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mircea_popescu: in todays heretic tales, using bechamel sauce as a base for pizza instead of tomato sauce works fucking great.
mircea_popescu: cazalla word count, ima make a report like for s.mpoe referencing it.
mircea_popescu: ppl who have mpex accts get them added there. people who don't have to contact jurov, get them on coinbr
mircea_popescu: <cazalla> no news today but that money2020 event is on << so publish the qntra shares list.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller honestly, i'm not in a position to manage the workflow. i'll go with whatever the director wants to use. it's his film not mine.
mircea_popescu: are the current wives marrying all sfondate not real wives ?
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller well it all depends on what the real thing is.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller srsly, this sounds to me exactly like bounce 's objection coming from a different ego investment.
mircea_popescu: idiot's always felt emboldened by his purely political, stupideological decision that the effective, immediate answer of the intelligent "don't exist".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what would the 2nd step be of a broom processing a program, if the broom were capable of processing programs ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you don't understand how the idiots work,.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "get money to pay for anything you might want for free"
mircea_popescu: "Yes, but that's a common problem with ANY "socialist" measure to help workers, whether it be minimum wage or full blown communism, or anything in between. Global capitalism is a race to the bottom. If we keep playing that game, I see nothing but a dystopian future of neofuedalism and a regression to gilded age economic policies."
mircea_popescu: because "fuck you" is apparently not good enough now o.O
mircea_popescu: "Could someone point me to any good arguments AGAINST basic income?"
mircea_popescu: punkman what happens should one try to register mirceA_Popescu ?
mircea_popescu: then let it be, dubious adding more complexity will do anything.
mircea_popescu: if you bundle its contents with later material you have constructed two competing txn, one of which will be introduced.
mircea_popescu: the reason is that once you broadcast a tx, you no longer have control of it.
mircea_popescu: assbot: Jeffrey Robinson, Author & Journalist << oh he's the clueless idiot with yet another "bitcoin book" that's neither a book nor about bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: the only way to change it is to bury it in a sea of "jeez, i guess i was wrong" and subsequent self improvement. << a good point.
mircea_popescu: money works the same way, there's us and there's reddit, and there's no real path for the redditard to get in the wot. sure, he could, but as the article says, "The small chip camera owner cannot cross the forbidden zone for 30 BTC reasons, and even if he did, he wouldn’t have the necessary skills."
mircea_popescu: computers have worked exactly that same way, too. there's people who cli and then there's the hopeless horde looking for the any key. there's nothing in between, nor should there be, and kids learning to "program for the web" aren't ever going to become professionals.
mircea_popescu: this is how things naturally evolve, and it also happens to be the right way.
mircea_popescu: this is absolutely the rule of the world. why do you think there's monkeys and humans, and nothing in between ? author ever heard of punctuated equilibrium ?
mircea_popescu: at are so expensive that even professionals cringe. It’s like owning a jumbo jet: you can’t afford not to fly it, hence the constant references to workflow in the marketing. Alas, in between these two types we find the equivalent of a valence band or forbidden zone." << this has nothing to do with marketing.
mircea_popescu: "Digital photography today is another victim of the dead hand of marketing, where short term gain overrides any other concern. Broadly speaking, marketing has created two types of camera. There are those with small chips that are cheap – increasingly incorporated into a cell phone – have a rubbish lens, need no skill to operate and therefore teach the user nothing. And then there are those cameras with big chips th
mircea_popescu: disney is butthurt that it doesn't make that list, but it definitely never will.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the open secret here is that google for many years has no longer used computers to compile its list, but merely links wikipedia facebook and some other friends to the top by default.
mircea_popescu: at least if they had made it .co.uk it'd have been complete.
mircea_popescu: "because Disney.go.com is the official domain for The Walt Disney Company." << i have nfi how to put into words the idiocy of this
mircea_popescu: guy in bar "i wanna piss on the ceiling" bartender "stfu and piss in the toilet, a toilet should be enough for all the pissing"
mircea_popescu: "Medium format system cameras also have interchangeable backs, so you can switch between monochrome, colour and Polaroid film in seconds. In due course, you would switch to a digital sensor and leave it there." << here.
mircea_popescu: "really honey, you wanna fuck but don't wanna suck ? oh, and this is up to you, is it ? stfu and swallow it!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform conversely, the fault of people who think they can so misapply their will.
mircea_popescu: the "profession" of photography is not evolving towards going back to film cameras. it's evolving towards drone cameras. they find the right spot on their own, fly around, take a bunch of photos for you etc.
mircea_popescu: afore the computer each sort of drawing was its own profession, with its own tools.
mircea_popescu: yeah. pure forms. writing, words or numbers. but not drawing, either.
mircea_popescu: generally the computer revolution has killed the outskirts and "empowered" the pure forms.
mircea_popescu has a penchant for watching notions dieing a grizzly death in the field.
mircea_popescu: just like the plumber using silicone curing isn't a silicone professional in any sense.
mircea_popescu: it wasn't so dead at some point in 1920, of course, but that only to us. i'm sure in 1920 some similar dispute raged, either about draughstmanship or some other sort of engraving.
mircea_popescu: so, no, it's no longer a profession. it's dead as its own thing, no matter who does what to whom.