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mircea_popescu: heh, i see the registration is still unchanged. i thought the deal included the guy's obligation to change them wtf.
mircea_popescu: no mention of the logs or anything, of course. because overly ambitious, intelligent but idiotic ro-jwz can has ideas all by himself and of his own! so there!
mircea_popescu: romanian dude that "doesn't like me" (because how dare i be this cool) deleted his blog, then a year later came back with an english thing which is all about... how the planet is broken!
mircea_popescu: backed by the history of skillful women collected in a room, many impossible tasks are trivial. salt pickles a fine example of this.
mircea_popescu: mod6 it's high enough and easy to lock i suppose were the criteria.
mircea_popescu: this selects a mold of the place. then you can start making all sorts of other things without a care in the world. like proper pickles.
mircea_popescu: that's the thing. step one in all "proper" ie ceuropean foodmaking is, you must have a room, which a) never freezes and b) bread is made in regularly.
mircea_popescu: so much so that it influences village life, like at pig cutting time everyone'd make their stuff and then they put it to dry in the church bell tower, which was only opened on day x
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and in europe, esp central europe (but a generous central expanding all the way into france and northern italy) it's a 10-15 century tradition.
mircea_popescu: it's one of those things where it's hard to check so if you fuck it up you should hang.
mircea_popescu: but like you say, turn it into a scam and they'll fight.\
mircea_popescu: so you know .salami is great and romanians are huge salami makers/eaters.
mircea_popescu: so they add hydrogenated vegetal oils, starch, soy paste, whatever can be found to you know... expand it.
mircea_popescu: kind two, however, like spam, or baloney, or whatnot, is simply a technological answer to the "five people want to eat a pound of meat each but we only have six ounces of the thing".
mircea_popescu: kind one, like the two hundred bucks a kilo soppressata i buy, or the romanian molded horse salami, or etcetera, are actually ~improvements~ on the component meat.
mircea_popescu: there's two kinds of deli products / cold cuts / salami / what you call them.
mircea_popescu: they tried to ruin gender relations by forbidding anticonceptionals, but it failed to actually sour men on women or women on men.
mircea_popescu: their problem was that society was sufficiently connected, and so in spite of the state "empowering" women in their usual way, family endured, even strengthened because of it.
mircea_popescu: ceausescu got shot in part because of the fucking soy.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's funny, especially seeing how the addition of soy to salami practiced by the commies was widely unpopular, and a significant case of the revolution.
mircea_popescu: phf i been using whatever dumbphone i put in the logs last we had this. it's never hung either. or in general done anything remarkable.
mircea_popescu: at least we're not women. those - can't have shoes. period. at no price.
mircea_popescu: but yeah, turns out this entire "progress" bullshit is not even limited to software.
mircea_popescu: phf it's actually a very smart move, that 200 bucks will both encourage the kid to act sanely, which in itself is priceless, and otherwise cover the ground of a dozen pairs which would have been 20ish each anyway
mircea_popescu: in other news, trilema now publishes the republican surgeon's warning re reddit.
mircea_popescu: i guess it's the soul of timeliness that phf figured out how to replicate it huh.
mircea_popescu: or that there's such a thing as a healthy dose of neurosis now.
mircea_popescu: which is funny, coming from a chick in drag, because i am unaware of this notion that self deprecation is even socially acceptable in males, let alone in any dose required
mircea_popescu: to quote some idiot covering the ever-famous catholic diner, "trump failed because a healthy dose of self deprecation was required".
mircea_popescu: technology, as always to the detriment of the naturally gifted
mircea_popescu: i use plenty of it. but almost never with people i don't fuck.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck has the patience to ~talk~. like, vocally. one on one. wtf.
mircea_popescu: well, it has its place. but its an emotional thing, you call the bitchez up. granny, maybe.
mircea_popescu: moreover, all this was before internet. nowadays, i can scarcely comprehend how it'd work that i'd degrade a text link into a dumb voice link with someone who is intelligent enough to safely maintain and use otp.
mircea_popescu: the royal corps of engineers, that's who. not at&t, that's for sure.
mircea_popescu: especially in the wired variety. who the everloving fuck is going to maintain landlines for you when you aim to use them like battle comms lines ?
mircea_popescu: which is why the usecase for the phone is, "i met this chick last night at the rave"
mircea_popescu: the fundamental problem is that the phone isn't this tool whereby you maintain one to one permanent links with aforeknown parties. the phone is this tool whereby you make new links with random new parties.
mircea_popescu: somehow the fall of rutba failed to make it through the usg blocade, too.
mircea_popescu: and wtf is this, no more trump news, no more mosul news, what is this gross failure of the united entertainment machine!
mircea_popescu: you wanted to know why nobody made crypto telephone. the reason is - there's no market. the reason there's no market, you explained yourself.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: dude... i dunno who this dumb shit works on, but you should probably eschew their company, it makes you stupid.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: this scheme is so evidently inept, no explanation as to why nobody tried to implement it is required.
mircea_popescu: if you ever talk to 1 other box calling this a telephone is nothing short of idiotic.
mircea_popescu: what dude, it's hard enough to get a girl's phone, you want her to write down her fucking otp for you ? while drunk at 3am ?
mircea_popescu: hey, if you fuck like rabbit, you gotta eat like rabbit.
mircea_popescu: now shoes on the other hand, they're different. there's certainly the "i'll buy you this 30 dollar pair of red stilettos, which you then forget in the cab and nobody cares". there's also the fine italian leather shoes which are worth whatever they cost. so dunno.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: until/unless they import the republican license, there's no market for "good" phones. because a phone that's not predicated on breaking the law can't be good.
mircea_popescu: generally the later are the sort of thing where quality is directed towards the state rather than you. like phones.
mircea_popescu: well, some things you buy by quality an' some by quantity.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes somehow i suspect all the junk is still in there, under the plastic.
mircea_popescu: "Pre-order the MP 01 in white or brown to beat the rush – and receive a copy of Reclaiming Conversation by Sherry Turkle, a pack of Punkt. postcards, and a stylish tote bag."