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mircea_popescu: i can't summon the interest. "vague discussion of a topic that previously didn't exist for reasons we won't discuss by people who aren't qualified to participate"
mircea_popescu: sedition consider registering your pgp key with deedbot.
mircea_popescu: cno cycle playing the role of citric acid cycle in mammals.
mircea_popescu: this incidentally might make the basis for an excellet sf piece. a sentient star!
mircea_popescu: my definition was "any compound of elements from this list".
mircea_popescu: oh it has to have carbon ? so co is organic ; h20 inorganic ?
mircea_popescu: PeterL sow-killed-and-fed-to-mulberry-tree-leaves-fed-to-silkwork silk purse from pig ear prolly dun qualify.
mircea_popescu: you can make it synthetically at considerable cost ; but not really out of sow's ear.
mircea_popescu: fibroin is part of insect metabolism ; not really part of mammals.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform black people are like 11.5%. of those, two thirds are wiggers, and the remainder just too obtuse to admit to it, wank it to "rap" and otherwise try to show up on time for work.
mircea_popescu: the net result of a collection of idiots whose bills are paid by govt being... the collection itself.
mircea_popescu: nothing quite as lulzy as the libertard waking up to the cold reality that a) nobody likes him ; b) everyone wants him dead and, AND, paramountly, c) his "being nice" has exactly 0 impact on a and very slight impact on b.
mircea_popescu: the problem is that in the consumer "mind", easy always beats good.
mircea_popescu: then average wowhead started doing it too, mostly for the pretense, and this is what gave us the lulz of
mircea_popescu: there is some legitimate space for this, in high performance rts type of games where watching a high ranked player play is very instructive.
mircea_popescu: turns out it wasn't the tv making people stupid - people were stupid to begin with, tv fit like a glove. with its demise - the cowsies moo for a replacement. so they watch others play games.
mircea_popescu: a sort of youtube for obnoxiously voiced dorks to stream their voice and upper-left efigy atop game video captures.
mircea_popescu: his question stands lol. gl finding an undergrad that's not an imbecile.
mircea_popescu: oh btw, apparently brasil can't keep drones out of stadiums, try as it might. there's always half dozen flkoating about, and the "heads of state" muppets in attendance might as well get used to it.
mircea_popescu: speaking of "actionable steps towards better itnernet", do i have benchmarks yet ?
mircea_popescu: you recall ? was some foss "expert" blog article, in which he detailed some bugfixing he did, except it was of the nature of "i removed undigested corn kernel from shit on wall - all better now"
mircea_popescu: nono, some idiot/genius explaining how he "fixed" something or the other in kernel
mircea_popescu: lemme link to the previous instance of me losing it over this. where was it.
mircea_popescu: ah nm, they're putting a large ack limit in conf so as to... BYPASS THE MAGIC NUMBERS BAKED IN.
mircea_popescu: anyway, feel free to publish trash piece. derp has exactly no clue, EVERY single thing he says is remarkably stupid and pointedly wrong.
mircea_popescu: "david seaman, a crypto blogger". way to go. "nobody on a stick" etc.
mircea_popescu: ethereum "publicly traded company" ? in what alternate universe.
mircea_popescu: ie, there's an allowance the olympic lizzards make for each country to participate. many of them spend many times more on their teams ; but for shitholes from the country of africa it's actually lucrative in the sense of, pay fiddy bux to local derp to spend a week in a hotel for the first time in his life ; cash in on the olympic committee millionz.
mircea_popescu: shows what a vibrant space one'd have without the usg.mpaa idjits
mircea_popescu: and in other ethereum news : the "white hack" attackers... stole... the pot.
mircea_popescu: as you might've noticed, i'm the opposite of a micromanager.