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mircea_popescu: tech as an intellectual pursuit has nothing to do with tech as a job.
mircea_popescu: i was being sarcastic yo. i did physics before i did philosophy.
mircea_popescu: but that's besides the point. i have no problem paying for shit.
mircea_popescu: this created 10-15 years of dead air during which every fuckwit ended up with delusions of equality with the class of people who rightfully had free internet everytthing
mircea_popescu: the internet failed by not having payment well sorted out BEFORE it allowed undegrads access.
mircea_popescu: the luser has already paid aol 30 bucks, he is E.N.T.I.T.L.E.D. to everything else now
mircea_popescu: this is the internet! on the package in which internet came, it clearly said it's an enjoyable experience.
mircea_popescu: pankkake look at that, these filthy bitbet scammers taking over the world.
mircea_popescu: pankkake wouldn't it kick ass if the miners actually had non-planar boards
mircea_popescu: i recall they wanted a pic and so i licensed some at some point
mircea_popescu: there is no possible alternative. no magic trick will make you be knowledgeable, other than actually being knowledgeable.
mircea_popescu: coincidentally, i also blogged about what a pos it is, about on the same timeline
mircea_popescu: "Visits to Wikipedia had previously risen steadily year-on-year for a decade. Towards the end of the 2012 this trend not only stalled, but went into an unprecedented decline."
mircea_popescu: cat-in-the-bag trading may be great comedy, but it's not business.
mircea_popescu: blg groupon is a scam in the manner the web start-up circus is a scam. make website with no utility, pretend huge customer base that doesn't exist or is bught, pretend huge growth that doesn't exist or is manufactured,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, but it's a little ridiculous that they seem to somehow have constructed a pretend-world where they don't even have to consider what they're doing.
mircea_popescu: i mean people who make false statements to collect money from suckers, and then fail to deliver
mircea_popescu: so why would your friend wish to associate himself with the groupon scammers ?
mircea_popescu: blg well it's nice to see people are coming to terms with it.
mircea_popescu: yes. gfplug goes in teh front, wifeplug goes in the back.
mircea_popescu: more people would be here saying the same interesting thing
mircea_popescu: " I prefer a society based in the rule of law to groups of eager people with bright ideas who ignore everything that has gone before them." << we now have the definition of the old fart.
mircea_popescu: " Each and every time someone in the Computer Science field has a Bright Idea, the world had better be prepared to adapt, because Here Comes Genius and everything everybody has done needs to be done differently from now on, because This Genius Knows Best."
mircea_popescu: ok, let's take the final portion. "reach all your goals w/o breaking other people's "needs" ?!
mircea_popescu: maybe naggum should fart magical pie out of his ear that convinces princess diana to learn how to lisp.
mircea_popescu: so then what am i to think of someone who proposes someone else should do what has never happened.
mircea_popescu: " What you could do is take this back to the drawing board, declare yourself unfit to make technical decision because of too much personal involvement, and let other people find ways to reach all of your (technical) goals while breaking none of other people's goals and needs. "
mircea_popescu: welll... don't they play football in their spare time anymore, these people ? what do they do when they're 15 ?
mircea_popescu: with the result that the work needed on average exceeds the work anyone's to put in
mircea_popescu: perhaps. the way it reads to me is more like boys tring to come to terms with questions of hierarchy and submission in an extremely complex environment
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform arguably, the libertard is pissing in his own mouth tho.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there is something otherworldly about the sack of shit that goes "i'll just sit here and pretend, no matter what"
mircea_popescu: claiming the sun set in the east some time last month is a much easier solution.,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform which brings to mind : redditard wisdom is now that "i edited" the niggers article, because rather than wrap their stupid heads around the fact they couldn't matte rless,
mircea_popescu: deego perhaps unbeknownst to you, you're in a pit where assholes and jerks are properly revered as the kings of all creation. which they are.
mircea_popescu: alystair a block is about ten minutes, but a wallet should show tx in the pool as unconfirmed