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mircea_popescu: apparently the need to belong beats clothing and shelter.
mircea_popescu: take a shy chick to the nude beach, she'll usually rather part with the clothing than be considered a loser by the other chicks.
mircea_popescu: it's what informs all the god-awful "pr" everyone else is doing.
mircea_popescu: but as ridiculous as it may seem, a lot of older people have serious trouble coping with the idea that well... not everybody is going to like them. no matter what they do.
mircea_popescu: as if, you know. everybody loves raymond or some shit.
mircea_popescu: to the degree they can't even write for the internet. what if someone doesn't like what they say!!1
mircea_popescu: old people are for some reason really really concerned with libel
mircea_popescu: srsly now, as an engineer, if you're any good and you got to be old, how the fuck would you actually need a salary
mircea_popescu: i usually go listen, forgot about that, it's not your job, let the girls handle it etc.
mircea_popescu: from the pr stuff. otherwise they end up moping and all indignant
mircea_popescu: it's very visible to me because i have to be veeehehery careful to insulate the older (mostly engineering) people working for me
mircea_popescu: so in a sense, it's a quid pro quo, and taleb is captive of his generation.
mircea_popescu: "how could he say i fuck donkeys in my spare time!111"
mircea_popescu: meanwhile however, they are experts at handling what's called "trolling"
mircea_popescu: we easily laugh at kids today because they're wimps, no experience with physical violence, completely unable to cope with physical reality.
mircea_popescu: JorgePasada i think this comes with the territory of being old. in the following specific sense :
mircea_popescu: <Mats_cd03> i need business to start a money << hahaha epic.
mircea_popescu: JorgePasada does have a point, he does read a little bitter.
mircea_popescu: seeing how the more people read the more their fixed costs go up.
mircea_popescu: vice doesn't really have much interest in making it easy for people to read, either,
mircea_popescu: i get it that impotence is a major problem there, both culturally and sexually, but that's scarcely an excuse.
mircea_popescu: this bullshit whereby a clueless shit will "invent" something and the world will "adapt" to it is sheer usinsanity.
mircea_popescu: and no, it's not that we've adapted to the lines. the lines are adapted to us.
mircea_popescu: plenty of "smarter than necessary" folk came up with lines that went 123 654 789 etc
mircea_popescu: "but moving eyes from end to begin of line must add cognitive load"
mircea_popescu: scrolling is not unlike the revolutionary notion of having sentences broken up on lines on the written page
mircea_popescu: i can't even remember, i liked the guy since i was 14 or so
mircea_popescu: you think if i get alzhimers' when im 95 that'll change the 2013 articles on trilema in any way ?
mircea_popescu: the letters are old, and as respectable as they ever were.
mircea_popescu: read that whole set, you'll be ahead of about half the group of folk that identify as finance-anythign
mircea_popescu: can you imagine how shocked the aliens/reptillians/illuminati/etc watching this will be
mircea_popescu: before that back in 2012 he was going to post pics of his mining farm
mircea_popescu: yeah, he was going to sue pirate, he is going to sue garr,
mircea_popescu: so has goat. so has gigavps. so has teh bitcoin foundation. around scamming for quite some time now.
mircea_popescu: or maybe they just have a dartboard and throw darts at it each day
mircea_popescu: aren;'t these the guys that stole the "investors" equity to cover for the previous time they got owned ?
mircea_popescu: o, that was my only one time in that chain, i have no idea what they serve
mircea_popescu: blond lead vocal guy couldn't quite decide if he wanted to do an elvis impersonation or not
mircea_popescu: then people from the bar were coming to me to ask me to ask the band to play songs
mircea_popescu: anyway, it was funny, i was wearing a suit, struck up a conversation with a band in a bar,