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mircea_popescu: the only way you'll ever find out it was wrong would be through people using it
mircea_popescu: this has ~never stopped nature, has it ? hence byproducts like trump, obama, clinton, bush etc.
mircea_popescu: gtfo already. it never was a game, it was always rape, and we always raped them. what "not a game anymore".
mircea_popescu: all the bullshit about a very faux, miserable definition of "ethics" - no, ethics is pointedly NOT what he thinks, not anymore than capitalism is what the us runs ; all the bullshit about how "it's not a game anymore" as if a) it ever was and b) the losers, ie, "law enforcement", derpy marketeers and generally the feminine enemy is possibly ever in any manner even conceivably winning anything...
mircea_popescu: the intimation that losing it means you've "grown up" is particularly pernicious. you don't "grow up" by going bald. you just grow old, is all.
mircea_popescu: generally this "why can't we all get along, you don't really HAVE to hold your legs crossed like that in the subway, not REALLY, do you" bullshit readily irritates me.
mircea_popescu: if you're a woman you can be a cow. if you're not, there's nothing. that's it.
mircea_popescu: the only option for the non-elitist, other than feeding the worms immediately, is a life of hypocrisy. there is nothing above, beyond or outside of elitism
mircea_popescu: because he purports to misrepresent reality, and worst of all - the reality of his own fucking experience - in castrato terms. o really, "elitism is bad" ? fuck you. if you believe that, how come you're here ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: as i age i'm simply rediscovering what i knew as a nine year old, which is, that i really can't stand "smart kids".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: fucktards. you just read it, son of a drunk fucker! why ask ME what it means! what are you for!
mircea_popescu: "hey, unlike everything else, at least this one doesn't have 5kb of crud prior to the interesting bit"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's almost a wonder these people choke on the oh-so-well written phuctor reports. considering the sort of inept bullshit floating about, you'd think they'd fall on knees and worship.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i guess this wonder'll be dissected another time. on the strenght of his report, i dun feel inclined to look into the matter any.
mircea_popescu: all happy brains are similar ; all rotten ones so very different. or how did that quote go.
mircea_popescu: it's a wonder the 2nd para doesn't start with "it's a cold muscovite october and the snow crackles under the steps..." or somesuch shit.
mircea_popescu: yaya. and he checked everything and he fell in a state of stupour.
mircea_popescu: что платы из Китая содержат дополнительные программные модули, прошитые в биосе, а стандартные программы анализа эти модули не увидели." so does it or doesn't it coincide to the byte ?
mircea_popescu: "Моему удивлению не было предела: номер биоса был тем же самым, образы биоса совпадали побайтно, но по какой-то причине серийные материнские платы заработали только тогда, когда я залил в них такой же биос, взятый сайта Intel" vs "Стало ясно,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i find it hard to believe nobody actually had done hardware parallelization in 2007.
mircea_popescu: he's gonna release u-psilon the dating app or something
mircea_popescu: are you going to be the hacker formerly known as j-dawg ?
mircea_popescu: ah, mod6 introduced it recently. faster to search from:mod6 and go backwards.
mircea_popescu: i dunno mang, apparently one can't think without ideograms or something.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform check it out, to this day the nebulously defined "community" around warez standard has a) not moved away from rar ; b) not allowed unicode in names.
mircea_popescu: but yes, some extruding pressure must be applied to get people to use the proper tool
mircea_popescu: (incidentally - to dragon's eyes we work as if we were there. recall - you ftp'd to site then had it read into irc ?)
mircea_popescu: not accolade, thc convinced me of the possibility of computers
mircea_popescu: note also that the groups were both distinct from the topsites let alone couriers, and also had their own artgroups!
mircea_popescu: probably the reason copyrasts didn't get away with much over 30 years of trying. no, it wasn't reddit, no "raising awareness" did jack.
mircea_popescu: (incidentally, there was at least one example of well known, functional, wot-only system online. teh scene.)
mircea_popescu: w99w99... check it out... soon enough all the ancient scene is going to pop back up, myth and all.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform oh yeah, dumbass bbs people and their "nick" notions.
mircea_popescu: (in the above context, "her" is a genderless pronoun used to denote stupidity)
mircea_popescu: anyway. i can readily see usg womanchild losing her shit because it's the first time in her life that he encounters the implacable "sit down and shut up, worm"
mircea_popescu: either you're good enough to fly or you aren't, wtf is this subway in the air.
mircea_popescu: somehow the very concept of economy class flight is dubious.
mircea_popescu: in fairness, the "community" had two years to run off with one of the more generous aff systems in history, twiddled its thumbs.
mircea_popescu: Could I become an affiliate? Not at this time, although this may change in the future. Could I become a partner? Not at this time. Can I advertise on BitBet? Not at this time, although this may change in the future.
mircea_popescu: the bank fraud where a coupla clerks reprogrammed the system to have all cent fractions added up to their account is a very typical chisel.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's an underworld of hustlers and small time, nonviolent criminals, with its own cant. to chisel is to use an informational asymmetry for a small, distributed gain.
mircea_popescu: $google "i used a little information for a chisel, that's all"
mircea_popescu: turns out the veterinarian can not actually direct his practice by the bellows of the pack animal. who knew!
mircea_popescu: keeping the "try to chisel, lose your capital" rule it seems. oh and all the scandal and "mp is a scammer" that came from that one, golly.
mircea_popescu: i suppose the admin interface as-was does not provide a ready way to cancel bets that had already closed at the whatever arbitrary timepoint. but still, database is database, what.
mircea_popescu: "While this may feel inconsistent (the proper resolution should be "CANCELED & REFUNDED"), there is a limitation in the current design of the system that prevents us from doing anything else." << this is an odd claim.
mircea_popescu: "One thing to be aware of: the bets that were cancelled because of the transition are still visible on the site and have all been resolved as "NO". " uh... ok ?
mircea_popescu: well archive is doesn't see it either, that's the extent of my patience.