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mircea_popescu: anyway, this has all been very exciting but i'll have to bid you all a very good morning.
mircea_popescu: benkay one doesn't get too far in life by paying any heed to the youth.
mircea_popescu: punkman1 well, it was known since t+1second, but it's good someone actually put it in writing, so to speak.
mircea_popescu: an earnest hussy looking for a husband'd seem a lot more respectable than a pretentious priss pretending she belongs in tech or government or w/e.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes. and he catalogued them into "martini" and "gin"
mircea_popescu: it's a wholly innovative, verily incisive bit of us-science.
mircea_popescu: "2) Fairness/cheating: This foundation is related to the evolutionary process of reciprocal altruism."
mircea_popescu: "1) Care/harm: This foundation is related to our long evolution as mammals with attachment systems and an ability to feel (and dislike) the pain of others. It underlies virtues of kindness, gentleness, and nurturance."
mircea_popescu: no wonder painting is dead as an art. who, or should i say what, to paint ?
mircea_popescu: i'm being persecuted in effigy by wikipedia james blond.
mircea_popescu: "b) is actually Romanian, and perhaps in some relation to the Romanian Foreign service."
mircea_popescu: it's not the woman that's intimidating, of course. but she looks like the sort of men that'd pursue her might kill you
mircea_popescu: don't go up and strike a conversation with the tall woman. why not ? well...
mircea_popescu: maybe what the real problem is has more to do with lions. as long as we sit put and do nothing, a lot of pointless, small, provably impotent nothing...
mircea_popescu: his ready answer is that "The distressing possibility that the oldster agreed to be on the committee so that he would have a venue in which people would listen to him does not occur to the youngster."
mircea_popescu: "This oldster has tenure. He draws the same salary regardless of whether he sits through those interminable boring committee meetings. Why would he agree to do it? Why wouldn't he rather be playing squash, riding a horse, flying an aircraft, walking his dog, etc.?"
mircea_popescu: but it's the pointlessness of the activity that strikes me.
mircea_popescu: people derping about evil government have it all wrong. people WANT to spend their time toiling pointlessly, with small tools.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the more fascinating observation, reviewing this bowlfull of guts irc has graciously thrown at me, is just how... innate! the bureaucratic behaviour is.
mircea_popescu: not unrelated to "where can i read all about the english language ?" "uh... just pick up a book ?" "what if it sucks ?" "... what do you want from me!"
mircea_popescu: i think this convo may actually become canonical link-to for future people who have the problem.
mircea_popescu: the beauty of life on earth is that no one has infinite time.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there are probably numerous better uses fdor your time
mircea_popescu: that you can't figure out that it is reliable and relevant doesn't make it the opposite.
mircea_popescu: chetty i guess, if he were specifically a journalist looking for how to behave in the new, post-fiat world.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you dun have to proveanything, just do something that works.
mircea_popescu: " Dem State Senator Who Authored Gun Control Legislation Arrested for Conspiring to Traffic Firearms"
mircea_popescu: the time you spend reading that stupid fluff will be the best roi of your life.
mircea_popescu: velly it may seem preposterous to begin with, but take the word of a stranger in a chatroom :
mircea_popescu: velly not really. it's like a monk's life, you know ? no way to separate the learning from the toil.
mircea_popescu: but i gather the consensus was, dump everything on lampelina and then scream at her for it not being right.
mircea_popescu: "In 1995, Erik started a journalism watch-group project on the web, campaigning to get a journalist sacked from Aftenposten following the publication of a sensationalist story about how Internet Relay Chat channels were used to trade child pornography."
mircea_popescu: check out asciilifeform : ten contributions since 2006.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bitcoinpete i'm not so crazy about your spacing and formatting of irc snippets
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 either a) people are insane ; b) there's more afoot than meets the eye ; or c) the options were perceived as more of a risk source than revenue source.
mircea_popescu: benkay you know how many people ask me about random x y z "wall street outfit" that's going to make an options market and whart do i think etc ?
mircea_popescu: not atm anyway. but yes, if you want to mm options we can work it out