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mircea_popescu: mebbe by autumn i feel like clearing my ignore list again or something.
mircea_popescu: so now stfu for a few months and spend hours reading the logs.
mircea_popescu: ideally you want a 1k to 1 read:written lines ☟︎
mircea_popescu: ninjashogun anyway, you talk too much.
mircea_popescu: you're confused.
mircea_popescu: old people buy spamvertised dietary supplements and so on
mircea_popescu: we're old people.
mircea_popescu: silent circle ?
mircea_popescu: no, you could radically overestimate how much you understand of what's being discussed.
mircea_popescu: lol k
mircea_popescu: you're in a very poor position to evaluate any of these contingencies.
mircea_popescu: lmao this reminds me of the original tucker max wage fixing story.
mircea_popescu: http://pando.com/2014/01/23/the-techtopus-how-silicon-valleys-most-celebrated-ceos-conspired-to-drive-down-100000-tech-engineers-wages/
mircea_popescu: diametric i love it too hehe
mircea_popescu: for some reason he has a hardon for slashdot
mircea_popescu: one or the other
mircea_popescu: or hacker news
mircea_popescu: hos network
mircea_popescu: http://31.media.tumblr.com/e6dc76047ffec4f107c5d9e99de80c14/tumblr_ml1px0eVbl1sn68hmo1_1280.jpg
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete now the work of submitting to hn and the smokinggun and so on begins :D
mircea_popescu: "it made me so miserable that life seemed worthless" and so on
mircea_popescu: a major cultural shock, that.
mircea_popescu: when otherwise nice, smart guys realised that they had literally killed hundreds of women
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually dr semmelweis is a major moment in the cultural history of medicine
mircea_popescu: i tihnk it's been enough for a day tbh.
mircea_popescu: i despise the entire thinking process that got you there.
mircea_popescu: leveraged security is like pretty cool
mircea_popescu: yeah, leverage.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo bout a dozen in the bucharest residentura.
mircea_popescu: a javascript pki tunnel
mircea_popescu: apparently somehow they still don't see me coming, it's fascinating.
mircea_popescu: the entire social stack was unprepared.
mircea_popescu: she was utterly unprepared, from what i hear.
mircea_popescu: diametric why so ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so what was so bad about independence ? (trying to educate myself)
mircea_popescu: how did that split ? 15/85 ?
mircea_popescu: yes, there was a referendum neh ?
mircea_popescu: but srsly, what are your politics on the matter ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, did you vote ? :p
mircea_popescu: could even be an app
mircea_popescu: definitely.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform have an aspirin.
mircea_popescu: with the dongle as a central server
mircea_popescu: to further save costs, the entire thing could be done over the web, as an app
mircea_popescu: im starting to like pando
mircea_popescu: this is like remarkably good.
mircea_popescu: http://pando.com/2014/02/24/everything-you-know-about-ukraine-is-wrong/
mircea_popescu: half why i even keep that blog, if i didn't write the shit up i'd end up forgetting it all.
mircea_popescu: me too
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform did i actually write that ?!
mircea_popescu: hahaha
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i recall he was prepping for some surgery i hope they didn't end up cutting the wrong part.
mircea_popescu: ninjashogun people who don't have to supervise their own humours to please a third party behave differently than the us norm.
mircea_popescu: where did pankkake disappear to anyway
mircea_popescu: no, on porn.
mircea_popescu: but i know plenty of hungarian folk that really killed it in the 90s
mircea_popescu: each his own
mircea_popescu: every country ends up doing something. while hungary owned porn romania owned computers.
mircea_popescu: doesn't seem likely you'll ever know that.
mircea_popescu: ungary is a tiny country.
mircea_popescu: and a bunch of other stuff.
mircea_popescu: so is gecad
mircea_popescu: i dunno, rav for instance is a romanian startup
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i thought they had interwebs too, no ?
mircea_popescu: what's a socioeconomic perspective
mircea_popescu: they get free food and net access afaik
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i wonder why not more people starting businesses from inside a us prison
mircea_popescu: so not really any sort of lottery.
mircea_popescu: technically speaking the cards in the deck are a deterministic machine
mircea_popescu: and evil.
mircea_popescu: well, not a bad way to spend a life.
mircea_popescu: generally, the prisons are full of people who perceived they can't afford to play their chosen game and decided to try and play anyway.
mircea_popescu: as it is you're proceeding on a very poor sample
mircea_popescu: well, they'd be the use to you that they'd give you a useful picture of the world.
mircea_popescu: you don't know the names of all the dudes that you don't know the names of.
mircea_popescu: you only know the names of these dudes because you know the names of these dudes.
mircea_popescu: no listen.
mircea_popescu: ninjashogun you know what the selection fallacy is ?
mircea_popescu: maybe we should have a bet : katecraig wood delivers before yarvin's submarine plane stops leaking.
mircea_popescu: still leaking ?
mircea_popescu: how's the esteemed mr yarvin these days ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i thought you used to be a duke
mircea_popescu: well once your hardwar estart-up succeeds this will be pretty epic material.
mircea_popescu: incredible.
mircea_popescu: that's a very small amount of harem right htere.
mircea_popescu: 150/month living arrangements ?!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think you have to have a residence and income
mircea_popescu: how great is this, they've invented the free lunch (again)
mircea_popescu: so if it's valuable to X, why should Y pay for it ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "Access to a special education classroom, often called a "self-contained classroom or resource room", is valuable to the student with a disability."
mircea_popescu: they can harp about obscure currency nobody heard about, they still won't bow to bitcoin
mircea_popescu: fuckwits
mircea_popescu: "We survive on donations averaging about 50 lei. Now is the time we ask. If everyone reading this right now gave 25 lei, our fundraiser would be done within an hour."
mircea_popescu: i wish us schools went back to teaching logic and shit instead of all this self esteem and marketing bs they do
mircea_popescu: so you're zuck now ?!
mircea_popescu: what's this, risk taking for fun and profit
mircea_popescu: you're on to creating counterfactuals about me now ?!
mircea_popescu: woz was never a billionaire.
mircea_popescu: now tell me again about "the environment"
mircea_popescu: that comes down to... 7 dollars an hour.