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mircea_popescu: all sentences spring from a false ; but nothing springs from the nil.
mircea_popescu: trinque perhaps the cheapest way to visualise the difference between nil and falsehood is to contrast "ex nihilo nihil" with the value table for false-implication.
mircea_popescu: note however that many languages (which aren't english) allow purely constructive usage ; such as adjectival forms constructed from nouns, the noun of a verb and the verb of a noun and so following. depending on semantics bagumpa is blerpy could well have a truth value - if say your definition of is includes an equivalency class for all elements starting with the same letter.
mircea_popescu: i know it's commonly taught as equivalent, but saying "x doesn't have an y" is not the same as saying "x's y is nil"
mircea_popescu: Framedragger if your semantics allows for it. whether they do or don't is not the same as the truth-value BEING nil however.
mircea_popescu: trinque aha, that lulzy "nature abhors a vacuum" theory hottie is shown demonstrating for yul brenner's "children" comes from right here.
mircea_popescu: the problem comes back to the very naive christian notions of the moral value of the void.
mircea_popescu: "dear abby - i noticed today that while wearing my chastity belt, i can't seem to have sexual intercourse. please advise."
mircea_popescu: speaking of which ben_vulpes : how would you feel about adding a rsync-like interface for wotpaste through rsa sessions ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (also you're not held to be more rigorous than the attendance supports, irl)
mircea_popescu: splendidly, if you don't expect most to make it to 2nd year.
mircea_popescu: math ~in terms of~ set theory ; or functionals (as the math thing, not as the cs thing) ; as opposed to computering.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger the point is, what do you build the discipline ~around~. it's a linguistic choice, of the level of "we'll write this in basic or php".
mircea_popescu: either functional analysis or set theory are sound basis for mathematical study, rather than applied algorithmics or w/e you'd call it.
mircea_popescu: i don't teach math by computer either. it's like teaching cooking by washing socks.
mircea_popescu: anyway, all this is becoming ever more interesting as the great again summoning will probably imply something that to the japanese will seem like us unreliability creating a disparity with china wrt nukes.
mircea_popescu: for the same money, pornstar + biofermenter == electricity enough for some microseconds of porn watching
mircea_popescu: xide can work as redox catalyst, can oxidize methane).)
mircea_popescu: (and in the list of "great western pravda" achievements : japan requested uranium oxide from germany (the great blessings of shinto - japan has no fucking resources of any kind), who shipped it via sub, except the sub surrendered once germany surrendered. and the us agitprop claimed it was... "catalyst for use in the production of synthetic methanol for aviation fuel". because totally, the zeros flew on methanol. (uranium dio
mircea_popescu: still chasing perpetual youth up there in the tower of dreamsong huh.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform at least they're coherent, "anti-missile shield is not a nuclear weapon". sure it isn't.
mircea_popescu: (guy who correctly identified us nuclear programme in 1939)
mircea_popescu: "i just want to" i get it, i get it. it's stupid and disastrous.
mircea_popescu: except, in typical "i'm a thinker not a doer" puppy style, figured out after.
mircea_popescu: who, incidentally, mostly all figured out what a horrible sin it was to deliver the socialists the bomb.
mircea_popescu: japan got buldozed chiefly because of the utterly immoral attitude of thinking people at the time.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: on which note i should wish to muchly encourage the ~competent~ youth to not fear "suicide" of this nature. it's a control artefact implanted by the socialist motherhood for their detriment, a sort of imaginary pain box of the bene gesserit. there's no reason to even HAVE a "group of women who don't fuck" as a political entity, let alone ridoinculous imaginary boxes.
mircea_popescu: so far it was political suicide - for her ; not for me.
mircea_popescu: he was wrong on one point, re the "political suicide". not that the niggers aren't PRETENDING of course, but their pretense aside my credit's evidently better than clinton's.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger there's a lot of interesting stuff at the "western world" - japan interface. japan being, of course, the only non-european industrialised country. but it doesn't stop there - when the whole socialist world went up in flames in the 20s, japan was doing absolutely fine ; even made a bundle speculating the loser's currencies.
mircea_popescu doesn't even HAVE mozilla directory in ca-certs because wtf.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile they give professional company sinkers credit. carly fiorina, this tracy lorde of us business, singlehandedly destroyed two functional companies.
mircea_popescu: never take on a slave who's not aware she's abject refuse.
mircea_popescu: the greatest skill is to turn down byzantine crap a la gm or ford. "oh great opportunity". heh, for THEM, maybe. they want to suck your juju, to extend their lifespan for a few short extra weeks WITHOUT CHANGING substantially. that's the fucking problem.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, the greatest skill in the world isn't to you know, get named head of michelin south america reporting directly to francois michelin and then turn it around in a coupla years.
mircea_popescu: fortune "gave him" some "best in business ~OUTSIDE OF US~" title, in typical byzantine style of "our nose's so upturned if it rains we drown" ; but then both gm and ford begged him to take them on (and he didn't. why didn't he ? is it because no great again possible in the us according to the people who specialize in great agains ?)
mircea_popescu: incidentally, speaking of nothing in particular, everyone heard of carlos ghosn ? quite the fellow.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: can be your first blog post! "here's me trying gimp repl"
mircea_popescu: no big deal, it'd be confusing if we didn't know what this is.
mircea_popescu: literally, for the cost of installing gimp you get what ammounts to a visual repl.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: not only does it mirror how we learned programming as kids (i did circles in a for loop in basic, obtained a nice worm guy!) but it gives an immediacy to lisping absent ANYWHERE else.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: actually i would propose it's a very fine way if not the best way to learn lisp.
mircea_popescu: do yourself a favour learn how to use gimp.scheme ; you will never look at graphics with the same eyes again.
mircea_popescu: i swear gedit is like the emacs of the art world. once you learn how to use its lisp parts you can never leave.
mircea_popescu: ftr it's /usr/share/ca-certificates ; and i got like... 7
mircea_popescu: Framedragger lol but you get free stuff for your store!
mircea_popescu: the third most commonly seen ssh protocol is a misspelling of the most common one pushed out by mistake years ago!
mircea_popescu: what fucking foss. there is no foss. microsoft is the natural structure of ustards and everyone taking after them ; which is to see in a hurry to see results and in no particular mood to examine the quality thereof.
mircea_popescu: irl, there's ssh 2.0 and ssh 2. 0 ; and ~one implementation, by a known-bad team.
mircea_popescu: this is a fucking issue ffs. if the world worked like FOSS ~pretends it worked~ then we'd have LIKE HALF A DOZEN ssh protocol definitions ; which'd still interoperate ; and from hundreds to just one implementations of each of those. by distinct people in distinct teams.
mircea_popescu: if you do it for say 10 seconds, well doh, they allow it.