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mircea_popescu: this is perhaps the best i've read on the topic, for any value of best equal "entertaining due to the propaganda dial being turned to such 11, the insanity of the whole process becomes obvious even to the casual observer resulting in an unintentional self-parody quality"
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bitcoinpete you've seen the mainstage production of tom green's freddie got fingered ?! that existed ?!
mircea_popescu: dignork anyway, the honest answer is that i've greatly overstated what's likely happenstance to make an otherwise valid and much more general point.
mircea_popescu: well why do i speak english, im not from scotland, you know ?
mircea_popescu: jurov so how's that look, is the guy winning or what ?
mircea_popescu: apple aren't engineers, they're like yahoo. a media buying company.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform guy shoulda started a police department instead of a frozen yogurt brand.
mircea_popescu: me either. but from reading this i can't imagine the woman under 200ish lbs
mircea_popescu: so basically in rothbard's reading, this rand character is the quintessential balabusta, a staid, obnoxious, overarching yet profoundly ignorant and puritanical fat old woman.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` supposedly this is how art evolves. mistakes end up baked in by their success.
mircea_popescu: ahaha this shit's too good. did this one actually happen ?
mircea_popescu: it could be inspected in detail, his doom as a member of the movement was effectively sealed."
mircea_popescu: information and after spending a sleepless night, the girl rushed to inform the top leadership of this terrible transgression. Promptly, the leading participants were called on the carpet by their Objectivist Psychotherapist and bitterly denounced in their "therapy" sessions: "After all," said the therapist, "you wouldn’t mock God." When the owner of the tape refused the therapist’s demand to relinquish it so that
mircea_popescu: "Driven by their conception of rational duty, every Randian lived in – and indeed was himself – a community of spies and informers, ready to ferret out and denounce any deviations from Randian doctrine. Thus, one time a Randian, walking with a girl friend, told her that he had attended a party at which several Randians had made an impromptu tape imitating the voices of the top Randian leaders. Stricken by this dire
mircea_popescu: which you know, is what the economy of the bankrupt world degenerated into, the economy of views. of which unit of account is one "mom look at me! mom look! mo-om!"
mircea_popescu: im sure while it fails to produce much coin if at all, it produces tons of definitely very valuable "views"
mircea_popescu: it yields the illusion of being "part of the community"
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic was it just a renamed backoriffice for maximal lulz ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves someone was saying a few days ago about all the bitching that thing caused in ##mtgox
mircea_popescu: notrly, let enough do that then slap a surcharge on them
mircea_popescu: chris christie wants to protect his career, he can't piss off the larger players
mircea_popescu: also, afaik nj is an important lobby stronghold for importers in that market.
mircea_popescu: but the middle man makes some money, of which it pays some money.
mircea_popescu: nj wants to extract taxes out of the deal. if nj people get hurt, nj wants to profit at least.
mircea_popescu: "In a development eerily reminiscent of the organized hatred directed against the arch-heretic Emanuel Goldstein in Orwell’s 1984, Rand cultists were required to sign a loyalty oath to Rand; essential to the loyalty oath was a declaration that the signer would henceforth never read any future works of the apostate and arch-heretic Branden."
mircea_popescu: (quote via rockwell's restatement of rothbard's rand commentary)
mircea_popescu: open source infallibility, the notion that wikipedia is in any sense an encyclopedia, everyone's obsession with crowd-sourcing and usg...
mircea_popescu: people firmly believe that codebases magically improve just by adding to them the *possibility* that someone might have read them
mircea_popescu: amusingly, this is narrowly mirrored by the all too fashionable ideea these days that there's some sort of wisdo min the crowds.
mircea_popescu: "Lenin seems to have believed that the party, as organized consciousness, consciousness as a decision-making machinery, had superior reasoning power. Indeed, in time this collective body took on an aura of infallibility, which was later elevated to a dogma, and a member’s loyalty was tested, in part, by his acceptance of it. It became part of the communist confession of faith to proclaim that the party was never wron
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bitcoinpete ah i see it's in the footnote. but yeah, the select from a page process is very dubious (natural languages don't have equally distributed words, it's actually how zipf curves were discovered in the first palce)
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bitcoinpete bt otherwise your article suffers from a very strangely naive approach. ever heard of a dicelist ?
mircea_popescu: you can never get the shrimp properly cooked other than in a cast iron pot.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bitcoinpete yul killed in that king of siam role :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform currently a 21 inch dell thing. i used to have a splendid 24 inch sony but hey.
mircea_popescu: pLambert well yeah, but still. what's the average dividend across nyse index, 1950 to 1970 ?
mircea_popescu: a sad sympthom of a cash starved community of shoelace investors.
mircea_popescu: Mar 04 11:22:27 <assbot>[MPEX] [S.MPOE] [PAID] 4,050.17291466 BTC to 500`000`000 shares, 810 satoshi per share
mircea_popescu: pLambert no, the way this is done is that dividends and contracts list the share count.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` but you're controlling the print process, what's the client to do
mircea_popescu: nubbins` an electron cannon you can actually calibrate to work.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you know designers/print process ppl etc mostly use crts to this day
mircea_popescu: and a good crt is way better than the best lcd/lft we you'll ever find.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform or live in a country where they fix shit.
mircea_popescu: most people just leave the stuff outside on set dates for the dump workers to collect it (they get the respective cents themselkves, sort of like a tip)
mircea_popescu: yeah, they mostly reuse them. as long as you give it up clean/sorted (ie, not covered in rotten meatjuices or w/e common garbage) they usually give you a few cents/kg
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this was if memory serves a 1992 seagate.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic ayup. the magic that you know and love as my endless spam is hatched on electron excitated phosphorus coatings.
mircea_popescu: i may be the only buyer left for spun drives and crt monitors in a 100 mile radius