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mircea_popescu: the common man is here to be cut up and the meat fried, not running fucking "democracies" and making "choices" and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: at one point everything worth the mention worked like this ; it being the only way things can work.
mircea_popescu: "Keep in mind we do all this, because we can and because we like the thrilling excitement of winning over the other competing groups. We absolutely don't do all these releases, to please the general user that rather want to spend their cash on updating to the latest hardware, and see's the scene releases as a source to play all these games for free." << all the way down to despising the consumer / i just want to jwz.
mircea_popescu: back when /me still had a lot of faith in humanity, /me still didn't give a rat's ass about the us.
mircea_popescu: and since we're on it, i'd say the scene was the early republic, not derpy "cyberpunks/cypherpuns/whatever"
mircea_popescu: i'd say the release groups being the first and to date the best example of async teams solving problems that benefit from face to face.
mircea_popescu: as per "boys worth bent bottlecap per head ; girls slightly more" economic imperative.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i imagine what they mean by hackathon is one of those pbs donation drives. except instead of girls at phones now they have boys at keyboards.
mircea_popescu: they're looking to farm trust. ANYTHING but the fucking obvious - stop supporting socialism already!
mircea_popescu: Sally Lehrman, founder of the Trust Project - an organisation set up to re-establish trust in mainstream media - told the BBC: "We don't know enough yet to know how it affected the election but we do know that fake news travels rapidly and it can change the conversation, not just by misinforming people but by focusing attention on something that may not be the issue. It is a real danger to democracy."
mircea_popescu: the very evident "new york times, washington / huffington post etc do not produce strings worth more per megabyte than any other markov process" is elided in favour of "we shall label this failure of ours in terms of an external phenomenon and posture really convincingly about it". really, is it "being investigated" ? who the fuck is the agent in that agentless phrase and who the fuck's gonna supply the army.
mircea_popescu: "A report from BuzzFeed found that, in the final three months of the US presidential campaign, the top-performing fake election news stories on Facebook generated more engagement than the top stories from major news outlets such as the New York Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, NBC News and others." <<->>
http://trilema.com/2016/the-war-with-the-press/ mircea_popescu: and this includes "cyberpunks" and whatever else - they still thought in terms of "the country" and bartlesian "in the end '''real''' life aka socialism prevails"
mircea_popescu: before the republic nobody seriously contemplated, let alone put resources towards, most sane ends and goals.
mircea_popescu: come to think about it - maybe i should do exactly that.
mircea_popescu: aha. hence my comment re thunderstorms and truth-symmetrical.
mircea_popescu: i suppose getting two tuned to the same frequency and then debiasing them together may result in something (precisely because taking advantage of n in that horrible snr). otherwise with a single item... tough.
mircea_popescu: if any kind of divinity existed this sort of truth-symmetrical idiocy would provoke thunderstorms.
mircea_popescu: did you see the guy who had a "for free just as good version" consisting of buying a software radio thing (for slightly more than what FUCKGOATS costs) and you know, listening to man made "entropy"
mircea_popescu: worse situation than sf. what exactly wasn't exported ?
mircea_popescu: and the chinese can't afford to get married because bitch wants place to spawn and place to spawn within icbm distance of anything worth one's time cost 1mn+ ie five lifetimes.
mircea_popescu: who are these syrians / chinese / whatevers things belong to.
mircea_popescu: syrian "color revolution" also fails. does syria belong to "the syrians" ?
mircea_popescu: not like they're sitting around wearing kimonos and laughing at the idiocy of dicking around with a small plastic lavalamp.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform consider you just said pnoje above. this settles the point.
mircea_popescu: stupid naturally herds together, and to very much the same degree. there isn't anything you can do about it, and ftr the shepherd FOLLOWS the herd, doesn't lead it. he may imagine he leads it, if it makes him feel better about living in the middle of nowhere among a pile of animal dung, but whatevers.
mircea_popescu: trinque here's a strategic point for your consideration : eulora will move to a rsa auth model sometime next year. this means the client generates itself a key, and talks to the server. i don't want to create a special deedbot for eulora, and so, how do we best interoperate them so that i have rate and deeds in-game ? (ideally the wot visualisations and other such beauty also)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: just like investment has a meaning, it's not "anything idiots spend money on"
mircea_popescu: "doubling down" has a meaning, it's not "everything idiots do when not doing wagner+cyanide"
mircea_popescu: apparently the fact that it never worked worth a shit doesn't deter anyone. bureaucrats are not just stupid - but committed to stay that way.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: recall the 90s when all the bitching was on about china's firewall ?
mircea_popescu: "i and other open source contributors" sez mr. sieradski. open source is starting to be quite shameful an association by now.
mircea_popescu: "thios website is considered a questionable source" being the giveaway. i suppose the idea is thetimes.whitehouse.gov is unquestionable ?
mircea_popescu: anywya, so obscure altcoin dropped 50% or something and there's some drama.
mircea_popescu: lmao, what's with this anon derps taking pseudonyms from fiction ? john connor, really ?
mircea_popescu: (for the innocent : there was a 2015 "we'll take mosul in spring" thing, also. you never hear anything about it today BECAUSE the key of usg behaviour is exactly
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-17#1523269 : they make one a year. if this year's fails then "it never really happened" ; if it succeeds then "see, we always win, told you so!")
☝︎ mircea_popescu: anyway. the battle for mosul, originally slated to end about a month ago, and then upgraded to end about today, has been upgraded again to take "months" hence. i think i want a refund.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, isn't it remarkable the ustardian social media isn't up in arms about all the sex discrimination going on in iraq ? why, pray tell, ONLY MALES "of fighting age" are being suspected ?
mircea_popescu idly wonders if the hama massacre and hafez' socialist roots have anything to do with the junior bashar's poor reception in the us and ru support. the father did create an unique network of alawites all through the 80s...
mircea_popescu: you don't have to ~go~ somewhere to meet people, especially not in ancient inhabited places like asia.
mircea_popescu: what possible fucking outcome can you obtain from "coding".
mircea_popescu: wtf is this dumb shit, they ain't got computers where you live ?
mircea_popescu: drop all the stupid computer shit right now and go out and talk to all the girls you see.
mircea_popescu: much like castration is the cultural identity of western europe.
mircea_popescu: very well spread in the old world, it's çorba in turkish, ciorba in romanian, i would identify it as the core of cultural identity for non-western europe.
mircea_popescu: it's an ancient persian dish, sour meat and vegetable broth.
mircea_popescu can't stand azn soups for all the fucking oil they put in there.
mircea_popescu: eh, i'm more partial to drier, vegetable heavy, lovage ladden شوربا-style things.
mircea_popescu: apparently not. anyway, the mp sandwich includes a layer of sour cream.
mircea_popescu: (srsly, napolact, the transylvania milk and dairy factory, sells sour cream in these 600g buckets.)