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nubbins`: BingoBoingo: i'm now 0-2 after losing
to you and Apocalyptic. D:
bones`: Pretty sure
they've made it
to mayhem
bones`: So what is going
to happen in Ukraine?
ThickAsThieves: “It is important
to continually improve Canada’s regime
to address emerging risks, including virtual currencies such as Bitcoin,
that
threaten Canada’s international leadership in
the fight against money laundering and
terrorist financing,” said Flaherty.
mircea_popescu: who
the fuck ever loved a woman and never left any scar on her.
mircea_popescu: As
the mist leaves no scar on
the dark green hill so my body leaves no scar on you and never will
mircea_popescu: (the one
that identified which civilisation you're playing)
mircea_popescu: did any of you discover
that
the original civ could be forced into multiplayer mode
jayk: i had
that for
the atari 2600
jayk: oh
there has been 6 in 3 weeks
Apocalyptic: "Dimon's hit squad at work right now....If i work at JPM, I would watch my back going
to and from work just
to be safe"
ThickAsThieves: indeed, her being a woman happens
to be one of
the reasons she's leaving
mircea_popescu: well, in her defense, women playing
the game and men playing
the game are different problems.
ThickAsThieves: i agree
that catering in general is a horrible snowballing
thing
mircea_popescu: kids
that live in
the us schools
today, forbidden
to as much as
touch, grow up with
this HORRID fear of everyone and everything
mircea_popescu: but imo even more importantly because it fails
to resolve
tensions with
the unknown
ThickAsThieves: i just enjoy it more when someone is converted and joins us,
than when we display one more idiot
mircea_popescu: in
this case mutual catering is actually a large chunk of
the problem.
ThickAsThieves: being in
the US, and a background in mktg & visual media, it's hard for me
to avoid
the desire
to cater i guess
mircea_popescu: if random guy fell into
the chat with
that request i'd have probably linked him
to jurov's manual.
mircea_popescu: we'd have ended up bogged down in
the fact
that i know who you are
ThickAsThieves: Here’s a challenge : defend
the options crap. in public. Against me.
mircea_popescu: and
the reason
they bothered is
the experience/knowledge
that i actually do act under my own authority,
mircea_popescu: the reason people could ever construct
their arguments was
that i was engaging
the substance, and visibly so, which allows for retort.
ThickAsThieves: well what if i had come
to you saying your options are shit cuz
they a borked
ThickAsThieves: maybe not fair
to compare a room of smart people i guess
ThickAsThieves: maybe use your mpex options problem as an example, it was brought up more
than once
that you had a problem and it should be solved, but only after preparing
the information in a way you could digest would you acknowledge it
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves
the most effective point in all of us foreign policy was when kennedy said "fu, we're ghoing
to war"
mircea_popescu: check it out : us supreme court rules
that argentina must pay out in fulkl
to holdouts
pankkake: I give up on
the forum btw. it's hopeless.
mircea_popescu: he convinced himself of it, let him unconvince himself of it
too.
ThickAsThieves: wouldnt
that require convincing him of his idiocy at all
mircea_popescu: and
the noob either withdraws
the "ipo" (which i've seen at least once) or else goes on a derprampage.
mircea_popescu: like some derp makes some ipo announcement on
tardtalk and you or
the girl or pankkake (who is just a
troll right ?) or kako or anyone says some
things
mircea_popescu: in such a circumstance attempting
to satisfy
the ritual becomes an empty exercise in circularity.
mircea_popescu: this is what
this guy is, and what i meant by "nigger" in
that article : he's nothing more substantial
than JUST
the ritual in question.
mircea_popescu: to
the point
that
there's no ship left. just an outline of barnacles.
ThickAsThieves: some people require ritual in
their debate is all i mean, i'm not saying it's justifiable, so much as if you
talk
to people
the "right" way,
the substance of
the conversation can sometimes be allowed
to surface
mircea_popescu: if we reduce it
to
the smart are smart,
the stupid are stupid
then
there's no longer any clear hierarchy.
mircea_popescu: the difference between
the smart and
the stupid is simply
that
the smart can be stupid.
the stupid can't be smart.
mircea_popescu: so he failed
to establish his ground as a man, will do better as a child ?
ThickAsThieves: do you
think your style may not serve you in situations like
this? as in, you started with farts and piss, and
thus gave him an out
to start
talking like a child?
mircea_popescu: ironically, i had an account long long ago,
then abandoned it because
they did something stupid
to
the site. don't remember what exactly.
pankkake: anyway I feel like you're discovering
twitter
mircea_popescu: "dude, i hate it because it's a
threat, what do you want from me ?" would be infinitely more respectable
than you know... "oh, deflation"
mircea_popescu: generally people seem uniquely unprepared
to... you know, explain
themselves.
ThickAsThieves: the irony(?) is
that i wish your exchange with him had more substance
lnovy: from
that link it looks like
that an idiocy is more
than common
there...
ThickAsThieves: unless only an idiot would make an account at wsj.com
to comment....