asciilifeform: or, less crackpottishly, the idea of ascendancy of the merchant class probably equals capitalism in his head
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i can tell he's using the su version of capitalism (it being, 'what is left when you subtract stone age + feudalism + communism from the cosmic background hiss)
asciilifeform: 'salute the uniform, not the man!' (TM)
asciilifeform thought that this was reasonably well known
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: he's using a ru dictionary, betcah
asciilifeform: they are in violation of gpl and, if anyone were actually concerned with this, would be made to swallow a hammer or whatever it is that is supposed to happen to such hooligans
asciilifeform: where, for instance, is their config ?
asciilifeform: i would dearly love to know what kind of 'open source' the folks who built that archlinux kernel practice.
asciilifeform: 'This might be unduly harsh, but if Atomwise can do what they say, why are they on Ycombinator? Pull up to a big pharma, ask for some minimally proprietary data, and let the computers go to work. It'd be like printing winning lottery tickets.'
asciilifeform: Adlai: starting to warm... << one of the two practically-usable programming -systems- (note, i didn't say 'languages') designed by and for thinking people
asciilifeform: <jurov> these scientists need to be funded, and somehow despite mpex, this isn't happening << jurov has it, unfortunately. we are in the jungle still.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ...the original dispute that created this place... << now i'm curious
asciilifeform: getting scientists to donate to a honor-based system rather than to a socialism-based system will utterly restructure society << funnily orlov is 100% with this program, in his own peculiar way
asciilifeform: but then again it is rather like saying that sewer rats could read reddit (yes, the occasional iPnohe falls into a street drain.)
asciilifeform: office rats can't really have honor << wtf sure they can
