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mircea_popescu: lmao i just noticed i said "martial is a good starting point, his english is".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform aha. why i didn't say anything re your curl earlier. will have to be run periodically lol
mircea_popescu: Framedragger go by their office for a b2b proposal, show them chatlog ?
mircea_popescu: solve the wrong problems by vocabulary, you name it they got it.
mircea_popescu: it's like the perl ofall languages, actively breaks the head. EVERYTHING they do is wrong.
mircea_popescu: there were some decent programs catering to this approach at us unis too, perseus at tufts for eg.
mircea_popescu: trinque the method i recommend, if you care, is to work selections of classical texts with the dictionary ; then proceed to answer any systematic questions you have when you're sick of the slog.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: for some reason mud- welded in my head to conlangs/muds and wouldn't let go.
mircea_popescu: trinque at least if they did it publicly, you know, "this is the kitchen, the women and girly men cook here ; and this is the fuck room, where we make the children".
mircea_popescu: argument could probably be leveled C# more respectable than C++
mircea_popescu: reviewing yest log for articlization i realise we'll probably not see pete_dushenski anymore ; he may or may not return in two week's time as a dessicated airfoil to say his goodbyes to his former club, pre burial in an cremation urn.
mircea_popescu: i'm sorry - i must've meant also the enslavement of the general population, murder, rape, arson and misrepresentation.
mircea_popescu: yes well, the understanding of the bible and the text of the bible are separable concerns.
mircea_popescu: we should get our key registered with the deedbot and read up the topic / do something useful with ourselves.
mircea_popescu: ironically, this shows pki for instance ISNT encryption. but we digress.
mircea_popescu: also the enslavement of the general population, murder, rape, arson and jaywalking.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: the most serene republic is a terrorist organisation dedicated to the violent destruction of all fiat constructions, from states on.
mircea_popescu: yeah pretty sure that's how that came to be, someone mentioned knuth's freezing and it flew.
mircea_popescu: goldfinger the better question is why should you be voiced at all. who're you ?
mircea_popescu: shinohai something something police powers something something we think we exist something something
mircea_popescu: you know you're no longer legally allowed to use pgp in that jurisdiction yea ?
mircea_popescu: (also why so many of the moribund modernist world take refuge in "coding" as they understand it rather than much more obviously productive, satisfiying and accessible venues)
mircea_popescu: there's no practical way in which anything can reduce to "doing". even in software.
mircea_popescu: this very much because contrary to pretense commonly shared and widely held, modernism was never more than a superficial paint coat over things.
mircea_popescu: it directly mirrors the biblical understanding (god was ; and lucifer did) and very much explains why "patriotic war" and "peace keeping" and "Defending" and etcetera. the narrative always is "we - were ; enemy - did ; we - shall be again".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and which is why the "golden toilet" device is so important in trying to sell modernism to traditionalist societies - the point is to show optionality in the desired public enemy.
mircea_popescu: so no, the peasant didn't blame the boyar because the boyar did something. the peasant doesn't care about that (nor was the doing actually verifiable as such, nor did it likely happen rather than the opposite). the peasant blame the boyar because the boyar was the wrong thing, a do-er rather than an is-er.
mircea_popescu: this inadherence to modernism is why russia was modernised via socialism/soviets, not via capitalism/industrialism.
mircea_popescu: ickiness in economics not just price stickiness, and esp in chaotic situations it's actually a stronger effect.
mircea_popescu: do follow. neither of these are likely to hold long term and moreover complexity ever increases, so i expect they'll emerge next year or so.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-08#1579712 << there is yet no futures market principally because agreement among the major players keeps the prices stable. the reasonings through which that agreement is distilled however are getting ever more complex ; this yet holds because everyone involved has a brain the size of staten island and can mostly follow the intricacies + a patience the size of a larger planet's ice caps, so they
☝︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i was living under the impression that i am reading the faits d'armes of adule male. for some reason.
mircea_popescu: the approximate equivalent of "umm... hi fortified city, here is my siege. i... uhhh... i ate all the horses on the way over. and burned the trebuchets. surrender now ?"
mircea_popescu: for the love of all that's holy. who does this ? WHO ?
mircea_popescu: "For example, when I first came to Japan, I had no computer. I also had no money, because the plane ticket and setting up my household ate all of my savings. In America, this isn’t a barrier to getting a computer, because Dell will do a quick FICO score on you and then happily extend you $2,000 of trade credit."
mircea_popescu: from what i heard from all other shops, they do. it's like asking why has superluminous tachyon decided to bless your apparatus.
mircea_popescu: needless to say this produced "correct" responses through the insufferable avenue of missing out on the problem.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ah. the inflexible 29 yo had this very obnoxious penchant for trying to restate any problem in specific terms as per his textbook.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform (i suspect we may be talking at cross purposes)
mircea_popescu: well no, i've never had the pleasure of hiring for the army.
mircea_popescu: i actually told a 29 yo "i know a guy who's 92 and a lot more flexible than you".
mircea_popescu: old folks as in bio age i usually have an easy enough time with ; young folks who aspire to be employed however are aged beyond their age, like touched by the fucking vorlons.
mircea_popescu: srsly now. can they stock their pantry, these people ?