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mircea_popescu: now, man beset with lots of typhus may end up thinking so, "they're all the same", etc. but this is not exactly thinking in the proper sense, more like emotional lashing out.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's basically saying "can't get a proper meal assembled without getting a bacteria in there. if it's clean it's an industrial product nobody wants to eat, if it's made properly, well!". this is true, but also irrelevant, the bacteria are everywhere but they aren't specifically dedicated to a cause through being bacteria. they're not typhus specifically.
mircea_popescu: (with any luck, slave's kid could become knave, ie, 4th rank in the army, below yeoman, squire and knights in that order.)
mircea_popescu: as late empire turned to medieval times, colonus -> peasantry and foederatus -> yeomanry.
mircea_popescu: the barbarian is the basis of the european minor nobility.
mircea_popescu: the roman "citizen" is the basis of the european slave class.
mircea_popescu: check out the inept agitprop bullshit. NOBODY wants to be "a spook", and for most people, including cashiers and waitresses, this move isn't an upgrade.
mircea_popescu: " All hackers aspire to an upgrade to spook." <<< ahahaha. "all barbarian lords aspire to colonus status". fucking bs. foederati had superior legal status to "colonus servusque". much like black dudes in the us have superior status to white office drones.
mircea_popescu: plus you get some delicious canned soup out of the deal.
mircea_popescu: you want to buy a "genre fiction" novel, buy fifty cans of campbell soup and read the labels in succession. same shit.
mircea_popescu: fucking copywriters a) aren't writers and b) aren't people.
mircea_popescu: psa : genre fiction is not fiction, it's those merchandise tags and labels that ran long for the space.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform because you people have ~no taste and read shit spread on paper.
mircea_popescu: no wonder he's being promoted. by now, the moment i see lamestream going "X is a Y" the ~only thing i think about is that if Y = bitcoin, they'd be saying x=gavin.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a look, global warming idiot. /me moves on.
mircea_popescu: guy has a solid point. there's nothing new in this world except for hte history you didn't know etc.
mircea_popescu: (you can write two pages of cannonical implementation in lisp even if your actual implementation that you use is in py/c/whatever. make it a sort of official lingua franca of coding, is my idea.)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform an idea here would be to make a soft commitment to publish all cannonical code in lisp implementations.
mircea_popescu: and a blog is a valuable and important asset for the adult man.
mircea_popescu: yeah, if you get imagemagik installed (lol!) there's a bunch of interesting visual stuff. quick way to jumpstart a blog, socialmedia exists ~out of this.
mircea_popescu: generally, the fiat of the fiat state must be leached away from its crippled hands. very generally. what way one goes to accomplish this... well, that's why the one is one.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger there's also nothing wrong with trying to package it for b2b and beat in the marketplace those derps mentioned in the log days ago. i don't personally think there's a market there, but maybe i'm missing a crease. teh republic'd support you in any case.
mircea_popescu: it is kind of a big deal. asciilifeform there must be a standard. this "submit key" thing doesn't work if for instance he's trying to dump 2mn static html pages into a website.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "but for the grace of god there goes i" or how did that quote go.
mircea_popescu: phf it's very hard to differentiate oneself when oneself has nothing to offer. forced mistake, what else to do other than.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, guy has a job, a wife and a child. who knows what trouble besets the man.
mircea_popescu: so, sadly but apparently unavoidable : who wants to re-do btcalpha wot explorer ?
mircea_popescu: i just mean, blue underlined text should be maybe 2-3-4 words not 20+
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo we prolly should have a rule as to the maximum wordcount for an a href anchor.
mircea_popescu: they're on a different domain, as per wordpress idiocy. and wget is apparently written by imbeciles.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: oops. i mean... wget -mp is the correct format! who knew :p
mircea_popescu: anyway. time to shut down hillary clinton's political aspirations.
mircea_popescu: is anyone qntraing the guccifer thing ? speak now else i'm gonna
mircea_popescu: some inept bitco.in drama about how they got buttraped.
mircea_popescu: not so. so far they're paying through the nose, a good two thirds of anything their subjects consume being the usg's own contribution.
mircea_popescu: "your honor, i've been delinquent in my obligations, therefore i don't have them"
mircea_popescu: this may be the most amusing argument a taxpayer might ever present
mircea_popescu: just as long as the russians, the chinese and the republic each received its respective tax.
mircea_popescu: i guess the other point here is that no, the f-whatever ain't ever gonna fly.
mircea_popescu: yes, but that excludes themselves. let them admit it TO THEMSELVES.
mircea_popescu: btw, i think this is actually rather qntrable, if you feel like it.
mircea_popescu: forget the plans, that's just engineering. THEY LOST THE ONLY COPY OF PROOF OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITY.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform basically "we're poor and everyone else should be poor also" usian invidy ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes ie, should outrage force them to get off their asses, they don't want to admit they changed course.
mircea_popescu: "legal proceedings" ? what the ever loving fuck, go back to the trees.
mircea_popescu: and these people seriously expect to be treated differently from asphalt scrape ? why ? how ?
mircea_popescu: "database lost" ; "it contained all sorts of incriminating evidence". clearly, no foul play. because this can happen now.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes the best part ? "whole the USAF doesn't suspect foul play". fancy this wonder.
mircea_popescu: i guess the only way the tits are going over time is down.
mircea_popescu: but otherwise, teh us foreign service is sharply divided : either work for nsa & co, for very little money doing very stupid/boring shit ; or else work for dea & co for as much money as you can steal, doing rather stupid exciting shit that will 28% get you killed.
mircea_popescu: there's ~500 mn idiots without anything to do with themselves. finding a few hundred a year to do this is no particularly notable feat.
mircea_popescu: i doubt any of them was ever heard from again. but hey, sikrits.
mircea_popescu: cuz they came in, with ~exact knowledge of who's who, and rolled up just about all of em.
mircea_popescu: dun worry about it too much though, the russian assraped the us undercover folks something fierce.