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mircea_popescu: there'd better be tits bouncing there i'm in
a mood foul as hell
mircea_popescu: since when does this "functional literacy" constitute
a standard.
mircea_popescu: i am not convinced there's twenty people alive who know what
a number is altogether, prime or not.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i am not going to import as much as
a nail's dirt worth of old crap, even for all the vases in the world, be they made of glass bead or kidney stone.
mircea_popescu: "In Texas and
a number of other states, it’s legal to shoot
a dog if someone is “reasonably” afraid of it." << everywhgere sane, pretty much. wtf.
a111: Logged on 2016-05-30 15:40 asciilifeform: do you know the stories told by math profs, of how up to 1980s or so they would accept unsolicited manuscripts purporting to prove
a theorem, but then had to stop ?
a111: Logged on 2016-05-30 15:40 asciilifeform: they result in
a thickening of the mental carapace of thinking people
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-30#1473642 << this is not merely false, it is backwards to reality.
a lot of cocks do not result in
a "loose" pussy ; they result in
a well musculated, pleasurable fuckhole. similarly so, the only thing that results in thick "mental carpaces" are "healthy" ie deratized situations.
☝︎☟︎ a111: Logged on 2016-05-30 15:23 asciilifeform:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-30#1473575 << let's try
a gedankenexperiment. take
a bunch of folks who grew up on books, and another set who grew up on blogs (let's say, the spiffiest blogs!) -- and see which set can solve
a set of differential equations, build
a cement mixer,
a house that stands up, write gcd, whatever torture test you prefer.
phf is living in
a tiny overpriced appartment, so assume ascii with his house has space to start tmsr space program
mircea_popescu: even more alternatively, if you're just about ready to move out of nato and place
a rack in your own basement i'm definitely just about ready to ship you the server in question. have been for
a while nao.
mircea_popescu: but not before, because honestly in between
a) shrug and make the engineers rewrite the software to be windows proof and b) turn off the service for another year because the world is not ready yet, even an entry level manager would know enough to pick
a every time.
mircea_popescu: anyway - since i recall you itching to do it throughout the YEAR LONG outage, which in my best business judgement is not fucking acceptable, suppose you find
a server, and once (and only once) you're satisfied it entirely meets your specs we move over ?
mircea_popescu: there exists no such thing as
a length of rope made by the fiat world that is genuinely what it claims to be.
phf: no, but i've seen some extensive libraries in apparatchik homes that i know for
a fact nobody read
☟︎ phf: pre-80s hard bounds as
a source of knowledge is
a here and now sort of source, same way as pre-2005 amds, etc. not only is it
a limited source, it is also unstable.
a year from now, we're going to see all the fullstack developers switching to "classics library", and buying up last-known-prints on ebay for +++ bezzle dollars on ebay
☟︎ phf: the way i understood that old books thread is that there's no focus on building libraries, i.e. old books as an accumulation of artifacts, but where you get your own knowledge is up to you. so if ascii is keeping
a collection of scanz and gives me
a copy, it's both purely between us and also about ~my~ education as
a cause of ascii's action
diana_coman: I meant the *content* of the old books does not become useless all of
a sudden; reading it and/or extracting it and transferring it (or not) to the new medium becomes
a different occupation, much akin to reading ancient Greek basically;
diana_coman: asciilifeform> but this is not enough, you actually need the old books. <- this was not contested really; the fact that books are dead doesn't mean that old books are all useless all of
a sudden
diana_coman: life costs quite
a lot in itself and the more elaborate you make it basically, the higher the cost, of course
☟︎ diana_coman: certainly, my point was not that cleanliness is
a way of exterminating rats but rather that cleanliness is
a very good indicator of whether you find rats there or not, hence whether worth bothering with some output from there or not
diana_coman: well,
a pgp message at this point quite serves as that letter I guess
☟︎ diana_coman: the gist of it being that rats basically do not *want* to comment on trilema for too long because they find it...very uncomfortable; so yes, they have full liberty to come and shit there and be slapped with
a hammer in return, sure
a111: Logged on 2016-05-30 15:40 diana_coman: + tbh I find it all of
a sudden terribly annoying that one would have to go back to *necessarily* write on paper (why not parchment? why not stone?) *because* of...rats
diana_coman: + tbh I find it all of
a sudden terribly annoying that one would have to go back to *necessarily* write on paper (why not parchment? why not stone?) *because* of...rats
☟︎ diana_coman: well, sewer rats is basically what I was calling the "mountain of idiots" and that is
a generic problem, unrelated to books or writing as such
diana_coman: in any case, I suppose you can argue it the other way: the current cheapness of keeping
a blog is not necessarily here to stay
diana_coman: to me this sounds more like
a personal matter really, not sure I'm buying it as anything more than that
diana_coman: hm, that links to me to some authors' observation that writing digitally destroys the quality of the writing because you can modify more easily what you write, hence they'd rather use
a typewriter /write in ink as it "forces" them to think it through before writing it down
diana_coman: basically it's
a statement of facts: books are dead people, so if you want all the good and pretty to survive, best move it already
mircea_popescu: hey, i'm not one to normate the pleasures of others. if you're happy with her, who cares she died
a while ago.
shinohai: No better way to observe memorial day than dress only in
a flag.
mircea_popescu: anyway, no, the specific scam in question is that ~lists~ are copyrightable no matter their components, and these cocksuckers are trying to make LISTS of ancient / public domain / copyright freee items and then perversely claim copyright in them because "it's in our list", which is
a bullshit claim but then again the us entirely runs on vapors and bullshit claims.
mircea_popescu: check it out asciilifeform we've got
a whole new bidniss here!
mircea_popescu: whoa nelly that's
a first factor! and of
a proper exponent (65537(
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it occurs to the harem assembled in congress that there should be such
a thing as "whore's dew", and it should be an after shave.
mircea_popescu: you totally need to start running
a blog and stop ugc-ing your productions away to the usg.
mircea_popescu: in other news, the dictator is
a shitty pile of forced memes, unfunny as all hell. its only distinction being that the progress is show to benefit some derpy woman whose only qualification is that she's not shavign her armpits (but she's willing to drop that), whereas the only loser is the actual competent engineer ; and that peter norton is cast as yet-another-celebrity whose only utility, value and stock in trade is being u
BingoBoingo: And where did you say HE until
a link to maybe was posted?
shinohai: Polished turd is still
a turd.
mircea_popescu: somehow the realisation that "proposing
a subset could exist IS ALREADY PREDICATING you can fix things you can't actually fix, so you're begging the question something massive".
mircea_popescu: (though honestly it - esp the m4 - looked to me more like
a hastily copied t-34 than anything)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ze germanz hated the russian tanks and despised the anglo tanks (sherman included). there IS
a difference.
mircea_popescu: these people came up with the brilliant idea of mounting an autocannon in lieu of
a proper cannon on
a tank chassis. which is dumb enough ; but... instead of
a belt feed, they came with the even briliant-er idea of having it manually loaded, with 3 round clips.