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mircea_popescu: (but nice trick with the archive there, got me to check out reddit and it wasn't even talking about me!)
mircea_popescu: they need it, the wunderwaffen response to the http://trilema.com/2014/spamming-reddit-an-experiment/ problem ; the republic does not, http://trilema.com/2014/advanced-wot-course-how-the-wot-is-attacked-and-how-it-defends-itself/ etc.
asciilifeform: SCIENCEHATESYOU! (tm) (r) (reddit)
asciilifeform: ^ reminiscent of mircea_popescu's pill against reddit
mircea_popescu: this sounds shockingly dumb when stated, but then again in point of fact average usian has "many sources of information : reddit, wikipedia, six different fake news outlets + nature!"
mircea_popescu: amusingly, this is 2010 trilema. recently making the rounds on reddit, and such.
mircea_popescu: every dick and jane's expectation that "we did it reddit" is the faint echo of, man walked on the moon and generally speaking drove a wedge forcing a reevaluation of the celestial peerage. "as eternal as the nile flood" is no longer equal to "as eternal as the tide".
mircea_popescu: no dude, it's like, on reddit. and our democracy. what do you mean!
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: i can't help but picture you on a box with 6 months of old reddit browser tabs...
asciilifeform: soooo apparently they had fat-reddit back in ye olden dayz: http://www.trobar.org/troubadours/misc/anonymous_porquiera.php
asciilifeform: holy fuq, reddit ideologically pure at last?!
shinohai: LOL reddit bans alt-right subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/altright
asciilifeform: the chlorophos given in mircea_popescu's 'bulldoze reddit' piece works equally well on all wotless insecta
trinque: by now "we did it, reddit!" has leaked into every other rag on the net
shinohai: https://www.reddit.com/user/memorydealers
shinohai: Lol Roger Ver got suspended from reddit
asciilifeform: i read reddit/hn, & co., for a short while because it had a subculture of commonlisp folx. then stayed tuned for no good reason for a spell, from inertia.
thestringpuller: he's on more than just reddit.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: try quitting reddit, it is better for you than even quitting cigarettes
asciilifeform: there are indeed folx who quietly and decorously eat pistol, like gentlemen, without any reddit component. but because no reddit, there is no trivial telescope to see them through, and they do not leave 'good example' to those who must learn.
mircea_popescu: and if they do, they go put it on reddit.
asciilifeform: 'LDAR - lay down and rot' (from BingoBoingo's https://www.reddit.com/r/Incels/comments/56bs95/incel_faq_read_this_so_you_dont_shitpost/ ) << genius
shinohai: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5ocmkk/i_work_at_bitcoin_ira_we_have_put_over_3mm/ "With Bitgo wallets"
mircea_popescu: it's on reddit, it's spew.
asciilifeform: then they can say 'ah it was always on reddit'
asciilifeform: https://www.reddit.com/r/onions/comments/5i6qa3/can_the_nsafbi_use_intel_me_to_defeat_tor_on_95/db7xvu7/ << the only 'evidence'.
mircea_popescu: so, yet again : either you know computers, today, in which case you don't need the "open source" usgtards ; or else you don't know computers, today, in which case YOU NEVER WILL. period. no escape, no buts, no nothing. you NEVER WILL. and consequently it fucking does not matter one diddly what you do, be it github or reddit or writing lengthy missives to asciilifeform
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-09#1599736 << and on reddit it's hard for a man to not be an idiot. and if you go swimming in the swamp it'll be hard to not be all muddy etcetera. butofcoars! ☝︎
mircea_popescu: somewhat odd, i actually see trilema as #2, above reddit and below something called ibtimes
trinque: https://archive.is/BH36k << ahaha, having expended ~all~ other avenues (on reddit), he's reached the end (on reddit)
mircea_popescu: (yes, yes, "prb nodes will outcompete". sure. and reddit/wikipedia/etc outcompete us, totally.)
asciilifeform: caching helped against reddit etc. 'slashdotting'
Framedragger: (last thing i've read before going to sleep is how a kid high on ganja used a bazooka: https://www.reddit.com/r/trees/comments/25a19p/welp_i_did_something_terrible_in_cambodia_in_a/ ahem. but kinda funny)
mircea_popescu: good thing there's reddit. now that yahoo "finance" closed the public boards, where'd all the scum go.
pete_dushenski: http://archive.is/Q0e9f << and another example of reddit delusions not being confined to ethereum and shillary. apparently these poor kids are making up their own non-existent 90s movies now.
mircea_popescu: this otherwise defensible stand (at least in general) is why computer languages may never become more than shopping lists ; but then again fashion-behaviour (as seen in both languages and github/reddit) may have the last word.
mircea_popescu: the first gives youy ballista AND REDDIT ; and the other gives you praxitelles and alf-s-gentoo
mircea_popescu: there ISNT an outcome where they go on reddit and wikipedia to say the opposite of what they think, see ?
mircea_popescu: if luck/skill/process/whatever feeds them, they'll be fed and go on reddit and wikipedia to say what ~they think~ about it. right or wrong.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-21#1587072 << the evolution of paul graham's internet : first, ashley madison made a site where scripted "women" interacted with loser men ; then, a bunch of kids made a bunch of sites where scripted "users" interact with scripted "users" : facebook, reddit, instagram, twitter, you name it. ALL of them, simply put. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2016-12-16 17:49 phf: oh, shit, we've got a reddit consensus over here
asciilifeform: also folx regressing to the use of wot as reddit upvote ?
phf: oh, shit, we've got a reddit consensus over here ☟︎
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: that subdomian forces https on traffic, was originally intended for 'reddit gold' (sic) users, but is available to all nowandgodwhydoiknowthis
Framedragger: funny you should say that, much-upvoted HN frontpage article right nao: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/12/15/science/scientists-say-they-can-reset-clock-of-aging-for-mice-at-least.html?referer=https://pay.reddit.com/r/science/comments/5ijdkz/in_the_first_attempt_to_reverse_aging_by/
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Library Genesis / LibGen - The Meta Library - Sites - Google: <https://sites.google.com/site/themetalibrary/library-genesis>; Library Genesis - Reddit: <https://www.reddit.com/r/libgen/>; Libgen.cc: <http://libgen.cc/>
asciilifeform: reddit is full of folx who 'feel like nothing' because good-at nothing
mircea_popescu: if you feel like anything good ; and if you feel like nothing in particular reddit's that way.
mircea_popescu: (arguably this is also in the past - not like i'm actually forbidding redditards to reddit, even as i am squeezing the cream from the thing)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no ; because modernism hadn't ended yet. but the chick herself - if she weren't twerking she'd be on reddit . there is literally NOTHING for her to do.
mircea_popescu: i have no interest in the misguided speculations of reddit as such, they're not a demographic as much as a random number machine.
mircea_popescu: same repeats for all the various bright minds in their own / reddit's estimation.
asciilifeform: if they actually sold the coinz on the waterfall, and reddit chumpers have it nao, how would you picture them to disgorge it back ?
asciilifeform: ( i suspect that this is one of those perpetuum mobile attractors that will continue to eat people more or less forever, this 'bbet reddit' thing )
phf: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-05#1577731 << also 2005 (if you search the logs knowing what you're looking for) is a stand in for "decade of tail end of somewhat sane computing". linux on desktop hasn't wrecked the ecosystem yet, apple is selling unix boxes (and not phones), ibm is selling professional laptops, no reddit, no smartphone culture, no facebook, etc. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: in vague lulz, https://www.reddit.com/r/self/comments/5g57ji/googled_my_username_found_this_list_online_that/
mircea_popescu: before the "digg revolution" which subsists today in derpy wanan-be incantations like 9gag, reddit etc, and before the great "internet revolution" of aol shitting all voer the place, there was another substantially identical "revolution", where pointless college degrees started sitting pointessly in offices cca 1970 and creating "office life". but BEFORE all that scum and rot, most dumb kids were farmers, and smart kids were
asciilifeform: somehow stephenson absorbed every possible poison from reddit etc. in past few years.
ben_vulpes: not precisely my link, but reddit appears down from here
mircea_popescu: i think maybe it was reddit's rendition of a cock ? crushed ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes your reddit link 404s
shinohai: There was an enterprising lady on reddit iirc who charged 0.1 to keep the tards locked up in one weekly.
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2016/11/reddit-ceo-huffman-takes-it-pao-right-in-the-kisser/ << Qntra - Reddit CEO Huffman Takes It Pao, Right In The Kisser
shinohai: It's back! https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5fswjx/bitcoin_classic_is_back/ xD
mircea_popescu: meanwhile according to reddit, theguardian.com is a respectable source and qntra.net is the spamsite. because totally.
BingoBoingo: ALmost certainly reddit
mircea_popescu: https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/5fc9ff/minigame_game_developer_ipod_for_8_million_a_few/ << similar lulz.
BingoBoingo: https://www.reddit.com/r/sjwhate/comments/5fed8q/18_year_old_somali_child_killed_by_police_at_the/ lolments
mircea_popescu: they have a point - reddit is now not really protected by the whatever act.
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: i'm quoting from that qntra article. apparently it's reddit admin or somesuch
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2016/11/new-reddit-ceo-tired-of-being-called-a-pedophile/ << Qntra - New Reddit CEO Tired Of Being Called A Pedophile
BingoBoingo: https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/5ep54c/anyone_else_becoming_disturbed_by_similarities_to/
Framedragger: heh. labour theory of value for reddit: i spend hour at reddit while you spend hour at reddit at work - why we unequal
mircea_popescu: "why myspace users make myspace gold which is worth three reddit gold ?!?!? UNFARE!"
asciilifeform: (and often there is considerable time on literal reddit etc. involved.)
asciilifeform: Framedragger: most folx in usa working 'office job' are not doing anything considerably different, in aesthetic or even results, than reddit click
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform none of (reddit clicking / forum derping / bdsming) is a profesion.
Framedragger: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5dth6w/who_is_mircea/da7oidf/ << heheh
asciilifeform: usd is not so distant from reddit token.
mircea_popescu: because hey, selling the dumbasses for actual money would expose a) their collective poverty and b) force change. so they use tokens, which supposedly come "from activity", ie like reddit gold, but in practice are a transparent ploy to enforce a social hierarchy without social basis. ie, EXACTLY ycombinator.
asciilifeform: Framedragger: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5dth6w/who_is_mircea << linked here last night. i left a webirc thing in there. total: 1 click. and 0 words.
asciilifeform: the hn, reddit, etc. bots+meatpuppets collectively sum to 0 imho.
mircea_popescu: which is why - write 2500 pointless comments on reddit, yay! but make yourself a key nay!
asciilifeform: notice how 'civilians' (reddit folk etc) still react in disbelief when they read about mpex having worked as-described ? they will sooner believe in telekinesis, ufo proctologists abducting 50yo d00dz, divine healings, etc.
mircea_popescu: i don't think the general public is mentally capable of using irc. it just doesn't fit the reddit/disqus/chatroulette/4chan/whatever thing
Framedragger: (e.g. current new post & answer; didn't read in detail: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/5dwk60/how_bad_would_it_have_smelled_in_a_medieval_city/ )
asciilifeform: i got acct on reddit 10 years ago now... still remember when there were ~people~ there
Framedragger: i think that many of them do not, in the sense that e.g. you understand "conversation". i don't know. i got that picture when i had spent time on reddit.
asciilifeform: it is likely from a http://webchat.freenode.net i left in reddit thread somebody put here the other day.
shinohai: mircea_popescu lulz; https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5dth6w/who_is_mircea/da7k3ea/?context=3
mircea_popescu: well most recently https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/5d9p6b/eitheror_ignore/ but really you can just do a search or something
mircea_popescu: and in other side chuckles, everytime someone mentions me on reddit everyone KNOWS shit, in the sense of having personal library of "outrageous mp quotes", and the whole thing turns into a contest of whose list is better.
Framedragger: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5ddiqw/im_haipo_yang_founder_and_ceo_of_viabtc_ask_me/da3rg4q/ << konspiracy-by-having-a-different-opinion-on-bitcoin :p
asciilifeform: didntcha have a reddit-like thingie with wots etc ?
mircea_popescu: if anyone cares to put it in ... what was the shithole, reddit ? hacker news ?
BingoBoingo: If only they had a clue https://www.reddit.com/r/AskTrumpSupporters/comments/49b3ct/what_does_he_mean_by_make_america_great_again/
mircea_popescu: this is what they mean when they say reddit makes one stupid : "social media" tends to drive this name-object confusion in young'uns.
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: "pay us to pay reddit to show you the reddit link you paid us at" ?
mircea_popescu: i dont' get it, what's this, "advertisement" on reddit for reddit run as a sort of kickstarter ?