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mircea_popescu: just like bums drag around broken iphones. they might not work, but fuck, he's practically like almost one step removed from actual humanity. those great fabulous half-god creatures that actually use iphones and actually have professions.
mircea_popescu: the irony being that they exactly got it : these fucktards actually believe gonzalez@gmail.com is "moar professional".
mircea_popescu: "Gmail Para Tu Negocio Ahora podés verte más profesional con un e-mail personalizado."
mircea_popescu: loo kwhat the chinese coolie earned in singapore in the same times.
mircea_popescu: the people in those various times were supported by earnest empire.
mircea_popescu: and that was a rather direct result of "freedom to experiment".
mircea_popescu: i dunnop that there existed anything more offensive than the jewish ghetto of eastern europe cca 1920.
mircea_popescu: maybe part of why they got fucking exterminated like cows was that they LIVED LIKE FUCKING COWS ?????
mircea_popescu: all the coats were gray from all the home heating expwerimentation, and 40% of the population lived off processing garbage.\
mircea_popescu: that was a place where very much such freedom to experiment.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile if you're curious and bored, read the coupla excellent mongraphs re life in london cca 1800.
mircea_popescu: so yeah, if only we could experiment with height i could fuck throats standing.
mircea_popescu: a tall guy that has visible parkinson and a short guy happen in the same restroom
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, you know the joke with the short guy in the public restroom ?
mircea_popescu: and since we're picking on the structure of reality, why not the freedom to be a different height. maybe if you could experiment with height you'd have more pleasant urinatory experiences or who knows what.
mircea_popescu: yeah. except the absence of this freedom is no proof that the freedom would benefit, and your hypotheses as presented are unpersuasive.
mircea_popescu: only ppl with science degrees after 2010 ? my degree is fucking philosophy.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and in yet another branch off this tree, im not even sure your ideas of selection would be a net positive.
mircea_popescu: you're still free to associate. buy a building, let your own slavegirls populate it frere of charge.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, also wheree you live, anything but oxygen respiration is forbidden by biology.
mircea_popescu: but it does not automatically make the emplaced system unoptimal.
mircea_popescu: problem is, they distinguish him by how he doesn't fuck goats like they all doi.
mircea_popescu: a la cecens. they can distinguish non-worthy dogfucker, yes.
mircea_popescu: but at the massive cost of not doing anything worth the mention ever.
mircea_popescu: people like the orcs themselves are eversoslighty better at it\
mircea_popescu: i guarantee you no ustard could discern anything from his own shit.
mircea_popescu: this arbitrary division is naught but naivite in a wrapper.
mircea_popescu: while designing a rocket factory that also produces jam.
mircea_popescu: and this is not even fucking paramount or nlc ; and those are jack shit, basically they produce footage, big whoop. try making an atomic dirigible next.
mircea_popescu: modest studio = 6 camera people + 9 or so trainees ; about two dozen fluffers + administrative assistants ; about 2-300 models ; cleanning and maintenance crew ; execs and other suits.
mircea_popescu: even something as tiny as a porn studio will not be served by the model.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> in the old-fashioned, meatspace, dunbar sense. << the OTHER problem with this is that there isn't eno9ugh space in the dunbar-based graph to cram everything you need.
mircea_popescu: it's pretty much the only thing working to starve reddit into submission.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> i hear that not-breeding-them-in-the-first-place also worked great <<< how the fuck are you gonna manage this wonder. so you select a woman. and her spawn will... regress to the mean. of course. and she'll love it anwyay. of course. and now what ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> (where we get 'ninjas wear black') << weren't ninjas wearing black because convention for "not visible" ?
mircea_popescu: the problem is that given a facebook friendlist of 50k imbecile 20something females who, if asked "like to read" and then if pressed are apparently unaware that books EVEN HAVE AUTHORS
mircea_popescu: anyway. the problem is not identification in the sense of this x = the x we know to be ok.
mircea_popescu: your working projector intended for a home was 1k new, their "cinema multiplexo!11" projector was prolly 2k and they bought it on time, so paid 5k or w/e.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> 'dlp' (mems array) with laser illumination. less than 1k usd when it was new. << un minimo respeto por el imbeciliator! argentina no es un pais pobre porque es rico en recursos umanos.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: by face or by post devirgination remains irrespective.
mircea_popescu: <phf> asciilifeform: why did you go with a separate keys folder instead of relying on existing pubring? << more calmly explained, because pgp is marked for death. we're working deliberately towards replacing it.
mircea_popescu: if it were as simple as orc = black we'd have long exterminated the blacks and be living in paradise
mircea_popescu: "oh, forger the hard problems involved while i focus on painting the fence! that'll do it!"
mircea_popescu: you seem to be of the same persuasion of the good folk making "bitpurse.io".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform like what other ways ? you're not willing to spend 12 hours a day beating them
mircea_popescu: then you no longer have the bootstrapping problem you were disucssing earlier.
mircea_popescu: see, the idea being that pubkey gotta be a special category.
mircea_popescu: but these are two diff things, the v sync (of code) and the pubkey part.
mircea_popescu: as intended, every v installation includes a step where user securely populates his pubkey dir.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: mmm i don't think that's either intended functionality or a good idea.
mircea_popescu: to run v in the first place one's supposed to provide a populated pubkeys dir.
mircea_popescu: (which is why i'm kinda chuckling to myself every time alf goes on a rant about teh rent bezzle. sure, it sucks. imagine a world without it.)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the concept of unaffordable housing chiefly exists on this earth to keep women pliable and young derps out of the pool.
mircea_popescu: for one thing, younger. for the other thing, much less of a bitch.
mircea_popescu: why not ? much better to fuck women that need affordable housing than women thart don't.\
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes> the entire operation's profit plan for the forseeable future is to increase the forced obsolescence rate and drive down the number of atoms and fab processes in the whole thing while charging ever more. << and even so it won't be able to keep up with inflation.
mircea_popescu: it hit all the dumb spots, it could stand as a two hour summary of "this is a full description of how these imbeciles are imbeciles"
mircea_popescu: this thing (baires) was an INCREDIBLE collection of the stupideology of argentinians.
mircea_popescu: i have no idea how they imagine the pos digital projector can compete with a 1950s soviet thing that went around the villages to show propaganda shorts.