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mircea_popescu: why would i want to crash some lame fat fuck's party ?
mircea_popescu: how are the girls going to run around naked in siberia ? get locals ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know this worldview is how the south got its reputation for cousinfucking.
mircea_popescu: how's my chances on redheads ? what's the oracle say ?
mircea_popescu: they prolly have a secret word for it too, like fags in 1950 ny.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i presumed they were chip-able in a certain manner.
mircea_popescu: i suspect it's much a process like how we'll end up paying 5k for real cpu
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform xbox is genuinely WORTH 2k of today's watered down dollare.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i ran a month or so of a similar thing mostly out of curiosity if this happens. notrly.
mircea_popescu: to the very common "but you gotta play", seen at work for instance by the people who think they HAVE to take a mortgage, or buy a diamond ring, or go to college, or so on.
mircea_popescu: at any rate, this is a very vast thing, it unites the mentioned "when hiring fortune teller - hire cheapest"
mircea_popescu: my reading the magazine above is exactly in same degree and exactly the same kind, "recklessness".
mircea_popescu: in that case, what the guy did was the actual minimal path.
mircea_popescu: also the notion that "anything's an option once all the scripts yield in predictable failure" is hard to maintain
mircea_popescu: but no... they "had to take off", because trained experts, and being trained means not thinking of all alternatives.
mircea_popescu: fuck it, so it runs out of runway, runs through the airport fence, runs out into the fucking street.
mircea_popescu: specifically, the correct move there would have been to cut all engines, engage all brakes (including the chute) and read a magazine.
mircea_popescu: trinque i am not an expert in airflight security, or a pilot or anything. nevertheless, it's my opinion that this is a fine example of what thinking in a box is and what it gets you.
mircea_popescu: previous flight lost an engine foil, concorde ran it over, it cut a wheel, wheel exploded, large fragment of tyre hit underwing, shockwave broke a fuel tanker, fuel gushed out and caught, engineer cut the engine next, at which point they had 2km worth of runway left and needed 3 to abort.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: btw, anyone know the rather epic story of the only concorde crash to date ?
mircea_popescu: and so would you. this entire "give boys letters" thing is dumb.
mircea_popescu: i lived a much better life of the spirit when i lived it among nude whores on sets, and plastic women making a point of being stupid
mircea_popescu: you live in fucking reddit republic and pretend it ends at the door.
mircea_popescu: her. tell me that if you had to share your lab you'd have a problem sharing it with her.
mircea_popescu: because enthusiasm beats anything else nine times out of seven.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i would much rather fuck a plastic cyborg created out of the desire of the short yellow people to fit in with white civilisation than an actual scion of the latter.
mircea_popescu: heh dude wtshit already. nobody cares what "people in the community" etc. bitcoin is fucking money.
mircea_popescu: "They have made good public presentations that only serve to enhance Bitcoins image. Due to factors like these, various ppl within the community will take an interest in their POV."
mircea_popescu: all it takes is me wanting to. which, granted, high fucking bar.
mircea_popescu: anyway - not my fault the concorde lapsed without replacement. imo THAT is the end point of white civilisation.
mircea_popescu: what, not like they don't let him in without conf invite lol
mircea_popescu: teen enjoys geeky show, decides to give herself tits. only thing uncommon is that she had the guts to take control. otherwise...
mircea_popescu: either that or skipping a year. i'm not doing another one in b-a. you've seen it all. literally.
mircea_popescu: it was originally interesting, "check it out, the kitsch version of us collapse, 20 years early" but eventually one has enough.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: honestly i've been tempted by shenzen for a while now.