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mircea_popescu: at least if you mean "most of the people makin > 250k and living in a big city"
mircea_popescu: no, in the sense that they simply do not know what happens if it wasn't written in hungarian
mircea_popescu: tbh, that 67/27/2.5/0.25 thing pretty much exactly matches the map of real gdp
mircea_popescu: with the added disadvantage that they speak obscure languages
mircea_popescu: decimation europeans are by and large exactly like usians, ie, monolinguistic.
mircea_popescu: mostly the result of shitty regulation environment and uk people being idiots.
mircea_popescu: it could work as a wiki or as a category on qntra i ugess.
mircea_popescu: sort-of like that arrington thing worker, we its name was
mircea_popescu: it would be good. if you have the time/energy, cazalla, it would work well as a companion to qntra.
mircea_popescu: PeterL is this due to some sort of religious belief or just personal preference ?
mircea_popescu: only 3 ? dude, you kidding, you're the guy the biological survival of the english speaking world relies on if you have 3. what only/
mircea_popescu: you and mike_c have each one afaik, that being teh record.
mircea_popescu: i can not begin to conceive how this is an improvement.
mircea_popescu: Adlai yes, but that does not necessarily replace the firmware.
mircea_popescu: course it's fairly obvious who would be claiming that, and why.
mircea_popescu: from what i gather dr dre invented the modern, commercial burning man
mircea_popescu: While this discovery is familiar to readers of my blog, what might be a surprise is what this heralds for our society politically and economically. It isn't socialism, or even communism, as I had feared. It's feudalism. It's not 2007. It's 1066."
mircea_popescu: "Taking Iraq and President Bush as starting points, and examining the defense mechanisms we use to cope with both, yields the unsurprising conclusion that we are a society of narcissists.
mircea_popescu: someone drop it on hn, maybe the folk are bored and looking for a rehash of 2005's internet politics ?
mircea_popescu: ok but generally two hydrocarbons united by a double link at some point are called something no ?
mircea_popescu: PeterL for some reason i had thought N is trivalent and somehow this made n2o possible but no2 impossible
mircea_popescu: in short : once sociopathology is identified, it's god damned everywhere.
mircea_popescu: and it's worth doing it for your idiotic "national interests" of trying to hide useful bugs in the morass"
mircea_popescu: "all is fine, don't worry, throw LOCs by the thousand million, because it's like a truck, it can hold anything
mircea_popescu: is the next nut going to end the internet by killing 5k anon people that were 99.x% of all the people who understood how it works ?
mircea_popescu: ie, osama killed off the us simply by flying a bomb disguised as a plane into the us financial nerve center disguised asa building.
mircea_popescu: sometimes i wonder if the internet itself shouldn't have a bus factor.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform unrelatedly, can you imagine that fetlife rebelled, and banned my... acount. but not the ip. i'm still in shock over the fact.
mircea_popescu: a large part of the problem is similar to why you can't shoot fish worth a crap. skin, muscle, fatand bone have widely variant refractive indexes.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes except one pound of prime rib is a) one pound rather than one hundred - and quantity has a quality all of its own - for instance it won't likely spit blood in your eyes ; b) already intensively prepared. for instance ? skin removed.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, humans aren't "bare flesh" in the sense of, overgrown squid. it's really quite well designed a mechanical apparatus. not least designed to... withstand swords.
mircea_popescu: etc etc. one who's never butchered - say game - doth not readily feel the difficulty of the problem)
mircea_popescu: (for instace : it's trivial to get a blade stuck. say in the rib cage.
mircea_popescu: ;;google Dec. 6, 1989: Gamil Gharbi, 25, engineering student at the University of Montreal, kills 13 women and wounds others (he released the men.)
mircea_popescu: ;;google Frederick Davidson, 36, grad student in engineering at San Diego State, shoots three professors at his dissertation defense.
mircea_popescu: kinda discretely fart while standing, right in the face of seated ppl.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if i lived there i'd prep my girls with a literful of it in the rectum before going to a student party in one opf those cramped apts like they do.
mircea_popescu: whoops... in which we find tlp has 75% fewer comments than trilema over twice the period ? this sucks.