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mircea_popescu: what i mean here : anything which is ulterior ontologically to the problem is a fix. anything that is anterior ontologically to the problem and is incompatible with the problem's existence is a radical aproach.
mircea_popescu: that's why problems should be approached radically or not at all.
mircea_popescu: ah ah. myeah. the problem with "fixes" is that they always degenerate.
mircea_popescu: today, people go "do not put xml schemas on your recipes, because that's only going to help large data crunchers profit - not you"
mircea_popescu: because that knowledge meant a livelihood, whereas education meant competition.
mircea_popescu: you see, back cca 1800, a guy who figured out how to fix a loom would do anything BUT explain it to anyone
mircea_popescu: this is to me an interesting thing, because it's an exact reprise of the craftsman vs entrepreneur arguments that raged in the early modern period, resulting in the ip laws in the first place.
mircea_popescu is nonplussed with the retards squirming around the edges of bitcoin failing to point out that "hey sec, mp's cock isn't going to suck itself, get busy"
mircea_popescu: and yes, they will mine, on their own chain, obviously.
mircea_popescu: he probably doesn't think windows is a feature that should be removed either.
mircea_popescu: or for that matter, what constant set of assumptions do physicists have in common ? if discussion relied on constant assumptions, science'd be in principle impossible.
mircea_popescu: decimation what constant set of assumption do we have in common ?
mircea_popescu: i mean watsapp lost money ? heh. all these derps only survive exactly on the myspace ticket : old people like ted turner have nfi what's what online,
mircea_popescu: i would be very surprised if the "top 10" blogs actually get any reads at all.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi how anyone even uses any of the sites in the gawker empire of crap. and incidentally tech crunch or mashable are exacly the same shit : exactly 0 comments, no content, just a bunch of pointless, flashy page elements.
mircea_popescu: Lycerion, ce din genuni rasari cu-o-ntreaga lume, nu cere semne si minuni care n-au chip si nume.
mircea_popescu: kinda the job of internet nobodies, innit ? "i saw x thing on google trends now i'm going to write about it in a vain but strongly held hope that mayhap the association may benefit me"
mircea_popescu: undata wait, you disagree from experience about the gay fitting, or you're shocked and surprised that thiel may actually take your peculiar payment ?
mircea_popescu: guy learned russian phonetically, it sounds totally like ai.
mircea_popescu: because all romanians knew of slaves was through the arabic slaves of the medieval turks.
mircea_popescu: that means arab. it's how you say "slave" in romanian, incidentally.
mircea_popescu: no, but in an amusing development every noob in the space has started pretending they got one too.
mircea_popescu: and incidentally, i live in the world's capital for arsenic poisoning
mircea_popescu: jurov nah, some hemoglobin clears through kidneys, but most goes to the colon
mircea_popescu: (shit cleans arsenic out of water throuigh roughly the same chemistry arsenic poisons live humans)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, because shit is mostly dead red cells
mircea_popescu: decimation india actually has much less of a problem than shitafrica.
mircea_popescu: so i'm watching "nudist colon y of the dead". there should be an award for this level of forced humor
mircea_popescu: it'd go a lot further if it read "three out of four black adults ate on average a pound of shit in 2013"
mircea_popescu: incidentally, i have nfi why the libtards keep going with the "x many people nobody gives a shit about have no access to clean water"
mircea_popescu: * asciilifeform can't picture these folks 'capitulating to reality' even after they're hogtied in the drowning barges. <<< this because they understand how "the world" works.
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> decimation: Merit Washing? << actually 200mn is a gross understatement.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform doesn't he show up to conferences and shit ?
mircea_popescu: the current problem of teh nsa is that future roi on baby exploits is dubious at best.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "because user can't modify hardware as easily" ?
mircea_popescu: and all this bulcrap so some idiot somewhere can send... what was it even ? html emails ?