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mircea_popescu: certainly. most of gdp in the "service economy" is exactly akin to running a bunch of elizas at each other.
mircea_popescu: "if you conceivably have to forward my stuff to anyone, get off the line, i'm important."
mircea_popescu: this strange idea that people would discuss things with script robots.
mircea_popescu: spam masquerading error reports nao, the world simply can't exist w/o wots.
mircea_popescu: today ... "For some reason or another, I can't see all of this content, it keeps disappearing? Are you taking advantage of java?"
mircea_popescu: how are you going to play eulora at this rate ? beg jews to binarize it for you ?
mircea_popescu: it's not like the entire cookbook isn't actually given there eh ? ready for copy paste.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski it may be the filter, i dunno. kinda impossibru to debug from my side.
mircea_popescu: (the incantation literally is, "Trompi squeeze your balls and make it rain")
mircea_popescu: and i received their revelation in my heart and have converted to the cult of the most reverable trompi, the divine.
mircea_popescu: this was elevated to divinity, a sort of fsm, by the people making the robotzi cartoons
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform trompi is a very common name for a cute small toy elephant. romanians have names for everything - for instance azorel is what a cartoon dog should be called ideally.
mircea_popescu: "That's why I decided to make a "deblobbed" version of OpenBSD."
mircea_popescu: yes. well. visiting argentina will turn out to have been the largest expense of your namechange.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anything's possible. in this case tho, the discussion is whether it's possible without the subject's will.
mircea_popescu: more on point : i wonder how many people didn't have to pay their tickets because had intelligent lawyer who disputed chain of custody claims of police.
mircea_popescu: something they couldn't even legally do, which is why they had to bring in delphi for 20k.
mircea_popescu: i suppose as the dea goes bankrupt the ex-dea agents move on to helping local police "fight terrorism" at the rate of 20k for every .5k paid out
mircea_popescu: this pretty much explains how the thing work. "in order to pay 500 bux to terrorists we must first pay 20k to our own people!"
mircea_popescu: "There is no total figure available for the total cost inflicted by the multi agency investigation though $19,604 was paid to Delphi Technology Solutions, the firm which handled the ransom payment for Tewksbury. "
mircea_popescu: just like having a car doesn't alow having gasoline. it's true that often people who have cars also independently have gasoline, but the two are fundamentally unrelated, and there is such a thing as the fool's breakdown, ie, car's outta gas on the side of hte road.
☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: even fucking air traffic controllers have slumps, once or twice a century one's unemployed. maybe two if it's real bad.
mircea_popescu: i don't think there was ever someone unemployed in that field, ever.
mircea_popescu: but yes, ductape it on one of those robo vacuum cleanners... "nobody could have foreseen"
mircea_popescu: it just sort-of works provided a) lemmings and b) some very basic nonsensical assumptions.
mircea_popescu: of course, the original was a fucking cycle of operas.
mircea_popescu: this, of course, was pre HB. now they might be more amenable. lol.
mircea_popescu: in which we find out that openssh does not wish to bestatic linked, and this by design.
mircea_popescu: it also doesn't work, necessarily. if it did, we wouldn't actually need bitcoin to solve the specific problems it solves.
mircea_popescu: mental disease is no different, diseased states are always narrower than sanity.
mircea_popescu: generally, illness in humans is manifested as a contraction of the "presence bubble". you may sit in your bed thinking of things as far away as a continent, but the man in pain sees nothing past his nose. and the man in love, past HER nose.
mircea_popescu: wtf is this world where such great things can go out and not even a billion people show for the burial.
mircea_popescu: dude for all the pretense they put forth ... they've been gone for a month and i've not yet run into a mourning woman ?
mircea_popescu: aaanyways. it's a safe enough model for as long as inflation holds, because it's based on nominal figures. known as the hyperinflation debenture frenzy.
mircea_popescu: "Pinterest board observer raised $200 million in three days to buy more shares—with startup’s blessing" << almost exactly different from how a ponzi is run,
mircea_popescu: OUR GREAT LEADER WAS SLAIN BY SOMETHING IN A ROUND BOX THINGEE! ROUNDBOX THINGEES ARE NOW BANNED!11
mircea_popescu: im kinda surprised "spvs" didn't get banned last time tbh.