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mircea_popescu: i think you all've been cooped in here too long, and you're approaching some sort of mystical breakthrough of which i'm sadly left out :(
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 sounds just about descriptive of the moss that's in between average joe's ears.
mircea_popescu: joecool course in fairness aethero is more like noted lunatic.
mircea_popescu: write for yourself, as your own thing. think of it as picking up women : you don't puick up women by picking up women, you pick up women by doing *any other thing*
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo by the way, an important point : the reason the "media" sucks is not that they've sold out or follow external policies or w/e. it's that they are writing WITH THEIR READER IN MIND. the former then flows from this naturally, but it does not make a difference if you write with the reader in mind so as to advertise to it, or save its soul or merely inform it. it's all the same, and it's wrong.
mircea_popescu: benkay ya but it has to be exhaustive for the thing to work, otherwise the narcissist self always cops out to "Well it was just some bits". and besides, weren't you coding ?
mircea_popescu: (the hidden benefit here is this : through curating it you expose your unknowledge to scrutiny, ie, if you cut out something that turns out to have been important you get to learn it was, and so fix your head)
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo or whoever feels like it : why not make a curated version on yer blogs ?
mircea_popescu: i mean i used to think it's only the case for poor black people, lil wayne and whatnot. then i thought it's only the case for poor people generally. now i'm starting to think its simply what the murican male is. the us culture, if you will.
mircea_popescu: in the us tho, it's backwards, they do it as a joint venture. so are there no males in that country over the mental age of ~17 or what the fuck ?
mircea_popescu: but they customarily hide their stupidity from family and esp senior male relatives
mircea_popescu: in that you know, twentysomethings end up in troubkel all over the world, by virtue of being kids
mircea_popescu: you know it makes you wonder aboput the united states.
mircea_popescu: benkay i'm not reading that shit, just got some parts sent over
mircea_popescu: because that is totally how limited liability works, you hafta not disclose it and misrepresent it to be shielded.
mircea_popescu: hay folks my name is james llc, for srs. let's do some business which then i'll pretend is covered by the company named after me.
mircea_popescu: "and do you watch seinfeld ?" "yes i do!" "do you understand anything ?" "well as much as anyone on the forum ever understands of what's going on before their eyes
mircea_popescu: ahahahaah o jesus god, "do you know reeses_ name ?" "art. a-r-t" "and last name ?" "i have no idea"
mircea_popescu: o o nm i read it backwards. yes, it is. and yes, he is. so...
mircea_popescu: which, as you pointed out, is real fucking smart. and now he actually responds.
mircea_popescu: anyway, funny how this guy's brain works. so he gets summoned, and he responds. *then* he feigns to ignore further proceedings.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is non inflationary. this makes early things dwarf late things in importance.
mircea_popescu: which obviously i mean in a general manner. well meaning but naive geeks will know to defer that time
mircea_popescu: benkay yes, there will be. just copumpkin won't be whitenighting them.
mircea_popescu: so... ironically it'd have been a lot worse for everyone.
mircea_popescu: because the scammer would have said "this time it's different", and the way the primate brain works that'd have been enough.
mircea_popescu: that i'd have been equally powerless to do anything about
mircea_popescu: anyway, BingoBoingo : if i HAD done that, for all the laurels and glory (which no noobs can be bothered to even know about, so... it doesn't help THEM) the "community" of fucktards would have actually fallen for a much bigger ponzi much later,
mircea_popescu: kinda how i ended up with "6 months". if it took me ~3...
mircea_popescu: takes someone A FEW MONTHS to catch up and spread the roots you know ?
mircea_popescu: what do you want from me, i only showed up that summer
mircea_popescu: what's next, dating for the narcisistic and hygiene for the lazy ?
mircea_popescu: i never heard anyone rejecting a book idea on the grounds that goats wouldn't read it.
mircea_popescu: average person ? what the fuck is this, the libertard dystopia ?
mircea_popescu: the 2nd generation had no idea so it all seemed great to them
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 sorta like books about the 60s. they sucked balls, but as the people who were actually involved went senile,
mircea_popescu: i guess you gotta do something with the ones not pretty enough to dance nude in the street.
mircea_popescu: basically this could feed 50-100 english major chicks.
mircea_popescu: seeing how his main contribution is branson's guide to making a small fortune from air travel
mircea_popescu: benkay i dunno how much stock i can put in your branson=businessman theory
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i spilled. trabambourghini is like the best car name ever
mircea_popescu: mike_c it's unfair for richer people to afford better things. consequently, nobody wants to get rich anymore, and economy stops.