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mircea_popescu: yet they do understand enough of you know, basic arithmetic and thermodynamics to see that a "same price" argument is pure nonsense.
mircea_popescu: but there are these people in the middle, who either because they're young, or because they're marginally educated, or marginally intelligent, don't really find themselves in a position of serene immunity.
mircea_popescu: i mean, the written output of the bezzle world is not about convincing, or for that matter even fooling mp.
mircea_popescu: i find it fascinating just how willing to insult their audience these people are.
mircea_popescu: either this guy is dumb or the most bald faced scammer ever. seriously, that's how prices work ?
mircea_popescu: "So they claim it's because they want to drive down salaries. But if you talk to startups, you find practically every one over a certain size has gone through legal contortions to get programmers into the US, where they then paid them the same as they'd have paid an American. Why would they go to extra trouble to get programmers for the same price? "
mircea_popescu: and i have to invent some explanation to account for all the effort libtards have put into trying to break down functional society ?
mircea_popescu: "The anti-immigration people have to invent some explanation to account for all the effort technology companies have expended trying to make immigration easier. "
mircea_popescu: such an improbable feat, that, if you think of it. most of the bad languages i met in my adolescence are dead and im not even old yet!
mircea_popescu: *: decimation thinks that time horizon has already been reached <<< pretty much. i dun know any great programmers that want to go to the us. i know some great progreammers stuck i nthere that haven't yet figured that yes, they can leave
mircea_popescu: ascii_modem much like pestilence is a hygiene problem. sure, it is. doesn't hurt having smooth surfaces tho.
mircea_popescu: im fucking excited to see these guy's monthly report for dec or jan or whenever's next
mircea_popescu: cazalla: well, that didn't take long.. bitcoinfoundation.org has redesigned their website yet again <<< gotta do something...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform's "whatsoever" sucks, not least of all because it creates hole for various gnomes to shoehorn their stuff in
mircea_popescu: download and verify blocks, create and broadcast txn which are included in blocks.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: what does it mean to bitcoinate? << download and verify blocks, create and broadcast blocks which are in turn verified.
mircea_popescu: "You need to learn an important lesson and it will not be complete until you are completely humiliated -- or you figure out that what you have done is so bad and stupid that you simply leave us alone until the shame wears off." << surprising naggum never made the next logical step into bdsm.
mircea_popescu: "Why do you need to have this pointed out in public after you demonstrate again and again that you do not understand what you are saying, cannot do what you say "is not option", and continue to blame others for your behavior?" could have been removed without loss, for instance. parsimony is a great approach, especially when dealing with idiots.
mircea_popescu: re the "turned their nose, mainly on account of these pieces", there is something in there i can see as well. it could be reduced to mere bad writing, but otherwise there's this recursive insistence on boring, banal shit that gives the impression the guy's not quite... you know, queenheaded.
mircea_popescu: hm, from asciilifeform's naggum link. "The moralist would not _be_ a moralist if he were willing to abide by and obey the rules he thinks that other people should follow."
mircea_popescu: how about we do something useful. it's been... about a year or so i've been trying to set yu people up with servers.
mircea_popescu: t anyway, since you seem to be pretty much the balance of still active freenode staff : rather than wasting time on this nonsense of some kid that thinks banal netbios ddos makes him a wizard (which i think has outlived its charm anyway)
mircea_popescu: i was waiting for that absolute becoming comparable at the hands of the internet busineseers.
mircea_popescu: davout: who decided, and why, that the contents should be gpg signed ? << oh for cryssakes it was in the log like 20 times.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: decimation kinda what leads to my "no men" statements. brutality only works on certain types.
mircea_popescu: is this the guy that got beaten to death by teh frenchies ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, this discussion readily reduces to stuff typified by like... tom sawyer
mircea_popescu: decimation seems a distinction without a difference in the context.
mircea_popescu: ascii_modem i've not seen many exterminators scurrying to scuttle their embassy or anything like that.
mircea_popescu: the us is not the us of vietnam era, when what you say was probably true.
mircea_popescu: by the way : i've been reading chinese magazines, in the sense of looking at the pictures.
mircea_popescu: watch us foreign policy around china and you'll get a pretty good idea of how the war'd go. according to both parties.
mircea_popescu: not only are there ~3 armies it could never touch, but it's getting humiliated on a regular basis by the orks in the desert.
mircea_popescu: what the hell is this war planning where "willing and able" are ifs on the part of the enemy ?
mircea_popescu: "A woman without her man is nothing had an infinite number of arms"
mircea_popescu: ascii_modem well, maybe they make the fighter-bombers of the future work on love.
mircea_popescu: t incidentally, how recent are these complains ? vandal seems to have moved on maybe a week or two ago.
mircea_popescu: decimation is this "proper secure comms" thing like the holy sacrament ?
mircea_popescu: t let me find you the relevant discussion in #freenode.
mircea_popescu: sort-of like the misbehaving nerd who imagines his school experience is life experience. "oh, he wouldn't REALLY punch me in the face."
mircea_popescu: was carried out by men that didn't even own the fucking plane they used.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, the most successful airstrike in human history
mircea_popescu: but to be a warlike country that'd require warlike men. and that is not something the current us can support.
mircea_popescu: the correct focus, when it comes to airfight, is cheapness. as the germans well proved, and then the allies well learned from them.
mircea_popescu: in this sense, like the flying submarine or the pocket tank, it's pure nonsense.
mircea_popescu: this plain fact meeting the us' unwillingness to actually fight created a mirage : the jet fighter that's not really a jet fighter
mircea_popescu: air war is by its nature an attrition war. airplanes are made to be destroyed, fundamentally.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes the discussion can't possibly reach those merits,
mircea_popescu: the problem of f-35 is "transgender rights" and "women in tech" and "check your priviledge"
mircea_popescu: this constant trying to unload blame for very personal, very peculiar, very speciffic and very narrow incompetence and idiocy on facts of math, physics and the world generally is ridoinculous.