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phf: i remember
taking linear algebra course in u.s. college, sort of mildly excited "finally learn
this shit proper!" just
to realize
that my level of knowledge by
then was grad research level. stopped showing up half way
through, just
taking
tests..
mircea_popescu: the common man is here
to be cut up and
the meat fried, not running fucking "democracies" and making "choices" and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: at one point everything worth
the mention worked like
this ; it being
the only way
things can work.
mircea_popescu: "Keep in mind we do all
this, because we can and because we like
the
thrilling excitement of winning over
the other competing groups. We absolutely don't do all
these releases,
to please
the general user
that rather want
to spend
their cash on updating
to
the latest hardware, and see's
the scene releases as a source
to play all
these games for free." << all
the way down
to despising
the consumer / i just want
to jwz.
phf: i might've seen
that, but i don't
think i saw it until after i moved
to u.s.
phf: i mean all
the
tools were ports from amiga. "nah, you don't use photoshop, here's
this
thing
that we ported from amiga"
mircea_popescu: back when /me still had a lot of faith in humanity, /me still didn't give a rat's ass about
the us.
mircea_popescu: and since we're on it, i'd say
the scene was
the early republic, not derpy "cyberpunks/cypherpuns/whatever"
phf: true, i was a small child
then, but my first exposure
to gatherings were
through demoscene
mircea_popescu: i'd say
the release groups being
the first and
to date
the best example of async
teams solving problems
that benefit from face
to face.
phf: hackathon is a period of
time for exclusively remote
teams
to get
together and work on some problems
that benefit from face
to face, or more generally a period of uninterrupted work done by an asynchronous
team.
that's
the original and
the only meaning in
the spirit of "consult
the dictionary"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i imagine what
they mean by hackathon is one of
those pbs donation drives. except instead of girls at phones now
they have boys at keyboards.
mircea_popescu: they're looking
to farm
trust. ANYTHING but
the fucking obvious - stop supporting socialism already!
mircea_popescu: Sally Lehrman, founder of
the
Trust Project - an organisation set up
to re-establish
trust in mainstream media -
told
the BBC: "We don't know enough yet
to know how it affected
the election but we do know
that fake news
travels rapidly and it can change
the conversation, not just by misinforming people but by focusing attention on something
that may not be
the issue. It is a real danger
to democracy."
mircea_popescu: the very evident "new york
times, washington / huffington post etc do not produce strings worth more per megabyte
than any other markov process" is elided in favour of "we shall label
this failure of ours in
terms of an external phenomenon and posture really convincingly about it". really, is it "being investigated" ? who
the fuck is
the agent in
that agentless phrase and who
the fuck's gonna supply
the army.
mircea_popescu: "A report from BuzzFeed found
that, in
the final
three months of
the US presidential campaign,
the
top-performing fake election news stories on Facebook generated more engagement
than
the
top stories from major news outlets such as
the New York
Times, Washington Post, Huffington Post, NBC News and others." <<->>
http://trilema.com/2016/the-war-with-the-press/ mircea_popescu: and
this includes "cyberpunks" and whatever else -
they still
thought in
terms of "the country" and bartlesian "in
the end '''real''' life aka socialism prevails"
mircea_popescu: before
the republic nobody seriously contemplated, let alone put resources
towards, most sane ends and goals.
mircea_popescu: come
to
think about it - maybe i should do exactly
that.
mircea_popescu: aha. hence my comment re
thunderstorms and
truth-symmetrical.
mircea_popescu: i suppose getting
two
tuned
to
the same frequency and
then debiasing
them
together may result in something (precisely because
taking advantage of n in
that horrible snr). otherwise with a single item...
tough.
mircea_popescu: if any kind of divinity existed
this sort of
truth-symmetrical idiocy would provoke
thunderstorms.
mircea_popescu: did you see
the guy who had a "for free just as good version" consisting of buying a software radio
thing (for slightly more
than what FUCKGOATS costs) and you know, listening
to man made "entropy"
mircea_popescu: worse situation
than sf. what exactly wasn't exported ?
mircea_popescu: and
the chinese can't afford
to get married because bitch wants place
to spawn and place
to spawn within icbm distance of anything worth one's
time cost 1mn+ ie five lifetimes.
mircea_popescu: who are
these syrians / chinese / whatevers
things belong
to.
mircea_popescu: syrian "color revolution" also fails. does syria belong
to "the syrians" ?
mircea_popescu: not like
they're sitting around wearing kimonos and laughing at
the idiocy of dicking around with a small plastic lavalamp.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform consider you just said pnoje above.
this settles
the point.
mircea_popescu: stupid naturally herds
together, and
to very much
the same degree.
there isn't anything you can do about it, and ftr
the shepherd FOLLOWS
the herd, doesn't lead it. he may imagine he leads it, if it makes him feel better about living in
the middle of nowhere among a pile of animal dung, but whatevers.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-02 14:32 mircea_popescu: apparently
the fact
that it never worked worth a shit doesn't deter anyone. bureaucrats are not just stupid - but committed
to stay
that way.
mod6: <+jurov> mod6: fxd, when
their cloudtron IP addresses change, must me manually updated in
their firewall << ah,
thanks jurov!
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: if you submit non-GPG it give you pretty error. again not
that it matters...just a
thing.
mircea_popescu: trinque here's a strategic point for your consideration : eulora will move
to a rsa auth model sometime next year.
this means
the client generates itself a key, and
talks
to
the server. i don't want
to create a special deedbot for eulora, and so, how do we best interoperate
them so
that i have rate and deeds in-game ? (ideally
the wot visualisations and other such beauty also)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: apparently
the fact
that it never worked worth a shit doesn't deter anyone. bureaucrats are not just stupid - but committed
to stay
that way.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: recall
the 90s when all
the bitching was on about china's firewall ?
mircea_popescu: "i and other open source contributors" sez mr. sieradski. open source is starting
to be quite shameful an association by now.
mircea_popescu: "thios website is considered a questionable source" being
the giveaway. i suppose
the idea is
thetimes.whitehouse.gov is unquestionable ?