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mircea_popescu: try telling that to as-saffah tho, "i've lost baghdad once a week"
mircea_popescu: for austin, "taking baghdad" once a week for three years straight would have been an excellent outcome : over one hundred allied victories!!11
mircea_popescu: also note that medieval commander answered for permanence. whereas modern commander answers for "accomplishment". very different end goals drive very different behaviours.
mircea_popescu: there are NUMEROUS contests where people in modern bases lose to partisans.
mircea_popescu: not so. there is no contest where people armed with rifles lose to people armed with bows.
mircea_popescu: modern military still suffers of the problem of the panzer 80 years ago : can take any position and hold absolutely none.
mircea_popescu: and it has proven this point in medieval places, such as iraq.
mircea_popescu: so wait. carrying water not being difficult (when one is not obese) is somehow a detraction from plumbing ?
mircea_popescu: maybe this is retarded, but, wouldn't you be better off adding a slight delay, converting to something like gifv on the fly and relying on html5 ?
mircea_popescu: (in the year 72015 in the sense that it can be mathematially proven it won't happen before. but who knows, maybe after. patience little wanobi!)
mircea_popescu: it will converge to sense. eventually. in the year 72015.
mircea_popescu: they never will. the browser process as it exists is almost an exact mirror of the us "democracy" electroal process.
mircea_popescu: making a SECURE browser would kick so much ass... and it is not actually THAT hard. not in the sense that it's not hard, but in the sense that we have an IMMENSE advantage over everyone else, from mozilla to who have you, in the "piss on the world and light it on fire" doctrine.
☟︎ mircea_popescu is kind-of nonplussed nobody called him on the misattribution of proust's work. but anyway, twas "Bouvard et Pécuchet", and the dilemma was 30 or 34, and he settled on 30. you people need to read more literature.
mircea_popescu: flaubert is famous for having declaredly spent weeks trying to decide on a temperature value in cote de chez swann
mircea_popescu: i would estimate less than 1% of trilema words were ever rewritten. it's pretty much first pass.
mircea_popescu: note that im not saying this is a good idea. i'm entirely unconvinced at the moment. but still, fwiw, iwii.
mircea_popescu: i still manage to distribute trilema to people who don't program
mircea_popescu: the only way such a thing will be published will be under a tmsr license. for obvious reasons.
mircea_popescu: punkman generally you need a decent video driver, something that does the equivalent of "print to file"
mircea_popescu: "this femlisp privileges useful work and meaningful abstractions over other verbiage that is a lot more important to us"
mircea_popescu: nd him were worthy of being told about it. for all you know the notions of "progress and science" incumbent in the perspective you propose are so much masturbatory jizz, and in point of fact intelligent people share their thoughts exactly like a comedian shares his routine : to friends, in a social environment, for the same reasons in the same ways.
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-09-2015#1267314 << for the record, ascribing purpose to phenomena is basically animism 2.0, and just as medieval as the other thing. for all you know gauss was not "a bit of a coward", and your p[rojection into the future whebn discussing einstein more indicative of an anachronistic mind than some sort of valuable intuition. for all you know gauss just didn't think the idiots arou
☝︎ mircea_popescu: however, it's fun to fish in a swamp with regexp. when you feel so inclined.
mircea_popescu: ie, the "bayesian" twerps have it all wrong. it's dumbass to try and protect an inbox with regexp, and especially their halfbaked regexp based ai
mircea_popescu: occasionally i fish through the mire, as a curiosity thing. but it's quite different
mircea_popescu: my spamsolution is that all incoming from emails i never sent to is autodropped.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes let it be noted that i had no problem witgh spam, in spuite of not using google.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: esp the "no sane person should ever guess what "obvious" means for anyone else." part.
mircea_popescu: <gabriel_laddel> nano sources: Total Physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC) = 21,577 << win. srsly.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: 50 times a day i go for it on random sites and they're too web 0.5 for it
mircea_popescu: tbh this extended hypertext thing i got on trilema kicks all imaginable butt
mircea_popescu: (ie, that's the point of a game in the general sense : to not let you solve problems the obvious way. (which in this context would just be skill++ or something equivalent))
mircea_popescu: which is directly that, hair on someone else's shit (aka game server)
mircea_popescu: "Singyue star, china". you know, like "rome, wisconsin".
mircea_popescu: "angela", stop being a derp, we need chinese speakers for better jobs than mashing hands on keyboards to produce email addresses.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and, of course, curl. that golden standard of all browsers
mircea_popescu: and no, it's not ok to take the windows route and just execute everything.
mircea_popescu: the lulz being that ubuntu gedit goes "do you want this file displayed or executed ?"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: no wonder they stopped working on search to develop... what the fuck is it they do these days again ?
mircea_popescu: whereas your thing is only maybe shot in the head if found leaking.
mircea_popescu: and if it is fouind behaving like a pipe it gets shot in the head.