mircea_popescu: (tl;dr -- alien i ran into knew what latin is, they had it too. latin language universal invariant. hurr.)

mircea_popescu: sure, for life forms that intuitively understand length to stand for energy, period, whatever. is this universally true ? maybe it is, sure. for that matter, maybe http://trilema.com/2011/limba-latina-versiunea-87/

mircea_popescu: "Somewhat fortunately Balsamiq was too successful for that, and Giacomo was forced to hire more and more people. Balsamiq is now being built by 25 members, who service around 0.5M customers and manage 10,000 new transactions a month. All of it generating about $7M a year." << this is actually a model-run business. had nfi mp-style even exists in fiat world, but lo and behold. took 10 years to get to 7mn a year, sustainably. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: Framedragger try diagrams.

mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes seems there's a lot of pressure to succeed at scamming in the us for indian boys.

mircea_popescu: https://logmatic.io/blog/balsamiq-founder-on-building-a-lifestyle-federation-as-a-business/ << irresistible title.

mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes recall the pharma wiz kid ? the one they dekulakized for "how dare you buy things and then raise price on them" ☟︎

mircea_popescu: “We are very excited about this win,” said Bharat Parikh, CEO, AASKI Technology.

mircea_popescu: "Tinton Falls, NJ April 21, 2017 — AASKI Technology, Inc. is pleased to announce that we are one of three Defense companies to win a prime contractor position on a potential five-year, $900 million contract for field support and technical services to the U.S. Army‘s Project Management Office, Unmanned Aircraft Systems (PM UAS)." etc.

mircea_popescu: connectsolutions got aquihired by aaski (usg front, recently got 1bn in pork for unspecified services. primo target for some data liberation, as it happens.)

mircea_popescu: o guess what! http://dijit.com/ is for sale. the domain i mean. in case anyone feels like filling in some forms. perhaps with balsamic.

mircea_popescu: "I have a man-crush on whoever built it. So freaking good. — Jeremy Toeman, President & Founder, Dijit Media" the cool thing is they link. ima now examine a whole pile of these.

mircea_popescu: "Letting you specify behaviors and click-actions would inevitably turn Mockups into a much more complex tool, which is a terrible thing for us: if we want to continue to be the in-between tool, Mockups needs to be extremely quick to learn so that every stakeholder can have their say with an equal playing field." << check it out, they even got the "level playing field" thing. what was the sf thing with the dumbing devices ?

mircea_popescu: anyway, this item is a fine fucking example of very, very sad slavegirls wasting their time "making a product" instead of dedicating those years to worship.

mircea_popescu: https://media.balsamiq.com/img/process_bad.png <<< first item. "no one [knows how to] read [anymore]"

mircea_popescu: i thought camhoes = anything goes \

mircea_popescu: "Your whole team can come together around the right design using Mockups. It's so easy to learn, both clients and customers can use it (for free even), to describe their needs more clearly." [because they are illiterate, and even if they aren't -- can rely on the requisite critical mass of literacy never being reached]

mircea_popescu: "Mockups is zenware, meaning that it will help you get "in the zone", and stay there. Our aim is for you to forget our software is there at all."

mircea_popescu: also, what's the asciilifeform 's meter say ? hyeroglyphs ? diagrams ?

mircea_popescu: should i be concerned that the pure brilliance factory failed to allign the script with the math symbols ?

mircea_popescu: wtf is "balsamiq" omfg it never ends with these idiots trying to make money by doing each other's laundry.

mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes trinque i do think the dude is actually serious.

mircea_popescu: dunno how relevant this is, but anywayz.

mircea_popescu: anwyay, there's a half dozen ppl keep linking reddit. if they switched to linking 8chan or whatever, it'd be that.

mircea_popescu: as if anyone gives a flying fuck what difficulties middle eastern dorks have in going naked down the street.

mircea_popescu: other than that, the whole thing is "ra ra, america!!"

mircea_popescu: anywya, im not reading this pile of garbage ; but from the skimming -- the whole argument is born of ignorance. reddit got its start as a heaven for child porn peddlers who got banned on digg. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: it's a meaningful distinction, if i say "in the prepuce" i dun mean injected into the foreskin ffs.

mircea_popescu: (for the record, since apparently dictionaries are as shitty as always - no, prepuce is not "technical term for foreskin". it is technical term for the space between foreskin and the glans ; similarily, it is not the skin surrouinding the clitoris, ie clitoral hood, but the fold between the two.)

mircea_popescu: i also tried to explain shakespeare and bit a steel girder.

mircea_popescu: and, while at it, let us also point out that i not being the living authority on explaining aristotle to people, my failure to explain to any specified group is not the mother of all proofs.

mircea_popescu: i think your notion of "to explain" may have a lot in common with your notion of "diagram".

mircea_popescu: for the same money you might complain tail recursion can't be explained in any language hn speaks. hurr durr, let them fucking learn languages first.

mircea_popescu: get bigger foreskins ? or stop trying to store oil in foreskin ?

mircea_popescu: nope. similarly pint of oil can't be fit in any prepuce any man carries. what's one to do ?

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but no, greek alphabet and most of greek text extant is understandable. and understood. that dutch can't be arsed is neither here nor there.

mircea_popescu: well apparently i never published the dildos in question. anyway.

mircea_popescu: every queen in the valley of queens was buried with a shelf full of religious artefacts

mircea_popescu: you know this is what we say, about all the diagrams of extinguished authorities ?

mircea_popescu: well yes, in being a diagram, it's meaningless and therefore "a religious artefact"

mircea_popescu: which observation IS A SAD COMMENT on the whole problem, recursively!

mircea_popescu: even more entertaining in context than the finishbed product

mircea_popescu: anyway, the dorks ("scientists! scientific method! just the data! own determination!!1") involved had a whole story of how it's supposed to be universally meaningful.

mircea_popescu: lol. the poor aliens, you know.

mircea_popescu: how can you tell ?

mircea_popescu: come rto think of it, the strange love story between engineers and "diagrams - magical notation that works by itself!!! pity this never occured to anyone before!!!" produced lulzy shit like https://ieet.org/archive/similarpictoralmessage1402784506732038571.gif

mircea_popescu: anyway, there's a whole pile, google image search for "harappan steatite" returns more than i knew / ever saw, so.

mircea_popescu: fair to say no contact with egypt whatsoever.

mircea_popescu: no, these lived in india.

mircea_popescu: you can say "Wtf it is" but not what it's supposed to mean.

mircea_popescu: (speaking of which, the harappan steatites remain undeciphered -- not that people've not tried.)

mircea_popescu: they're gonna sacrifice preet bharara's arsehole to maintain the sun's power levels.

mircea_popescu: whatever, they're too fucking smart and in charge of things and matters to be catholics like "those beasts" of "the dark ages". too busy getting "just the facts" and "drawing their own conclusions" so as to be polytheistic dorks like the aztecs, the harappan, and whatever other tribes forgotten through disuse.

mircea_popescu: this is what i said. or tried to.

mircea_popescu: "the sun was walking down shithead avenue in maryland, and as it sat down at the starbucks it felt a ..."

mircea_popescu: it took however the dumbest generation of narcissists in history to make this astral point personal.

mircea_popescu: the whole fucking thing is that for ~as long as there existed human culture, which is to say the greeks, it was both known, evident, and accepted that the situation of life on earth is precarious, and the party will end.