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mircea_popescu: and only because i was just writing on this, and my conclusion was "burn it with fire"
mircea_popescu: i just had to pour myself a triple drink because well... my brain knotted.
mircea_popescu: Sterling once said he did not like to rent to Hispanics because they "smoke, drink and just hang around the building," and that "Black tenants smell and attract vermin."
mircea_popescu: "My impression is that the feel-good guys are incompetent and stupid and need others to be nice to them because if other people were fair and just to them, they would suffer tremendously, and therefore defend other incompetent and stupid people because they can identify with the sloppy bastards, but not with those who actually do their job well and have that as their primary motive and their reason both for asking ques
mircea_popescu: because YES loltribunals do work, not just on league of legends, but here too.
mircea_popescu: because rather than buy the cutter they just don't cut it.
mircea_popescu: benkay i'm just being steganographical. see because sometimes the things i say are in reality secret messages for uknown third parties according to secret schemes of encoding and so forth.
mircea_popescu: "Amazing: @Chase just cancelled my debit card because a merchant may or may not have been hacked. They didn't call. Won't tell me who."
mircea_popescu: bounce i was thinking this must be broken because when i wrote the article yest mah ppl had said "just shy of 500"
mircea_popescu: then just as 2013 brought increased prices and revenues, they lost 5mn dollars to the us fed, because karpeles is retarded and doesn't understand when to say no.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bitcoinpete it's even been announced, some fork. basically they want to fork it because htey perceive they should be given more of this world than the ycan take by themselves, for themselves, and they perceive it's unfair that just as soon as an algo of division is established, better people get more than them.
mircea_popescu: suppose you'd rather do something else with your free time than having to write fucking books because everyone else is too retarded to write the books on their own and they just flock to the fucking gamew instead
mircea_popescu: what, get new friends just because ?
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> he's just asking random questions for no reason because he already knew and he made eve do it anyway? << i actually do this.
mircea_popescu: Namworld yeah except if you ban people that tell you to get fucked after you deleted a half dozen posts they made ostensibly because "you have to minimise the visibility of moderation" but really because you just as well didn't want their content visible
mircea_popescu: (i'm just being very sarcastic because that thread's too funny to do anything else)
mircea_popescu: dexX7 you just think so because you're a one man band that never leaves his appartment.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves because it's broken ? i dunno, just my guess.
mircea_popescu: so just because he went on long odds you're telling me bitbet is broken ? dude wanted the long odds, what can i say
mircea_popescu: (hint : just because your "employer" tells you to do something, it doesn't follow it's a good idea to do - either for them or for you)
mircea_popescu: because i'd likely just start screaming and overturning tables.
mircea_popescu: you know, just because i ask for x y z doesn't automatically mean i consider all of these "identification"
mircea_popescu: just because her name is lilith does not know she knows how to suck cock, you know ?
mircea_popescu: which i don't know because you just dropped here and started talking randomly.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves just discussing the more general point. why should you be in their heads ? because you're cool, and they aren't./
mircea_popescu: might be a pioneer in that because I was going to the Salvation Army and getting old dresses and old pieces of just cloth and making something quite wonderful out of them to dress myself, my child, and to make wonderful clothes."
mircea_popescu: they're doing it because a fool and his resources are soon partying, and once the party's over they'll just go back home and start their own renaissances.
mircea_popescu: it was like... people actually came an extra distance with oxen fucking carts just because of that cool.
mircea_popescu: "we just called it the citadel because the outhouse was taken
mircea_popescu: but if you're used to your smell being filthy, you'll just keep on doing that because... whatever.
mircea_popescu: A: Because it wasn't on there. It wasn't on this database or on this website. It was tracked through a - what was that - not Sales Force. I can't remember the name of the website. It was something we just worked out together. And it has a lot of his transactions. This account looks mostly like my stuff.
mircea_popescu: Someone stupid will ask me this: "then why doesn't Medicaid just offer a billing code for "need three evaluations, but likely no diagnosis?" Because if Fox News got wind that Obama was paying for black people to get "no diagnosis" they'd blow up an abortion clinic. Paying for "temper tantrums" is just the right amount of enraging, TV and internet enraging, no violence will occur. "Isn't this why we need universal he
mircea_popescu: just, the vc circus hasn't yet found out, because we don't finance the circus.
mircea_popescu: When we see a welfare mom we assume she can't find work, but when we see a hipster we become infuriated because we assume he doesn't want to work but could easily do so-- on account of the fact that he can speak well-- that he went to college. But now suddenly we're all shocked: to the economy, the English grad is just as superfluous as the disenfranchised welfare mom in the hood-- the college education is just as irr
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "what, you mean just because people could expend highly specialised, intricate work that's usually highly paid for free it doesn't mean they also will?!?!?!"
mircea_popescu: Imagine Gretchen Carlson doing what she should have done if she was smart: kept the interview going longer. "Oh, I'm sorry, Max, we must all be dummies here at Fox because when you told us you were pro-Romney we... just believed it. We do that with the Bible and pre-war intelligence, too, gosh golly. Well, you have a Columbia education and I'm giving you a national platform, why don't you tell us why we're all stupi
mircea_popescu: how the hell does that work ? just because he dislikes the usg ?
mircea_popescu: cazalla you know, just because you didnt make it doesn't mean it sucks.
mircea_popescu: auto insurance is great insurance to have, too, because you end up with just as much float as disaster, but much less risk.
mircea_popescu: ubly interesting because calculus was invented to make hard work easier. "I just don't get math." Can't do math if you weren't taught to think logically, and logic is tough on kids' self esteems and makes them way less submissive, easier just to put on a video.
mircea_popescu: either that or don't fucking read too deep into what mp says and go all fucking nuts just because he has to cover 10k
mircea_popescu: and then she gets pregnant/catches the clap/gets dumped and her mom is like lolz and she's like "o mom, just because you were right ONCE IN YOUR LYFF!!!
mircea_popescu: do you actually buy it just because you should ?
mircea_popescu: just because i use some matrices to describe eigenstates does not mean matrices are now integral parts of quantum mechanbics.
mircea_popescu: there's no such thing as a right to one's code just because it exists or just because it's different.
mircea_popescu: i don't actually hate the guy, i just dislike him because he's very inept strategically and we kinda need to purge the stupid.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` you know, just because for w/e reason you don't perceive it as a burden
mircea_popescu: and it should be, because just like with the poker table : if you live with no masters it just means you're an idiot.
mircea_popescu: it's just the perfect smoke cover, because people suffer from some sort of very particular brain issue.
mircea_popescu: "Having just gone through this from the other side of the fence I thought I would share some perspective. The reality is no successful startup founder wants hundreds or thousands of investors. Contrary to the silly games you see on "crypto exchanges" with startups issuing billions of shares to thousands of investors no founder wants that. Less is better when it comes to investors because it means less overhead and m
mircea_popescu: next time get a shovel eh. just because it's a tiny pet doesn't mean it can't get a manly burial.
mircea_popescu: 1. Learn the pecking order. All opinions are not equal. Some people are to be respected. Learn who. Some people are irrelevant and easily ignored. Learn who. More importantly than the who, learn why. Is it just because "everyone else seems to think so"? That's no good, forget it. Is it because they were right when everyone else was wrong? That's perfect, especially if it occurs with any sort of consistency.
mircea_popescu: just because people have meanwhile stopped giving a shit about you and your overall health and well being doesn't mean the people that used to care were wrong.
mircea_popescu: deanclkclk dude srsly, nobody is using the thing of an unknown. you were here in channel when this happened, openx just lost all its business because Apocalyptic.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's never any question of turning them loose because they just won't leave.
mircea_popescu: why, because we subscribe to the theory that idiots are people too, just like us ?
mircea_popescu: davout just because something is based on something random you can't actually proclaim it uniform tho
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> just because you're in your desk, in school, doesn't mean you're doing math problems instead of doodling monsters <<< on re-read i suspect this is highly autobiographical
mircea_popescu: this doesn't change just because internets.
mircea_popescu: PsychoticBoy_ listen here, just because you ran a shit asset on the global scam exchange
mircea_popescu: it's just this stupid thing everyone does because everyone's doing.
mircea_popescu: what business sends over its book just because someone wants to see it ?!
mircea_popescu: or do you just presume we're interchangeable because irc nicks
mircea_popescu: just not lieing and not stealing, that's it. that's all. you don't even need an idea AT ALL. your chain can simply win because no premine and no schmooze.
mircea_popescu: no, because those exist in romanian too and they're just as dumpster-y.
mircea_popescu: this is strictly because apple had at the helm for a decade+ a person who actually understood how worthless advertising is, and just told the horde to get fucked
mircea_popescu: yeah they got troubles. i was just making light of it because i'm an asshole in a tropical climate 70 miles away.
mircea_popescu: I’m so fucking sorry for everything I’ve said in the past. I got scammed just like every other fucking person. Scared for my fucking life now people trying to fucking dox us because they think we’re in on it. Fucked up man fucked up."
mircea_popescu: similarly here : if you throw money around at some point good things may happen. just because marketeers imagine they have a monopoly on money beng thrown around
mircea_popescu: you're in the wrong business because your business just got better ?
mircea_popescu: just because most of their city is undeveloped doesn't mean it's not a city now :D
mircea_popescu: so it'd seem bitcointalk has a xss vuln in the trust rating system, because mpoe-pr just managed to spam trust three times by simply refreshing the page.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo well just because the anonderps are at each other;s throats does not necessarily imply openbsd and freebsd have free-for-all wrestling matches in the dev cubicles.
mircea_popescu: need. people do things just because things can be done these days.
mircea_popescu: there's the truthfulness defense. something's not an insult just because you don't like hearing it.
mircea_popescu: yes well just because we found a black swan is no reason to go looking for black lions.
mircea_popescu: well, you've constructed it so it doesn't make any sense. take a better example : say i run a whorehouse and you bring me your wife. then one day you want to have sex. just because i've sent her to work the streets of mexico doesn't mean you can't have sex,
mircea_popescu: there's just no room in the world for such nonsense. you can arrest a bum because some other bum said so.
mircea_popescu: pankkake you were saying a few days ago about being disgusted with ppl lauding scams just because they hope they get a little back ? where is it, i want to quote it.
mircea_popescu: "hey guise guess what, my secret key is just like my name lol. but it's all cool because i have a paper wallet."
mircea_popescu: in practice it makes no difference anwyay, whether you actually pay it out or just keep it in the bank, because in the latter case the share just trades as a proxy of your cash (see apple)
mircea_popescu: not only because the person could just bet and ensure his own winning,
mircea_popescu: i like to think it's just because i own/run so much equipment that statistically this is "normal"
mircea_popescu: i guess it's protected because you just peel the sticker yoursel;f
mircea_popescu: pankkake just because you happen to be culturally immersed in the computers-and-internet thing
mircea_popescu: also, too early to start that sort of wc bet now, because the interval nov 2013 - june 2014 or w/e it starts is just dead air
mircea_popescu: im firmly persuaded we just can't tell it apart because of all the nonsense.
mircea_popescu: pigeons you know, just because the scammer group is pushing each other's scams doesn't really mean all that much.
mircea_popescu: benkay you're just angry because he's stealing your wot share.
mircea_popescu: because it shows she's not fat, just sexy.
mircea_popescu: jurov oracle is pretty good if you run a large non it corp, because you can just call them to fix your shit. it's non trivial to keep on staff it people able to handle large-ish server farms.
mircea_popescu: but you know, some proposed reason doersn't become true just because it contradicts the common answer.
mircea_popescu: also i just negged the labcoin bash because it's banal and unfunny
mircea_popescu: because they'll just fuck their lives up.
mircea_popescu: because they never do their fucking homework, they always just asume.
mircea_popescu: just because i have an apple in front of my window doesn't make the apple i eat off that tree not worth 1/4 euro or w/e thery sell for.
mircea_popescu: just because some particular thing you were invested into fails to pass muster does not mean the entire world has been obliterated. simmar down.
mircea_popescu: Jerry: When you're moving your whole world becomes boxes. That's all you think about is boxes. Boxes, where are those boxes? You just wander down the street going in and out of stores.... are there boxes here? Have you seen any boxes? You can't even talk to people because you can't concentrate... shut up, I'm looking for boxes! Just after a while you become really into it... you can smell them. You walk into a store...
mircea_popescu: neighbour dood just knocked on the door, because "he just worked out and then discovered he has no protein in the house and he must have some. do they have anything ?"
mircea_popescu: there is no reason to believe anything was compromised. we just have no way to make sure wtf is in the chips because the vendor is being an asshole and won't release code.