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mircea_popescu: picture an accountant walking into room with "here, by any metric you choose to measure it, arranged marriages slightly more successful than ''free choice'' marriages" data.
mircea_popescu: and you'll marry and live your life out with who the fuck we choose cuz you're too stupid to choose, and you'll go into the line we choose because idem, and you'll love who the fuck and what the fuck you're supposed to, not "feel like". because the "feel like" is entirely "going by your gut", and the problem with guts is that they're fulla shit.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform all things. see ? that's the fucking point. from boots to "want of a nail" to "keep your household in order and the women in line and the children doing their fucking work" and so on. all the fucking way.
mircea_popescu: this is what "militarism" fucking is, entire : keep your books straight OR ELSE!
mircea_popescu: whereas power lines actually invented by zee germans, by which term we denote the prussians, by which term we denote the "militarist" tendency which the mutinous kiel sailor and "broad elements" of the weimar republic "agreed with the consensus" should "have no place in germany".
mircea_popescu: these two sum to ~99.99999% of "modern progress and democracy"
mircea_popescu: the entire us "tech" industry is built out of unaccounting and malacounting.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform meanwhile saw he fixed by "inline" etc, so yeah.\
mircea_popescu: alternatively "auto-process as text comments that don't have any > in them", but then it still bites as you could have a link and a log-style << and so on.
mircea_popescu: known "bug" of sorts, in the sense of frustrating behaviour, but no known way to fix other than "do not use single angle brackets in text" / "do not use magic letters with metasyntactic meanings". as html already fucked the pig on the latter score...
☟︎ mircea_popescu: also, if you're going to overwrite your margins why have them.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and speaking of
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-30#1867509 : perhaps this is just the ticket mod6 , take a few days / a week off whatever, ~BY YOURSELF~. so you can fucking think. go hang out with BingoBoingo , fuck some latino whores, get drunk once or twice... these are the mainstay "i'm in a paper bag how do i get out" methods since time immemorial for a fucking reason.
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: certainly "work less on dead ends, more on productive stuff, and stop grabbing knives by blade"
mircea_popescu: dunno that these two can be distinguished. there's really no whole outside of teh individuals involved.
mircea_popescu: for some reason dc resolved to "air conditionning" in my head lol
mircea_popescu: i certainly can see the narrative that goes "first, the task was to add 6 and 8 and 11 ; then ben_vulpes wanted to take some hours to print out an adhesive 25 to paste on a box we'd therefore call computer ; then mod6 took a few days to complicatedly add by hand to 24 and 26 and so on". it's still a 0.3 second job, harsh mistress experiences notwithstanding.
mircea_popescu: there's merit to automating things ; but a strict inability to do basic accounting results in and fosters the development of serious other problems. such as a strict inability to plan.
mircea_popescu: i still can't imagine how ~any approach fails on it, seeing how the whole customer list is what, dozen ? less ?
mircea_popescu: and there's stuff to look at re power and so on. dammi tempu etc.
mircea_popescu: ie, exactly what the shinohais of this world are stuck doing, like it or not like it.
mircea_popescu: not in the general case. but for its needs it is -- "i follow his lordship x, and sink with him".
mircea_popescu: yes BingoBoingo is not replaceable. but pizarro can very well be an imaginary woman.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nothing prevents "irene" the bot from hiring such a cage.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they move by order eh. besides, subs and all that.
mircea_popescu: but yes, having reich "bank accounts" for imaginary, computer-brained "persons" is certainly part of the overal design.
mircea_popescu: the dream includes autonomous robotic isps that set themselves up. so -- yes.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ah come the fuck on, he finds out there's a program mid nov ? why, he didn't look in the right place in the pgpball ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it is well advised to get to brass tacks and have a node and everything. and i fully agree that b is not here, nor is this anymore than a purely theoretical discussion.
mircea_popescu: btw, re
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-11#1871034 : i've ended up conflating two things i think and the result is confusing. so a) obviously as things stand now, and perfectly defensibly for an indefinite future the way to go is to pipe the result of !!balance into some publishatron ; however b) if and when pizarro decides to capitalize on its abundance of highly qualified personnel to create a "bitcoin isp software package",
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mircea_popescu: "I’m sorry good girls, but it’s true. But first, allow me to clarify. There are plenty of bad girls who come across as good girls to the untrained eye. These women will play straight arrows out in public, but once they get you behind closed doors, they unleash the beast." << straight up rewrite of the xtian holy book. "they may suck, but maybe deep down there's some nonsuck ?". srsly now ?!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, i guarantee you there's a pete dushenski somewhere pen-on-paper-ing them.
mircea_popescu: to quote from the all-fet, "shadowscar00 20F Rope Bunny 1h How about you drop whatever it is YOURE doing and read my fuckin bio" "LordMPofTMSR 1h Nah."
mircea_popescu: ALSO straight cargocult, also like all spamola. really bitch, "this is how men should" ? men fucking should, reheheally ?
mircea_popescu: but do you remember the 70s, back when people honestly thought "equal partnerships" are possible, and even desirable among the genders, and there can be such a thing as "career women" and so on ? and they will be mated through the process of informing men "how to", as if men fucking give a shit, or ever possibly could ?
mircea_popescu: sounds like nightmare case, you know, "take this popular app, make it run on your hand-distilled industrial machinery in this closet here". come back the next day, "all done" i'm like...
mircea_popescu: but he installed me a deluge on his cuntoo on my server to spec and a job very well done indeed.
mircea_popescu: a, before i forget -- trinque a++ consultant. i dunno what it is with the man, it's almost as if he earns his living doing this or something.
mircea_popescu: sure, so you have some secrets. nothing wrong with this. but you don't have half a mb of secrets, as you well point out.
mircea_popescu: yes but holy shit, nobody does it ~here~. why the fuck do you boys go straight back to it the moment you're @treefort ?!
mircea_popescu: and it was neither to my loss nor to his nor to the republic in any sense. you read it and you liked it.
mircea_popescu: perhaps the first diplomatic mission in the 3k year long history of diplomacy that ~didn't even need crypto~.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform consider for your own edification that the ~whole~ mocky thing was run with 0 crypto the entire length up until his return.
mircea_popescu: imagine what a beauty of foresight and strategic superiority that'd have been, /me proceeds to hang linus on own petard for getting one, "but mp... pizarro also has ?"
mircea_popescu: seems pizarro's been growing all kinda pantsuit warts, not mere bureaucracy-ism but the whole shebang.
mircea_popescu: you don't get the same benefit from not running a node ; nor from not knowing how to note-to-web.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the contact method's done like that for a very good reason -- to extrude people out of the zekshit.
mircea_popescu: but, having him consult on how to get your own thing going, that makes perfect sense.
mircea_popescu: i don't think that's necessarily the way to go. for one thing, man's doing cuntoo ; for the other thing, you are well advised to run own node and do own thing rather than build an irc dependency into your isp.
mircea_popescu: pretty elegant and certainly value-building. "our isp consists of marketplace relationships, AND remarkable workforce, AND industry-leading custom software process".