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mircea_popescu: so you know, if you decide you hate it then you couldn't possibly (in this worldview) ever learn anything from it, or even examine it critically.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the root is, i suppose, the unwarranted expectation that choice predates existence, and that it necessarily is (not even by god's grace or anything, but immediately) accessible to "thinking people" which the subject will always see himself as. consequently, given that choice predates existence, and given that it is necessarily accessible, it then follows that one may only be informed by things one approves of.
mircea_popescu: ironically, half the time this happens in response to someone asking b-a to stop being so radically self-centered.
mircea_popescu: well, the role of b-a in most people's lives at this point is i suppose this critical if at times forcible examination of mental habits and automatisms they hold dear unexamidely.
mircea_popescu: such as you know, things written by english native speakers.
mircea_popescu: as best i can discern atm, a curiosity steeped in burning hate is by far the best approach when dealing with maggot swamps.
mircea_popescu: moreover, and more importantly, other than the "palatable" part, which is entirely your own aesthetic judgement, i'd like some substantiation as to the "nobody gains" part. how do you know this ?
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, it became apparent that they're not kids but actually mentally retarded, and they certainly do not mean well.
mircea_popescu: the chicken scriblings coming after were originally excused under the "they're kids and they mean well" header.
mircea_popescu: anyway. the claim is not that the original code is bad as in, bad penmanship. the claim is that the original code is no good as in, not sane design. this is consistent with a prototype and not particularly reflective on the capacity of the author.
mircea_popescu: they were added by you (ie, hearn), and by gavin and so on.
mircea_popescu: it makes very little sense to actually bother even trying to get the fine shit alligned
mircea_popescu: the big problem intel faces is that in a world where you can get a billion dollars for free just for being where the pellet landed in iraq,
mircea_popescu: ascii_field good. i still can't get my nodes to eat the block in question.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell gavinandresen how's the moore law coming along, shithead ?
mircea_popescu: should insta-ban a node sending that, just waste of bw.
mircea_popescu: i don't see that it'd make enough to pay for the servers.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` this is possibly the oldest rule in the book.
mircea_popescu: ironically, the anthropologic record is unmistakingly opposite : black WOMEN have a lot of sex.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, this stupid shit' sapparently a century old.
mircea_popescu: "Nationalistic attachment to the coloured races is usually mixed up with the belief that their sex lives are superior, and there is a large underground mythology about the sexual prowess of Negroes."
mircea_popescu: anyway, 30% tax is what the usians are doing, and there aren't multiple thinkers going in the western world, so.
mircea_popescu: if it imported half that much it'd be in much better a shape.
mircea_popescu: h intellectuals, probably resulting more often from masochism and sexual frustration than from contact with the Oriental and Negro nationalist movements."
mircea_popescu: "(iii) COLOUR FEELING. The old-style contemptuous attitude towards 'natives' has been much weakened in England, and various pseudo-scientific theories emphasising the superiority of the white race have been abandoned.[Note, below] Among the intelligentsia, colour feeling only occurs in the transposed form, that is, as a belief in the innate superiority of the coloured races. This is now increasingly common among Englis
mircea_popescu: hey, how's greece two days after everyone stopped talking about it ?
mircea_popescu: hanbot so this is 11 for the little bit turned into what,
mircea_popescu: i think they muyst have meanwhile figured out the "less head more butt meat, stupid!" design principle.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform minigame is slowly turning into an all girls outfit
mircea_popescu: because the locals don't have an army and happened upon a huge shipment
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel pretty sure was one about costa rica cocaine being ferried off by us coast guard by the cruiser
mircea_popescu: harvard has a lot better sense than to buy the toxic spew of its own "start-up culture".
mircea_popescu: people with less than a million liquid are not in any sense anything but the shoeshine boys and shop maids investing their nickles and dimes, which famously made carnegie quit or who was it
mircea_popescu: the elephant in the room is that ten thousand today are not worth a hundred in 1920, whcih is the last release year of most of this stuff.
mircea_popescu: think about it. how much does insurance cost ? how'd you make it so random schmuck with 50 bucks in his pocket can afford one ?
mircea_popescu: decimation obviously, ownership is not without its pitfals. if you manage to burn them down you may have a problem on your hands.
mircea_popescu: decimation i would expect you can get certs for your fund participation. you don't own what they own, just a piece of them.