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mircea_popescu: such a thing is not for sale past what you get publicly anyway, the bar has a list.
mircea_popescu: and a deeply ignorant population which imagines its vague notions of ethics and fairness are worth two shits, mostly through being so useless and inept that they never get to check said in any sort of practice.
mircea_popescu: overdrawn but unenforceable "rights" of the common man, endless trials, complete disjunction between law and commerce, the works.
mircea_popescu: and i don't think i've not gotten scammed for any item i bought or service i hired since at least 1875.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes well i have nobody with an axe to ship there rightnao
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the nsa approach to software issues is not "how can we fix this" but "how can we pretend this is fixed while really we can just keep it in sleeve for later because you never know". fnargl through and through.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i<asciilifeform> only swept under carpet << of course.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform also im pretty sure power didn't actually fail. derpy kids doing things to fix things etc.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but in no small part (to answer punkman's q) this experiment is interesting to me specifically to see how well things do in cramped spaces.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "how much cpu does it have available while floating 50 blocks behind"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i read it b4. iirc we had it in chan even
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform can you measure exactly how much it is impacted ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: yet, to stay in the same anecdotal universe, whatever the шарашка proves about the fundamental worthlessness of "intellectuals", the vory/suka dispute prove that man is still not chimp.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, horse medicine works to some degree on some people.
mircea_popescu: it works great to distinguish chimpalikes aka ciumpalaci.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, go, write "a lisp such that any other man would see the wisdom in it and b e able to use it to whatever purpoise without bothering to learn it, or even read his own code"
mircea_popescu: except in places (like shown by this experiment) where he does.
mircea_popescu: for all you know he picked from the wrong chimp country.
mircea_popescu: so no : i am not rawl's "any other man" and so very much less am i some derp's three dozen chimps.
mircea_popescu: and it is not about "the effects". it is abour social organisation, which is supposed to be a culturally normated activity.
mircea_popescu: how do you figure chimps are representative ? why not go ask the ruminants of the fucking plains.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i can conduct an experiment where i get together six poor africans, who then proceed to get drunk and be stupid, and say "lo! this is man" and you'll say "gtfo these niggers out of hewre, they're unrepresentative".
mircea_popescu: historically various accidental constraints made the construction of one's ideas vulnerable, and he ended up sharing some part with the mob
mircea_popescu: and so everythiong the common man has must be taken from him, right now.
mircea_popescu: for everything the common man "has" is a) not his good property and b) acquired by him through some osrt of redistribution or other
mircea_popescu: this discussion made me intuit a strange sort of reverse-marxism.
mircea_popescu: ape may steal from man ; but man can not steal from ape. everything man takes from ape is glory.
mircea_popescu: or for making it impossible for the lot to exert any further control.
mircea_popescu: "bitcoin started with unnamed guy, then essentially vanished. except contemporary idiots using "blockchain technologies""
mircea_popescu: (/me is still unpersuaded anyone involved in lisp to date isn't an idiot)
mircea_popescu: this is actually a perfectly legitimate reason to take things from idiots
mircea_popescu: intuitive impression to the contrary notwithstanding, values do not contain their own definition.
mircea_popescu: for that matter setting a rate of flow gauge (like say a tap) to "4" is not in any sense similar to setting a wallet to contain "4". it's more alike "4x", really.
mircea_popescu: if i want you to set a vector to "4" do i mean 4.0, 4.0, 4.0 ? do i mean 4.0, 0.0, 0.0 ie the 1st invariant ? do i mean 4.0, 1.0, 1.0 ie the 2nd invariant ? do i simply mean 4.0, normal, normal ? what normal ?
mircea_popescu: seems to me by the time i dun know anymore how to fill the something with water i have a problem more serious in there.
mircea_popescu: for the record, /me holds the above way above theft and rape. it is the sort of intellectual dishonesty that should result in being drawn and quartered.
mircea_popescu: in point of fact, if the writing part's the big problem, one's clearly not thinking enough.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: really, alf proposed a half truth when he said that if handling the mechanics of signing are the major time eater, one's clearly not doing enough work with the patches.
mircea_popescu: which is why "a life free of conflict" is such ridoinculous contradiction in terms.
mircea_popescu: you can't really have anything even resembling homeostasis in systems without contrary forces.