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mircea_popescu: think about it mats : if great wall "can't be had", if the statement is correct, there's something fundamentally wrong not merely with your fences, but with the idea of making one and more importantly with the process that results in this perceived need.
mircea_popescu: wanli changcheng omfg so THIS is how it feels when people use languages you don't know.
mircea_popescu: there's all sorts of ways to make you feel better about it, tho.
mircea_popescu: just like the upside of picking sane girls to fuck isn't "that hot blondie" but "i fucked over a thousand women in my life, most of whose names i don't remember, and yet i never had a venereal disease". that's the upside.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-08-2015#1237221 << upside is massive but hard to quantify. upside is that we HAVE FOUND THE HOLES IN GCC! upside is that we know what to say about linux, and why we're saying it. upside is that we have rotor, and that we know why nobody without a rotor has a chance. upside of a sane approach is never "where it gets you", but always "where it didn't take you".
☝︎ mircea_popescu: we can even have a "usg affiliated entities pay 4x, people not in wot pay 2x."
mircea_popescu: why is the usg so insistent in pushing its "private" agencies into forcing slavery on random people ?
mircea_popescu: there's an elided [just] in there, which the illiterately-literate have no idea about.
mircea_popescu: obviously once rigurous education is abandoned, the whole of society reverts to a "tribe of monkeys" levels.
mircea_popescu: if you draw hearts or explosions or w/e around it, even better/
mircea_popescu: overheard in #eulora : <diana_coman> the middle road is shit
mircea_popescu: 'malignant twerp will level more houses with bulldozer than with spade'
mircea_popescu: roast a fuckjing rabbit take it over or something sane.
mircea_popescu: poor old guy, gets isolated because people are getting incredibly weirder, and then when he tries to break out that's grounds for further isolation ?
mircea_popescu: this was a major thought cleavage, which i noticed at the time, and i noticed that people were actually visibly... peculiar about other things.
mircea_popescu: the societal consensus being at the time that "to the best worker belong the best tools"
mircea_popescu: well, specifically what triggered me was the proposition that "this man that is doing a bad job would do a better job weith better tools"
mircea_popescu: one of the fringes of "intellectual" throughout the period.
mircea_popescu: right after the 90s these "englightened" folks started to pop up, usually looking just like steve jobs
mircea_popescu: but re the languages thing : both ru and cn have ~their own~ idiot matrices.
mircea_popescu: it's rank nonsense, they love it (perhaps for good reason) like you love washington.
mircea_popescu: the notion that people in china dislike their government to any degree is not unlike claiming that there's going to be a peasant revolt that'll shoot stalin', where stalin' = stalin - 99.9% of the killings.
mircea_popescu: ag3nt_zer0 you have to understand that this entire "market" thing is more of a DoS thing than a local thing. there isn't a substantial similarity between ukraina and china that makes both appear in the press you read as "so and so square".
mircea_popescu: phf don't get me wrong, i'd love for it to work. i'd also love for the "not beating kids makes them smarter" and "all education should consist of is encouragement" nonsense to work.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile the top google result for i will pay for your tits is still me.
mircea_popescu: but i liked the part about "he abandoned twitter so is no longer reachable"
mircea_popescu: so the solution remains to plug the holes in the heads. either alf style, with bullets, or else wot style, or somehow unknown yet.
mircea_popescu: it turns out that the sort of people who write good code write it in asm for a z80 or in c
mircea_popescu: phf iirc this theory was variously tried and failed to deliver.
mircea_popescu: "a chity so chic its name even starts with chicloaca maxima!"
mircea_popescu: (usually cheapest here means - just get someone to edit your apache server logs)
mircea_popescu: it's about the same as buying "seer advice". you can pay as much as you want to, but you should buy the cheapest.
mircea_popescu: sadly stitches are not a unit of account, pete_dushenski
mircea_popescu: nothing nbc bought in the past 2-12-20 billion has turned out worth anything
mircea_popescu: apparently obamacare doesn't make the lithium strong enough anymore.
mircea_popescu: is the new owner advising people against trusting the new owner ?
mircea_popescu: from listening attentively to the music and thus prevents the onset of that dreaded thing, thought. For:
mircea_popescu: though it is manipulated from time to time so as to make sure that only light music will come out of it. I know people who will keep the radio playing all through a meal and at the same time continue talking just loudly enough for the voices and the music to cancel out. This is done with a definite purpose. The music prevents the conversation from becoming serious or even coherent, while the chatter of voices stops one
mircea_popescu: The music-and if possible it should be the same music for everybody-is the most important ingredient. Its function is to prevent thought and conversation, and to shut out any natural sound, such as the song of birds or the whistling of the wind, that might otherwise intrude. The radio is already consciously used for this purpose by innumerable people. In very many English homes the radio is literally never turned off,