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mircea_popescu: since thye have no such hope about me, they "don't like" me. and so on. it's an easy enough game to play, but honestly i'd rather move to thailand and "seduce" the local whores, $50 at a time.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger you will rediscover the same thing : that all the love for ycombinator comes out of the misplaced hopes of a bunch of potheads that graham will pay them to... be potheads.
mircea_popescu: it's not even clear the general population knows it's not edible.
mircea_popescu: they could have sold fucking ebooks about how to make money, like all the other shit they do. what is an "infoproduct" and why doesn't this qualify ?
mircea_popescu: in one trip. with all the oversight of looking over two times over six minutes.
mircea_popescu: the few dudes who actually worked this dragged the fucking load BY HAND making DOZENS of trips. in spite of being told to read logs and read wiki.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform consider the following amusing datapoint - other than the "intro" ie, first bitcent, people could make more through digging up ordinary claims for me. the way this works is that you end up with a lot of material, which has to be taken back to town, but you can't carry it, because overweight. there is A BOT! written, documented on wiki, discussed on channel, that shortcuts this.
mircea_popescu: which is why - write 2500 pointless comments on reddit, yay! but make yourself a key nay!
mircea_popescu: which is why i got all the fiverr dorks failing miserably - they were simply applying the homer simpson heuristic - "i will now chomp my jaws and if a pie happens to go in the way a well".
mircea_popescu: but anyway - at issue is not what is claimed / appears to be at issue. at issue is that people want to be paid to do what they were going to do anyway, and not, for any reason, njot ever, be paid to change what they do or how they do it.
mircea_popescu: and therefore people are poor because stupid and for no other reasons.
mircea_popescu: that these doors successively close doth not mean they weren't there.
mircea_popescu: jsut as there was a way, years ago, for "bitcoin developer community" to impress me.
mircea_popescu: anyway - the point remains, there are REASONS i / we discredit things. there ACTUALLY WAS A WAY for "bitcoin community" on tardstalk to impress me.
mircea_popescu: but the "long term thinker" theory utterly fails when confronted with daily reality.
mircea_popescu: so yes - there'd be need for either 40 reddits ; or else you know, for less amphibian brains.
mircea_popescu: understand the forces at work here - some dork famously promised to pay anyone commenting in his thing 1 bitcent if trump won. then trump won, and he ran off over a debt of ... 25btc, accumulated from a "massive" 2500 comments.
mircea_popescu: no. i would have obviously been forced to end it eventually. however, they didn't even come fucking close to giving me a run for my money.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform for the record, i pegged same at 1hr rather than 30mins, but anyways.
mircea_popescu: but, that aside, with no actual work (ie, on a windows machine, which is how we say "unprogrammable computer") something like a coupla weeks.
mircea_popescu: which means that if i charged them 50k a year for four years in advance - they'd be about even.
mircea_popescu: so then. by this token working eulora would have paid them MORE than what going to college would have paid them.
mircea_popescu: or use whatever sane cutoff. after all - this is human resource engineering not metaphysics.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if you were to write timetables, how much time would you count "generate a pgp key and register it with deedbot" ? full hour ? ten minutes ? full day ?
mircea_popescu: it was an epic, explosive proof of the whole "poor people are poor because they are stupid, and for no other reason."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform your fixation with "a penny" doesn't help however. it wasn't a penny, it was more than they make at home.
mircea_popescu: "des le debut, la cybernetique a accepte ce que toute theorie de la technologie doit refuser : une classification des objets technologues menee par des criteres preexistants et selon des genres et especes etabils."
mircea_popescu: gah this place keeps forcing me to go digging through archives.
mircea_popescu: all good jokes are persuasive, necessarily. the problem however is fundamental and ineluctable, or in simondon's own terms
mircea_popescu: yes, the one with the "i'm going to describe the object according to genus and species i already have because lulz, my mom fucked herself to the moon"
mircea_popescu: Framedragger and i suppose the point should be made, that yes wiener-cybernetics is an exercise in being ridiculous.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so you know, yes i do spend my money to make the world a less shitty place but plox don't take this as some sort of free radical ready to be combined with your stubborn refusal and yield whatever nutty interpretation. it ain't that free a radical.
mircea_popescu: more importantly c) intelligent folks know about it but dun seem inclined to try it ; perhaps because preconceived notions (oh, a game is below my intelligence and i couldn't be happy with a black woman), perhaps for whatever other cause.
mircea_popescu: speaking of this, and re
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-18#1569760 : a) it was actually exactly the same usg pays via min wage (out of private pockets, but w/e, usg is the REAL government, not the republic hurr durr) and b) it made people do sensible things such as making pgp keys. a certain ammount of this "wash yourself" "read a book" basic training will have to be done forcibly, because ontogenesis may follow philogenesis,
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: kinda why they spent the 90s fascinated with fad diets and "issues". content-free "people".
mircea_popescu: it's soundly set on the footing of "i have no philosophy, just some hobbies to pass the time". americana entire, moreso than picket fences.
mircea_popescu: "no matter how you do your hair, you still gotta wake up when the alarm rings on monday morning" === "the real world always wins in the end".
mircea_popescu: cyberpunk as understood by bartle-likes is very different from what you think about. in this dork's mind it's strictly us and a consumer affair, of the 70s. like disco hair, us-gayness, pulp fiction or mechanical pianos.
mircea_popescu: holy shit learn to distinguish fact and desire. or whatever, hillary 2016!
mircea_popescu: well... unless you have a camera that works, i have no idea. the pigeons ~themselves~ aren't book-ready.
mircea_popescu: but the important point here i guess is that mpex is a service ; not a publisher. you're essentially asking "how do i include some pigeons in my book"
mircea_popescu: anyway, ima get it some more domains jus didn't get around to it
mircea_popescu: nobody planning to spend a trn dollars can possibly be for sound money.
mircea_popescu wonders if by trumpreich rules, he is more us citizen than colored woman born there.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's clear bannon has no more use of the gop than of the dems ; trump's intelligent ouvertures to libertard reps evidently bear his signature. you're going to get your brown shirts next year chances are.
mircea_popescu: whole thing has to be scrapped and rebuilt, they're a laughingstock not for actually competent players such as romania, but for utter nobodies from fucking arfrica / latam
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's no way around it - us signals is more of a joke than stalin's were in 1938.
mircea_popescu: now the part where the financial markets afford a once-in-a-century opportunity to rebuild is sound ; but the part where jacked up "iron works and shipyards" are the answer is ridiculous.
mircea_popescu: and the point where the conservatives are likely going to hate trump more than the liberals ever did, two years from now.
mircea_popescu: the point where the murdoch clan is going to probably try and reconstruct "conservative" fox into a "centrist" bullshit built around that mispelled megan kelly harlot (really, ambitious news anchor who lied about the network boss "sexually harassing" her to try and take his place, what a fine clinton!)
mircea_popescu: the thing everyone-but-us fails to comprehend is that the ~only way in which a relatively simple functional system becomes the de facto standard is through a lofty body of pretense declaring a much more complex and dysfunctional system "the standard".
mircea_popescu: "Allocate an array and free the middle third? Sure! Why not?"
mircea_popescu: here's the whole story of standard : 1. hey, wouldn't it be great if we mattered ? 2. so if it'd be great, then therefore we matter! 3. our not mattering is wrong!
mircea_popescu: (pro tip - triple fault resetting is STILL in the linux kernel.)
mircea_popescu: or, for that matter, look into why triple-fault switching rather than using the god damned reset signal ended up a programming standard.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, exercise for the curious youth : find out why the 21st pin on the system bus in your fucking machine can be set to zero.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger re the above, consider just the fucking x.500 x.509 debacle.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform absolutely everyone, from grace hopper to you name it, went away 1990-2010.
mircea_popescu: i strongly doubt it actually does any replacing, but hey.
mircea_popescu: but the notion of handling 1to1 rather than 1tomany and manyto1 is not without merit ; and it allowed them to protect the users from many problems of irc, which is why it blew past irc usage by 2000
mircea_popescu: note that irc is also based on centralized servers, freenode flimflammery about donated servers aside - sure, you can donate, if your name doesn't start with m, but n.
mircea_popescu: at a time when irc required a lot more competence to use.
mircea_popescu: also from a cultural pov perspective - it was the first one of many things ; including the first im.
mircea_popescu: or at least was back when the jews owned it, no idea now. iirc aol actually bought them