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ben_vulpes: have you taken mod6 or asciilifeform's 'v' for
a spin yet?
ascii_field: things that have no business mutating, ought to live on
a physical 'WORM' sorta thing
assbot: Logged on 30-07-2015 20:30:25; ascii_field: nothing on
a pc is 'append only' !
phf: <asciilifeform> speaking of tape, i've always lamented that no one sells
a reel-to-reel for modern pc
phf: in 60 years will be using "f",
a fits in head filesystem implementation by ascii, that can store terabytes of data, but technically indistinguishable from tape archive
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> less show-offy, more 'vertical' social life << jurov you are fucking crazy if you imagine the thirld worlders are BETTER at being real. they all got tvs over here. every god forsaken favela in brazil, salta, what have you has
a tv. no fridge, but tv.
mircea_popescu: except claims of "Sexual assault" made by
a native english speaker are very likely false.
trinque: what's
a reasonable deeding interval, weekly?
phf: there are stores in u.s. where you can buy some quality rope. hemp, jute, nylon in garish colors, all by the meter. there's probably
a harness worth of rope next to
a dildo collection in every dorm
pete_dushenski: jessica, you lose EVERYTHING by affirming the right, nay, the duty to be
a victim.
pete_dushenski: ” In The Washington Post, Zerlina Maxwell argued: “We should believe, as
a matter of default, what an accuser says. Ultimately, the costs of wrongly disbelieving
a survivor far outweigh the costs of calling someone
a rapist.”"
pete_dushenski: "Last December, when Rolling Stone’s account of
a brutal gang rape at the University of Virginia began to unravel, some commentators argued that we should nevertheless take claims of sexual assault at face value, on the grounds that statistically, they are very likely true. “I choose to believe Jackie,” Jessica Valenti wrote in The Guardian. “I lose nothing by doing so, even if I’m later proven wrong.
mircea_popescu has
a pre-made noose in this very house! nice thick rope too.
ascii_field: at my uni we had two separate incidents, complete with organized mooing, 'candlelight vigils', protest marches, etc. of 'nooses found' (noose is supposed to be
a symbol of impending lynching, yes...) - one turned out to be
a popped balloon's string on
a tree, the other - was never seen by any witness save the instigator of the hysteria
analmaster: i cant wait to send my children to
a nice school like this one
mircea_popescu: analmaster and tghere isn't , becausw really, who gives
a shit what the agitprop machine "says".
mircea_popescu: they gotta pull stories multiple times
a day each day by now huh ?
jurov: but to avoid inflation, we always got
a negative and positive paper with the same value together
mircea_popescu: "does this mean i sell the government
a truckload of pork and it pays me for it three times ?" "no dummy, it means that if you do enter into
a contract with them to sell them one truckload of pork you
a) will never get paid and b) will have to deliver three truckloads. yearly. daily. fuck you!!1"
mircea_popescu: "More substantively—and this is what I want to focus on in this post—“paying” for highway spending with Fed capital is not paying for it at all in any economically meaningful sense. Rather, this maneuver is
a form of budgetary sleight-of-hand that would count funds that are already designated for the Treasury as “new” revenue."
mircea_popescu: " but they find easy money too seductive, and S. 190 goes down in flames before
a horde of political activists chanting that easy money is sound, and opposing it is racist, nazi, ignorant, and generally hateful"
mircea_popescu: "The House voted Thursday to pay for planned highway construction by drawing on the Federal Reserve’s capital. The idea of using Fed capital to pay for government spending, which comes up periodically, is
a bad one, for several reasons."
ascii_field: 'Gosh, all of this warm fuzzy coverage of the NSA just brings
a tear of thanks to my eye. While you're at it, could you do
a puff piece on Stasi, and the KGB/camp system in the Soviet Union? I'm sure they did
a spectacular job saving lives and keeping people safe, as well.' << from the not-yet-censored commentz
mircea_popescu: oh check it out, he's gonna be the next best thing to
a super secret service agent aka "practically james bond" : he's gonna be
a ~practically~ secret service guy!
mircea_popescu: i confess i was reading all through the (very fine!) tlp piece on narcissus expecting
a kafka reference at any point
mircea_popescu: it IS, btw,
a very fine understanding of the matter at hand. it is in things such as these that we (ie, actually cultivated folk) recognize that people like kafka, or nietzsche, or picasso or who have you actually IS
a master, who just chooses to go at it differently.
ascii_field: 'Now the Sirens have
a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence. And though admittedly such
a thing has never happened, still it is conceivable that someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence certainly never.' (ol' franz k.)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the problem with kids reading above their paygrade (which is to say, the sort of typically ustardian kid who, instead of coming at it plainly and getting trampled AT HIS LOWER LEVEL OF UNDERSTANDING protects his ego through "ironicity" and interacts with the written excrement of great forefathers at
a time when it's safe to do so [ie, afrter the "death of the author]) is that they ALWAYS misinterpret the silences.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field you've perhaps noticed me doing
a credible impersonation of the old fart yest i imagine.
mircea_popescu: you know the reason everything was steel in the 70s was because they couldn't mold plastics worth
a shit yea ?
pete_dushenski: the adjustable palm grip is
a godsend for these big mitts
assbot: Logged on 10-11-2015 15:29:16; punkman: "
A wealthy, elderly man, for example, could technically marry the father of his daughter’s children. This would enable an estate of any size to pass tax-free into the next generation on the older man’s death. After his elderly “husband” had died, of course, the younger man would be free to marry the daughter, with the estate thus secured intact."
mircea_popescu: "I never knew Pirate were
a shining star of brilliance and intellectual depth…
mircea_popescu: they even have pavlovian responses to it, like
a sort of "privately run bell", salivation begins.\
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> I support Dr. Carson << so soes every other reasonable / educated / middle class guy i know in there. which is how i know he doesn't have
a chance in hell.
shinohai: jurov seems to work here, I cat'd
a few over to pogo and it syncs against it ^^
jurov: btw, is it possible to continue running
a blockchain synced on amd64 on pogo?
shinohai: Nice jurov ... just got mine back up
a week ago @ height 356995 currently
ben_vulpes: > Large attack surface that relies on
a quickly-built custom application.
ben_vulpes: > Building
a security team. Runs up-to-date software.
BingoBoingo: "He is
a member of
a prominent Omaha family. The newspaper says that Butler's father is Eric L. Butler, executive vice president for sales and marketing for the Union Pacific Railroad."
BingoBoingo: I support Dr. Carson because he is
a neurosurgeon who is quite
a few shades darker than Obama
assbot: The danger of unchecked assumptions, or the surprising depths of inequality. | Contravex:
A blog by Pete Dushenski ... (
http://bit.ly/1RNtr1v )
pete_dushenski: and
a watch is
a watch. you see the problem with this line of logic ?
ben_vulpes: maersk is
a big ticket.
a car is
a car.
mircea_popescu: also i saw
a man today showering out of
a bucket, in front of someone's house. this man... he had tits. and i'm not kidding around, he had
a pair of d's on him no girl'd be ashamed with. except they were in the ridiculous shape of manboob
ben_vulpes: in particular re jon walker of appfolio, adjunct professorship is not
a resume bullet. "multiple patents" under the auspices of the usg is not
a resume bullet. you had
a single job: shipping software that worked, and you failed. you failed spectacularly.
ben_vulpes:
a half-baked rails app pretending to be able to do things like manage billing and maintenance requests
ben_vulpes: in other news, appfolio is
a giant steaming pile of horseshit
pete_dushenski: "is it time we started forgetting the birthdays too, time we stopped falsely screaming ecstasy, and demanded adequate, formal remuneration for emotion work provided in the workplace as
a skill? Now that, right there, would probably be
a shake-patriarchy-to-its-core revolution."
pete_dushenski: "“It suggests to me that there is
a detachment to home that I do not have the luxury of having. Because if I did, then our everyday life would be
a nightmare. So I take on that role. That’s not my authentic self, but I have no choice,” she says."
pete_dushenski:
https://archive.is/I11Jn << "Mr. Schneiderman doesn’t see how he can prove harm from fossil fuels. So instead of RICO he appears to be focused on the Martin Act, the appalling New York state law enacted in 1921 to prosecute stock-sale boiler rooms. The Martin Act doesn’t require prosecutors to prove intent to defraud, which is why it was
a favorite tool of the Empire State’s disgraced former AG Eliot Spitz
pete_dushenski:
https://archive.is/bN7tZ << "60 billion yuan will go toward
a new memory chip plant, and 16.2 billion yuan toward acquisitions “upstream and downstream in the microchip supply chain.” The remaining 3.8 billion yuan will go toward Tsinghua Unigroup’s purchase of
a 25% stake in Taiwan’s Powertech Technology Inc."
BingoBoingo: Is it just me, or does this feel
a fuck of
a lot like November 2012
punkman: question is, does nobody test the things before making
a full factory run
BingoBoingo: How does someone sooth
a man with such clear and limited emotional registers?
mircea_popescu: books mean
a very specific PERVERSION of culture ; much like usg is
a very specific perversion of governance.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but this is the problem of the bloody book. in "removing the requirement for
a wot" it creates more problems than it resolves
punkman: he already had
a chance to do that
assbot: The danger of unchecked assumptions, or the surprising depths of inequality. | Contravex:
A blog by Pete Dushenski ... (
http://bit.ly/1Hw9JXz )
assbot: The danger of unchecked assumptions, or the surprising depths of inequality. | Contravex:
A blog by Pete Dushenski ... (
http://bit.ly/1Hw8WpF )
phf: asciilifeform: right, i'm not arguing your original statement, just trying to understand this part of thread. if i wanted to grok electrodynamics, can get scan, or easier to just walk to friend and get landau of the shelf. doesn't matter that he has millions of other books, or that there's an archive of book scans somewhere. mp's point seems to be that the activity should be treated as tomb raiding either way, rather then "i have
a mircea_popescu: o know the way. We came at last to
a great hall... It was then I realized my companion hadn't been gaining strength. He had been losing what was left of his humanity."