asciilifeform: the chinese shoot in stadiums, with roaring crowds.
asciilifeform: and than having to deal with potentially endless stream of incoming idiots
asciilifeform: if nothing else, public execution is cheaper than guarding and feeding schmuck for years
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in, e.g., erdogan's place, if you 'had won, and Still In Power, and They Will Never Leave Jail', would you secretly stow the defeated in some jail ? or impale on public square, where everyone can see'em ? why not the latter ?
asciilifeform: so far it looks like ' mircea_popescu: great victory. asciilifeform : where? mircea_popescu : seekrit evidence, noneofyerbiznis'
asciilifeform: hey even mr.t over here is theoretically still-in-power.
asciilifeform: the 'counter to ru jet' is called '~100% of ru brass own walmart stock and have children at harvacambridgetonyale'
asciilifeform: only in the cow-is-methane-vendor sense
asciilifeform: i dunno that anyone has made 'new cognitive capability' since engelbart.
asciilifeform: very easy to say for d00d who uses 0 of these and can't even picture why anyone would.
asciilifeform: pocket-thing-with-www-browser, as a class
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: well noshit, they did it once, how many times does what other company create product category from thin air, in which literally every other vendor remains trabant imitator
asciilifeform: airfoil probably still designed on vax.
asciilifeform: recall who pays for llvm, and in what product it is used.
asciilifeform: wwwtronic idiocies mostly live in the former camp
asciilifeform: quite disjoint sets, for the most part.
asciilifeform: in my observations there are roughly 2 factions of technocrapolade -- 'microshit': crashes, 'meat-like' malfunctions, shit soup of 'why does this exist', shithubs full of gender-fix-commits, etc; and 'crapple' -- ipnoje that worx 100% of the time you push the button, while slowly recording; amazon's widgets; google's spamless mail; and similarly appealing, sweet and carcinogenic nintendos
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there is method. random js crapolade on some indian www may be monkey throwing shit against a wall. an item like 'amazon alexa' is not.
asciilifeform: '- Where have you been, Dad? You can wait forever. You have to read the text through the polarizer glasses. Without them, all you’ll see is the ads! - What’s that for? - What do you mean, what’s that for? So nobody who hasn’t paid can read the book! Think, I buy a book, and someone who didn’t buy anything could read it over my shoulder…'
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: point is not that it will work as printed on the box. but that the machine won't log you in unless it sees a passable room with passable face-like object in it.
asciilifeform: when you read 'fellow at X and at the Y' it means ye olde patronage system, a la tammany hall, d00d collects 2,3,4,5 salaries, while doing ~0
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: all the d00d sees, or even wants to see, is the wagonload of cv padding, and the payola stretching bank acct to new decimal places every month
asciilifeform: sity and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, who studies renewable energy, to the Associated Press.'
asciilifeform: but meanwhile in the monkey cages, https://archive.is/iUfOp >> '“Climate change is not a controversy,” read one sign at yesterday’s “Rally to Stand Up for Science,” which drew hundreds to the historic downtown plaza. ... "We're really trying to send a message today to Mr. Trump that America runs on science, science is the backbone of our prosperity and progress," said Geoffrey Supran, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Univer☟︎
asciilifeform: and first crapple, and week later -- turdroid.
asciilifeform: crapple: 'camera always on -- or fuckyou'
asciilifeform: meanwhile in lulzistan, https://archive.is/Io6p8 >> '...Apple recently acquired Realface, an up-and-coming Israeli startup with impressive real-time facial recognition software ... Lending credence to rumors that the iPhone 8 may forgo the use of Touch ID in favor of facial recognition, Realface’s software is said to be sophisticated enough... ' << for schmucks who thought 'eh i'll use crapple, with this here plastic camera condom'
asciilifeform: consider how on winblowz the proposition of 'separate out the network code' is not even practical to contemplate.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it'd have to be after abolishing the polled socket thing entirely, and salting the earth where it stood, and cleansing with napalm for good measure
asciilifeform: the 'all monkeys are equal' idiocy is deeply baked in.
asciilifeform: there is literally no mechanism for this, nor is it a simple retrofit.
asciilifeform: the other major disgrace is that i have no way to make, e.g., zoolag and dulap NEVER MOTHERFUCKING BREAK UP
