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mircea_popescu: and here's phf sitting around wondering what's for dinner.
mircea_popescu: so why don't you do something ? here's alf bending over the task of routing circuits in the blockchain implemented in ada
mircea_popescu: so you're basically a nigger in prison (ie, timed out by the failures of this world!!1) except not actually black.
mircea_popescu: "not my proudest moment in retrospect, but hot damned that time i stripped naked and jumped in the pool was the greatest party ever!" said many a tall beauties.
mircea_popescu: and otherwise... let's do a test to see if it comes out the way we want it to here it is it did!!11
mircea_popescu: and whoever took over's paying less for the copywriting and even less for the artwork.
mircea_popescu: what has changed in 7 years ? oh... the new yorker went out of business.
mircea_popescu: The fact that the experiment failed didn't stop The New Yorker from trying to portray Wolfowitz as a jerk anyway, even though his performance theoretically showed that he was not a jerk, by the outcome measure of the study. They even commissioned a caricature of Wolfowitz to accompany the article, because, well, he's a jerk, of course. No matter what science says."
mircea_popescu: "To illustrate this, consider the latest issue containing an article, "Power Hour." It describes an impromptu experiment on the world's powerful (i.e. Paul Wolfowitz) that unfortunately failed to show the intended result, namely, that he's a jerk.
mircea_popescu: i dun get why you'd want to big fuck you the firm you work for.
mircea_popescu: papier-mache does not make a suitable replacement for pressed shit.
mircea_popescu: this one will kill it, of course, but even if it didn't, even without it : usg had been tricked by usg.vc into missing out on pretty much everything. even fucking obvious things like small biz.
mircea_popescu: A hilariously low percentage of tech investment targets the SMB market (aiming instead at huge business, the web, and the consumer electronics tie-in (the only interesting part of the list)) <<< yeah, it's not JUST bitcoin that the VC circus misdirected the usg into losing out of.
mircea_popescu: "The elephant in the room being that the ad market is falling apart because it isn't worth anything near like what we imagined. If views were what mattered it would be impossible for Twitter to be in such trouble, Arstechnica be struggling to maintain its editorial standards, or sites like Huffington Post and Forbes to be forced to display clickbait panels and load 40 ~ 70 third party plants per page load."
mircea_popescu: so unless one';s willing to go "timecube is astrotech astrotech and some more astrotech", one shouldn't so refer to "click analytics" and the rest of that shit.
mircea_popescu: "Most of that development is iterative rehashes of what everyone else has already done, though. This is a red flag to me. Social networks, messaging systems, click analytics, GIS frameworks for click analytics, and lots of other things called "analytics" but really boil down to adtech, adtech, adtech, adtech, and some more adtech, and marketing campaigns about campaigns about adtech."
mircea_popescu: the people pretending otherwise are also not legitimate people. ask for their fucking legitimations, the matter's not resolved by simply being there.
mircea_popescu: no there fucking isn't. "trivialization" is never a legitimate concern.
mircea_popescu: ". There's a legitimate concern that sauntering into a polling booth dressed like something out a low-budget nightmare might actually be trivializing or mocking the experience of those Canadian women who face regular harassment (or worse) as part of their religious devotion"
mircea_popescu: and capitalizing that shit is a lot more fucking bigoted than saying obama is just a slave put there to do his white master's bidding.
mircea_popescu: what the everliving fuck. closing down "status of women" offices is a fucking must for women's rights.
mircea_popescu: "I know they're billing it as a stand for women's rights, but that would be more convincing if they weren't also selling weapons to Saudi Arabia, hadn't shuttered 75 percent of the country's Status of Women offices, and weren't shrugging off the more than 1,200 Indigenous women who have been missing or murdered in Canada since 1980."
☟︎ mircea_popescu catches glimpse of 2028 when he has to decide whether he goes to nobel ceremony for b-a person or oscar prize for b-a person because hey, assholes don't understand they gotta deconflict schedules for b-a.
mircea_popescu: strangely, somehow, no one seems to notice THAT is the premier, perhaps the only appeal of crypto.
mircea_popescu: "James LaFond—a little prick I never much cared for anyhow—is dead, and I am the ghost animating his tottering corpse." << you know, this is pretty typical schizo stuff and im willing to bet the guy kills someone.
mircea_popescu: shinohai it has a point, too. reddit is fundamentally this, pretending moos are speech.
mircea_popescu: just, not for the future husband she [thinks she] wants. certainly for the one she deserves
mircea_popescu: just like dumbass chick with "i want people to like me for me" and no nudies on facebook IS selecting for her future husband.
mircea_popescu: they just don't happen to be the sort of leaders it [thinks it] wants.
mircea_popescu: in other words, america is building its leaders of tomorrow.
mircea_popescu: she'll get the even more valuable experience of impunity, IN SPITE of a lot of verbiage and to and fro from the soi dissant "legal system", "community" etc.
mircea_popescu: at any rate a damn sight better plan than "i'll go to college and become carrie bradshaw"
mircea_popescu: so basically the girl's plan was to be an activist, and she figured since all the verbiage is "you can't discuss X because you don't KNOWWHATITSLIKE" she'd really help her chances by having a bf off himself.
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.gabrielradio.1:3bf7e21ceb1c0a7bb8345448721b38f00d5ae0de782b9ebceb500d4c72c75008
mircea_popescu: in order to work, it DEPENDS on it. better dakka just guarantees more of the same.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the only problem is that it takes me ~20 minutes to translate one. it maybe takes me 15 minutes to read and fix his, except i'll also get angry. so it's a sort of economical problem.
mircea_popescu: gabrielradio trilema text is very fucking tense, so it needs this intensive approach to work. ya know ?
mircea_popescu: your ennumerations must be balanced, either ennumerate nouns or adjectives.
mircea_popescu: this is broken in at least two places. one of the most x nonsense is bad grammar. the X and otherwyse Y z's is bad style
mircea_popescu: "One of the most ridiculous nonsense passed with pious self-importance by the neophytes and likewise unwarranted people"
mircea_popescu: it's like "radical left" arguing with obama voters. "WE NEED TO MOVE AWAY FROM PROPUDCERIST DARAPIGM!!1" "WHERE IS MY MORE FOOTSTAMPS!!!1"
mircea_popescu: WHAE THINGS DUN JUS WORK I WAS BORN OF WHYTE CUNT IN AMUYRKA
mircea_popescu: "this 10 milimetre long car got great fuel economy and runs on someone's halitosis".
mircea_popescu: are these people off their rocker ? you can't name yourself a hedge fund with under 1 bn just like you can't call a thing a car if it's under 1 meter long.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck is a "hedge fund" issuing stock and who the fuck heard of a 10 mn "hedge fund"
mircea_popescu: so go into drugs, you'll get so fucking tired of shoveling the crap...
mircea_popescu: aha. i just meant, whatever, stick a label on it call it good.
mircea_popescu: it's totally not a case of "if you're willing to put 15% ethanol in there anyway, like fucking hruschov wanted, fuck you and shut up, we'll paint it blue and you can pretend it's fine"
mircea_popescu: and dune is chock full of "worm riding". because yeah, totally.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, retarded buffalo survival hunters imagined trhey're "directing" the herds.
mircea_popescu: once the thing resolved they can hate diesel or beg for it, it's done.
mircea_popescu: if the glut continued, it'd be "fuck you and sniff diesel".