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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform cloth unquestionably exists ; so exists bad code.
mircea_popescu: they probably learn more useful & important stuff playing counterstrike than mashing the kbd for code.
mircea_popescu: it's what computer geek means, these days. "shy, socially awkward teenager that doesn't know how to use computers, in spite of spending a lot of time with them"
mircea_popescu: like gavin, or the rest. the million people that's a million extra hands on github
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i mean mostly the ruby and web2.0 "we r code" bunch.
mircea_popescu: dunning kruger is not reserved to idiots. it's just another name for the aspie's sufferance.
mircea_popescu: yet somehow their inability to score girlfriends or be the life of the party does not even begin to hint to them that perhaps they're ill prepared to judge economic phenomena.
mircea_popescu: all sorts of things seem obvious by simile to people with no experience and not much intellectual curiosity.
mircea_popescu: anyway, if ever there was a social experiment to illustrate just how little computer geeks understand, bitcoin's it.
mircea_popescu: not like you're going to do anything whatsoever BECAUSE of the usg.
mircea_popescu: you know, for an ironclad case the prosecution claims, and for an independence from the state the judge pretends,
mircea_popescu: decimation it's as fucking unbriliant as a lump of coal. at the end of the week, instead of having a decent steak and a game of bridge with intellgient people,
☟︎ mircea_popescu: socialistoids of all flavours praise this system of "dilute ownership"
mircea_popescu: hire some derp to work your company, pay him by share price, next thing you know he;'s buying up your stock.
mircea_popescu: buffett explained this scam back when he was still you know, possessed of himself.
mircea_popescu: "well i guess that's fair, they also sell for 20-30mn"
mircea_popescu: "yreah, my gf sells romance novels, it was like 3 of her books"
mircea_popescu: x company sells for 100 mn. you talk to the founders... they made 50k off the deal.
mircea_popescu: these magical money that make anyone rich up to the point where they'rer to be spent...
mircea_popescu: but they're suddenly NOT the same thing if they leave the circuit, are they.
mircea_popescu: why's google, apple and etc not pay a trillion ? it's just bezzlars anyway.
mircea_popescu: but they can spend A TRILLION for a shitty plane, those people ?
mircea_popescu: thus it's more productive energy-wise to use faster bullets, not larger slower ones.
mircea_popescu: problem with idiots is that even middlingly executed parody is indistinguishable from their actual creeds.
mircea_popescu: ??! I don’t want him to hate me because I have a crush on his hot friend, but rape is not ok. I let him continue and we both came, but it’s natural to have sensations even when raped. I can’t even think straight anymore idk what to do. Thinking about posting his Facebook here."
mircea_popescu: "So I think I was raped last night…. Or sexually assaulted. I was hooking up with this guy I regularly hook up with since the break up, but I’m not really into him and just kinda want him to satisfy me u know? So we were having sex like usual…. But then he turned me around and began penetrating me from behind “doggy style.” He kept going. Not ONCE did he ask if it was ok to change positions. What should I do
mircea_popescu: generally the paper revolutionaries looking for a little "investment" tend to make it clear they don't actually wish to rock the boat.
mircea_popescu: dude check it out, the only extant country he actually mentions is romania
mircea_popescu: somehow it seems to me he uses conscript as transliteration of ciolovek
mircea_popescu: IN RUSSIA WE ALSO HAVE RULES OF COURTING. DO NOT BRING SIDEARM TO FIRST TIME WITH GIRL. SENDS WRONG MESSAGE, THAT YOU ARE BAD CONSCRIPT WHO WILL RAPE GIRL.
mircea_popescu: hey ivan chesnokov : apply will you. all you need is a gpg sig, you can sit behind 7 proxies for all i care.
mircea_popescu: SURE, IS ONLY YUGOSLAV COPY TYPE BUT IS STILL PROUD DESIGN OF SERGEI SIMONOV. THIS IS LIKE SENDING HIM BIRTHDAY CARD WITH SEVERED OFF THUMB OF DAUGHTER IN ENVELOPE. "HAPPY BIRTHDAY SERGEI! I PISS ON ALL YOU CREATE!"
mircea_popescu: that's a good fucking question lmao. sks fired from the hip by teenage boys in rural texas ? no wonder people can't land fucking rockets.
mircea_popescu: WHAT IN FUCK IS DONE TO THIS POOR RIFLE? STUPID HICK AMERICAN WITH TEN GALLON HAT AND GIANT PICKUP TRUCK LOOKS AT PERFECTLY FINE SIMONOV KARBIN AND SAYS "NO, RIFLE NEED MORE DUMB SHIT ON IT"?
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> why this obsession with new programming languages <<< same reason every us chick has had three prior sex partners.
mircea_popescu: i dunno why you ppls keep reading/linking this crud, srsly. they're broken, we know they're broken... i guess it's decent comedy
mircea_popescu: npw i finally understand what they mean by boosting the economy.
mircea_popescu: and get rid of that idiotic one inch white atop the header.
mircea_popescu not about to click on more arstechnica etc. qntra or bust.