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linton_s_dawson: mircea_popescu: i've seen your argument regarding the "true" value of a bitcoin where it has nothing to do with fiat. do you have a way to determine it? say, i start a community and we agree to use bitcoin as a currency. how many apples would one bitcoin (bit, satoshi, etc.) buy?

mircea_popescu: danielpbarron well that'd be a different thing then wouldn't it.

assbot: Logged on 21-11-2015 17:43:09; mircea_popescu: now you're presuming there exists a heavenly Births & Deaths register

assbot: Logged on 21-11-2015 17:33:32; mircea_popescu: well yes, the problem with the magical thinking of retards is that they assume there's a divinity somehwere in whose image they were made.

BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> hilariously, because they handed out a diploma-shaped object at the ceremony, but it was actually some spam << SOP

asciilifeform: is that... a cup ?

asciilifeform: hilariously, because they handed out a diploma-shaped object at the ceremony, but it was actually some spam

mircea_popescu: couldn't be arsed to send a lawyer after it - to put it with the tax papers.

mircea_popescu: went once, was a queue, took a girl for coffee and welll... there it waits, no doubt.

assbot: Logged on 21-11-2015 19:44:22; mircea_popescu: really, "less than college education" ? having a us college diploma is like having a mental disability certificate. it just means you're at best useless but in principle dumb.

mircea_popescu: really, "less than college education" ? having a us college diploma is like having a mental disability certificate. it just means you're at best useless but in principle dumb. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: http://russiapedia.rt.com/files/of-russian-origin/koshchey-bessmertny/koshchey-bessmertny_4-t.jpg << this pic is stolen from a book i had.

assbot: Lich on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1MJd2I8 )

mircea_popescu: he stops passerby, more or less with hands and props they manage to understand each other. passerby looks around, identifies a tree, points to it.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw ever told you the joke of the muscovite trying to take a shit in bucharest ? ☟︎

mircea_popescu: d collected in the navel, there is a disturbing episode."

mircea_popescu: "Go to Japan when he is transmitted (the mid-5th century), the board is there to make a box. The Remains of the back hole in the center had been opened for the sound effects. Blood reservoir (No Chi) Name of the samurai in the game of Go was the accomplishment, the spectators came from the mouth (first eight came through clearly), cut off by a samurai sword to the neck of the angry flip board , put the head of the bloo

asciilifeform: and l0l!! rt now has a 'dictionary' of sovokisms for englischerz! -- http://russiapedia.rt.com/of-russian-origin/sovok

funkenstein_: actually in this case I was complimenting a far more entrenched class system

mircea_popescu: admire : you want that to be there so that you and ants are made by the same god so therefore, and i underscore, therefore, if the ants were owners of the world there still were a place in the world for you.

mircea_popescu: specifically because it was not vague at all, but both specific and a fundamental requisite of the thinking in question.

funkenstein_: lets make a metric then: differentiation in societal roles

mircea_popescu: actually upon rereading that spoken poem, i notice a hole the light might perhaps be brought in!

asciilifeform: (part of the deal is that it has to be made of a sufficiently thick tree, no glue allowed)

mircea_popescu: you show me a roomfull of 20 year olds that all supposedly have an intuitive understanding of number theory, i see both the reason poor brin looks like he sucks corcoduse his entire life and a candidate for hanging.

asciilifeform: there is a legend, iirc, that a go board & stones set somehow made its way to euler. but sans the rules, or any reasonable notion thereof! he then inferred that it was played by throwing the stones into the little cavity on the underside of the board.

funkenstein_: mircea_popescu, no offense taken. I have mostly explored Red Square at my own leisure, but still consider myself a stranger there.

asciilifeform cringes when folks who otherwise show no symptoms of a mathematical past speak of 'metrics' etc

mircea_popescu: it is, after all, justr a formalism.

mircea_popescu: funkenstein_ understand, it's not that i dislike you or that i mean to do you the boo boo or anything. but there is a difference between the guy that was taken by hand through red square and the guy who lives in moscow. and i don't believe you are familiar with a whole bunch of superior math simply because it's not possible to be so disorganised in other aspects if that were the case. whether you recognize words on pre

mircea_popescu: similarly, a 12 yo saying she's hot and ready is no defense in court.

mircea_popescu: your notion of "context" is rooted in a certain equalitarian mindset that has nothing to do with reality.

mircea_popescu: but that said, a meson-strained ant would be an interesting thing.

mircea_popescu: "A is magically comparable to B on the grounds that I believe!"

funkenstein_: if A is "just better" than B, there must be some magical divinity in whose image A is closer too.. this seems equally retarded

funkenstein_: anyway, in terms of mortality, kingdom animalia, being made of baryonic matter, to name a few: ants and humans are equal

mircea_popescu: it's a major point to everyone with a clue, both for practical and historical considerations.

asciilifeform: (btw this subject is near & dear to yours truly, as it was one of the historic 'holy wars' between the common lisp and scheme aficionados - the latter system had tailcall elimination as a required mechanism per the standard, the former - did not)

assbot: Logged on 21-11-2015 17:33:32; mircea_popescu: well yes, the problem with the magical thinking of retards is that they assume there's a divinity somehwere in whose image they were made.

mircea_popescu: and it still gotta be won two to five times each century, because women still produce lazy stupid worms instead of people as a default.

mircea_popescu: the sad story here is that this is a war we already fucking won. about... uh i dunno, fifty times to date.

funkenstein_: well I agree, they don't mean much until a context is provided

mircea_popescu: (incidentally the reason we were even stguck with that nonsense, which is currently "id papers". but which has been a public nuisance throughout)

mircea_popescu: now you're presuming there exists a heavenly Births & Deaths register ☟︎

mircea_popescu: this is not a class.

mircea_popescu: now you are stating that a class exist that doesn't.

funkenstein_: hmm.. in stating that two objects are both members of a class

mircea_popescu: the problem with recognizing you're an individual doesn't exist. the problem with "just like any" is that you invent a homomorphism that does not exist.

assbot: Unqualified Reservations: OL9: how to uninstall a cathedral ... ( http://bit.ly/21ap2fr )

asciilifeform: during the 19th century. But that's a different discussion.) Thus what we call hate speech is merely a 20th-century name for the age-old crime of blasphemy.'

asciilifeform: 'Even more precisely, it is a core doctrine of the neo-primitive Christianity that we call Protestantism. And specifically, I believe it to be a mutated and metastasized version of the Quaker doctrine of the Inner Light. Basically, all humans must be neurologically uniform because we all have the same little piece of God inside us. (All the American Protestant sects, or at least all the Northern ones, became heavily Quakerized

mircea_popescu: well yes, the problem with the magical thinking of retards is that they assume there's a divinity somehwere in whose image they were made. ☟︎☟︎

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i see your lamp and raise you a pony.

asciilifeform: y while the attacker is studying the actual problem of forging signatures. Maybe we're studying the problem of attacking one key while the attacker is studying the actual problem of attacking a large batch of keys. This oversimplification is surprisingly common...'

asciilifeform: 'Maybe we're studying the problem of setting public factorization records using academic computer clusters, while the attacker is studying the problem of factoring 1024-bit keys as quickly as possible using billion-dollar clusters. Or maybe, in an effort to advertise attractively simple problems, we've oversimplified the problem of attacking the actual cryptosystem. Maybe we're studying the problem of recovering a signature ke

mircea_popescu: [–]mrbiggles00007 0 points1 point2 points 1 day ago (1 child) "Anyone who puts themselves above others in how they would handle any given situation as if they are operating at a higher level than everyone else is usually a fuckwit in my book."

mircea_popescu: actually having a ready window into the universe of 15yos that you open only when you feel like is not so bad.

BingoBoingo: Eh, it's a uni campus. Everyone is scared.

mircea_popescu: so you know, the 1-200 niggers on campus got a little scared.

mircea_popescu: o hey cool, they're making a home.

punkman: lulz http://imgur.com/a/jwReM http://www.purdueexponent.org/article_9a40a5c2-8b40-11e5-9437-53fbc13874e0.html

mircea_popescu: and it will never go away, either. by now vesseness is out, more or less, but even if i make murck's dessicated skull a part of my urinal (which i will ANYWAY, irrespective of how useless it is, because i don't give a shit about utilitarianism in some cases) there's going to be another sciencehatesyou around, ready to strut.

mircea_popescu: (the line quoted is a fine example of the cost assymetry, too. tard thinks it's ok to break grammar, because hey, tard immunity! tard doesn't even consider whether it's ok or not to be wrong. ofcourseitis. meanwhile suppose you were stupid and wrong, then what ? i don't mean all the time, like sciencehatesyou. i mean ONCE. which is how the various wanna-be intellectuals across the pond lose all the time. sooner or late

mircea_popescu: hence the us defeat in iraq, with superiority, and the islamist victories in europe, from a deeply inferior position.

mircea_popescu: if there's jack shit you can do about random idiot "forming opinions", you pick a stupid one and form it for him. you don't get invested in a complex, ultimately meaningless game of trying to "help him" or whatever. the old adage "don't discuss with idiots, they drag you to their level and then beat you with experience" means exactly this : it costs YOU something, not them, and they'll win.

mircea_popescu: not like it wouldn't have been trivially easy for me to avoid the charge, if i felt like it. so than then what, random internet tard would have created a DIFFERENT rationalization as to why i'm bad ?

mircea_popescu: in retrospect jurov's objection is prolly worthy of a more in depth response, so let's.

assbot: ECRYPT-EU: Break a dozen secret keys, get a million more for free ... ( http://bit.ly/1Ym6ExH )

jurov: "In developed nations the average person would earn around 15 BW$ a month, but it is hoped that in poorer countries where people have to walk further for work, school, or simply to collect water, the Bitwalking scheme could help transform lives."

ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-11-2015#1328990 << i chuckled a bit ☝︎

BingoBoingo: on exertion and the inability to visualize his own genitals without a mirror were clearly not evidence enough.

BingoBoingo: ely, the patient did go on to suffer a massive myocardial infarction in late 2013. The argument was simple. Chronic biscuit poisoning has been shown to be directly associated with diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and a predilection for panniculitis. Without carrying the diagnosis of CBP, the patient had no idea he had so many risk factors for heart disease and thus no motivation for lifestyle change. Increasing dyspnea

BingoBoingo: Also from mines: The suit was originally filed because the patient had multiple chest x-rays performed between the years 2010 and 2012, and the official read never contained any reference to CBP in spite of the fact that all 3 criteria were met. These criteria include: a habitus too large to fit a normal radiograph + a minimum of 3 side roles visualized on X-ray or simply a habitus too large to fit a normal CT scanner. Unfortunat

BingoBoingo: Let's just call it a fledgling and make it even.

BingoBoingo actually feels kinda bad about mocking this creature which is so near death, in the same way one would feel bad about mocking a panda cub stuck in plastic six pack rings on the beach.

BingoBoingo: <punkman> the woman that adds a cup of sugar to every salad << Note the agonal breathing, yet it still can not overcome its addict brain. Literally the physical incarnation of insanity.

punkman: the woman that adds a cup of sugar to every salad

assbot: Logged on 20-11-2015 23:28:24; pete_dushenski: top kek. 'radiologist' goes to 'skool' for 10 years+ of post-secondary, spends $bezzle in tuition, and is still no better than a garbage-eating pigeon

pete_dushenski: on that bombshell, i'm off for the evening. happy friday and to all a good night !

ben_vulpes: the plane is now unflyable, so in the sense that its value was "one returned crew, maybe" its value is now "not likely a returned crew".

ben_vulpes: a smaller example: some high performance gliders will tear themselves apart if they go too fast, pete_dushenski

kakobrekla: ;;google Air Force has been forced to write off a brand new $115million gunship

pete_dushenski: worst case : lose a few pilots/crew

ben_vulpes: now if the envelope is retardedly small, that's a different problem.

ben_vulpes: this is actually a thing with planes, pete_dushenski.

pete_dushenski: "The [British] Air Force has been forced to write off a brand new $115million gunship after a pilot accidentally flew it upside down, according to a report. The AC-130J Ghostrider gunship was taking part in a training mission over the Gulf of Mexico in April this year having taken off from Elgin Air Force Base, officials said. The pilot, from 413th Flight Test Squadron, was taking part in a 'sideslip' maneuver when h

ben_vulpes: the question to ask is "can oncologists beat a coin toss?"

pete_dushenski: top kek. 'radiologist' goes to 'skool' for 10 years+ of post-secondary, spends $bezzle in tuition, and is still no better than a garbage-eating pigeon ☟︎

pete_dushenski: "Experts trained a group of the birds to tell the difference between benign and malignant human breast tissue using food reinforcement techniques."

pete_dushenski: "They may have a reputation for being bird-brained, but pigeons have found to be as adept as humans when it comes to spotting cancerous tissue in mammograms."

ben_vulpes: re: "ed", a nurse was over last night, lamenting the shift from "emergency room, you know, a big room with sheets, "emergency department" with individually nicely fitted out, warm rooms with room service that someone other than $invalid is paying for"

pete_dushenski: bit less of a pessimist than smil too

pete_dushenski: pseudoerasmus reminds me a bit of vlaclav smil with a bit more focus on history and (obviously, given format) a bit less thoroughness

pete_dushenski: the main thing running through my head while TRYING to read about ancient greek economics, what that point mircea_popescu made in a footnote recently about 'economists need businessmen but not vice versa'

pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: speaking of idle masturbation, i tried sifting my way through a few of 'pseudoerasmus' ' other blogs posts and pretty much choked to death on that inanity and pointlessness

BingoBoingo: Still safer than doing the same with a magnesium fire

BingoBoingo: Inducing famine is about all USia can seriously try and even then ISIS is prolly sitting on a decent stockpile of US MREs

assbot: Logged on 14-11-2015 00:37:36; mats: nobody has the stomach to detonate a nuke over al-raqqah

BingoBoingo: "Ground Clear" concentrate contains only 0.08% Imazapyr 5.0% Glyphosate as the concentrate. Works for most of a year after application.

pete_dushenski: "Arguably the least appreciated resource for Islamic State is its fertile farms. Before even starting the engine of a single tractor, the group is believed to have grabbed as much as $200 million in wheat from Iraqi silos alone."