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mircea_popescu recalls from his college days that most kids preferred taking exams with easy teachers over taking exams with good teachers.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it's mediocre people that have been miseducated that are unbearable.
mircea_popescu: yeah. stupid people are never given enough credit. they're broadly speaking pliable, reliable and altogether pleasant.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform let me ask you this, would you prefer a bricked phone to a phone that randomly starts beeping and running interference with your display ?
mircea_popescu is kinda half-expecting bb to marry 300lb worth of love.
mircea_popescu: so... don't laugh at the goat, you never know when you'll be riding one.
mircea_popescu: i confess i actually did a chick that was short and otherwise built entirely like a 12 boy. well, minus the penis, but boobs as big as mine et al.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i imagine they'd also have a face you don't care for.
mircea_popescu: because of the unspoken "but what if IT breaks ME, you won't fix ME will you".
mircea_popescu: at about the same time, most dudes with computer knowledge were trying to get their so/fuckdoll/cook to try computers, and dollars to donuts she said no because what if she breaks it, and he assured her she can't break it, being the idiot that he was, and that assurance didn't do anything.
mircea_popescu: if you couldn't find a million not-outright-insane individuals the species would be in serious trouble huh ?
mircea_popescu: note the acceptance of computers in society as an exact mirror of the use of windows and apple. it's a thing.
mircea_popescu: the more powerful the tool actually is, the more it exposes possibilities, necessarily. and perversely, the more threatening it is to the typical she-office drone.
mircea_popescu: not really, the control isn't over the interaction of numbers. the control is over the possibilities of existence.
mircea_popescu: (george costanza's famous "Ear puberty, nose puberty, knuckle puberty. You gotta be vigilant!" is quite a fine example in that vein.
mircea_popescu: but boys can be taught to live in the same terms np, and plenty do.
mircea_popescu: anxiety is a subjective experience of loss of control. tends to be females because of accidents of their anatomy leave a mark in the early psyche.
mircea_popescu: they exist to assuage existential anxiety as experienced by females.
mircea_popescu: are 44k lines of crap better than merely 34k lines of crap ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "Update: KncMiner is also one of the many mining operations listed to this day as supporting the ClassicCoin fork (along with Bitfury, which led the backpedalling effort after it became obvious Classiccoin does not have nor can acquire the support of key players in the market.)" ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo considering they have no reputations or anything similar, they'll prolly list alf there next.
mircea_popescu: did we do the "xtg ruled" thing last time or not rly ?
mircea_popescu: great opportunity to improve your english also Stec :)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know, not ot be an asshole, but anything past brief inserts is pretty noisy to anyone but the select few who happen to read the language/
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo weren't they one of the "supporters" of random forks ?
mircea_popescu: mayhap it helps some other idiots somewhere down the line.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo plox to make the link to "you dare offend mp with your inept posturing, you die" point.
mircea_popescu: why do you suppose "the ideas of satoshi" are of any particular interest anyway ? or whatever is this.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo well in the good tradition of shitcorps, they're opaque as mud, but apparently 20 or so.
mircea_popescu: go for it. with the scripts mod6 provides it's a breeze
mircea_popescu: he eats the government cheese, just like everyone else in ebt land.
mircea_popescu: when will redditards learn that YOU DO NOT SPEAK AGAINST THE REPUBLIC ?
mircea_popescu: davout feel free to remind them that they can keep whatever gunk they like in their IRRELEVANT distro. bitcoin foundation has bitcoin covered, nobody needs them for any purpose.