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phf: ben_vulpes: i don't think fmt is
a horrible idea, but it (and similar packages like iterate) would've been great if they were part of the standard. as it stands they get you some elegance at the expense of being an idiosyncratic external dependency. you still have to learn format and loop, but once you do, you start thinking twice about replacing them with something marginally better.
mircea_popescu: you knew who else grew (for whatever reason) with
a complete atrophy of the part of the brain that does "that math-y stuff"
mircea_popescu: the actual life of the mind as
a thing is of the mind, not of
a butchered brain.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, you musta been readoing
a different www, half of mine's with and about whores, criminals and the insane.
assbot: Logged on 27-10-2015 17:04:31; mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-10-2015#1308923 << the problem with this approach is that you also don't agree with the theory that the deer is less than the fox. fine, don't agree : the fox eats the deer nevertheless. your options are either
a) to not share an environment, in which case your failures are not fit-reducing or b) to grow uniformly.
mircea_popescu: there exists in this world
a woman whose actual experience of
a first date with me includes this part where she was taken to
a dark alley in
a completely new town, made to strip and well... no, rape didn't ensue. she jsut got
a crack on the butt.
assbot: Logged on 27-10-2015 16:09:38; asciilifeform: i don't subscribe to the cosmography where the hoodlum is 'the better' and the concert violinist walking through the alley is '
a loser' because... because why, he oughtn't have such
a soft skull? if he 'were anybody' he could afford
a security detail? because why ?
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-10-2015#1308923 << the problem with this approach is that you also don't agree with the theory that the deer is less than the fox. fine, don't agree : the fox eats the deer nevertheless. your options are either
a) to not share an environment, in which case your failures are not fit-reducing or b) to grow uniformly.
☝︎☟︎ assbot: Logged on 27-10-2015 16:08:40; asciilifeform: just like
a hoodlum who gets the drop on you in
a dark alley, cracking your skull with
a lead pipe, is not 'your better' on account of it
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-10-2015#1308922 << there's
a problem here. of the original set of hoodlums, meyer lansky actually survived, to die in the 80s in florida like any serious jew from beyond the pale. most memorable about him is the anecdote that when about 9 was trying to run
a numbers racket with some friends, and when the older boys tried to muscle in, as older boys are supposed to, he demured. "yo
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 27-10-2015 16:05:39; asciilifeform: i was sad, as
a boy, reading about how lavoisier, father of modern chemistry, met the guillotine
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=27-10-2015#1308917 << dude. "de" lavoisier was exactly the opposite of aristocracy, more in the vein of donald trump. he inherited the fortune of
a ferme generale entrepreneur (tax scam the french copied from the romans - guaranteed to make one crassus-rich. sort of at-the-time equivalent of "real estate development") and married the scion of the same.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: "The physical chip was designed by Mykotronx (USA) and manufactured by VLSI Technology Inc. (USA). The initial cost for an unprogrammed chip was $16 and
a programmed one costed $26."
mats: I'm not sure you see how tiresome it is to rehash the discussion as follows -- 'gtfo off leaky ship already', 'am in middle of atlantic', 'so swim to island (without provisions)', 'then get on
a ship without holes', 'there are none on horizon', 'getting on that ship in the first place is
a problem of
a logical class', 'yes, but... am here'
mircea_popescu: understand : the question of what is specifically HUMAN dna is very much open. we share
a lot with other living things, and the thingsd we don't we don't all exhibit. point in case being the bullshit pseudoscience "he must have raped her because so and so substance only exists in male sperm" to be then found sure it exists in female sperm-equivalent, no problem.
assbot: Logged on 27-10-2015 15:31:19; asciilifeform: this keeps in perfect fitting with the 'computing industry'-as-
a-protection racket business model of the last 20+ yrs, where it 'solves' exclusively those problems which it, itself, creates.
assbot: Logged on 27-10-2015 13:19:00; punkman: "I trained to become
a wealth manager. That initial part of my study took two years, many thousands of dollars, and hundreds of thousands of miles of travel. Although I never practiced as
a wealth manager"
funkenstein_: i suppose part of the problem is people saying "oh it doesn't matter I can just take that with
a battery into
a copper box and walk out with punch cards" ?
punkman: "I trained to become
a wealth manager. That initial part of my study took two years, many thousands of dollars, and hundreds of thousands of miles of travel. Although I never practiced as
a wealth manager"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "I'd also like to address my family, if you can call them that. I despise everything they stand for and I truly hate them, in
a non-emotional, dispassionate and what I believe is
a healthy way. The world will be
a better place when they're dead--one with less hatred and intolerance." << above quoted guy's son, in his suicide note.
mircea_popescu: (with sex, unlike money, sympathetic magic works. can for instance fuck
a girl's friends to fuck her.)
mircea_popescu: meanwhile
a guy that's ashamed of going to football practice / army bootcamp / school in the buff is... not really
a man.
mircea_popescu: the reason we insist females be "bashful" ie, ashamed to desnude in public is that an overactive shame IMPLIES
a weak personality
mircea_popescu: "Shame will never be enough-- when your identity is "strong" enough nothing shames you, not
a sex tape or
a prison term, you'll take that scarlet letter and put it on
a tight tank top and wear it ironically, not to mention hotly." << he happens to be exactly rtight, by the way.
mircea_popescu: no, no matter how "accepted" your vernacular gets, it will NEVER supersede Latin. because it's not
a "consumers have come to expect" thing. nothing is.
mircea_popescu: they are also the sigh of
a disavowal, the manifestation of how we desipse the ruminants.
mircea_popescu: they are the sign of
a commitment, that is very much alligned with what v is, and with why we have the bitcoind we have, and the foundation we have, and everything else.
deedbot-: [Trilema] That unpleasant moment when "principles" you were supporting ~strictly~ because "of the principle of the thing" and pointedly not because of the convenient manner in which they worked upon
a restricted set of circumstances decide to move on to another set of circumstances and work consistently but against your (inconsistent) preference. The only thing to do is look away. -
http://trilema.com/2015/that- pete_dushenski: "I never pushed anyone into
a locker in my life, but pompous assholes like yourself make me wish we had gone to HS together."
pete_dushenski: "I would not be surprised to find out that you work as
a plant security guard for just above minimum wage, on
a night shift, where you use your time reading to try to be able to impress others with your intelligence, or that you live in
a basement apartment, or drive
a 2o year old junker."
pete_dushenski: "the point is Latin hasn’t been in common use for
a long time outside of the Holy See. using
a Latin phrase for which there is an exact equivalent English term is little more than the intellectual way to talk down to someone."
pete_dushenski:
a couple comments on jack baruth's site lit off quite the vitriolic firestorm.
pete_dushenski: also from the contravex comments section : "Must be hard to pretend to be so smart when all you have is
a firm grasp of language."
assbot: The reason fathers hope for sons is because they’re too dumb to handle daughters. | Contravex:
A blog by Pete Dushenski ... (
http://bit.ly/1GF6ltd )
mircea_popescu: "That unpleasant moment when "principles" you were supporting ~strictly~ because "of the principle of the thing" and pointedly not because of the convenient manner in which they worked upon
a restricted set of circumstances decide to move on to another set of circumstances and work consistently but against your (inconsistent) preference. The only thing to do is look away."
pete_dushenski: "The world’s most powerful two-phase immersion cooling (2PIC) project, which will be deployed in
a 40+ MW data center being constructed by BitFury Group, is currently underway in the Republic of Georgia."
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> da fuck is
a pomo << Post Modern
pete_dushenski: disillusioned with the hopes of 'representative democracy' and disinterested in reforming
a system quite obviously beyond repair, they take matters into their own hands.
pete_dushenski: "In the day of Eric Harris, we could try to console ourselves with the thought that there was nothing we could do, that no law or intervention or restrictions on guns could make
a difference in the face of someone so evil. But the riot has now engulfed the boys who were once content to play with chemistry sets in the basement. The problem is not that there is an endless supply of deeply disturbed young men who
mircea_popescu: David Epstein, HuffPo-Mo blogger and Columbia professor of Applied Po-Mo allegedly had
a sexual relationship with his 24 year old daughter. "
mircea_popescu: "I don't expect journalists or anyone else to be free of moral ambiguity, but it should be
a postulate that if you choose to write those words you should not also be having sex with your daughter. Allegedly.
pete_dushenski: take the 'conclusions' with
a grain of salt. well, probably the graphs too.