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mircea_popescu: it's like living in
a magical world where all poisonous mushrooms are required by unyielding laws of thermodynamics to be bright orange and glow in the dark.
mircea_popescu: ascii_modem that one thing making all the dumbass "we're
a ceo" "companies" look alike.
BingoBoingo: <ascii_modem> cut-throats from
a mythical (but loosely - nk) land are sent to usa. they look young and always masquerade as schoolchildren in the later grades. << I've never really trusted Children
ascii_modem: cut-throats from
a mythical (but loosely - nk) land are sent to usa. they look young and always masquerade as schoolchildren in the later grades.
ascii_modem: half your population must reside abroad under fake identities << see chuck palahniuk's hilarious 'pygmy',
a tale about precisely this
mircea_popescu: which is kind-of why the woman was so appaled when she discovered shit-for-brains niggerdongs was actually spying on her fucking phone. it's roughly the insolence of
a poodle biting
a bulldog.
mircea_popescu: "And so, to make sure that their efforts to provoke
a large-scale, hugely destructive, festering conflict between Britain and Europe fail, Europe would do well to set up an anti-Britain within Britain."
mircea_popescu: "They took
a Slavic, mostly Russian-speaking country and spent billions (that's with
a “b”) of dollars corrupting its politics to make the Ukrainians hate the Russians."
mircea_popescu: it only appears as
a soup because their head's barely functional.
mircea_popescu: what is this thing where faux intellectuals look at the soup of symbols their destructured intellects float aimlessly through as
a sort of primal matter to be cast into random shapes ?
mircea_popescu: "• When the British got tossed out of their American Colonies, they did all they could, using
a combination of import preferences and British “soft power,” to bolster the plantation economy of the American South, helping set it up as
a sort of anti-United States, and the eventual result was the American Civil War."
mircea_popescu: 4. mandatory sex ed for all women. if you're not
a vamp by age 16, you're pigfeed.
mircea_popescu: Overand: per bitcoin.it wiki, transactions are about 500bytes, running at 7tps, so that';s ~3500 bytes/sec or (humorously) 28,000 bits per second <<< not the right math.
a block is at most 1mb and there's supposed to be 6 an hour.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: there is
a school for that? <<< one of the best features of b-
a is its potential for culture shock.
mircea_popescu: adlai: fwiw, assuming that the fiat parasite sticks around in some form or other, i'd rather have it operate
a single UBI program than dozens of badly-coordinated welfare axes << this is not unlike saying that if computer gaming sticks around, you'd rather it consists of one single game.
mircea_popescu: decimation: kakobrekla: if your bosnia link is true, it strikes me that the most important thing to have in
a 'shtf' situation is alot of people on 'your side': family, friends, etc <<< it's pretty accurate. there's no doubt in my mind the guy has first hand experience (ie, is not an internet poseur)
mircea_popescu: as clemens aptly points out, aunt polly is
a sucker for the "repentant" sinner.
mircea_popescu: ;;google "come with
a broken spirit! come with
a contrite heart! Come in your rags and sin and dirt!"
mircea_popescu: "Money soon became worthless. We returned to an exchange. For
a tin can of tushonka (think Soviet spam), you could have
a woman. (It is hard to speak of it, but it is true.) Most of the women who sold themselves were desperate mothers."
mircea_popescu: let us not get into shape but instead sit on the couch and wax poetic about what men should be doing and what the definition of womanhood is ; let us not have
a clue nor try to get
a clue, but instead wax poetic on what money is and what other people should be doing with it and what it all means.
mircea_popescu: just like that, they happened to be in the way. because wealth is
a sort of rain.
mircea_popescu: by this logic, seeing how the total value of all assets in that city is probably south of
a billion dollars, my leaving constituted
a loss of more than half its wealth
mircea_popescu: some years ago i went to timisoara, which is
a tiny city in eastern europe, and fancies itself important but really it's
a sort of romania's pittsburgh.
mircea_popescu: and velocity of money never happened. and understanding consists of daydreaming, and everyone's the same and random nitwits that never killed
a man are now allowed to make moral judgements
mircea_popescu: if someone sent 10mn btc to the black hole, we'll all be even poorer as
a result. because reasons.
mircea_popescu: "You begin to wonder if you should feel guilty taking all this money from the poor Congolese — who are now (you must conclude) even poorer as
a result." << because that's what money is, right ?
a fetish.
decimation: yeah, america has
a pretty strong tradition of 'history doesn't matter, the world is getting better, we are an outpost of the future, etc'
mircea_popescu: also known as
a whore bath in the rest of the world, except joe squarejaw has never heard of the rest of the world.
mircea_popescu: but no, this never-ending american exceptionalism, where if they never wash baths don't exist and joe squarejaw invented "humidification", this process whereby you dab parts of yourself with
a wet cloth.
mircea_popescu: if you're going to live in
a house, it's generally
a better idea to get
a house than cobble together something which, to the best of your abilities, is
a house.
mircea_popescu: that article is the exact equivalent of masturbation, intellectually : it contains nothing that can even remotely be considered
a thought, while keeping the mind spinning.
mircea_popescu: Somers' anguish is palpable, and his catalogue of self-effacing remarks reads like an apology. He heaps criticism on himself, his job, and his entire profession. "Web start-up companies are like play-companies," he laments. Their products are "cheap, fun, and about as worldchanging as creating
a new variation on beer pong."
mircea_popescu: Most of what we’re doing, in fact, is putting boxes on
a page.... We fill our days with the humdrum upkeep of these boxes: we change the colours; we add
a link to let you edit some text; we track how far you scroll down the page.... Web development is more like plumbing than any of us, perched in front of two slick monitors, would care to admit.
mircea_popescu: The piece is
a thinking man's struggle to understand the value of his profession. By Somers' own reckoning, his accounts are out of balance. He's paid handsomely, but the work is trivial. As he says:
mircea_popescu: anyway. it'd have been
a point in
a world pre qe. by now it's like discussing the sow's pubic hairdo.
mircea_popescu: they actually have
a point, albeit
a finnicky one and meanwhile the world fell from under the sort of place where such;d be entertained.
mircea_popescu: what common people have historically called
a psychopath.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic: asciilifeform, do you define inventor as someone who has invented something before ? << i define inventor as someone who is
a) intelligent and b) completely contemptuous of rules.
mircea_popescu: does this guy have not the slightest moral compunction about that one kid ? because why, because 5 million mouthbreathers that wouldn't read him anyway wouldn't see it in
a million years ?
mircea_popescu: but wait! if they didn't pay "the same price" for an immigrant, they'd have to pay
a higher price for
a local
mircea_popescu: yet they do understand enough of you know, basic arithmetic and thermodynamics to see that
a "same price" argument is pure nonsense.
mircea_popescu: but there are these people in the middle, who either because they're young, or because they're marginally educated, or marginally intelligent, don't really find themselves in
a position of serene immunity.
mircea_popescu: "So they claim it's because they want to drive down salaries. But if you talk to startups, you find practically every one over
a certain size has gone through legal contortions to get programmers into the US, where they then paid them the same as they'd have paid an American. Why would they go to extra trouble to get programmers for the same price? "
ascii_modem: aha, recall naggum's picture of 'thriving perl ecosystem' as, iirc,
a carcass in the sun alive with vermin
mircea_popescu: ascii_modem much like pestilence is
a hygiene problem. sure, it is. doesn't hurt having smooth surfaces tho.
ascii_modem: gnomery is
a cadre problem ( is right word ? )
assbot: Logged on 26-12-2014 19:57:06; ben_vulpes:
a philosophical question
mircea_popescu: "Why do you need to have this pointed out in public after you demonstrate again and again that you do not understand what you are saying, cannot do what you say "is not option", and continue to blame others for your behavior?" could have been removed without loss, for instance. parsimony is
a great approach, especially when dealing with idiots.
mircea_popescu: hm, from asciilifeform's naggum link. "The moralist would not _be_
a moralist if he were willing to abide by and obey the rules he thinks that other people should follow."
mircea_popescu: how about we do something useful. it's been... about
a year or so i've been trying to set yu people up with servers.
mircea_popescu: t anyway, since you seem to be pretty much the balance of still active freenode staff : rather than wasting time on this nonsense of some kid that thinks banal netbios ddos makes him
a wizard (which i think has outlived its charm anyway)
thestringpuller: couldn't you get same effect by spinning up
a bunch of AWS instances and storing data encrypted with GPG key?
ascii_modem: part of
a balanced ( empire-building ) diet.
mircea_popescu: decimation seems
a distinction without
a difference in the context.
ascii_modem: eh it can always form
a dirlewanger battallion.
mircea_popescu: watch us foreign policy around china and you'll get
a pretty good idea of how the war'd go. according to both parties.
mircea_popescu: not only are there ~3 armies it could never touch, but it's getting humiliated on
a regular basis by the orks in the desert.
decimation: in which case, it would make
a hell of alot more sense for the us to be stamping out thousands of f-16s for each 1 f-35
mircea_popescu: "
A woman without her man is nothing had an infinite number of arms"
assbot: Logged on 30-12-2014 04:51:09; asciilifeform: basic rules include: 1) don't be
a loud, solitary point source. anywhere. ever. 2) spread spectrum, frequency hop, cryptographically driven 3) steganographically mix into existing spectrum garbage.
mircea_popescu: t incidentally, how recent are these complains ? vandal seems to have moved on maybe
a week or two ago.
decimation: well, that's the obvious weak spot in
a remote control aircraft
decimation: re: air war attrition << manned aircraft are on the way out anyway, with proper secure comms and
a decent AI,
a robot army of aircraft makes more sense
ben_vulpes: aside from experimentally kicking everyone one at
a time, logging in and finding the culprit.
ben_vulpes: t: well for
a while anyone without
a cloak got ddossed.
decimation: ascii_modem: ephialtes doesnt care abou straightening own back - knows it's
a fantasy - but happy to turn everyone else into hunchback. << "There is, in fact,
a manly and lawful passion for equality which excites men to wish all to be powerful and honoured. This passion tends to elevate the humble to the rank of the great; but there exists also in the human heart
a depraved taste for equality, which impels the weak to attempt to
kakobrekla: yeah you voiced yourself so you are
a faggot but nothing else.
ben_vulpes: unmanned vehicles can pull arbitrary g loads, and be made across the spectrum of capability in
a way that the manned vehicles currently aren't (probably couldn't be, due to procurement processes).
mircea_popescu: but to be
a warlike country that'd require warlike men. and that is not something the current us can support.
mircea_popescu: this plain fact meeting the us' unwillingness to actually fight created
a mirage : the jet fighter that's not really
a jet fighter
ben_vulpes: come now, the obsession with stealth is
a great indicator of how moronic US armsmithing's become.
ben_vulpes: "stealth" aircraft is
a straight up retarded concept.
mircea_popescu: adlai: for the record, i think that's
a shame and
a sin, and that y'all are
a little silly for this << do explain.
mircea_popescu: you're proposing it works to the multitudes, this is
a test of political will.
ascii_modem: i'll say it stopped working when, e.g., pentagon missile is discussed - at
a tribunal, followed by hangings
mircea_popescu: gimme
a break will you, or else ima summon preet the friendly parrot to bar you from referencing stuff happening 20 years ago