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ben_vulpes looking forward
to new and exciting bouncer failure modes
BingoBoingo: Hyacinths are more uncertain, but still lots of green.
Tulip status unknown, likely many were consumed by squirrels.
BingoBoingo: Cool. My daffodils survived last week's snows with leaves intact. Mininal brown on
the
tips.
mircea_popescu: i have no problem giving food and water
to wandering females.
mircea_popescu: the caek produced
the conclusion
that
there is nothing useful here -
the heuristic value of a concept of "size" in evaluating
the matter wholly comes from
the evaluation
that had been already pre-baked in
the "size".
mircea_popescu: bingoBoingo> "Re: recent node drop, someone is using up connection slots with fake SPV nodes; node count sites may be << o look at
that, derpland discovers blackholing.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Since July "SPV" in power ranger and other usage has gone from describing a specific class of idiocy
to describing a more general class of
turds.
BingoBoingo: AWS banhammer is far more relevant in
this case
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: In
this case SPV is being used
to describe garden variety pseudonode
hanbot is off
to read, apparently
phf: debord wrote
this in 67, he
then wrote an update in
the 80s, "everything has gotten even worse
then i expected", promptly shooting himself
phf: the commodity. Like
the old religious fetishism, with its convulsionary raptures and miraculous cures,
the fetishism of commodities generates its own moments of fervent arousal. All
this is useful for only one purpose: producing habitual submission.
phf: The satisfaction
that no longer comes from using
the commodities produced in abundance is now sought
through recognition of
their value as commodities. Consumers are filled with religious fervor for
the sovereign freedom of commodities whose use has become an end in itself. Waves of enthusiasm for particular products are propagated by all
the communications media. [...] Reified people proudly display
the proofs of
their intimacy with
hanbot: i suspect
the recognition
that
things can actually be useful rather
than superficially ego-satisfying is a more and more rare occurrence. or by now, ability. which explains a lot of
the stupidity, but doesn't excuse it.
BingoBoingo: hanbot:
That's actually a serious problem. Being excited about
things for
their "product" -ness and not
that part where
they are useful as
things.
hanbot: "review". aka "say anonderp, i'm having
trouble fitting my pretensions and emotional minutiae in a finite space. would you ask me how i feel about shit and host
the results?"
mircea_popescu: sorta like "size in
the mind of
the strategist". clean, elite units loom large. complex, large elucubrations are barely noted.
mircea_popescu: so a small elite unit was capable of projecting a long shadow whereas a churned
to death rifle unit from a siege emplacement was a mere dot.
mircea_popescu: something intuitively comprehensible as more akin
the german-pioneered "tank shadow" item. whereby a unit was represented as a blob function of both its strength/battle readiness and it's mobility.
mircea_popescu: much
to my chagrin, neither do i. it is at best an experience-bound heuristic atm.
mircea_popescu: note in any case
that while
the logic is correct, " on
the expectation
that size and competency correlate", it is NOT
the case
that what is meant by size is what'd intuitively appear.
mircea_popescu: still.. a useful judgement of "size" in
this particular sense is very hard
to come by.
mircea_popescu: i suppose
the one neutral construction here would be
that
the larger
the item under discussion,
the more likely you are
to credit ability and
the less likely
to credit happenstance, on
the expectation
that size and competency correlate.
mircea_popescu: you COULD, for
the same money, put
these in backwards.
mircea_popescu: when imperial instrument succeeded in keeping enemies at bay, you credited
the exquisite intrinsic superiority of imperial instrument.
mircea_popescu: when republican instrument succeeded in keeping enemies at bay, you credited lack of interest on
the part of
the enemies.
mircea_popescu: no,
this has absolutely nothing
to do with any finding out. it is not a matter of fact.
mircea_popescu: could just as well be presented
the other way around, you know ? if you're going
to assign good/bad arbitrarily, might as well allign
the needle backwards.
mircea_popescu: why don't you say "clearly nobody gives a shit about apple or its products - so few vulnerabilities
they can almost chase
them all down"
mircea_popescu: encapsulation is a dream. you know
that. what exactly activates your memory hole
to
think
that apple "done it" ? usg perfume ? what is it ?
mircea_popescu: this does not bode well for apple's market value, if
true.
mircea_popescu: " lazy general usian population / anti-entrepreneurial spirited usian elite will concede
the point ot
them."