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mircea_popescu: i don;t think "men as parts" is actually all that good.
mircea_popescu: someone should write a sf piece about a deranged capitalist who deliberately buys up software outfits to torture the engineers.
mircea_popescu: bad writing is just the outside manifestation of a dysfunctional mind.
mircea_popescu: but srsly, i can't for the life of me imagine a different way to run a tech corp these days.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ehg for all you know working at google is essentially having to report on this private irc server twice a week
mircea_popescu: dude... somewhere there must be a lawyer who legally changed his name to
mircea_popescu: on one hand, their patent inability to come up with anything worth the mention since adwords would be concerning. on the other hand, naggum's observation that you wouldn't know smarter than you if it hit you on the head holds a lot of water.
mircea_popescu: teaches me to bitch at dwarves for their dubious tech choices.
mircea_popescu: Chillum when i was about that age kids got all uppity ran lard all over blackboard.
mircea_popescu: not discussing the legality. discussing the nonsensicality.
mircea_popescu: for one thing, the computer still works. the broken lock does not.
mircea_popescu: which... it does. they tell legends of women that could suck a golf ball through a garden hose, but new york regularly sucked the jew riding a camel through the eye of a needle.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you could just get one of those garden party water cannons
mircea_popescu: tbh, in many european towns it's unheard of to leave brake on when parked.
mircea_popescu: srsly, im all for this. no more "park by hydrant" laws, but put those old train pusher things on firetrucks.
mircea_popescu: actually so dangerous to drive half full they never do
mircea_popescu: besides, 2% response rate ? web advertising does a lot of fraud to come up to 0.1-0.3% CTR.
mircea_popescu: "ascii_field: the only thing i can promise for the $trillion is: more material for the next fella to work with" << oddly, this sounds exactly like social studies.
mircea_popescu: Chillum from what i hear it's the same process they use to "detect terrorism" nowadays.
mircea_popescu: Chillum im not so sure the aws "machine learning" works much better than sussman's tic tac toe machine
mircea_popescu: yeah you can prolly get some pretty major combustihouse events.
mircea_popescu: ESPECIALLY in shitty vinyl siding and "insulation" concotions on "light" (= cheap wood and glue pressboard) frames.
mircea_popescu: "Basement is probably the worst place for a massive battery bank and lithium worst way to do it." << word.
mircea_popescu: something off trilema, somewhat better. otherwise... recall that klingon line pw that got got ?