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Sat Mar 12 00:34:50 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> you could trivially test this swift hypothesis of yours you know - wire a grand to the next nigerian to visit your inbox then write to your bank to reverse it.
Sat Mar 12 00:34:26 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> that's not the proper approach there. consider that you'd "entertain laughably innacurate hypothesis" about a) things that really make no difference to you ; b) with which you have absolutely no experience and c) that have exactly nothing in common with a hypothesis and everything in common with an article of faith.
Sat Mar 12 00:31:59 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> mind, selling amulets is a trade like any other trade. wearing them is what was being discussed.
Sat Mar 12 00:31:17 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> no, but we do know how idiots think.
Sat Mar 12 00:30:47 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> (technically speaking, the mp license is actually an anti-amulet, in the sense that it makes life impossible for a certain sort of lunatic. inasmuch as its effectiveness is not predicated on metaphysical but on quite physical considerations, it's just a virus.)
Sat Mar 12 00:29:06 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> in any case - lunacy is not here contemplated. lunacy is actually in practice a very high bar of achievement. you're just weird, which is boringly common, especially in accomplished folks.
Sat Mar 12 00:28:11 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> once they become necessary and "necessarily effectual", it gets iffy
Sat Mar 12 00:28:00 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> yes, they are. for as long as they're decorative, it's one thing.
Sat Mar 12 00:27:02 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> for instance.
Sat Mar 12 00:26:59 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> yo9u know, like #this code copyright
Sat Mar 12 00:26:36 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> basically. spurious item of presumed physical effectiveness predicated on the basis of metaphysical considerations.
Sat Mar 12 00:26:00 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> what's your definition of an amulet ?
Sat Mar 12 00:24:49 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> but anyway - i suppose the first symtpom of the barrier giving way is when you start including specific amulet comments
Sat Mar 12 00:24:14 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> nah, lunacy is not this.
Sat Mar 12 00:24:06 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> this is actually a great question.
Sat Mar 12 00:23:36 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> uhh
Sat Mar 12 00:23:20 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> i get it, "for me it's always been this way".
Sat Mar 12 00:23:02 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> clinical experience.
Sat Mar 12 00:22:33 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> hopefully the barrier lasts.
Sat Mar 12 00:22:25 UTC 2016 <mircea_popescu> but the wonder is that you manage to maintain this weird somehow encapsulated while writing code. one would find the notion improbable, on the face, but then again i've read said code.