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mircea_popescu: PeterL yes. you may only name kids after famous dead people.
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag i'm not fucking anything called "zero hacker" i'll tell you that.
mircea_popescu: PeterL ah, but in the god forsaken country of romania, there's a bunch of kings called that.
mircea_popescu: what the fuck reason did mrs mayer have to eschew calling her boy rachel or whatever the fuck they do in her tribe.
mircea_popescu: at least I HAVE A DAMNED GOOD REASON or twenty to make the zeroconf accounting rules.
mircea_popescu: unless of course there's some King Trace in the glorious history of that great nation of africa that i'm unfamiliar with.
mircea_popescu: get a fucking human name why don't you. what is this mug costanza and rifling jones bs.
mircea_popescu: in other news, names like "trace mayer" SHOULD be obsolete.
mircea_popescu: we don't even have a single harmonica per capita over here yo!
mircea_popescu: <ascii_butugychag> mod6: that thing is worth more than my organs << typical alf. has collection of organs, complains about life.
mircea_popescu: i tohught that was called a prince albert. it's brockchain now ?
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> hausmann has a story to tell about how and why poor countries suck, and it's not because they're untrained monkeys, it's because they need more phree airplanes or some shit <<< venezuela is what happened after a gaddafi died of natural causes. yes the usg 5th column's unhappy that it has not yet been invited to save venezuela, they were predicting $$$ years ago.
mircea_popescu: <thestringpuller> mircea_popescu: LOL Trace Mayer is critiquing << i have no idea who that is, but zhe'd better get with the program because i don't see a future for whatever wot she's in.
mircea_popescu: "Some experts have said the field of artificial intelligence is currently experiencing something of a golden age, with deep-learning neural networks making advances in both speech and image recognition." << well, more like a qe age.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: that this would be quite apt is not terribly material to 'em.
mircea_popescu: none of the "industrial blue chips" do anythning anymore, so you'd be left with a stock market the size of bulgaria's.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo no QE, facebook deflates back to it's ~20mn actual value.
mircea_popescu: "we da people who are poor fundamentally misunderstand what money is and wish to fix it". mkay.
mircea_popescu: and yes we're nowhere near ready to be happy with the results of unseating the ONLY english contribution to the western civilisation.
mircea_popescu: managing time in this sense is only a consideration for assembly line workers.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo the "every" thing is not part of the argument as presented tho. how about "give it to just McCue". "i want it too" "get in the wot"
mircea_popescu: "i give myself until 7 pm to fall in love then i'm just getting drunk" or what ?
mircea_popescu: "nobody in this lab has discovered anything the past decade so now we're putting everyone on arbitrary counters!"
mircea_popescu: but the notion of time in this particular manner IS oppressive. just ask alf.
mircea_popescu: see, their driver is, "i don't have time to watch this dumb indian's videos". which is legit, they don't have time.
mircea_popescu: that separation discussion with asciilifeform is going to haunt us forever, for it's fucking fundamental.
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> Could publish peer reviewed tapes << except peers won't review tapes. because it's inept. oral tradition is unlike the written tradition in a fundamental way : it rejects the ~separation~ of knowledge and power. that sound familiar ?
mircea_popescu: woman is making a fucking stand against publish or perish ? go her.
mircea_popescu: one gram of flesh per FB account, this is almost farmable.
mircea_popescu: actually, we can do this math. EMC employs 50k mostly indians, and is valued at 25bn.
mircea_popescu: no idea how they figure that one, you can't get a fb account to show up to your office irl./
mircea_popescu: apparently 1bn active fb users are worth more than 10k active office workers.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller myeah. they don't think properly, ie "hey, mp isn't paying for nascar car, clearly stupid idea" but instead "oh, let's do random $idiocy, we'll be so much better than mp". makes sense, if you're retarded.
mircea_popescu: nobody can take this from you, you know ? "i got to fine dine while watching idiots burn. TWICE."
mircea_popescu: dude, i tell you truly - i fucking hate argentina, these people are as dumb as the delicious cows they raise. nevertheless, sitting here atop a grassy knoll, chowing exceptional beef and homemade apple pies and watching rome burn is a delight for which i am ever thankful.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller it's not worth 150bn even if a loaf of bread were 1k.
mircea_popescu: "we're narrowly intelligent but broadly speaking stupid, we were raped for our ineptitude by some nobody that mp trampled underfoot without even particularly noticing. really - go use TRB, we'll just follow along quietly to try and learn something"
mircea_popescu: meanwhile... everyone's "pensions" bwahahaha are invested in facebook(s). your daddy had not only a better house, not only better shoes, but also a retirement full of alcoa and shell. what a sucker, that dood.
mircea_popescu: leaving behind a ~150 bn crater in imaginary "wealth" that "could have bought russia" to be accounted for, somehow.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile the lifetime economic value per active fb user is MAYBE a cent. doubtfully so.
mircea_popescu: o wait... usg's own ws didn't exist then yet either huh. a well.
mircea_popescu: if only they were doing this back in the day when usg's own corp didn't exist, america'd have looked a lot different.
mircea_popescu: so it's somehow managed to get wallstreet ot pay ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS per active user.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller the corp is allegedly worth 150bn while allegedly 1bn users log in daily.
mircea_popescu: and similarly you gotta do the phd'ing for facebook, so they figure out whether it's more productive for their goals to include or to exclude strings matching $pattern.
mircea_popescu: ~you~ "gotta" pay an accountant to keep IRS' files in order. wouldn't it be logical if THEY had to come to you with a "here's how much we think you owe and if we're wriong we'll goi do the math again" ? who's the sovereign here ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and finally c) that facebook, just like every other usg corporation, tends to outsource all its workload TO UNPAID THIRD PARTIES.
mircea_popescu: apparently those actually eventually paid off, who knew a whole generation of idle retards was going to be educated by them. hollywood raped moscow just as mosfilm raped san mateo.
mircea_popescu: b) the derps in question thesmelves however are VERY careful as to how they state the nonsense. it's important that even through the usual muck of pravda it comes through ~how much they worked~ and how ~they vanquished an uncaring, cruel, cold world~, the two pillars of... well basically of socialist realist movies of the 60s.
mircea_popescu: g that "while it may be vulgar and offensive, distasteful content on its own does not violate our policies".[84] It decided to take action on May 29, 2013, after it "become clear that our systems to identify and remove hate speech have failed to work as effectively as we would like, particularly around issues of gender-based hate."[85]
mircea_popescu: Following a campaign by 100 advocacy groups, Facebook agreed to update its policy on hate speech. The campaign highlighted content promoting domestic and sexual violence against women, and used over 57,000 tweets and more than 4,900 emails that caused withdrawal of advertising from the site by 15 companies, including Nissan UK, House of Burlesque and Nationwide UK. The social media website initially responded by statin
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it occurs to me that the actually correct way to indent your inline else is \tif\t\n\t\telse
mircea_popescu: (but really, the kids were lazy long before either of these hot-topic'd the matter)
mircea_popescu: i guess either 9gag or cracked put that particular brain rot on "industrial footing", depending on whether we credit alf's symbolic supremacy or not.
mircea_popescu: i did hear of hyperbole. sadly there's a disease running around among the social-mediated youth, which has little to do with the stylistical choice and everything to do with lazy thinking.
mircea_popescu: but for the record, fb employs something like 10k people. didja know this when you proposed the "thousands of phds" theory ?
mircea_popescu: don't flatter yourself, nobody gives a flying fuck what fb feels like to the cows.
mircea_popescu: AdrianG the thesis was "he is the one who put propaganda on proper industrial scale"
mircea_popescu: AdrianG nevertheless, what exactly led you to your stated conclusion ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform at least hearst wasn't annoying AND poor.