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mircea_popescu: this is like saying "all americans are poor, everyone i see in grand central station is wearing shitty cloth shoes and a cheap tshirt"
mircea_popescu: so there is no "the network". just people you don't know your friends are fucking.
mircea_popescu: so lots of party jokes, "hey man, spot your milk brothers ?"
mircea_popescu: point being, this is the only relation people are usually unaware of.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the romanian word to denote the relationship between two men fucking the same woman is "sogor"\
mircea_popescu: i'm not buying into the collectivist mindset. there is no "the network at large", "the country", blabla, evnetually for some niggled in special garb to rule over.
mircea_popescu: if i go to moscow all i see is individual blokes, who is THE RUSSIANS guy ?
mircea_popescu: i might as well hold painting contests for a jar of fruit flies.
mircea_popescu: nope. exactly power law of derpage : buncha noise 1st day, 1/2 noise next, 1/4 noise next, epsilon thereafter.
mircea_popescu: it really is, and throughout its ~4 century history started sometime during attempts to liquidate the strong feudalism leftover in sicily and other march lands, always was an "alt-path to bourgeoisie"
mircea_popescu: generally, mobster's hope and aspiration is for kids to join whatever $harvard locally and become "accepted by society"
mircea_popescu: i can't think of a time this was the case, in either the old country or the america.
mircea_popescu: like the vory, they don't know how to pick women. and so they don't.
mircea_popescu: unlike the vory, they can get married. and so they do.
mircea_popescu: you deeply disunderstand the mob. it has no higher purpose. it's just people trying to find an alt-path to consumerism.
mircea_popescu: kinda what drove the entire giuliani revolt, briefly backj when the us still thought it may turn around.
mircea_popescu: go, make some dead worth the mention. if california fell into the sea today, what'd be remembered ?
mircea_popescu: but the people dead on the battlements are dead for the dead, not dead for the living.
mircea_popescu: before that, you're just aspiring. what nationality you're aspiring to be entirely your problem,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> how does this work << because what is your definition of nationality ? byron is french, definitely.
mircea_popescu: just like lenin is the definitive soviet tho he didn't actually live there significantly, marx is the definitive american, tho he didn't even speak the "official" language. he spoke german, the unofficial one.
mircea_popescu: preet is the american, obama is the american. not fucking kerry.
mircea_popescu: america is a country of john smith and carnegey and marx and lacan.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, THEY were the americans. everyone else's just scum the wind blew in./
mircea_popescu: you understand ? all european literacy is based on the concept of fixed forever symbols, so printing press may exist.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless. i need unextensible symbol set for very good reason : you can't have static compilation without it.
mircea_popescu: their equivalents in a previous century were using the "magic stones" to read "reformed egyptian". and there is EXACTLY no difference between john smith the mormon and lacan the postmodernist. they're EXACTLY the same "ideal american"
mircea_popescu: but you're right, pomos do use the medical style (in no small part due to the original idiots', lacan et all, vague fascination with that particular citadel forbidden to them by their own ineptitude -
mircea_popescu: and fucking note that medicine used WORDS to denote its array of datapoints. not fucking hieroglyphics.
mircea_popescu: but the point stands : derpage is when you come up with new symbols or "new" readings (ie, wrong readings) of pre-existing symbols.
mircea_popescu: original topic is romanian "grammar scholars" who aren't fit to shine boots, and completely ignore anything whatsoever in the discipline in favour of doing some inanity.
mircea_popescu: this is the DEFINITION of derpage. to quote from relevant article :
mircea_popescu: i'd prefer it be a word, but can live with dword. i CAN NOT live with "extensible symbol space".
mircea_popescu: all i care about is that there's a specified maximum DEFINITIVE count of symbols,
mircea_popescu: and absent a better idea, my concept that you can't possibily have more than 255-27-10 actual tools seems quite meritous.
mircea_popescu: THEN, take tools away from derps and caducei away from everyone.
mircea_popescu: first off - separate what is tool and what is caduceus.
mircea_popescu: i'm like lead. every fancy radioactive compound eventually decays into me.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin should have been implemented as a solution to pdp timesharing problems.
mircea_popescu: to think imbecile anglos spent 50 years in "computing" huddling walls and trying to be all flower-power.
mircea_popescu: all sorts of "problems" are really non-problems once tmsr principles are applied.
mircea_popescu: and of course !bills returns you a list of stored bills.
mircea_popescu: and whoever wants to pay goes !pay mircea_popescu bill or !pay mircea_popescu 7.5555 "not bad but not really worth 10fiddy, ho!"
mircea_popescu: then whoever wants to be paid goes !bill asciilifeform 10.56546 "had a nice time last night honey"
mircea_popescu: by having [hopefully as an extension of assbot] a payment interface in chan.
mircea_popescu: but mebbe you overlooked the part where to initiate a caching, one has to either be in the L or pay.