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mircea_popescu: "i want to buy a c classe from a real used up hooker with real cum stains on the interior"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes so basically emacs telnets into the server or wut ?
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, as part of a vast "argentina night life" programme, these nuts banned alcohol on the beaches, and are going around making kids open up their bags and shit.
mircea_popescu: anyway, im going to town nao, so we'll continue later today.
mircea_popescu: vps from my machine, my machine from vps, both of these from random internet soup. not to a standard higher than "post wwwform"
mircea_popescu is in no terrible hurry to produce menny lines of code.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the way i liked the original "send urls" was because then other people can see wtf.
mircea_popescu: i dunno dood, threat model. this is happening over the internet no ?
mircea_popescu: can spend your whole life sifting through puddles and sidewalks looking for that georgia that's worth dyin' for. but on its merits, it's not.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing substantially different from sidewalk puddles yo.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform man chooses his stand, how should i know what he decided to die for.
mircea_popescu: ah then that's why. so check out true romance (the tarantino cut plox) when you wanna watch something, totally worth it.
mircea_popescu: it's not altogether clear computizing has to be a sewer. but yes, for as long as one's stuck dealing with a large pile of broken solutions churned out by people who didn't understand the problem nor were aware of the fact...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform compartimentalization is in itself a sign of insanity.
mircea_popescu: "human happiness can not be a goal of policy, because the direct solution is also the correct one."
mircea_popescu: diana_coman similarily, the life of the sane programmer is pretty unhappy. by comparison, java-machining-dotnet-etcetera dorks are very fucking happy, going from conference to conference to tell each other how fucking delicious the catered rubber chicken is, and how the 3 bedroom 1 bathroom atrocity is totally worth 1.3mn
mircea_popescu: anyway, i don't mean "unhappy" in the 1850s manchester bereft-of-any-joy sense.
mircea_popescu: yeah, but if he also speaks to you the usual contrition of the sinful is overpowering.
mircea_popescu: follows from the personalization of the relationship to the divine. it's one thing to not manage to imitate the flight of the dragonfly, as michelangelo tried (and yes science is a reinterpretation of the relationship to the divine, doh, what else). it's another to not manage to do what the other guy tells you to.
mircea_popescu: not exactly. there is some vanity in there, now and again, but the substance is just a sort of perfectionism.
mircea_popescu: this then follows in general, the average chump being a sort of windowsy emulation of a slavegirl, and without a master. so ends up reading feedback from /dev/urandom and interpreting it through a similar 50-50 => 1-99 grille.
mircea_popescu: "and will you disarm at the end of the fight ?" AHAHAHA NO!
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-09#1599727 << i'm with her. a woman may be assumed to be cowardly, and a black man may be assumed to be a thief, and an asian guy may be assumed to have a small dick, and if that works for you all the better. but it dun work in general, i don't think, nor in my experience. all children are born cowardly, all modern society tends to encourage it, the few who get out of infantilism aren't very gen
☝︎ mircea_popescu: it's the inept children flailing AS IF they were women that get the inept child's lot, ie scorn.
mircea_popescu: if two girls that are close but the sexual bubble between them's not popped and they run into this guy at a party who looks kinda cool and interests them because maybe he's gonna do it but then he wants them to kiss this other guy they may just pretend to be going to do it to see if he stops them.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger well then this isn't a proper measure. woman playing coy != woman being coward.
mircea_popescu: pro tip : take slut to party, have her take top off. all females in attendance that follow suit are class 1 ; all females in attendance that retreat to corners to gossip are class 2. class 2 is mostly cowards ; class 1 is mostly drunks.
mircea_popescu: no but it is. trust is the building block of both culture and civilisation, the ideal and real aspects of human society. reasoned trust (see phf's notion of recourse,
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-28#1592296 etc) builds republics and unreasoned trust builds empires.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: and why kids ask "why" universally across time, space and culture ; and why idiots answer "because that's the way it is" out of fucking line.
mircea_popescu: and this is exactly how working school fucking works, also.
mircea_popescu: what you've both done is - summarized a familiar topic for the benefit for foreigners.
mircea_popescu: because no, the difference between pete explaining in summary how the fuck cars got fucked and you giving the keys to working wp to taleb is not substantial.
mircea_popescu: until and unless, we're stuck doing the communion favour for each other, whereby the hope is that someone in the republic will be capable to summarize something you don't understand ; and you can trust he's not fucking you over in so doing.
mircea_popescu: hey, i dream the same. but the truth is, until there's enough critical mass of those "another persons", there's no good way to fix anything.
mircea_popescu: this is how a mother acts, and why kids have not much business with her past the age of about 10 or so, depending how retarded they are.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it is contemptible and beyond contemptible to rely on his ignorance, disinterest AND COWARDICE to get him on a windowsesque thing which "works", and provided he's willing to adapt what he wants done to what the butons say, all will be well.
mircea_popescu: it is admirable to compensate for his ignorance or disinterest, to the perhaps extreme level of doing the hardware, and the os, and the
http server and the php on top of it yourself, if you like the guy enough. more power to you. but it is still something of his, which even if delegated he still owns.
mircea_popescu: THIS is the important thing, and the only thing that matters ; and this is the fundamental reason we hate, equally, and forever, medium, blogspot, whatever the fuck. "convenience" my right foot. it's never convenient to be stupid, and it is absolutely never convenient to be locked into being stupid.
mircea_popescu: ng the linux install, or the linux kernel, or in terms of vlsi and baking his own hardware.
mircea_popescu: and before anyone asks : the advantage of this is that this solution scales. ACTUALLY scales. specifically, if at any point in his own time and for any reason in ~his own domain~ taleb wants to get more control, he can. he actually can. you explain to him, when he asks, HOW to be more in control of his mp-wp install. in terms of configuring the php script, or in terms of configuring the apache server, or in terms of configuri
☟︎ mircea_popescu: explain how to make backups (even if it's a dump-db-encrypted-to-key script you throw together) and that's it.
mircea_popescu: persuasive retelling of history falls right in the spot.
mircea_popescu: dude this piece is beautiful. tyvm pete_dushenski no further than yest sitting with girls on sidewalk cafe we were wondering at abominable item, and then discovered it was... WV!!!
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski palate. the bony skull part above your tongue, where supposedly (the belle epoque frenchies thought) elevated tasting takes place.
mircea_popescu: (ftr, i don't get enraged by things i don't know ; i get enraged by things that are stupid.)
mircea_popescu: hence all the "gotta educate the public". their process of "education" consists of taking healthy youths and spitting out useless drones. now if only this process could be extended to anything other than placid, cowardly middle class youth, the world would suddenly be habitable for the usg!
mircea_popescu: (or, in the imperial expression, "putin doesn't understand how the world works".)
mircea_popescu: which is how hillary ended up visiting 1mn strong towns in the sense of speaking to fifty ditzy cunts nobody could be bothered to ever fuck in a basement library somewhere.
mircea_popescu: and for the "we all agree" (that "sexual harassment is a thing" or "words hurt" or whatever other nonsense du jour) engine to work, the strict requirement is for "everyone" to be entirely a set of usg drones. it's not even enough to pad theroom, it must be filled.
mircea_popescu: in any case the usg "tax code" or "legal code" or any other pile of usg-specific idiocy is NOT a schelling point.
mircea_popescu: which is why ustardia requires all the ideological fanfare. outside of getting people to blindly believe they matter, somehow, no matter how, there's simply no way.
mircea_popescu: anyway, "softforks" ie successful attacks to date are a very simple indication of how this works.
mircea_popescu: i didn't specifically separate it here, but that's where the 3 guess comes from.
mircea_popescu: that's a real threat model, because of how bitcoin works chain differentials are real leverage in the hands of enemy.