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mircea_popescu: about the same as between the calcutta beggar and the pufferfish
mircea_popescu: there's a lot of difference between the mild idiocy of hearst and the down syndrome of "ft alphaville" etc
mircea_popescu: by now they're reporting nonsense out of a whjolly imagined pseudoreality
mircea_popescu: can these gawker-clones be any more fucking retarded already ?>
mircea_popescu: never have to wonder either because you know or it can't happen, but never have to wonder.
mircea_popescu: the notion that you are anything different from the calcutta beggar may be contemplatef IF and ONLY IF you never have to wonder what'd you do in calcutta.
mircea_popescu: and you don't "compute the dollar equivalent value" of non-dollar things, because you're not trying to recreate the bezzle.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field seinfeld has an episode about this fundamentally female method of authentication ("i always wanted for him to drag me by the hair in this alley and stretch my anus"). elaine explains that "Cause if we're dating, what everyone saw was just a beautiful moment between two lovers"
mircea_popescu: god help you if you start factchecking anything he says. very yarvinesque habit this
mircea_popescu: i vaguely recall this, like i vaguely recall his being the sort that's "correct in the broad strokes but entirely out of small change" as the expression goes.
mircea_popescu: iirc baseline is a dollar a day, so... there's his lifetime income
mircea_popescu: tho... didn't he just beg a few k's recently to buy himself a new mayo dildo or something ?
mircea_popescu: yes they understood that you can send communication over wires or over waves. but they did not understand what they were doing was "sending communication" in these terms, or in short they were speaking in prose but unaware of what prose is.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: now we understand that retrospectively, the chord in phones is not a requirement but an anachronism, and we expect everything be available as wired or wireless at our option. but the wired/wireless dichotomy was not even meaningful to bell, or marconi.
mircea_popescu: and consequently this whole story is moot other than for the similarity with the past. it took the magical box allowing you to talk to people over the ethers a few decades to arrive starting in the 70s, or a few millenia to arrive starting pre caesar. in the interval, cellphones were mostly magic rings.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: yes, that so far is right. the thing it fails to account for is that roads create traffic, not the other way around. it's not need that creates advance, as the idiots writing schoolbooks claim. the other way around.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-06-2015#1165957 << this is you know, like saying that "printed matter powered education is nonsense, it costs more to write the infolios than an entire campus of ivy league's worth". or, for that matter, "it takes more work to program a sound card than it takes to think through all the problems humanity has thought through so far".
☝︎ mircea_popescu: (and similarly prop delays are an empirical phenomenon, cheaper to measure than to make a new chip)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i am not for a moment arguing against the closed turdness approach ddram is wrapped in
mircea_popescu: i didn't stomp all over their stupid faces those were different faces of different anon derps. this time it'll work!!!
mircea_popescu: no wait, that must be wrong. it was... oh... uh... iot was a DIFFERENT REDDIT!111
mircea_popescu: meanwhile reddit iirc was rabidly "bitcoin must have endless blocks to be the only currency".
mircea_popescu: i thought we were the only ones left that actually believe there is a place for scrip like usd & the rest of the fiats, doing roughly the job of movie tickets and coffee coupons
mircea_popescu: These guys believe, without a trace of irony, that there will someday be no other currency than Bitcoin"
mircea_popescu: "qntra.net is a rabid bitcoin maximalist blog, run by one of the permanent fixtures in the #bitcoin-asshats tribe.
mircea_popescu: like some never grow out of the other infantile deformities.
mircea_popescu: nah, all children are born with flat feet among numerous other diformities. some never grow out of it
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (and the original reason high heels were invented. if the girl's properly heeled, you can't tell)
mircea_popescu: drive fast die young leaving a wholly pierced foot sole.
mircea_popescu: something like that. prolly phrased by original author more in the vein of "i jus dun care!11"
mircea_popescu: i know girly doing that number'd pretty much look hot regardless. but the straight me thinks it's rather disqualifying for a man.
mircea_popescu: let jurov never say i don't have anything in this vein.
mircea_popescu: i just saw "love me or live me" last night. story of fucking america retold as being being built by a sucker labouring atop a dry cunt.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if it's valuable, it's pretty sopping liquid alright
mircea_popescu: i remember some guy paying a lot of money for that sort of thing
mircea_popescu: nobody ever gave a shit. least of all the girly in discussion once she's 17.5
mircea_popescu: "oh in order to put up with what my mother puts up with i will want blabla"
mircea_popescu: the notion that future you asks past you anything at all is very 16yo-ish female in kabul sort of thought. it's not how it works.
mircea_popescu: i wonder if aiming to be a spherical chicken makes one transfat ?
mircea_popescu: yes, the best dreams start with a twisted version of reality.
mircea_popescu: that's the exact problem in discussion here. you're freely mixing cartoons and footage, for a very lsd-looking example.
mircea_popescu: did you or did you not say 10 sqkm opaque bubble, and is it or is it not 15yo cocklet-ism