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mircea_popescu: actually, you may get a kick out of reading his (obviously very valuable) instructions and teachings.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the nom de guerre / plume of some particularly unhinged pick up artist guy
mircea_popescu: ha! trilema the rift guild makes ~600 satoshi a day in taxes.
mircea_popescu: in most countries cable companies only sell their tv packages because they're bundled with the internet
mircea_popescu: they couldn't kill smoking, but cable failed to thrive in the interval
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves im pretty sure cable is dead as a going concern
mircea_popescu: yet the trend aren't stopping, now the eyes are gone too. it's just )))))
mircea_popescu: then people dispensed with the nose, leading to the now common :)
mircea_popescu: it's an ancient thing, ot, i recall sponsoring it in like 2012
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete it's really just poorly repackaged buddhism
mircea_popescu: then again i guess i already have that too, in the form of a philosophy degree
mircea_popescu: that way i could somehow filter out idiots who in 2014 create "momentuous historic events" that "revoilutionise bla bla" by poorly reimplementing 2011's mpex
mircea_popescu: and actually... i wish an ancient would come this way into time and bring me blueprints of his fucking spam filter
mircea_popescu: then again, i suppose the atomic view is also ancient, so... perhaps that's why we can't make time machines yet
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the difference'd be that the difference between promise and mechanism is by no means a novel idea, just like the knowledge of communism = idiocy is ancient.
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete because obviously the ones that do keep it as bitcoin would report that to mark cuban
mircea_popescu: i suppose we should have a bet as to when he goes the way of ciuciu, eskimobob and so many other great names
mircea_popescu: most people belabouring under the delusion they "own" a house aren't aware they only "own" it inasmuch as there's something to b e paid on it.
mircea_popescu: which is really why it's so fun to humiliate and torment them, the naked emperors of power.
mircea_popescu: mat dimon is powerless to do anything about anything, one regular here is a lot more powerful in that WE ACTUALLY CONTROL our bitcoins.
mircea_popescu: there;s no such thing as "powerful" in the fiat world, being it a politician including obama, or a media personality including whoever the fuck you watch, or a financial guy.
mircea_popescu: rarely has one such a conveniently diplomacy-immune position.
mircea_popescu: you want us to confiscate your investments fine, you don't want us to also fine.
mircea_popescu: you want the gas fine, you don't want the gas also fine.
mircea_popescu: the obscure part in all of this is what exact space for diplomacy does russia need here ?
mircea_popescu: "He (John Kerry) made clear that continued military escalation and provocation in Crimea or elsewhere in Ukraine, along with steps to annex Crimea to Russia would close any available space for diplomacy, and he urged utmost restraint," the official said.
mircea_popescu: Furthermore the local linearity of any utility curve means that the micromort is useful for small incremental risks and rewards, not necessarily for large risks
mircea_popescu: However utility functions are often not linear, i.e the more a person has already spent on their safety the less they are willing to spend to further increase their safety. Therefore the $50 valuation should not be taken to mean that a human life (1 million micromorts) is valued at $50,000,000.
mircea_popescu: (e.g., how much they are willing to pay for safety features on cars) a typical value is around $50 (in 2009)
mircea_popescu: An application of micromorts is measuring the value that humans place on risk: for example, one can consider the amount of money one would have to pay a person to get him or her to accept a one-in-a-million chance of death (or conversely the amount that someone might be willing to pay to avoid a one-in-a-million chance of death). When put thus, people claim a high number but when inferred from their day-to-day actions
mircea_popescu: punkman i suppose the putin-ness has to do with ethnicity. eyck painted locals and putin is apparently baltic stock
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete i don't think author even understands there's any depth to the matter. the bread's all flat to him, like he was born in the internet age.
mircea_popescu: "If the paintings have tons of little people in them but otherwise seem normal, it’s Bruegel. ajahaha
mircea_popescu: at the very least mike_c and benkay'd be very interesting in their stuff.
mircea_popescu: they (ie, indian govt) recently opened the vault of donations of one of the larger temples
mircea_popescu: if you think anyone can compete with buddhism over that you're nuts, they probably have more than all the others combined.
mircea_popescu: MisterE: Little late for that eh? < lawl. it's what bystanders do, usually. comment on future events as they perceive them, which obviously to the actual players are long past.
mircea_popescu: but if you go by headcount i guess you gotta count the muricans.
mircea_popescu: generally they're ignored for their complete lack of intellectual production and cultural impact
mircea_popescu: i guess you can include the various protestant and neoprotestant sects in there.
mircea_popescu: judaism -> orthodoxy -> catholicism -> islam, same thing
mircea_popescu: nobody in the business seriously considers the branches apart from the root.