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mircea_popescu: why do you stubornly refuse to see, internalize and use the working process, notwithstanding it was both explained and displayed for your examination
mircea_popescu: the last time anyone came even vaguely remotely close to anything like that, danielpbarron got his walking papers and the problem went away the same day.
mircea_popescu: then again black dudes regularly come out ~average wrt penis sizes, seems to do nothing for the meme.
mircea_popescu: it is quite unlikely anything like the usg socio-politico-legalo-wankist notion of "pedophile" exists in reality, yes.
mircea_popescu: not "what you'd do in their place", not "what's good for them", "logical" or otherwise.
mircea_popescu: basically alf is willing to do anything whatsoever but sell.
mircea_popescu: just because they call it x in their fantasyworld has ~little bearing.
mircea_popescu: you're allowing yourself to be misdirected. just get the peopel looking for the item called "vpn" in empire universe on a rk or w/e the actual item is
mircea_popescu: most people buying a vpn spent 5-10 bucks a month on 12 cents or so worth of usage
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, the part you're missing is that the entire array is not made out of the one-worst-apple
mircea_popescu: actually, it's not altogether clear there is another one.
mircea_popescu: so far the bar seems more in the vein of the exact opposite, "seeking to hide imperfection"
mircea_popescu: i dun think anyoen's getting negrated for being imperfect.
mircea_popescu: but that's the fucking gain. "o look, i made a mistake".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, mentioned recently, now writes stultifying government copy re "immigrants" at la times.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, that it is ; which is how you end up with entire swathes of maculature (usg "scientific research" or "news media" as prime examples) rejected out of hand.
mircea_popescu: if every wanna-be corp out there actually followed their model, shit would actually work!
mircea_popescu: it's the pinnacle of stupid to go "now that we do, we dun wanna".
mircea_popescu: that they might have ink and paper to write their things down
mircea_popescu: but yes, historically, this was the longest held and dearest desire of all thinking men buried before we came :
mircea_popescu: spyked, it's just the secular, momentuous change of detaching documentation from success and attaching it to activitry plain and simple that's the major significance of current it.
mircea_popescu: yes, it is true, illo tempore, in ages long past, with
expensive paper process, this was a useful approach. but today, it is counter-productive.
mircea_popescu: i suppose this "document success only" heuristic is the one most poisonous gift society has to offer.
mircea_popescu: that's the logic : if it's worth doing, it's worth doing human-ly, which is to say reviewably ; and since one can't claim entire classes of fundamentals aren't wroth doing, the absence of X or Y topic is significant of weakness.
mircea_popescu: there's no specific rule that documentation must be limited to success.
mircea_popescu: oh. keks, we missed each other in ukrlands. how didja like kiev ?
mircea_popescu: it was, i guess, sorta pleasant to see the thing keep the pipe full at all times, 100s of conns, if you do the math that's 4232690270208000 bytes' worth of good films i contributed to the ethers.
mircea_popescu: NOTHING interesting turned up. i don't mean, "low five figures' worth of interesting". not a benjie's worth. feeding the-horde-that-expects-to-be-fed is not merely -ev. it is 0ev.)
mircea_popescu: (yes, believe it or not, i ran a "all films reviewed on trilema" server for like... a year. to see if anything interesting happens. major pipe and everything, came to high four figures all told, mostly hardware, soem sweat to get it up.
mircea_popescu is rater on alf's side re vpn product notion ; though this may be borne of ignorance, i don't think i ever bought one.
mircea_popescu: re awstats : there's no rule you gotta run it on the machine i nquestion. awstats will process ~any~ log in most standard formats, can just have an awstats box.
mircea_popescu: this "Solve problems as you run into them, anything else is premature optimization" groove's apparently very easy to slip out of, but it is TRT.
mircea_popescu: not in ac (really useless for ac with modern tech), but for... polyurethane blowout
mircea_popescu: in other subtle perfections, the dude who supervised installing my ac arranged for the condensation drip to go straight into my lovage bush
mircea_popescu: in which i wonder whether BingoBoingo is actually named for the adriano celentano movie