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mircea_popescu: "My companion drew in the dank, cold air of the Tomb. It seemed to... strengthen him. I stood in the doorway between Light and Dark. What was left of my sanity implored me not to enter. But that voice... was just
a whisper now. As we worked our way down, deeper and deeper into the Crypt, I began to see
a change in my companion. He seemed to be gaining strength. I could hardly see in the gloom, but my companion seemed t
funkenstein_ once had pictures of dog eating beets. Sadly they were never put on paper so lost after
a decade or so.
phf: well, it's very medieval idea (without the negative connotation) or reminiscent of samizdat culture. scans only come when someone asks for
a scan, rather then the other way around, i.e. "archiving initiatives"
mircea_popescu: not like anyone invented
a substitute for actually re-derivign the whole group theory IN YOUR HEAD as part of "grokking" it.
phf: is the idea that ascii can read book, or whatever, can even give me copy to read, or whatever, but ultimately there's not going to be library of b-
a, because only relevant knowledge is whatever ascii or i (in this example) say in the logs, how we got there is our own business?
funkenstein_: hardcopy can survive
a generation of nobody giving
a shit.
mircea_popescu: i'm not scanning fucking accra idols, either. i piss on them instead. they make fine urinals, for
a very good reason.
mircea_popescu: same exact fucking thing with the books : they belong to
a defeated people.
assbot: El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha si conul Andrei Pippidi. on Trilema -
A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1iSqaln )
mircea_popescu: not "technically" and not "desperate". the word is "in yo' face, foos!" and "you are poor for
a reason, and that reason is you suck."
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."
assbot: Logged on 10-11-2015 13:40:20; copypaste: I am again thoroughly convinced that KickStarter is nothing more than
a platform for clueless derps to make money on even more clueless derps
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> lmao, the media is "
a mizzou institution" ? << "Top Journalism School"(TM)(R)
mircea_popescu: the person who's always in
a rush is simply stupid by another name.,
mircea_popescu: "In
a truly weird turn, the Mizzou story now seems to have rotated into
a battle between activists and another Mizzou institution: the media."
mircea_popescu: sure. but on the speed/size continuum all choices are arbitrary. you don't don
a spacesuit to be shot to new york.
mircea_popescu: what if what's important is to get there with three women and
a library in woprking order, while having your evening port in comfort ?
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> and otherwise you're nuking something worth 300-500 usd << For this you want
a sewn hardcover to unsew, or
a page flipping monkey
thestringpuller: BingoBoingo: that's pretty ingenius. going to tell people that next time someone asks me how to "scan
a book"
BingoBoingo: <jurov> btw, bitmonero is going to hardfork, too << Up to twice
a year
BingoBoingo: <copypaste> I thought it had all the moving parts of
a pro one; automatic page turning and so on << Faster still is cutting the spine off of book and using sheet fed scanner
mircea_popescu: it's not
a practical matter. it's that if you give
a woman
a token she can fix her grip on, she'll be less anxious and more confident
assbot: "You cannot fix
a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong." on Trilema -
A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1RLBmfH )
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."
☟︎☟︎ copypaste: "Your job is to turn pages and press
a red button."
copypaste: well, maybe it's
a good thing for Communist countries. It gives people something to do.
copypaste: I am again thoroughly convinced that KickStarter is nothing more than
a platform for clueless derps to make money on even more clueless derps
☟︎ copypaste: i doubt they needed that much money just to make
a foot pedal
punkman: the foot pedal seems like
a nice touch on the Czur
copypaste: this Fujitsu product has been out
a year already, and since it's not
a KickStarter there's actually
a chance of getting what you ppaid for ;)
copypaste: I thought it had all the moving parts of
a pro one; automatic page turning and so on
phf: oh yeah, re lisp, i've not had
a chance to use it, but i'm pretty sure i have
a bunch of code that does (loop .. do (catch :foo ... (loop ... (throw :foo ...)))
ben_vulpes: it's an interesting gem demonstrating how the design of
a language determines how people think about solving problems in it.
ben_vulpes: looks like ad hoc implementation of common use cases with arbitrary language features to me, but i've also spent
a bit of time with the loop macro lately
phf: i think typical refactoring done elsewhere is to put the whole for loop into
a small function, replace break with return and then assume that any escape out of loop is an error
phf: it's
a pretty useful behavior
ben_vulpes: today i learned that one can else in
a for in python
mircea_popescu: imo conspiracy theorism is
a discrete pathology. now, that derps run off with it... sure, they run off with everything.
phf: perhaps to mount on
a wall, framed retro style?
mircea_popescu: pretty much.
a deeply seated, apparently deliberate but certainly defiant opposition to data integrity.
mircea_popescu: makes me think of the argentines
a lot. this very speciffic "wool pulled deeply over eyes" going through things.
mircea_popescu: he's the same sort of idiot who parks in the nuclear core twice, ~~~discovers~~~ "nothing happened" and announces there's
a conspiracy re nuclear cores to make proles believe they're bad for you when really NOTHNING HAPPENS
mircea_popescu: you know, the one red thread here is,
a certain mental pattern of the imbecile. "hearn spoke TO BANKS" says the idiot who, after asking two awkward hermit females and
a distant relative, gladly reports "i asked WOMEN".
ben_vulpes: funny, i was just having
a conversation with ladybird about how "teh h0rr0r" of the holocaust (mostly concentration camps) is the entirety of what americans are taught about wwii and hitler and de and politics of the time generally. another instance of "stealing the having been stolen from".
assbot: Logged on 10-11-2015 03:24:51; mircea_popescu: wtf is
a "lifetime isp ban"
mircea_popescu wonders at just how dumb black folks in the us gotta be. seriously,
a negligible minority being cast into this "infiltrated all levels of power!!!" role and they don't figure out what's next ? WAKE THE FUCK UP YO! THIS IS ~~~exactly~~~ WHAT HAPPENED OT THE JEWS, 1915-1935.
hanbot: mircea_popescu well at least those marriages could be dissolved with this guy's plan. walk her up to some chicks, "listen, i know this is weird, but this woman won't leave me alone. would you stay with me
a while so she'll maybe leave?"
mircea_popescu: megging is totally
a thing, i suspect half the marriages happen thrugh that method
pete_dushenski: and used his position of 'suggestor' to angle for
a free buck
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: the satoshi nobel thing is, yes, sort of
a gag in the sense that browntown has 'suggested' that satoshi be nominated, not ~actually~ nominated him