cads: mircea_popescu: I have the same issue - I followed a bunch of people because they said something cool once or twice about category theory, haskell, or 3d printing, and the rest is all stuff about how their cat is awesome

cads: mircea_popescu: if they were following you, you could make a game of offending them so greatly they unfollow you (and it would be fairly easy to analyze who unfollowed you, and what triggered it, lol)

cads: mircea_popescu: they're in your feed? or following you?

cads: mircea_popescu: I share mostly because from time to time people hear my story, and ask me about how they can get clean

cads: mircea_popescu: I don't mind talking about my substance problem - I'm amazed and embarrased - I kicked speed and heroin to the curb back in 2007, but I thought pot and booze were fine. It's shameful that those brought me lower than anything else has. It's... refreshing to finally be in a spot where I can say _no_ drug is _ever_ going to be a good

cads: mircea_popescu, I think you've inspired me to put a beginning of a story on my (currently nearly empty) blog.

cads: mircea_popescu: haha, you may be on to something

cads: mircea_popescu: now wouldn't that have been a sight? two stoned college math students, disproving ZFC

cads: mircea_popescu: yeah, his name is shawn, and they're pretty perfect for each other - each as stubborn as the day is long

cads: mircea_popescu, you know sexual molestation is not only prevalent among females, but also among males. We are truly animals when we allow ourselves to be, and who can estimate the lost productivity due to the social and psychological handicaps imposed by such scarring episodes of violence?

cads: mircea_popescu: I would be forced to agree, though in your writeup consider that you are a parent with a daughter. You live in a world where the collapse of the viability of marketing strategies has lead to an unprecedented increase in the productivity and quality of life, on average. And all that you've had to pay is that your daughter got raped 6 times while she was growing up, starting at the age of 6, with her teacher, 9 with a boy

cads: mircea_popescu: we need another fundamental breakthrough in search engine technology, but soon.

cads: mircea_popescu: aha, another person that notices that google's performance is collapsing under the cascade of data

cads: mircea_popescu: I wasn't in a mental state to attempt to compute rational expectations at the time.

cads: mircea_popescu: worse, I was a customer. He was a pot dealer, nothing serious, but he had a high profile.

cads: mircea_popescu, ThickAsThieves, ty. I love my city, and really, economically, architecturally, culturally, there are only a handful of other american cities that match or exceed it.

cads: mircea_popescu, I read your story - quite the adventure, I see. I admire your tenacity and natural talent, while being relieved to see that you do not yet have it "all figured out", which I feel would be boring for you. I wish you continued prosperity and a future that does not cease to provide interesting situations!

cads: haha, mircea_popescu, and what assets have I? Besides my charming good looks, which are hardly fungible ;)

cads: mircea_popescu: this is common here in upper management in mid to large scale businesses. My understanding is that when the amounts of money are that large, it becomes profitable to remain private about them. People say "I got the raise!" but don't say how much the raise was.

cads: mircea_popescu: for salaried upper middle class workers in romania, what is the normal attitude towards revealing their exact salary figure to their coworkers?

cads: mircea_popescu: yep. And they're also very guarded about their real capabilities, so for example, whereas a romanian might be happy to brag about how little he payed on a car if you ask, asking an american the same question is often a faux pas.

cads: mircea_popescu: re. the showing off, I've often wondered about that myself.