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mircea_popescu: decimation: the paragraphs starts with "There are several reasons why calling the OpenSSL configuration routines is advisable." and then fails to name a single reason << the actual reasons are not the point, the statement that "there are reasons" is the point. fashion, no substance. you wanna be with the in crowd, don't you ? be hip, upgrade. there are reasons.
mircea_popescu: mod6: im glad we're all trying this now. << kinda the advantage of doing stuff here.
mircea_popescu: <mod6> decimation: anyway, it totally works fine for me on my aws machine. << hehehe
mircea_popescu: * asciilifeform pronounced fatwa on 'pastebin' << kakobrekla said we're supposed to use dpaste.
mircea_popescu: you know it's be so great if someone made a client that auto-pastebinned
mircea_popescu: what's it change tho. it's common for rapists to regard themselves as "good fathers" and so forth, because she was asking for it or w/e.
mircea_popescu: not the right sort of morals, these, that are actionable. gotta have some of a more theoretical sort.
mircea_popescu: "so the wife's a nag ? doesn't mean i /have to/ beat her until she desists. build mancave instead." on it goes. politicians are idiots ? self-appoint as "better than this" and that's that, work done. not like you have to shoot the bad politico if you can't vote him out. what, /have to/ ?!
mircea_popescu: "so what if make sucks, not like i have the responsibility to find and support an improvement. i just type here."
mircea_popescu: decimation no. jwzery. this attitude whereby one's excused from political involvement.
mircea_popescu: lawl. this guy misread so much of recent history i'm giving up on reading it.
mircea_popescu: above were being made and enforced with no government oversight. So the Government convened some hearings. The unanimous consensus, even by Ralph Nader, was that attempting to regulate this process was an invitation to chaos. "
mircea_popescu: ey usually end up being workable. After two decades of fumbling, we have settled on a de facto standard for computer operating systems. It has imperfections - some serious - but it generally works. Imagine being saddled with a computer architecture defined by some central planning committee in 1983. At about that time, someone in the U.S. Government realized with horror that all the standardization agreements mentioned
mircea_popescu: "In Western democracies, even in the U.S. where the hostility to regulation is greatest, there is a vast amount of central decision-making, but day to day decisions are left to market forces. A lot of the regulation - everything from bolt threads to type fonts - is carried out by tens of thousands of standardization agreements worked out by the industries involved. The solutions that arise aren't always optimal, but th
mircea_popescu: btw, re "useful idiots", anyone actually read Mona Charen ?
mircea_popescu: time for bed, and in the early morning a very morose londoner sat with his breakfast.
mircea_popescu: so one time when a horse neighed, he got all scared. but the farmer told him to relax, horse just does that, it's called neighing and it never killed anyone.
mircea_popescu: which was impressive to him, because a) they had food and b) good living conditions (as compared to shitlondon of the time)
mircea_popescu: the story is, that a london redditard (poor kid from periphery) visited some peasant family once
mircea_popescu: one's categorical symbolization, the other's a kenning.
mircea_popescu: anyway : "the sea" is the hellespont (which is what xerxes ordered flogged) in the same way hron (whale's) rade (road) is the sea.
mircea_popescu: (i'll help by pointing out that alf's device in discussing xerxes is structurally similar but stylistically very indicative of the changes in society since then)
mircea_popescu: but anyway, anyone guess what "hron rade" denotes, in "english" ?
mircea_popescu: heck, folks still speak greek. and it's certainly more mutually intelligible with classical greek than current english with high english.
mircea_popescu: certainly more amply documented in "not dead" languages.
mircea_popescu: look into the abomination of "courtly love" to see 1100ad shitgnomism en fleur.
mircea_popescu: decimation this is the so called stupid wife paradox. it goes like this : when she's young she thumbs her nose at submission, because hey, she's not "that kind of girl". so she finds a husband instead, spends two-three decades discovering that it's a rotten deal, then gets to live with teh regret.
mircea_popescu: dude, la revolucion is so fucking banal. always the same moves.
mircea_popescu: kinda goes a long way to show the unmitigated contempt california holds for... well, basically, you.
mircea_popescu: (pete will no doubt notice that ALL THE VEHICLES ARE MERCEDES_
mircea_popescu: better this way, the less the sks servers are involved the better.
mircea_popescu: nttawwt, but don't imagine slaves come to sense through any process that doesn't involve clubbing them into the dirt.
mircea_popescu: and you know exactly how it'll go : the usg horde will derp their derpage, most idiots of the jwz ilk will "not want to pick the political bone" and so on and so forth.
mircea_popescu: <trinque> I'm thinking programmable light switch with ethernet port << this is kinda how this process is going as is. hence the cardano.
mircea_popescu: that something is, buncha smart kids leave, buncha women move in.
mircea_popescu: there's this thing that happens once something becomes "a solved problem".
mircea_popescu: i think it's related to advances in plastics. once they went fully injected everyone stopped caring.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field no i mean the whole shebang, in a plastic casing to match original.
mircea_popescu: then what's all this stuff about small penises and pigmen ?
mircea_popescu: but what sort of dreams! you wouldn't even know most of the hetairai
mircea_popescu: generally a harem ceases to function over about 50 heads or so.
mircea_popescu: not so much because they don't think i could figure out a way, but for the more obviously blunt reason that they correctly realise that if i give them a trojan horse they wouldn't have the intellectual werewithal to spot it.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the idea that i'm not invited to give talks about how to ruin bitcoin to fucking cia is not the worst credential ever.
mircea_popescu: at this rate by the end of the year they'll be claiming they exist and nobody'll be buying it.