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mircea_popescu: fucking subtle undebuggable bullshit, "oh we figured out you're using something of ours, here, it's broken now"
mircea_popescu: anton_osika what part of property do you imagine is physical ?
mircea_popescu: im not even talking one exceptionally well trained gf. that won't cut it.
mircea_popescu: kinda why like bombama, i abstain from "oh china is self contradictory" emissions.
mircea_popescu: i'm a perfectly illiterate chinese scholar, for that matter.
mircea_popescu wasn't there, hasn't seen, everyone on internet ~= dog.
mircea_popescu: all it can conceivably achieve is form minor dismissals in the minds here that hadn't prior bothered to consider
mircea_popescu: anyway, fwiw, i don't readily see a way to construct this "existentialism is fail because its idea of reality precludes itself" into meaningful criticism.
mircea_popescu: but the behaviour would seem to indicate ~you~ think he's easily dismissed.
mircea_popescu: this means you can not use symbols such as "contradiction" without havind properly defined an existentialism.contradiction constructor in the very group.
mircea_popescu: what this means in easily digestible terms among software people is that existentialism is a class.
mircea_popescu: for the following reason : existentialism is the first (and the most logically successful) of the "postmodernisms", taken eventually to their extreme lolzitude by lacan and his unselfaware progeny in the us ("radical feminists" and whatnot).
mircea_popescu: but the quote you presented disqualifies him from discussing sartre.
mircea_popescu: well he totally missed it and doesn't even have the excuse of not speaking the language.
mircea_popescu: ag3nt_zer0 which illiterate murican fail to understand stuff written in french through the age old process of not being able to read it ?
mircea_popescu: hey most intelligent person in japan, that were on tokyofashion thingee, drop a line.
mircea_popescu: the gentlemen investors as well as the armchair financiers may find the 2nd part of ^ interesting
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel come to think about it, you probably want derive source for your masamune thing
mircea_popescu: check it out btw, almost like topless daughter of president
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform why didnt you get a symbolics box yo! then you could have fondly remembered maxima instead of derive!
mircea_popescu: they just had a retarded female-centric social system which fell over at the slightest provocation. like every other case in history.
mircea_popescu: but yes, it was by far the largest affair in the new world. because the new world sucked.
mircea_popescu: rome had been a million for nine or ten centuries by that point
mircea_popescu: fucking ur, at the time of its beheading, was ten times that.
mircea_popescu: anyway, to take that myth away : tenochtitlan had a populatiuon of 2 or 300k. in any case under 500k.
mircea_popescu: what's this mezclado of everything. we talk north american indians you derp about early mexico city, i discuss tech you derp about consumers... different things yo.
mircea_popescu: fuck him, retarded sicilian rediscovering the intellectual products of sheep herding in 1940
mircea_popescu: i do not need nor care to mention some schmucks 5000 years late to the party.
mircea_popescu: if i want to worship some iron age primitives, i got the greeks
mircea_popescu: humanity is a thrown curve. what's ok in 700bc is not ok in 2000ad."
mircea_popescu: "they had cars at the time this fuckwit was living in the dirt. do you understand ? some african monkey thinking they unveiled the sikrits of the universe AT THE SAME TIME as people doing the cern cyclotron is necessarily and by that very fact an idiot.
mircea_popescu: last fucking thing i want to see are some elders harping on about how great the iron age man was. srsly.
mircea_popescu: dude if your idea of wise elders is some twerps who worship the failures...
mircea_popescu: you don't get to go around putting labels on things you know.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform obviously. those showed some sign of sense.