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BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> here's a bit of truth for one bb : "Note that when scienticians talk about, say, the increase in alcoholism, they never go back before WWII, otherwise they'd have to label most ancient Greeks, all Vikings and everyone in colonial America as alcoholics. "Well," they'll explain, "it wasn't until then we started rigorously treating people as data points." " << Or the society is broken as illustrated by the differing

asciilifeform: i remember, as a schoolboy, wanting very few things more than to own a 'proper unix workstation'

asciilifeform: or, even moar so, https://h-a.d-cd.net/cb0661u-960.jpg

mircea_popescu: looks a little like a pickle jar.

asciilifeform: thing even had a separate port for 3g glasses.

asciilifeform: mips cpu, and crossbar switch (yes!) instead of a bus.

phf: sgi had the best implementation of x window system. i briefly had an o2, hand me down from a retrocomputing enthusiast

mircea_popescu: in any case : an effectual immune response keeps this particular virus well contained. its efficiency is predicated on a well functioning liver because of peculiar synthesis pathways that are narrow and easily stress that i don't recall extemporaneously.

mircea_popescu: i don't have a source in that sense. you can quote me as an expert.

ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: except pretty much everyone can be made to develop mouth herpes by stressing the liver in a particular manner

asciilifeform: ... as a thin veil for usg's 'strategic supercomputing' pig trough

asciilifeform: today it is a necromantic husk of its former self, like sgi.

asciilifeform: 'Defense attorneys, for example, had previously said they might seek to point the finger at another suspect — Nancy Dunning’s late husband, former Alexandria sheriff James Dunning, who had a tumultuous relationship with his wife. Perhaps laying the groundwork in the case, Severance’s parents and sister disputed Wednesday that Severance was the man caught on surveillance video possibly following Nancy Dunning at a Target

asciilifeform: it is difficult to count a virus in the proper sense.

asciilifeform: 'Severance’s mother said her son flew a skull-and-crossbones flag at the family home, developed an interest in crystals and once took money that his family thought he was spending on college tuition and invested it in Chrysler.'

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: a good 80% of adults in usa, iirc, have the antibody.

assbot: Logged on 18-06-2015 14:04:54; mircea_popescu: except pretty much everyone can be made to develop mouth herpes by stressing the liver in a particular manner

mircea_popescu: here's a bit of truth for one bb : "Note that when scienticians talk about, say, the increase in alcoholism, they never go back before WWII, otherwise they'd have to label most ancient Greeks, all Vikings and everyone in colonial America as alcoholics. "Well," they'll explain, "it wasn't until then we started rigorously treating people as data points." "

asciilifeform once owned a massive 'tempest'-shielded pa-risc monstrosity

asciilifeform: sun was a legit thing for a spell

mircea_popescu: (it's a testament to the idiocy of america : you can FORCE them into liking anything.)

asciilifeform: everything in an apple product that actually fuking WORKS, silently, tirelessly, without fail, without generating 'work' for armies of vermin - was written by folks who never dreamed that it would end up in a commercial unix

ben_vulpes: change at all to the labor-intensiveness, but the labor was more "fun" for a

mircea_popescu: we now know enough - through our own work of digging and torture-extracted confessions, no less - to estimate that a large if not the largest pillar of the insanity was rms&co misguided quest to protect "but people want to read the code".

asciilifeform: we are dealing with a very basic mathematical issue

mircea_popescu: romney should have run on a platform of "there may be only one compiler and one namespace per generation and whoever breaks it we'll sell to ethiopian slavers"

asciilifeform: but also because 'why not have diff output a sexpr?' 'ewwwww parens omfg!1111111'

mircea_popescu: at McDonalds and the system gets another data point confirming it is right. I hope the parallel between this and anything written by Solzhenitsyn is immediately obvious, if not, read anything by Solzhenitsyn. The Matrix doesn't need you, but it will offer you a free pass if you help get the other batteries in line."

mircea_popescu: ng to do with addiction. The reinforcement is from the outside to comply with this idiocy: say you party down one weekend, then a random drug test at work, oops! So two things can happen, Guess What Happens Next: you could tell the truth that the coke was on her ass and how could you not? doesn't make you a bad person; or pretend/admit you're an addict and agree to go to rehab. So it's unanimous? You keep your job

asciilifeform: which is that the shrinkage of design space led us into a place where often one MUST use a regexp or a similarly braindamaged thing

assbot: Re: Is there a useful distinction between "programming" and "scripting" languages? - Naggum cll archive ... ( http://bit.ly/1GIL95Y )

asciilifeform: 'Defense lawyers for Charles Severance, 54, of Ashburn, had asked the judge to bar prosecutors from using the writing as evidence out of concern that his inflammatory message would unfairly rile up a jury against him.'

asciilifeform: 'In another passage he writes, “I’ve been nudging and trolling for over a decade and nobody has noticed. Violence wins. Assassinate because it is in the best interest of the child.”'

mircea_popescu: a ok this isn't his

mircea_popescu: a

asciilifeform: jury was either a) not told this b) knew but was Officially ordered to disregard ?

asciilifeform: 'Lord [prosecutor] also said he believed that Severance did not leave forensic evidence at the scene of any of the killings because he wore gloves. He pointed out that ballistics experts said it was exceedingly rare for a killing to be carried out with the type of .22-caliber ammunition used in each case and added that Severance displayed guilty behavior by fleeing to the Russian Embassy in the District after police initially

asciilifeform: '...ran for mayor and Congress. He sometimes wore a tricorn hat, was known for ranting in public and once threw a punch at the organizer of a mayoral debate.'

asciilifeform: 'A former Virginia political candidate was convicted on Monday of three murders over an 11-year span that fed fears of a serial killer in the U.S. capital area.'

asciilifeform: 'a prosecutor told a jury Wednesday. The killings, carried out over roughly a decade, were nothing short of “political assassinations.” “Introduce murder into a safe and secure neighborhood,” Alexandria Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney David Lord quoted from Severance’s writings.'

asciilifeform: somewhere a kryuchkov is nervously fondling his luger

mircea_popescu: get with the program, there's no prizes for being the last traitor of a dying state.

asciilifeform: earlier, 'The case against Charles Severance, who turned 55 last month in the Fairfax County jail, is a circumstantial one, predicated largely on Severance’s voluminous writings and ballistics evidence that isn’t as conclusive as prosecutors might like.'

asciilifeform: 'An eccentric history buff was found guilty Monday of killing three prominent Alexandria residents over the course of a decade..... Prosecutors said he was motivated by bitterness over a child custody battle that he lost and a general hatred of Alexandria’s elite..'

assbot: Logged on 03-11-2015 01:10:03; shinohai: 6.02214179 × 10^23 in teh Vatican: http://www.nola.com/religion/index.ssf/2015/11/a_mole_in_the_vatican_2_arrest.html

asciilifeform: i suspect a stray 8th bit somewhere

mircea_popescu: in other news : http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/images/harvard%20cheating%20exam.jpg no fucking wonder they're so inept. THIS is what they do. roughly the equivalent of a stargazing army staff.

mircea_popescu: One entangles the nephew of one of the most important and powerful Black Nationalist political figures of the 20th Century, Jomo Kenyatta, and the other entangles a key tribal rival to Kenyatta in love child triangles just at the moment of the critical end to a long bloody struggle for Kenyan independence from white colonial rule."

mircea_popescu: After graduating from Libertyville High School, Tom Morello was the first student in Libertyville’s history to be admitted to Harvard University. Yet when he graduated with a degree in political science, Tom Morello asserts that he was “unemployable.” He then turned up in Hollywood as an exotic male stripper.

mircea_popescu: obi, Kenya. Mary Morello had travelled to Kenya as well as Germany, Spain, Japan under a clandestine veil as an English language teacher between 1957 and 1963.

mircea_popescu: "Tom Morello was born on May 30, 1964, in Harlem, New York to Ngethe Njoroge and Mary Morello. Njoroge was Kikuyu Kenyan and a Mau Mau guerrilla. Jomo Kenyatta, the revolutionary leader of the Mau Mau, was his uncle. Njoroge served as liberated Kenya’s first ambassador to the U.N. In August 1963, Njoroge and Mary met at a pro democracy protest in Nairobi, Kenya. In November 1963 after discovering her pregnancy, Mary

mod6: ok i've resolved that issue asciilifeform, I'll test on it for a few days and probably post a new version this coming weekend.

assbot: A mole in the Vatican? 2 accused of leaking documents | NOLA.com ... ( http://bit.ly/1Sk7WWO )

shinohai: 6.02214179 × 10^23 in teh Vatican: http://www.nola.com/religion/index.ssf/2015/11/a_mole_in_the_vatican_2_arrest.html ☟︎

mod6: <shinohai> Arch 64 is a go << cool! thanks for testing.

ag3nt_zer0: oh ok... couldnt see the nickname list for a sec

asciilifeform: i'd like to get it to a point where it builds without any blood sacrifices on all vaguely-posixy machines

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shinohai: ;;later tell mod6 Arch 64 is a go

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asciilifeform: and there is a buncha rubbish/deadcode that needs to go, as well

mircea_popescu: this apparently HAS GOT TO be a lot more complexicated than "well... he never said "take your clothes off and mount her" to any woman"

assbot: The Last Psychiatrist: Amy Schumer Offers You A Look Into Your Soul ... ( http://bit.ly/1LMP8Nu )

mircea_popescu: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/06/amy_schumer_offers_you_a_look.html << tlp goes to great lengths to justify to himself the fact that even though he'd love to, he doesn't get to fuck two women while they're sucking each other off.

ascii_field: have to go find a real computer, yes

thestringpuller: TLP is awesome, but does anyone else find the google ads a bit obnoxious?

assbot: Logged on 02-11-2015 22:31:14; mircea_popescu: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/06/amy_schumer_offers_you_a_look.html <<< where we find where alf got the idea for the vertical monitor

assbot: The Last Psychiatrist: Amy Schumer Offers You A Look Into Your Soul ... ( http://bit.ly/1LMP8Nu )

mircea_popescu: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/06/amy_schumer_offers_you_a_look.html <<< where we find where alf got the idea for the vertical monitor ☟︎

mircea_popescu: feminism and Reaganomics, which is a sentence you will never read anywhere else."

mircea_popescu: "In America, everything is a commodity, everything has a price. So when post-gold standard capitalism gets access to everything except the secret desires of women, it will necessarily create a mechanism to get them, too, i.e. some media to take the bullet as pervert so women can be free to talk in exchange for men quietly listening in. It took a decade but the system worked: Howard Stern was the inevitable synthesis of

btcdrak: "I think it's clear now that actually getting Bitcoin to the fabled seven transactions per second will be a lot of hard work, unless someone comes up with a new SatoshiDice like business model that results in huge demand for transactions. If things continue on their present path, scalability is really the least of our concerns - increasing usage is."

assbot: The Last Psychiatrist: 5 Signs Your Child Is a Psychopath, According To The NYT ... ( http://bit.ly/1KUUW3w )

mircea_popescu: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2012/05/5_signs_your_child_is_a_psycho.html

btcdrak: read the last paragraph of mike's reply a year ago https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2jhzxq/linus_regrets_how_insults_damaged_the_linux/clbz87r

assbot: "You're the guy who wasn't good enough to sling dope." on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1KURshq )

BingoBoingo: A lot of those.

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo she was brought to me as an offering, she is now a stock character for 1970s/1980s born too ugly to be a slut too lazy to cheerlead i know i wanna-be a writer i-m-going-to-new-york to be discovered if it worked for horseface whatshername why not me!"

BingoBoingo: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-11-2015#1313926 << A lot of 'Muricans develop an aversion to a certain kind of comedian who does the exagerated voice thing. Prolly blame Pualy Shore et al. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: "Also, who gives a shit about what you buy? Everyone buys all the same things all the time; that's why those items are always stocked. You're not special. Nobody cares."

mircea_popescu: hopefully she leaves him money, it's a lot better when the cuck also "owns" the place

mircea_popescu: so she's raising a future cuckold, good for her.

mircea_popescu: https://twitter.com/msjamielynne << remarkably, chick is still there a few years later doing the exact same thing.

thestringpuller: interestingly, the goths burned down a hot topic to get rid of the teeny boppers in south park, but 3 more popped up.

ascii_field: maxima has a matlabesque infix syntax iirc

ben_vulpes: well what is an expert system but a tidy formalization of bizlawgic?

mircea_popescu: it.is.always.going.to.be.a.mans.world.

mircea_popescu: n't shake it. It's still a man's world.

mircea_popescu: "Deconstuctionists like to ask easy questions like, "why is a story for 15 year old girls so popular among middle aged women?" They asked this about Twilight, too, but it's not at all surprising that these books are popular among middle aged women who still secretly believe women are second behind men. Not in terms of theoretical potential, perhaps, but they've grown up in a world with enough experiences that they ca

ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: confederated tribes of grande rhonde is a convenient political box for a myriad of small tribes along the length of the willamette and parts of the columbia.

ben_vulpes: of course it will. she was just flailing in the presence of apparently the first rigid cock she'd seen in a decade.

assbot: Logged on 02-11-2015 18:09:14; thestringpuller: i also asked him what a kolhoz, and he looked at me funny and said, "Those haven't existed in a long time. Although we are probably in one right now."

mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes not that i imagine i can keep up with the vulpes, but - i ok'd remodelling of a bathroom. in wax.

mircea_popescu: and yes it's a pity idiots don't know greek. how about penelope, not enough agency ?

mircea_popescu: and psyche is supposed to be a fucking object. that is THE POINT of that particular story (fuck you myth legend bs words you don't even comprehend. story is good enough for pedestrians).

mircea_popescu: in other news, "There are, in fact, fairy tales about women with agency, and your article would have been even stronger if you knew them (but it's understandable that you don't). "The Girl Without Hands" for one, and a fairy tale retelling of the Psyche and Eros legend, "East of the Sun and West of the Moon". (The retelling is better than the Greek legend, where Psyche is deus ex machina'd at the end. She does at least

ben_vulpes: entrance fee to casita vulpes has evolved into "hot meal, diapers, and a bottle of moet"

ascii_field: from a metre or so up

kakobrekla: or get a decent chair?

ascii_field: (typical failure mode of a chinese office chair - converts to stake.)