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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the man who digs into an untenable position may be well intended, but he is still not a
talented commander.
assbot: Logged on 07-09-2015 19:40:08; ascii_field: 2011
trial "contributed
to
the mob mentality potentially inherent in instantaneous, unbridled, passionate online discourse,"
the court said. In light of
that,
the appellate court found a fair
trial wasn't possible.'
mircea_popescu: he's not nearly
the strategic mind he masturbares himself over.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in
terms of actual work done, rms is not
that far behind
assbot: Logged on 04-05-2015 19:28:02; ascii_field: 'The problem is
that "exploitation" happens only
to people stupider (and consequently less informed)
than
the "exploiter".
The root cause of
this whole world problem is
that some people are smarter
than others.
There are
two basic solutions
to
this problem: Kill all
the morons, or kill all
the brains. If you look at how several political regimes have behaved
throughout history, you might get
the impr
mircea_popescu: you are
then fighting wqith
the stupid
to opress
the smart.
mircea_popescu: if you are not fighting with
the smart people
to opress
the stupid,
mircea_popescu: i dun know how
to put it plainer
than :
the war is between smart people and stupid people.
mircea_popescu: i'm going
to donate
to him right after i'm done donating
to vessenes.
mircea_popescu: idiots aren't
truly idiots unless
they stay unaware of
their idiocy
throughout.
mircea_popescu: and now ? where's
the letter going "i was a fucking imbecile
to sign with
the usg!!11"
mircea_popescu: oh he knew so much better
then, and "of course"
this and
that.
mircea_popescu: derp made a deal, sold out
the
thing, a decade later is out on his ass.
assbot: Here's what
they don't
tell you when
they bring you
those papers
to sign on
Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1Ql38iY )
assbot: Logged on 07-09-2015 18:20:59; pete_dushenski: " It’s not going
to make much of a dent in (for example) medical insurance,
thanks
to
the statist bastards who’ve driven health-care costs into
the stratosphere
through
their incessant meddling. (They cost my wife her job,
too –
that’s been psychologically rough on her.)" << moar esr from punkman's link
mircea_popescu: just in case any of
the friends of scammer&idiot club need
to know after a few years why
they're blacklisted.
mircea_popescu: ftr pantera capital = Ron Glantz Director of Research ; Matt Gorham
Trader ; Jed McCaleb Venture Partner ; Dan Morehead CEO ; Paul Veradittakit Vice President ; Steve Waterhouse Partner
mircea_popescu: dude check it out lmao.
the hamplanet
transgenderderpatron is investing in bitcoin nao
assbot: Logged on 08-09-2015 01:35:19;
trinque:
thestringpuller: heh
that's a great chappelle skit. I was mocking
the oft heard magical
thinking
that diversity in say software companies is *inherently* good.
assbot: Logged on 07-09-2015 18:17:30; ascii_field: or invested in best phriend's 'sure
to make megabux!!11!!11' sv idiocy
trinque: oh actually it might've been; it's asking me
to invest with "pantera capital" or something
assbot: Logged on 07-09-2015 18:10:40;
trinque: ahaha I just got an e-mail from "pantera capital" addressed
to [FirstName] inviting me
to apply for funding.
trinque: but you can pick from one of
the 8 state sanctioned personalities!
mircea_popescu: and we want
the fed
to change regulations because
they're getting in
the way of paying our employee
trinque: this means bronies and
trannies
mircea_popescu: what's never going
to be good is hiring some inept crowd followrs.
they're gay, don't you know, because
they saw it on
tv.
trinque: thestringpuller: heh
that's a great chappelle skit. I was mocking
the oft heard magical
thinking
that diversity in say software companies is *inherently* good.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: this is an essenmtial ingredient of all action. you have
to, in some degree, in some shape, somewhere, not give a fuck.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 07-09-2015 17:35:46; ascii_field:
the real enabler is usg, of course, because not just anyone gets
to harvest
the chump armies.
mircea_popescu: the end of social media will come exactly like how nobody could have predicted it by reading a 2014
trilema article.
mircea_popescu: "I want
the average redditor
to understand
that when he interacts with a screen name, he is not interracting with a person."
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller: "i saw
this once when i was a rookie, nigger broke in and put up picture of his family everywhere. let's sprinkle some crack on him and get outta here."
mircea_popescu: so now we're going
to spin as "it's not rape if we wilfully spread for mp's will" ? mmmmkay.
mircea_popescu: he could have just accepted it
then. but no, idiots gotta derp first.
mircea_popescu: This will be useful for
the Bitcoin network first and foremost, because Gavin is, by and large, a mentally retarded doofus displaying a shocking amount of Dunning-Kruger syndrome in his assorted dabblings in economics and other hard fields."
assbot: Logged on 07-09-2015 16:12:33; pete_dushenski:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8l11q9hsJM << “I don't
think any of us—especially
those five people—want
to be
the high priests of Bitcoin. We need
to find a new way of governing—a new way of coming
to decisions and have everyone be happy with
the process and
the decisions
that are reached.”
mircea_popescu: maybe if
they lay
traps or something. otherwise it's like
turkeys chasing coughars.
mircea_popescu: i dun know how exactly a buncha pakistani would catch up
to a russian she-hound.
mircea_popescu: they also don't have much
the pakistani couldn't get at home.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform right, because
they'd have gone
to russia instead.
mircea_popescu: now europe gotta pay for 1-2mn refugees
that came out of all
that.
mircea_popescu: re
the "refugee problem" : so
the us has been derping about "being a regional power" and sheriffing
things and places for reasons.
mats: maybe. i know of no less
than a dozen folks
that did such menial labor as retail slavery,
telephone support slavery, etc...
that got hired on in dev roles after furnishing a repo populated
through a year with code motivated by said slavery
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amusingly, do you know what other field pretends like "career" exists while people mostly hiring
teenagers ?
kdomanski: there's shops who hire code monkeys by
the kilograms and
there's shops where
they _almost_ engineer
mircea_popescu: mats for
the same money,
there's still a sense of "t bills are worth something" still in place for a lot of americans.
mats: you got
the chops, you show le code, many shops will hire you on
the strength of
that alone