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mircea_popescu: it's not gratuitous, all this. it provides a very valuable signal, both to the inferior and to the superior.
mircea_popescu: but also why a certain attitude to ineptitude, from the "affirmative action", "wopmen in tech" "don't say nigger" all the way to stupidities like the equalitarism in freenode's policies is so very important. and why linus' "fuck you" is such a major thing.
mircea_popescu: kinda why stuff like the wot-foss i was discussing and even gossipd are so important
mircea_popescu: in any case, the entire lennart gambit is that "actually smart people won't be able to find each other in our sea of lemmings"
mircea_popescu: giving inept infantrymen good horses doesn't create an elite cavalry regiment, it just creates a lot of injured horses. giving stupid people smart things doesn't make them smart. it'll just make a lot of broken smart things.
mircea_popescu: kinda why "adoption" is meaningless. i don't care for anyone to "adopt" anything i do. i might care if they change to fit to it. but otherwise, good fucking luck, there's no value in having a bunch of pacific islanders speak english as if it were the retarded language they spoke before.
mircea_popescu: anyway. there's nothing wrong with the people who didn't belong in foss in the first place finding their own way out, just like there's nothing wrong with the people who have no business in bitcoin finding their own way out.
mircea_popescu: "because they have no political power - and that's what you want, a lot of lemmings"
mircea_popescu: LP: Yeah, and this is great – these are the people you want to have, because the vast majority of patches are actually of that kind. "
mircea_popescu: but a fuckwit 20something discussing how "people have not played with unix at all" is, indeed, amusing.
mircea_popescu: "in the most superficial level, some used -h for help, and others ––help. It’s not uniform." << i can't name a tool that doesn't actually honor both.
mircea_popescu: course, the prospect is a lot grim-er for linux, but hey.
mircea_popescu: the lulz is so thick, considering the playbook is identically replayed with the gavincoin
mircea_popescu: ". It’s growing all the time and now handles logging, device hotplugging events, networking, scheduled actions (like Cron) and much more. Almost every major Linux distribution has adopted Systemd, but there are still some unhappy campers out there,"
mircea_popescu: "Few pieces of software in history have been so fiercely debated as Systemd. "
mircea_popescu: to acquire a portion of the productively outlayed capital i nthe country.
mircea_popescu: retail is SUPPOSED to be front run for crying out loud.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there are at least a dozen honest online brokerages.
mircea_popescu: decimation a horrible deal. imagine all the noise you'd be pouring into the market.
mircea_popescu: yes, much more than say the specialst pays (specialist doesn't pay). this is inconsequential.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> the cheapo stock houses make a killing by charging xx usd / trade << iirc it's about a dime/a quarter per lot, which lot is usually 1k shares, which can easily be 100k usd.
mircea_popescu: essentially the principle being that you may find excellent "best actresses/cocksuckers", but not really "2nd best actresses/cocksuckers" in proportion.
mircea_popescu: decimation in any case spare works better at smaller size.
mircea_popescu: buffett oft dwells on the matter : it's easy for krill to find a good meal, on account of being small. not so easy for whale.
mircea_popescu: there is no significant advantage to size, and a serious problem to it.
mircea_popescu: decimation films are some of the most risky investments out there you know.
mircea_popescu: S'esvesque il est, signant les rues, qu'il soit le mien je le regny.
mircea_popescu: En l'an de mon trentiesme age, que toutes mes hontes j'euz beues, ne du tout fol, ne du tout saige non obstant maintes peines eues, lesquelles j'ay toutes receues soubz la main Thibault d'Aucigny ...
mircea_popescu: decimation why 100x ? you proposed a 1bn - >1.5 bn deal.
mircea_popescu: you know you can buy stocks online these days on about 1k i think ?
mircea_popescu: the poor flock to the city since the times of rabelais for the same reason : you can eat without working there.
mircea_popescu: apparently wikipedia deleted a page discussing the "forward" as a generic name for socialist publications after someone mocked obama for it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform washington post = newspaper in the sense projects = neighbourhoods.
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mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes like in chan ? pm it !up it responds with otp, pm it !v otp
mircea_popescu: btw decimation assbot now allows wotization, pm it !up
mircea_popescu: ah you're right. originally i read it as "we'll just keep more of it".
mircea_popescu: "Brothel for Slaking Intellectual Lusts" anyone here actually played planescape : torment ?
mircea_popescu: hory shit i had to pay half a tent of a bitcent in tx fees. HODL EVERYTHANG!!! MUST INCREASE BLOXSIZE PLOX!
mircea_popescu: "what my grenadiers are capable of, only I know. their equals might be found. their superiors - no."
mircea_popescu: "De lo que mis granaderos son capaces, solo lo sé yo. Quien los iguale habrá. Quien los exceda - no."
mircea_popescu: so there's a small statue in buenos aires with a san martin quote i absolutely love.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: there are plenty of people who are so focused on "mass adoption" as a priority that they will compromise any and all aspects of bitcoin to further that goal; what would get more mass adoption than endorsement from USG? << it could become a new brand of tide.
mircea_popescu: it really gets them the worst of both worlds, but hey, it's what committees get. no actual men there to take charge.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: gavincoin's probably it. << no. in typical fashion they're trying to play it "anonymously". ie, not official.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: this is how athero was able to launch ziggap << not a very good example. he had amassed trust over time, and likely at a higher cost than what he made out of it. the controlling factor there was "insane guy stopped taking his pills one day."