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mircea_popescu: turns out... everything downloads in a patch-needed state
mircea_popescu: various random games. i got a tablet to check out what's going on in that space.
mircea_popescu: whgat the fuck am i going to do, run ipad gcc and make the app ask ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so basically... it doesn't have multi-tasking.
mircea_popescu: then why does everything stop the moment it goes to background ?
mircea_popescu: it's the end of that accursed law, we can get back to humanity for a while.
mircea_popescu: so, yeah, you need ratings from the people that are in the magic list.
mircea_popescu: Flerb i linked you above to the explanation. did you read it ?
mircea_popescu: and other than that, it looks that you took at least a few seconds to type your comment in
mircea_popescu: (bots don't load the page on the same pass as they fill the comments - they use spiders, like google)
mircea_popescu: what, is he reduced to shoe on head type of work now ?
mircea_popescu: dignork it looks for you to actually load the page, and not fill in too quickly.
mircea_popescu: sounds like the perfect party to host a pretend-win media party.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron the prepended dpb is actually fucking clever. how do you do it ? this must be a standard, ima put it on trilema too.
mircea_popescu: <Flerb> I've not seen bticointalk << where you from then ?
mircea_popescu: <dpb_reddit> So, is this webchat legitimate? Or do people just question the person trying to hire lol << aka "herpyderp I know shit, and don't want to adjust. everyone else must adjust to my stupid head. or else i will say the bad thing!!!1"
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: the chess example, or its life version with debt, etc. is really a play on 'hilbert's hotel' << so it is. for as long as the theoretical properties of aleph-cardinals hold in real sets, well... why not.
mircea_popescu: by the time people actually figure out the nsa is NOT what they'd buy if they had the money to buy a nsa and were in the nsa market...
mircea_popescu: s birth certificate remaining unquestioned, so to speak.
mircea_popescu: which you know, in some approaches to politics, such as would for instance be favoured by temporary figureheads elected by a democracy, and supported by an unmovable bureaucracy, is the whole of my job.
mircea_popescu: the problem is, it cost me more to win than it's worth. but i won it.
mircea_popescu: however, no pro in the world can beat someone with three queens on the table. and so he consents.
mircea_popescu: now this is actually +ev for the opponent : he probably can't beat a pro on even figures, so giving an extra gueen is not much to give.
mircea_popescu: first game starts. i tell my opponent "listen, if you let me play with an extra queen, i
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform let's model this with a game of chess. suppose there's ten of us in a room. nine are amateurs, i am a rated pro.
mircea_popescu: (cookies won't work if you get them on the wrong domain, so reset if you switch)
mircea_popescu: in honor of nubbins` typing skills, you can now access trilema as trilema.org trilema.net trilema.me trilema.eu or trilema.com at your option.
mircea_popescu: that's not where it lies. stalin's externality was belly fat
mircea_popescu: this is why the soviet union collapsed cleanly, whereas the libertard union will not.
mircea_popescu: stalin's thing was reality bound. roosevelt's thing was not.
mircea_popescu: "how great would it be if we cut off everyone's legs, and hired someone to push them around"
mircea_popescu: this creates "assets" for everyone involved, and so...
mircea_popescu: yeah, the whole story works fine for as long as the expansion of debt remains unrestricted.
mircea_popescu: they can only get evicted provided their eviction costs more than it's worth.
mircea_popescu: every dollar the usg extracts from anything costs it more than a dollar as a precondition of its continued existence.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform kinda why the credit bubble is required for usg : because all extraction only works if it costs more than it extracts
mircea_popescu: they only get THAT free if they find someone to beg or steal it off.
mircea_popescu: problem is all this cost her < a hamburger (which she gets free anyway)
mircea_popescu: there's nothing "surreal" about it and it's not going away. it will have your throat slit if you persist. love, mp.
mircea_popescu: "LeGuin did tell a 911 call taker that he intended to occupy the Far North Dallas house as a sovereign nation for himself."