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mircea_popescu: nono, "mayor would like to spread the wealth but can not find the time to do so"
mircea_popescu: Adlai: i'm not a huge fan of leaving open the door to known-cleartext snooping through pastebin verification << le explain ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i suppose the standard best practice when newbs make accounts would be inserting a rider with "and don't add a btc address, it just creates pointless ambiguity"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo im not saying the three links couldn't assemble into a great piece, but merely that it has to actually be done. ie, reader doesn't have access to the lulz in your head, put it on teh page.
mircea_popescu: Adlai: is this gpgadlai or btcadlai? only gribble knows... << nanotube you know, he brings a very good point. how would i go to check that he is in fact and specifically gpg authed ?
mircea_popescu: you can wait few hours for mircea_popescu and ask him << how does jurov know!!!
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo but listen, if that's your angle (detroit sucks) then make it your title. if that doesn't work then why not ?
mircea_popescu: that said, i struggle to comprehend what the idea is behind BingoBoingo's collection of factoids.
mircea_popescu: seems this filter of yours is doing exactly as much useful work as every filter ever.
mircea_popescu: email him that, at least he can reclassify it. HUNTING!
mircea_popescu: speaking of old one, your friends happened ot read it saifedean ?
mircea_popescu: then it yanks the plug and there goes the "business model"
mircea_popescu: saifedean the way that noobs usually work these things is, they put in some work for a few months, and while they're small whatever bank they lied to doesn't bother to notice.
mircea_popescu: like, what are these friends. are they cooks ? airplane pilots ?
mircea_popescu: but, so far the business model is "dude where's my car"
mircea_popescu: and their last toe support got squeezed to fuck in s.mpoe, so there's going to be a reckoning next week or something like that.
mircea_popescu: <thestringpuller> "I like the blockchain just not bitcoin itself is like saying I like pussy but not women themselves" << more like "i like round things but not circles, because this difference exists"
mircea_popescu: "I really hope that folks who value user choice will be willing to work with those who are trying to introduce improved ways of doing things regardless of what we decide." <<< and there's the giveaway.
mircea_popescu: i have this baby in bathwater obsession, myself. "teaching the controversy" is just americanized, which is to say, "cut into bits and rubbed in shit" hegelian dialectics.
mircea_popescu: it just has to be a controversy between actual people.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in fairness, there's a lot of value to teaching the controversy.
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mircea_popescu: i propose in this case "not participation" is punching some blind twerp right in the face.
mircea_popescu: when some kid is annoying you don't pick up and leave, you punch him in the nose.
mircea_popescu: except this'd be th every definition of not being people. if they were people they'd do something else for a living.
mircea_popescu: "have some empathy for the people who want to take a shit on the collected effort of the people you happen to respect! they're people too!"
mircea_popescu: if you were a cock - which you obviously are not bwahhhaha i need a minute here lmao - if you were a cock
mircea_popescu: but anyway, it's not just "gather enough filth in one place"
mircea_popescu: i mean, the "other speeds more important to us" thing is nowhere near.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform have you ever seen something this idiotic ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah well, at some point im gotta have to insult some unfortunate bystanding trashbag or something, or else collapse into A = A circularity.
mircea_popescu: someone should make a bitbet about it, i'd throw a few cents.
mircea_popescu: anyway, seems to me clear teh usg-debian believes it got the votes
mircea_popescu: let's fucking "value each other's" banana peels and sing koombaya.
mircea_popescu: five fucking centuries of european intellectual heritate, which is the exactly ONLY reason the US even exists in the first place, down the drain. "We wanna be africans now. Hold hands."
mircea_popescu: and then driveby's have the unmitigated audacity to discuss #b-a cult-ness. how do you like that!
mircea_popescu: the point of discussion is not to discover the wrong alternatives, or the right alternatives.
mircea_popescu: There isn't a right answer. As Russ has explained a number of times in the TC, on debian-vote and on his blog, this is about tradeoffs. I'm sure some people will be happy if the project's values are aligned with theirs. When they take that as far as saying the project made the "right decision" or rejected "bad options," they are not valuing the contributions of those who disagreed with them.
mircea_popescu: no but srsly, that letter is an exact summary of everything that's wrong with the english language space.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing to save here. just burn the entire stack where it stands an' that's that.
mircea_popescu: fuckign to-feeling arguments in THE MOTHERFUCKING DEBIAN LISTS.
mircea_popescu: im completely unclear as to why the fuck usg wants the "one computer system" so badly anyway.
mircea_popescu: sam hartman is a 30something nobody, roughly speaking a debian gmaxwell
mircea_popescu: then a few years later windows migrated to "kerberos" as its primary security protocol
mircea_popescu: the gutted thing was reimplemented by some nordic country university
mircea_popescu: decimation kerberos was developed by mit in the 80s. a gutted export version was created. as the usg was going to (again) change its export restriction in 2000,
mircea_popescu: perhaps an instructive case study as to how usg protocol confiscation works in the field.
mircea_popescu: i dunno if i'm the only one privy to the history of that protocol ?