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mircea_popescu: it all stems from a very funamental confusion as to what things are andwhat technology can do. the idea being that technology = magic, and so it can change the nature of things. take marketplaces, which are by nature centralizing, and magic them into being decentralising. meanwhile irl, technology works to increase quantitatively, not to alter qualitatively.
mircea_popescu: having a central (marketplace = central) for it is about as stupid as fire extinguishers loaded with gasoline.
mircea_popescu: i have my doubts if you could get a decent definition of the notion of number from one in ten us graduates.
mircea_popescu: you gotta appreciate, a compsci student in the us is a guy that's too autistic to deal drugs.
mircea_popescu: <justJanne> BingoBoingo: Yes — remember, I use no Google services, and modified half of the apps on my phone myself. << o.O what are you, like a hacker ???
mircea_popescu: cazalla the masochist and the terrorist. should be a book.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic i have my doubts about how all that *pathic stuff works. kinda weaponized terminology, like "heretic"/"disbeliever" in middle ages.
mircea_popescu: mike_c will be going up shortly, guy's online and all.
mircea_popescu: worst part being that it's usually "corporate [in]culture" that takes marginal yet ambitious intellects and molds them to this shit.
mircea_popescu: yeah. if i don't happen to know someone willing to vouch, you can have credentials coming out of your ears, i just see "idiot" in thick font. which is basically wot-ness.
mircea_popescu: decimation honestly, i suspect the guy complaining on trilema was either trying to stir up shit or else working on meanwhile inacurate history. seems the ddos guy is gone.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic not bad, but it lost me at the "well credentialed" etc bs.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck asked anon what is and isn't reason nao ?
mircea_popescu: "[1] He's been scraping the profiles of young women (specifically) and posting links, names, and hometowns on his blog. Yes, as technologists, we know that this kind of indexing is trivial. That's no reason, as a decent human being, to terrorize innocent people."
mircea_popescu: anyway, to quote myself, "I will write up an article addressing this particular set of bullshit tomorrow. I promise it will be good. Engage bated breath."
mircea_popescu: jeez how the world changes in a coupla hours based on what's said in b-a log, you'd think we're talking to gavin-the-handpuppet & co.
mircea_popescu: decimation wait, we're progressed past the "it occured while copying" to obscure email programs naoi ?
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.justJanne.1:44086df839c6a505edd1681e3dff4c96ffd5990b1c9abddd93c99f55a195008c
mircea_popescu: !rate justJanne 1 55 yo Pittsburgh steel mill worker posing as 19 yo girl on the interwebs.
mircea_popescu: that totally kills the whole thing. i bet you're not even from cali.
mircea_popescu: bitrated.com/zmanian/ << there's even a chump wot and everything
mircea_popescu: i'm looking forward to all the gavin lectures about the perils of larger blocksizes. also at stanford.
mircea_popescu: "Proudly made without PHP, Java, Perl, MySQL and Postgres"
mircea_popescu: other than because some she-geeks are cute and people try to hit on them with "hy babyy i r maek distro" ?
mircea_popescu: the man of one book, like the man of one site, is never too close to truth
mircea_popescu: alphonse23_ an ad-interim solution is of course variety. there's qntra doing bitcoin news. there's 8chan doing all sorts of things.
mircea_popescu: they will farm said naive members of the public for free content, yes.
mircea_popescu: alphonse23_ anyway, the mistake here is for members of the public naive enough to imagine conde nast / ycombinator / etc sites represent anything but the alt-reality their owners have a financial interest in.
mircea_popescu: the conundrum is more along the lines of "what constitutes a key"
mircea_popescu: davout that bet promises to be a conundrum to resolve.