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mircea_popescu: that problem, you know ? "o noes, james smith has reinveted the wheel!"
mircea_popescu: the problems he considers are in fact very rudimentary restatements of ancient considerations, and his complete unawareness of the space readily gives me ground to say "being a progressive makes you stupid".
mircea_popescu: at least, this was the approach favoured by socrates and his school (platon, aristotel). which brings us back to the problem with paul graham : he is exactly the sort of scandalous ignoramus the us produces these days.
mircea_popescu: of course, even should that be the merely unavoidable flow of things, proposing to stick with "nice people" as a palliative is not unlike proposing to stop eating because well, eating will in due course bring about your death.
mircea_popescu: there is of course also this (perhaps not entirely uninterested, perhaps even progressive-wetdream, perhaps actually correct) theory that ruthlessness rusts over time, and in the end you're always left with a psychopath.
mircea_popescu: the people who manage to distinguish the effectually ruthless from the merely psychopathic always come out ahead, whether they're otherwise great or not, intelligent or not, whatever their situation may be.
mircea_popescu: depends a fucking helluvalot WHAT, or as the case may be whom. the "best people" that are attracted to spineless idiots are never successful.
mircea_popescu: this is like saying "you can't get cool people to hang out in places where there's fire because fgire burns".
mircea_popescu: "Another reason mean founders lose is that they can't get the best people to work for them. They can hire people who will put up with them because they need a job. But the best people have other options. A mean person can't convince the best people to work for him unless he is super convincing. And while having the best people helps any organization, it's critical for startups."
mircea_popescu: apparently graham has not done his pascal reading. how about that lol.
mircea_popescu: out real problems. Which is particularly painful to someone who cares how their brain is used: your brain goes fast but you get nowhere, like a car spinning its wheels."
mircea_popescu: "Why? I think there are several reasons. One is that being mean makes you stupid. That's why I hate fights. You never do your best work in a fight, because fights are not sufficiently general. Winning is always a function of the situation and the people involved. You don't win fights by thinking of big ideas but by thinking of tricks that work in one particular case. And yet fighting is just as much work as thinking ab
mircea_popescu: obviously sin breeds sin, had the generation of justices called to protect their country in the 1920s done a good job of it, the following generation wouldn't have seen itself confronted with "the government has stolen people's gold, whatcha gonna do about it"
mircea_popescu: yes, it's a landmark failure of the us legal system to protect the us the us pretends to be.
mircea_popescu: undata yeah. good luck moving lovage, mint, rosemary, walnuts, etc.
mircea_popescu: the rteason the civilise west exists is specifically because fucking idiots got burned at the stake for being fucking idiots.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, all the people trained to hate the supreme sacred congregation of the holy office and their historical activities :
mircea_popescu: yes, you can't readily cure magic. which is why africa is and will remain africa.
mircea_popescu: nor, since there's no way out, is there any incentive to do anything but worsen it.
mircea_popescu: decimation since carter at least. yes. and there's no way out of this.
mircea_popescu: perhaps not understanding that "give me free money" only works for that kid, with the truck.
mircea_popescu: undata pretty much, it's almost as if cazalla's farm decided to enact itself into a "tech scene"
mircea_popescu: the day will come when being white will actually be exactly what the white supremacists feed themselves out of fearing : a handicap.
mircea_popescu: neither russians nor chinese are all that ethnically blind.
mircea_popescu: and, unlike the fucking pretense and idiocy now current in the white world,
mircea_popescu: it's like nobody bothers to wish ill on the cancer patient. that's why russia and china are not even remotely interested in a large scale war.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing more corrosive to a state, and a society, and ultimately a culture, than fake money. it's the curse of fucking doom, you don't even need enemies if you got that.
mircea_popescu: because people do this, there's idiots whose careers are entirelyt constructed out of "advising start-ups", like undata is keenly aware.
mircea_popescu: the sheer amount of plain idiocy being imported into the software of the world by this avenue far exceeds all the idiocy that could ever be imported into openssh or the kernel.
mircea_popescu: add to that all the idiots living off "free money" that was GIVEN tro them, while selling themselves on and trying to sell everyone else on how they're "making a positive impact"
mircea_popescu: linux is a nice comfortable chair. after red hat is done sitting in it, it will perhaps be still usable. maybe. like the woman that delivered a baby hippo will still make a good wife.
mircea_popescu: like the stuff discussed above re usg agency redhat, fuycking up linux. EXACTLY the stiuation of the giant ruining a chair.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: that's the small part. the big part is the disruption it has already caused, and it continues to cause each passing day.
mircea_popescu: "If the Treasury were forced to convert the $1.4 trillion in short-term bills (on which it now pays an average interest rate of 0.056 percent) into 30-year bonds at the average rate it is now paying on such bonds (4.919 percent) the interest on that $1.4 trillion in debt would increase 88-fold." <<< this is wreaking untold havoc on the entire known world, incidentally .it's not just the disruption it WILL cause as it u
mircea_popescu: this is how i know i'm not a programmer. i have not actually pressed any F key in... uh. months ?
mircea_popescu: while derping at conferences about how you're what was it, "transcending"
mircea_popescu: undata see, this is why you should go work for me making 0.18 btc an hour.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: yes because even more pretending will save the world << my fucking thoughts exactly.
mircea_popescu: undata: please take my course on the above for only 10 BTC << too cheap to work.
mircea_popescu: because yes, there fucking IS more to it than just the politicals of uncle sam going "o hai linux guise, you has some cattle of mine, taking them back kthxbye"
mircea_popescu: jurov: this is the undoing of C.. due to its memory unsafety they must decide to either bloat the kernel or suffer the overhead <<< out of the 10`000 billion lines of commentary written on the "usg is making up money and giving it to redhat to implement its policies ; whereby control economy is now called "do-ocracy" topic the past year or so, yours is the first one to actually be fucking sensible.
mircea_popescu: should make for pretty decent shows for like, corporate parties and expensive weddings and whatnot. And now, Billy Bob, the Ice Mage!
mircea_popescu: in any case... the high fantasy power of the ice / frost mage, at your fingertips. all you need is a compressor.
mircea_popescu: perhaps works even better at the bottom of a shallow lake. "self-reorganising lake".
mircea_popescu: as the gas expanding sucks heat out of the canister, ice forms, which insulates, so eventually the gas coming out the outlet is itself supercooled, sucking the heat out of the atmosphere and making ice in random patterns. baiscally, "self-building ice tree"
mircea_popescu: then open up an outlet in a convenient atmosphere, such as where a mist machine is working, or maybe just very humid tropical climate,
mircea_popescu: so here's an idea i just had : if one were to take a gas with favourable properties (such as high phase lambda, low evaporation temperature, stuff like that) and put a bunch of it liquefied in a canister
mircea_popescu: in spite of having had some good points, mounted on the chick's chest.
mircea_popescu: the girl gets shoved in and he gets to stay behind the rope.
mircea_popescu: it's sort of like the beta dork showing up with his hot sister at the exclusive bar.
mircea_popescu: it's funny how they always proceed with this "chiken can eat the highway" outlook.
mircea_popescu: there's kinda no way out of the "i don't want to pay attention, why don't i understand anything" trap.
mircea_popescu: kuzetsa yeah i guess it's way too web 2.0 for its own good.
mircea_popescu: but then again, they never wanted to make a good game ; they just wanted to make a game everyone plays, and pays .
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 i agree, they had the most braindamaged administrative approach
mircea_popescu: III. Until rock hits sixty at which point rock becomes an unstoppable killing machine that also beats paper, and would beat scissors, but it can't find scissors, because scissors are invisible. So scissors beat paper and avoid rock, and that is called balance.
mircea_popescu: II. Paper beats rock. Scissors beat paper. Scissors also happen to beat rock...
mircea_popescu: I. Rogues are scissors. Warriors are rock. Hunters, paladins, priests, druids, mages, and shamans are paper. Warlocks are mushrooms.
mircea_popescu: decimation> it's 'dead' in the sense that there's apparently no serious alternative to redhat-salaried developers who 'maintain' the core of userspace <<< history is the alternative.
mircea_popescu: i suppose the only point being proven is that insecure idiots, low on skills and very high on politicizing are never going to go away.
mircea_popescu: decimation basically this systemd is a ms windows of 1990s reboot.
mircea_popescu: and hidemyass is probably the most used web based proxy