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mircea_popescu: like a sort of nonviolence proponent that takes it up the pooper.
mircea_popescu: "It’s hard to think of another movie since then that’s been so quotable, so memorable, so widely watched, and has even aged as well as it has." << except star wars, star trek, most of manga...
mircea_popescu: auden wasn't bad, just not good enough. runcible doom wasn't bad, just not good enough
mircea_popescu: i'm not about to give anything stupid the time of day in any sense, except perhaps to point and laugh at it if it's stupid enough.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it progressed slightly from that, to word redefinitions in the 90s, and so on.
mircea_popescu: even before-r than that, in the 80s, all the left had was "accuse the other of bad things loudly and repeatedly. just that".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: if you care about anthropology, it's a great thing to watch, how the beast acquires skills. that was the major breakthrough there.
mircea_popescu: you know, where the usg actually gained the ability to make bad graphs
mircea_popescu: rather than because those people actually need their money.
mircea_popescu: maybe they imagine that their "rape earth sciences" program worked, and maybe they imagine it worked because it was persuasive,
mircea_popescu: course, it's how that country is run, it's how the derps "in charge" got into office, it's the only thing they're tooled to do, and so to the man carrying a bad graph and some banal word tricks...
mircea_popescu: why the fuck do they think addressing themselves to a mathematically illiterate crowd is a valid avenue is entirely beyond my comprehension.
mircea_popescu: davout the amount of herd-herding that the usg has been putting into this is so incredibly useful because a) it really can't do anything but! b) it really does expose the tools.
mircea_popescu: williamdunne nigeria was originally a booming oil economy, attracted a lot of people. then it went stale, and for a while throughout the 90s there was a large community of desperate, socially marginal young men, who took to playing internet con games. eventually there was some reaction in the shape of, "con the nigerians".
mircea_popescu: steganography is hiding messages inside images. and a crush is when a guy wants to put his wee wee in your... well...
mircea_popescu has kicked ben_vulpes for treason and undermining the national economy
mircea_popescu: davout hey, not my fault they know how to make a salmon and parmezan sammich.
mircea_popescu: (italian fashion, somehow teh usians got crazy over it at some point. like a self-flagellation tiramisu)
mircea_popescu: pretty much called rucola throughout europe, except for france.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes it's called rucola when i had it in my salmon sandwiches at that cafe
mircea_popescu: "Civilization in the New World has very deep and ancient roots." yeah, and like any case of micropenis, we gotta go digging for it VEEERY carefully.
mircea_popescu: being french -automatically-> hipster. ask anyone in socal.
mircea_popescu: and you got wild hair! wtf no hipster are you talking about!
mircea_popescu: "nobody's in trouble" ? what are you, the kindergarten supervisor ?
mircea_popescu: davec originally thought it was libnss meanwhile found a "retarded languages should be supported too" thing
mircea_popescu: we don't usually discuss it because it's so amply obvious, but just in case.
mircea_popescu: who knew reddit actually becomes funny after a year or so.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell chillum hey, you gonna ban that dude now ?
mircea_popescu: go to all that trouble to introduce git hooks to sign, eschew pgp. i wouldn't use them to put a fire out.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "Gerrit workflow - Gerrit interprets each Git commit as an individual change. Changes are autobuilt by Jenkins, and can be reviewed by developers. Once a change has gotten a positive review and has no build issues, it is applied to the master branch. Thus, no developer directly pushes to master."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the fuck does this mean, stealing his gurl's ticket
mircea_popescu: but nevertheless... the plane looks as much as a plane as it could, among the bamboo sticks and clay pottery.
mircea_popescu: there's a lot of annoying "magic numbers will save us" voodoo in there, like "Each server is required to deposit a certain amount of money in a special account to be used as potential fines or rewards for proof of misconduct."
mircea_popescu: computing doesn't need someliers, computing needs people with blowtorches.
mircea_popescu: motherfucker. so, this box : if hard drive is attached, will not boot off usb stick. just ignore it, pretend it doesn't exist. is hd is detached, will boot off stick just fine, but will NOT detect the hard drive no matter what happens.
mircea_popescu: for that matter - all brothers are mithocondrial twins.
mircea_popescu: heh, i have been surrounded by humans unlike myself my entire life.
mircea_popescu: in short : the complexities involved in this matter are properly wovon
mircea_popescu: (also clearly, chlorine's refusal to miscegenate with oxigen is racism!)
mircea_popescu: (clearly, mixing all the gases together into multigasualism is the solution!"
mircea_popescu: the flagon full of hydrogen is a very boring Africa of "IQ" because it never produces the fun looking lasers other compositions produce.
mircea_popescu: 2) if the recipient is full of identical molecules... you STILL get normal distribution of "IQ"
mircea_popescu: so... is type or circumstance more impactful in the iq of a given molecule ?