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ben_vulpes: mthreat: mircea_popescu: has ars customs completely cut amazon off from delivering?
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mthreat: ben_vulpes: apparently it is very hard to receive stuff. I haven't even tried to order anything.
ben_vulpes: mthreat: what's the in-country equivalent?
mthreat: ben_vulpes: MercadoLibre.com.ar is probably the closest thing
ben_vulpes: jesus fuck chrome keeps retranslating the site every time the js does something
assbot: linux - Encrypt tar file asymmetrically - Super User
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decimation: lol it's so crazy and yet it's written in legalese
decimation: 9. The only feasible option for your own Benefit (is "come back" and surrender Here in the U.S.A. AS WELL AS "FACE THE MUSIC," as alleged by the Interviews to you on television on or about May 2014 (TO FACE THE CRIMINAL CHARGES AGAINST YOU). Then, I will try to TONE THE MUSIC DOWN FOR YOU SO THAT YOU CAN DANCE EASILY WITH YOUR FAVORITE MUSIC AS WELL AS DANCE WITH (YOUR "PARTNERS") HEREIN.
decimation: asciilifeform: FYI you can listen to that Morse code vaccuum pendulum clock on the remote shortwave receiver I linked a few days ago.
decimation: I imagine the design tolerance of an SMT part is quite tight
decimation: If USG doesn't consider failure to pay federal taxes a basis to deny a security clearance, one wonders upon what basis the clearance is granted?
ben_vulpes: gpg --encrypt -r "$recip_1" -r "$recip_2" ... - how intersperse "-r" with the elements of $KEYS_OF_INTEREST
ben_vulpes: wrong chan, but if anyone's of the sentiment...
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BingoBoingo: justusranvier: There are many reasons why homeopathy is a scam, mircea_popescu: but yeah, i suppose it's a good proof they don't grok objective reality. << Homeopaths make their cheddar on conditions that test well against placebo
justusranvier: I just wish they'd be honest. Placebos can do some good by lowering stress, which lowers cortosol, which would otherwise get in the way of natural healing processes.
justusranvier: So homeopathy is just another way of saying "sometimes if you make people feel better they heal faster"
justusranvier: But they can't just leave it at that. They've got to cloak it in a bunch of pseudoscience bullshit
assbot: That Mitchell and Webb Look: Homeopathic A&E - YouTube
BingoBoingo: justusranvier: From an article you linked >> "What they don’t understand is that Ebola is unlikely to spread very far because it is so fatal." << What makes this new strain particularly dangerous is it is only killing ~60% of patients
BingoBoingo: RebeccaBitcoin: Nah this is the one where seekrit Ebola cure gets snuck into worthless homeopathic remedies to save Obama care dollars.
justusranvier: Evolution in action. The least-successful viruses kill their hosts quickly. The better ones kill their host more slowly so they can infect more people. THe most successful ones don't make the host sick at all, and instead infect the germ line and become immortal.
RebeccaBitcoin: I've always wanted to orchestrate a false flag operation.
assbot: Mammals Made By Viruses : The Loom
BingoBoingo: A decent percent of the human genome share dna with various traditional STD causing pathogens.
justusranvier: The viruses that make us sick are the failures of the virus world. The virus winners are the ones that create entirely new species.
justusranvier: You don't need to be able to think in order to fail
BingoBoingo: Well, technically they are roughly as living as fire
BingoBoingo: Or more virus's have all of the instructions to live, but none of the aparratus to live on their own
justusranvier: We consider cells to be alive. We consider multicellular organisims to be alive. They aren't quite alive in the same way that so far eludes a precise definition.
BingoBoingo: Which is why insist fire lives, in a minimalist sense
justusranvier: There was some physicist working on a thermodynamic definition of life.
BingoBoingo: On the other hand... Sometimes I want to restrict my definition of living to things I could, at least in theory, eat.
BingoBoingo: justusranvier: Well, I experience the world as homo sapiens
justusranvier: The characteristic that sets you apart from the other primates is the ability to derive universal principles and apply them.
justusranvier: (Or other primate/pig hybrids, if that hypothesis turns out to be true)
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cgcardona: thank you sir. :-] authing w/ gribble as we speak
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> mthreat: mircea_popescu: has ars customs completely cut amazon off from delivering? << i've not yet tried mail.
mircea_popescu: <cazalla> diablo has not looked like that for some time, she got a make over in diablo 3 << sadly.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> if easier to find bullet than coin, re-examine engineering priorities in project. <<< ahah the foregoing was worth it.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> If USG doesn't consider failure to pay federal taxes a basis to deny a security clearance, one wonders upon what basis the clearance is granted? <<< i don't think you understand how few people still pay their taxes.
mircea_popescu: justusranvier BingoBoingo re the virus discussion, i suppose you're familiar with the viral theory of the origin of the mitochondria
mircea_popescu: after all, they are genetically different (and that's why the mother dna is actually more dna than the father's)
kakobrekla: looking at resolved @ bitbet front page
kakobrekla: who figured out betting on 'no' works again?
BingoBoingo: Well, I may have to do some remembering... or reading... but it may have been a cellulaur organism rather than a virii that did mitochondrion
BingoBoingo: mitochondria though are the ultimate example though of "If you can, you must" as having mitochondira is so much better than not having them
mircea_popescu: bloodstream, all the hassle of hemoglobin, the expense of feeces being 80% that
mircea_popescu: kidneys, everything's worth it just to make the tiny coal plant go.
mthreat: cgcardona: you lived on kauai right?
BingoBoingo: I mean organisms without mitochondria still exist, but... at still greater cost in what they are limited to being.
cgcardona: yea I’ve lived there off and on several times since 2002. why?
mthreat: cgcardona: when i get back to the US in 2016, i want to live there for 3-6 months, and i'm curious about housing options
cgcardona: where are you now? It’s an amazing place to live. kind of expensive but worth the price for what you get
cgcardona: of course it’s a small island so you get a little island fever after a while
cgcardona: thats why my family and i like to do 3-6 months on island at a time
cgcardona: but that sounds like what you’re planning so you should be good.
mthreat: cgcardona: in argentina now... I spent 1 week in kauai before. I'll be taking helicopter lessons with Mauna Lao Helicopters
cgcardona: yeah i’ve yet to take helicopter tour there. I really wanted to this last time but never got around to it and then we ended up leaving early.
mthreat: cgcardona: they have schools on Oahu, big island, and kauai, and kauai just seems like the most beautiful of the islands
cgcardona: without questions. it’s the garden island. and def the bestIMO
mthreat: what would you estimate a place for a couple would cost per month, with a kitchen for cooking, somewhere not too far from Lihue airport
cgcardona: asciilifeform: *if* we’re abusing unicode? When aren’t we abusing unicode?
cgcardona: mthreat: i was just paying 800 for a studio downstairs apartment but it was a little on the island style side of things so we upgraded to a 2 bedroom for 1500 in downtown kapaa that was baiscally like a vacation rental. very nice and clean
cgcardona: so about 1500ish for something nice but relatively small.
mircea_popescu: cgcardona i bet you that's more per sq foot than the businesses in downtown san francisco can possibly afford
cgcardona: mircea_popescu: according to some shit I read in the press Romania just got into btc
cgcardona: i thought of you when I read that article. I’m like ‘huh?’ ‘wtf'
assbot: Romania buys into bitcoin big time | euronews, corporate
cgcardona: ah ok yea I figured y’all had seen it.
mircea_popescu: odds are this bunch is more numerous than the bunch that still reads romanian press.
cgcardona: MP - I saw that you answered me that noone has taken you up on the ether. I’m kinda surprised.
cgcardona: but I guess that was the point of the excersise at all so you’re probably not surprised
cgcardona: i’m still thinking of buying some there (yes I know the shame that will bring on me here)
cgcardona: i’m still unclear if there is a hard cap on the numer of ether
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cgcardona: mircea_popescu: i still don’t totally know how to use the book
cgcardona: if there are docs Ill gladly read them
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cgcardona: punkman: really? hmm well I guess that means that picking up some ether hoping they increase in value probably isn’t a good idea
mircea_popescu: or you could just query gribble but im usually too lazy to
punkman: asciilifeform: no strings attached
punkman: asciilifeform: I liked your interpretation
mircea_popescu: it actually comes from a great bogart line, he tells slim to walk around him.
mthreat: hehe i want to see someone use that in real life some day
assbot: Lauren Bacall Whistle - YouTube
mircea_popescu: well inasmuch as we got plenty o theorems already proven..
mircea_popescu: anyway, this entire "idiots figure they're people too" side of the internet is like a lake of stu
mircea_popescu: it'd definitely make me enjoy reading teh internets more.
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mircea_popescu: it's not bad. author got banned because she displayed wastage of food.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> gedankenexperiment. imagine if it were not possible to starve to death - folks who can't find any food would, say, photosynthetize (this is not geometrically/thermodynamically possible in life, but imagine for a moment.) what would the people who have never, or almost never, eaten - write on the subject? << Reddit aspires to buy monitors with sufficient brightness to enable photosynthesis, gets scammed on kickstart
mircea_popescu: the guy i linked is actually noteworthy because he takes the dilution of rape one step further : he claims his experience's been rape.
mircea_popescu: In fact, you could call this my own personal rape. I’m sure women will be up in arms for me calling it that, but what is the criteria for it? I feel shame. I am unable to talk about it with others. I will invariably be blamed for the outcome i suffered because of the way *I* acted. Being beta was ‘wearing a miniskirt’. Acting like a NiceGuy was ‘being overly flirtatious’. Respecting women and pedestalizing th
mircea_popescu: em was going up to a guys room at 2am for a late night coffee.
mircea_popescu: I deserved it for being unattractive. You deserved it for being too attractive. We both got fucked and not in the way we wanted it. You had no power and had violation inflicted upon you. I had no power or right to feel like a human being inflicted upon me. You were penetrated against your will. Feminism and woman bent me over and fucked me up the ass while laughing at me. We both wanted death. Yet i was a source of rid
mircea_popescu: icule, you are the poster child of Slutwalk. And so it is.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's lulzy what socialism's own "to each according to his needs" makes out of people.
decimation: "I got to have the pleasure of defending women from the barbs and negs of my player friends only to watch these same women i defended end up going home to sleep with them. My brain simply could not comprehend what the fuck was going on. What the fuck is wrong with these women? Oh Wait! I?m not allowed to question that."
decimation: so the alpha male, femenism, the hot woman, and his own brain are raping him?
decimation: as the last pscyhiatrist might say, he might be happy if he wasn't so invested in being unhappy
mircea_popescu: decimation i kinda say it too. and probably anyone with a clue that ever saw him.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amusingly, the various fringe groups all do this. anarchists have their pre-state garden of eden, so do goldbugs, so does everyone.
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decimation: in the days of arranged marraige he might have been issued a woman - if his father was a somebody
mircea_popescu: if his father was somebody he'd have been in a world of hurt.
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decimation: maybe he would then write about how his wife hates him or something
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BingoBoingo: The American Political class and their mythical 1950's
mircea_popescu: i suppose the success of socialism may trace to this, that it has no mythical age in the past.
decimation: encouraging the masses to believe that they live at the end of history certainly helps this myth
mircea_popescu: i suspect any good myth has a dose of nonfactual commonplace thought.
mircea_popescu: take the immaculate conception. it's not that any woman ever did. not even close.
mircea_popescu: but it's that so many men over the years thought about the possibility that maybe wifey/daughter/mom's just pregnant ?
decimation: I wonder what Friedrich would say about today's Deutschland?
assbot: Unser Liebe Fraue (English Subtitle) - YouTube
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decimation: that makes me think of the Hessian Landesknecht dwelling across the Delaware from Washington's camp, waiting for the Whig generals to make up their mind...
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assbot: Wir wollen unseren alten Kaiser Wilhelm wiederhaben (English Subtitle) - YouTube
decimation: Note that many of the Germans who yearned for old Kaiser Wilhelm went to America to live "free"
decimation: this might have worked out for the first generation, but now their great-great-great grandchildren are yearning for Kaiser Wilhelm here ...
BingoBoingo: A hundred years ago most the the local papers were in German
decimation: America is a German country by ethnicity (of white people anyway)
decimation: it just became ... uncool ... to be German during WWI and WWII
BingoBoingo: Well, over much of the US the reason why small town X and small town Y were not bigger town Z, was the differing origins of the original settlers
decimation: I'm convinced that one of the reasons that pre-WWII germany spiraled out of control was because people who were able to make something of themselves had already left 50 years earlier
decimation: unfortunately the German population immediately gave up and submitted to anglo rule
decimation: otherwise you might find a genuine Germantown somewhere
decimation: there is much truth in this. my grandmother's line comes from German settlers in Odessa
decimation: supposedly they showed a great reverance for Tzar Nikolai
decimation: nevertheless, like in Mircea's comic, real life goes on, and one cannot dwell in the past
decimation: heh is that a reference to islam or jews or marxists?
assbot: Texas German - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
BingoBoingo: decimation: Similar towns exist in the Ozarks and Appalacia
assbot: The land of the dollar
decimation: The British newspaperman visited America around 1898 I think, he mentioned the terrible might of America and express fear that they could invade ... England
decimation: see the anglo elite above for why that didn't happen...
assbot: A disappearing German dialect still spoken in Missouri | KBIA
BingoBoingo: Who know what Scandanavian dialects might live in the frozen north of Minnesota
decimation: yeah MIssouri was the "open frontier" when the Germans were settling
decimation: somewhere in the logs I linked to a modern German who expressed absolute dismay at "german culture" in America
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decimation: honestly I think the old guy who grew up speaking Texas German has a better claim on "germanness" then some kid who was brainwashed with post WWII allied propaganda
BingoBoingo: decimation: Thread seems to support the idea that Germany only lives in books and the festivals he finds so offensive
BingoBoingo: The Germans who settled the American frontier did not descend from techno clubs and Angela Merkel
BingoBoingo: Germany as a meaningful idea to their ancestors froze ~1830-1870
decimation: granted, it's a mistake to think of that as another golden age too - there's a reason they all left Germany after all
BingoBoingo: But many of the German migrants weren't doing so out of poverty, but of poverty of opportunity and the perception of the opportunity to pretend to be the gentry they could not back home
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mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> fuckitall. watched that clip, now i just wanna be in friedrich's army. what have you done mircea_popescu! <<< lmao. die kaisrin hat sich mit den franzosen alliiert, und das romiche reich gegen mich revoltiert die russen seind gefallen in preussen ein auf! lasst uns zeigen dass wir brave landeskinder sein!
mircea_popescu: And Grandma without joking, Said that when she was a young girl she could still drink from the Elbe, without getting sick
mircea_popescu: <decimation> I'm convinced that one of the reasons that pre-WWII germany spiraled out of control was because people who were able to make something of themselves had already left 50 years earlier << this is actually a pretty good theory.
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mircea_popescu: <decimation> granted, it's a mistake to think of that as another golden age too - there's a reason they all left Germany after all << that reason is population pressure.
mircea_popescu: it's one thing to leave golden age new york because you can't afford the rent
mircea_popescu: it's another to flee mumbai because you can no longer stand the stench.
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cazalla: ooh, nice pointy ones, don't see them much anymore
mircea_popescu: it used to be half the girls, when i was 15. by now it's maybe one in ten ? twenty ?
cazalla: nfi, all the ones i've seen in the flesh have been round
cazalla: you don't see ski slope titties either, saw a lot of them in vintage porn circa 30's 40's 50's
cazalla: looks like missus titties heh
DreadKnight: mircea_popescu, you do this thing where you start linking 2 more of your previous blog posts in the middle of the one I'm reading when things are getting interesting, it's like a psychological hook
DreadKnight: I see; I have a lot of blog posts stacked for later on reading
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ben_vulpes: i went out for a movie with my brother and father and my mother got my wife wasted
mircea_popescu: of course they are. there's insane variance over ethnic groups and historical periods.
ben_vulpes: anyways, babe req's spatuling into bed
ben_vulpes: lol p funny how the standing-up reflex is hardwired in.
xmj: is anyone aware of any paypal-like startup that does insurance?
xmj: fluffypony: BingoBoingo
xmj: someone should do that.
xmj: incorporate on bermudas, bahamas or cayman islands, build an app, have someone set you up with int'l common law contracts...
xmj: it's not rocket science.
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chetty: xmj what sort of insurance? car? house? life?
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ThickAsThieves: Incel = incorrigible imbecile incidentally imprisoned in incorrect incorporeal inferences is inculpating insipidly
ThickAsThieves: Does jborkl_ even exist here anymore? I think he also goes by Hollywood?
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ThickAsThieves: I'm wondering if the blog in question should be in teh b-a feed still.
ThickAsThieves: Consider that my moving to have it removed, should anyone care to second it, or however it works...
ThickAsThieves: if i recall he pops in here only to notify of new website mining info features
moiety: ;; later tell ben_vulpes re gpg video, i'm no video maker, i'm happy to voice it but i'm not confident about making the video.
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moiety: how are you ThickAsThieves? also, whyyy would anyone choose xapo?!
ThickAsThieves: i'm pretty good, coffee in hand, cat on lap, catching up on the internet
moiety: sounds perfect :] i'm good too, been away couple days (came back to feed the cats though), feeling refreshed.cats are bouncing off the walls now im back
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ThickAsThieves: sometimes we forget one of the cats in the florida porch
moiety: hahahaha grumbling away "bout bloody time" probably XD
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moiety: one ticket off the planet please!
moiety: $175 worth of retarded
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ThickAsThieves: even though he makes a cute point, this Paul Carr guy makes me wanna shake a baby
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moiety: ThickAsThieves: i can't see many cats doing it
punkman: moiety, now I'm wondering if there's a treadmill for dogs
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moiety: who gets a dog to not walk it?!
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moiety: you canb have them as pets?! he looks really happy too!
moiety: could totally fit one in here
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chetty: bitcoin banned from twitter ?? lmao
chetty: I am on a forum like that, word bitcoin in a post and it goes to moderation ...
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ben_vulpes: at the bank the other day i learned that physical checks in the us are all piped through the federal reserve. i also learned that this is not true of checks deposited via phnoe.
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dignork: asciilifeform: after usb potential attack vector publicity, now might be a good time to launch "usb firewall"
dignork: asciilifeform: we discussed it before, for example usb hub which will pass through only storage device commands
dignork: befire we talked about usb read-only condom
chetty: <asciilifeform> it is a fool's errand to save people ----from themselves
dignork: in the articles I've seen they cry about "evil keyboard" attack, this one is trivial to filter out
dignork: oh, an "evil network adapter"
chetty: if someone can put on evil keyboard on my system I got lots bigger problems
dignork: chetty: evil keyboard will do wonders on windows, with ctlr-esc+cmd+cr combo, not so much on other OSes
dignork: asciilifeform: yep, so all apples are potential buyers for usb firewall :)
dignork: asciilifeform: it could also alert on high current draw
dignork: asciilifeform: didn't have a chance to verify tbh, also blinking led would be more visible than obsure message in /var/log
ben_vulpes: "At some point, you may wish to delete private keys from a wallet.dat file but as of version v0.6.0 of Bitcoin-QT/bitcoind, there is no RPC method available for this purpose." << assholes.
ben_vulpes: because there was at one point, but now there isn't. because of the transition from text-based wallets to bdb wallets? no idea, but it looks, smells, and quacks like a regression.
mircea_popescu: mkay so the clustering software is being quirty wrt dropping new proxy servers.
mircea_popescu: if anyone's seen 403 forbidden errors from proxies i r apologize.
mircea_popescu: obviously you could wipe them from text wallet easier than from the bdb flatfile thingee.
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell pete_dushenski ping me when you get a moment, i have a new size for ya
assbot: Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski
empyex: FabianB: Proxies: mpex.ws mpex.bz mpex.coinbr.com MPEx-Status: 1018 milliseconds Current MPEx GPG-Key-ID: 02DD2D91
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [PETA] 200 @ 0.0025904 = 0.5181 BTC [-] {6}
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 2801 @ 0.00081991 = 2.2966 BTC [-]
chetty: In an unusual breach of decorum, even for the divided Congress, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi chased Rep. Tom Marino across the House floor, taking offense at comments by the Pennsylvania Republican during debate on the border funding bill Friday night.
chetty: well I dont think she was trying to get into his pants
chetty: “You know something that I find quite interesting about the other side? Under the leadership of the former Speaker [Pelosi], and under the leadership of their former leader [Rep. Steny Hoyer], when in 2009 and 2010, they had the House, the Senate and the White House, and they knew this problem existed,” he continued. “They didn’t have the strength to go after it back then. But now are trying to make a political issue out of it now.”
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chetty: I dont think he ran, he just finished his time at the podium
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: nice knowin ya MPEx! << sadly nobody counts all the already burried X of Y and Z of K that were "going to".
mircea_popescu: fuck, did you know Mark Karpeles of MtGox was going to make an options exchange cca 2012 ?
mircea_popescu: all the shit people were going to over the years. god, i recall there was this start-up that was going to make something or the other obsolete.
decimation: insurance is one of the few financial products where you actually do have to know what you are doing
decimation: that's the opposite of "let's run new paypal w/bitcoin ima ceo!" product
mircea_popescu: decimation dun get in the way of the people that read stackexchange, kid!11
decimation: if he wants to run a "financial service" from bermuda he exchange cash & bitcoin via mail
decimation: I have a friend who took all the exams to be qualified as an actuary. It took him a decade to qualify
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 9600 @ 0.00082397 = 7.9101 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: decimation yeah, i know a chick that did that too. she was finished by the time she was 30
mircea_popescu: meanwhile all her friends were senior hr managers and whatnot.
decimation: heh yeah. an actuary can make decent pay but it's probably not worth giving up a decade to qualify
ben_vulpes: same is true of legal 'profession' in the states.
ben_vulpes: barristers take what - 4 years after hs in argentina?
mircea_popescu: she was making ok pay at that point, and the senior-whatever floozies had zilch job security
decimation: nah lawyering is much worse, most don't even make $50k
mircea_popescu: however, she had absolutely no upside. whereas said floozies can always blowjob their way into a VP of Erections position,
mircea_popescu: which pays in options, which in a bubble is always great
decimation: well, that's the problem with the bezzle, it doesn't pay much to have skills, only friends
mircea_popescu: which, if you ever wondered why "businessmen" of the us variety seem to not mind inflation so much : they're not businessmen, they're valets. not their business. they are mostly paid on a nominal increase basis. inflation is basically a gift to them.
mircea_popescu: if stock is at 50 and your option is at 60 and inflation is 10% a year you're guaranteed a 10% payoff on other people's money starting sometime in year 2.
mircea_popescu: just for sitting down, keeping "the decorum" and wearing the right powertie.
decimation: meanwhile everyone is "buying" your stock every week "for retirement"
mircea_popescu: which, if anyone wonders why ustardian "elites" are so soft spoken, submissive and complacent...
decimation: "(I actually have great sympathy for the professional. In a bureaucratic oligarchy like ours, the professional both rules and is ruled. At the top, there is no one on top of him. Yet he cannot change his mind. He would simply be replaced. There are always younger, more eager professionals. Sovereignty is conserved; it is always humans who rule; and yet, it seems that no one rules. Who gets to put his hand on the wheel? He can
☟︎ decimation: stand there, and look like a captain. Chicks dig it. And yes, sir, it sure does pay.)"
☟︎ chetty: excellent point, in the bureaucracy no one actually runs anything, its a self licking ice cream cone
decimation: but those who are posing at the captain's wheel know the truth on the inside
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10050 @ 0.00082397 = 8.2809 BTC [+]
mircea_popescu: o look at that, thanks to mod6 eulora is actually picking up an artist.
Duffer1: do they have an online portfolio?
assbot: Page not found pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
Namworld: Oh it's that advanced already? Looks good. Player seems to lack a bit of skin tho =P
assbot: UNT Mug - buy at Firebox.com
mthreat: it has your favorite word!
mthreat: it's online, probably impossible to import to argentina
mthreat: although they claim they ship to argentina
mthreat: in reality, it is for UNT people (University of North Texas)
mthreat: who apparently had a radio station KUNT
ben_vulpes: oh man portland roasting was having a sale today - 6.99 USD/lb
ben_vulpes: beautiful lightly roasted portland coffee...
assbot: [MPEX] [S.MPOE] 10800 @ 0.00081991 = 8.855 BTC [-]
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mircea_popescu: ;;later tell DreadKnight btw #eulora is prolly relevant to your interests.