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mircea_popescu: the point is not to protect who knows what secrets that shouldn'
t be there anyway.
mircea_popescu: it turns out that this is not true : "commodified market" actually means that there is no market - you can either not have a server and think you don'
t have a server ; or else not have a server and think you have a server. those two, no third and sure as fuck no having servers.
ascii_field: i can'
t recall the last time i ssh'd to something which i did not either set up personally or know the keeper of in meatspace.
mircea_popescu: my browser is also a very configurable animal, and the configuration mostly results in blank pages and "your site can'
t be used" emails.
mircea_popescu: hitler didn'
t want to go for this so they invaded germany to saddam hussein him.
assbot: Logged on 30-01-2015 17:27:51; mircea_popescu: oo-weak-to-try rapists want to be anonymous. Smart women write clickable articles about their sexuality for nothing, because what good are you if you can'
t make someone else money? Interesting to observe that the article's single suggested solution to cyberharassment is to reframe a criminal problem into a civil rights issue using a logic so preposterously adolescent that if you laid this on your Dad
mircea_popescu: o-weak-to-try rapists want to be anonymous. Smart women write clickable articles about their sexuality for nothing, because what good are you if you can'
t make someone else money? Interesting to observe that the article's single suggested solution to cyberharassment is to reframe a criminal problem into a civil rights issue using a logic so preposterously adolescent that if you laid this on your Dad when you were 16 he
mircea_popescu: the funny thing about "groups advocating influentially in media they don'
t own or control" is that the famelic good for nothing hipsters propose that THIS IS THE RIGHT WAY. ie, being someone's cockpuppet is somehow worthy, whereas if trump writes "fuck you" in his own fucking magazine, that's somehow "not fair" and you know, of "lesser value".
mircea_popescu: Keeping in mind that actual stalking has never been dealt with in any significant way ever, the desire of a few female writers to curb online anonymity wouldn'
t be enough to get an @ mention, except that this happens to coincide with what the media wants, and now we have the two vectors summing to form a public health crisis. "Cyberbullying is a huge problem!" Yes, but not because it is hurtful, HA! no one cares about
mircea_popescu: "The force for this change isn'
t coming from safety or ethics. Neither is it activism. If you see any group advocating influentially for change in a media they don'
t own or control, you can double down and split the 10s, the dealer is holding status and quo. No change is possible on someone else's dime, and if what looks like a supermodel approaches you with a microphone and a camera crew, you should run like she's Joh
mike_c: they do, and the oil is annoying, but it doesn'
t smell as bad.
mike_c: ascii_field: bicycles don'
t crap in the street.
mircea_popescu: no but i fucking hate that shit. "you know what we'll do to fix the problem of dumbass cars encroaching on pedestrian everything ? we'll make cheaper cvasi-cars so all the dumbass hipsters who can'
t afford a car can still get in your way"
shinohai: Trolling everyone that will listen, wasn'
t that the motherboard attention whore ?
punkman: BingoBoingo: I think "software license" was there because they didn'
t want to say "coin"
funkenstein_: sorry Bingo I can'
t figure out whats going on here :P
mircea_popescu: not really too much to tell. buncha old dudes who couldn'
t really afford to live in the states [to their expectations], hitting the casinos and the 5 foot nothing whores of san jose.
mircea_popescu: "we don'
t care what the unknown animal sounds like. what does it eat ?"
assbot: I haven'
t understood a single word you've said since I met you, not one single word.
mircea_popescu: "oh, the end of their world is visible from our world". a) no, it isn'
t ; b) so ?
mircea_popescu: if multiverse, and if in ALL possible verses picking a on X quesdtion results in annihilation, this means exactly nothing. the a pickers aren'
t in any way different from the non-a pickers.
mircea_popescu: the fundamental problem of reality is that for things to work, things don'
t actually have to work.
mircea_popescu: somehow THAT gender gap doesn'
t figure too prominently in "feminist" discourse today
mircea_popescu: He starts out as a young academic. He lands a spot in a research group that studies X, so he studies X, later he branches out into X+Y, or goes to Z, etc, eventually he finds himself a niche. And he believes in that niche, he believes in his data, no matter what it says. You can'
t convince him he's wrong because it isn'
t science and it isn'
t even a bias-- it's identity.
mircea_popescu: The money isn'
t corrupting him into thinking childhood bipolar is underdiagnosed-- he truly believes it. The reason he believes it is his entire professional existence-- his whole identity-- is predicated on believing it. He's not a scientist, he's a priest.
mircea_popescu: "If Biederman never existed, nothing would be different. You read his resume, you think, wow, he's a big player. You don'
t realize that if he didn'
t exist there would be some other person in his exact position, who would also have become a Distinguished Professor, won awards, written 450 publications, etc. The machine was already in place, his slot was going to get filled; his mind didn'
t discover anything, those re
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it specifically says "you don'
t have mandate to start wars, unless you do."
mircea_popescu: reagan didn'
t have the mandate to send the airline union packing. it went packing. roosevelt had no mandate to confiscate people's currency, or to redefine currency, or to fuck up the justice system.
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 23:25:18; ben_vulpes: obama doesn'
t actually have the mandate to negotiate; subtle fact of us presidency that most outsiders (and usians) miss.
ben_vulpes: obama doesn'
t actually have the mandate to negotiate; subtle fact of us presidency that most outsiders (and usians) miss.
☟︎ pete_dushenski: likewise, obama is smarter than your average nignog, but he can'
t negotiate himself out of a paper bag, much less prevent his 'country' from spiralling from despondency on downwards. in fact, if he were smarter, he'd be accelerating the process at every opportunity. instead, he just drags his dumb heels in the sand his father was born in.
pete_dushenski: yes, tlp is a smart dude, but no, he couldn'
t wrap his head around the concept of independence.
pete_dushenski: while pretty much everyone is stupid is ~some~ ways, this doesn'
t imply that there aren'
t vast disparities between the shades of gray.
brg444: that speaks to why he was so great though: dude had such an ego he thought there was nothing he couldn'
t do.
brg444: it's a shame he's such a doofus though. mentality he is amateur at best. doesn'
t understand how to be great
BingoBoingo: The card's elimination from the playoff wouldn'
t be so bad if it came at the hands of any team other than Shitcago
BingoBoingo: Tre Mason can eat a dick though. Wasn'
t for that asshole Mizzou would have had an SEC Championship.
shinohai: Jeezus mircea_popescu you weren'
t kidding about the eulora wiki.
shinohai: I can'
t offer any such help as I too am under the thumb of the SS.
phf: and then there's always bitcoind source, which is infinite rabbit hole. i'm studying the source by rewriting chunks in cl, and the more i learn, the more i know i don'
t know
mircea_popescu: women, sane women in sane situations, don'
t generally want another orgasm.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> phf: the back side of this medal is that problems which require something more than poor buggerz working nights and weekends with bare hands - don'
t get solved. << the only problem that EVEN BENEFITS from a different approach is childbearing.
mircea_popescu: there's also a bunch of large-ish stand-alone items, such as the gossipd (which might still be done by artifexd, haven;
t heard from him for a while) and a proper redesign of pgp
mircea_popescu: so why don'
t you do something ? here's alf bending over the task of routing circuits in the blockchain implemented in ada
phf: that's one way of putting it, except i don'
t have enough leverage to last me to the end, so technically no
phf: mircea_popescu: i was being childish, but also under a lot of stress. at that point they didn'
t quite believe me that i really am only staying on long enough to wrap up the projects i was responsible for. the haircut cut off any attempts to bring me into meetings with new clients. in any case not my proudest moment, but it was my best halloween costume so far.
mircea_popescu: The fact that the experiment failed didn'
t stop The New Yorker from trying to portray Wolfowitz as a jerk anyway, even though his performance theoretically showed that he was not a jerk, by the outcome measure of the study. They even commissioned a caricature of Wolfowitz to accompany the article, because, well, he's a jerk, of course. No matter what science says."
mircea_popescu: this one will kill it, of course, but even if it didn'
t, even without it : usg had been tricked by usg.vc into missing out on pretty much everything. even fucking obvious things like small biz.
mircea_popescu: "The elephant in the room being that the ad market is falling apart because it isn'
t worth anything near like what we imagined. If views were what mattered it would be impossible for Twitter to be in such trouble, Arstechnica be struggling to maintain its editorial standards, or sites like Huffington Post and Forbes to be forced to display clickbait panels and load 40 ~ 70 third party plants per page load."
mircea_popescu: so unless one';s willing to go "timecube is astrotech astrotech and some more astrotech", one shouldn'
t so refer to "click analytics" and the rest of that shit.
mircea_popescu: no there fucking isn'
t. "trivialization" is never a legitimate concern.
mircea_popescu: "I know they're billing it as a stand for women's rights, but that would be more convincing if they weren'
t also selling weapons to Saudi Arabia, hadn'
t shuttered 75 percent of the country's Status of Women offices, and weren'
t shrugging off the more than 1,200 Indigenous women who have been missing or murdered in Canada since 1980."
☟︎ mircea_popescu catches glimpse of 2028 when he has to decide whether he goes to nobel ceremony for b-a person or oscar prize for b-a person because hey, assholes don'
t understand they gotta deconflict schedules for b-a.
mircea_popescu: they just don'
t happen to be the sort of leaders it [thinks it] wants.
mircea_popescu: so basically the girl's plan was to be an activist, and she figured since all the verbiage is "you can'
t discuss X because you don'
t KNOWWHATITSLIKE" she'd really help her chances by having a bf off himself.
mircea_popescu: are these people off their rocker ? you can'
t name yourself a hedge fund with under 1 bn just like you can'
t call a thing a car if it's under 1 meter long.
punkman: one case it doesn'
t mention is that clueless client demands to use AWS and mongodb and hadoop, because "I heard these were popular and next week when I am a big multinational I'll need to hire 10k developers and they'll only know how to use those"
assbot: Logged on 14-10-2015 11:25:15; funkenstein_: i'm not sure if this was the goal but at this point general USian populace won'
t believe there's a shooting until the bullets hit them directly
diana_coman: fwiw I have been following Trilema from pretty much its beginning so I'm quite familiar with most of it (not that I wouldn'
t benefit from re-reading a lot of it) and I think there are many articles that would be worth translating
gabrielradio: If you're a native Romanian speaker with a very good grasp of English, I am interested to work out an arrangement for your translation of my older Romanian articles. Don'
t hesitate to make contact for this purpose. << mircea_popescu , is this still of interest to you?
davout: "Sucks, but I don'
t want to sterilize perfectly good satire just so people don'
t have to worry or think." <<< the world would be a much better place if this stance was more common
nubbins`: this election is seriously the most fun i've had since i don'
t know when
funkenstein_: i'm not sure if this was the goal but at this point general USian populace won'
t believe there's a shooting until the bullets hit them directly
☟︎ funkenstein_: a good old lecture on the topic is "Dead doctors don'
t lie" - joel wallach
assbot: Logged on 09-10-2015 01:49:22; mircea_popescu: the notion that people may read "newpspaers" made by people they don'
t know.
BingoBoingo: Who doesn'
t, far more to be learned than from the winners?
Duffer1: nah i don'
t know what to write about
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo which they couldn'
t have done if 'carbon' wasn'
t the only thing idjits cared about
mircea_popescu: don'
t give me that, i had computers that worked back when i was playing golden axe on them.
mircea_popescu: fucking hell you're all monkeys and you'd look so much better in quihabs i can'
t even describe it.
mircea_popescu: you can'
t do anything, ands you wouldn'
t know what to do on your own either. this is what being poor means