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mircea_popescu: yeah
that's
the
thing, it never goes away anyway, so...
princessnell: i
think
that's right but i unfortunately don't
think
that's
the approach
that us law schools
take. anyways i deal a lot with law
through economics so i can have it all.
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete: mike_c: didn't know
that about altcoin… i don't know why i
thought it was a costlier project << nah,
thickasthieves was running lean at
the
time :D
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03, has a good point, physics i agree is very very close. for exactly
the same reason
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: was a prefix
to a
thought ;)
princessnell: what is it about law itself
that you
think leads people
to not fucking stupidity
mircea_popescu: math models are a lot easier
to access, yes. not nearly as useful
tho, not generally.
mircea_popescu: how deep
to
the water
table is perhaps what you're discussing, whereas how much water in
that spot at all is maybe what i',m saying.
mircea_popescu: suppose
there's a land, and under
this land water
table, and above names of places.
mircea_popescu: well, we may be
talking at cross purposes, let me
try and model
the difference.
mircea_popescu: rent way cheaper
than
tuition, results way better
than degree,
mircea_popescu: i suppose
the start-up approach
to studying law in
the us is getting a small apt close
to
the campus of a good law school and fucking all
the older profs for free.
princessnell: point is i
think on
the whole
the fields i mentioned equip you with better mental models
than most law programs
mircea_popescu: math is a prime
tool of making one stupid, even in sane places (such as
the soviet union)
princessnell: "studying
the law" here = "memorizing administrative case law"
mircea_popescu: there's nobody aliv ein
the us qualified
to
teach philosophy
to any degree.
princessnell: "the best avenue" idk i'm biased but i'd have
to go with economics or math or even logic/philosophy
mircea_popescu: granted
this doesn't justify
the
tuition. but
then again i've yet
to meet
the person
that studied law and was worse for
the wear for it.
mircea_popescu: my point is more
that if you aspire
to not be fucking stupid, pretty much
the best avenue in
the us colleges
today is law.
mircea_popescu: but my point was not about
the direct practical application
princessnell: that's
the spectacle.
then
there's
the masses of subprime borrowers who went
to shit
tier law schools and now work as glorified file clerks at an hourly wage.
mircea_popescu: princessnell, as in
too many duke grads unemployed
to
the point you get idjits a la
tucker max writing "novels" and
then moving on
to "financial advicering" ?
fluffypony: despite what u-sage usagi
thinks, I'm clearly a shitty scammer
mircea_popescu: fluffypony, you may underestimate
the bezzle. what's whatsapp sell for i forget ? 50
trillion ?
princessnell: mircea_popescu well
there's a huge legal bubble in
the us rite now
fluffypony: mircea_popescu:
that's
the beauty of it...now if we add an IPO stage in
the middle, we can make several HUNDREDS of Dollars!
mircea_popescu: princessnell: bitcoinpete i almost did
the same and went into law. dodged a bullet
there! << what's so bad about law ?
mircea_popescu: code has failed in production we'll shut
the startup down, start a new one, buy
the old one out, and
then repeat. We call
this Multi Startup Synergistic Prefailure, and it's inspired by
the work of
Tsukino Usagi. << you know it's pretty much how
this crap works irl.
mircea_popescu: moiety, well, i have women
to drive nuts, so it keeps me sane. it's like a gift.
mircea_popescu: just because
they're after you doesn't mean everything's a meta.
mircea_popescu: pankkake, were you
the one with
the "with cia agents" zinger, you multiminded psychopath you ?
pankkake: I hope
that one line was
trolling
xmj: ;;later
tell mircea_popescu am I unignored now?
mircea_popescu: ;;later
tell Phinnaeus it doesn't cunt if i wasn't
there!!!
davout: the first rule of
the
tautology club...
moiety: he wasn't here long, he said he would be back
though.
fluffypony: davout: dancing in
the streets but for free!
mircea_popescu: fluffypony, remind me
to
tell you about
the ONE bdsm meet i ever attended
fluffypony: on "original" ideas
that should cost a lot less
than
they do (see: guerrilla marketing).
fluffypony: The wife and I went
to exactly 1 start-up dinner. Not only were
the people a bunch of pretentious cocks
that have never done anything successful in
their lives (except circlejerk around all
the cool synergies
they can have with other start-ups), but
the "speakers" (while eloquent and with beautiful Jobs-like presentations) espoused utterly inane notions
that have no basis in reality and mostly have
to do with spending stupid amounts of money
mircea_popescu: davout, basically, it's romania of
the 90s/ny of
the 70s.
davout: mircea_popescu: "moving an entire cc across
the continents is an involved
task" <<< if you care
to share i'm curious about
the criteria for choosing argentina
dub: crime stats in denver since
they legalised weed
moiety: i don't even know how you are still sane mircea_popescu, moving one person and
two cats with very little stuff is.. well, I've had enough by
this point lol
moiety: i just realised smuxi has
tweeter support and i have no idea how
to use it
mircea_popescu: i don't even know moiety. still working at having everything up and running, moving an entire cc across
the continents is an involved
task
pankkake: I believe it works
the other way
moiety: have
tweeter been in
touch with you mircea_popescu?
pankkake: i've also got
the "it's written by a googletwitterfacebook employee"
mircea_popescu: no but you see,
that's who
they are and what
they do. what do you want ?
Apocalyptic: <mike_c> drives me crazy when someone says "well
the other startups are doing it" <<
this
mircea_popescu: it;s not really intended for
the comsumption of
the etsy crowd.
mike_c: drives me crazy when someone says "well
the other startups are doing it"
mike_c: i would post
that on my wall, but
then everyone would just ask me "who is mircea"
mircea_popescu: and similarly, start-ups aren't
the guys
that do what everyone else does, but exactly
the guys
that don't.
mircea_popescu: oviously in real reality start-ups are not
the derps
that go
to "start-up dinners", but exactly
the guys
that don't
mircea_popescu: there's simply no way he ends up any other way
than bleeding in a ditch somewhere, with a pilum in his penis.
mircea_popescu: this is exactly counter
to what a startup is even for.
this is ibm
think.
mircea_popescu: second off, and much more worrisome,
the bizarre notion
that
there's safety in banality,
to wit,
that one can't fuck up by doing what "everyone" is doing.
mircea_popescu: and so
there IS such a
thing as "start-ups" in
the same sense
there actually is a
thing called new york.
mircea_popescu: this is usually
the result of mediocre brains strained
through
the us college system.
they end up with
the expectation
that any conceptual category has a practical counterpart.
mircea_popescu: anywyay, i was interrupted in
the middle of spamming. let's continue.
artifexd: I
think it comes down
to
the fact
that I get a bad feeling at
the idea of putting my private key somewhere
that could be accessed via javascript
that was downloaded from some external location.
danielpbarron: after i set
the option "never
try
to
translate
this" it seems
to work every
time
danielpbarron: when i first started sending ascii armored blocks in gmail,
they would alter some of it so it wasn't valid on
the other end; sometimes because it would
try
to
translate it, and sometimes it would just randomly remove a space or line return
artifexd: I looked at
that and I dismissed it for some reason
that I don't recall.
That was prior
to
the current release
though so I shall look again.
artifexd: It is hard
to find (as in I couldn't) an easy way
to do gpg email in gmail.
There used
to be plugins but
they just don't last/work.
fluffypony: artifexd: I was reading
their stuff earlier, it's quite interesting
xmj: get your inflated head down
to
the reality of 2014.
assbot: Google Online Security Blog: Making end-to-end encryption easier
to use
mircea_popescu: first off and most importantly,
the unexamined prior
that
there "is"
this one
thing called "start-ups"
moiety: i
think i would have
to give out credits
to get people
to read a blog
mircea_popescu: well since i'm reading
the logs, i'd like
to
take a minute and dissect
the stupidity of "xmj: mike_c: not if he dislikes my stating how it is."
mircea_popescu: anyway,
there's definitely some future in
the blog credits
thing.
mircea_popescu: hm.. all
the #b-a blogs should charge
the same credits, spend
them
to read
the other blogs, get
them when people read your blog.
talk about a circle jerk. << zipf would put a rapid end
to
that methinks.
pankkake: no, you'd have
to patch atc for
that
mircea_popescu: <TomServo> "You buy Doge for
the community not as an investment." <<
thus spoke socialisthustra.
pankkake: still a better reason
than silver
to bitcoin's gold
pankkake: merge mining is one of
the few
things
that would make me
take an altcoin seriously
TomServo: "You buy Doge for
the community not as an investment."
mircea_popescu: you know, just like where opera would be if all
the
time spent derping around counterstrike were spent "singing"
mircea_popescu: <moiety> i wonder how
things would be with bitcoin
today if all
this
time and energy
thats been spent on alts had been focussed on btc << not noticeably different.