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asciilifeform: lol i recall that one, it was one of the smoke bombs he threw to make readers think he were a chick
mircea_popescu: i am totally lost in a sea of tlp again, send help
mircea_popescu: ollege. If you are going to college to get an education and not to meet guys, you are insane, literally insane, delusional, in reality one is never going to happen and the other is going to happen anyway, and you could have gotten both for free at a bookstore. Worked for me. The only question for the future single mom is whether it's worth $XXXXXX a year to meet guys, and the answer is of course it's not, even nightclubs l
mircea_popescu: "Of course I'm not happy about this, I like smart people, but that's the new reality. There was a time where women went to college to get an MRS degree, and I am telling you that that time is today, there is nothing else of value in there. Sure, some college women go on to become doctors and CEOs, and some go on to become child pornographers and Salon writers, none of those things have anything to do with what happened in c
pete_dushenski: as to scary things, i can see it. and believe it or not i'm doing just this on meatspace projects. just have to kill a few dragons to get to the (republican) princess.
pete_dushenski: i'm a bit far behind to be a total cs head anyways, just trying to keep up with some of the convos. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: just do things. especially the things that are big and scary. that'd be a better statement.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski mind that the point isn't by any means to turn everyone into a cs head. those are probably oversupplied.
pete_dushenski: if not indefinitely so. lastly, if i had who else to emulate, i... would. but taleb's a bit of a hermit and i have nfi who else (alive) that leaves.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: ya, i can take it easy on the barfbombs. am also taking ug cs course to fill in the holes in my education. not likely to lisp anytime this decade but working towards being a more useful citizen of the republic. bbet seemed like potential avenue. your ancient suggestion to serve as marketing agent for tmsr-related entities isn't forgotten but meatwot obligations currently prevent its pursuit,
mircea_popescu: https://archive.is/Shq9z << in vague lulz : romanian immigrant (from small town in romania's own rust belt) living in az and working as a rent-a-cop voted trump. his declared principal issue : "the stability of world peace".
Framedragger: still though, not exactly much of an answer. (it was a small web shop, granted, but yes ridiculous title)
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: ya i figured.. i mean, it's a pile o' nothing, can't argue with that.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-10 20:28 asciilifeform: peter I ~did~ build a ship at some point. (but it is not for what he is remembered..)
PeterL: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-10#1565725 << I thought this was a reply to me, was so confused for a minute ☝︎
asciilifeform: will be swept away, like dust on a car in autumn.
Framedragger: it's a shame that large part of 'infrastructure' is built and run by those teenagers. then again maybe it shouldn't even be counted to be part of anything.
asciilifeform: it is a sucking blackhole of idiocy, so strong that anyone who has dealt with it in any serious capacity is contaminated
Framedragger: web shitstack sits on a language designed and implemented in 10 days
Framedragger: (I worked on the original versions of JScript at Microsoft from 1996 through 2001.) The by-design purpose of JavaScript was to make the monkey dance when you moused over it. Scripts were often a single line. We considered ten line scripts to be pretty normal, hundred line scripts to be huge, and thousand line scripts were unheard of.
Framedragger: dynamically typed and a language also lacking all the other facilities that make lowering the cost of maintaining a large codebase easier"
Framedragger: 1) preamble: "[...] there is a strong correlation between a language being
Framedragger: for the logs - nothing new - but was a nice short summary - http://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/221615/why-do-dynamic-languages-make-it-more-difficult-to-maintain-large-codebases/221658#221658 - regarding JS:
asciilifeform: peter I ~did~ build a ship at some point. (but it is not for what he is remembered..) ☟︎
asciilifeform: 'own terms' is a sin.
mircea_popescu: pretty much everyone who doesn't lisp still harbords some sort of hope he'll you know, contribute to republic ON HIS OWN TERMS. hence pete_dushenski 's log-line ref bombings, because hey, maybe he's a little me or something.
mircea_popescu: ignoring machine gun is a matter of action ; pretending no machine gun is a matter of thought. might as well not understand the difference between camming and dating.
mircea_popescu: the solving a problem by pretending the problem doesn't exist, in whatever flavour may the pretense come, is not solving anything.
mircea_popescu: it's a fascinating thing that you don't give up on housing on this (gabriel laddel does - and you don't realise he is for the reason better than you ON YOUR OWN TERMS) but do give up on computer hosting for this.
mircea_popescu: no, do me a favour and take OFF the gas mask.
mircea_popescu: how does your house both house you and also is not operated by a sovereign ?
asciilifeform: it looks to me as moar of a coca plantation and narcosub shipyard than pizzeria.
asciilifeform: the part that isn't clear to me is how it can be simultaneously -- a) 'tmsr'-friendly b) not owned & operated by a meat sovereign
mircea_popescu: look, at issue is not whether you want to do it or why. at issue is that much like opening a pizzeria, there is this thing called an isp.
asciilifeform: to again revisit upstack, i would like to hear what mircea_popescu pictures would be a 'tmsr isp' .
mircea_popescu: watch those people process > 1k travellers/minute ; watch yourself get through the single file immigrations queue within ~12 minutes, as a new airbus/boeing lands every OTHER minute dumping 500 more people behind you.
asciilifeform: (the other thing that moves very slowly in passenger ship is the queue at the 911port. but that is a more recent thing.)
asciilifeform: mainly the fault of parallax, anyone who has sat in a passenger plane will notice the ground, when visible, moves so very slowly.
asciilifeform: re the trains, i also recall reading of a similar dissatisfaction with 'modern' (sealed cabin) airplane, vs classic one
mircea_popescu: no, the result will be a bunch of billions of idiots doing stupid shit to innocent women that happen to be around
mircea_popescu: this is not unlike modern tgv traveler who longs for ancient train, where landscape was distinguishable not a blur. and you could spot foxes from the carriage.
mircea_popescu: scene was so influential might and magic vi - for blood and honor contains a reconstruction.
asciilifeform: i do recall this being a prblem with that italian dude
mircea_popescu: i very much doubt average taxpayer could distinguish samples from actual outrageous abuse. which obviously in terms of artform is a compliment ; but in practical terms it's ever so dangerous.
mircea_popescu: the typical max hardcore shot is, short woman who's a new face (unlike you know, stoya, distinctive pornstar, who everyone instantly recognizes) in garish 12 yo make-up (you know, the thick, deeply cloroed stuff they sell in gas stations in the south) saying she's 12, playing the dumb soubrette, being assfucked, fisted, spit on, drinking piss out of her own anus via intubation etc.
GustaveGold: was reading the logs since a while and trilema itself
asciilifeform: just a neigbourhood envy magnet.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: kulak is by definition not a global notable.
mircea_popescu: eh he had like, a house. barely middle class.
trinque: it sounds like asciilifeform is making a mercernaries vs soldiers distinction
asciilifeform: this'd be more of a 'why does restaurant kitchen have mice, looksy, intel's fab floor doesn't' 'are you ready to pay $50,000 a gram for the potato?'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in a very theoretical principle, this. the mechanisms involved in the practical discussion, however, aren't nearly there. just simple cash starvation, "why is roach motel full of roaches!" "because you're paying $8 a night" ☟︎
mircea_popescu: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/03/shame.html << great read on this topic, btw. grep for "and the risk of sex addiction isn't that you contact a disease, it's that you spread the disease."
asciilifeform: (it was more of a 'liberast derp eagerly enforced nonexistent claim for personal lulz', approx)
a111: Logged on 2016-08-18 17:18 mircea_popescu: (short version : lawyer lobby added law on books that allows them to sue anything that doesn't have a warning label on ; there's 0 enforcement from anyone but the lawyer mafia ; and for that matter no penalty for mislabeling anything ; consequently all of california is today a huge sticker reading "this item is known to the state of california to cause cancer")
mircea_popescu: no, actually, it concerned an isp which, like any other isp, can't afford to actually pay a lawyer to read all the legalse spam being thrown their way. the guilty party here is the state of california, as per http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-18#1524561 ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: collecting fine ~secretly~ is not a proper imho punishment.
asciilifeform: iirc the dispute concerned a derp who enforced a nonexistent dmca claim
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you rethink making isp, because isp is 'a castle'.
PeterL: from comments on link I posted a minute ago: "Any college receiving public funding - what college doesen't?- should have their funding immediately frozen if they don't take an immediate, corrective action." < seems commenters have the same idea as mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: it's a midnight jailyard hanging, not public guillotine
mircea_popescu: moreover, commercial litigation is bundled/sold/bought as so much negotiable paper. it's almost never the original parties that are involved, much like your 20 bux for a boxed cd set dun go to the artist.
asciilifeform: settlement is a poor punishment imho for the type of derp discussed in the piece
mircea_popescu: also, for fairness/completeness : if you actually go to trial over a minor commercial case where a reasonable settlement offer is on the table (provided you somehow find a lawyer to do this which is not actually trivial) the judge will throw molotov cocktails at you.
asciilifeform: this we learn in kindergarten, yes, but i somehow pictured that mircea_popescu wanted to make a spectacle .
mircea_popescu: a trial ?
asciilifeform: ( was there a trial ? )
mircea_popescu: i suppose it was ok for the reddit hordes to not read that. because why ? and i suppose it was acceptable for college kids to NOT LEARN IT. since when is self-directed education a thing ? and why would it be ?
mircea_popescu: to quote 2015 : http://trilema.com/2015/on-how-i-ended-up-suing-phoenix-nap-llc-on-how-ira-r-cadwells-mom-stephanies-going-to-lose-her-chula-vista-home-on-how-marcus-bohn-is-going-to-catch-a-lot-of-shit-for-that-on-assorted-othe/#selection-193.627-217.246
mircea_popescu: more importantly : how the fuck "calexit" being on twitter makes it "a thing to cover" ?
asciilifeform: from same fishwrap, 'But post-election, there were a bunch of tweets from people saying they thought California should secede from the union, and so #CalExit became a thing to cover. Here's the thing about this particular secession movement—it is utterly oblivious to the ideological diversity within the state, thanks to the wholesale Democratic domination of the government due to population density in urban coastal communities. Cal
mircea_popescu: "cornell university students held a cry-in" ahahaha epic.
mircea_popescu: i have no use for americana, yes. but the only way 3rd world shitholes can become even vaguely digestibles is throuigh a lot of americana.
mircea_popescu: i'm not even sure this would help. i have a huge helping of "innocent barbarians" right here, and the obvious solution is for them to... first eat up 50 years of hollywood then we'll talk.
mircea_popescu: this being another thing most (western) men never think about : a sexual preference for young women NECESSARILY connotes a sexual preference for fucking derps with mistaken notions about the world.
asciilifeform: even dirigible does not magic away the problem, it could even be that mircea_popescu would much more enjoy fucking ancient babylonian gurlz, whose training could take a week instead of a year, no 'gargauni' in the head to start with, but they are not available.
asciilifeform: i also dun own a working time machine, but have very definite preferences of where to go in it, i suppose i must be idiot
mircea_popescu: it's one thing to say "between 1980 and 1990 i went to bed with 244 women of which 179 were blond, therefore i prefer blond women" ; it's quite another thing to say "when i dream up a dream girl, she's blonde".
mircea_popescu: moeover, there's an important distinction most people don't think of : if you've fucked under a few hundred women, one's "preference" doesn't exist as such ; they're discussing their ~projection~ of a preference, which isn't the same thing. not even remotely similar in fact.
mircea_popescu: even collective - it's a fashion not some sort of biological thing.
mircea_popescu: i live in this strange blessed state where i've not to date managed a hairdo teh womenz didn't like.
PeterL: I would look alot like trump if I grew my hair out a bit
mircea_popescu: PeterL if it wasn't obvious, the bald thing above was because trump has such a great piece.
PeterL: I used to drive an old dodge pick-up, was good sturdy truck. gave it up for a minivan when I got too many kids to fit in the cab.
mircea_popescu: "Beauty is a social construction. I'm all in, but it is a construction nevertheless. The reason I think women are hot today is that they are today, not that they are hot. I watch pornos from the seventies and I think to myself, "well, it would be better than bestiality, I guess." Everyone from the cast of Shampoo to the special guest stars on The Love Boat make me want to be a promisekeeper, meanwhile Wilt Chamberlain ha
mircea_popescu: for all physchopatologies, a frank view of the disease is quite exactly the next step after "madness".
mircea_popescu: obviously, it can. but it can also suggest cultural superiority of a chilling depth.
mircea_popescu: that epic feeling when the entire set google can produce for a greek excerpt is trilema. ha-HA!
mircea_popescu: t kill me make me stronger.'" I hope to God a bus tries to make you stronger."
mircea_popescu: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2013/09/how_does_the_shutdown_relate_t.html << the tlp in question. "Why would she think this? Because she's stupid? Actually, yes: the culture you know least about has all the answers, which is also why the Guinness ad hypermale in pre-season Special Olympics has chosen to tattoo gigantic Chinese characters on his arm to explain his ennui to himself. "It's a chinese proverb, 'That what doesn'
mircea_popescu: "of course they killed all the ones i didn't bother to hide - and i didn't bother to hide them because they suck because you're a dumb worthless whore whose cunt runs on perl and consequently all manner of ungodly slime crawls out from between your legs"
mircea_popescu: look at it from the historical perspective : music was invented in babylon to quell the wail ; because the males there had the wisdom to kill the boys - for "no reason" but did it. then the jews came along and put it in their book to not do sacrifice children - and so the dumb women flocked to them, and they birefly prevailed. only to go to shit in a handbasket soon thereafter, so much so the fucking short-legged short-dicked
mircea_popescu: no, it's not that. it's simply - if out of 100 newborn male babies 50 make it to be 7 ; and then 25 of those make it to be 14 and then a dozen make it to 21, you will have a splendid culture, civilisation, and generally world.
mircea_popescu: obviousy a life without hardship is a life of decay. past that general - i dunno.
asciilifeform: it is actually a mega-argument for mircea_popescu's despised 'blood and soil', folx separated from their natural habitat end up as.. this
asciilifeform: hey it's a handy 'who's who', in much the same way as one learns, working in usg laboratory dungeons for years, to tell all of the east asian folk apart from across hallway before even hello.
mircea_popescu: they were eaten by wolves, ie, they lost character and became a sort of yankees.
mircea_popescu: in the exact unwelcome manner a 12 half-sister would help the adult beauty get laid.
mircea_popescu: a.
mircea_popescu: the relationship essentialized to a brincusian level is like this : there was an adult, and quite fetching jewish body living outside the pale. which is not just poland, even if by poland you mean the lithuanian-polish commonwealth, ie a historical state larger than russia in all respects. aside from this, across the ocean was an acneic fat 12yo girl some cadet branch had with an irish "handsome rover from town to town" blabl