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mircea_popescu: the masses are the masses. ipso definition they pick the tab and someone else writes the bill.
mircea_popescu: wilbns well obviously ? what's next, the lightbulbs are gonna power the generator ?
mircea_popescu: it's third hand technically. i heard it secondhand myself.
mircea_popescu: well, she believes penises are intrinsically superior to vulvas. she may or may not be right, but she's definitely sexist.
mircea_popescu: then derps go "o hello here is where you apologize" and the answer comes "no, this is where i'd fuck your mother, if her cunt didn't stink"
mircea_popescu: what's the woman's name again, i forget. sounds just like a porn star.
mircea_popescu: the part where 'mainstream' media superiorly dismissed some recent speech while popularity shot up was amusing enough.
mircea_popescu: how exactly does this follow ? it really is the govt's problem throughout, why should the cattle care one whit ?
mircea_popescu: "Even if you don't have any money of your own to scam, your data may well be of use to someone, and having your identity abused can mean trouble for you further down the line. So don't make it easy for the crooks - try to stick to sensible and cautious settings on your social media accounts, as far as the providers allow, and avoid sharing anything you wouldn't want the whole world to know."
mircea_popescu: ". In spite of Zynga's hemorrhaging wallet and shrinking userbase shares still manage to trade on Nasdaq (archived) at $2.64 per share implying a market cap of $2,072,302,357 on a earnings per share of negative 19 cents."
mircea_popescu: "women that had sex with german officers and enjoyed chocolate and stuff in preference of their poor and worthless countrymen were then brutalized by the later"
mircea_popescu: seriously, that's what the Puritan Fathers would do with young women.
mircea_popescu: if only ubuntu weren't fucktarded we could recommend it to noobs.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> there is no reason for '90s bricks. << motorola made them with good enough antenna assemblages you could bash a head in. also the hi q plastics in the casing allowed one to drive mercedes over phone and then use it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: aww, he ran alf out ? i was kinda enjoying the spectacle.
mircea_popescu: "So my new little desktop app, which was quickly distributed to millions of unsuspecting checkbox-ignoring users, would “borrow” their existing Google session by reading their browser cookies, then invisibly “click” that App Store install button for them on apps that were paying us for distribution."
mircea_popescu: "you can take the girl out of the trash, but you can't take the trash out of the girl principally because she perceives all the alternatives are shit"
mircea_popescu: before fucking tv executives tried to turn it into money, the expression denoted the sort of crammed, unsanitary, sexually repressed housing usians lived in post ww2 and brtught up the boomers.
mircea_popescu: difference between humans and lions is that humans chase global maxima
mircea_popescu: yeah, im sure in some soap bubble somehwere picket fences works!!1
mircea_popescu: nobody cancelled thermodynamics and the worst thing you can do with your head is chase local maxima.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field you're roughly doing the equivalent to the "black supremacy" captioning you know.
mircea_popescu: looky here : copybook headings aren't gonna change through human effort. be it positive "har har, we're so good" or negative "har har, i'm a cynicist so this works now".
mircea_popescu: it's unsanitary - to make money you gotta do something useful.
mircea_popescu: ther problem with this is that the actual work keeps being pushed on things that can't actually do it.
mircea_popescu: as a matter of principle - modern finance is mostly a bunch of entitled imbeciles trying for the lowest-effort approach. ideally, if they could just open a sack and money fell in kthx.
mircea_popescu: they'll acknowledge it just as soon as they don't have an option.
mircea_popescu: it IS the exchange's job to punish the incompetent wannabes.
mircea_popescu: it is not the exchange's job to manage people's capital allocation.
mircea_popescu: if you get liquidated, you get liquidated for everything you own
mircea_popescu: ascii_field kinda old & stale by now, but hey, if it's all they got... it's all they got.
mircea_popescu: punkman the entire "online ad" industry is fundamentally predicated on "we can sell bot traffic to idiots"
mircea_popescu: if you find it doesn't match you got a good story for a blogpost.
mircea_popescu: phf alternatively you can just download a possibly dirty key, use it, then once you get to know the person ask them to verify it
mircea_popescu: but the general plan is sound. make the place into public urinal.
mircea_popescu is half tempted to buy github, turn it off and just display that page everywhere.
mircea_popescu: whenever you run across one of these "software projects" in bootstrap/qt/whatever the fuck tell them "This is not programming, this is hogramming. Be a pro, don't be a ho."
mircea_popescu: which btw, reminds me i came up with an excellent slogan to inhibit the cancer.
mircea_popescu: fucking computation has to be special because all the fucktards wanna be important in their own heads and power range around
mircea_popescu: by the time electricity was a central commodity, idem.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field get out. by the time oil was a central commodity to civilisation for fifty years, it was trivial to get an engine deployed to spec. TO SPEC!!!11
mircea_popescu wonders how many people implemented a "textual replacement lisp interpreter" in bash/perl/php just to bother their sicp prof.
mircea_popescu: someone could also shoot a bunch of people by the time they're 29.
mircea_popescu: the notion that "all kinds of stuff over all kinds of platforms" is in any sense locked down's amiss.
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.dbit.1:f9c0e65452e21e9f222864a8a209c03aa4eb166fdcc2e374893948aae2f71014
mircea_popescu: ima meet you in game in a bit give you some starter stuff.
mircea_popescu: lol did you manage talking lobbes into letting you do these by hand ?
mircea_popescu: you manage factories (also ill tuned pianos) not individual women on their period.