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mircea_popescu: women only, day farm labourers, doing ~nothing in the muds of rice paddies.
mircea_popescu: basically, every culture has a "women on sale" marketplace. the egyptians stick them in shops, if you got money to buy goods maybe you got money for an extra cowsy ? the italians of the pre-roosevelt era stuck them in this bizarre field job.
mircea_popescu: "Saluteremo il signor padrone per il male che ci ha fatto che ci ha sempre maltrattato fino all'ultimo momen' Saluteremo il signor padrone con la so' risera neta pochi soldi in la cassetta e i debit da pagar..."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform his definition of metaheuristic is disappointing :D
mircea_popescu: trinque "la furia homicida del purpurato" is certainly memorable :D
mircea_popescu: "argentina has a night life", "romantic comedies", whatever the fuck, all of it belongs on imgur.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i specifically disclaim any relation to the crap. either part of it.
mircea_popescu: $google "these bitches are disrespectin' an' that ain't right!"
mircea_popescu: well... anyone know debbie do anything, arguably christina applegate's best character ?
mircea_popescu: you know, i'm mildly surprised webcam companies haven't built the arcade scroller irl yet. you could have this special obstacle course built, have the camhos try and complete it, people could pay to watch, bet on whether they manage or not...
mircea_popescu: anyway. summer of forks proceeding without much gas, one confused byzantine general moving chaotically around the field.
mircea_popescu: "it's not clear how bitcoin will react ?" fuck you. a) there's nothing to react to ; b) it's fucking clear how people react to nothing.
mircea_popescu: everything is twisted around. "ecosystem" ? ie, what, five derps with 200 socks each ? that's the ecosystem ?
mircea_popescu: ie, "miner cartel got beaten to shit, withdrew temporarily, wants to have control over bitcoin! IT WAS PROMISED!!!!".
mircea_popescu: check that out, it's golden : "It is not clear how developers will now react. To not give the ecosystem choice opens Bitcoin Core developers to criticism of centralized power where developers decide even political matters of increased capacity, increasing the risk of legal liability and threatening an open war with miners which, having the full support of almost all prominent bitcoin businesses, are likely to come out much st
mircea_popescu: lol, complete with "price jumps on rumours" bullshit ?
mircea_popescu: this, needless to say, i hope, ISN'T HOW YOU FUCKING WRITE. code or anything else.
mircea_popescu: and in the rare cases when they re-read, they re-read like they re-stroke the penis. to recognize, not to understand.
mircea_popescu: "did you as much as re-read this shit ?" "ain't nobody got time for that ??"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: they write like their disciples code, which is to say, breathless, first pass, never read.
mircea_popescu: but they didn't then bother to go back, and check the terms, and check the relations, and cross-examine their production.
mircea_popescu: it's like a cow mewing or like a kitten braying, you can readily see going through their productions that they... felt, something, there.
mircea_popescu: (when pursuing evidence, there's two kinds : indicative and dispositive. the latter is the sort that ends the inquiry ; the former is the sort that points to the way towards the latter.)
mircea_popescu: sure, may have all sorts of other relevancies ; but not dispositive or even indicative re the theory of everything, or computing for that matter.
mircea_popescu: yes, indisputably a mole happens on the skin ; yes indisputably aunt molly's mole did in fact occur. nevertheless, irrelevant anecdote of no further import.
mircea_popescu: anyway, back to phf 's thing : i frankly dun think rms/frf/etc are relevant here, not anymore than aunt molly's mole is relevant in a discussion of dermatology.
mircea_popescu: the gall of these shitheads. how DARE THEY use fucking words other than "fdsjkhgwreifgiwiotghfegbvhwerg" to denote their vomit.
mircea_popescu: Times have changed, women are now worthless, but computers aren't, and these same dead hand fictions propose anew : that they own all computers, that if you own a computer it's only a sublease from them, subject to furthering their regulations and so on and so forth. Specifically excluded from all this - what the code actually says and does. Particularly "criminal" - using a computer in the manner it itself allows to be used."
mircea_popescu: nce of the regulation they emitted as to how women may be used and may not be used and so on and so forth. Specifically excluded from all this - the woman in question. Particularly "criminal" at the time - using a woman in the manner she herself wishes to be used.
mircea_popescu: the book sez : "A parallel with human sexuality is not unwarranted here. At a past time when the ownership of female humans was the principal method to control capital formation and the political process, the same sort of dead hand fictions proposed that they in fact control the usage of women, that anyone owning a woman does so only as a sublicense from their sovereign ownership of all women, and may proceed only in furthera
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i can't find the one with "buy computing" like old dudes/church wanted to "buy women". darn.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, there's a difference between secrecy AS A STATE and code sharing AS A PROCESS.
mircea_popescu: so in general, i expect the notion of "code secrecy" to be as nonsensical today as when stallman was a wee tyke getting started on other people's emacs.
mircea_popescu: thart may be, but economics is economics, so what should he do ?
mircea_popescu: what specific measures should he take in his relations with his gf, other than the current precautions so wife doesn't find out, to satisfy your needs ?
mircea_popescu: trinque what if say his gf splits, steals his hdds, now it's online (because she accidentally publishes it through running open webserver os). now you negrate him ?
mircea_popescu: (also why police state is a self-limiting failure mode)
mircea_popescu: it's why nsa fails so badly. all their budget goes to filling the barn, ~none to guarding the barn.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: pre billy goates and his whiny self, people shared tapes.
mircea_popescu: ftr that was the original, and working, shareware paradigm.
mircea_popescu has spent more time than he cares to admit with crazy incomprehensible and perhaps fragmentary item. "what is it ?" "fuck me"
mircea_popescu: i dunno, meteorite fell from sky, seems to work a certain way, gotta look what it does now.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i supppse maybe as a black box item, i dunno.
mircea_popescu: (yes, we use constructive intent all the time, such as for instance in discussions of usg - the sort of thing where they end up responsible both ways.)
mircea_popescu: you mean constructive intent. hardly an intentional category.
mircea_popescu: you load crapolade websites all the time ; and pdf meets your attack criteria.
mircea_popescu: but point remains, binary is more insidious than readily observed. you can't reduce text to "code" nor can you reduce binary to "elf".
mircea_popescu: sure, i run coherence checks on all data, such as recent trilema article is testament.
mircea_popescu: unless you go out and do the measurements yourself. by hand ?
mircea_popescu: besides the point. it's a random byte field you didn't make, and can't verify.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform would you accept data from certified source ?
mircea_popescu: heck, nsa is what, an open sourcing program run on public funds ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform except i don't see anyone has an implicit freedom allowing him to review other people's notes.
mircea_popescu: phf i don't think stallman, for all his posturing, was muich in the philosophy department. seriously, ima have a special right to use code ? tell you what - have the inalienable freedom to use weapons, in any manner i deem fit, such as against the us president, and to use the penis, and plates of pasta, and napkin scribblings and anything else.
mircea_popescu: yeah, that's more of a practical philosophy thing, but i see what you mean.
mircea_popescu: the cheapest forinstance : it's not even proper to speak of "code" rather than text until and unless you've introduced a specific difference. which is a harder problem than it appears. "obviously" is not an answer.