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mircea_popescu: now try and argue why it's not really fair that you're negrated because some major players didn't like your early anti-bitcoin involvement.
mircea_popescu: "your negative rating in the wot means you can be killed by anyone and nobody'll care or do anything about it"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it will probably come down to "you're not in the wot, and so therefore may not claim to own property or pretend to sue anyone"
mircea_popescu: on the strenght of the zero one infinity rule alone, and of the banal observation that bitcoin also has no historical precendent, it seems... unwise to bet that 1 is the lucky number.
mircea_popescu: here's a thought : everything that has historical precendent now didn't originally.
mircea_popescu: but yes, the "no historical precedent" is what the bureaucrat instinctively answers
mircea_popescu: ussr isn't remembered for having been led by the smartest people ever.
mircea_popescu: no questions asked, and his children will be raped for the public record.
mircea_popescu: and which is why it's so important to get the message loud and clear to any bureaucrat anywhere, that if it comes to war, and we win, he will hang.
mircea_popescu: overall, these would be "softeners" work as hardeners and are quite useful.
mircea_popescu: which is the point of a "justice system" in the first place.
mircea_popescu: so, some may try to soften the target, which allows the target to populate the road towards it with heads on pikes.
mircea_popescu: any supermodel material chick will tell you nobody dares, on the assumption.
mircea_popescu: take any stirkingly beautiful woman walking into a bar. is she more likely or less likely to be hit on ?
mircea_popescu: for everyone. this is not a valid objection any more than saying "for as long as gravity is still in force"
mircea_popescu: meanwhile back at reality ranch, obtaining superior fire power in a limited geographical area is a trivial task.
mircea_popescu: decimation: asciilifeform: unfortunately if the "from whom" is usg in its many forms, the answer is largely: nowhere << bs lol.
mircea_popescu: decimation lmao at those terms. so... why get it then ?
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud: There's a town close to me that once every year auctions off 250-350 safe deposit box contents, you bid per box and don't know what is in them. All are seized from people who either didn't pay up or forgot about em << isn't there a reality show predicated on this process ?
mircea_popescu: blast romania has this too. it's called gaina, which is how you say hen, and it's the place surpluss women were taken by their tribe for to sell over to another tribe for > 5k years.
mircea_popescu: seems of the ilk of "island of women" and "tower of song", ie, cheap notional filler for "virtual spaces" a la video games
mircea_popescu: The20YearIRCloud i don't get what this "let's all go huddle together" thing is supposed to do.
mircea_popescu: so mebbe there's some meat to the assertion, vi inhabits a middle that doesnt really exist
mircea_popescu: but actually... i find myself using nano a lot moar these days
mircea_popescu: this old world sort of nonsense can not endure my friends! i am making a company that will revolutionize drawing!
mircea_popescu: and for that matter, pencils are horribly unintuitive interfaces. think of all the great drawing in the world, and the poor user buying a pencil in the shop will draw what ? a cat ?
mircea_popescu: dealing with the fallout is learned, but using the things is innate.
mircea_popescu: MISSING PARAMETER AFTER "certain". please read your commandlinefu documentation and try again!!11
mircea_popescu: "Create a random file of a certain, and display progress along the way."
mircea_popescu: on the upside, once you get it done you can forget about it.
mircea_popescu: i don't readily remember the names of all the women i've been with either.
mircea_popescu: but a good gui is a provab le impossibility. "make me a very hot woman that still wants to be my girlfriend instead of say that guy's"
mircea_popescu: no, it is impossible and thankless work. difficult is one thing.
mircea_popescu: leaving the mess to be handled by the sort of people that make guis.
mircea_popescu: and if you don't you can make them make an index file.
mircea_popescu sayz sed! awk! then re-reads the gui part, ponders, gets depressed and leaves.
mircea_popescu: "given this string and this set of photos, find the string likelies"
mircea_popescu: outside of digging through secret service archives, why the fuck would anyone put up with pdf.
mircea_popescu: srsly when i saw you discussing indexing and searching pdf documents i thought this is what it was for - all that crap is pdf-digitized.
mircea_popescu: rather than reading the same "us girl next door in a sheet = roman matron" story re-written over and over 500 times.
mircea_popescu: anyway, one is well advised to evaluate his level of interest on such topics. if it's a passing casual worth 5k words then skimming one of these pulpy offerings is maybe fine. if serious enough to remember names, then probably skimming the original papers is a better bet
mircea_popescu: "inside the genovese family, by derparian herparistarian." wtf already. no armenians in sicily.
mircea_popescu: what the FUCK has some schmuck by the name cristopher to say about the inside of the kgb ?
mircea_popescu: he confirms that yes they knew all about al of them, explains some of the insider jokes
mircea_popescu: finally a high level defector is taken into a manager's meeting, fed somon fume and asked politely
mircea_popescu: by the 5th or so replacement there's a distinct impression with upper cia management that the soviets are like... sending complicated insider jokes over the mole wire.
mircea_popescu: cia sends replacement mole. this also is apparently successful... buit... again
mircea_popescu: cia sends mole to inflitrate kgb. this is apparently successful, but nothing of value is ever obtained.
mircea_popescu: this "'KGB: the Inside Story' by Christopher Andrew" string reminds me of the "stop sending niggers then" joke.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: difference being, between how a soviet rocket works and how a school of salmon works.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> that being - that someone, somewhere, is willing to answer with his arse for what every character in the code actually causes the hardware to do. <<< this is only meaningful in a centralist approach.