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mircea_popescu: the problerm with "everything is for retail" version of "man is the measure of all things" huh.
mircea_popescu: yes, but they you also hit the provider with five figure bill for it.
mircea_popescu: each had a different story of sadness, and all together they could have made a small rocket. if only their materials weren't allocated by idiots, that is.
mircea_popescu: another one, the transformer went, evidently, wire too thin and melted
mircea_popescu: the last pair died in the lulziest of ways : it's usb powered, and it will short the usb when the sound is loud enough, lose power, then come back a half second later.
mircea_popescu: in the same vein, i have now spent in excess of $300 buying no less than nine "pc sound systems" over the past 2 years. i have nfi why i decided to just buy one of the cheapo, two speaker things. and then replace it and so on.
mircea_popescu: the reason you are stuck with it is that apparently the soul resides in the gall bladder.
mircea_popescu: the driver isn't "this is how we got the perfect woman" ; the driver is "and this is how separating one of these ugly argentine schmucks from her fambly and society goes"
mircea_popescu: graves do not speak, not by themselves, not for themselves.
mircea_popescu: for later, have a proper example of wehat these metaphors mean.
mircea_popescu: dja know btw there's an entire subculture living off those ?
mircea_popescu: that;s the entire fucking point of socialism. "gotta keep together".
mircea_popescu: all empire code must be <than x steps away from one common trunk.
mircea_popescu: but that's kinda the point. avoid specificity of diddling
mircea_popescu: anyway, the only good news on that front is that fees are consistently over 5% of the block reward.
mircea_popescu: bw got what, like 3k blocks past 6 months. not much of a player.
mircea_popescu: the fucking odds of this ? bw.com and btc.com boundry, and it really doesn't look like there's more than 18 seconds delay. so btc.com checked the block 446460 and built on it and found a block within ~15 seconds ?
mircea_popescu: "you have to do this sort of thing!" "why ?" "because if you don't it might appear you don't exist" "but you do in fact not exist" "SHH!!!11"
mircea_popescu: because they've never done this before, about 12 or so times since 1880 ; not that it EVER fucking worked , nor that the "great powers" that wanna be, and until the last boot steps on the last bureaucrat face will continue to pretend to be, are actually capable of learning or anything.
mircea_popescu: yes, russian policy in middle east is pretty much centered in squashing the saudis.
mircea_popescu: actually -- to try and convice him to sign a statement beseaching all the other teachers never EVER to try.
mircea_popescu: wasting his money." quoth the endearigly naive mr ballas. except the counter to this is in disgrace, the novel, of course : when a teacher does finally, for incomprehensible reasons, try, the OTHER TEACHERS assemble a panel to try and con
mircea_popescu: "The "college is a scam" train is one on which I'm all aboard, but that doesn't mean each individual professor has to be scamming students; there's no reason why he can't do a good job and teach his students something that they aren't going to get simply by reading the text. If a student can skip class and still ace the class, the kid is either very bright or the professor is utterly useless. Right? Either way, the kid's
mircea_popescu: fucking idiots, "oh, in this very narrow sliver of experience that is our irrelevant if self-important life, x observation held so far, especially because he have no fucking clue as to statistics, logic, or anything else. THEREFORE IT IS A NATURAL LAW OF THE UNYVERSE!!!"
mircea_popescu: talk sensibly trinque ; gnuzip is made by foss, it has had millions of eyes on it. all bugs are shallow!
mircea_popescu: it's not a strategy for anything than for the pernicious insanity of "marketing matters".
mircea_popescu: the moment they start with "not like bots" you know they're imbeciles.
mircea_popescu: i dunno how cool it is, but let me tell you it is very productive
mircea_popescu: for a browser ? come on. it's not good. the only thing it had going for it were a bunch of retards using it. now it doesn't even have that.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger nah, it's been going on for 2-3 years at the least.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger because who knows, but it is under 10%, a lesser opera by now.
mircea_popescu: which is in itself a very amusing commentary on the toils and travails of the jwz gang. they... rescued netscape. and it did... netscape.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger you are aware firefox is dead for all practical purposes, yes ? in fact i don't know any browser that lost market share at its speed, except of course netscape back in the day.
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mircea_popescu: of course, he got half of the discussion of etymology of engineering from the older discussion ; it's true that in french it comes from ingenuity however in english it comes from engine. which was the fucking point, this slide.
mircea_popescu: wasn';t that supposed to be replaced with an inflatable matress or a scooba goggle or something ?
mircea_popescu: and yes, they have. entertained whole flight with discussion of vehicle steering. where "vehicle" ( {bus, ship, submarine, airplane, ..., satellite}
mircea_popescu: and since i'm on a moldy tome kick, let's note down ܝܳܠܕܰܬ ܐܰܠܳܗܳܐ ie joldath allaho. in syriac. because yes, even as egypt was mostly christian in its recent history (just as all of the "arabic" middle east), allah exists in arabic as a corruption of a syriac notation of a greek interpretation of a hebrew name for god.
mircea_popescu: funny that all the schmucks declaratively anti-racism and dedicated to you know, "unlocking human potential" aren't in the slightest preoccupied with doing anything in the vein of their declared interests.
mircea_popescu: however it's not just that nobody "involved" in "development" of $modern-software package can't make a statement of any kind in this sense. it goes all the way back before the crays.
mircea_popescu: o cases where it is false. this is the wot model - to be signed it must not be false because if it is false then you get negrated don't you.
mircea_popescu: but yes, the thing V brings to light, slowly, and evidently painfully, is that the rot did not start within our lifetimes. there's almost a century of subjugation of sense for the sake of convenience, inaugurated like all insanity during the war and maintained hence. the standard of "make a statement about x" does not reduce to "here you go" "is it true ?" "well, at least in one case it is". properly speaking, there must be n
mircea_popescu: of course the end result of reason's nap are monsters.
mircea_popescu: why should it get to. nobody at the wheel, car goes where it pleases, horse shall graze as it might ?
mircea_popescu: it's not of the nature of, we go for a walk, and now the flat turns into rolling hills and we are in a forest and the trail eventually takes us up to a mountain. nothing of the kind. it's that we go up to the water line, wherein we don the scuba gear, and enter an entirely new world.
mircea_popescu: computer programming in a practical sense doesn't flow logically from anything.
mircea_popescu: which is why my conclusion is rather that hackathons are actually impossible in this context.
mircea_popescu: but it's a hackathon not a course in theoretical cs ; we're not at liberty to not write one line of code within the first six months ; we must start within five minutes. yes that which you say exists, but this different other thing also exists. why doesn't it ?
mircea_popescu: see, it's not a question of saying something which is in some context correct ; it is a question of saying something which while meaningful, is is no context false.