.
mircea_popescu: This explains the mystery of the effortless Arab invasion of the Southern and Western Mediterranean, all the way to Spain (and, less advertised, the Portuguese Algarve). They had to be welcomed by the local population along the coast. Canaanite and Arabic are easily mutually comprehensible (the distance between Semitic languages is very short, a corrollary of the stability thanks to the triplet of consonnants). And it
mircea_popescu: e Romans did not make names, but transcribed them). I estimate that the third of the coastal villages spoke Semitic dialects. The modus of the Phoenicians was network, hence a system of trade links built on trust (you send merchandise to a relative who pays you back; you needed a certain amount of trust before the letter of credit). The region is large: it extends all the way to Mogador on the Atlantic coast.
mircea_popescu: anguage at home and for oral communication that is different from the language of writing, and doing so for 1000 years). And there had to be plenty of Semitic language speakers; just follow placenames from Carthage to Ramatuelle in France near Saint Tropez (ramat el means hill of God in both Canaanite and Hebrew). Even Marseilles seems to come from Marsa, port in Canaanite (and not from Massilia the Roman name since th
mircea_popescu: This stickiness of the Semitic languages supports a speculation: by the 7th Century there had to be many pockets in the Western Mediterranean of Punic-Canaanite speakers, about a thousand years after the fall of Carthage. Falling under Roman rule did not turn the population into Latin speakers (only for scholarly purposes, say Saint Augustine of Hyppo; we have much evidence of diglossia in the Levant, of the use of a l
mircea_popescu: let me interject something related i was just happening to read. a bit of a paste :
mircea_popescu: just you know, sink all its cruisers and impose a massive war reparations programme.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i don't imagine anyone would be invading the us.
mircea_popescu: I hear that beat; I jump outa my seat but I can't compete, cause I'm a dancin' fool, I'm a dancin' fool
mircea_popescu: But I go dancin' every night hopin' one day I might get it right
mircea_popescu: 'Course now right along with 'em I got no natural rhythm
mircea_popescu: One of my legs is shorter than the other 'n both my feet's too long
mircea_popescu: Don't know much about dancin' that's why I got this song
mircea_popescu: this reads to me like "the us cook force no longer trains sauce chefs in flour-and-oil saucing"
mircea_popescu: "The U.S. Air Force, for example, no longer trains navigators in celestial sightings,"
mircea_popescu: it looks like they're announcing a new bitcoin credit card
mircea_popescu: bashed 102 quotes with 4440 votes < this is like.. not bad is it.
mircea_popescu: the stones from the earth have spoken through the kako
mircea_popescu: that'd be the case if there existed no spot. as it is, he lost 50 bux or w/e the spot was
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it wasn't ever a very high amt or anything.
mircea_popescu: i'm exactly the opposite of a bureaucracy, fucking impredictible by design
mircea_popescu: and why the majority of "actors" in "business" hate my and my model
mircea_popescu: this fucking article explains both why ycombinator is such a shitpile
mircea_popescu: n equilibrium among insects, reptiles, or humans. Expect more unexpected recessions, just not real soon, and not in subprime housing."
mircea_popescu: "This suggests focusing on robustness, as opposed to prediction, because the system works against rational expectations, especially those consensus ideas that come out of large bureaucracies. After all, what better sufficient statistic for a mimic to exploit than some well-known regulatory bullet point that supposedly ensures trivial risk? Recessions are not going away; they are endogenous because zero mimicry is not a
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no but the symmetry see ? white/white for liberals/normal ppl, mirrored in the suka/suka for english/russian
mircea_popescu: o btw, to note down the 2nd kicker in my thing, for they who do not speak russki :
mircea_popescu: A bedouin lost in the desert stumbled on the lawn / Obama assured him that if he likes his water,
mircea_popescu: There was once a great storm / Which moved the White House to the desert of Sahara
mircea_popescu: i fell for hruschev and married him / turned out his cock was a cobb
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't even have noticed it's trying to be had you not said so :D
mircea_popescu: "we caught up with the us on milk ; we're behind on meat, our bull's cock [is] broke"
mircea_popescu: Feb 14 03:12:12 the herbi argument you quote | Feb 15 10:41:31 <mircea_popescu>pankkake pls to pay to BingoBoingo 100k atc, let's see what he can do.