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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.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic this is a universal phenomenon, since the media heavily favours the more easily influenced members of a population, and they tend to be young, the media discourse then tends to focus on the linguistic abilities of noob speakers.
mircea_popescu: technically arm = brat ; hand = mina but in practice nobody even knows what brat is
mircea_popescu: romanian tries this foot = laba piciorului, ie leg's paw
mircea_popescu: it does distinguish underage or unexcited cock (puta) from proper cock (pula), but it does not distinguish underage cock from underage cunt.
mircea_popescu: nor between throat (git) and neck (git). nor between fingers and toes.
mircea_popescu: oh, also, let's do a Romanian Surprisingly Sucks! show. so, romanian does not distinguish between niece (nepoata) and grand daughter (nepoata).
mircea_popescu: i dun particularly wish to learn how to give a very convincing representation of success for a very brief interval.
mircea_popescu: a decade ago digg was doing everything reddit is doing today and "winning"
mircea_popescu: before it went under, myspace was like whatever, ah so powerful.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla problem is all failed chumpatrons claim to have been successful.
mircea_popescu: well blood brothers got recycled for gayzors too, but hey. we're purists over here at HRIBTY!
mircea_popescu: as opposed to blood brothers, people that did this bizarre knifeplay thing in adolescence
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, those are the people who suckled the same teat as infants.
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mircea_popescu: meanwhile, all people fucking the same woman also share a relationship. they're sogori
mircea_popescu: in romanian, all people with the same first name share a relationship. they're each other's tiz (read exactly like tease).
mircea_popescu: which reminds me, this is the XXVIIIth edition of our show, How Romanian Is Better Than You! Welcome! today, the word tiz.
mircea_popescu: ;;google i will gladly repay you on thursday for an ethereum today
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla yeah i know. ftr, i dun really believe that's why. cum hoc etc.
mircea_popescu: "people around the office have seen your drafts, and they have proved very divisive. people can not agree on which are good or better and there have even been arguments. this sort of subversive activity is completely inappropriate for an office setting. i would like you to complete a sensitivity training course for art people."
mircea_popescu: so here's a clients from hell idea. art guy sent me proofs for eulora flora/fauna, i could send him an email going
mircea_popescu: heh k. do the lucky undergrads have to write anything on their tits ?
mircea_popescu: that lesbian author/activist whatever her name is spoke at mit
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller a better question is who DIDNT speak at mit.
mircea_popescu: they're not husks, they're what people want to look at. women with the udder bulding out.
mircea_popescu: <ThickAsThieves> or at least, deliver via husks rather than actual creators << dude, nobody wants to spend 3 minutes watching a "creator" that's not female, not properly jugged and not properly skinned.
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> 350k registration, 40k phones << i gotta partner with these poeple somehow.
mircea_popescu: <thestringpuller> when did he become an expert on the subject.... << you mean in his own head or irl ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves that existed for a while now, and better adapted for the job.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller until you said something i had thought he had.
mircea_popescu: if the bitchez dun think glass is cool, the nerds don't buy glass, and the whole story collapses
mircea_popescu: google glass will own the watch on basic "wearables" and even google glass seems to lose the wider socioacceptance war, what with all the glasshole sites and whatnot