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a111: Logged on 2017-03-01 23:26 asciilifeform: what are ~all~ of
the places where A has
the ecstasy, but B does
the laundry, where A!=B
a111: Logged on 2017-02-25 23:22 mircea_popescu: basically nodes are
the digital equivalent of women : men fuck
them so
the state can have babies. hurr durr, pill plox.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it occurs
to me
this sexy problem item says what dijkstra was belabouring
to say above, except a) correctly and b) fucking briefly.
mircea_popescu followed a link, ended up on
this
trilema blog, is reading some holy shit wtf model of insanity is
this.
shinohai: I got "we need futurama suicide booths" out of
that.
ben_vulpes: well i'm
terribly outta shape, will spell
theses out better
ben_vulpes: why stop in
the womb is what i'm driving at
mircea_popescu: this is like saying guillotining
the neck rather
than
the mandible or
the shoulderblades is completely arbitrary.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: well, at least
the demand is explicitly present, better
than nothing.
a111: Logged on 2018-01-24 03:32 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-23#1774906 << publish it sometime ; and also since on
this
trinque i'd like
to use whatever wot.deedbot uses
to spit
the round svg graph
to make a "trilema article links"
thing. can i get it somewhere ?
mircea_popescu: all nice and good, especially if you're not
the prince...
mircea_popescu: v is esentially found
today as an enchanted castle surrounded by 5000 rakes upon which
the prince is welcome
to step, and once he stepped he can come
to us and by
the shape in his forehead we can describe
the rake he stepped on.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but even if one could say "well,premature
to write a v compendium, not yet even stable yet",
the greater point remains.
there's been a dispute of
tabs and spaces in
the logs. nowhere else. how would one know
to look ?
there's been a dispute of alphabets and
trees and MANY
Things
that constitute
the "Subtle" in
the above "subtle chjanges each month".
mircea_popescu: so polarbeard made
the patches "wrongly". fine, it happens
to be
true. how is it verified ?
hanbot: here's an example: i've made a genesis of mp-wp by vdiffing against an empty dir of
the same name;
this when pressed results in all desired files + copy of each file appended with ".orig". leaving aside
that i don't even currently know why
the fuck
this happened, never seen it before in a press: i don't even know what
to point out
to ascertain
that
this is in fact NOT what is supposed
to occur! if i was
teaching a girl
to do it, and she were
the
mircea_popescu: amusingly, sorta how "born in
the usa"
turned into "made in us"
mircea_popescu: here's one example : he calls it "the most serene republic of bitcoin", which was
the style at
the
time. but in practice we omit
the bitcoin part most often
than not don't we.
mircea_popescu: the item is actually years old, and in point of fact
the semantic content of eg "v" has changed, if subtly, almost each month since
then.
ben_vulpes: a genesis is just a vpatch against
the null codebase, results in pure additions and antecedents of false
throughout.
hanbot: if i want
to understand what a genesis is, how it is made, independent of
trb, say
hanbot: despite high volume of high quality lit on V, if i want a frank discussion of just it (technically rather'n politically, if we presume
these can be separated, and esp re geneses rather'n patchworx), not crystal clear where i'm going
to go --no single exhaustive repository, etc.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo :
they're getting $7150, should cover whatever fees / maybe a little leftover. 0.63202778 goes on your books on
the right side.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: well, actually,
they risk being shaken down for not doing it.
mircea_popescu: "In what we denote as "primitive societies",
the superstition
that knowing someone's
true name gives you magic power over him is not unusual. We are hardly less primitive: why do we persist here in answering
the
telephone with
the most unhelpful "hello" instead of our name?" << motherfucker. because if we
TELL
the name instead of hello, we
therefore have no resources left
to verify whether
the other party called us or just ca
mircea_popescu: will eat my left foot will eat. legions do not cross
the rubicon because
the "emperor" knows full well
they'll join
the barbarians
the next night.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: well, you know what
the default reason is. "they would, if
they dared".
shinohai: Well, republic needs missles
too.
mircea_popescu: as
the saying goes, "and next year -- we launch rockets"
mircea_popescu: shinohai hey, i spent more on weapons systems
than computers
this year, for
the first
time since republic.
mircea_popescu: i deplore
the archeologists of
the future ; for whatever
they do
they shall be wrong.
mircea_popescu: the pic linked at some point, with
the
two sluts being fucked on bikes in
the 60s, was remarkable specifically because
those
two guys might've been
the yhoungest bike owners in history.
mircea_popescu: there's no 19yo biker.
there's mostly 50-something war veteran.
mircea_popescu: do you picture him better going
to academia in
the same continous way, and faffing about "o, radical nvoelties" ?
lobbesbot: Logged on 2016-01-23 23:05:59: <diana_coman> I suppose on really short ones
there isn't enough
time for all
the faffing about anyway;
the io
thing is 100secs in my books
mircea_popescu: dont' give me
the "woulda but couldn't". fucktarded bikers had
their own republic.
mircea_popescu: "how
to program if you cannot" is an absolutely fine soundbyte ; and correctly descriptive. but reading
the stuff it is mouted in, i can't help but
think maybe he meant something entirely else
than what it self-evidently means.
mircea_popescu: instead he mentions
that some guy said nobody will ever run a 5 second 100m.
mircea_popescu: (quite literal example, impedance is
the EXACT name of resistance of medium
to em )
mircea_popescu: this is substantially fine ; but as presented it's a jumble of disjoints. resistance of
the medium is in
there, but not alone.
mircea_popescu: ie
they expected a continuous process where n osuch
thing was available ?
mircea_popescu: there is ~something~
there being parasitized by all
the nonsense, but it is screamingly NOT what he
tries
to make it be.
mircea_popescu: in point of fact, his nonsensical discussion of radical novelties has one effect and one effect only :
to drive
the pantsuit narrative.
mircea_popescu: this is not an isolated flaw : his notion
that "oh,
those dumb spanyards who didn't
think at university" is a
typically ustardian misretelling of counter-imagined history.
mircea_popescu: applying
the "o noes, computer is much faster now" meme as if it meant something only drives home
the nonsensical view
that "computer is faster". which it fucking isn't, computer of
today is well slower
than computer of 1980.
mircea_popescu: one's in
the winter and
the other's in
the ocean are
the important considerations
there.
mircea_popescu: there's no substantial difference "that has
to be accounted for" between bridging
the san francisco bay and bridging
the mostly dry
three metre wide obscure rivulet in ontario
that are due
to "hey, 3 degrees of magnitude distance ! 12 degrees of magnitude water debit!!" etcetera nonsense.