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mircea_popescu: i'd have fired them all too, and impaled a few, extra.
mircea_popescu: the incredibly cheeky engineers in question had the unmitigated audacity to outs him from his own company because "they're merituous"
mircea_popescu: and the cardano should have been implemented on the apple ipad. "just make sure you run it on battery"
mircea_popescu: there should not have existed a raspberry pi if apple had a twinkle of a clue.
mircea_popescu: instead of selling diy robots and wall attachment accessories, they tried to make money selling a longer proprietary power cable.
mircea_popescu: "o let's push bezos into not paying engineers we shouldn't have hired salaries they shouldn't get anyway"
mircea_popescu: instead he wasted his time fighting idiotic union wars.
mircea_popescu: had he not died, he'd have been old and by then formatted.
mircea_popescu: unfortunately the way this works, just exactly when apple grew big enough to fight and win,
mircea_popescu: yes well. i am not interested in buying technology made by legal depts.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla sale volumes are no indication of management competence.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes and that has a very faint but almost identifiable personality.
mircea_popescu: i imagine 50 million billion trillion chickpeas sold since the dawn of agriculture.
mircea_popescu: toothbrushes sell by the billion. what sort of argument is this.
mircea_popescu: listen here, you know what else sold 200mn ? that shitty japanese electronic toy thing.
mircea_popescu: the moral being, beat your children. if they don't know how to hate they don't know how to matter.
mircea_popescu: "o, we're going to change the world, watch us make gunpowder fireworks that change the world oooohhh"
mircea_popescu: the actually functioning touchscreen is the big challenge there, and they solved that. the rest is just trims.
mircea_popescu: serve the deeply seated human thirst for anthropomorphising
mircea_popescu: the tablet being basically a portable head to attach to anything you want.
mircea_popescu: make the tablet so you can put it into a robot. make your own dog, make your own buzz lightyear, make your own fucktoy.
mircea_popescu: make the tablet so you can hook it with any number of tablets and watch a film with your friends.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla if the thing were made by me you wouldn't have the retarded "this is facebook running on javascript" game market, and the "this is unextensible" view.
mircea_popescu: (i don't mean the techs that made it were idiots, they were competent. i mean their managers were idiots)
mircea_popescu: honestly i think tablets will suffer a foss revival much like the pc did.
mircea_popescu: the thing is such a waste. if it weren't made by idiots it could have been surprisinglky cool.
mircea_popescu: browsers are notably going very far on this basic line, with a "your css" rather than "website's css" approach
mircea_popescu: the interface is called interface for a reason, and to specify it as part of the product is akin to the peacock coming with a set of eyes to look at it with.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, the solution to the "gui problem" is not to resolve the gui problem but to let it resolve itself. whoever wants a different gui should be supported to make it. skins are too little too high up, but still the right idea.
mircea_popescu: to the degree someone had to make a proper nongui interface.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla depending what you mean by "gui" in that snese, cli is a gui. itdoesn't make beeps after all.
mircea_popescu: that drughead is remarkable in that while being wrong on each and every twist and turn, he's globally right with clockwork regularity.
mircea_popescu: ericans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed."
mircea_popescu: "Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history -- which is no doubt true -- but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a war-time economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Am
mircea_popescu: germany is such a hellhole for monopolistic cab practices
mircea_popescu: it will die because the people that matter dun like its mug.
mircea_popescu: it died for the exact reason the usg will die, no matter how it packages itself, no matter how it argues for its own goodness.
mircea_popescu: and it didn't die because it was either a bad product or badly packaged.
mircea_popescu: electricity isn't a product even if it isn't a company.
mircea_popescu: for all i care you can take early macs marketshare in 2011 if it pleases you
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla i was discussing the actual product, not the company.
mircea_popescu: and in 2011 bitcoin was the superior tech solution to a wet sock.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic so then you know a lot about romanian, same latin structure and very close use of voice
mircea_popescu: they have to start feeling bitcoin-y if i have to personally strangle every single andreas out there.
mircea_popescu: i am not willing to allow the "feeling usg-y, feeling fiat-y" package no matter the cost.
mircea_popescu: which is the substance of the disagreement with kako i suspect.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla all i need to dispel a universal negative is one example :)
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic i just made a passing remark :) the way the stupid youth ends up apt is through running into these scattered about.
mircea_popescu: its defense comes from exactly this flexibility, it's basically a hardened whore. you can abuse it any way you please, for as long as you please,
mircea_popescu: romanian is the most flexible language i've ever heard.