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mircea_popescu: at first
they promise "jobs for everyone and cheapoer prices"
mircea_popescu: now,
this is a general economic principle, and it applies jut as well
to monolithic coding approaches.
mircea_popescu: soon enough you
turned greenwich village into detroit.
mircea_popescu: the shops
that were closed by its competition won't return
mircea_popescu: ye,
the people
that left in exasperation at all
the sprawl won't come back.
decimation: in
the sense
that
the midgets were all slain
mircea_popescu: should it find a nice place
to sit for a while, such as a neighbourhood, it will be fine for as long as it sits, and when
that's done can walk away
mircea_popescu: think of a supermarket as if it were a giant, walking
the land of midgets.
decimation: now, it does give some functionality in exchange - faster boot
times, 'carefully managed' boot process, etc
mircea_popescu: just because your old clunker is rusty doesn't mean you should add a bamboo patio on
the roof.
decimation: but systemd is worse, in
the sense
that it adds a layer of obfuscation
decimation: heh yeah I read
that.
to be honest, I'm not sure
the existing init system is worthy of much praise
assbot: The wisdom of crowds. Apparently, it mostly depends on
the crowds in question. pe
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decimation: he knows how
to please
those who please
the state
decimation: he knows how
to please
those who please
the state
thestringpuller: "The idea
that
taxes drive
the value of money.known as chartalism.goes back at least as far as German economist Georg Friedrich Knapp.s 1905 book .The State
Theory of Money."
decimation: Alexander seems
to be a master at deflecting blame
decimation: "The now-retired NSA official, a longtime code-breaker who rose
to
top management, had just learned in 2009 about
the
top secret program
that was created shortly after
the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. ... “An individual did bring us
these questions, and he had some great points,” Alexander
told
the AP. “I asked
the
technical folks, including him,
to look at it,”"
mats_cd03: they're displaying now, i didn't know
that happened with new bets
mats_cd03: what's with
the weights on
these bets?
mircea_popescu: fizzled as one'd expect.
there's a reason india was a colonial empire and not vice-versa.
mircea_popescu: this is actually a general point. i recall a few decades ago bored stupid californian housewifes and ex actresses went all crazy about how india is going
to be
teh great cure
mircea_popescu: Even worse would be
to
think
that
the simplicity of Africa holds some kind of answers for Western society: remember "It
Takes A Village"?
Trust me on
this:
there is not one
thing
that Africa can give
the West which hasn't been
tried before and failed, not one
thing
that isn't a step backwards, and not one
thing which is worse
than, or
that contradicts, what we have already.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, what
the african activists willing
to speak plainly say sounds a whole fuckload of a lot just like what
the paternalist southern lobby was saying in
the us, early 1800s.
mircea_popescu: "If a cure for AIDS was found
tomorrow, and offered
to every African nation free of charge,
the growth of
the disease would scarcely be checked, let alone reversed." i ca see
this.
mircea_popescu: yeah seems
the inescapble fate of
the black race, extermination at
the hands of
the yellow.
mircea_popescu: other
than being an european in
the "mare nostrum" sense of
that concept, me either.
mircea_popescu: well you know, without
this without
that... basically you're what,
talking of "african americans" ?
jurov: if
they exclude maghreb,
too.. but nairobi seems
to have decnt infra,
too
mircea_popescu: first class had better service
than anywhere i've ever been, including switzerland
mircea_popescu: this is very unfair. i have personally used
the egyptian
trains, cairo
to luxor
mircea_popescu: well, in fairness part of
this may be
that
the african gdp is sinking in realer
terms. if same were applied,
the us sunk since
the 80s something fiercer
jurov: Brazil is
the country of future. And forever shall be.
jurov: lol wins again... a brazil joke came
to mind:
mircea_popescu: Among old Africa hands, we have a saying, usually accompanied by a shrug: "Africa wins again."
This is usually said after an incident such as: a beloved missionary is butchered by his congregation, for no apparent reason.
jurov: i was quite a brat: "you don't want
to eat
this?
think of starving children in africa,
they'd like
this" "well, so send it
to
them"
mircea_popescu: i remember
this. when i was like 6 old women around me were "omg, you look like you're from biafra! eat something!"
mircea_popescu: "In my lifetime,
the following
tragedies have occurred, causing untold millions of deaths: famine in Biafra"
mircea_popescu: your own life is not actually within your control. valuing something outside of your control is logically broken, and
that basis is enough for any ulterior brokenness
to be itnroduced.
mircea_popescu: it's just
typical of actual people, as neatly opposed
to dickles otakus or w/e populate
teh us.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the "casual attitude
to life and death" he discusses is in no way
typically african.
mircea_popescu: Two friends died from stepping on landmines while on Army duty in Namibia.
Three died in horrific car accidents (and lest one
thinks
that
this is not confined
to Africa, one was caused by a kudu flying
through a windshield and impaling
the guy
through
the chest with its hoof--not your everyday
traffic accident in, say, Florida).
mircea_popescu: "Finally, if you add
the horrifying spread of AIDS into
the equation, anyone born in sub-Saharan Africa
this century will be lucky
to reach age forty." ahem.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform 1/2/3/4 it seems quite probable
that's exactly how
this particular "engineering for excellence"
thing works.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski BingoBoingo i like how positive you
two are
tho.
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xanthyos: i grew up watching saved by
the bell. zack morris never had
these problems.
BingoBoingo: Well,
that's what you get for doing a persian penis
trick
xanthyos: no one's supposed
to struggle
this much in life
xanthyos: god is
teasing me,
the same way he
teased jesus
jurov: i'll prolly reply "yes, bugs are fine,
they eat every day and laid some eggs"
jurov: dud
tries hard
to get some "bug bounty"
jurov: ^ copied some
text about insecure cookies from wikipedia previously
jurov: Hello Sir When You Gonna Message At-Lest
Tell Me Sir What's Going On Are You Fixing My Bugs Or Not Are You Seeing My Bugs Or Not Do You Have Any Problem With My Bugs ? Why Are You Behave Like
That Sir Why Are You Ignoring Peoples
This Is Not Well Behavior Sir Please Respect Our Work Ok Cause It Was Really Hard Work Which I Had Done And You Again Didn't Send Me Message ?/???
undata: asciilifeform:
the characters in
those posters have an almost minstrel quality