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mircea_popescu: actually... iirc he did manage
to get some asicminer shares at some point, which for a period were deemed worthless, but which
then came up once
they delivered and made his investors whole, or maybe close
to it, or at least so he claimed at
the
time.
mircea_popescu: after
that didn't happen he had a moment of butthurt,
then moved on
to dealing in partnering up with usagi and giving away with both hands
the few k's of btcs he did somehow collect (at
the
time btc was like 2 bux) in exchange for ridiculously valued worthless paper,
mircea_popescu: anyway, diablo-d3 is a guy
that did some work on one of
the earliest independent miners (ie, gpu based not cpu based like
the origian client),
then followed up with a lulzy explosion at
tardstalk over his plan
to collect 1mn btc which "the community" owed him, and
then use it
to build some fantastic datacenter-cum-powerplant altogether reminescent of
http://trilema.com/2010/moment-de-visare/ assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 05:26:59; mircea_popescu: dude gets caught
talking out of his ass - for
the
third
time in an evening only, so i guess
that's not so bad - switches seamlessly
to more of
the same.
assbot: Logged on 10-01-2016 05:33:16; asciilifeform: and wtf happened
to his wot rating ?!
ben_vulpes: saifedean, funkenstein_, and DiabloD3 -
the list of dietary nutters grows...
pete_dushenski: thankfully, youtubes pause with
the spacebar, so
the mouse wasn't needed
punkman: pro
transcriptionists do use pedals
ben_vulpes: sounds like you need some pedals like
trinque
pete_dushenski: anyways, glad
to see bitbet payouts finally worked
their way
through
the grinder
pete_dushenski: and all i was doing was copying subtitles, and i was still floored by
the volume
pete_dushenski: so
turns out
transcript work is not for
the faint of heart.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu:
the one who was really rather
talented but sold it all for western
trinkets ?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: just who /is/
the 'brightest mind in banking alive
today'?
mircea_popescu: actually kinda reminds me of
the story of
that guy,
the anesthesiologist.
saifedean: what examination?! which strawman was
that?
mircea_popescu: iirc you're
the guy
that upon examination
turned out
to be bereft of experience in
the matter.
saifedean: the most amusingly funny aspect of
this is
that you folk sound exactly like my economist colleagues dismissing bitcoin... you don't know anything about it, but you can make up enough strawmen and groupthink
to feel better about dismissing it
mircea_popescu: but ... i'm addicted
to
taking
the bitchez on nude walks!
mircea_popescu: "dudes, if you only
took left
turns while driving for
three months everything would be fixed!"
mircea_popescu: go
talk
to israeli jews about you know, your solution
to
their geopolitical problems.
trinque: and one neat
trick
they dun want u
to kno
mircea_popescu: bitstein being disinterested in innovation as
to a fundamental part of one's culture does not have anything
to see with "being nihilistic about nutrition"
bitstein: punkman: it's peculiar
that people are so nihilistic about nutrition, a fundamental aspect of being alive and being human
trinque: punkman: fun
to be
the bearer of secret knowledge
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron it's a pity
they didn't put any copyright notices opn
that page. for one
thing, copyright doesn't work without a notice, and for
the other - someone could steal
their muzak!
punkman: saifedean: it's peculiar
that every
time you visit you want
to have
the same discussion
mircea_popescu: dude gets caught
talking out of his ass - for
the
third
time in an evening only, so i guess
that's not so bad - switches seamlessly
to more of
the same.
☟︎ saifedean: now quit meat for a month and get back
to it, and it'll be
the best day of your life when you have your first steak in a month
saifedean: it
tastes like shit and it makes you feel like shit and it kills you slowly.
saifedean: lol you guys are addicted
to
the sugar rush and insulin spike...
try
to get over
that addiction for a month,
then
try pasta and see how it feels
mircea_popescu: also
the more babies your women have
the older you get. and so on.
bitstein: asciilifeform: what are you
talking about? my entire diet is composed of flesh pleasures.
mircea_popescu: dude,
the more you eat anything
the more you kill yourself. go vacuseal your carcass already.
saifedean: but
that's not how it works. grains are fucking poison, and
the more you eat,
the more you kill yourself.
there is no "too much", any quantity is bad. if you can get over your sugar addiction enough
to cut it all out, you'd be far healthier
saifedean: there's nothing wrong with cyanide,
too, by
that logic
mircea_popescu: there's nothing wrong with pasta. just don't eat
too much of it.
saifedean: they're an improvement over bread and pasta, but
they're not what's gonna make you strong and healthy
mircea_popescu: yeah,
totally, something;s stupid because i'm not good enough for it, i'll buy
that.
bitstein: mircea_popescu: my problem with "paleo" is it doesn't
take itself seriously. paleo people eat so many foods
that are only a few
thousand years old. just look
to
their favorite veggies like broccoli, kale, cauliflower...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassica_oleracea saifedean: that's very profound coming from someone whose only real problem with
trying paleo is
their addiction
to cake :D
mircea_popescu: contrary
to what everyone
thinks, multiculturalism has its advantages.
mircea_popescu: you know, like
the xtians have "their own" xtian rock, and
the boring kids have
their own "straight edge" punk which is all about punk if you live in wichita.
mircea_popescu: from an anthropologist's pov,
this entire "paleo"
thing is pretty much a bunch of boys wanting
to be as annoying as
the vegans but not ready
to embrace metrosexualism or w/e it's called.
mircea_popescu: every slut out
there knows,
that she can either sleep enough or age prematurely. ask 'em.
bitstein: asciilifeform:
that's my argument against vegetarianism
mircea_popescu: you don't spend enough
time with
the chicks >1.80 alfie.
mircea_popescu: come
to
think about it... you've never had a proper argentine porterhouse steak have you
saifedean: and if you spent your entire life walking on your hands... it will sound crazy when someone
tells you
these hands would do a better job on a keyboard
than feet!
saifedean: yes, your body is amazingly
tolerant you can choose
to live your life walking on your hands and using
tools with your legs... but you do not have
to
bitstein: mircea_popescu: yea, like
that it can handle lots of sugar and insulin
mircea_popescu: the chief merit of
the human body is
that it's so incredibly
tolerant, it'll carry forward all sorts of bizarre notions of
the inhabitant.
bitstein: My molars certainly don't look like
those of herbivores.
bitstein: Yea, I have
these good for nothing canines and incisors.
trinque: bitstein: strange how your
teeth don't look much like
the
teeth of an animal
that makes
this its business.
bitstein: you're in argentina, one of
the cheapest places on earth
to run such an experiment
bitstein: mircea_popescu: eat nothing but super fatty meat (80:20 fat:protein by calories) for 30 days. you'll feel good
too.
saifedean: orly? no normal human? i guess diabetes at 40 sounds grand,
then
saifedean: i dont know punkman, why look either side when you cross
the road?
saifedean: while your friends will be shitting
their pants in retirement homes on diabetes medication, you'll be out
there living life like a normal human
punkman: why spent
time on and believe in either modern- or paleo- nutrition science?
mircea_popescu: eh. you keep approaching a multivariate problem with a good feeling about having found
the right single variable
this
time.
saifedean: the best way
to defeat your enemies is
to write
their obituaries yourself