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mircea_popescu: kid getting to choose college will predictably not go to the one that actually teaches something.
mircea_popescu: and the problem is insoluble, because shit drives away the food.
mircea_popescu: that's exactly "us economy|" : i will eat your moderately stinky shit and call it hamburger if you eat this very runny shit and call it a slurpee.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field incidentally, you know the joke with the two jews and the piece of dog turd ?
mircea_popescu: same exact fucking process, in the words of carlin, "a group of people trying to fuck each other a little deeper, a little faster, every time".
mircea_popescu: nobody needs to actulaly be fooled. just as long as they keep churning out this sort of crud and it's being reacted to, it's really no different from the idiot who "ai"replies to emails and imagines that this imbalance of power with his readership is useful to him
mircea_popescu: ascii_field "useless information is worse than no information, because idiots will now think they know something"
mircea_popescu: jesus what is this retarded shit. the gender gap ? on tumblr ?
mircea_popescu: yeah, just moving into the blessed state where the commands no longer do anything.
mircea_popescu: in fairness all soviets to date pretended that they are special, and all the other failures of socialism were due to you know, those not being real socialism. this is the first pass around the stupid block when the supreme soviet actualy claims it's not doing socialism at all.
mircea_popescu: o look at that, "Central bank and government combined balance sheet"
mircea_popescu: "people". who the fuck cares what the dead people say.
mircea_popescu: <assbot> Mother of murdered Chicago boy, 9, fuels outrage after buying new car << i thought muricans loved cars.
mircea_popescu: or no. not like slave labour. like everything else but that.
mircea_popescu: and now, off to eat cold HOMEMADE pizza in bed. turns out i live just like a coder, the only difference being the little differences. like slave labour.
mircea_popescu: there exists a tiny island that's perfectly equipped to laugh them into the dirt.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-11-2015#1320627 <<< how unfortunate for them that in an entire sea of idiots either lapping up the entire protective nonsense ("don't be mean" / "privilege is bad" / "sociopaths!111 don't careabout THE PEOPLE THEMSELVES111") or else too cognitively impaired to get much further than a vague feeling of existential nausea
☝︎ mircea_popescu: same process, mentally, loads and loads and LOADS of "plausible deniability" sugar on top.
mircea_popescu: no, see, more perfidious than that (which perfidy clearly proves he is full aware of the whole stack) : he PRETENDS TO FIX IT! orders carbon credits whipped.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, the fucking point of the sea is that you get what you get not what you expect to get.
mircea_popescu: i get it, fucktarded narcissist generation expects the sea to how did that go, "It’s unacceptable when the Master of your college is dismissive of your experiences."
mircea_popescu: dollars to donuts the item also exists in argentina, but been way too lazy to go through the NUMEROUS antiguedades markets.
mircea_popescu: i'd buy it myself but can't be arsed to handle the importation.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, bring it along next you visit i guess ?
mircea_popescu: there's more to lyf than just coding. not that legal documents aren't coding anyway.
mircea_popescu: the truth is i don't have a good solution to evolving contracts, and this is all part of exploring that space.
mircea_popescu: yeah my grandparents had the box. it was fascinating because tube in tube!
mircea_popescu: i think they have steel mesh reinforcement inside that's welded to the inner tube
mircea_popescu: i never thought this possible, it struck me as a bad idea. it dies there.
mircea_popescu: i tell you... the fact that that textile hose NEVER DISATTACHED from the metal end.
mircea_popescu is fucking tempted to try and find one here. i bet you it exists.
mircea_popescu actually said "well obviously" in class when learning about teh space race from soviet perspective. "FIRST SATELLITE!111"
mircea_popescu: this buran item, made out of solid steel, huge noise. i said it scared the shit out of me and iirc you said the same
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah, that's where you teach them they're chickenshits. remember the vacuum ?
mircea_popescu: "It’s unacceptable when the Master of your college is dismissive of your experiences."
mircea_popescu: soviets ashamed of themselves ? sort-of like going to the strip club to watch a bunch of nude ladies bent like teens and protecting their pubenda.
mircea_popescu: im kinda miffed we don't get moar of the "precious indications at the xth congress" solemnity.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform seems to be the plan for "continued economic growth"
mircea_popescu: "They have again and again shown that they are committed to an ideal of free speech, not to the Silliman community."
mircea_popescu: they do it everywhere, step 1 : replace food with synthetic condensate, which doesn't work as food ; 2 : go to doctor to cure your problems arising from the fact that you don't eat food, you eat tyres and wd40.
mircea_popescu: this fucking us insanity. step 1 : replace computer with phone, which does not work as computer ; step 2 : stop doing the things you used to do on compuer you can't now do on phone.
mircea_popescu: "error stanford computer science" is just abour righr.
mircea_popescu: whjat i mean by "best practices sorta thing" : nobody;'s going to hang you if you don't do it, but should seriously consider doing it.
mircea_popescu: obviously if you break the principle you break the principle.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, the only case where a "source is the spec" could be excused, is properly written knuth c.
mircea_popescu is rather partial to the concept of "god damned it source code should be written in essay form what is this machine serving bs"