Chinese have a lot more history than anyone else, and everything that happens today, happened before many times, usually in China. So they have a saying “point deer, make horse, 指鹿为马†Qin, the first emperor of China, created the first highly centralized state, with a centralized bureaucracy instead of a distributed aristocracy. And of course, …
Month: October 2017
Stormfront is a honeypot
Stormfront uses Google Analytics. Google Analytics runs an alarmingly large pile of obfuscated javascript code on your browser that if you visit Stormfront, can very likely uniquely identify your browser, even if you are accessing Stromfront through Tor to anonymize your IP. Thus, you visit Stormfront, carefully using a fake name and an anonymized IP. …
Google is evil
Does your business use Google Analytics on its website? Then Google will use the information that it so generously generates and analyzes for you to show ads for competing businesses to your customers. While you are analyzing the information to see how you can improve your business, they are analyzing the information to see how …
Another day, another scalp
Trump is not alt right, but the alt right is Trumpist. Jeff Flake was a cuckservative enemy of Trump, and went out denouncing Trump. The alt right is successfully nailing Trump’s enemies. Mencius Moldbug interpreted the Democrats as the inner party, and Republicans as the outer party, as subservient to the Democrats. Which accurately describes …
Never interrupt the enemy when he is making a mistake
The left, in its enthusiastic rush to ever greater holiness, has forgotten that its rules are only for the little people. Sometimes the enemy of my enemy is my friend. But Harvey Weinstein is my enemy, even though he is being devoured by my enemies. The Khmer Rouge started out as a bunch of very …
Role models
When Han Solo hits on princess Leia in “The Empire Strikes Back”, he does it right. She shit tests him to hell and back, and he plows on. Similarly, in “Gone with the wind” Rhett Butler proposes to Scarlett O’Hara, she rejects him, and he forcibly kisses her. When I look at old movies, the hero …
Trump still not in power.
I hoped and expected that Trump would be in power by now, and observed that this would feel like a coup, and would require measures that resemble a coup. CNN complains “Trump goes rogue” and complains that Trump is fighting for control of the presidency. Now he is fighting for control of the presidency? During …
How to do cryptocurrency right
Proof of work tends to be inherently slow, has inherently high transaction costs, and the miner’s interests are not identical with those holding currency as a store of value and those using currency as a medium of exchange. Proof of stake is nontrival to get right. It is a form of the infamously difficult to …
A bad time to invest in Bitcoin
Back in 2013 I urged people to invest in Bitcoin. Yesterday someone asked my cleaning lady to invest in Bitcoin. Now if someone had asked her to accept payment in Bitcoin, or send payment in Bitcoin, then this would be compelling evidence that one should invest in Bitcoin. But when cleaning ladies are asked to …
In defense of Hugh Hefner
Why is Hugh a pevert for having sex with numerous fertile age women at the age of ninety? Here is a toast to 20 milligrams of tada and 12.5 milligrams of caber. It is stupid and counterproductive to blame men for sexual revolution, and particularly stupid and particularly counterproductive to blame alpha males for the …