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mircea_popescu: folks can test in 3 seconds "social media" site of "their choice" is neither , nor secure.
mircea_popescu: or if you mean the other thing, eu, good, krama, alloy. same linguistic principle as eutectic, (teksis = melting).
mircea_popescu: jurov it's not just that it's "glass with borax in it", much like steel isn't just "iron with carbon in it"
mircea_popescu: jurov iirc it has an eukramic point, much like say carbon in steel. not just "some proportion", but a curve with some inflexion points.
mircea_popescu: borosilicate glass tubage of any diameter you wanted was ~40 cents per kg.
mircea_popescu: if i were a younger, innocent verision of myself, like the quoted alf has the unspeakable advantage of being, i'd disbelieve this story.
mircea_popescu: them, and not pleading in favour of their intelligence, organisational importance or general sanity : they captured some black chick that shat her unwanted baby in a toilet and flushed. THIS is a "top 10 fugitive".
mircea_popescu: and in other incredibly postmodern lulz :
https://archive.is/zhCZf << postmodern art must be translated, so : fbi.gov has a banner roller just like any wanna-be "news site^Hmedia property" of the "mainsteam" variety. on this roller, because they apparently ran out of photographs or photography, in the age of the most abundant photographism, they have a picture of a lcd screen. that lcd screen depicts material originated from
mircea_popescu: that cost the us 100 bucks, there's ten "this is a solved problem" idiocies that cost 100 mn each.
mircea_popescu: the true sin is that it pretends to seal off all sorts of good parts.
mircea_popescu: t. it is not only, and not principally, and arguably barely at all the sin of inept us management that it drives the productive forces of its slave empire into dead ends.
mircea_popescu: "When a technology matures into a cash cow and then grows old, research into subtle undiscovered potentials abates in the name of cost-cutting. The neon sign has been common for a half-century and more. It is obvious that nothing remains to be discovered. There is no further technology to evolve, there are no new art forms to explore, there is no possible cross-fertilization with other disciplines" <<< al has an excellet poin
mircea_popescu: o holy shit the uncleal link. casimir effect ?! bejesus.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing the us can make that the thirld world needs and couldn't make. kinda why we're here in the first place, libertards ruined "the civilised world".
mircea_popescu: jurov * Cannot join #trilema-jurov (Channel is invite only). << you're not too shabby yourself :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the article is in fact linked first thing in the piece, or did you have another in mind ?
mircea_popescu: well i wasn't about to teach you how to cat, curl and sed was i.
mircea_popescu: that reddit is not worth a dime alltogether is true ; yet there's an ample supply of these idiots who think otherwise. why not help them get their "traffics" ?
mircea_popescu: there's a humongo strategic difference between "no alternative exists" and "we don't like the alternative as it contradicts our ideology". bitcoin is the ur-example of how to drive this through.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform perfectly fine way to win a war, don your scuba diving suit and drown the place.
mircea_popescu: we can't be spammed. web-anything "social media" or whatever you call the bullshit - can. this advantage must be a) kept sharp and b) driven through.
mircea_popescu: woman is a superbly engineered piece of machinery ; can take incredible amts of abuse
mircea_popescu: (note also you have no proof it was me! because the signature doesn't check out!)
mircea_popescu: if she's old enough to walk, she's not imune from ravishment, amirite.
mircea_popescu: "females should have no expectation of control over the usage of their girly bits, because well.... oooobviously".
mircea_popescu: most idiots take 15 minutes to clear two feet if you put any sort of arch, gate or door there.
mircea_popescu: which is why the sub-normals end up gathered around doorways. they approach a threshold, get all panicked, stop. then eventually they cross it, at which point - mindblank.
mircea_popescu: and ctrl-c will give you position, which in my head beats line count.
mircea_popescu: shinohai yeah, i don't always care. i like nano when it's a simple matter of "i know what i'm looking for, but approximately, so it's easier to ctrl-w and look at context than to grep string"
mircea_popescu: doing some research in the bowels of trilema i fell upon
http://trilema.com/2014/the-internet-race-gap/ "So to sum up : the average number of black people on the Internet is, on average, about 15% lower than the average numer of black people on the Internet as far as we can see - and it's probably even worse as far as we can't see."
mircea_popescu: and sometimes i actually edit files straight from bash.
mircea_popescu: im having rum and watching butts rise. altogether a wash!