357800+ entries in 0.079s
mircea_popescu: (promoted by interested parties, of course, which is to say scammors)
mircea_popescu: a view which is actulaly getting a slight resurgence these days.
mircea_popescu: and its forbidding a serious abuse of the state power against individual sovereignity
mircea_popescu: but i would like to add the observation that according to the 1800s crowd, patent medicine was actually useful, actually valuable and actually working.
mircea_popescu: all this dovetails neatly, of course, into our earlier kabbalah discussion,
mircea_popescu: first and foremost we must agree these "views" are a thing.
mircea_popescu: nor are you at liberty to imagine the symbol views denotes whatever definition you may happen to allocate it.
mircea_popescu: all this aside : putting "views" next to a number does not transform the number into a measure
mircea_popescu: there's nothing particularly wrong with being a fraudster, i guess, until you end up believing your own crap.
mircea_popescu: they simply use that particular bezzle to defraud whoever's so inclined.
mircea_popescu: in fact back in the lycos/infoseek/geocities days most everyone did.
mircea_popescu: cads i can make a webpage publishing arbitrary numbers.
mircea_popescu: nono, i'm impressed, deeply, just, there's nothing there to be impressive k ?
mircea_popescu: there's no such thing as a "view" and consequently nohing there to count.
mircea_popescu: i merely showed how that idiocy reduces to the absurd.
mircea_popescu: cads no, you did. "the 9 videos in the series got 20 million views"
mircea_popescu: "i saw you on the internet. so here's le diable et le bon dieu, read for me."
mircea_popescu: i wonder if giving these chicks a book and asking them to read is a legit pick-up now.
mircea_popescu: but! that said orgasm distraction is certanly a fun game.
mircea_popescu: i'd guess about 35% of adult females can actually orgasm in the situation described.
mircea_popescu: but if you "interwoven" on nyse the sec will put your head on a pike on columbus ave.
mircea_popescu: stop losses are usually offered as a best-effort thing, not as a guarantee
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> implication is that this achieved something more than one can get by merely hashing & signing code. << fwiw i don't believe it does or could.
mircea_popescu: makes this observation how the only sort of people who seem to trive in his dystopia are bug-like
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform your dream of software that's unauditable by the user is getting closer and closer huh
mircea_popescu: you can now have no bugs except that sort of bugs you'll never find
mircea_popescu: a howitzer can fire blanks on the football field just fine
mircea_popescu: benkay you don't have to make the shells actually do anything you know ?
mircea_popescu: bitcoin once explained by satoshi is not actually hard in any sense
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform maybe i'm blinded by zeal but seems to me sed is actually harder.
mircea_popescu: cs professors who failed to have the kids implement bitcoin in 2013
mircea_popescu: "humanities" "professors" that have no idea what a college is and can not speak latin,
mircea_popescu: so they can go around pretending like they're things they could never be.
mircea_popescu: we're fortunate to live in a world where nobody has any clear measuring stick to be able to measure exactly how tall the pile of shameful excrement they find themselves under is.
mircea_popescu: "what, you have not implemented bitcoin as a term project ? you're defunded. 100%"
mircea_popescu: and i seriously do not understand what a rector must be thinking to not close down their cs department after this
mircea_popescu: this'd have been anyone's term project if i were teaching.