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mircea_popescu: this is kind-of why it's so damned important we start making right things
mircea_popescu: thgere's going to be one of the latter and an infinity of the former.
mircea_popescu: research either happens on 500 dollar 3d printers, or else on 500 trillion hadron colliders
mircea_popescu: you will notice that the capital base of the oldmodel is dying into irreelvancy
mircea_popescu: so if i want a 3d printed item, which university i call ?
mircea_popescu: like, you knock off to decimation and two friends over gossipd "can you ploxpoint your microtelescope at the x y z and send me the dump ?"
mircea_popescu: so no, i don't see any sort of future for that model, which is EXACTLY why i pointed out to tim whatshisname that either he gets with the program or he goes live in the sewer.
mircea_popescu: but that said, the wot model does dispense with most of the previous advantages of university
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, "fucking in retards", like "reproduction in mammals"
mircea_popescu: university is important because the close physical proximity is a requisite for fucking in retards, and students are yet retarded
mircea_popescu: usually known as "course material", ie, "these few pageswhich if you read, you should be able to answer anything"
mircea_popescu: specifically that it is not merely cheating to be given in advance the questions which will constitute the exam (which, to my undying amazement, i found out is by now actually standard practice in the us), but even to be given any sort of selected reading material that contains a larger density of answers than the average for the entire world text.
mircea_popescu: to be perfectly fair, in the same session i also explained my view on cheating on university examinations,
mircea_popescu: Essentially, “Megablock Bitcoin” will be exactly like the Apple App Store. <<< mmmm yeah.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron bingoboingo an' any other b-a single gentlemen - if you want to try this out ima give you a bitcent to tip the chciks and then you can pester naphex with how broken it is. dump addies.
mircea_popescu: well browse's broken on this browser, no doubt on account of it being prolly too old. anyway.
mircea_popescu: Naphex well everything loads but no video plays, dunno if there was supposed to play anything
mircea_popescu: eh you should drink it. for one thing, there's more for victory, and for another bottled champagne doens't keep forever.
mircea_popescu: bequeath “my sword to him that shall succeed me in my pilgrimage, and my courage and skill to him that can get it.”
mircea_popescu: menahem what you don't likely know is that i lived a decade and change of my life previously also with people tastiung my food etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah because the receptacle appears rigid. girls pee at many angles.
mircea_popescu: and i intend to withdraw long before advanced age makes the crown too heavy to carry. i have a fucking life to live outside of public service.
mircea_popescu: you know templeos is only a step in that direction, i'd like to see unix skinned by valley girls, upper east side hipsters, mexicans, etc.
mircea_popescu: i don't think the bag makers can be blamed for this one
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dja eat the 24g or whatever it had for teh maths ? or can spare the 4g ?
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron nope. it's supposed to have been fixed like three revisions ago o.O
mircea_popescu: "it sucked because their keys kept jumping off and you'd lose the dumbass ballpointpen springs "
mircea_popescu: "Mai erau CIP-urile, pe care incarcai interpretorul BASIC de pe caseta, era nasol ca resetai si iti lua timp si incarcarea lui. In plus ii sareau tastele in permanenta, si pierdeai si arculetele de pix din ele, se rupeau piciorusele de plastic, era aiurea."