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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so he has
a) other men ; b) some good reason he's entertaining cockroaches ?
mircea_popescu: more importantly - arguing with these people FROM
A POSITION OF EQUALITY.
phf: ben_vulpes:
http://www.winestockwebdesign.com/Essays/Lisp_Curse.html << i am surprised that this has not yet been linked here << it's
a whole genre, with roots in usenet days. "~i~ of course grok lisp, but the masses won't, so i use perl, which is as good, so ya'll should stop whatever you're doing". has the standard reaction of "where the fuck are you idiots coming from". naggum gained his notoriety mostly by arguing with these people,
mircea_popescu: the value of
a toy being ~proportional with an exponential of its separability.
mircea_popescu: (me as
a small child spent
a while lost in this entire separator mode)
punkman: "When set to blocksonly
a node behaves normally but sends and receives no loose transactions; instead it handles only complete blocks. Blocksonly reduced the node's bandwidth usage by 88%."
mircea_popescu:
a venture capitalist or other corporate master, to keep them on track."
mircea_popescu: "The reason why this doesn't happen is because of the Lisp Curse. Large numbers of Lisp hackers would have to cooperate with each other. Look more closely: Large numbers of the kind of people who become Lisp hackers would have to cooperate with each other. And they would have to cooperate with each other on
a design which was not already
a given from the beginning. And there wouldn't be any external discipline, such as
mircea_popescu: possibly because nobody here really gives much of
a shit about attempt #whatever to misrepresent the world in terms of "herd good, individual bad" yadda yadda ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and i'd see what i and anyone else always and forever sees on college campuses.
a buncha dizzy cows of either gender. what!
mircea_popescu: or else
a total coy princess fucking with people's nerves. which - is fine and good, but it's not in any sense
a feminist
mircea_popescu: it'll be either
a chick nobody could conceivably want for any purpose, so basically an old prune before her time,
mircea_popescu: maybe we don't share
a definition. feminist = inept old prune with nothing better to do than drone on about things nobody gives
a shit about.
mircea_popescu: anyway. no sane girl / young woman ever becomes
a feminist because she WANTS to become
a feminist. they spend more on creams than you spend on hardware.
mircea_popescu: seems deeply uninformed as to how biological processes with
a cognitive component work in humans.
mircea_popescu: think what, "don't be
a feminist or you might get plugged" ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if he ACTUALLY hated feminists, he seriouslty should have light up
a jewish old folks home.
mircea_popescu: so then what is all this talking of feminists as if one gives
a shit ?
mircea_popescu: shoot
a bunch of women at jewish home, about 54098564096056% more feminist per bullet.
mircea_popescu: so he decided to shoot
a bunch of polytechnic students ?
mircea_popescu: so your idea is that this 20something mousy french guy had
a thing for older women, they kept rejecting him
mircea_popescu: that ALSO does not have
a lacquered red leather ball gag
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: At this point I'm set to make money on either
a Rubio or Cruz win.
mircea_popescu: go fucking settle with bfl motherfucking schmucks on
a stick already.
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2016 23:37:31; asciilifeform: how come nobody ever writes, 'our company was
a victim of microshit' ??
BingoBoingo: In other new the Tesla Model X is too obeast to legally traverse the Brooklyn Bridge which has
a 3 ton weight limit
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2016 18:54:07; phf: heh actually some boomer at russian cultural center was once telling me of his adventures, he proudly told me that him and his wife had
a friend in russia and it was even!
a kgb guy. the implication is that he was so cool, he even got to meet
a bonafide kgb, befriend him and that was his best friend. that's your handler, you dumbass.
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2016 18:46:39; asciilifeform: it is not clear to me that this was
a smart thing.
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2016 18:40:53; phf: their whole experience of su is through intourist propotainment and politruk control. who's going to let an american nobody in
a company of the valuable products of soviet system. it's
a needless risk. at best you get invited to some aparatchik family dinner and get to playbelieve "i was even friends with
a russian family!"
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2016 18:29:41; asciilifeform: no amount of travel or whatnot can cure
a man who experienced western civilization in 1960, and believes that we can bring back the airplanes by cargoculting to what he perceives as the rules of the era.
pete_dushenski: there's supposedly
a shake down of the odd pawn broker, which can't be more than appropriation of
a bicycle for the cop's children, but it's mostly just
a list of names of bitches who can't deal with their own problems.
pete_dushenski: old hostage taker is familiar, friendly, and has
a kind face
mod6: and since i have no clue "what lispers typically do", I'll ask: I usually read files one line at
a time and then do things accordingly, is this
a typical lisp convention? Or do most just read one word at
a time and then do stuff?
mod6: so, with tinyscheme, there is no 'read-line' -- which we sort of talked about; having to write
a bunch of our own procedures.
danielpbarron: was considering betting against myself but decided against it because i figured if i was right, there would be
a massive bet to follow anyway and it would just knock my percent down anyway; might as well stick with my first bet and hope
a miracle happens
pete_dushenski: beautiful white children as the majority." He signs off by telling recipients, "Don’t vote for
a Cuban. Vote for Donald Trump." "
pete_dushenski: "In Minnesota and Vermont,
a white supremacist super PAC called the American National Super PAC has begun circulating
a robocall in support of Trump. "The white race is dying out in America and Europe because we are afraid to be called 'racist,' says William Johnson, the leader of the white nationalist American Freedom Party. He goes on to bemoan "gradual genocide against the white race," and how few "schools anymore
pete_dushenski: as also used to the methods we use in Zimbabwe when we get in these situations, so I said to him: " Come on Sir, what if I give you something? Will that speed up the process?" I'm sure he could tell from from my accent where I'm from so he looked me in the eye, lowered his voice and said to me softly : "Sir, you have just offered me
a bribe. We don't do that around here."
pete_dushenski: "Now, in my first week in the states, something got trapped in the earphone jack of my laptop so I went to an Apple store to see if they can fix it. The genius there told me that he would need to first check it in and that I would only be able to come back and pick it up after four working days. I knew there were other computers in line before me and I really didn't think I could survive four days without
a laptop an
shinohai: srsly gribble? You couldn't have just parsed that in
a single statement?
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> every time blockchain counts
a new million blocks. << sounds good!
phf: oh man, plenty of these people at russian cultural center in DC, can have
a little study roster
phf: heh actually some boomer at russian cultural center was once telling me of his adventures, he proudly told me that him and his wife had
a friend in russia and it was even!
a kgb guy. the implication is that he was so cool, he even got to meet
a bonafide kgb, befriend him and that was his best friend. that's your handler, you dumbass.
☟︎ phf: you don't seem to grok how "mediated" works in this case, you or your tour is assigned
a dedicated kgb handler and
a politruk. if you're not part of tour, then you are assigned those. personally. sop for any sort of interaction with outsiders. politruk is ~personally responsible~ for you not doing anything dodgy. your level of artificial integration depends on how important you are and how experienced your handlers are at running this
phf: their whole experience of su is through intourist propotainment and politruk control. who's going to let an american nobody in
a company of the valuable products of soviet system. it's
a needless risk. at best you get invited to some aparatchik family dinner and get to playbelieve "i was even friends with
a russian family!"
☟︎ phf: american experience in su was highly mediated. i've had
a chance to meet
a handful of these "spent some time in su in the 80s" types, and at best their conclusion is "them russkies are no worse then us". not like they would be allowed to spend their leasure time in the company of my grandfather and his friends, etc.
pete_dushenski: i wouldn't send them anywhere. it's not for me to lead their lives. but
a couple of years in 2nd-tier city in 80s ru wouldn't have hurt.
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2016 18:26:18; pete_dushenski: that which can only come from
a lifetime of indoctrination via public education and travel only to designated tourist zoos
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2016 02:36:48; asciilifeform: 'Like other armies the Germans emplaced booby traps to catch unwary souvenir-hunters, but they also used them to cause casualties among Allied small-unit leaders by locating them in possible command post and observation post sites. One example of this was to conceal
a booby trap behind
a framed picture left hanging crooked on an interior wall of
a house: the Germans reasoned that only an officer would
pete_dushenski: that which can only come from
a lifetime of indoctrination via public education and travel only to designated tourist zoos
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 25-02-2016 13:21:34; mircea_popescu: seriously, if you can't paint
a canvas within 10x10, or if you can't tell your story in 700mb, you've got other problems than painting or making movies.
phf: (it's zyklon b, for all those like myself who took
a while)
pete_dushenski: " Double Dick Nightmare -
A nightmarish dream involving voluntary double penetration of massive cocks." << i don't care what you say, this is
a much funnier ddn
phf: there's
a great place for sauna, fi