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mircea_popescu: + i accidentally sent asciilifeform's line about 2nd code and pots to some chick i'm talking with on the side. she's new and was just probing as to what's in principle required of new chicks.
mircea_popescu: this just took a turn for the weird - erryone discussing me in terms im unfamiliar with
mircea_popescu: beating the women i love is more work than i feel like as it is.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller eh let it excise itself. why should i do the work for people i don't even like.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> this is the correct use for the 'i dun wanna learn a second programming language' folks. << liek the ppl that want everything to be lisp ? :D
mircea_popescu: i dunno why all this geographic arrangement. a bitcoin island, a derp camp...
mircea_popescu: undata> "Javascript is actually in demand now for good reason. << "we are stupid but don't like to admit it" being the reason.
mircea_popescu: but at least the derp dept moved from "blockchain technology" to "bitcoin technology".
mircea_popescu: <thestringpuller> You can't make this shit up. << word.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> usg has more-or-less 'sat' upon the idle rich << the 'idle' (what does this mean? << the early modern period had ample supply of this particular type. literally, idle.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, the traditional heaven (dude, it's like a really large field, we can camp and hike! and graze!)
mircea_popescu: you can dress 'em whichever way you want, but in the end a monkey merely trained to recognise the letters is not a scholar, and just so these "modern" men and women are in fact quite primitive.
mircea_popescu: decimation the magical mental needs of the feeble minded don't go away simply because they are surrounded by / live in a society based on more advanced thoughts.
mircea_popescu: this is about 3x the mess they made over world cup stuff.
mircea_popescu: sooo buenos aires has decided to set itself on fire because some local team won the local football cup.
mircea_popescu: famously, ceausescu once visited kim in korea, came back with a cockfull of life and brand new ideas of how to perfect socialism.
mircea_popescu: i knew the moment the japanese started with that weird, and the us libtard class started paying attention, i knew this was coming.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: usg annihilated science to an extent no one ever, i suspect, thought of as possible. << lol not so. again the chinese lead. they burned the books 2x.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck would i write on a platform that doesn't run grep o.O
mircea_popescu: but otherwise, had this been centrally planned, it'd have worked as well as that whore cixi's trains.
mircea_popescu: the only great fortune of europe in the industrial age was that they copied the dutch approach (as the tulip mania was coming to a close, dutch courts simply refused to intervene in any capacity and "Fuck you!")
mircea_popescu: (they put a group of men in exclusive charge of battlefield rifle use)
mircea_popescu: just like the ottomans ended up "the sick man of europe" through a particular choice of centralisation
mircea_popescu: consider that china had helicopter designs cca 500ad, it had known of gunpowder for 3k years by the time we finally heard of it and they were writing alchemy treatises before homer was even walking the earth.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: if rifles could only be produced in 12 places on the planet, most fighting would still be conducted with spears and axes. <<< there's a lot of depth to this observation. for instance :
mircea_popescu: i honestly do not wish to write either walking or laying down.
mircea_popescu: all the bad things teh french revolution hated, like you know, lord X who owns property but "doesn't give anything back to society"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: would have to give enough of a shit to fund, but not enough to attempt to direct. this will happen shortly after pigs fly. << incidentally, this is why the idle rich are so important irl.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform every single room in this country has hardware, wrought iron tv supporter. i've not seen a tv yet standed on any surface.
mircea_popescu: i think best walking. am not trying to get a walking computor tho
mircea_popescu: undata that's pretty much google yeah. and also everyone else trying to copy them (fb etc)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: part of eternal quest for 'write in bed' machine << i hate writing in bed.
mircea_popescu: yeah, it's kinda what it is and kinda where it started.
mircea_popescu: as in, the downside of "the good stuff that can be had for cheap" ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> i wouldn't mind a car that runs on farts, if it were possible at home. << can you imagine hpow that'd go ? how it'd smell ? how uncomfortable the gas pipe'd get ?
mircea_popescu: the irony of modernity is that there's no shortage of answers. in fact, they're written generally a century ago. just... nobody [knows how to] reads.
mircea_popescu: jesus the fruits in this country, i can't get over it.
mircea_popescu: the more interesting tyhing is that BingoBoingo is practically becoming a field-trained paralegal.
mircea_popescu: it's like nigeria, except in nigeria you can't find dentists. in the us you can't find lawyers.
mircea_popescu: the crowd of vultures pretending to represent people's interests in the us courts while strictly representing the court's interest in people's lives is one of the most underrated problems of that country.
mircea_popescu: on advice from his court-provided or else court-owned scamlawyer
mircea_popescu: i certainly am not about to go over the man's picks and "improve em".
mircea_popescu: i didn't pick it either, and i am thankful for not having had to.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo basically they're just begging for attention at this point.
mircea_popescu: obviously, this is no reason to change anything, but as an intellectual pursuit.