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mircea_popescu: i can't imagine what diff does it make. if airline pilot flies his own cessna one day is now amateur ?
mircea_popescu: if i take a seat next to you in your car, the large cost is my sitting, the small cost is the money.
mircea_popescu: various mammies crowding the us congress building -- amateur Mothers of Their Country
mircea_popescu: the woman that fixed the antique jesus picture was amateur reconditioner of old frescoes.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform quackery is the particular word for amateur medicine. high time for amateur engineering to get a specific word too, but not the end of ther world to wait for it.
mircea_popescu: cuz unsurprisingly enough, namecalling figures massively.
mircea_popescu: koch application of fermat DIRECTLY maps on the above "random definition".
mircea_popescu: i'm telling you, amateur is one who expects the world to "play nice" in whatever random definition he comes up with because daddy had the common fucking decency to not rape 'em while they were growing up, SO THEREFORE!!!
mircea_popescu: and if i hire douchebag to douchebag for a while, he's still an amateur.
mircea_popescu: it seems to be the older definition, but it's fucking meaningless.
mircea_popescu: (i think it makes a rather subtle point, so discussion particularly welcome)
mircea_popescu: tru. also, contemporary engine would have been a piece of art in 1940s, irreproducible with current tech
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform very much so, yes. higher power engine can work slower.
mircea_popescu: that machinegun, incidentally, had more fucking recoil than current toyota engine has torquw
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah but extremely stable and maneuvrable.
mircea_popescu: a man ~fired~ that thing while being driven around. and some exceptional teams even arose, much like ye olde man-horse dualities of the red skins or parthians
mircea_popescu: they're not really very good. modern bmws way the fuck better bikes.
mircea_popescu: and all-terain in a war thorn europe means some shit re artillery holes and such
mircea_popescu: Mocky the item depicted ran on all terain, ~50kmph or so.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and what do we call the african-argentine plumber who puts in new pipe without taking out old pipe ? "amateur", rite.
mircea_popescu: that nobody happened to visit the facts of life re the latter upon her sorry ass is a particularly harmful coincidence : way the fuck cheaper to not rape some random walflower, being awkward in a corner. way WAY the fuck more expensive to keep large integers from laughing at kock.
mircea_popescu: and yes, this is exactly what amateur means : one who expects things to work like she imagines copulation works, ie, "love".
mircea_popescu: then koch expects to be hired because koch ~is~, whatever the hell he might be, polite, pedigreed, mit-degreed, "famous" in the smartphone sense etcetera.
mircea_popescu: koch is implementing fermat because fermat ~is~ the test, not because fermat ~does~ something.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-30#1890713 << the fundamental problem with these amateur cryptographers (as well as with other amateur everythings, from amateur presidents of the united states to amateur socioideologues on fetlife ) is that they go by what "is" rather than by what ~does~.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: i didn't have what to argue against it back in 2016 or w/e it started (not that i didn't see it coming, either) and i've not found anything hence. so...
mircea_popescu: you also had the benefit of you know, passive enjoyment of ye above work.
mircea_popescu: this lasts as long as it lasts, but if you're actually me and task girls with finding it, and then they (incomprehensibly, and inexplicably) fail and so you cut the town up into squares and have them search it square by square and still NOTHJING turns up, eventually however many months later you can answer authoritatively : the stockyards are bereft of society.
mircea_popescu: it's constantly a "man, i must just not know where the society gathers / parties are / nightlife happens" etc.
mircea_popescu: it's hard to imagine you're in a 20mn strong stockyards sprawling 2-3x the surface area of new york
mircea_popescu: but no, gotta talk around the bush, "how should a streetwalker to her make-up to improve her marriage prospects."
mircea_popescu: as proven by the fact that ~any~ non-socialism, authoritarian, democratic or howsoever else, is just fucking fine.
mircea_popescu: bullshit. thew problem with socialism, "authoritatian" or "democratic" or blue or green is THAT IT IS SOCIALISM.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-29#1890613 << in any approach, this is roughly the issue in vzla also : socialists tryna hard to discuss their internal problems, wholly owned and entirely due TO SOCIALISM in terms of external influence. trotsky was "fascist" don't you know, and maduro is "authoritarian" and whatnot.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: whiter than 80%+ of the us ; as dumb as anything in the congo basin.
mircea_popescu: and for all the "white supremacist" morons : no fucking wonder they dun wanna discuss argentina.
mircea_popescu: similarily they don't WRITE anything. su had samizdat BECAUSE REASONS. argentina doesn't have it, nor does it have said reasons. because NO NEED to. might as well pass legislation to forbid cattle the making of stalin jokes.
mircea_popescu: whereas argentards, no law, they supply the constraint naturally -- be being indescribable morons.
mircea_popescu: because improvised heaters because insane law against heating because etc.
mircea_popescu: deficits, principally biological. old su, deficits principally material.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that was right next to a "high value" site of pomposity further north ; in truth there's a LOT of these in the city of "nightlife" that dun exist and "university professors" with the socks bought on credit.
mircea_popescu: the problem is not even that it exists, but that it fails to produce the mireilles d'arc one'd expect, ie slender hungry young hotties.
mircea_popescu: find . -name '*.php' | xargs wc -l or w/e it is you want
mircea_popescu: so apparently took >1k pics on latest harem outing. wtf am i gonna do ;/
mircea_popescu: in other words, it's perfectly fucking clear ~what exactly~ the talking cunthead dun like about venezuela, and the world in general.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and public consensus around the idea of restoring broad-based institutional democracy in Venezuela." bla bla bla bla bla in that inept vein untill she falls over.
mircea_popescu: . His successors, including Jose Antonio Paez, Antonio Guzman Blanco, or Juan Vincente Gomez followed in his footsteps towards personalised power. ; they were more preoccupied with personal aggrandisement than building strong institutions in the the nascent Venezuelan state. ; Personalised power, elitism and authoritarianism continued to dominate the Venezuelan political arena ; His only focus should be on building alliances
mircea_popescu: point in case : Maryhen Jimenez Morales ("is a PhD candidate in politics at University of Oxford.") : " the system of personalised power and governance which the country has experienced for decades did not begin with Hugo Chavez ; The charismatic aristocrat Simon Bolivar ; He was a man in search of glory and a military officer who believed in top-down decision-making. ; The caudillo rule did not disappear with Bolivar's death
mircea_popescu: anyway, since there's ~0 results FROM ACTUAL FUCKING VENEZUELA on any kind of google/bing/duckduckgo/whatever the fuck for a search of venezuela, let's link here some actual venues :
mircea_popescu: anyway, should be lulzy to see if china moves in to buy the oil.
mircea_popescu: there's not going to be anymore "invade", after the tooth were lost in afghanistan, even syria is too much to chew.
mircea_popescu: it's an incredible role reversal, the past decades wrought, when "our subgroup has special knowledges, making things readily-er obvious to us rather than general public" turned into "our subgroup has special pleadings, making things passed unlaughed at that general public would fall over to hear."