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mircea_popescu: why would i have to prevent it ? there's specific space in the design spec for third-party developed maps. they run by whatever rules third party comes up with ; player doens't have to enter it. if he does enter it, client loads up more data.
mircea_popescu: if it's like "oh, random chick i met yesterday will meet me at airport and her... uhm... brothers... will drive me to their estancia in the interior" you're setting self up for lulz.
mircea_popescu: that's not it ; colombia itself is fine. if you have sense to travel on own arrangements, not share with random ho you met online, establish your own base and meet her from a position of power / in public / whatever like sane people will be ok.
mircea_popescu: shinohai you know there ~is~ a slight possibility you're walking into a trap, yes ?
mircea_popescu: o confusing" and this is "better technology" because it "just works" etc. but holy hell, it so fills me with furious rage...
mircea_popescu: in other news, i downloaded "modern" browser. the shit proceeds to download "an update" by itself when left alone for five minutes. then upon examination it turns out that it has no setting to fix this. nor for that matter any setting to disable javascript. nor anything else. it has : a star ; and a smiley face. that's all. "would you like french fries with that ?" level of interface design. i guess menus and whatnot were "to
mircea_popescu: people doesn't enter in this conversation, it's not a fucking vote.
mircea_popescu: so then say "sorry, i couldn't maintain my bot to spec" not "bickering. truth helps.
mircea_popescu: shinohai it's not "bickering". toldja 2x to use !~, an hour apart. next day you had changed it to > or some stupid shit and people were complaining, so it got devoiced. next time do critical fixes - such as the control sequence of a chatbot - in real time or remove it yourself.
mircea_popescu: yea, it's totally because not paying attention to ~trump~ that place's going to shit. not because not paying attention to the soul eating, all consuming bureaucracy. that's a-ok, will make the country not-great again because it doesn't need to, because to them it's always been great.
mircea_popescu fondly remembers all teh brexit "polls" being wrong by just about 50%
mircea_popescu: liberals, you know. mouth says one thing, ass says another.
mircea_popescu has now accidentally checked out josh marshall's blog, is amused at all the butthurt.
mircea_popescu: if i actually had to milk dudes i'd prolly give up cappuccino
mircea_popescu: i confess in my (perhaps maginal) experience, the whole "feminist" charade is mostly a (very transparent) defense for shy teen/early 20s chicks. more pretense than anything, and very strongly correlated with "i'm not sure what to do once clothes come off"
mircea_popescu: "o hey, i heard in merv they issue you a pair from the dmv"
mircea_popescu: chicks make some epic cherry pie. one inch of cherry matter in a thin pastry wrapping.
mircea_popescu: anyway, they have the same fruits they have everywhere. papaya and apples and whatever the hell. cherries at two bucks a pound.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform does this pass for trolling in your country ?
mircea_popescu: wait, shit, this is actually on trilema already innit.
mircea_popescu: anyway, most often is "hey, come over, i want you to meet X".
mircea_popescu: sort-of. they think so, but meh. i've not yet seen frost.
mircea_popescu: you know how it goes, if you're the kind to miss out on it you'd have missed out on it if you went to college just as well.
mircea_popescu: the one giant frat party gangbang was pre and immediately after cellphones.
mircea_popescu: because nothing quite says prestigious luxury like a full option package where the leotard anti-matches the car paint.
mircea_popescu: we eventually migrate to sane bitcoin and that's that.
mircea_popescu: anyway, not like the problem isn't both well understood and well solved.
mircea_popescu: moreover, the important point is, "where are the true large edges of this item".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform at the time part of the discussion was "making larger blocks".
mircea_popescu: no, today has been the day of giving nice fellows a hard time, let him suffer.