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mircea_popescu: kinda why accomplishment prizes are an impossibility, nobody's actually accomplishing anything anymore,
mircea_popescu: the problem is, with the suyper-specialised way we got things going, anyone can do useful work and still be a retard.
mircea_popescu: because they're recognigtion prizes not accomplishment prizes.
mircea_popescu: pls insert plastic didlo in available collecting ducts
mircea_popescu: this strange thing happens all the time to these people. something's gotta give, nobody's this lucky.
mircea_popescu: 20k people. a total of FIVE died of cancer the year these three girls got married.
mircea_popescu: for instance, i have three cousins which are all 19 and all married last summer, living in the same small town.
mircea_popescu: somehow he has failed to learn that it's fucking insane to have both parents die to a RARE DISEASE
mircea_popescu: "On September 3rd, my dad died due to a very agressive and rare cancer of the kidney called collecting-duct carcinoma just six weeks after first experiencing symptoms. This was nine months to the day after my mom died from metastasized breast cancer two years after her initial diagnosis.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla you buy gpus w/o heat sinks ? is it 1992 yet ?!
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding that btc prices have doubled five of the past twenty months, and grain prices have not doubled any one of the past 1500 months
mircea_popescu: if however you say "give me half a bitcoin and you can have two if bitcoin doubles in a month" he will consider this expensive
mircea_popescu: i meant something more along these lines : if you go to a fellow and say "pay me a dime and you can get two dollars if the price of grain dubles in a month" he will consider this cheap.
mircea_popescu: i suspect the human brain can't quite cope with btc volatility so then they seem "expensive"
mircea_popescu: amusingly, people tend to buy more options when the market is flat than when it moves.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` not really much bigger than what you're used to
mircea_popescu: "how come an animal has just enough guts in it to make sausage ?"
mircea_popescu: this is how people ended up religious in the first place
mircea_popescu: actual guts actually help you a lot with shaping the sausage
mircea_popescu: never had occasion to use except to fix girl's improbable cleavage clings and now to catc hgnats.
mircea_popescu: i bought a roll years ago moving in here, cause i was buying shit
mircea_popescu: nubbins` well i made one out of foil and double tape, lessee
mircea_popescu: no, see, it's just they have very specialised sensing apparata
mircea_popescu: so i left my erlenmeyer tuica glass with a little on the bottom and went to bed
mircea_popescu: translation is about 5x as difficult as writing, who knew.
mircea_popescu: it actually took a fluent romanian speaker / native english to make the first draft and half hour of my time to correct it
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "I have met Richard Martin II though and can say he is a rather unpleasant facsimile of a human being though." << too many thoughs
mircea_popescu: in unrelated news, bitcoin's rift guild is #4 largest on teh server.
mircea_popescu: i dunno man. i am looking forward to when i'm very old someone finally figuring this shit out and writing a clever paper.
mircea_popescu: forza managed to anihilate his entire house in a generation by simply not knowing the difference.
mircea_popescu: there's shows of force and then there's shows of force. ask d'este.