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mircea_popescu: it's great for humour this. "does your desk make your back hurt ? press backspace!"
mircea_popescu: my z80 keyboard had plain language on it : load, merge, save etc
mircea_popescu: i use the plainest language of anyone i'm aware of, and yet people claim you need a degree to argue with me. wtf is that all about.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: moreover, and more dangerously : a term of art that has a common speech homophone will only notify those in the know of its status
mircea_popescu: mike_c and the "not a lot of jargon" thing is roughly like the vietnam forest without a lot of vietcong in it.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing plain about language just like a measurement isn't the thing measured.
mircea_popescu: so can i use the even-ness of the 129th digit in your measurement reliably ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c "plain language" is the conceptual equivalent of "measurement in se". how long is your desk ?
mircea_popescu: basically the problem of intelligent people is that the knowledge needed is so vast... i could readily render the pretense and nonsense of it, but i don't have the time/patience to hang out in every nook and cranny.
mircea_popescu: srsly, the notion that there exists such a thing as "plain language"...
mircea_popescu: My introduction to the real American nightmare starts back in the early ‘80s. Unfortunately after more than 16 years of school, somewhere along the line I picked up the absurd, pompous notion that I could read and understand plain English. Some friends introduced me to a group of people who were having ‘tax code’ readings and discussions.
mircea_popescu: well, for one if you fly high enough you don't actually have to report
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform more often than you'd think. prices have really come down
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: just phoned them - they'll increase my free limit to 30kgs << fuck them, assholes. seems all short distance is covered by this sort of low service "low cost" bs.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic: having a WoT account doesn't mean everything you write is signed << why not ? inasmuch as only you could have written it...
mircea_popescu: arguably not as losers but bitterer than the other type o coders, but anyway
mircea_popescu: so then, maybe you're running the local bitter loser group, and the fleet sailed long ago. who's to know.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves i never saw proof they scammed anyone, if that helps.
mircea_popescu: "you dumb fuck, i have to hear from random passerby';s how utterly you suck at your job ? go fuck a goad in the market, you're never working in this line again"
mircea_popescu: sane boss approached with this, if it can be documented, cans the underboss that same day.
mircea_popescu: benkay gotta give the boss' boss the opportunity to make his own mistake.
mircea_popescu: so at this juncture you send the boss's boss a link to this log
mircea_popescu: cazalla: BingoBoingo: didn't you know that the biggest Australian export after resources are bitcoin scams? (inputs.io, hair dresser ipos, kenilworth and on it goes) << i've often thought of this. add patrick harnett and a whole other bunch of new zealand folk
mircea_popescu: im sick of reading nothing but my own stories in the logs
mircea_popescu: anyway, yes, please, by all means, even the story cunt a bit
mircea_popescu: in spite of which she did everything all night long, i took her to breakfast and then dropped her off in the arms of her mothar.
mircea_popescu: past desperate attempts at cockblocking by the entire collected "alpha" population. apparently my chick's unstoppable and really fucking scary to boys.
mircea_popescu: with the kitten. who, mind you, gets up in a cab and drives away with two guys who are clearly foreigners, barely speak the language, and she's just met two hours prior in a bar at a bdsm munch.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile unattached in-their-own-oppinion dom guys tell me all about how alpha really they are, and then we leave.
mircea_popescu: tells us all about how she's tried being a 2nd subbie in a relationship and it was ok but they ended it amiably and she's not looking for anything
mircea_popescu: there's this chick that looks just about 12 (and later confirmed her weight as 43 - !!! - kgs) that takes a liking to my girl, they chat, i buy them wine,
mircea_popescu: i take girl to local bdsm brunch yesterday. bout fiddy local people, all very nice and friendly, some bar somewhere that you'd think you've died and it's greenwich village in 1980 all over again
mircea_popescu: remarkable how much orlov gets wrong given how much he notices.
mircea_popescu: that system of crud makes loyalty logically impossible.
mircea_popescu: the why is that for an entire generation now they've been trained to falsely believe that hierarchy is arbitrary and evil, that submission is against human nature and forcing the inferior to submit inhuman etc scl.
mircea_popescu: 'More interestingly, many Americans no longer even understand the concepts of loyalty and treason?again, not surprising, since for a few generations now they have been ruled by traitors, whose routine acts of betrayal are designed to benefit just about anyone?from Israeli arms smugglers to Afghani heroin dealers?except the people who supposedly elect them to office.' << that's not the why.
mircea_popescu: later that day wikileaks gave up and actually dumped it too.
mircea_popescu: the displacement of which bitcoin is keystone is really pretty large.
mircea_popescu: decimation: "you want to get paid? well, you better write your TPS reports in MS so we can give you tax dollars" << "yeah but how about you don't have tax dollars to give in the first place"
mircea_popescu: by the way, re the intel thing and atari : in 1983, game consoles sold like 3bn dollars' worth (in 1983 dollars, like ten trillion today). by 1985, it was 100 mn (9x% drop)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform to argentina, australia and everywherew ?
mircea_popescu: it's like... might as well consider the problems of the amiga universe.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: so gotta keep x86/winblows relevant somehow << can't imagine how that'd work. by now the stack is quite ample : x86 running windows to connect the owners of bitcents to reddit.
mircea_popescu: peculiarly extensive implementation of damnatio memoriae srsly.
mircea_popescu: indians are now going to be erased from written record and culture too
mircea_popescu: so after having their land stolen and later their population exterminated,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i've not bought anything intel the past 20ish years.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: (intel never once in its entire life published anything but a mockery of 'open source.' see their 'open' bios, for example.) << sadly. which is why everyone's on amd, really.