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mircea_popescu: ure gifted with good taste, and become his loyal servant."
mircea_popescu: "You want a non-tyrannical Apple? Rather than striving to weaken Apple so that it can be devoured by its brawny-yet-mindless competitors, do something constructive. Experiment with GUIs which don’t trace their descent to Xerox PARC. Forever renounce the idiotic practice of copying Microsoft, that cheap imitation of a cheap imitation. If you are creative, create. Otherwise, strive to find a strong-willed Jobs fig
mircea_popescu: course... people are talented at resisting it, but hey :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, that may be, but i do not waste most of my money downshifting people. in general i waste it upshifting people.
mircea_popescu: not that it's not open to folk wanting the work and +wot centrality, but hey.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i would honestly think it's a waste of your time to do this ?
mircea_popescu: it's almost like the dating market : some people are decent at picking up c hicks, and the losers watch them do it and... still suck.
mircea_popescu: it's very strange how stupid perpetuates itself in that market, in spite of better exampled extant, and well publicised.
mircea_popescu: which is what i/bezos would have done as #1 thing to do.
mircea_popescu: and the reason is, apparently, that steam doesn't have the wisdom to have expert packagers out there looking for work.
mircea_popescu: and i'm marginally consdiering them (iirc was in the logs), but also kind-of meh.
mircea_popescu: missed by a mile, they weren't even shooting towards it.
mircea_popescu: they have like... 3 types of games, and rehashed ad nauseam.
mircea_popescu: in fact, and i had this deeply reviewed, ipad is an approximation of "Flash games"/arcade website, which was always a bit player.
mircea_popescu: ipad didn't get any fortress-whatever that's called action either.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you can move btc using email, too. what of it ? your problem.
mircea_popescu: so : there is a thing. it doesn't go there. to their detriment. what of the monopoly ?
mircea_popescu: but forget this nonsense, focus on the business interest.
mircea_popescu: same thing as with steam : i would not even accept money from them.
mircea_popescu: sure, they got a monopoly on all the candy crush. so ?
mircea_popescu: do you not count it as an example of developer eschewing the monopoly ? and to apple's detriment ?
mircea_popescu: i could spend money to have eulora interface translated into some sort of an iapp. it'd prolly work, more or less. i... aren't bothering myself with actually doing this.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but entertain me, for my own education, on a purely business matter of some public interest.
mircea_popescu: i think maybe the white rapper guy had some verse to the point
mircea_popescu: "How long would it take for Toyota to start living up to these accusations in earnest? And why should it not do so? What is to be gained from corporate sainthood?" << "De ce te uiti de parca ti-am furat ceva. Daca tot te uiti asa, mai bine ti-as fura."
mircea_popescu: i can teach constitutional law to a rodent that's obedient and determined, enough of it at any rate to surpass the present mulatto in chief.
mircea_popescu: it is, contrary (to whose surprise ?) to what the derps try to tell them, pretty much the only important characteristic.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't mind in the slightest - more flesh for me.
mircea_popescu: if all females were she-rakims their life would be so smooth.
mircea_popescu: which is EXACTLY the sort the female-politics niggers HATE to see
mircea_popescu: better model; always asks current ego to die because current ego is a piece of shit.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: yet it's not my fault the models you all learned as children are constructed to serve your society, not your own needs and interests.
mircea_popescu: a very simple solution is, "never fuck newbies without at least one slavegirl participating"
mircea_popescu: a society that doesn't bitchslap them opens itself to this sort of gunkification.
mircea_popescu: derpy resellers are right out. machines in natoland are right out. derps unable/unwilling to wot are right out. etc.
mircea_popescu: eh dun take it personally, i'm talking of everyone else.
mircea_popescu: but pretty much the only thing western kids wanna do is derp with webdev ; and the eastern kids wanna polish the kalash.
mircea_popescu: finding a solution to the hosting problem, a ~correct~ solution is actually higher priority than anything else atm.
mircea_popescu: a ton of orphan blasting, looking through the logs, but they don't actually do anything to me.
mircea_popescu: i think you probably recall the design discussions for this ?
mircea_popescu: says Hansjoerg Mueller of the Alternative for Germany party.
mircea_popescu: "fail new disk" error rate seems to be 5 to 10x higher in raid setups than in solo setups.
mircea_popescu: think about it.,.. well, i dunno how much experience you have with it, but