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mircea_popescu: "More precisely, I crawled 250,113,669 pages for just under 580 dollars in 39 hours and 25 minutes, using 20 Amazon EC2 machine instances."
mircea_popescu: i'm talking "put in this file all urls found on all pages of 1mn sites" sort of thing.
mircea_popescu: so if one wants to spider a lot of sites and extract links, how would one go about that ?
mircea_popescu: totally fascinating this notion that nudity is somehow antipatriarchy.
mircea_popescu: or what, the failure of last years' taken the jam out of the marketeer's donut ?
mircea_popescu: wasn't this supposed to be like all big deal discount "largest sale night of the year" etc ?
mircea_popescu: what other fucking undoubtedly do these people have ? global warming, right ?
mircea_popescu: not only this undoubtedly flies in the face of reason, but actually, it's bitcoin-illegal to "do work"
mircea_popescu: "There undoubtedly needs to be work done to ensure that Bitcoin operates under a best practice regulatory regime."
mircea_popescu: somehow i doubt this will actually work, but anyway, ding me later with actual ns
mircea_popescu: anyway, seems to me it delivered exactly as advertised.
mircea_popescu: cazalla "No small talk, huh? They shoot your horse?" "f there's any justice..."
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> "ignore it" not with "debunk it" or "use it" << ignoring herr lysenko is best done from across an ocean. << the internet is an ocean.
mircea_popescu: people generally are slaves. this holds true irrespective of what the fashionable slavegarb is at any point.
mircea_popescu: it doesn't care if you fight "for" or "against" it, just as long as your fight is ~about~ it.
mircea_popescu: you're still depending on it, whether you like it or not.
mircea_popescu: just as long as you agree to move your sustenance to stealing from the government, the government won.
mircea_popescu: the part where he says "Regardless of whether you waive the fine or not, and despite conditional terms added to reassert authority"
mircea_popescu: decimation lemme illustrate the point with a humorous story.
mircea_popescu: that comes to... brace yourselves... 250 bucks a year per capita.
mircea_popescu: the only innovation there is refusing to take them in exchange for the only thing they used to be good for.
mircea_popescu: then REFUSED to take the same in exchange for tax receipts ?
mircea_popescu: you can't go plunk down a pile of em and get dollars in exchange.
mircea_popescu: not even kidding. you know that thing where you can't walk for 50 miles without ending up in a town, nor 10 miles without crossing a road ?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla unlike europe, the us is very poorly developed.
mircea_popescu: now to the massive task of documenting this deedsbot thing.
mircea_popescu: from tax breaks to deferring of college debt, it's all a gift.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> one can get a nice flat and three fine meals [...] not coughing up any great advances in arts. <<< yes, they are.
mircea_popescu: what else do you suppose keeps approximately-washed middle aged boys in shared apartments with internet access ?
mircea_popescu: wait a seccond. is lawsky the reddit supernintendo or the actual supernintendo ?
mircea_popescu: whenever "joe said" is not automatically followed by "oh yea ? and who the fuck is joe ?" the situation is already in the handbasked and moments away from hell.
mircea_popescu: the us worked just fine, and definitely better than the entire rest of the world, BEFORE extending the franchise.
mircea_popescu: be it the peasants in russia, or the derps in nazi germany, whenever the "common man" is taken from under the foot and put on the table trouble soon follows.
mircea_popescu: all you need to have a reign of terror is to empower the bottom of the social hierarchy. it never fails.