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mircea_popescu: in any case, the place is called cenard (centro nacional por alto rendimiento deportivo). they kinda suck at the stated goal.
mircea_popescu: or because confronted with their afore-unknown womanly power actually working irl they totally lost their shit
mircea_popescu: or because i was the only dude over 30 there that didn't look like advanced case of brain parasitosis.
mircea_popescu: which utterly threw their game off, they got all stiff and nervous and kept missing passes and shots and the whole kaboodle, ended up trashed 70-55 by a clearly worse team.
mircea_popescu: in similar news, walking yest thgrough town a buncha girlies hit on me, where i'm from, where's the chicks from, etc. they were athletes, like 16yos, playing in the natl basketball competition, semifinals today. so i told them ima show up. which i did.
mircea_popescu: pity nothing came of moiety chick. she was kinda lively
mircea_popescu: yeah he used to try and trade btc/fiat ; but dubious rates.
mircea_popescu: jurov dunno if you care but your blog doesn't send pingbacks.
mircea_popescu: dude, you're such a nut. they make 1mn addresses, combine them into sets of 10, try each combination as payout address for the block.
mircea_popescu: smart in they're currently squeezing a 0.15% more from blocks than everyoneelse.
mircea_popescu: f2pool got some uber technologies, they make these well utilized blocks.
mircea_popescu: makes very useful nothing outside of the very useful (to it) belief that it does.
mircea_popescu: shinohai but then with the same hand he explains how "it makes a very useful" something or the other. in the same hour it humiliated him in the republic, he's there defending it.
mircea_popescu: re the london blitz, this is afaik indisputed agreement, even by the biritsh side. had luftwaffe committed more seriously britain would have likely folded. likelier than any other time.
mircea_popescu: and for that matter, the "general population" desire to play the "modern democracy" game is so great - they will happily pretend! ipads are a thing, notwithstanding they're a regression in any conceivable sense, because "dude feels like data in star trek" which is to say, in plain terms, "because we understand our socialist state needs socialist science to be a thing, and we patriotically do our part in pretending it is a thi
mircea_popescu: and this is how "science" as a state mechanism, with grants etc came about.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: they're driven by the lie machine need for specific future-extending lies
mircea_popescu: ie, science, technology, scientific and technological progress etc aren't driven by the naive, idealist "curiosity" of "bright folks"
mircea_popescu: this observation is strengthened by noticing that if what passes for idealists such as yourself or me as "legitimate" science (say, qm) chokes, ~science itself~ will produce "science" at the same rate, but of the "earth sciences and climatology" ilk.
mircea_popescu: as you can see, there's deep reasons why the socialist state (ie, the social machinery of lies) to depend and pretend from the "scientific progress" ie the theoretical machine of lies.. the whole arrangement is predicated on "we eat and science guy will come by later and settle the bill" for this very reason.
mircea_popescu: i suppose we start calling nigger assets masquerading as "scientists" trickers from now on, on the basis of you know, "a trick" being "slang" for "a clever and legitimate technique". you know, "in science".
mircea_popescu: breaking global temperatures, the email was widely misquoted as a "trick" to "hide the decline" as though it referred to a decline in measured global temperatures, an accusation made publicly by the politicians Sarah Palin and Jim Inhofe" << the wikipedia unhappening of the original global warming fraud is nothing short of astounding.
mircea_popescu: r Keith's to hide the decline."[205] In science, the term "trick" is slang for a clever (and legitimate) technique, in this case Michael E. Mann's technique for comparing two different data sets,[206] and "the decline" referred to the already published divergence problem with tree ring density proxies affecting the post 1960 part of Keith Briffa's reconstruction graph. Despite this and the fact that 1999 had just seen record
mircea_popescu: "The most quoted phrase took words from an e-mail of 16 November 1999 written by Phil Jones which referred to a graph he was preparing as a diagram for the cover of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) statement on the status of global climate in 1999.[203][204] Jones wrote: "I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (ie, from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 fo
mircea_popescu: this #chainstate chan's a good idea. /me trolled it for good measure.
mircea_popescu: "this position requires CEFR:C2 for both english and german" "took german in highschool."
mircea_popescu: well the idiocy of wall lite needs no further expounding.
mircea_popescu: "here's a dull knife and a ballsac sling, bring a bear."
mircea_popescu: as in eg, king has seven sons, who shall inherit the throne.
mircea_popescu: "find a wife, you have a week, let me know what you spent".
mircea_popescu: phf ikr ? but for my peace of mind, it's about as special as apricot's a special fruit, right ?
mircea_popescu: just like the fucktards who don't like bitcoin aren't permitted to "upgrade it" ; they have to go do ethereum or whatever the fuck doge ripple solidcoin bullshitcoin they do.
mircea_popescu: if they didn't want to play in the character=byte garden they're more thanwelcome to go learn lisp.
mircea_popescu: this "modernisation and progress is the destruction of items by people who didn't like them in the first place" nonsense is pretty far out there.
mircea_popescu: if you are stewarding an apple tree, you'll fucking deliver apples till the day you die ; you do not come up with a way to make the apple tree make shitty plums.
mircea_popescu: nobody, and certainly not me, prevented python people from moving to sane data structures or anything.
mircea_popescu: sure but what's that to do with anything ? "on my car which has an engine, adjusting the intake valves does things" "he's got a bycicle!"
mircea_popescu: just as allowing python-3 out of experimental was the wrong move.
mircea_popescu: forcing key regeneration on update was the right move there.
mircea_popescu: it is marginalyl funny just how happy to break everyone's processes these schmucks are to introduce, eg, mandatory-unicode-via-python-3 but how suddenly waxy-poetic and careful they are when it comes to user security.
mircea_popescu: it was said at the time that the breach is unfixable, because it requires regeneration of keys.
mircea_popescu: (about two thirds of the devs think they are updating, about one third of boxes do get updated)