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mircea_popescu: jurov> you see for youself what happened to it anyway. << it took over and set the course of computer history ?
mircea_popescu: bounce know anyone that did fundamental research on his own account since ww2 ?
mircea_popescu: that end up is not even correct. they are. pretense to the contrary won't long endure.
mircea_popescu: such a primitive arrangement even keynesianism is an improvement
mircea_popescu: all places devoid of property end up with a state-party system
mircea_popescu: similarly to how noobs and "journalist" derps talk of wall street
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, as far as romanians are concerned, russians (muscali) have tails.
mircea_popescu: basically it masquerades as an ontology when it's merely phenomenology is my objection.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform your pissing theory is weak because singapore went from one to the other over one generation.
mircea_popescu: which is ridiculous, because in romanian that says "the russians" which were his backers mostly.
mircea_popescu: but, on his tv address, he blamed "foreign agenturas", ie, agenturile straine
mircea_popescu: it failed horribly, the cryptocommie in charge brought some miners from mining country to beat the shit out of the "intellectuals" and assorted aggitators
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform funny linguistic trainwreck : during the early 1990s, the leftover us derps tried to organise the maidan thing in romania too. it was called "miscarea piata universitatii", dunno why the fixation on "plaza" in the name.
mircea_popescu: "well they're not corsicans, i'll tell you that! so..."
mircea_popescu: your idea of germanity is perhaps very similar to napoleon's
mircea_popescu: because the current one "wrongly vaporized" or w/e was gmaxwell's expression.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what's your idea of teh bohemian kingdom ?
mircea_popescu: russians having invented robots, they get the benefit of seeing things like "worker worker" whenever someone has a worker robot in a game or somewhere.
mircea_popescu: the problem of course is the converse situation : products like the btc, wot or gpg, without which life ACTUALLY IS not worth living
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform definitely, i'm not saying barriers must go.
mircea_popescu: all you really need to do is make life appear unworth living without your 18k tablet, for guaranteed sales well north of 1.8 trillion
mircea_popescu: in fact items as expensive as 50k are consumer products just fine, because of the finance economy.
mircea_popescu: the only consideration is if the thing actually costs 18k to make (cars don't really, but the mess of "safety" and "environmental" regulations make the "car" as defined actulaly cost a lot to make)
mircea_popescu: in point of fact people can and do spend 18k just on financing for a car they don't need (either because they live in ny, or because it'd be the 3rd family car etc)
mircea_popescu: re kako's "cost 18k usd" thing : a financial economy has one benefit exactly, and that is, making the price point not a consideration anymore.
mircea_popescu: apparently couch surfing isn't all it's cracked up to be
mircea_popescu: "I had this notion that it would be interesting to meet people from all around the world and show them Galway, but most of the visitors we got were extremely boring eastern Europeans who kept their food in a separate plastic bag and got up early to do yoga."
mircea_popescu: "Guilt is sexy. You can really only talk dirty to a person if you have been blessed with guilt."
mircea_popescu: then a generation down the road, you get this derpage.
mircea_popescu: now they're all going about calling each other sir and acting as if they're fucking people. it's a sickening display.
mircea_popescu: but the god damned idea that politeness is something that may be afforded to the horde.
mircea_popescu: i would submit that the worst invention of the 20th century was not the a bomb, nor the concentration camp, nor statal racism
mircea_popescu: qq1932 i didn't selfanything dood. this ain't about me.
mircea_popescu: maybe, and i say MAYBE jobs can come up with "o i dunno, mebbe i feel like working on it" sorta deals
mircea_popescu: you are not in the position to even remotely as a joke consider anything but slavish 100% dedication 16 hours a day with no sundays
mircea_popescu: dude, let me tell you something to help your head calibrate yourself. i recently wrote to a famous illustrator, whose work is celebrated by an actual fanbase and included in successful franchises. he committed, on the basis of that conversation, and the whole thing is costing me bitcoin fractions so far.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, the time honored tradition of con artistry is to flatter people who are too stupid to understand how stupid they are by making this confusion, between "highschool understanding" as required to understand well known and widely understood topics, and extremely advanced fundamental understanding required to understand similarly just as simple, but not widely known topics.
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud tthe problem with it is that it only works one way, and at a fixed speed.
mircea_popescu: this is why fundamental mathematics only started in 1800.
mircea_popescu: qq1932 dude, there's a major difference between "highschool understanding" of any topic and fundamental understanding of such outstanding quality as to recognise fundamentally correct but contemporaneously obscure advances.
mircea_popescu: and i mean literally. i place a bunch of blonde krautzettes in the shape of my signature on a lawn in which the nda was cut.
mircea_popescu: that's ok, i don't do private anything with people i don't know.
mircea_popescu: that was more like "ok we're screwed, how do we pretend this wasn't a terrible mistake"
mircea_popescu: well sculley is making it all about himself, but no, my (not necessarily very valuable) understanding is that endless friction with various engineering teams over the 80s eventually bubbled up into it
mircea_popescu: twasnt the board, wasn't it bitching about how the office was going to be ?
mircea_popescu: breaking the barrier between "what we're doing" and "how we're doing it" is unhealthy in all cases