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mircea_popescu: peterl i think he actually has it superbly stated. "i dont even think about what i want til i know i want anything at all"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves any idea what "kr," is supposed to be ?
mircea_popescu: it's not the quantum computing emulated on z80s if you mwan that one
mircea_popescu: the greek idea was that "these people say nothing meaningful, may as well be sheep, bar bar"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves part of the problem, of course, is epitomized in the word for barbarian
mircea_popescu: i should have linked him to my epic pics of me fixing laptop board in mexico hotel room, with solder shavings, safety pin and lighter.
mircea_popescu: so you can think with head. congratulations, you should be on -assets.
mircea_popescu: unless you're in the habit of swallowing and do it 10 times a week
mircea_popescu: but anyway, there's going to be a livinbg to be earned in summarizing and translating irc and stuff for vaiours needs.
mircea_popescu: finance has always been the inside joke of some old jooz.
mircea_popescu: you don;t have to understand the whole thing to have an actionable understanding.
mircea_popescu: understanding is this fascinating beast, in that it works in parts
mircea_popescu: yeah, plenty of rabbits with money all over the forest.
mircea_popescu: somehow BingoBoingo doesn't quite manage to hate me for it, yet.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: when you could juist read the stuff on trilema and be ahead.
mircea_popescu: currently i'm shitting the bitcoin advisor market, because you wouldn't hire anyone to pay him 100x for stupid shit
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's ridiculous, just look at the volatility curve for 4-8 feb.
mircea_popescu: the result being ocasionally incontrollable deflagrations
mircea_popescu: i would say it's becoming a major problem now that people keep trying to outmaneuver me intellectually, and whereas i'm very blunt, they ascribe wallstreet-esque depths of trachery to what i do
mircea_popescu: either that or don't fucking read too deep into what mp says and go all fucking nuts just because he has to cover 10k
mircea_popescu: o no wait. not of that article. of some other article.
mircea_popescu: kind-of the point of that article, if you read between the... lines
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> wait his name is MonTroll <<< inigo montrollya
mircea_popescu: also this is for an article im about to write so you'll see what i want to say by it presently.
mircea_popescu: the kids are playing the ceo, the woodchipper is chipping away
mircea_popescu: basically me having an explosion over kids putting themselves in the whoodchipper
mircea_popescu: it was worth having it searched for. look at that beauty.
mircea_popescu: Jan 25 16:40:13 <mircea_popescu>we're not equal, even if we can type the same strings in a box they still aren't the same strings. depends whose name signs on them. we're not equal, even if two people have "the same idea", in one head it's an idea, in another head it's nothing.
mircea_popescu: i was ranting at either tat or thestringpuller i think
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think it was around that discussion, but not exactly.
mircea_popescu: i can't remember what the fuck exactly i said and so i can't grep too efficiently.
mircea_popescu: can someone link me to the log where i rant about how if someone had an idea they didn't have an idea until someone in power says so ?
mircea_popescu: "The quantum droplet is made up of roughly five electrons and five holes. It possesses some characteristics of a liquid, like having ripples, the scientists said."
mircea_popescu: meanwhile russia is still a sovereign, but the us is not sovereign anymore.
mircea_popescu: back when the us was still a sovereign, it promised (together with russia) to defend the ukrainian border if ukraina agrees to dismantle nukes.