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mircea_popescu: i am probably responsible for more throat cancer than any other one man.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves that thing has been in the top 3 since i wrote it.
mircea_popescu: after three days of constant hammering of two different articles on trilema (the buffett and the sec), my third most read item ?
mircea_popescu: here's a sad commentary on the power of media, social or otherwise :
mircea_popescu: and more good cocks have been ruined by programming than dope.
mircea_popescu: "you should brathe and do other normally, naturally occuring things. except not shit on the carpet"
mircea_popescu: nubbins` consider the case of, here's this woman and she'll do anything you tell her to do, and nothing else. at least as best she can help it. what now ?
mircea_popescu: anyway the common encounter with runaway systematic complexity is for most people in computer programming
mircea_popescu: by now my shit is too complex for me to even say, and i don't even code ;/
mircea_popescu: anyway, this resulted from a interpretation of a moslty unrelated standing order i gave.
mircea_popescu: you probably made a bet that the mod judged as having zero chances in hell of coming out no and you put your money on yes
mircea_popescu: that's why it's not happening, when i talk to him here i'm talking to "aspirational 19yo indian kid"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves amusingly, it's exactly the converse. in public he can stand symbolic, in private he can't be more than just himself.
mircea_popescu: "bitcoin will solve the problems of wealth inequality" like hell it will
mircea_popescu: symptomatically... the people who will most get raped tend to flock to it and do a bunch of ablutions pretending like it's the opposite
mircea_popescu: anyway, anonimity, privacy, these are categories amply disrupted by bitcoin i would say
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves basically "Privacy exists as a hiding place for the deviant, so as to have a space where his inadequacy to the rules isn’t directly, painfully or dangerously visible. At least within some limits there’s nothing wrong with that (but it does carry the seeds of insanity)."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform remind me to tell you the icecream joke. it's one of my favs, but it has to be performed rather than told, so.
mircea_popescu: well no, but i never cared to think about these items before it seems
mircea_popescu: leah derpman is still "hiding for her lyf" and she didn't even talk to me, so well it worked.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, and that'll go over so fucking well with me, i can see it already.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves to be flatly honest, i suspect these just aren't matters that anyone over there ever considered. at all.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so then how can what he says be useful or meaningful ?
mircea_popescu: there's been a digital revolution since, which they've been covering ad nauseam ever since hte days of the information superhighway
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves yet the value of my work, as public as it is, far exceeds the value of his work.
mircea_popescu: i mean wasn't anything of much interest, i guess, and i'm trying to be hospitable/accomodating to the strange mores of these foreign peoples,
mircea_popescu: "outperformed almost everythjing except for mpex stocks which we don't talk about because they suck because they suck because they suck because they have been outperforming all our retarded shit for three years straight now and mp is an asshole who fucks a lot of women and is currently paying one with a huge rack to humiliate us in public so fuck that shit mate!11"
mircea_popescu: he's a lumberjack and he's okay, he sleeps all night an' he chats all day...
mircea_popescu: nubbins` both are trying to make it so their "achievement" such as it is gets more and more difficult to replicate as time goes by.
mircea_popescu: everyone's a conservative until they become the richest guy in the valley, at which point their concern suddenly becomes "what if all these thirtysomething conservatives do what i do only better ? QUICK! TO THE LIBTARD MOBILE!"
mircea_popescu: this'd be universally true of everyone tho. nobody has a clue what it's like before it's like...
mircea_popescu: if there's no large party by god you will hjave to gather the wood and strike the tinder.
mircea_popescu: chetty while it's true that you could cook your pot of beans in the cinders of someone else's large party,
mircea_popescu: im sure he doesn't like tits-pr. me... i'm an abstraction.
mircea_popescu: i experience the world through it commenting on my blog.
mircea_popescu: y other anti cis activist I did nothing,finished my workout and just bitched on tumblr.it was as if I could hear Gertrude Stein saying..Bravo…Bravo…"
mircea_popescu: "Yesterday as I walked to the gym, I saw that all the treadmills were occupied by fatties. so I chose the stairmaster/step machine for a try. to my surprise I saw that you could set your gender only with two options! male and female! I was outraged because although I was assigned a male because of my very big dick I identify with leopard slugs which are hermaphrodites with penises on the back of their heads! so like an
mircea_popescu: which is true. there is a lot of fludity in human gender, and it is a lot of a function of environment