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ascii_field: BingoBoingo: see last night's
thread re: same
trinque: can't even have
the amusing humiliation of
the bored sign-flipping with
this setup
punkman: if she's not even gonna hold
the sign, maybe sign should end in buttplug
whaack: trinque: Yeah
they have some stick in
their back,
there's another huge rectangular one
that looks even funnier.
ascii_field: or
the usgization of mircea_popescu's esp8266
thing
jurov: and
to never ever move out of
the US
ascii_field: jurov: aha, i'm under standing orders
to loaf around and look maximally ridiculous
trinque: whaack: what's
this;
they built
the sign such
that she doesn't even have
to hold it?!
assbot: Logged on 17-11-2015 17:18:47; jurov: accordign
to arlov and alf, no one even farts without orders from washington
liquidassets: fuck me in
the fuck, cmon I've been here for awhile...
mircea_popescu: social media grieving stands with grief about in
the same relationship instagram pictures stand with food.
jurov: well,
there's also
the killing in beirut (and others) no one ordered people
to grieve on
punkman: plus derps ain't got money
to fly foo!
jurov: oh he actually got an order
to stay put and don't leave, i get it now
punkman: plane going down is closer
to "act of god" and less scary, compared
to a person
that hates you and will shoot you in
the face while you are having coffee at starbucks
jurov: dunno why he did not get any explicit orders,
then
jurov: accordign
to arlov and alf, no one even farts without orders from washington
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mircea_popescu: which is why
the good or bad will of
the army of meat carries no particular value one way or
the other
assbot: Logged on 17-11-2015 13:58:55; mircea_popescu:
the chinese, like all of asia, like all of
the arab world, like fucking oceania and all
the "nation of africa" assorted nobodies were, and have been forever happy
to sit around and contemplate
the immortality of laziness.
adlai: while
trying
to finish a book about IRS workers
mircea_popescu: never
thought i'd live
to see
the day people miss
the footnotes.
punkman: mircea_popescu: I
thought so, but I get information overload
trying
to read some of
those posts. maybe footnotes would make it flow better.
mircea_popescu: anyway gotta say
that was a pretty good blog earlier punkman
mircea_popescu: meanwhile,
to support r&d you need a pointedly orthogonal metnality, which is specifically divisive FOR
THE MERE REASON OF BEING DIVISIVE, not as a goal-excused means but as a goal in itself ; and certainly a competitive approach.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: another path into
this issue would be
the concept of "adversarial individuality". hola davout.
to support a large empire (large defined in
the sense of, stretched at
the seams of communication abilities,
to
the point it struggles
to maintain itself, a la romans) you require a certain mentality in
the subjects. let's call it, in modern
terminology, "inclusive", "cooperative" and whatnot other "good" feelers.
mircea_popescu: there was a high level of pseudointellectual masturbation, sure, much like in
today's us. similarly
then, mit educated chitlins could not light a lightbulb, but could pseudointelligently discuss "the
types" of feminism as if
that were a
thing, somehow.
mircea_popescu: in any case,
there's no "high level of scientific achievement" in china as proposed by
that wikipedia. because "social sciences" are not sciences.
mircea_popescu: just like a society
that makes "the elimination of all inconvenience, from murder
to doctor
telling you you're fat" its goal will negessarily get raped.
mircea_popescu: yeah, a society
that makes "balance" its goal will necessarily stagnate.
mircea_popescu: and even
today,
the only reason
they're doing anything is because
they're
trying
to copy what
they perceive as superior.
that's it and
that's all, without europe around
to direly humiliate
them, china would still be pretty satisfiedly pulling carts by hand etc.
mircea_popescu: fuck, even
the greeks had
the steam engine and used it
to make
toys and party
tricks. exactly like
the chinese use of gunpoweder.
mircea_popescu: in particular
the chinese had sketches of
the helicopter in
the roman
times, as opposed
to da vinci's re-roman
times.
they had alchemy plain and proper a millenium before
the euros. but hey, chinese "gentlemen" are
too delicate
to
touch earths.
mircea_popescu: the chinese, like all of asia, like all of
the arab world, like fucking oceania and all
the "nation of africa" assorted nobodies were, and have been forever happy
to sit around and contemplate
the immortality of laziness.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the principal driver of inequality between europe (not "the west",
the us is not included in
this discussion as it doesn't fucking matter or even exist for most of it) is
the stupidity of everyone else.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the guy has a point, and szabo's
theory is not merely just silly, it's a sympthom of a larger western pathology (he's basically looking for an excuse, ANY excuse, just as long as it doesn't come
to *a better quality of people*, because he's nuts with
this racism bullcrap like
the rest of
the anglos.)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: historical fact afaik. which is how
they got
to
their present kickass position.
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mircea_popescu: "All our servers are running on 100% renewable energy. By choosing green services you can help
to prevent
the climate change." << speaking of "idiot signal", here's an easy way
to lose business : put
that on your site.
mircea_popescu: apparently
they got confused as
to
the difference between "datacenter" and "website
trying
to push a movie someone made in cad3d about a duke nukem modmap."
punkman: lol right "A 1.5% fee applies
to payments you accept from customers outside of X"
mircea_popescu: i guess maybe you're right, wannabe-paypal. unless
this is
this a case of hidden fees
punkman: letting paypal do
the currency conversion usually sucks
punkman: guess
they must have cranked up
the "anti-fraud" machines
punkman: 2checkout down
to 2.4% +$.3 per
tx huh, used
to be 2-3
times
that
mircea_popescu: that way
they can sell "business processing"
to merchants.
mircea_popescu: sounds more like
the reverse. people wouldn't give out
their ccv
to random outfit so
they "support paypal".
punkman: (and idiots from countries
that paypal wouldn't
take)
punkman: 2checkout doesn't push
their card payments
through paypal, so it's more like alt-paypal. people would use
them because
they'd allow idiots.
punkman: like other card payment processors
that are not banks?
mircea_popescu: they own a chunk of
the fed, do nightly settlement or what do you mean "themselves"
punkman: they process card and other payments
themselves iirc
mircea_popescu: (obscure bitpay-for-paypal opines on
things on matters.)
punkman: BingoBoingo: what
the hell is an Advanced Practice Practicioner?
mircea_popescu: it's one
thing
to
think "oh,
there's nothing special about reddit/tardstalk/whatever.
they're all like
that."
mircea_popescu: they have an entire list of ... well, stuff scraped off
the bottom of
the web.
liquidassets: asciilifeform what kind of liquid assets did you
think I have?
liquidassets: love it, ok right, because
there is right and
there is wrong correct?
assbot: Logged on 17-11-2015 01:24:21; mircea_popescu:
there is ~no relation between numbers on websites and bitcoin price.