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mircea_popescu: r. it is STRICTLY because young people lived on
the dole much more
than old people ; and so believe more in dole. many of
them for complete lack of any understanding whatsoever
that "milk doesn't come from supermarket" and equivalent.
mircea_popescu: "Most people in
the world are good, and want
to be good
to each other. Whether
they vote
that way or not, far more Americans believe in progressive, liberal, inclusive views
than regressive, aggressive, conservative ones. Young people know
this better
than anyone, because young people are overwhelmingly liberal, even more
than older people.
That’s not because you’re inexperienced — it’s because you’re right." << hur
mircea_popescu: leftards always go in general about bahamas. name
the fucking item he did right, ever. what was it.
mircea_popescu: "but we did fix most of it" AHAHAHAHAHA omfg. name ONE
THING mulatto-in-chief fixed. i wish
to hear
this wonder,
the one item.
mircea_popescu: phf i suspect
the entire business model is "get archive.is for pay because you don't google
too well".
mircea_popescu: that said, he does have stroing support in
the sprawling i-wanna-be-a-writer collective, which may actually contain 10k who can part with $10 a year (if not
the same 10k each year, still) ; and if he keeps a
tight lid on costs it may well work.
mircea_popescu: such is
the rule at say alphabet ; microsoft ; etcetera.
mircea_popescu: heck, if
they LOSE money slower
than
the whole shebang loses money
the people involved
tend
to be promoted
mircea_popescu: note
that a) facebook doesn't have 11k paying subscribers ; and
that yahoo sacked delicious. it's rare dying
things like yahoo
terminate items
that make money.
mircea_popescu: (basically delicious re-done, and we all recall how
that went. or no wait, was it magnolia ? right it was magnolia. anyway.)
mircea_popescu: summary : "guy with no business model and no investors running some pointless web shit claims
to make 10k a month from it somehow"
phf: actually promisetronic
to
the max, since you don't even have
to surrender
the photo. something about
the Polaroid part implies
that you're not live streaming it
to pornhub
phf: well, sell polaroid-with-seeeekrit-digicam destroy
that whole segment
mircea_popescu: the argument is not without some merit, legions of 1960s aspie hos were flattered by
the "unique, just like you" gate
to pornography.
phf: asciilifeform:
they are popular at dodgy events, because "only copy"
mircea_popescu: "In 2003, massive cabals of Enviro-whiners are suing petroleum companies for contaminating
the global environment with methyl
tert-butyl ether. MTBE was
the "oxygenate" for which Enviro-whiners massively sued petroleum companies, demanding it be added
to gasoline. MTBE is an EPA priority carcinogen. Enviro-whinerism: expensive, shoddy, deadly." << quite exactly how
the bullshit works, and worked, in all parts.
mircea_popescu: "burning man" suddenly a lot more psychanalizable
than one'd care
to.
mircea_popescu: this isn't one of
those west coast
things
that'll burn down in a final, desperate attempt of
the participants
to make
the evening news, is it ?
mircea_popescu: i have no interest in
the misguided speculations of reddit as such,
they're not a demographic as much as a random number machine.
mircea_popescu: the discussion here was from
the get-go limited
to "engineering" "intellectual" "bright minds".
mircea_popescu: unthreateningly, "coupla bucks, who knows" is
the exact name of
the demon.
mircea_popescu: because... let
this sink in, ~~~BECAUSE~~~
the alt-turds offered a ready, indefeasible excuse
to NOT seriously invest,
to
the degree of starving
the children.
mircea_popescu: quoth
the woman "my children are dying!" quoth
the man "good, you'll make others."
mircea_popescu: but
they also don't perceive any burning need
to spend all
their money on $2 btc.
mircea_popescu: "gotta get along", "will
take a picture of me in front of
this strangely pineapple-shaped mountain" etc.
mircea_popescu: none of
that last century "by god i will dig
this mountain up and reshape it as a pineapple" piss and vinegar feelin' left.
mircea_popescu: i did say any~thing~.
they're ecologists,
they just want
to imagology.
mircea_popescu: what sort of idle knowledge
this is and whom it serves we shall not discuss ; but it does make
them inept for life.
mircea_popescu: the problem with smart kids who have
the misfortune
to be born
to english speaking whores is
that
they're
taught
to not want
to rape anything.
mircea_popescu: same repeats for all
the various bright minds in
their own / reddit's estimation.
mircea_popescu: wasn't
the prb devteam announcing dismal holdings last
they
talked about it ?
mircea_popescu: amusingly, ~none of
the early bright minds are rich now.
mircea_popescu: not so. what if i happen
to be running
the first and you end up my main bitch ?
a111: Logged on 2016-12-07 16:04 mircea_popescu:
there's exactly nothing
that'd keep
them from coming here and giving away
the nuclear button
to
the l1. yes we'd butcher some daughters / most sons, but so what of it - some'd survive. even
the cod knows
this much,
that
the correct reaction is
to
throw
the meat at
the knife, rather
than
to
try and protect it.
mircea_popescu files
the "mp again picked
the right horse" and forgets "internet archive" even existed.
mircea_popescu: built on "trust",
the non-crypto, anon version of
trust.
phf: ben_vulpes:
that archive has like dozen of access points, half of
them regularly disappearing, a project for a lisp aficionado would be
to archive it before it disappears completely
☟︎ mircea_popescu: for instance, everyone
thinks of
theymos as "tardstalk owner", except
that forum was made by sirius ; and was quite acceptable before it went
to shit.
mircea_popescu: most of
the honest (as oposed
to gavinous) people originally involved with
the project went away quietly.
mircea_popescu: not so, according
to knowledge
that i guess may have expired meanwhile.
phf: mircea_popescu: i really hope i'm not preventing ben_vulpes from hacking, i have a few previous failed attempts at doing
this
though
a111: Logged on 2016-12-07 21:46 ben_vulpes:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-07#1579050 << "image" as in "lisp image"?
the reason i ask is because reindenting blocks of code for a multiple-value-bind makes unnecessary patch noise.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-07 22:11 phf: ben_vulpes: i don't know how
to solve
that problem, but "i know, sexp will help us!" is not. you basically need
to redesign a bunch of
things about reader, have a custom save format (that will look closer
to (DEFUN FOO () (IF BAR QUX (PROGN ...)))). sexp nature will help you ~a bit~, but like mp said it's closer
to "let's save AST", because sexp don't preserve nearly enough required info
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-07#1579309 <<
the amusing observation lying in wait is
that
the difference between satoshi-style design and
tmsr-style design evidently is
that in
the case of
the former a prototype is hashed out and
then much
to everyone's surprise almost all ulterior ideas are actual improvements ; wheres in
the case of hte later a prototype is similarly hashed out and
then much
to everyone's surprise almost a
☝︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform pity
the
thelema doods didn't put a card spade inside
their figure, it'd have been a great gypsy-like icon
phf: asciilifeform: i've seen people diff sexps for producing semi-automatic patches of live system. so like if you want
to replicate
the image code state across machines, can rig up some not-for-reading dumper
mircea_popescu: rather
than being chased into... intellectual pursuits.
mircea_popescu: society would be better served if buttslappers stuck
to slapping butts
phf: ben_vulpes: i don't know how
to solve
that problem, but "i know, sexp will help us!" is not. you basically need
to redesign a bunch of
things about reader, have a custom save format (that will look closer
to (DEFUN FOO () (IF BAR QUX (PROGN ...)))). sexp nature will help you ~a bit~, but like mp said it's closer
to "let's save AST", because sexp don't preserve nearly enough required info
☟︎