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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
mircea_popescu: as far as i recall bitcoin's most exciting ipo to date.
mircea_popescu: you remember bitcoin consultancy, i'm sure. the thing which is still liable for bitcoinica loss. you remember bitcoinica, i'm sure. the dry run for the mtgox fiasco.
mircea_popescu: "these girls are really horny and excited about doing this."
mircea_popescu: stock is announced, people put bids in, stock is issued, then it trades.
mircea_popescu: TestingUnoDosTre what about stock distributions were you asking ?
mircea_popescu: i can't wrap my head around the notion someone seriously considered that thing is an article.
mircea_popescu: i guess if one provides employees wikipedia links that should count as anticonceptionals under obamacare ?
mircea_popescu: i can't believe they're discussing each other's intentions as a pre-requisite to discussing whether they should be discussing if the thing should be discussed.
mircea_popescu: maybe there is hope for our "stfu and go read for six months" approach to life.
mircea_popescu: heh you know what, this mess gives me hope. if wikipedia can be this insanely nutty/bureaucratic/fastidious and survive
mircea_popescu: jeez look at that, the discussing it page is larger than the actual article.