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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.
mircea_popescu: if things moved < 5% it was clear, if faster than that holy blur on a shitstick!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform>had standard lcd. but the latter do not resemble the machines i have previously used having such << speaing of which, i went to a local cinema yest. place tries real hard to be us like. they had digital projector. not only were the pixels visible with naked eye from middle of room, but
☟︎ mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> anyways, the notion that the us courts have the mandate to execute people or have any other stort of effect on the world is long past its sell by date << word.
mircea_popescu: or that there's more examples of this pinnacle of lulz than there are "scientists" drawing breath at any given time.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> folks familiar with usg 'scientocracy' will laugh, but the fact is, the mind-reading box does not necessarily have to... work. to be put in use. << right right. cholesterol is bad for you except its good for you and salt is bad except its good and hey, as long as they got "science" what difference does it make that they're 100% consensused on opposite things every 30 years.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: libtard socialism ftw, needs are respectable wants are criminal so let's pretend like we need shit we must have.
mircea_popescu: it's so badly contorted, for one thing it's anything but a need, for the other why the fuck are you so affraid of me you need to start by lying.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno that nonsense is of any interest rly. ever since ashcroft usg has been putting forth all sorts of spurious claims.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "how about you do some work to justify this dough we're burning through"
mircea_popescu: "humanism" or whatever they call the superset of puritanic socialism.
mircea_popescu: inclusionary writing belongs with stone fucking soup and barn raising.
mircea_popescu: writing is supposed to be fucking exclusionary. this is why it exist : to exclude some people ; and to advantage some of the others at the expense of the remainder.
mircea_popescu: i fucking hate them and i glad they died in a fire, there's nothing either wise or good about this junk.
mircea_popescu: this fucking offensive FOSS/original_wiki brand of "simple clear concise" idiocy is driving me up the wall, today, as the movement's dead just like it was back when the movement was nascent.
mircea_popescu couldn't get through that zimmermann "why i" blabla a decade ago, still can't today.
mircea_popescu: that was a bit ago. and yeah, they did look a little pudgy.
mircea_popescu: "us army wins wars - by first bulding roads in the warzone so the soldiers can get places!"