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mircea_popescu: but that aside : that's the definition of "investigating" : they dion;t know who did what
mircea_popescu: what the fuck dorkhead do you have to be to believe sssomething like that. "o the police said this guy isn't involved". how'd they know and why'd they say that.
mircea_popescu: they've got what they finally managed to read on trilema, basically.
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> Luke-Jr> police don't seem to believe that, and they have actual access to information << How long did the Feds take on BFL? << the notion that "the police" has "the information" is such lmao.
mircea_popescu: xanthyos> appearing like a fool in the short term to a bunch of druggies and cam whores << maybe you need a new reddit ?
mircea_popescu: <Luke-Jr> ben_vulpes: signing commits is considered bad practice, actually << by idiots.
mircea_popescu: Luke-Jr you read some conspiracy theories about what the police is buying ?
mircea_popescu: <dub> thestringpuller: this is actually why the wot is broken << nah. if you know who people are you know what to discount. if you don't know, you can't use their ratings anyway.
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> aaaaah dig nanotube's rating of magicaltux << i don't think he ever revisits them or anytrhing
mircea_popescu: <thestringpuller> did Diablo-D3 ever get around to making that 1mn dollar company << 1 mn BITCOIN. get it straight.,
mircea_popescu: also check out what butchery i made of english in that phrase!
mircea_popescu: it's gets enough very subtle things exactly right for me to call it an passible teaching substitute for actual experience
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, ever seen the lives of others ?
mircea_popescu: work a third shift, make yourself a bunch of ipads too.
mircea_popescu: run 12 instances of curl off a huge file with awk 'NR%12==n only to discover that the fucking thing keeps blocking itself.
mircea_popescu: TomServo> Where are all the phones with hardware keyboards, is what I'd like to know. << africa and my vaults.
mircea_popescu: there's going to be little as amusing as "security practices" of the 2010s freeranged interderp.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> know how we like to laugh at our ancestors' hygiene ? << quite this.
mircea_popescu: so nobody is complaining. like, i can hire someone for 2k a month because they won't complain.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no need for rockets. you don't kill cockroaches with a .5
mircea_popescu: bounce right, "<mircea_popescu> it doesn't cost THEM fifty trillion to try and fail to build a new airplane."
mircea_popescu: unless the planet is naturally hospitable, unless there's an angle somewhere, not happening.
mircea_popescu: yes well, people don't undergo centuriesd of expense to fulfil a cartoon dream.
mircea_popescu: unless you make your own crops and your own space stations...
mircea_popescu: no way in fuck you're going to be a "sovereign" on a planet you just colonised.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform tell you what, you know what an indentured servant is ?
mircea_popescu: fuck, you could live in that "gulch" real estate scam.
mircea_popescu: you could live on the antarctic right now, if you fancy paying 2k for a bottle of fizz.
mircea_popescu: or unless earth goes to shit to the degree of making mars look like freshly shaved virgin pussy
mircea_popescu: so then why mars specifically ? why not real estate 5000 feet underground.
mircea_popescu: people can get by for a while just making good use of the history book.
mircea_popescu: (and europe pushing china out of their galileo thing was incredibly stupid, but then again europe is chiefly remembered in history for astounding stupidity)
mircea_popescu: there's no way to effectualy destroy these, and there's no way the us aircraft carriers could survive an hour in a hostile china sea.
mircea_popescu: chetty i will tell you one new idea they came up with. they made the astoundingly daring move of organising their defense on sane grounds. china is surrounded by about a million rockets.
mircea_popescu: careful management and patient attention is good enough for a lifetime.
mircea_popescu: the romans lived a millenium out of carefuly implementing the greek ideas.
mircea_popescu: bounce perhaps not very creative, yes. perhaps that may matter. if it will, it won't be this century.
mircea_popescu: china's parents woudn't approve, and moreover china doesn't want to be either stupid or in possesison of a car wreckage.
mircea_popescu: even if the us imagines that now that china has the better car it should drive it the same way it drove its own, right into a wall.
mircea_popescu: and china is liable to continue on the course that brought it success, humbly begging for what it wants, rather than suddenly swich to the course that sunk the us.
mircea_popescu: if you pour from a to b but never from b to a, you can bet your ears b's gonna be fuller.
mircea_popescu: no, i mean the us has transferred all its technology there in exchange for cheap labour but under condition it shares the tech
mircea_popescu: it doesn't cost THEM fifty trillion to try and fail to build a new airplane.
mircea_popescu: bounce china is sitting prettier than everyone for the very simple reason that it has the absolute lead in all technology.
mircea_popescu: and certainly the chinese have "problems" they never heard of. similarly to how putin "doesn't understand how reality works".
mircea_popescu: so you know, arab women are unhappy because they don't live in the downtown on foodstamps, which has to be better than what they got because what else is the speaker doing there ?!
mircea_popescu: bounce you will have to appreciate idiot western peoples, even without any help from the propaganda machine, automatically interpret phenomena in a certain key.
mircea_popescu: china is traditionally a sort of dog vomit (the fungus). it doesn't really war.