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mircea_popescu: maybe i'm overstating my herd concerns as personal bias.
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder i think perhaps you have a good point there, it does move like a biotech
mircea_popescu: grosso modo if you're spending any part of your day in a place where you can't peruse porn you don't belong here anyway.
mircea_popescu: unbalanced_ the sexual barrier is there to repel the unthinking adults, not to cater to the teenagers.
mircea_popescu: it is the investors it repels and the speculators it attracts.
mircea_popescu: huge volatility is exactly the same : in spite of the fact it mostly burns the speculators,
mircea_popescu: in spite of it being mostly the mobsters who are getting murdered, it is the peasants who move out of the town, and the mobsters who move in.
mircea_popescu: now, with the mob there comes sudden and striong social mobility, and also a bunch of murders.
mircea_popescu: let me illustrate this point, and i won't even use tits.
mircea_popescu: taub because volatility and investment are roughly speaking inversely correlated.
mircea_popescu: even so i am more worried by things such as sdice going to 75 then to 29 for no apparent reason
mircea_popescu: unbalanced_ everyone, as in, the people who took btc to 260 when i told them not to go over 130 ? why does one want this everyone muddling throuhg ?
mircea_popescu: stretchmarks are actually worse than no growth at all.
mircea_popescu: the surest way for her NOT being a successful fotomodel at 19 is if her tits grow too fast.
mircea_popescu: take the case of the twelve year old as an illustrative example.
mircea_popescu: there is a problem of growthspeed which is not too well understood, especially not by the average (which is to say business illiterate) entrepreneur these days.
mircea_popescu: and hopefulyl they get some sense/advice in the package.
mircea_popescu: (not the time spent learning, the time spent making the proofs that you'cve learned)
mircea_popescu: when you go to get your degree you are basically paying a fee for this priviledge, equal to the value of your time you put into making the papers
mircea_popescu: it's an exam. yet another of life's exams most fail to pass.
mircea_popescu: i havce no idea why people represent this in terms of them buying something.
mircea_popescu: just so they can cringe when it's $500k+ in a year or two.
mircea_popescu: haha something tells me people cringing at $7500 membership a week ago are still not running to get it at 60% discount
mircea_popescu: maybe idiots behave and we have a nice slope going to 130 till summer.
mircea_popescu: whether it scales or not will decide how large a community can get, not whether it will be the norm or not.
mircea_popescu: this hidden-ness and the lack of systematic solutions are exactly why the "virile fucktopia" is the only solution.
mircea_popescu: global warming is a useful "abstraction" if you're using it to get a dumbass neighbour to stop smoking out your pool.
mircea_popescu: there's no proof you have the mandate of heaven. nopr can ever be.
mircea_popescu: moreover, the original branch where we got lost is the proving.
mircea_popescu: the pretense of the "educated" to access it is as fraudulent in today's cathedral as it was in the druid circle obviously.
mircea_popescu: even so. the subtle structure of the world remains inacessible. even if the girl does it with enthusiasm and art.
mircea_popescu: getting a girl to suck your cock is no proof you're loved.
mircea_popescu: what people do is no proof of what people are, in this sense.
mircea_popescu: no, my objection is that form is no substitute for function.
mircea_popescu: anyway, not so sure sepukku is such a bad example. you have one chance to do yourself in as one of us now that you can't continue living as one of us.
mircea_popescu: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:50c6b7a7b42d136d1dc1bc600220ba7c30e46f4d&dn=L'Avare+(1980)(L+de+Funes)DVDRip+NL+subs[Divx]NLtoppers&tr=udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80&tr=udp://tracker.publicbt.com:80&tr=udp://tracker.istole.it:6969&tr=udp://tracker.ccc.de:80
mircea_popescu: a, that's a pity. probably the best thing tyo come out of france
mircea_popescu: maybe go the whole japanese mile and have him cut his own guts out
mircea_popescu: perhaps you just do it because it becomes clear the guy's a fuckwit.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, plugging the other guy has the virtue of keeping this putative aristocracy from complacency
mircea_popescu: perhaps. it does come out a rather vulgar thing as reduced by our conversation.
mircea_popescu: get moar gold but can't throw a party cause there's nobody to invite.
mircea_popescu: "get double the gold" da fuck is that. to do what, carry it luis de funes style ?
mircea_popescu: so basically the old folks are too cool for us to wear their shoes ?
mircea_popescu: i don;'t think they cared either way and in the end i don't think they fought for that either.
mircea_popescu: the fate of the triumvirate was that pompey despised caesar.
mircea_popescu: the harem scarcity is bullshit. there's currently orders of magnitude more slaves looking for masters than masters willing to take slaves.
mircea_popescu: but still, generally speaking, nobody cares about the crowd.
mircea_popescu: nobody may be too strong a world, as insanity is a good bedfellow to exceptional performance
mircea_popescu: you understand this ? nobody loves the wormy multitude enough to kill one good man over it.
mircea_popescu: you'd rather burn the world and go have a drink with them.