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mircea_popescu: all of inca exists because of the false decision slot "between" coke and
pepsi, dominos and pizza hut etc. the only way to fix the current us is forbid this false choice, force them to receive randomly items in the respective undiferentiable classes.
mp_en_viaje: yes, there's alternatives. of course there are. you don't have to coca cola, there's also
pepsi. you like postgres more than mysql, well the fuck done, use that then. it'll be still used as an M in LAMP. because that's what the damned thing is, "flexibility" my ass.
BingoBoingo: Nah, they have to pick one of the two per Coke/
Pepsi theorem
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> the 'right', 'nazi', 'weev', etc , types , not even reached level where can discuss 'community', they're still seated firmly in the comfortable usg.provocateur 'right bottle of
pepsi' theatre << They also fall into the pulp "Laws of Power" fanfic things so every single one imagines themselves the BIGGEST, leaderest, etc
ben_vulpes: gap, cocoa-cola, banana republic,
pepsi, target, nordstrom, macys, ford, chevrolet...
mircea_popescu: this is the point. i'm neither the left
pepsi can nor the right
pepsi can and you're neither invited or allowed to choose me.
mircea_popescu: "It's an insoluble problem. Furthermore, I think most bug tracking systems fail us because they make us ask the wrong questions. They force you to pick a side. Hatfields vs. McCoys. Coke vs.
Pepsi. Bug vs. Feature Request. It's a painful and arbitrary decision, because most of the time, it's both. There's no difference between a bug and a feature request from the user's perspective. If you want to do something with an applica
mircea_popescu: ng, so let's discuss the differences between signal and telegram, trump and hilarity, two cans of
pepsi.
mircea_popescu: can't even argue with it. in their environment, it dun pay to care. what's gonna happen, gunman shows up massacres the lot ? hurr, not like ~anything their brains could come up with'd help in that situation. what other environmental pressure do they encounter ? nothing surmountable. if the corp trough has
pepsi that day, they can stand on fuckiong head won't get coke. "company policy".
phf: dating is the same kind of sorting as choosing between coke and
pepsi at a grocery store
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: ever mess around much with cola/jolt/
pepsi/idst/friends?
mircea_popescu: l with us like the belief god may change your coke to
pepsi : because it's easy, and because it caters to the specific lacks and infirmities of the "white" mind.
pete_dushenski: for all i know
pepsi is giving away free blowjobs with every 12-pack
ben_vulpes: unlike coca cola and
pepsi, which are the same fucking thing.
ben_vulpes: eg "i'm a coke person, not a
pepsi person"
decimation: more like
pepsi being bought by its combined bottlers
ascii_lander: that wall would still be standing if there weren't a '
pepsi' competing reich to poke at it
ascii_field: it isn't like they have an alternative '
pepsi usa' which they can escape to and help it build death rays.
nubbins`: doesn't the corner store just buy flats of
pepsi from costco?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> if there were a '
pepsi' alternative to usg, folks who can make any claim at value would be defecting in droves. << there is, they aren't.
mircea_popescu: if i went to work for google/apple/
pepsi/w/e and in the first month a hundred employees killed themselves, i'd just welcome the news, and definitely blog about it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform for the reason that then the coke and the
pepsi must bid for my allegiance
mircea_popescu: (to add to the humour, in romanian "being
pepsi" pretty much means being fucked up)
punkman: Amit Avner, The veteran of Israeli Defense Force's elite intelligence and programming unit is a coding prodigy who started a search engine at age 14. does advertising to put brands in real-time social conversations for major brands like American Express, Paramount Studios,
Pepsi and Samsung.
bounce: right, scratch that idea. instead of giant
pepsi and/or coce ads in orbit we'd get giant nekkid lahdeez in orbit
ThickAsThieves: <kakobrekla> previous was normal coke? //
pepsi, says his book
benkay: you can send a colored coin representing what you aver to be your stock in
pepsi to a stranger over the internet.
benkay: next they'll be telling us what the real value of
pepsi stock is in dollars, and how many dollars can buy a btc.
cazalla: must've given her
pepsi instead of breastmilk
nubbins`: and if you're too cheap to buy metal tape, cut up a can of
pepsi skinnkavaj: Think of BTC like Coca Cola and think of LTC like
Pepsi mircea_popescu: and i don't grok the
pepsi notion. you can't be telling me
pepsi is anything but "the cheapest drink we can make" ?
the20year3: But , last time I checked ,faygo did a fraction of what
Pepsi and Coca-cola do
Stardust: drank like only
pepsi/fanta, shit was hard
benkay: what do you claim is the MPEx equivalent to the printed piece of bs i get from
pepsi?
Diablo-D3: like, if I say
pepsi sucks,
pepsi mightw ant to know why
Diablo-D3: copumpkin: yeah, some of us just want a fucking
pepsi.
OneMiner: I know what it sounds like but it's not paranoia.
Pepsi is doing the same thing. You think they throw away your IP addy after you try to win that car on the package?