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mircea_popescu: "dead or dying software projects lie around all over the place, like a horrible war zone between ignorant users and frightened managers"
mircea_popescu: t into the Lisp world. they don't have to. if you want to learn Lisp, you go learn Lisp and talk to nice people who probably have time for you, and you make yourself good at it. then you go do complex stuff that insecure losers who lie about their Java skills can't even imagine, and therefore do not consider part of the competition."
mircea_popescu: " Lisp is not the kind of language that insecure losers would use. people do not want to learn Lisp because they stand a better chance of beating another unskilled fool in the job race. fact is: you don't get a job by lying about your Lisp skills. all of this means that there is very little activity at the front gate, where all the journalists and the media are. there are no people struggling like mad to ge
mircea_popescu: well of coursethey want something. all living things want stuff.
mircea_popescu: <thestringpuller> benkay: "OMG I smelle riches and success. *blush blush blush*. I want a hug now!!!!" << dun be an asshole, maybe she's just fun loving.
mircea_popescu: basically her refusal to give him what she gives the whole pack is a slight, but one he has no redress for : she's already an outcast.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller the idea being that an utter whore denying the pack leader any fucking has a decent chance to drive him mad and end up in some sort of "that obscure object of desire " situation.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller nah, that's ancient whore strat. i even wrote it up im pretty sure
mircea_popescu: well yeah. but by playing hard to get you may get +10 on your average catch, but also get the guarantee you're never getting in the bed of that 0.whatever%
☟︎ mircea_popescu: if she doesn't have thesense to realise she's accidentally run into the absolute best, she can't be all that smart in the first place.
mircea_popescu: it so happens that i won't even consider women that don't, i'm pretty sure the top generally doesn't, and so it's a quite dangerous strat.
mircea_popescu: sure. and he goes into full retard mode right after, proposing that somehow "not givingit up easy" helps a woman's position.
mircea_popescu: hem than they do about the girls, even if only by a small amount. In other words, men only have the upper hand because they have this tendency to play below their league."
mircea_popescu: "And more to the point here, it is the reason why women often feel that men have "the upper hand" in relationships. That feeling doesn't exist because men are dominant over women or have some kind of real advantage; it is just because men are strongly motivated by sex, and therefore get into relationships with girls they don't really care about - or at least, they get into relationships with girls who care more about t
mircea_popescu: publio had you self-voiced coincidentally just as moiety was derping ?
mircea_popescu: moiety don't you find people tend to be less argumentative ?
mircea_popescu: hire a dozen or so models/webcam girls, all the other womenz'd fall right in line
mircea_popescu: "we're not stealing from you - we wouldn't have where to hide it"
mircea_popescu: benkay i bet you an all naked insurance company'd make a killing
mircea_popescu: decimation keyboard with tickler on side would be pretty rad.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that dataegg thing looks like the earlier nutso kbd
mircea_popescu: i imagine it must suck to have a job working for idiots.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform speaking of which, everyone at earlier mentioned brunch was floored. "but that is your real name ?!" "yeah" "but... but... but everyone uses a pseudonym" "i don't give a shit" *silence*
mircea_popescu: maybe if i had a really small pet person, like 6 inches tall or so.
mircea_popescu: you only think that becaus they looked like a cona to you.
mircea_popescu: the last one you could grab by antenna and hit peopleover the head with
mircea_popescu: i rapidly lost interest after motorola somethng or the other
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, and i recall the tests : morse is faster than texting.
mircea_popescu: i bet you most people could whistle more wpm than they natively type
mircea_popescu: fucking "innovation" consisting of everyone making the same 3 games and 2 apps over and over AND OVER again
mircea_popescu: decimation i'd rather have to whislte 8 baud into it than have to type on tha small shit
mircea_popescu: anyone has a pic ready of the kids that bathed in warm water post chernobyl ?
mircea_popescu: "what do you mean drinking mud is bad for me. i grew up drinking mud"
mircea_popescu: decimation> the amount of steel that went into producing the cabinet was impressive << i bought new desktop cases here. i could punch a hole threough the things
mircea_popescu: (been there btw. imo not all that it's cracked up to be)
mircea_popescu: decimation this is a false impression, artefact of your context
mircea_popescu: we'll finally be in a position to put some fences up and make sense of the damned thing.