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mircea_popescu:
taxes is felt like an attack on
the Second Amendment. "Liberals!
Taking away our rights!"
mircea_popescu: unches),
the less frequently
their water balloon worldview is
tested by people with pins,
the more
they will cling
to
the premise
that "facts" are what's important. In
this way
the one personal issue serves as a reference point which
the propaganda exploits: "hey, gun advocates, did you know you like low corporate
taxes?" I do? "Yes, because
the people you hate are for raising
them." Consequently, raising corporate
mircea_popescu: Commonly, independents have a single personal issue, say gun rights or abortion, but no personal experience with other issues, and lacking any subjective starting point,
they
therefore believe
that ONLY objectivity will give
them
the
truth.
The less life experience
they have
the better;
the less
they've seen of
the world,
the fewer people
they've argued with (in person, where it is real and has real consequences like p
mircea_popescu: even better : call structured societies
that are immune
to both
the media and
the issues it brings "cults" and go back
to
the charade!
mircea_popescu: o do
this heavy lifting as long as
they are given just
the right facts, filtered from
the "noise." "Where can we get
the right facts, in a world of liars?" Good question, maybe
the news?
mircea_popescu: They consider
themselves leaderless.
They can have representatives,
they can have "evangelists" but
they have
to believe
that
their conclusions are all
their own,
through individual reflection and objective consideration. Interestingly, and on purpose,
they believe
their brains can handle such an analysis, any analysis.
This isn't arrogance.
They are
told, by universities and
the media,
that
their mind is prepared
t mircea_popescu: The "independent" demo actually has all
the
textbook characteristics of a group most susceptible
to propaganda, more correctly "pre-propaganda", and by
textbook I mean literally Propaganda.
mircea_popescu: I
totally don't know, Boardwalk Empire only goes up
to 1924 and Mad Men starts 1960.
mircea_popescu: "That does sound different. And awesome. What did
their Millennial kids inherit, what did
they experience over
their adult lives, say 1929-1945?"
mircea_popescu: religion among educated whites in favor of science. Not physics or chemistry, but evolution.
Tabloids were incomprehensibly popular, partisan media
the norm. A loosening of conventional morality manifested as bored promiscuity, female bisexuality, and a flood of new porn
the likes of which never existed before.
mircea_popescu: Well, yes, obviously,
there had just been a massive leap forward in
technology and industrialization, a booming economy fueling a wealth gap,
temporarily course corrected by a financial panic "precipitated" by
the failure of
two overspeculating brokerage houses.
There were also, simultaneously, great advances in progressive causes like worker's rights and food quality, all on
the background of decreasing importance of
mircea_popescu: "But
that book was written in 1908. Based on what I've seen on Downton Abbey,
things were a lot different
then."
adlai has no comeback, goes back
to emacs
mircea_popescu: but you realise your jewish mother's reaction
to your handling of exposed random
tits
adlai: let's examine
the contrapositive: "a self-identifying feminist who is not my mom, will not be hung around long enough
to guage her response
to a publicly breastfeeding woman"
mircea_popescu: so
tell
teh confused girle "mp says you're stupid, go suck a cock like you mean it"
adlai: the breastfeeder is not necessarily a feminist, although doing so in public might boost
the base rate
adlai: then again, seeing a
twitter shitfest go down irl is much more amusing :D
adlai: i guess
they just don't
take
to
twitter
mircea_popescu: it's
the little guy in your head
telling you you're an idiot. which you probably are. read and
think more, hashtag less, it'll go away.
mircea_popescu: well... your fear of being an object has nothing
to do with either breastfeeding, porn or
the public.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, it's fucking unfortunate
that
the rabid imbeciles misidentifying
themselves as "feminists" can't see
the breastfeeding in public
thing as anything but "war on porn".
adlai: "Overfitting generally occurs when a model is excessively complex" << my model currently consists of:
the order book,
the
trades, my balance, my
trades. can't get simpler
than
this, although
that also means
that any change gets closer
to "excessively complex"
adlai: that is some winning on volatility, i'd even say
that it nearly perfectly pwned
that hour of
trading... now let's get
the other 23
mircea_popescu: adlai not readily obvious what your retarded semi
tractor
trailer
theree is :D
pete_dushenski: we even renamed our library,
the cameron library, "the cameron casino" because
that's pretty much all we did
mats: nah, i browsed
the post history. definitely a reader.
assbot: Logged on 21-01-2015 18:50:39; asciilifeform:
turd is not a substitute for sausage, despite
the
topological similarities.
mats: i
think we may have a #b-a reader on our hands
mircea_popescu: In Bitcoin
this responsibility is based not in law, but fact. LocalBitcoins chose
to fart on
their plates and some of
their weaker customers who
trusted
them are now ill. It doesn't matter where what was served was contaminated, but
that LocalBitcoins served poison. Yes
the consumers ought
to have known better, but in
the future knowing better means escewing a venue
that sells
turds as sausages on
the virtue of both be
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "But
they still served
the shit. Don't blame
the mice when you find
them in your kitchen. Place
the person who invited
the mice by spreading crumbs. If you have a platform and incorporate a
third party element into it you are responsible for whatever harm
that element brings.
BingoBoingo: Also prototype for
the modern suburban commuter.
BingoBoingo: Assembly in 1834 and 1836 after an unsuccessful
try in 1832."
BingoBoingo: and deputy surveyor, failed in business, and was elected
to
the Illinois General
BingoBoingo: clerked in a store, split rails, enlisted in
the Black Hawk War, served as postmaster
BingoBoingo: Salem formed a
turning point in his career. Although he never owned a home here,
BingoBoingo: Abraham Lincoln spent his early adulthood.
The six years Lincoln spent in New
BingoBoingo: about 20 miles Northwest of Springfield, is a reconstruction of
the village where
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Imma sleep now, but contemplate 20 miles. Just about as long as one can reasonably walk in a day on flat land. About as far as a group can reasonably defend as a border without submitting
to a Kyriarch.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: roaches don't particularly care if you know
that you have roaches. <<
then why do
they
take so much care
to avoid
the light ?
mircea_popescu: having
the bug silently fixed put it in
the best possible world :
the people upstream done with it,
the people downstream unlike
to ever have it.
mircea_popescu: decimation: re: glibc bug << was
this an ulrich drepperism? << quite likely.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: New Salem
to Springfield. Multiple
times a week.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: No, like Lincoln. Europeans have places
to stop inbetween
the places
they walk.
mircea_popescu: Because one of
these days we won't be able
to even make
the minimum monthly payment, and, keeping
to
the household budget analogy, in
those circumstances what happens isn't
that
the family goes bankrupt, what happens is
that
the couple gets divorced. Pray on
this."
mircea_popescu: So when you get
the
temporary reprieve
tomorrow-- and it is
temporary-- you should do whatever you have
to
to get off
the dole; you are getting off of it anyway.
mircea_popescu: Not
to mention
that no politician wants
to be remembered as
the guy who made his constituency go unpaid. Public choice
theory will save you by August 2, even as it wrecks you all
the other
times.
mircea_popescu: "So it is inevitable
that a deal will be struck by August 2, because
that deal doesn't actually mean anything.
This a is husband and wife arguing about rebalancing
the household budget, each pretending
they aren't going
to pay
the electric until he's agreed
to cut back on beer and she's agreed not
to be such a bitch. Whether
they do it or not is irrelevant,
the electric's still getting paid.
The electric always gets
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: I lack a crystal ball, but when I say poverty makes
the distance
too much I mean people are walking
their commutes.
phillipsjk: Apparently
they attacked my while I was sleeping last night :P
BingoBoingo: phillipsjk:
The hostile DDoS bot is nothing if not unreliable.
BingoBoingo: I do
though seriously mean mirco over micro. Very similar, just poverty makes
the distance
too much.
pete_dushenski: and i love
the quizzical look
that people give me when i suggest precisely
that
mircea_popescu: nz (and
to a lesser degree aus) are choked by
this monopoliust position on real estate
BingoBoingo: AUS went
to far firstest on
the minimum wage
thing
pete_dushenski: huh interesting. but it seems like aus has plenty of opportunity
to pivot
to china
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski yes,
they created a
thing with
the russians and iran and india and everyone.
mircea_popescu: that could as well read "the pbc will promote orderly dismantling of
the unioted states starting 2015"
mircea_popescu: apparently
they are moving it into position
to support
the shanghai union.
pete_dushenski: The People’s Bank of China will promote yuan internationalization in an orderly way
this year, according
to a Jan. 20 statement published on its website. << just
tawk
then?
mircea_popescu: in any case,
the fed didn't go "mp sunk gavin's idiocy and with
that our last hope
to subvert bitcoin"
BingoBoingo: Maybe as
the editorial line. Perhaps 3 can be saved from
there.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo nah,
they'll go right into
the abyss claiming it never happened.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Anyway
the GAW story was one of
the first cazalla used
to propel qntra
to relevance. Like in
the BFL case Ars is going
to have
to accept
they abided a
thing until
their declaration of scam was entirely irrelevant.
mircea_popescu: the us is
trying
to hack something like
this
together, with a bevy of capital control laws.
pete_dushenski: why don't other countries pursue
this? lack of domestic consumption?
mircea_popescu: moldysnizz: I've accepted my new identiy as
the snizz < so get in
the assbot wot
then
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Lacks
the same satisfaction.
mircea_popescu: like, imagine you were married
to an idiot, but she got a special scrip you issued, no dollars.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Because
the Chicoms need
to export, because employment and socialism.