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mircea_popescu: for that matter, disk is moving to be ram. and ram is sync.
mircea_popescu: if a lisp lisps in a ioless forest, has it still lisped ?
mircea_popescu: actually it's quite possible the eventual b-a distribution is a sort of lisp "java machine"
mircea_popescu: the source matters first and foremost. just like you cant have "a message" without first having the key to decrypt the asc with
mircea_popescu: and no, the "opinions" of tim swanson are NOT opinions. because no wot. and so fucking on.
mircea_popescu: and no, promises to pay from josh garza are not bitcoin
mircea_popescu: "oh, recognition has ocunter-productive effects". no. perelman rejected the recognition you were offering BECAUSE IT CAME FROM YOU
mircea_popescu: just like i wouldn't take a nobel on the basis that i do not wish to have the shiot they gave obama.
mircea_popescu: so no. rewards reward. being associated with the refuse of white civilisation does neither reduce to that, nor stand for it, nor is a basis of a conclusion. of course nobody sane or thinking wishes to be associated with the filth.
mircea_popescu: the shit the puritan us does for "rewards" is NOT the statu quo. it is just the retarded, intellectually bankrupt, morally offensive charicature of the world the usian puritans came up with.
mircea_popescu: "The recognition that rewards can have counter-productive effects is based on a variety of studies," << it is strictly based on a felonious substitution. it is exactly like saying "sex can be unpleasant for women" on the basis of the sex we practice being very violent rape.
mircea_popescu: i am apparently unfamiliar with the sfs of your home world.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> trinque: actually 'lisps' happen because the alternative would be a civilization that doesn't leak. and we don't have one of those to kick around << amusingly enough, re the earlier dog discussion : dog cunt seals, for this reason.
mircea_popescu: it's basically an implementation of racism. the presuposition being that the color of the skin conveniently summarizes the abilities of the thing contained in that skin
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i find the proposition that "version numbers" are any sort of program signal utterly retarded.
mircea_popescu: "your approximation of pi fails on every single point!111"
mircea_popescu: he writes these posts in the full knowledge that they'll be like... "NONE OF YOUR DIGITS ARE RIGHT MATE!!!. it's not 4, it's 3. not .0 but .1. not .x0 but .x4. not .xx0 but .xx1. not .xxx0 but .xxx5. etc.
mircea_popescu: i am kinda amused by pete's fundamentally tragic figure, btw.
mircea_popescu: not unlike trying to approximate pi on the basis of fortran four.
mircea_popescu: much like bitcoin finance is so slippery, even for the best financial minds.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nonstandard stuff is nonstandard, disruption is disruption. the bitcoin (tmsr~) management model is simply difficult to grok
mircea_popescu: what measures could they be ? shift the active from this to that, therefore disrupting this now ?
mircea_popescu: same thing, it'd seem. "our enemies", ie, sloth and stupidity, have disrupted our webcomic. LET US TAKE MEASURES!11
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski as an exercise for you : what is the difference between the disruption caused by the absence of the comrade joke webcomic, which nobody has started yet, and the disruption caused by the absence of x service, which equally doesn't exist but at some point did ?
mircea_popescu: set in a faux soviet russia very much like present day us
mircea_popescu: Comrade Joke would be an excellent idea for a webcomic
mircea_popescu: italians only woke up to the model a half millenium later, but basically doing the same.
mircea_popescu: spend persia's money, spend rome's money, spend turks money, spend british money, spend usian money, they will spend someone else's money.
mircea_popescu: the greeks have exactly zero incentive to do anything other than "housewife" and haven't, for ~2300 years now.
mircea_popescu: it's going to simply leech money off a different husband
mircea_popescu: williamdunne no dude. greece has the african scam down pat.
mircea_popescu: actually... nevermind. my burgeois mentality betrays me.,
mircea_popescu: cum's the tastiest thing i nature from what i hear, nobody hunts the cock.
mircea_popescu: The Most Serene Republic Of~ << this sounds great i gotta say.
mircea_popescu: ftr, there is no serious evidence as to the exact fisiology of vaginismus either.
mircea_popescu: innervation driven muscular spasms blocks blood egress
mircea_popescu: (amusingly enough, romanian even has expression to describe this in man - "s-or catelit" ie, they've doggied themselves)
mircea_popescu: think of pc as "vaginismus that declared while guy was inside"
mircea_popescu: but very related. a spasm is always at the root of both
mircea_popescu: (because of the tearing, vagal never innervation makes the smooth muscles over-reactive)
mircea_popescu: (btw - never ask virgin to clamp down on you. it's a little discussed fact that vast majority of penis captivus cases come out of something lik that)
mircea_popescu: seems you've fucked that hole into some looseness by now...
mircea_popescu: for that matter, people also need self-esteem. i'm not about to "provide" it for them, in vacu-sealed packages. and they need to hunt, which does not reduce to "i'ma let a half dozen naked girlies loose in their room see what happens". that's how rich people destroy their children.
mircea_popescu: much like tests in school select for and breed test takers.
mircea_popescu: because the only thing it does is select for and breed rats.
mircea_popescu: yes, but the deliberate design of incentive structures is a bad idea.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: just not what this thing's supposed to be, in my dreams.
mircea_popescu: i don't see why i'd want to have an equivalent of the mcd supervisor, calling people at home to remind them they work.