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mircea_popescu: shockley period americans didn't have much
trouble distinguishing car from rickshaw.
mircea_popescu: "but everyone uses it!" dun matter "but it's really cool!" dun matter "but i really like it!" you're an orc, do
the opposite of your natural impulse because your natural impulse is made of shit. etc etc.
mircea_popescu: this is exactly
the point, and i suspect
the definitional characteristic of orcdom :
the inability
to distinguish science mag from cosmo.
the failure
to comprehend ipad is not nor can not be, no matter what happens,
the
times.
mircea_popescu: why
the fuck do
they
think dollars are an investment in 1995 ? it was a fucking investment in 1913, but back
THEN
they were buying austro-hungarian paper.
mircea_popescu: why did
they
think it's cool a half year after it was no longer worth
the mention ?
mircea_popescu: there;s a reason rms spent his days shuttling from brazil
to liberia or wherever
the fuck "open source" was "really
taking off" once open source was well and
truly dead.
mircea_popescu: point being, by
the
time argentina heard of computers in 2010, windows 95 was just coming out.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform recall
the lulz about
the expired windows on argentina's patriotic pride big screen next
to
the "national
theatre" ?
mircea_popescu: heck,
the whole africa used phone market isn't
there because
THESE FUCKS EAT
THE LEFTOVERS AS A DEFINITIONAL CHARACTERISTIC. but purely as a matter of choice.
mircea_popescu: next
they';re going
to have internet in 1994 and
the ps2 in 1995.
mircea_popescu: they're subhuman for a reason, and
the reason
they're subhuman is exactly
this : BRAINDAMAGE.
mircea_popescu: yeah but it's a little like wondering why
the pollen suspended in water
took a left.
mircea_popescu: wtf is "end
to end encryption" in
the opinion of
that journalist ?
mircea_popescu: "As reported by Motherboard, a September 2016 filing by a Canadian court revealed
that
the Dutch police were able
to decrypt
the PGP-encrypted messages because
the Dutch investigators may have found
the decryption keys on
the seized server itself."
shinohai is a little sad
to see vim as an app
mircea_popescu: that'd be fine employment for what's his name wanna-be da indian. fill
tax returns on ipad kbd for
the rest of his days.
mircea_popescu: that'd be like
the 1983 soviets confiscating communist international propaganda material
phf: we're moving on up, but still no confiscated electronics on
the border
ben_vulpes: !!up aseriousgogetta are you going
to keep joining and parting all morning?
diana_coman: that's precisely my point: I get it
that some 20 years ago
they went into
teaching for
this reason; meanwhile it's so constricted and day by day more so
that ...
mircea_popescu: diana_coman nothing's obvious
to
the powerless.
this is a pleonasm.
mircea_popescu: as always,
the empire is consistent, in its batshit insane sort of logic.
diana_coman: ugh, I
thought it was already more
than obvious
that no power at all,what with all
the assorted "rights" and "child protection" and what nots
mircea_popescu: why do 30yos go around on
the software adequate for
the needs of a 14yo in 1817 is anyone's guess, but i suppose its proper name is progress.
mircea_popescu: it's ~same reason dumb pubescent girls went into "witching". siunce people burn witches, it's clearly JUST
the
thing for a lowly wench with no resources.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman no see, she wants
to have power. because she doesn't. and if you go into
teaching you have power, because
that's why
they keep prosecuting
them.
mircea_popescu: this prosecution is expected
to produce a further 3k shoulda-been-a-stripper enrollments into
teaching countrywide, and at least 50k more useless undergrads signing up for overpriced college
tuition.
mircea_popescu: "we pretend young women going out with young men is a big deal in order
to
thereby prop
the nonsensical fiction
that
taking
the absolute worst job
there is somehow gives bordeline sleeves "power"."
diana_coman: tbh I have no idea why/how would someone go into
teaching at
this moment; my only hypothesis is
that really, really,
they have NO other option at all
mircea_popescu: the notion
that she's in a position of power over some male student is perhaps
the lulziest bit in
there.
shinohai: The creme de la creme
though is ..... "Fowlkes
taught anatomy, physiology ...."
shinohai: To be fair, all her
teeth are relatively straight, so a bit or
two would be most welcome in certain circumstances.
mircea_popescu: “Seventeen years old is obviously older, but at
the same
time it doesn’t make anything right,”
shinohai: Secretary of State Rex
Tillerson: " I didn't want
this job .... but mah wife has me pussywhipped so I did it."
mircea_popescu: an'
trinque's
thing's just
too adorbs. clean snatch jerk eh.
shinohai: "A peer
to peer electronic bug crash system"
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> if i went out with a wrench and
threatened people
to break
their head unless
they pay me 100 pesos i'd break all
the heads <<
That's so primitive. Gotta break out
the Chain
Tongs like a pro!
mod6: Thanks for following
through on
the remainders.
mod6: Thanks for
the update.
shinohai: np mod6 .... I see you got
to
the release before I got
to msg you and let ya know
the other
tests went fine, but I didn't expect hiccups after
this morning's first.
mod6: You will find
that
The Bitcoin Foundation website has duly been updated as well as
the
TRB How-To Steps (nothing more has changed
than
the version number of
the
tarball
to grab for V).
mircea_popescu: mod6 and
they got a printout so fucking crisp and clear ~i~ could read it
shinohai: Plus extra for
the specialist
to interpret
mod6: shit, just about anything serious here will bankrupt
the aveage johnny mcfucksticks.
shinohai: Here,
that'd be more
to
the
tune of $45`000
mircea_popescu: same day in
the sense of, within an hour of walking in.
mircea_popescu: i paid cash for, eg, computed
tomography here. "immense sum" aka $450.
mircea_popescu: by now
the capital goods advantage isn't
that marked for
the us, and
the injuns make barely ok doctors. you're better off with "3rd world".
mod6: For sure. Anywhere has
to be better
than
this hell hole.
mod6: I'll
tell ya, I've never had much prior experience but...
the american health care "system" is about as useless as rubber lips on a woodpecker.
mircea_popescu: the fact she says
this proves she never was a lawyer, never could have been a lawyer.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no,
that's my point, OUT OF
THE FUYCKING QUESTION she can, or
that any one who was actually a lawyer would even consider
trying.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: tucker max comes
to mind, and
there was
the recent copycat we discussed.
mircea_popescu: and certainly all
the "lawyers"
that
tried made a fine example of
themselves.