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pete_dushenski: ascii_field: you see that this would be
a largely, if not completely, personal assessment ?
davout: ascii_field: you do have
a fair level of control i'd say
pete_dushenski: that's
a different argument than 'all slaves are low class slaves'
pete_dushenski: no one's saying that there isn't
a fair degree of stability inter-class, rather intra-
assbot: Logged on 22-10-2015 16:54:16; ascii_field:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-10-2015#1305362 << nobody abolished slavery, ever. but
a few generations of ascendant industrial degenerates ~did~ find
a way to dispense with the parts they disliked - the ones where you have to actually care for your pets
davout: ascii_field: after reading
a bit about ancient rome i have to disagree
pete_dushenski: davout: lol commenter dood can't even imagine such
a thing !
ascii_field: how did pete_dushenski arrive at the notion that i was ~not~
a slave ?
assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 17:05:11; pete_dushenski: "To bad there isn’t such
a thing as intellectual rugby…I would gladly try to field
a team from people I have know, and let Pete do the same, and watch his eagle @ss get stomped into the ground before he could ever gain any altitude."
ascii_field: since pete_dushenski is awake, i suppose i ought to try to explain to him whatever it is that he doesn't seem to grasp re: my being
a slave.
pete_dushenski: "To bad there isn’t such
a thing as intellectual rugby…I would gladly try to field
a team from people I have know, and let Pete do the same, and watch his eagle @ss get stomped into the ground before he could ever gain any altitude."
☟︎☟︎ pete_dushenski: tiveness of their children, and any and every other thing that might qualify as
a button to press."
pete_dushenski: "And if Pete’s ego gets fueled by what he might consider success in waging his “social experiments” amongst your other followers, I would expect that, like bad money driving out good, too much Pete D will result in
a decline in participation by others who manage to take different viewpoints, and disagree, while not finding it necessary to insult each other, people’s countries, their religions, the attrac
pete_dushenski: "Pete seems to think that by attacking any and everything that many people hold dear, he is showing himself
a free thinker who is exposing hypocrisy. But I think jz78817 provides
a much clearer and simpler explanation of the behavior: total @ss-holeness, used as
a defense mechanism for
a total inability to get along with most, if not all, people."
pete_dushenski: and in further 'let's all get along mkay'/'#b-
a attitude is mean' news, some more lulzy comments in my direction from that (not so) random car blog :
davout: #b-
a is getting all corporate and shit I guess
pete_dushenski: 'if
a market isn't fair and equally distributive for all participants, it's not
a market'
davout: "In my humble opinion: these bots create
a false market. They represent institutional greed offering no substantial increase in value per point nor do they offer any noticeable increase in liquidity. I also believe that they will chase your average human customers away, who like us, were trying to get the best price we could while at least trying to offer
a better market"
☟︎ davout: so today, i had
a customer complain by e-mail that he had trouble getting in front of everyone in the order book, and that it was
a bad experience
ascii_field: (supposing that you're not
a mexican peasant who can harness them to the plough when they're six y.o.)
phf: vulpes_a_hopital: edi weitz's code only recently got its own github repos when others took over the maintenance (mostly to ensure that it can be packaged into quicklisp). but
a canonical place for cl-ppcre (and
a handful of other lisp packages for doing "modern" programming) is
http://weitz.de/lisp.html vulpes_a_hopital: davout: learning to play that software is
a pretty long journey
davout: vulpes_a_hopital: lol nice, the cheatsheet is like 4 pages long !1
assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 09:39:35; mircea_popescu: i got
a perfectly fine thinkpad, asciilifeform doesn't think much of it as
a... what's he call it, "workstation girlfriend" ?
assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 09:30:47; davout: mircea_popescu: yeah well, basically, the intuitive understanding i reached, is that unless your computer is behaving like
a dumb calculator, something is wrong
assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 09:30:04; mircea_popescu:
A LOT more research is needed before the cult will be happy with the cult's own understanding of what RNG even fucking means (ie, stands for) in
a computing environment.
assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 07:47:18; mircea_popescu: "0. The diagnosis will make the parents want to try and help the child. This is axiomatic. No parent with access to services will be told their kid has
a diagnosis of "PDD" or Asperger's and say, "not interested, let's wait
a few years and see how this goes." Once
a diagnosis is made, the psychiatric juggernaut is activated. " << no MOTHER.
assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 04:14:23; BingoBoingo: "The first reason was that woman's abdominal body fat decreased their own sexual desire on
a hormonal level, which would hamper libido. The second reason could be that men simply found slimmer women more attractive and thus had fewer problems in the bedroom."
assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 03:35:30; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the reason this putative is seemingly without answer is because it is castrated. what tlp would do if he realised what's wrong with his head depends on WHY HE REALISED. what would the pubescent girl do if she matured ? nothing the pubescent girl can do BECAUSE maturation is DRIVEN by the VERY DEED! once she finds
a boy she loves she will both be
a woman and know what to do ; once tlp AC
mircea_popescu: globalization's
a thing. market competition is
a thing. there will be always
a dominant type of anything.
mircea_popescu: "most hot chicks, in order to be hot, copy something
a celebrity wears; remember the Rachel-do? No problem, they look hot in it; but their delusion is that they are referencing Jennifer Aniston and not the millions of other women with the exact same haircut, i.e. that they draw their identity only from the celebrity's identity-- "This look really says me!" Yet sit along the wall of the bar and the conclusion is inevi
mircea_popescu: anyway, all this aside : digging out the whole rng story is
a huge hot core of useful, important inquiry.
mircea_popescu: (also, the RNG content of
a computer is not strictly found in
a box labeled such).
mircea_popescu: b) is obviously "
a girlfriend that's also god". of course.
mircea_popescu: but the more interesting question is twinfold :
a) why would you not think of
a calculator as the omega of computing and b) what would be the omega of computing then ?
davout: i'm not saying that being
a calculator should be the alpha and omega of computing, just that for crypto purposes it's probably better to not think of
a RNG as something acceptable
mircea_popescu: i got
a perfectly fine thinkpad, asciilifeform doesn't think much of it as
a... what's he call it, "workstation girlfriend" ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: you are NOT content with it being
a simple calculator. it gotta wear fucking heels and lipstick for you.
mircea_popescu: calling
a computer "
a box" is perhaps the most telling of all freudian seepage ever.
☟︎ davout: in the sense that, if you depend on it for 'generating' random numbers, as opposed to simply behaving like
a strictly deterministic machine, you're fuxxored
davout: mircea_popescu: yeah well, basically, the intuitive understanding i reached, is that unless your computer is behaving like
a dumb calculator, something is wrong
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
A LOT more research is needed before the cult will be happy with the cult's own understanding of what RNG even fucking means (ie, stands for) in
a computing environment.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 08-12-2014 23:27:03; punkman: from linked paper: "The analysis is very disturbing: it appears that the bitcoin core client has NOT yet finalized the process of several security upgrades which propose
a solution to this problem (deterministic random generation) event though
a first solution was already submitted in January 2013"
davout: anyway, i had
a look around yesterday about deterministic signatures, and didn't find anything regarding the official cult position
davout: i did get demoted by theymos from my mod position for basically calling him
a derp. i think that counts!11
davout: well, i do have
a june something 2011 video going around where i, i essence, tell karupuresu he has no fucking clue how to run an exchange :D
mircea_popescu: while there's nothing wrong with
a 20yo playing with
a dollhouse in her hoisiery, there IS something very very wrong with
a 20yo that actually thinks of dolls as if they were people. or that "animals have rights too!", which is exactly
a proxy for that.
mircea_popescu: they CAN. and they should. the reason they don't has
a lot to do with that peerless question of "what would tlp do if he individuated".
mircea_popescu: "Ponder that flippant run-on sentence for its hidden truth. Who judges whom? What are the criteria for becoming
a judge? It's not popularity; nor the sophistication of the staff and writers; or the insight of
a director. In the hierarchy of authenticity and truth, which one is at the top? Why can Variety call someone "internet obsessed" but no one can call Variety
a "comic book" which, as I am about to show, it is
mircea_popescu: "There is something presumptuous, not to mention deluded, about
a print magazine that no one reads claiming that
a movie no one will see is
a peerless window into something anyone can access anytime they want."
mircea_popescu: (which is code for, you publicly humiliate them. that's the worst that can happen to
a wanna-be journo. and in 2015 there exists nothing other than wanna-be in that biz.)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: rsons. they might write IN the washington post, but for as long as they write ABOUT you they write FOR you. so they can write whatever they want, but they do NOT get to write "upscale neighbourhood", or, as tlp's apt example goes "If they profiled me it woudl start, "Wearing
a disheveled undershirt clutching
a rock..." and leave it to you to make an objective assessment (="drunkard, likely unbalanced.")".
mircea_popescu: this is, incidentally,
a fundamental point to be considered for those inclined to interact with the scum (aka, non-qntra reporters),
a point which that seduction expert (i don't recall which one but was in the logs - something about how he went on
a "live" show where the 5 dollar audience bood him on cue) : you do want to control their codes. because you must project your own ownership of reality, and of their sorry pe
☟︎ mircea_popescu: " They don't give his age, they give
a physical description. Media-- and The New Yorker is probably the wost offender of this-- offers
a physical description of their subject as
a code about their character in exactly the way the media would never allow
a regular person to do." <<< right, because it's not about anythihng but trying to misrepresent themselves as powerful. the only reason random derp can't say "nigger"
mircea_popescu: so very damaging, the themes of female submission. to otherwise unemployable, wasted-life-is-only-
a-matter-of-time 13yo girls trapped in 25something female bodies.
mircea_popescu: "hool teacher to determine the curriculum's rigor. But the samples also tell something about the readers. "I had one essay that said how awful Twilight was"--the essay was about damaging themes of female submissiveness in the series--"and I was like, 'Admit her!' " says Melissa Faulner,
a 2006 grad on the committee."
mircea_popescu: And some are, I guess, there's got to be an Admissions Dean in the building somewhere. But the average applicant is writing an essay that he thinks an adult with
a suit and three kids would want to read. Instead, it's probably being read by someone who can't wait for the new iphone and still bites their nails. Ten grand says they think Jon Stewart is "
a freakin' political genius.""
mircea_popescu: "0. The diagnosis will make the parents want to try and help the child. This is axiomatic. No parent with access to services will be told their kid has
a diagnosis of "PDD" or Asperger's and say, "not interested, let's wait
a few years and see how this goes." Once
a diagnosis is made, the psychiatric juggernaut is activated. " << no MOTHER.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but EXACTLY. minus, of course, the violence, the act of will.
a negotiated, agreed upon, "by the power" deal.
mircea_popescu: Where have you ever heard the words, "by the power vested in me?" That's right, it's
a domestic partnership,
a marriage of sorts, and rather than try and un-pc figure out which one's the girl and which one's the boy simply observe that person B finds actualization by completely subsuming his own identity into the business of person
A, who in turn gets the leisure time to pursue other interests (like drumming.) That,
pete_dushenski: in other nyooz, "The police department in Anderson, north of Sacramento, announced this week that it plans to equip and train its force of 20 officers with the weapon, also called nunchuks, as
a new means to detain uncooperative suspects while “limiting injuries”."
mircea_popescu: vulpes_a_hopital do you have ANY IDEA what's involved in rendering html ?
BingoBoingo: <vulpes_a_hopital> and perhaps
a link to "so you want to start
a bitcoin business" there at the end << It is at the start
vulpes_a_hopital: and perhaps
a link to "so you want to start
a bitcoin business" there at the end
vulpes_a_hopital: this brings up such sweet memories of wandering along the remodeled docks talking to davout about how great of
a business paymium was