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ThickAsThieves: "Who are the 5 economists?"
mircea_popescu: nor could it, for structural reasons he's omitted to explain ?
mircea_popescu: never has it happened that more than 4 were in agreement on any piece of idiocy
ThickAsThieves: and why did none of them cosign?
mircea_popescu: because out of the fifty billion idiots that are nevertheless certified as economists by the us paper mill
mircea_popescu: bounce that's not even it. is he genuinely proposing that the bar for corectness is finding 5 "actual" economist sto agree,
ThickAsThieves: or to be wrong in general
bounce: not unusual for scores of economists to be all wrong together
ThickAsThieves: those arent really question tho hehe
ThickAsThieves: but how we will do more tx than VISA?
mircea_popescu: anyway, if anyone wants to ask gavin anything, you've got plenty of material in here.
mircea_popescu: perhaps we "just don't understand how the world works".
mircea_popescu: herpy-derp-a-derp, such a valid argument that is, really.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves amusingly, usgavin is pulling out the "your shit's not usg certified" card.
ThickAsThieves: we means you when i want you to be me
mircea_popescu: it may be fashionable AMONG IDIOTS, it's neither true nor important.
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: It's the only other article I found disagreeing with Gavin.
mircea_popescu: just as well you might be saying "the world wil not be sustainable if there's not more social justice"
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell DanielKrawisz "The real issue here is that Bitcoin is almost certainly not sustainable if the block size remains limited to 1 Mb. " << nobody agrees with this idiocy.
gribble: DanielKrawisz was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 week, 5 days, 17 hours, 16 minutes, and 51 seconds ago: <DanielKrawisz> Yeah, nodes should be able to use micropayments to charge one another for data.
mircea_popescu: "Coin Brief is Your Open Source for Digital Currency News, and was formed in April 2014. Since that time it has quickly grown, and is becoming THE hub for digital currency news, information, and tools." ooookay ?
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller lol what is that
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: http://coinbrief.net/bitcoin-block-size-economics-gavin-andresen/ << you see that yet?
ThickAsThieves: gavin is doing an AMA tomorrow
mircea_popescu: blame tesla
mircea_popescu: dude perspective's a bitch. it's almost like you can make no useful judgement about anything of note from having spent half a weekend in some rnadom town
thestringpuller: Atlatna has Georgia Tech, Georgia State and Emory
mircea_popescu: well fuck me, maybe i was confusing one with the other
mircea_popescu: shit, there's two of them in atlanta ?
thestringpuller: Football games there leave the city of Athens looking like the Greece Athens right nao
thestringpuller: But that's a little much.
thestringpuller: Well you don't get the UGA behavior.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i was there briefly, it wasn't bad.
thestringpuller: given what occurred during my tenure*
thestringpuller: Not saying it's fact, just plausible given my tenure at the plpace.
thestringpuller: But hey that's none of my business.
thestringpuller: most girls at tech don't put out until they are 22
thestringpuller: usually it's girls under 21 trying to get free alcohol
mircea_popescu: wtf, why else is she there ? to get out of the atlanta rain ?
thestringpuller: even though 1 out of every 3 girls found at a fraternity party is looking to hook up
thestringpuller: Yea the girls at Tech are feminist so that email didn't go down too well.
thestringpuller: "If the party is going good (a.k.a. there are a lot of open girls) try to escalate cause it.s awesome. Here is how to escalate: Try to twist her hips around to face you and dance front to front. FROM THERE THE OPTIONS ARE UNLIMITED! You can make-out with her (tongue on tongue), you can stick your hand up her shirt (not right away though), you can go for a butt grab (outside or inside the shirts), or use your imag
thestringpuller: Yea that's from it
thestringpuller: i'll get the leaked email
thestringpuller: Oh yea. One second there was 1 fraternity that was very "rape-y"
mircea_popescu: or how did that go.
mircea_popescu: "Alright chods, some of you could use some help on how to mack and succeed at parties. Mostly pledges do, but some bros could use a review. For anytime throughout the party… If you are standing by yourself at any point, YOU ARE OUTTA HERE!!! If you are talking to a brother of your pledge brothers when there are girls just standing around, YOU ARE OUTTA HERE!!!"
thestringpuller: people don't know how to party there!
mircea_popescu: wtf, wait a second, georgia tech is a major party school.
mircea_popescu: there weren't any pacts involved were there ?
thestringpuller: Georgia Tech
thestringpuller: "We can't get laid. Lets over analyze it to see why girls won't touch our penises"
thestringpuller: ugh. this reminds me of college which was just high school 2.0
mircea_popescu: course it doesn't deal with cunt anymore except in the meta, but that's really okay for the demo.
mircea_popescu: they need stuff more like SOCIAL sciences, ie, talkradio. so they came up with this unfalsifiable version that's all yak, no actual anything.
mircea_popescu: well pua has a major disadvantage for your run of the mill usian : it's falsifiable, like a science.
mthreat: and i thought the matrix was real
assbot: Please take your pills. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller apparently it's a thing. http://trilema.com/2014/please-take-your-pills/ << that's where i discovered it anyway
thestringpuller: what are redpillers? people who saw the matrix and think it's real?
mircea_popescu: libertardian hello brother. are you here to help me turn the tide and breach through the oppressive injustice these ancap redpiller types keep weaving ?
mircea_popescu: they are a science, and hardly worth the effort given that w/e, it's just bash quotes
kakobrekla: speaking of this, rating systems are a science of its own
kakobrekla: it is what it is now. up what you like, ignore what you dont, should be ok, over time.
kakobrekla: thats the inherit property, cant get tired of it.
kakobrekla: meh, that voting system i did there was broked. and i fixed it 3 times and its still broked.
mircea_popescu: in other news, dji only down half a % today
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: yea. and then broke it. i still have my backpack they proxied from china tho.
mircea_popescu: o look at that, you can no longer - bash entries ?
mircea_popescu: did you get your tablet ?
gribble: Scam flavour of the day : bitcoinshop.us aka Hotel Management ...: <http://trilema.com/2014/scam-flavour-of-the-day-bitcoinshopus-aka-hotel-management-systems-inc-tucn/>; The psychology of the bagholder pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea ...: <http://trilema.com/2014/the-psychology-of-the-bagholder/>; S.MG, March 2014 Statement pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea ...: (1 more message)
thestringpuller: it was on trilema
mircea_popescu: Adlai: how about from now on, no btc-related company ever fills the "ceo" role <<< welcome to mpex in 2011 :)))
mircea_popescu: so as to what, cover a career built on a deserved reputation for insight under a pile of senile ridicule ?
mircea_popescu: i dunno why so many people want to live LONGER
mircea_popescu: With this tailwind working for us, Charlie and I hope!!!11
mircea_popescu: Could anyone really believe the earth was going to swallow up the incredible productive assets and unlimited human ingenuity existing in America?!?!?!?!
mircea_popescu: BUT the dynamism embedded in our market economy will continue to work its magic. America’s best days lie ahead.
mircea_popescu: education, work, everything the same. they don't buy shoes to have shoes, they buy shoes for the other people to see they got shoes.
mircea_popescu: *: Adlai isn't sure that, were he looking for a minister to perform a same-sex marriage, he'd want one who was only doing it under threat of incarceration << details, details. it's the united states of methodical hypocrisy anyway, they don't get married to be married, they get married to get the paperwork.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo yeah give the girl a chance.
mod6: << bah. anyway, all the real news is on irc.
BingoBoingo: mod6: Slow on that front
assbot: Govt tells Christian ministers: Perform same-sex weddings or face jail, fines - Alliance Defending Freedom
mod6: find any real btc news on the net still
BingoBoingo: Ah, then now writing Housing market stalls as payments stop
kakobrekla: BingoBoingo PinkPosixPXE has that one
assbot: IBM Pays To Divest Chip Business | Qntra.net
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo and lemme guess, currently being workt on is assbot: House purchases on hold as real-time payment system goes offline - Telegraph ?
thestringpuller: i can't find any real btc news on the net still
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller the less of it he has to do, the more of it he can do, ya know ?
PinkPosixPXE: I can do that
mircea_popescu: i guess that'd work.
kakobrekla: low on time. let PinkPosixPXE write.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla wanna write it up ? or... make the woman do it ?
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell kakobrekla here's your finders fee for the intel article
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Yeah, it's in the cue after I finish the next piece
mircea_popescu: assbot: Intel Subsidiary Agrees to $750,000 Penalty for Unauthorized Encryption Exports << now that is news! got a BingoBoingo in da haus ?
mircea_popescu: i've never been sick for a week straight nor do i think it possible.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: in those 4 weeks I saw a doctor twice and a specialist once << fuck 4 weeks ? i'm throwing a conniption fit in the third motherfucking day