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mircea_popescu: GEORGE: Because! Because, as the leader...if I die...then all hope is lost! Who would lead? The clown? Instead of castigating me, you should all be thanking me. What kind of a topsy-turvy world do we live in, where heroes are cast as villains? Brave men as cowards?
mircea_popescu: GEORGE (voice is hoarse from screaming): I...was trying to lead the way. We needed a leader! Someone to lead the way to safety.
mircea_popescu: "We are all now well aware that the authorities will do absolutely nothing to protect citizens or businesses and will dedicated %100 of their resources to protecting the police and government personnel and facilities."
mircea_popescu: if you liked the above bandaid please like and subscribe to the thread!
mircea_popescu: "i'm 30 and my life is over now because i can't be arsed to learn any skills"
mircea_popescu: "Always Unique, Totally Interesting, Sometimes Mysterious" << about 1/4 of all retarded housewife profiles.
mircea_popescu: "we're very butthurt at how bitcoin excluded us. it should not do that. we're important. and the place we left to failed."
mircea_popescu: "the dogecoin derps are experts in what bitcoin should be doing"
mircea_popescu: yeah blockchain's aobut as useful as a suntime umbrella.
mircea_popescu: "Is it saved in RAM anywhere or perhaps in the java?" << ironically it prolly is lol
mircea_popescu: because rather than paying dues where they are due, how about we just steal their history and pretend it's this guy's instead. he's cheaper)
mircea_popescu: (they also blew up bernadotte. who, amusingly, is very much the character schindler's list is based on, except not named.
mircea_popescu: (btw, the lehi/jdf thing above ? nazi ally, originally. yes, that's right.)
mircea_popescu: "we have no answers and are too fat and lazy to move, so let's just agree they will be supplied for free from the ethers as we need them"
mircea_popescu: I bet they've abstracted out the fact that languages are not all that important; they're just the tip of the iceberg of complexity.
mircea_popescu: Now I guess one could argue that those sorts of heroes are what MIT is supposed to produce, but as has been mentioned, this course is not just for CS students. So the real question is, can the CS heroes of tomorrow survive an introductory course in Python? Well, consider that they have probably been modding games since 10, hacking PhP at 12, realizing at 14 they need to learn a 'real' language (C#, Ruby, Python), by 15
mircea_popescu: "The same sort of creativity artists possess, who work with media that are idiosyncratic. It's a different mindset. I see the reddit-gen programmers talk about things on a completely meta-level. To them, MySql is the hardware. Is it a bad thing? Not necessarily. Some of them hopefully will dig down the stack and be the low-level heroes. But that should (and probably can) only be a small percentage.
mircea_popescu: they should just buy it and run it togeoops nevermind.
mircea_popescu: The same sort of creativity artists possess, who work with media that are idiosyncratic.
mircea_popescu: "What creativity can there be when your medium is shit mixed with sawdust?"
mircea_popescu: (and since we're doing historical recovery here : the "shame and war" quote comes from churchill, but specifically - it was in a letter to walter guiness. who was assassinated in 1944. by lehi, which was a sort of jdf of the time)
mircea_popescu: oh, there isn't a word for that so it isn't a thing ? or what ?
mircea_popescu: how many libraries of alexandria has each derpy us university destroyed each year since 1965 ?
mircea_popescu: and then funkenstein wants to talk about "the library of alexandria". because branding.
mircea_popescu: can't even fucking keep an article made by its own employees.
mircea_popescu: someone please explains. "mit exists so that...". fill in.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field this is not even pseudoscience. direct equivalent to "respeto"
mircea_popescu: Eventually, it is utterly hopeless. You stand and try not to lose any of your possessions as the crowd crushes in around you."
mircea_popescu: With time, new arrivals stand around you, generally trying not to step onto your blanket. As the beginning of the event approaches, you find yourself staring into the rather private areas of those who arrived after you, and might even feel a bit of resentment at their impertinence.
mircea_popescu: "Anyone who has arrived early at a general admission event will recognize the feeling. You lay out your blanket, thus marking off a small piece of territory for yourself. The other early arrivals do the same. After a while, you start to feel as though that patch of land is yours by right.
mircea_popescu: the difference between now and then is you didn'tr have a nigger president, derps.
mircea_popescu: "We saw this kind of thing a quarter-century ago, when debates raged over whether commercial activity should be tolerated on the Internet. To those, for whom the World Wide Web and WiFi have always existed, such a question might seem unthinkably naive, but back then the idea of Suits playing in Propellerheads' sandbox was the stuff of epic flame wars."
mircea_popescu: staunch defender ? and here i thought i fucking started the whole thing.
mircea_popescu: this is what mit does, incidentally. "potential engineers". so are you engineers ? no, but we could be.
mircea_popescu: the mark of true potential is when the grid doesn't shake you, but you shake it.
mircea_popescu: the first and foremost function of government : pointing at whose blood must pay for which bytes.
mircea_popescu: there's at least 1k movies that must be kept, and even at the modest 700mb a pop that's 700gb consequently.
mircea_popescu: there's easily plurious gb of music i also similarly want.
mircea_popescu: also ftr, the size of the cd was set that way because a certain bigwig wanted to listen to a certain symphony without interruption.
mircea_popescu: i have more than a coupla gb of porn i shot myself of my own women. and im keeping it.
mircea_popescu: (the summary of the txn for the curious : 4223 bytes, 250000 fee, 28 inputs of which 17 = 1 satoshi, 2 outputs. none of this should be controversial. fix your implementations of bitcoin relay)
mircea_popescu intends to mine 1mb txn at some point, just for the fu factor.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field at least i didn't need a si fab for it eh.
mircea_popescu: suffice it to say, 4kb txn SHOULD NOT have any fucking problems.
mircea_popescu: ie, you put the filter node up, yet it can't be accessed because syn flood. irrespective of its function.