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mircea_popescu: is this more jenkem journalism from the jenkem journals ?
mircea_popescu: "the humans sometimes feast on the bird shit". i guess ?
mircea_popescu: they like live flesh about as much as you like birdshit.
mircea_popescu: and the irish fought the blacks for who's gonna polish knob tonight
mircea_popescu: somehow the immigrants weren't the problem back when azns were washing gold miner's shirts for a penny
mircea_popescu: the idea that immigration is the problem is braindamage of the level of thinking the maggots made the corpse.
mircea_popescu: there's no resisting immigration. vienna fell. byzantium fell.
mircea_popescu: there hasn't yet in the history of mankind been a wealth marriage that was happy. and "free immigraton" is notexceptional just because large.
mircea_popescu: because the people you want don't want you, and the people you want you nobody wants.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform for as long as china takes the coupons...
mircea_popescu: which is ~why~ the libertard open border stuff doesn't work.
mircea_popescu: heck, 50% of the 1st generation immigrants return home with the loot, marry and live there.
mircea_popescu: jurov actually plenty of people do go back to afghanistan.
mircea_popescu: and re the myth of the west, there was that trilema article linked from a recent one, "florida and other places".
mircea_popescu: decimation> yeah, it would be interesting for someone to interview people exactly like this: grew up orc, came to 'first world' << ie, half of romania under 50yo.
mircea_popescu: nonsensical gimmicks of the ilk of "stop fucking your sister or else santa won't bringf you presents" and "eat your veggies so you can overpower your sister and stick it in her"
mircea_popescu: but other than that, it's as useful as "wysiwyg" or "point and click" or "just works!"
mircea_popescu: it had its importance selling technology to the retards.
mircea_popescu: imagine if every so often i had to click here to see if there's new lines
mircea_popescu: i suspect this is actually the correct definition of "text" for computing.
mircea_popescu: a world of play-pretend like they're adults and doing things
mircea_popescu: i tell you. there are no professionals left. all children posing for the mirror.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform your idea of nuke plants is more akin to a UP's big boy control hatch. this is not how they work, whole shit's run in java these days. for that matter - remember the recent airbus which had all 4 engines stop because counter smash issues ?
mircea_popescu: (gauss copula, look into that sometime. if you want "pseudoscience that burned the world", global warming's nothing, witch hunts are nothing, this thing ruioned trillions)
mircea_popescu: or my info as to how the entire fucking house of cards came down chiefly bewcause some idiots were doing copula calculations
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> (or even valid in a block) << they are not valid. they are spendable for reasons that have to do with what the protocol says, ie, unintentionally.
mircea_popescu: anyway, re punkman's reddit link - the tards miss the fruit and focus on the pit of that thing, as usual.
mircea_popescu: siemens is "german" in the sense tsipras is "greek" and so on. absolutely nothing to do.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> so it would have to be very clean to justify losing search << technically speaking, needing "search" is a symptom that you've not yet learned it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> can give the 'atoms' electrostatic-style charge, so they repel, and the bonds - 'strain', so they contract << this is actually a pretty great idea. and then run iterations over the thing until stable.
mircea_popescu: <jurov> in these parts most reactors reportedly run on win2k << why not me while at it.
mircea_popescu: do not expect a girl with a collar is actually a slave - she probably thought it looks good for her facebook ; do not expect someone with a pgp key is a lord - they probably were just trying to impress someone.
mircea_popescu: because i suspect you go by ops whereas i go by financials./
mircea_popescu: trying to feed themselves out of used condoms left behind in dark alleys
mircea_popescu: the "industry", such as it is, is fucking google, holding hackathons
mircea_popescu: since then, everyone's just been trying to salvage utility out of the kids' roleplaying
mircea_popescu: possibly the last time anyone did anything for serious with computers was in tyhe 80s.
mircea_popescu: then they went about roleplaying their super-secret-agent kink for a while
mircea_popescu: "hey, woiuldn't it be cool if you could like... encrypt shit ?" "why ?" "so you cxould be like... a secre agent!"
mircea_popescu: and i posit that the entire fucking thing, "from the ground up", is B. all of it.
mircea_popescu: case B : kid sees girl in bar, works up his courage until 3am, eventually approaches her and explains that he's into kinky stuff. which works out, because she always dreamed about being raped, so they meet in dark alley and have some great sex.
mircea_popescu: case A : kid sees girl in bar. waits for moment when no-one's looking around 3am, kloinks her in the head with bottle, drags her dark alley outside, shreds her clothes and her virginity.
mircea_popescu: anyway : there's this entire pretend culture, and it goes very deep. dunno how to properly illustrate it in its meta splendor.
mircea_popescu: i vaguely recall some incident where precisely this happened.
mircea_popescu: orly ? i thought he just dumps code someone emailed him intop the kernel.
mircea_popescu suddenly realised, sometimes last night, that the deep reason nothing works is simply that - all of it was made on a lark.
mircea_popescu: i bet you, dollars to donuts, that they signed it for "wouldn';t it be cool if" reasons. an d the thing doesn't actually work / is not full lengthj /.trivially defeated on some op sec hole or other.
mircea_popescu: it's a case of, 12 yo girly playing a game she doesn't understand with toys that aren't really toys. except online and with boys.
mircea_popescu: not.a.single.entry.on.your.list.ever.hand.any.legitimate.use.for.encryption.