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mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo debian can switch to dead squirrel for all the difference it makes to me.
mircea_popescu: heck, bitcoin got a lot better once it cut itself off from the usgavin & freiends
mircea_popescu: one sufficient reason ethereum will never ever amount to anything is exactly its failure to cut itself off from idiots.
mircea_popescu: dude get fucked, cutting b=a from the imbecillity has improved its ability to do work like 10x if not more.
mircea_popescu: "Cutting yourself off from that community impairs your ability to do work"
mircea_popescu: oh. for a momenbt i thought it was the lord british garrett.
mircea_popescu: but notwithstandingtheir hopes and aspirations to "build businesses", you can't make money renting out the space inside your nose.
mircea_popescu: obviously the ustardian approach to things ("let's steal someshit!") will try and pretend like it's not so, to "build a business" out of it.
mircea_popescu: i might care what i rated x, or what you rated x. but the meaning of these ratings to a third party we don't know is necessarily 0.
mircea_popescu: trinque the major point s that wot is not actually generally available. just like trust is not a scalar,
mircea_popescu: re that article, i would direct the esteemed readership to footnote three in very particular.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck they use plastic corks is beyond me, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: anyway, lassia 2013 malbec/csauvignon coupage is quite adequate sandwich wine.
mircea_popescu: i keep wondering reading that if it's just you know, me lolzing because insider jokes and it's really more like lolsnort,
mircea_popescu: they will continue to have exactly identicalones for as long as uppitty overfed western women get to interact with the real world.
mircea_popescu: im sure all the libertard activists are gonna be all over libtardsplainin' this one.
mircea_popescu: not that it's not readily believable, not that there aren't excellent reasons why it's not in the usg agitprop.
mircea_popescu: just so customers don't look at you while you amble around with your two left legs transplanted for arms ?
mircea_popescu: wouldn't you think, if you decide in your late 40s to switch gears and open a wanna-be wine shop, that you pick up the fucking book of how to pack, do exercises in your garage, something ?
mircea_popescu: anyway. it is fucking impossible to make sense of these people. it's like selective down syndrome, only half the brain is affected.
mircea_popescu: since they decided to pretend like " swarovski crystals" yes.
mircea_popescu: then he packed them. he packed ONE in about a cubic foot of corrugated cardboard, sat the other bare next to it. just like that, in the bag.
mircea_popescu: i bought two champagne flutes of actual genuine bohemian glass (i tested, couldn't believe either)
mircea_popescu: moving on : he can't fucking pack for the life of him.
mircea_popescu: then, the guy can't work his fucking machine, takes him longer to input my economic activity into his fucking compuer than it took me to engage in it.
mircea_popescu: 25%, fancy that. clearly visa is such a challenger for bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: i go in, i want to buy stuff, i select a decent half dozen. i get TWENTYFIVE OFF for paying cash.
mircea_popescu: dude this country... so there's a nice wine shop, trying you know, to be upscale.
mircea_popescu: davout they don;'t have much roquefort here, unfortunately.
mircea_popescu: assbot> [upon reading about it on trilema,] Navy Diversifies Ships' Cyber Systems to Foil Hackers - IEEE Spectrum << FTFT.
mircea_popescu recalls "specialty ink" was more expensive than "double the run"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, the "back then" comment is that i'd be much surprised you can find sanely priced layflat process anymore. because yes, mass production needs the mass.
mircea_popescu: mike_c he didn't know you can rate in pm, most likely.
mircea_popescu: back then it wasn't even fucking expensive, iirc it cost ~25 cents per
mircea_popescu: all that's pod and if you inspect the covers you'll see the difference between layflat process and pod covers.
mircea_popescu: it died with the death of the entire publishing industry (actual publishing, ie, putting ink to paper. not predend publishing, aka editing newspapers etc)
mircea_popescu: actually in the early 2000s there was some effort on the part of mfgs to support latex
mircea_popescu: but you know, machine shop ps. postscript-with-quirks.
mircea_popescu: it may not be the last web pressed fiction offering in the us, but it won't be far ahead of the last i dun think
mircea_popescu: a) the printer can't use latex ; b) self published generally means, PoD and a sharky editor that fleeces the hopeful. this was actually printed on web press, so in this sense everything else printed hence is a lot more "self published" than asylum.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, did i ever tell you i did all the typesetting of that thing myself ?
mircea_popescu: they'll keep trying. what else is there to do ? compete with pete in pr ?
mircea_popescu: well so i got your email but apparently there;s still someting wrong because it's all garbled and what is this "-----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE-----" stuff.
mircea_popescu: either that or they didn't actually change it until the 3rd.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the reason this went by unobserved for ~20 hours is that a) internal mail still worked, obviousyl, and b) enom decently adds its record with priority 10. there's a bugfeature apparently where some relayers/dns servers prefer higher priority records even if older.
mircea_popescu: mk we should be back in business. asciilifeform mind remailing me just to see this goes through ?
mircea_popescu: yes cuz within the 27 days. they only charged me 8.5 or so
mircea_popescu: they do however have a 27 day grace period on top of the 5 day grace period etc.
mircea_popescu: in other unrelated news, namecheap wants 200 bucks to renew your expired domain
mircea_popescu: if you imagine email has any sort of security you're nuts.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this is a psa/reminder that in point of fact there is ZERO security wrt email. i, or you, or anyone bored one evening can hijack a mx record, read all teh inbound mail etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's kinda what was wtfing me, what, i don't paste enough of inbound spam in here or wtf is their problem.