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mircea_popescu: if you've already lost the war, why are you derping with axes and shit.
mircea_popescu: Citizenfive the next trick to find is that you can get people quite bothered by carefully using their contributions to words.
mircea_popescu: nigga... say wut ?! what "lack of governance" wonder be this, of the box so empty it doesn't even contain a vacuum ?
mircea_popescu: williamdunne suppose you have a five year old kid on your knees and she asks what happens if there's nothing in a box. "well... there'd be air" "no, not even air"
mircea_popescu: Citizenfive can you distinguish between the "words don't matter" position and (mutatis mutandins), the "BUT it is called the “Worldwide Web” so there really is NO chance of any site being 100% secure" ?
mircea_popescu: there's really no alternative : either one or the other. republics fail because not enough spartans, democracies are all one because idiots are all one. cccp was a democracy too.
mircea_popescu: williamdunne anyway, to do some positive work : democracy is the notion that what people think matters. the exact opposite of alf's favourite, "the cold equations" (which'd describe a republic).
mircea_popescu: merely the fact that this question can be asked would seem to pull the rug from under yer feet eh.
mircea_popescu: which value you can only evaluate in a system that's actually open to idiots.
mircea_popescu: any play's equally successful if played out for the goats.
mircea_popescu: well you're right in that it would try and to thew same degree succeed to masquerade as anything else, including a teosophy.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in orc speak, everything means the same and is spelled "urgh"
mircea_popescu: "real" english just means democratic english, which is not english.
mircea_popescu: modern art is quite meaningful, yes. ever read the "what is art" thing ?
mircea_popescu: we could say that the meaning of democracy is fundamentally undemocratic.
mircea_popescu: eh, democracy is a thing, even if derpy iliterate muricans never bother to learn what the words mean. it's not gonna change what it is just because a bunch of people have nfi.
mircea_popescu: "Over drinks last night, one of the beautiful young ladies in attendance brought up the question of ‘free will’ with me. " << eh petey...
mircea_popescu: williamdunne well, obviously it is the answer, just, not to any question worth asking.
mircea_popescu: well neither exactly. people as in people capable to listen to themselves.
mircea_popescu: as oft said here, the situation is so soviet it bleeds.
mircea_popescu: this is concerning, because it has two possible explanations. one being that my intel sucks, the other being that the us is running out of people.
mircea_popescu: in other news, these guys actually beat the puerto madero dock. incredible walkers.
mircea_popescu: "Slack brings all your communication together in one place. It's real-time messaging, archiving and search for modern teams."
mircea_popescu: whether anyone uses it or not i guess depends on how credible you seem to them
mircea_popescu: sosamendez you can compile it if you wish, and sign the copy
mircea_popescu: "your honor... this money was very lossy to begin with!"
mircea_popescu: "Have I made mistakes? Yes. Have I owned them? Yes And am I still trying to "
mircea_popescu: the theory being that i am somehow obliged to BELIEVE their pretense, and pay them accordingly. which is why all teh anger when i go "orly, gawker ?"
mircea_popescu: everyone trying to foist the actual doing of their actual job on everyone else, it's a thing
mircea_popescu: tl;dr : gawker is sinking, people desperate, fighting over carcass begun.
mircea_popescu: "Nobody is seeking to hurt this company, or plunder it for all it's worth, or find a way to attack the people that run it. We're just trying to make it a bit more functional, and a bit more fair."