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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.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, there is a lot of overlap between the problem of packing bits and the problems of blockchain and crypto isn;'t there.
mircea_popescu: but taking chickens away degrades performance but not storage ?
mircea_popescu: the ideal would be to have a permanent file storage that works by incrementally adding chickens to the task
mircea_popescu: dat tokenization. anyway, iirc it was on the same place last tiem
mircea_popescu: the entire us carrier approach to war is expensive and unwieldy.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im not so sure there's that much validity to that demonstration.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform at least it didn't get all the way to snotislav or something
mircea_popescu: i like it when hirelings go "hello micrea". on a first name basis with people you don't even know the first name of ? way to fail multiple times per line!
mircea_popescu: what's the worst that can happen. and nobody reads anyway, and who's going to figure anything out
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform most folk get this idea that "they're in control of their own life" and that "they won't have to do anything they don't want to do" and so...
mircea_popescu: "a stunted copulation between a woman who hadn’t been laid in decades and a man who interrogated mattress springs for a living"
mircea_popescu: who the fuck knows, it's a shitty life the junkies, whores and assets lead.
mircea_popescu: if the car worked on an ideal carnot cycle it'd be pretty much fireworks show
mircea_popescu: select from blog_derps where location within 50 miles and factor 1..n in $criteria or has car etc
mircea_popescu: think cc server - rooted box. i'm the rooted box. say something to me!
mircea_popescu: now, propose a situation, sketch a plan and give me an order.
mircea_popescu: let's model it properly. you're the kgb special assets chain of command, and i'm orlov.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform specifically, legwork. orlov's blog, is that legwork ?
mircea_popescu: sorta fringe-y, sorta-angry but not really, "let's make a new alphabet"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform remember that rather accurate depiction of "typical agent" ?
mircea_popescu: what does any other derp paying for "online marketing" ?