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mircea_popescu: don't tell me the thing's intended for kansasites who are barbaric enough to never heard of and so never miss sushi
mircea_popescu: so the paleo fad diet experts among us : what the fuck do you do about sushi ?
mircea_popescu: im waiting for the one that scrolls crazy shitstick on all sides
mircea_popescu: i mean, they all depend on being the only one as a business model, by now the only firm guarantee that can be made is that nobody will EVER make a dime in that market
mircea_popescu: is anyone even keepiung count of all these braindamaged "services" the bezzle keeps pumping out ?
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic no argument there, but i just don't happen to give a shit about chess, what can i tell you
mircea_popescu: you'll have to play with someone who actulaly knows how.
mircea_popescu: RetroUpriser sorry man, i'll have to take a bow here. my table is too fubar for a 3rd debug attempt
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic because... i don't know it ? so ended up making some shit up on the spot ?
mircea_popescu: aw shgit i had the pawn moved not the bishiop. my bad.
mircea_popescu: so now, is X the queen or the king in that arrangement ? or is white caps or no caps ?
mircea_popescu: RetroUpriser ima do algebraic notation in about 5 minutes lemme type out some letters
mircea_popescu: And she had to apologize at once for her voice, which was a very unfair voice for a woman to use. Her voice was a warm, luminous, timeless melody. "Excuse me-" she said, and she began again, making her voice absolutely uncompetitive.
mircea_popescu: "By their nature as vigilantes, acting outside or above the law, most superheroes have a troubling undercurrent of aristocratic, undemocratic, authoritarian values."
mircea_popescu: english has the funcitonal equivalent, "the deal fell through"
mircea_popescu: and to think the derps are going o nbout "blockchain technology". as if.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> it's not even a 'technology' in the sense semiconductor is - but more as arithmetic is. << quite agreed,
mircea_popescu: "hard to keep people from observing water is wet once their wanderings take them to an ocean"
mircea_popescu: nothing as indomitable as an idea whose time has come eh
mircea_popescu: but the unbreached fortress is exactly as fortified as any other unbreached fortress : infinitely so.
mircea_popescu: just how well fortified it actually is =- that's a technical discussion'
mircea_popescu: a fortress is first and foremost an embodied fuck you.
mircea_popescu: "god help us if people are in charge of their own lives, anything b ut that" ?
mircea_popescu: mircea_popescu The idea being that any current “social media” website is a defective implementation of the WoT, what I intend to do is prove this point. Because the sort of idiots involved won’t figure it on their own, and the assholes a la zuck and conde nast have about as much interest in the matter as your random bank cares about getting off shitty buggy ms software.
mircea_popescu: hear what five hundred internet imbeciles thought about racism in THIS film
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform which is why the "unspecified" website i asked for someone to make a month ago and punkman volunteered is EXACTLY a wot-driven film database.
mircea_popescu: while the exercise is instructive, i don't really believe it's the girls' fault exactly.
mircea_popescu: but the problem is not merely storage. retrieval is up there too. consider the simple task "let us watc ha movie". the girls now have to find one. i've distributed more lashes for failure to find good films than for all other reasons combined, in 2014.
mircea_popescu: "and here is where we keep the books" . "what's in them ? " " letter"
mircea_popescu: in fact, the way digital stuff is handled, it reminds me of how books would be handled in the house a functionally illiterate peasant from the 1900s.
mircea_popescu: imagine if libraries of the paper variety were organised on the principle that "well if you want something to read we prolly have a coupla books"
mircea_popescu: suppose i wanted to do something of the substance of actual reason, knowledge, science. da fuck do i do ? pray ?
mircea_popescu: yes, it serves someone wanting to jack off just fine, because nobody needs three hours of video to rub one out
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'll tell you something about obscure. perhaps the best franchise in the history of western pornography is kink.com. best in purely aesthetic terms. now, their various brands, things such as i dunno, publichumiliation exist on the piratebay in the sense of maybe a dozen items out of what, 500 ? 1k total ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform how's the russian thing work ? mostly as undata's idea, right ? loosely affiliated, % enforcing warez sites
mircea_popescu: how about this canonical formulation of it : most of what i know i know alone, because the "internet" is made out of knowledge in the sense the earth is made out of grass.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, the current state of the web, 50% or more linkrotted away
mircea_popescu: problem goes deeper : if "who can add is finite" then you have a point of failure baked in quite nastily.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in short, your complaint is legitimate but the solution unobvious.
mircea_popescu: well, the problem ehre is this : immutable datastore comes with the problem of, who may add to it.