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mircea_popescu: anyway. magnetic bottle exists, there's no fucking excuse. not like any sort of quantum leap is required. just index and miniaturize.
mircea_popescu would like to say THAT web2.0. the proper one. "cube webpages"
mircea_popescu: none of that fake "3d in 2d" bs. actual 3d display. i need an[other] electric car like i need another hairdo.
mircea_popescu: they can use magnetics to create tiny refraction surfaces in mid air
mircea_popescu: i want a 1 cubic metre display. dun care so much about dpi
mircea_popescu: ascii_field for proper graph display. imagine mike's wot graph in 3d.
mircea_popescu: all this "2d view of a 3d world" shit is for the birds./
mircea_popescu: what i would like is if they stopped dicking around and made holo displays already
mircea_popescu: but the only comfortable position for keyboarding is sitting
mircea_popescu: and if you have to check out a poem ? drop back to desktop ?>
mircea_popescu: when all is said and done, "the people themselves" do not want a computer but a tv set.
mircea_popescu: in fact... that's imo the driver behind "smartphone" (tablets y compris) : here, have this lighter tv screen you can shove in your ass.
mircea_popescu: herp. so he's mooching bw and everything from maryland ?
mircea_popescu: "oh,. bitcoin needs larger blocks, because to compete with paypal's three week poayment processing!!1"
mircea_popescu: and "potential new users" are going to "leave ship". << lol davout
mircea_popescu: anyway, the only good thing coming out of that parade (an event imbecile "world leaders" are not going to - and should be hanged by their constituencies for not having attended, if those constituencies weren't made up of retards) is that xi specifically mentioned discrimination as bad. this is an improbable stance for china.
mircea_popescu: (this is also why socialism is so keen in inventing imaginary enemies. the drain on resources faux "wars" with imagined boogaboos impose is bad, but not terminal. the advantage of an enemy that can never actually come in and defeat you, for lack of existence, is unparalleled. and so it goes.)
mircea_popescu: or for that matter the numerous setbacks and defeats of the us rebel army up to and including valleyforge.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile if the country is run by fit men, defeat only strengthens the resolve. a fine example are the early roman republican defeats, which merely served to raise more army behind the senate,
mircea_popescu: socialism doesn't take defeat well the same way crappy software doesn't take failure well.
mircea_popescu: exactly the same is the situation in politics, which are throughout software. if the country is run by unfit men, which is the very definition of socialism, the fundamentals are ipso facto rotten. everyone knows they are rotten. the only reason things carry on is because "well, it works", ie, it hasn't crashed yet. once it crashes, that's it, off to the scrap heap.
mircea_popescu: thus a is a "minor bug" and b is a "we have to refactor".
mircea_popescu: "the average joe" does not belong above ground, either.
mircea_popescu: "Will there ever be a point in time where bitcoin will be so easy to use that it won't be intimidating for the average Joe?"
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller plox to not import multiple versions of the same stupid into ba thx
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller more or less in the manner picostocks still exists.
mircea_popescu: Suppressing U.S.-mandated seat-belt warning tone << holy shit that rules.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller infinity, who would want to use a private stock exchange that has a proven track record of everything.
mircea_popescu: "Features that make CockroachDB unstoppable What a database needs in 2015" << fuck that nonsense, what's the year got to do with anything.
mircea_popescu: "The fact is that the economic growth we had in the last quarter was in line with expectations. Of course it bounces around from quarter to quarter but it was in line with our overarching expectation." <<< bwahaha who is this ignorant twerp. he looks like an indigent and speaks like an indigent, too!
mircea_popescu: you can ignore it all you want, it'll ignore you right back
mircea_popescu: one sad, sad year, when the elevator won't start anymore
mircea_popescu: i imagine the grief of couples in that building you know, they move in as 20somethings, can take it together
mircea_popescu: one of those old style things you see in 1950s french movies.
mircea_popescu: in other news, i was today in an elevator which insistently stated that max weight = 150kg
mircea_popescu: punkman : get a plumber's snake, a rag and gasoline. affix the rag to the bit, soak it, light it and shove it in as far as you can reach
mircea_popescu: not too hard to make your own disposable cloth diapers anyway. just buy some cheap metrage and cut it up.
mircea_popescu: disposable, for the record, is in no way bad for the environment. it consists of mixing celulose pulp with human excrement and burrying it. this is a much better use than mixing cellulose pulp with pigments and then storing it on shelves.
mircea_popescu: leaving aside all the "need id to buy phone card" nonsense, this is just too out there. wtf
mircea_popescu has just learned that one can't in point of fact get a phone plan in the us that doesn't charge FOR INCOMING CALLS
☟︎ mircea_popescu: or wait, did little miss margerine tub think photochopping is somehow controversial and ima hate a pelican ?
mircea_popescu: how has the adult looking 15 yo girl in the original turned into a retarded looking adult in the "upgrade " ?
mircea_popescu: there's no "directories" in any other sense than key prefixes.