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mircea_popescu: Naphex: for all that panic with bash not too many exploits hitting << the good stuff happebed prior to the release.
mircea_popescu: kuzetsa: I just audited and apparently I made an assumption which is not true << ahem.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: how does that much lulz fit in one little screen cap?<< guy kinda looks like a walrus
mircea_popescu: a frightened manager is about as useful as a punctured set of wellington boots.
mircea_popescu: like a horrible war zone between ignorant users and frightened managers << the exact fucking problem.
mircea_popescu: the one thing all those idiots will never say is exactly the only thing they should be saying at all : this other guy didn't do it, he is our king, our lord, our sovereign, and so much better than we may even aspire to one day be.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this whole fiasco reminds me of naggum's discussion of the y2k thing.
mircea_popescu: none of this "but mp, you never gave any proof". there's your motherfuc king proof now stfu and shine my boots.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i seriously expect the entire world to now bow down to my superiority and explicitly recognise its inferiority, as a wholy owned, substantive characteristic of their own.
mircea_popescu: not like they'll cary on derping about "ux" and how their shit is worth not just money, but billions of it.
mircea_popescu: i suppose every single entity in online finance, from paypal to icbc will now come and leave a comment on trilema saying "sorry, we're fucking stupid, you're right"
mircea_popescu: the difference between the shorts we want our shorts to be and the shorts our shorts actually are is the one thing that sinks businesses.
mircea_popescu: and i mean both for VCs and for PUAs, and come to think about it the difference is negligible.
mircea_popescu: the whole charade's a sort of "fine when we do it, evil/bad/wrong when they do it" thing.
mircea_popescu: this is fundamentally different from what the boy in question does, on forums and while commuting.
mircea_popescu: <punkman> what is a rationalization hamster? << supposedly what women do when they've been rejected by a magical boy of magic, they go in a corner and worry and obsessively rethink the experience.
mircea_popescu: <mats_cd03> but do uber, airbnb, dropbox, and the like not deserve billion dollar valuations?" <<< i agree that other people's shit stinks but isn't my doodoo all perfumed ?!
mircea_popescu: youi're doing this substitutive thinking thing wrong, it's amply discussed in the logs.
mircea_popescu: myriadgetsmehard "random rock i found in street" != koh-i-noor
mircea_popescu: you would NOT suspect it's your bullets that are the problem
mircea_popescu: if you were a hunter and moved to a difference cannuckistan, and all the moose you shot was the size of a chicken
mircea_popescu: tyvm and stfu, you're offering 500k to the guy who does that, plus a little fee for allowing your pointless existence to be associated with his.
mircea_popescu: "i'm offering 100k in any currency to the salesman that sells this rock i found in the street for 500k"
mircea_popescu: <myriadgetsmehard> It's not up to them to decide what is a premium domain or not. << because why, because it's up to you ?
mircea_popescu: myriadgetsmehard i doubt they think even those are valuable. i definitely would think much less of any marketplace that purports to sell 2nd market domain names.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im not sure of the homo sapiens relation. the women are made of flesh, so in that sense it passes, but i have little clue what the males are made of.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's deeper. they lack both the mind structures that make it necessary and possible, as well as the capacity of observation and reason that make the process unavoidable.
mircea_popescu: which sort-of reads like dop in romanian, which is a funny little word, meaning cork.
mircea_popescu: course if you ask them, or if you watch their movies, they're total fucking experts.
mircea_popescu: the russian career criminals reportedly find the us, in spite of having the world's largest incarcerated population, doesn't even have good prisoners.
mircea_popescu: who, of the singers are actually singers ? what businessman knows business ? etc.
mircea_popescu: but then again, the same sort of adolescent retardation is at work everywhere - what english speaker could hold his job if the artificial barriers were removed ?
mircea_popescu: course, it takes extra strength adolescent retardation to imagine it makes any sort of "science"
mircea_popescu: nothing wrong with that, people allowed their own intimacy.
mircea_popescu: im famous among a group of [girl]friends for this one trip I took one of them for at some point, that was never documented or repeated.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> in other news, slightly less than everybody is going to university in the us these days: << bwahahaha
mircea_popescu: this is the equivalent of the "if newspiece title ask a question, the response is no".
mircea_popescu: obviously paid piece, how else would a journalist know what "will" happen
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller> i think i learn more in this channel than i ever did in school << im sure most do.
mircea_popescu: glassing is the wholesale production of borosilicate glass out of the landscape as the side effect of a runaway nuclear reaction.
mircea_popescu: i got the space, just, some derpy kid's idea of ai will prolly be to try and "loic" it
mircea_popescu: stop playing with your food young man and eat your vaggies.
mircea_popescu: sapho lived off of herding greek gals and selling the diary.
mircea_popescu: so cheezy from all the neglect you could scarcely tell the difference.
mircea_popescu: <peterl> isn't Rassah gay? <<< i don't think as much gay as a furry creature.
mircea_popescu: i wonder how long before the standard moves from "potable water" to "pristine water"