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mircea_popescu: etrade only exists because that model's practically dead.
mircea_popescu: Tetra113 seriously, this isn't etrade in a different color scheme.
mircea_popescu: the crash is only important if it can be used to poison the stack. otherwise... it's just annoying.
mircea_popescu: should be glorified or cared about as being any more "special" than a
mircea_popescu: there's a lot more of them. I don't think some spectacular security hole
mircea_popescu: "In fact, all the boring normal bugs are _way_ more important, just because
mircea_popescu: ie, we've built a much larger % of the computers that could be than there's been people alive as a % of the people that could be.
mircea_popescu: i wonder idly if anyone even realises that the turing machine space has by now been explored MUCH more in depth than the human genetic space, for instance.
mircea_popescu: you'd be amazed how many monkeys click the blue e, too.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla used to work in china. for the first coupla years.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` you know just like who ? just like putin, except not the real one, the factitious version that "is holding country back" jurov was talking about.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i dunno man, to me it's the crowning achievement of a particular sort of technopunk, which is what 50 years of soviet industry really is.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla i don't get it, is the french govt running an isp ?!
mircea_popescu: nubbins` 50 yo blue collar woman went after shift with coworkers, had compressed air hose stuck up ass.
mircea_popescu: they have no users. just because the whatsapp scam was pushed by fb on the grounds of "users" (by the way, did the fantabulous "growth rate" continue after the acquisition ?) does not mean that the same sort of fraud will either work again in the future or is in itself any sort of value.
mircea_popescu: i guess i wouldn't make a very palatable politburo member.
mircea_popescu: more interesting is, why did he get away with it for long enough to become a prolbem
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually that was the lulz of all time, "malware detectors". except they didn't detect stuff half-register shifted did they.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` to begin, is your position that this doesn't work or that this doesn't make sense ?
mircea_popescu: we'd be a new sort of furry : the soulless! better than emo!
mircea_popescu: if i were 20 years younger i'd take the sluts to whatever cons on this premise.
mircea_popescu: "and then everything failed because well... everyone was in a bureaucracy, because the souls were like loist behind"
mircea_popescu: i'd read a technopunk sf novel working on this exact premise.
mircea_popescu: ok. "sort of wankery they abusively call intelligence, cause they're dumb and ambitious" ?
mircea_popescu: plenty of good examples, no argument they move faster.
mircea_popescu: actually i watched mosquitoes bite, and the head movement really resembles a tank tower.
mircea_popescu: if survival depends on, say, spending a week in a fox hole paying the fuck attention, "intelligence", especially the dreamy "creative" sort the us is so enamoured with, is the topmost liability.
mircea_popescu: in some circumstances lack of intelligence is a distinctive fitting advantage.
mircea_popescu: think about women, your head thinks about women much easier/better. general fitness factor : big tits, tall, clear eyes, wide hips, etc etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform on my own guesswork it's a present but minor factor.
mircea_popescu: chick falls in love with geek, he takes her home and tells her to fuck any toy in the lab except this one,
mircea_popescu: iirc i said then, i mostly measure intelligence in person by derived units, such as reaction speeds.
mircea_popescu: we don't see that many people carrying skyscrapers around.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but strength, you wiull notice, is VERY capped at the top.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` that won't fucking do anything. ANYTHING. you are to be traced to lucy, the stupidest chimp that ever lived.
mircea_popescu: im normally 6"2 but i woke with a headache and im only 4"10
mircea_popescu: but to belabour the point : one of the principal reasons "measuring iq" as it were height is so ridiculous, is because nobody has yet had an off day for height.
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