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mircea_popescu: possibly because harder to fall out of bed if there's nowhere to fall to ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no leverage gives itslef like a slut in marriage. for it to give -- you gotta use. it can be used, i'm a fine example of using it.
mircea_popescu: see, the naive has the advantage of a very distant bird's eye
mircea_popescu: ironically, the shitter actually is plugged into the mains. water dun go uphill by itself.
mircea_popescu: if my os came up with a way to be exciting i'd probably buy a flamethrower the same day.
mircea_popescu: what, the per-acre curiosity secreted by javascript programmer is not substantially different from yours or mine, is it now. andreicon is here because he wanted what was it, a more exciting os ?
mircea_popescu: curious about the wrong things with very definitely the wrong people.
mircea_popescu: every one of these thrown rocks, flying through the air propelled by the historical power of their ancestor's accumulated wealth (aka, wisdom and work) will hit the wall somewhere. this was her somewhere. not that different from all the others.
mircea_popescu: the point isn't the mistake, but the fact that girl collapsed as a writhing, mucuous mess under the whip, because ~couldn't~.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform consider the following point : girl confronted with
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-02#1678254 and my plain and clear isntructions broke down in tears, because, in her own estimation, couldn't understand what she's supposed to do. because had no idea whatsoever how toilet works, imagined it has something to do with electricity, so of course it can't flush if there's no power.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: but otherwise, given the chance, kid will grow into signaller.
mircea_popescu: some parents have the wit not to allow the kids the former. fewer kids -- also have it, somehow.
mircea_popescu: this is an early decision in human brain development, kid has to decide if he wants to learn to signal or if he wants to learn to do. age about 1.5 to 2 or so.
mircea_popescu: but that is the point : if you spend your time learning to signal instead of learning to do, you cheat yourself of a chance at life once the whole dumbery you were exchanging signals with goes away and you're left with just the trees, johnny.
mircea_popescu: the guy who learned in earnest how to "empathy" has not merely lost his time in the pursuit of subliterate idiocy ; but actually invested that time into implanting harmful gargauni into his skull, much like someone who spends $100 to buy some radium which he then swallows isn't out merely the $100 he paid for the radium
mircea_popescu: the fact that you've not forcefed raw beef into your daughter when she was 12 is never something that she can fix ; gym or no gym, poledancing or no poledancing, her thigh bone will be 99.85% of average length as opposed to the maximal 103.557% her genotype might've allowed her fenotype to turn out.
mircea_popescu: and so in this sense, the problem of the reddit hacker isn't something he does. it's something he did.
mircea_popescu: this is at the core of identity -- that if you spend your youth with idiots, whether you ~could have been~ smart or not, an idiot will you be.
mircea_popescu: there is a time when his neurons were making the connection-and-myelinization decision. that time came and went, a decision some way or another was made, and it is there for all time.
mircea_popescu: similarily, the child who was raised by wolves (as still practiced today, in india as well as maryland) will never learn proper speech.
mircea_popescu: emale now, no matter what hot sauce you rub all over its scaly skin.
mircea_popescu: phf consider this : in many insects, as well as reptiles and other inferior (and therefore simpler) lifeforms, the male/female decision, or else the reproductor/drone decision (such as in bees) is not made genetically, like it is in mammals, but through some manner or other the egg comes with a lever settable in the field so to speak. now -- the male lizzard come out of egg that was cold in its youth ain't never going to be f
mircea_popescu: the stories of people stuck dealing with the empire crapolade all sound alike, much like the stories of people stuck dealing with romania's 90s orphanages, or generally with the output of any other "realist" ideology.
mircea_popescu: phf "they made it an error to locally shadow cl package symbols," is this direct centralism then, "we own the names in your machine -- not you" ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: far as you know, ted turner's brainchild is just as existent as von steuben's commander general.
mircea_popescu: did washington "really exist" moreso than say "captain planet" ? in what "objective" ie non-wot-based approach.
mircea_popescu: i can see it going that far. all who died never existed to begin with, which is why there's so little interest youth derives from one's own personal history.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman and what are the dead but just a dream we dream.
mircea_popescu: phf: for the longest time i thought that common lisp spec is a magic paper against modernization. << check it out, the apotropaion of lisp!
mircea_popescu: i dunno. the fact is that the core rotting away results in the conclusion that "there was no core to begin with" rather than in the conclusion rthat "it had a core -- but then it ated it."
mircea_popescu: antonescu's letter to the turpitidinous "traditional parties" even references some speech of his.
mircea_popescu: and yet i'll remember the djb urchin cocksucker long after i've forgotten the djb mathematician. for that matter petain was a very respectable military officer. in world war i. possibly a higher caliber than anyone else in the ifeld then. and ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "leonidas died young, and when asked by someone why is he dying young, leonidas answer that he prefers the citizenry wonder why leonida is already dead than to bemoan leonidas still being there."
mircea_popescu: yes, i would say that to die senile is some kind of retroactive macula on one's intellectual history.
mircea_popescu: could just as well have had that patchwork set instead of the current patchwork set.
mircea_popescu: this sounds counterintuitive, but they're all talking of the same thing. no longer "ethnically determined state", as it happens, but that's happenstance.
mircea_popescu: but the point is for the core to not be rustable, if it's to be a core at all. otherwise what's core mean ? geometrically derived ?
mircea_popescu: generally the republican outlook is substance before form (aka, idealism, aka exactly heine's "Herab auf Euer romantisches Haupt des Himmels modernste Blitze") whereas the imperial outlook is "context only" hence the pantsuit's demographic delusion re 2016 elections.
mircea_popescu: ? are wives condemned to bitter unpleasantness for simply being wives ?
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-13#1682471 << it all goes back to the following fundamental : is there a substance to things beyond the context, or isn't there ? (traditionally stated by ustardia as "nature-nurture conflict", which is nonsense). in any case -- can you take the tica out of the barn and the barn out of the tica ? or just one ? does the whore become ~substantially~ unwife through living in the brothel long enough
☝︎ mircea_popescu: anyone seen frankenhooker ? i heartily recommend, exact rendition of us-born "STEM" idiot. the dude with the power drill.
mircea_popescu: "but it doesn't work" "well yea but i got this power drill, will fix brain."
mircea_popescu: "the flight research community is not flying, it is ABOUT flying."
mircea_popescu: "i'm with the flight research community" "do you fly ?" "oh, no. well... sometimes we do whippets."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know, like "human services" or "defense force" etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i should hope saiod machine had casemod with black light everywhere ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform see alf ? microshit ACTUALLY IS just a skin on a functioning machine.
mircea_popescu: so you're telling me windows isn't just a skin on a functioning machine, but an actually dysfunctional from the ground up one ?
mircea_popescu asks question, discovers in response that he had nop fucking idea.
mircea_popescu: you mean they got their own tivo over there to this degree ? no ssh ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but the ip must run some kind of machine no ?
mircea_popescu: this is where Framedragger interjects to explain why azure isp was not in his whole internet scan!
mircea_popescu: not bad at that. i guess plenty of people may go to the trouble to curl -A "blabla" but few will also add a spurious favicon hit.
mircea_popescu: !!v 0A36241C3C49877A1B2A4C32327433DACF377A858F2A84597BB298A1A1D1DFCA
mircea_popescu: !!rate andreicon 1 believe it or not, " do php development for an insurance company in eastern europe" is a direct quote.
mircea_popescu: rather than buy multipurpose trucks and excavators and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform for an example of actually trying, any large open pit mining project will do ; the sort where they can aford (ie, it makes economic sense) to design their own single-run machinery.
mircea_popescu: apparently one of the most poisonus critters. only lives on bananas.
mircea_popescu: worth a read. bandiera nera and all that mountains of greece tiganiada.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, the military history of italy in ww2 is almost as amusing as the colonial history of scotland.
mircea_popescu: which is how the russians got to germany while the us was figthing the "heroic" monkeys of italy.
mircea_popescu: usg hasn't tried anything since ww2. and even that was half-ass
mircea_popescu: wtf, if i actually have to clear jungle i'll bring in hydraulics not futz with a million blades held by a million locals.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform point being -- ancients did. just, they thought about things nobody cares one wit ore way or the other today.