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mircea_popescu: this is directly contradictory to
how the world works, and specifically because your abstract objects tend to be contextless, which requires too large an expenditure of "meaning" for them to exist.
mircea_popescu: you have politics/current affairs, which are mostly a bunch of who we're calling
the bad things this week, putin "doesn't understand
how the world works" for having dared to humiliate our beloved leadership bimonthly for
the past year, and israelis are whatever and on and on
Namworld: Regulating people usually involve punishment after
the fact, since altering
how the world works isn't really a possibility.
mircea_popescu: no, it's
how the aml crap
works.
world's noobliest bayesian filtering implemented by janitors and congressional aides.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony yes man, that's
how it
works. take dr foreskin : he does something stupid. he's publicly told just
how stupid he is. he moves on to claiming that
THE WORLD IS BROKEN
mjr_: just part of
the group of people who think that they understand
the standards committees and
how the real
world works mjr_: i have to try and get people to shut
the fuck up and open their eyes and see
how the world works BingoBoingo: My hypothesis on why Putin can't understant
how the world works though is that
the world just doesn't work because it has no benefit from doing so.
mircea_popescu: i guess may account for why putin "doens't understand
how the world works".
antephialtic: and to that I say, that's just
how the world works dub: meh its too hard to explain
how the world works to someone thats never had a job
cazalla: cads my point is this, a bunch of black teens driving around in an 82 corolla (thinking it's a 64 impala) blasting some rap music is going to attract
the wrong type of attention, white man was stupid to react to it but this is
how the world works mircea_popescu: i mean sure, i'm convinced he's just some random guy who's been operating on some common misrepresentations of
how the world works mjr_: from my perspective, what survives is what should have survived, a little tautological i know, but that is
how the world works mircea_popescu: into a thread of dicussion where they inform
the presumably mouth-agape site ops of
how the world works.
evoorhees: I mean... all this stuff,
how it
works now, is great for hackers and tech people, but unfortunately
the world will not be using privacy and ITsec when they work like this