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mircea_popescu: with nothing but faith and this here old pair of underwear.
mircea_popescu: some kid with a coupla grand decided he's gonna get himself rich online
mircea_popescu: right, except it attaches the same dumbass windows-only zip file that's been hitting all the honeypots this past coupla months
mircea_popescu: "Hereby you are informed that you are due in the court of Houston on the 14 of January, 2014 at 10:00 am for the hearing of your case."
mircea_popescu: either can take a lifetime easily, either may just as well not deliver in the end.
mircea_popescu: the practical solutions are either to be upset or to strive to in yourself.
mircea_popescu: in people can get financed for any stupidity they wish to do. out people can not, no matter anything.
mircea_popescu: seems oddly overpriced but what do i know of red tape.
mircea_popescu: and gpg is innovation now ? i'm sorry, back to the egg nogg i go.
mircea_popescu: so basically... they pay 1k for an ipad to make it look like mpex ?
mircea_popescu: mikaeldice investing directly is much like shooting porn directly. you need an erection and you need to not be camera shy
mircea_popescu: as opposed to todaqy's indescribable retards of "we've taken a two week master's"
mircea_popescu: fascinating to read a 10 year old wsj piece, and discover how it merely sucks as compared to a coupla decades before
mircea_popescu: that "worst intelligence disaster" has meanwhile been surpassed.
mircea_popescu: so they send another spy, and... well... same deal. and then more and more. eventually they ask a defector, and the guy smikrs and says "perhaps you might try not sending black people ?"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: usa sends spy to cccp, within a coupla months they realise he'd been ferreted out and fed misinformation since just about day one
mircea_popescu: to the degree that there's this old russian joke, goes like this :
mircea_popescu: kinda impossible to have old money in a crooked place, so yeah.
mircea_popescu: the notion that there'd be a meritocracy in the us is beyond a simple lol
mircea_popescu: lmao, bureaucracy never gets sick of sucking itself off huh
mircea_popescu: " unless one includes the entity that has come to be known as the meritocracy—presumably an aristocracy of sheer intelligence, men and women trained in the nation's most prestigious schools.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, anything with that jew bimbo in it, what's his name
mircea_popescu: where real responsibility is that situation where either choice stinks, you gotta pick one and then stick with it, without redemption.
mircea_popescu: a wasp is a kid that grows up principally interracting with his parents, who are overly-intellectual, is never beaten, is carefully kept overclean and never gets to either injure himself or face any real responsibility
mircea_popescu: ok, new definition for wasp : person that reads the above and does not immediately think "so they fuck on campus ?"
mircea_popescu: no, i mean people repressed to the point they actually need marketeers to give them topics for conversation.
mircea_popescu: and as to mit, the "premier engineering school in teh werld", all i have to say is www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIhk9eKOLzQ
mircea_popescu: if the stanford model is exposed to the world the net result is today's us.
mircea_popescu: only if the stanford model is applied to a well controlled environment made out of wasp kids thoroughly acculturated.
mircea_popescu: i thought taking it in the pooper made you stop shitting for the dya
mircea_popescu: a spiked club colonoscopy could conceivably also help some old geezer
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 the helping part is a vanishingly long shot at this point.
mircea_popescu: ya but i do not wish to befoul the marketplace of ideas by abusing my financial power.
mircea_popescu: scams are eminently forgettable in all those specific details that make discussion possible or worthwhile
mircea_popescu: take it from experience, people ask me about 1year+ oldscams i have to review writs
mircea_popescu: but that's not why you write. why you write is so that YOU can re-read it if you ever forget wtf X was
mircea_popescu: you get very cheap extra research IF anyone ever reads your stuff
mircea_popescu: you are not writing to an audience. you are writing to yourself.
mircea_popescu: i get it, public speaking is the #1 fear n the english world. nevertheless, step outside of your culture
mircea_popescu: you just write a report to yourself, click publish, go on your merry way
mircea_popescu: you know it's easier to do in retrospect than it looks.
mircea_popescu: publishing the results is really getting mileage out of already sunk in work. otherwise it just rots away
mircea_popescu: basically, you folks are doing all the legwork into figuring this stuff out anyway
mircea_popescu: "holy shit, scam X started at y two months ago now it's at y times over nine thousand!!1" pretty much calls for "call me in two years"
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder do the reading, publish the results, get peer reviewed.