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mircea_popescu: if you want to fix it, what you do is, you pick a pimp, give him legal immunity for a decade, let him build cabaret street.
mircea_popescu: anyway. this is kind-of how it worked in all teh warsaw pact. except back then people actually had nothing better to do with their time, (LIKE IN A PRISON, ALF!) so they studied.
mircea_popescu: naked woman just bent to pick up my garbage. i forget, what were we saying ?
mircea_popescu: heh. greece, the least rich eu country, adheres to nubbins` ideals!
mircea_popescu: no but i mean, do you qualify for free degree irrespective of any exam, grades, etc ?
mircea_popescu: this is exactly like suicide : the people who succeed we want. the people who fail should have succeeded.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: meanwhile, things that exist because thery're beautiful may get a pass.
mircea_popescu: because the only reason it exists is that it's useful. if useful can't pay useful can go hang.
mircea_popescu: nah, that i can see paying for. what i can't see ever paying for is "social studies", "womens studies" etc.
mircea_popescu: same reason women don't have to pay to go to a club, especially if they go naked.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` generally you don't have to pay if you're very very good. at least the ones i'm familiar with.
mircea_popescu: so they did go from under 20% to over 20% in the interval.
mircea_popescu: that article of course was in 2013. meanwhile it's no longer 18`219 spam comments out of 96`421 total, it's 29`704 out of 112`367 total.
mircea_popescu: (what the bots do these days is crib facebook for textual content, hack it together and use it as spam filler to fool bayesian filters. which are STILL a stupid fucking idea)
mircea_popescu: he played the most fucktarded names too. deke. vince. etc
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i may be like, the first owner in human slavery history to actually discourage drug use by teh chattel.
mircea_popescu: he has all the sexual projection of a highschool retard.
mircea_popescu: elvis was dumb as rocks, if reports are to be trusted.
mircea_popescu: new pick=up line. "i'm a pedant. wanna wear my pendant ?"
mircea_popescu: there were more women, is fo sho. lotta girlies today.
mircea_popescu: well that may be. there were certainly less retards chasing the "Social media" dragon.
mircea_popescu: or, for that matter, being times man of the year in 1966 vs being times man of the year in 2006.
mircea_popescu: sort-of like the difference between being a star in hollywood cca 1955 vs being "a star"/waitress in a la diner today.
mircea_popescu: it's just... what it meant being on rotten, or maddox, or drudge coupla decades ago is completely unrelated to what it means being on slashdot, reddit, or w/e today.
mircea_popescu: which both shows the absolute loss of gatekeeper power on one hand and the massive decrapification of the software on the other.
mircea_popescu: but people readily ignore this fact. normal traffic ? x ; being linked by all the internet ? a*x. being ddosed ? b*x.
mircea_popescu: not anymore. the ddos back in sept was what, 100 to 1k x more visible in server logs.
mircea_popescu: so ridoinculous btw. there was a time, 10-15 years ago, when something like this would have taken a site down.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron btw, there should be NO references. all text referenced by url should be quoted in the instructions, and link to original.
mircea_popescu: mike_c the name&shame of vcs that did superfish was on slashdot etc
mircea_popescu: nuclear warheads also failed to reach widespread adoption, such a failweapon.
mircea_popescu: lol @ that log. "widespread adoption", such a red herring.
mircea_popescu: it's not entirely certain that ever actually happened.
mircea_popescu: but the general rule of fist is, "nothing manmade can resist arbitrary pounding"
mircea_popescu: well, none of these things matter to the layman until they observe another monkey fashion a club out of it and blooding some faces
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: also does dmca really have the provision for 'complainant must sue before date x'? (ianal!) << yes. this is what dmca is substantially : dc gets a claim. if customer responds with counterclaim, they forward it to claimant, who has 10 days to show proof they sued.
mircea_popescu: funny how pulling on a thread firmly unravels whole stacks of shit.