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mircea_popescu: felipelalli are you using the raw or the html version ?
mircea_popescu: ah. the spec doesn't change by the implementation yo. the other way around.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes at some point a roman army was defeated, a total of three aquillae (legion header) were lost. the romans spent a century trying to get them back, at one point famously excavating a few square miles o land
mircea_popescu: and some guys went to sit. and well... who sits where /
mircea_popescu: if you look at it, the entire history of rome, from kingdom to empire, was basically this : they had a set of benches under some trees somewhere
mircea_popescu: let them rebel over it, and be mowed down periodically.
mircea_popescu: like army. take the children women weep for. or men, in this case.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes if you mean, as in latium, then note octavianus didn't adopt random orphans a la dick tracy.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform just making the point that if you're going for your reagent, make the relative situation obvious : the outside world is despised.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this modesty... fuck that. collect the most desirable children from outside : teenaged women with big tits.
mircea_popescu: took a while, but i suspect more due to slow comms at the time.
mircea_popescu: as discussed in the pseudoscience bit : unless you folks start quoting it to me, it's just another bit of anglowank, couldn't care less.
mircea_popescu: he doesn't have to starve at all. he just has to not expect to suport self by singing-songwriting.
mircea_popescu: all the schmuckodon in "bitcoin business" comes from the completely irrational expectations of all these schmucks that they can earn a living "being" "ceo"s.
mircea_popescu: the moment creation is +EV, all the narcisists flood in and destroy thinking.
mircea_popescu: they ALL stem from the mistaken idea that creators should be able to eat, and the typiocally american (ie, fucktarded and grossly ignorant) solutions attempted.
mircea_popescu: looky here : ALL the problems of modern academia, from faux psychiatry used to cover up for govt failure to faux "earth sciences" used to cover up for govt failure to the diploma mill etc
mircea_popescu: but i can envisage the day when a) all science is published via b-a, and to read... get in wot
mircea_popescu: or to any approach that includes anyone but apple making money.
mircea_popescu: i briefly considered adding an apple apps thing for s.mg
mircea_popescu: how are silk road copycats supposed to make enough to run away with if you won't give the pillheads "loans" yo ?
mircea_popescu: apple "open" : we'll give you some fiction to read while the thing boots ?
mircea_popescu: lots of "unthinkables" needed to keep the soviets going.