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mircea_popescu: what are you going to do, say to it "bitch, YOU ARE NOT GOING TO DROWN IN THE FUCKING SINK, RELAX ALREADY1!11" ?
mircea_popescu: oh, im convinced it's a natural problem. like you know, 2yo taking a bath in the sink, holding on to your thumb with all its might.
mircea_popescu: it's a subtle point this, i dun have useful expression yet. in time.
mircea_popescu: middle management likes "byte" for the same reason it likes excel.
mircea_popescu: there's one thing it can't express too well (well here means -- in such a way as to guaranteedly and inescapably inconvenience EVERYONE) and that is, a certain notion of finality.
mircea_popescu: "then we could have cut one off at birth and walked on one leg and one wing like it were the future!"
mircea_popescu: for the country of the lame that somehow convinced themselves "it's man's nature to hop -- if god wanted man to walk he'd have given him wings"
mircea_popescu: but yes, "ffa mostly exists to show you that no, you actually DO NOT have a leg there".
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-22#1773999 << it's not clear that this separate-and-oh-so-different-this-time attempt to implement dwim has any more merit than any of the previous ones. for as long as i can't say "paperclip, write the novel i feel inside of me", you can't say "software transformation compiler".
☝︎ mircea_popescu: (holy shit these illiterate schmucks, so they spell it impetuous as the adjective but "impetus" as the noun. what the everloving fuck is this and where did my diaresis go!)
mircea_popescu: (which -- how come nobody goes "hey, rms wasted through failing to save so and so engineer years in that whole fiasco". there's this very iritatingly wikipedian attitude of universalist nonsense, "we decided on x all avoidable sacrifice is going to be piously frauded into necessary now". and i dun like it.)
mircea_popescu: iirc it was at least on the surface the impetuus/justification for the fruitless excursion in desert that was gnu attempt.
mircea_popescu: ~same thing as "received holy book", ie why the eastern version yielded "orthodoxy".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes but ~the concept~. "none of this makes any sense but it happened to schelling point yearsd ago back when this decaying empire was slightly better so what can we do".
mircea_popescu: i believe it is very important to inform the kids what the adults are up to, you know ?
mircea_popescu was once left with fambly's 4 yo daughther while they ran around setting the table etc for later dinner, proceeded to convincingly tell the little girl the whole preparation's really to EAT HER. ran off screaming/was skittish the whole rest of the day.
mircea_popescu: caaddr dun worry about it, i just ask cuz im curious not cuz i'm setting up the table to eat you.
mircea_popescu: item's been looking for someone to pick up the "no, really mp, anonimity is actually a net positive" torch for a long time now. be my guest.
mircea_popescu: why all the coyness anyway. dja ever read the anonimity discussion, as it happens ?
mircea_popescu: so are you basically an engineer flattering himself on the grounds of "hey, online brokerages let anyone open an account these days!" then ?
mircea_popescu: (for the noobs : arbitrage as a financial "fashionable" item, the sorta thing tom cruise might be doing to explain why he has all that money and time to pursue "slavegirls" came to light during the 70s mergers and acquisitions craze (aka, m&a), where the success/failure of an attempt to takeover induces significant yet economically meaningless price movements. the whys and wherefores of both the behaviour and its effects are
mircea_popescu: you're sitting there and telling me you're a suit with a working comprehension of the underlying technology ? what the fuck is this, the future ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform to me either. i'm mostly putting the matter into over-enunciated discussion to get the thinkjuices flowing on the topic, as it's gonna be the main bitch for years to come.
mircea_popescu: who is this guy anyway ? do we get to that part in the log ?
mircea_popescu: people put their email in there all the time ; which got zimmerman banned in my book, because i wrote to the email and he responded that he "long ago lost the key".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes but life served you lemons. you gotta make what is a very unpleasant cut as a political decision.
mircea_popescu: which explains why gpg 1 has but gpg2 has not : by the time gpg2 came out, there was an absolute lower bound firmly in place, and well... TOO BIG. "people could never handle this!"
mircea_popescu: they literally could not conceive HOW to give you those.
mircea_popescu: this may seem weird considering we've had numbers for a long time. but i am pretty certain that's what the problem is.
mircea_popescu: gpg doesn't "allow" the exporting of your own damned primes because IT DOES NOT KNOW HOW TO NOTATE THEM.
mircea_popescu: the OTHER however, plain idiocy as opposed to the malevolent sort, is perhaps best rendered as "missing formats".
mircea_popescu: im certain that's not it. there's two causes of the by now well identified and documented pantsuit idiocy.
mircea_popescu: one day eric raymond came to mp and said "given enough eyes, all bugs are shallow" ; mp extended him the can of beluga roe he was dipping into : "here you go, a whole <<<new software movement>>>". eric raymond never understood what just happened.
mircea_popescu: whole population of handwaving fly eyes. which is why "open sores".
mircea_popescu: caaddr this is amply discussed, generally under the "not as much as a fucking working cipher omfg"
mircea_popescu: caaddr empire ~stole the box, started quest for republican isp.
mircea_popescu: i don't expect anyone gives a shiot abput the gimmick.
mircea_popescu: caaddr there's this occasional scam on the internet, most recently "urbit".
mircea_popescu: the correlate of postmodern confusion is that i'd so much rather gouge out an eye than watch another benjamin-shithead movie.
mircea_popescu: the cruise... "it's nice, i guess", but it doesn't fucking hurt and the stump doesn't bleed afterwards, why even bother.
mircea_popescu: people WANT to be asked for parts of their own fucking body cut off with a half bent spork.
mircea_popescu: going up to a woman and asking her if she'd like to be put in chains and whipped is going to produce significantly better results than going up to a woman and proposing you take her out for a yacht cruise.
mircea_popescu: reover, the pretense to the contrary and the "blank mind" humanist wank is strictly the path to insanity.
mircea_popescu: "Coping with radical novelty requires an orthogonal method. One must consider one's own past, the experiences collected, and the habits formed in it as an unfortunate accident of history, and one has to approach the radical novelty with a blank mind, consciously refusing to try to link it with what is already familiar, because the familiar is hopelessly inadequate." << this never was, and absolutely never will be the case. mo
mircea_popescu: for the record, that dijkstra piece on "radical" bla bla is so fucking idiotic...
mircea_popescu: iirc it just edits something in /etc/security/limits.conf ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform trinque you'd be surprised how many of these exist!