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mircea_popescu: is heroku anything more than a pretentious website and a few dozen boxes rented in a dc somewhere ?
mircea_popescu: hey, at issue is relations between stalin and hitler. propaganda is valid sauce.
mircea_popescu: actually apparently... crunchbase no longer actually works ?
mircea_popescu: do you know what software m&a market was in 2016, or 2015, or any point, so you can compare ?
mircea_popescu: "m&a market" in the sense of bullshit "tech companies" of the software ilk is looking at a 99% contraction in 2017.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi how they figure trump's gonna be printing for this.
mircea_popescu: talk to shinohai Framedragger pete_dushenski who else had a bot
mircea_popescu: phf i'm sitting here trying to come up with something but i'm sitting here trying to come up with something but i'm sitting here trying to come up with something but...
mircea_popescu: oh wait, blonde chicks surf cuz they're from california right ? and black chicks basketball. makes perfect sense. wanna bet the swimmer's a brunette ?
mircea_popescu: in other news, icann changed "domain lock" for transfers to... 60 days.
mircea_popescu: in proper terms, "it's too expensive to 100% test each individual unit"
mircea_popescu: new ideas of impeachable kings ? c) who did max weber identify as part of a "rationalization" (aka enlightening, or in proper words pedestrian-anti-idealism) of abstractions in europe ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, to expound on the whole huguenot issue : a) who expanded the medieval notion of "universitas" to a notion of "popular sovereignity" in the sense of "the people" being a unit, better and different from its constituent parts, and better than the king at hearing god, and to be represented by parliaments ? b) who broke with legist theory of "tyrant = whosoever opposes the monarch" to introduce a transcription of calvin's
mircea_popescu: same sauce as goes in "a plain reading" of eg constitution.
mircea_popescu: "What follows are three distinct parts that can be read either independently or as a connected whole." aaand he lost me.
mircea_popescu: (the division seen in moral philosophy vs material philosophy aka physics)
mircea_popescu: adlai i suspect in us-english parlance of the time, "moral" simply means "abstract". ie, don't count your ballsac.
mircea_popescu: cures it instantly without sechellae in 100% of cases.
mircea_popescu: yeah well imaginary diseases are imaginary diseases. see "female hysteria" etc.
mircea_popescu would very much like to hear challenges to the above theory, btw.
mircea_popescu: and mental disease is unchanging. just like you can have dysentery or schizophrenia in 1592 you can have it in 1952. and you do. that's what it is.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i'm not proposing idealism is acceptable, or good or the solution or anything. but i am outright saying that the specific sort of anti-idealism here displayed IS, in point of fact is, a mental disease.
mircea_popescu: it's not simply "how do other people dare not be miserable", but moreover - what if there's a little more to it all ? exactly the luciferic damnation, for that matter ; and exactly the one criticism pre ww2 jews never wanted to take seriously.
mircea_popescu: what's bothering them about people who smoke ; and about people who say $random-forbidden-word ; and about people who do not care what their "laws" say ; or about those mean evil "incomprehensible" terorists, what got them all angry about the mob and so on and so forth is the same fundamental self-hatred.
mircea_popescu: azy as in heine's hate of the picklehaube, or as in the hughuenot anger at the quaint catholic nonsense.
mircea_popescu: understand : when dorks dork on about "putting abstract principles above the people themselves" in
http://trilema.com/2014/the-definitive-tract-on-sociopathy/ ; or when random nobody "does not have time to read logs" or "doesn't believe phuctor did so and so" or "doesn't see why should get a pgp key" or "doesn't think bitcoin can work" etc etc, there displayed is the SAME fundamental anti-idealism of the deliberately stupid l
☟︎ mircea_popescu: consider the very strict vlad the impaler - brasov merchants opposition. the "financial elites" proposed the guy's administration will result in you know, economic collapse. didn't.
mircea_popescu: and contrary to their asstears, the mongols built roads.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'm not proposing any definite thing about the other party. what's so great about you know, making large stores of weapons only to have thieves take them.
mircea_popescu: it's not "similar" fungus. it is precisely and genetically-identical the same fungus.
mircea_popescu: so defined by these two points, we notice that it goes exactly through, not "very close" but EXACTLY THROUGH eg heine's "Nur fürcht ich, wenn ein Gewitter entsteht, zieht leicht so eine Spitze herab auf euer romantisches Haupt des Himmels modernste Blitze!"
mircea_popescu: other end was very much "trump meets angry iraq war veterans, they decide to mass rape the nytimes & friends."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but it isn't "of the day". it's the one fungus.
mircea_popescu: they're both equally serious - which is to say as serious as they can be which isn't much.
mircea_popescu: they even had the lulzy "modern science" thing, EXACTLY like the current shitheads. and by exactly i mean literal identity, same words same structures.
mircea_popescu: never you mind what similarities tyou can see. point me a difference.
mircea_popescu: 10% at the time, yes ? aspirational like exactly the "i am going to ny to be a writer just like carrie bradshaw" jew of today.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, seriously, in terms of individuals. how were the libertards of then not the huguenots of now.
mircea_popescu: (note, as historical amusement, that the last time "modern democracy" libertards were massacred was the result of collusion between military and populist leadership - which apparently is so burnished into their collective memory as to make that arrangement the #1 bad.)
mircea_popescu: so model this supposed difference for me, between today's jew and 1500s hughuenot.
mircea_popescu: find me a point of divergence. even fucking global warming was there, in 1572.
mircea_popescu: they sprang out of the EXACT thing hillary sprang out of : a) individual problems are a collective concern ; b) "we" are all equally dignified and entitled ; c) you name it
mircea_popescu: so you don't see how early protestants map to modern jewry ? rly ?