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mircea_popescu: i mean, intellectually ridiculous. back in 2011 bruce wagner's antics made bitcoin easy to dismiss as "that cp ring"
mircea_popescu: they should probably relaunch as a wiki, "the fake mkt cap numbers anyone can edit"
mircea_popescu: by now you can just edit the page, write random numbers. just as reflective of reality.
mircea_popescu: it will resolve as yes presently. coinmarketcap.com is henceforth banned as a source on bitbet.
mircea_popescu: and remember : always be nice with all newcomers. they could be as retarded as historically was the case.
mircea_popescu: at which point the chick points out that there's only seven midgets and you point out that she shouldn't be making that kind of noise.
mircea_popescu: and after yet another while, the wolf eats another three midgets
mircea_popescu: and after a while... the wolf... eats another three midgets
mircea_popescu: bad wolf busts into snow white's cavern, offers her a simple deal :
☟︎ mircea_popescu: do you know the traditional first date romanian joke titled "taci si suge" (ie, shut it and suck it!) ?
mircea_popescu: jesus look at that, complete with coelho-esque quotes and the new yorker "narrative" devices.
mircea_popescu: why didn't they make the straight shooter guy into a twink then
mircea_popescu: "o, we have a webpage". great. so does any 14 yo singer-songwriter.
mircea_popescu: do you know anyone through others who you can vouch for as he does ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but look at it. i used to think i can make such representations of people, until i was about 17 or so.
mircea_popescu: he doesn't want to. cause admitting how fucking stupid he is would burn.
mircea_popescu: " I didn’t know him, but I know people who knew him. He definitely wasn’t into any shady business" << dat fiat wot.
mircea_popescu: i mean a) it clearly labels you as a scammer, as only they do it ; b) it can't possibly give roi, even as a scammer ; c) srsly.
mircea_popescu: i have no idea how fucktarded they have to be to advertise ipos on twitter.
mircea_popescu: perhaps it doesn't have as much to do with the environment as one'd think
mircea_popescu: alternatively, "in briar patch, foot hurt ; in forest, head hurt" said the mongoloid.
mircea_popescu: is also legally protected should she wish to go topless parading by the barracks
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the same woman that got punished for failing to admit her sluttery
mircea_popescu: basically the guy spent five years on his cot trying to avoid the realisation that he was a fucking idiot
mircea_popescu: but irl i know of no system more corrupt than reagan's us
mircea_popescu: i mean, this is oft repeated as a representation of fact,
mircea_popescu: be $700/mo for "some high school" (SSI) or $1500/mo for "previous work experience" (unemployment). I would have accepted $2000/mo for "minorities" (jail) for partial credit."
mircea_popescu: say, a U Chicago grad can do no economically productive work at all but still be paid to use Instagram? Let me be explicit: my question is not should we do this, my question is that since this is precisely what's happening already, is it sustainable? What is the cost? I don't have to run the numbers, someone already has: it's $150/mo for a college grads, i.e. the price of food stamps. Other correct responses would
mircea_popescu: "So start with an interesting hypothetical: does everybody need to work anymore? I understand work from an ethical/character perspective, this is not here my point. Since we no longer need e.g. manufacturing jobs-- cheaper elsewhere or with robots-- since those labor costs have evaporated, could that surplus go towards paying people simply to stay out of trouble? Is there a natural economic equilibrium price where,
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves not for your definition of "Win" i'm affraid.
mircea_popescu: the guy can't evaluate if you were in fact harming no-one
mircea_popescu: the tension is still there, you merely force people into hypocrisy
mircea_popescu: a more complex system could be conceived, and even if it'd work "worse
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i mean this : that your approach imposes a limit on the complexity of relationships in your society
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves so what do you do when you're invaded by a society which is more complicated ? pray ?
mircea_popescu: if the slut is not allowed free reign, civil war is unavoidable.
mircea_popescu: if the slut is allowed free rein, you have just destroyed the separation.
mircea_popescu: you may not readily appreciate the immensity of this problem.