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mircea_popescu: boy is freenode in a sorry state. currently five servers up, of which 130.239.18.119 and 193.10.255.100 are down solid. which leaves three.
mircea_popescu: perhaps the earliest attestable case of "global warming" in "science".
mircea_popescu: so the new method (easier! better!) also couldn't do some things the old (cancer! terrorist!) method could do ; and that something became a major point of crank science throughout the ~2k years of history this paradigm prevailed.
mircea_popescu: however that "classical" paradigm is interesting in itself : the greeks knew of neusis ; and used it. but eventually it fell in disfavour, because a) people are lazy and b) a guy named hippocrates (of kios) ran a campaign against it. presumably because it gave his aunt cancer.
mircea_popescu: this last problem is unsolvable (and proved as such, by an early application of galois theory even before galois got around to publishing it) in the classical paradigm of compass and straight edge.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, in re
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-17#1544304 : the more scholarly inclined readers may know that the greeks had a very interesting method of constructive geometry called neusis. it consists of marked edge and pin, where you rotate the edge around a certain point. this allows you to, for instance, draw polygons with 10 or 12 faces but not 11 ; and to trisect the angle.
☝︎ mircea_popescu envisions this endgame state for his own 70s, where he keeps getting excited and writing articles in a fury, which are slowly decaying copies of already extant trilema articles.
mircea_popescu: thanks god "pop psychology", "religious dogmatism" and other such useful labels are provided by god immediately through direct affixion to subject matter. especially useful - "artistic narcissism".
mircea_popescu: t is impossible for human foresight to pronounce ; but there is just ground to apprehend that its progress may be marked with calamities of which the dreadful incidents of the French revolution afford a very faint image."
mircea_popescu: "The spirit of Jacobinism, if not entirely a new spirit, has at least been cloathed with a more gigantic body and armed with more powerful weapons than it ever before possessed. It is perhaps not too much to say, that it threatens more extensive and complicated mischiefs to the world than have hitherto flowed from the three great scourges of mankind, WAR, PESTILENCE and FAMINE. To what point it will ultimately lead society, i
mircea_popescu: in other news, let's play "find the source". here goes :
mircea_popescu: hurr. where the fuck do they keep coming from, these idiots.
mircea_popescu: "But every religion has its dissenters, and the conference began with a not insignificant network issue whereby all of the nodes running ethereum’s most popular client (go ethereum) suddenly crashed upon executing a smart contract." << arguably 2nd best lulz in the pile.
mircea_popescu: strategic inferiority is one thing ; but to fuck yourself raw with your own arms that someone had broken off and used to wipe his arse...
mircea_popescu: ^ best lulz in the pile. step A : call mp's thing "a sect" ; step B. observe with dismay that mp owns it ; step C decide "cults are cool now", try and claim your rapemeat agglomeration is one.
mircea_popescu: 'Church of Vitalik' In many ways, the event was evidence that, despite the rhetoric about divisions in the community, ethereum remains oddly united in the face of obstacles. This sentiment was perhaps most visible in references to ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin, with many developers (even insiders) jokingly calling the community the "church of Vitalik".
mircea_popescu: consider that if we all told you you're fat you'd simply think we're a little weird.
mircea_popescu: women necessarily must have a different concept of "humiliation" than men.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes take your pick, from the indignity of monthly bleeding to the traditional view of what it means to take the cock...
mircea_popescu: the problem with womanhood is that what you count as humiliation is a sine qua non condition of functional biology.
mircea_popescu: you'd be better off running a whores-and-strippers directory, really.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes go right ahead ? though really, if you start doing bios of every wannabe woman-in-tech with a non-math background...
mircea_popescu: nobody gives a shit ; they just want to maybe make a buck. here's his card, he sells insurance. thanks for coming to the funeral.
mircea_popescu: just a figure, and this is supposed to pass for you know, ACTUAL DATA.
mircea_popescu: but in typical "most intreprid" pseudoscientifico-dumb-woman style, there's exactly no details published, no logs, no sample packets, no nothing.
mircea_popescu: moreover, the byte per second metric is suspect, seeing how at that scale packet count matters more in general.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i wouldn't trust numbers from the victims. if you add up what damages victims report, you get three times the gdp.
mircea_popescu: yeah, if meade ever gets THAT good we might get to see.
mircea_popescu: not even their own kids / wives / parents would actually notice or much give a shit.
mircea_popescu: nobody. cares. any ustard === any other ; each can be replaced without skipping a beat.
mircea_popescu: pro tip : that fat microsoft pushing fuck whatever his name was went away permanently. nobody EVEN REMEMBERS his fucking name.
mircea_popescu: i suppose the "nobody cares" is really hard to digest for the ustard hive huh.
mircea_popescu: since when the fuck is "anonymous call" reasonable suspicion what the fuck already.
mircea_popescu: that stupid shit with the hot mulatto chick being reported by "anonymous caller" is so fucking outrageous...
mircea_popescu: inexplicably, for all the time spent "grooming", the chimps in question still have a head full of lice, but w/e.
mircea_popescu: hey, women have been doing this in africa for WAY LONGER than your pesky newton and whoelse.
mircea_popescu: it's useful if reader intuits will be a short footnote, hovers mouse.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform your footnotes don't have pop-up content. mine do!