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mircea_popescu: besides
the point. under discussion here is specifically
the unseating of linus from linux.
mircea_popescu: it doesn't wedge linus from linux, it wedges linux from
the usg world (or vice-versa)
mircea_popescu: like what happens, google
takes his email away gives it
to whoever ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in
the good news department - progressing illiteracy means
they've moved on from featuritis
to fixing comments in
the code so it no longer includes
the string "retarded" and all " he" is replaced with "erzsjebet".
mircea_popescu: i vaguely remember
the
thing but i can't
tell you which article
mircea_popescu: calling
this mp is a gross misattribution,
the idea's old and well discussed/accepted
mircea_popescu: basically
the problem of all
these idiots stems from
the
twin grasp of a) design is not a deliberate activity but "should arise naturally", like
their delusional view of identity, love, hapiness et all ; b) 0 actual experience, entire life lived in
the narrow constraints of for-play reality.
mircea_popescu: "why is
this a good function ?" "because for hiding" "why is something good is not accepting something exists and seeking
the ex post facto rationalization of
that existence,
this isn't fucking school." "oh"
mircea_popescu: "This is a good function for hiding information from someone who doesn’t want
to see it or doesn’t want
to see it very much. "
mircea_popescu: for
the same reason old
tripod web pages got a "guestbook"
mircea_popescu: iirc
the decision libc is not salvageable is months old by now
mircea_popescu: "Here's a
transcript of an illegal recording not done by
the NSA
that
therefore everyone is ok with, consistent with our new standard of conduct: it is not illegal
to make an illegal recording as long as it is given
to
the media and
they profit from it and we can use it
to rationalize our lives. Got it."
mircea_popescu: but anyway, yes,
that's exactly
the problem : slavery without a master is hollow. hence all
the matrix stuff.
mircea_popescu: liably oppresses another; but
that
the entire system is based on creating a lack.
This lack is not a bottomless hole
that nothing could ever fill, but a
tiny, strangely shaped divot in your soul into which nothing could ever fit: not money, not sex, not stuff, not relationships. Nothing "takes." Nothing counts. Nothing is ever right. Only novelty works, until it wears off."
mircea_popescu: "Hess yells about a world of masculine power because she has
the power
to yell at it. But of course her power is limited only
to yelling, she is impotent against a
troll who yells at her. But her mistake is in
thinking he has
the power. No one has it,
the system doesn't allow it. Even
the mighty Economist demo feels impotent. Are
they all delusional?
This is
the
true critique of
the system, not simply
that one group re
mircea_popescu: " A former night-club dancer
tells dirty stories about her ex-colleagues
to
the refined Orthodox language
teacher, who does not know whether
to block her ears or
to laugh." <<
this is
the gain.
mircea_popescu: just like if you get
the wrong 10% of
the rent market you're out of busienss as a landlord ; or if you get
the wrong 10% of patrons your pizzeria's dead etc.
mircea_popescu: yeah,
there's not much substance
there. not only is only 10% of
the money in alts, and not only does
this mean a billion alts, but
the important point is
that it's a selected 10%, and selected badly/for stupidity.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller okay, but kinda contextless like
this... i mean, some nobody on some obscure site somewhere on
the internet is all
timecube into his alt-reality. ok... kinda you know, slapstick-y.
mod6: haha, i just fixed a bug in
the old perl 5.005_04 makedepend.SH script.
mircea_popescu: nd NOT being able
to do anything with it except spend it on
the system-wide approved gimmicks:
Trading Up, college educations,
the National Bank of S&P 500."
mircea_popescu: "Why would
the
The Economist's rich and powerful demo want
to be ruled? Because
they aren't powerful, only rich, all
that
time getting rich did not
translate
to any power, only
the
trappings of power. So
they've postulated a fantasy power structure/NBA owners
that explains why
they can't enjoy
their lives as
they
think
they should--
to absolve
themselves of
the guilt
they feel for having money/intellect/opportunities a
mircea_popescu: so you're losing relevance. who
the fuck is "you" anyway, i have no idea who Steve Sokolowski is supposed
to be and
that mug doesn't say anything other
than "future unemployed college grad"
to me.
mircea_popescu: "Something interesting started
to happen
this week. Last week, 82% of our payouts were being
taken in bitcoin. Currently, 72% of payouts are being paid in bitcoin."
mircea_popescu: aneurysm is better
than stroke because closer
to b
than
to w.
mircea_popescu: for someone who knows enough of pgp
to say "Besides,
there’s no power in abolishing anonymity,
the power is in giving everyone
the pretense of anonymity while secretly retaining
the PGP keys
to
the kingdom."...
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, check out
the miserable shape of
tlp's html
mircea_popescu: I'm a writer based out of East Village, Manhattan. I work from my condo and local coffee shops (and a few restaurants with menus
that are more unhealthy
than licking a subway railing), meeting friends who have boats or boat access,
touring
the zoo for
the zoo
to visit my ex-boyfriends, and forcing my political beliefs on others at social events (kidding, don't be one of
those people."
kakobrekla: wait
tomorrow, you will also get b-a log
mircea_popescu: ;;google "Be content
to bind
them by laws of
trade. You have always done it. And let
this be your reason."
kakobrekla: >prosecutors allege
that Craig's false
tweet-storms caused $1.6 million in losses
to shareholders.
mod6: *anniversary
too :]
mod6: Today is
the one year anneversary of
the Bitcoin Declaration of Sovereignty. Happy Independence Day!
mircea_popescu: i guess
the diamond
train got cancelled. nobody's gonna bother with it
this
time.
mircea_popescu:
the gas chambers, Kastner had sacrificed
the mass of Jewry for a chosen few,
the judge said.
The verdict
triggered
the fall of
the Israeli Cabinet.
mircea_popescu: other SS officers,
thus allowing Becher
to escape prosecution for war crimes.
The Israeli government sued Gruenwald for libel on Kastner's behalf, resulting in a
trial
that lasted 18 months, and a ruling in 1955
that Kastner had, in
the words of Judge Benjamin Halevy, "sold his soul
to
the devil". By saving
the Jews on
the Kastner
train, while failing
to warn others
that
their "resettlement" was in fact deportation
to
mircea_popescu: Kastner moved
to Israel after
the war, becoming a spokesman for
the Ministry of
Trade and Industry in 1952. In 1953 he was accused of having been a Nazi collaborator in a pamphlet self-published by Malchiel Gruenwald, a freelance writer.
The allegation stemmed from his relationship with Eichmann and another SS officer, Kurt Becher, and from his having given positive character references after
the war for Becher and
two