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pete_dushenski: "I understood that a career spent in a careerist organization has the effect of undermining character and training/selecting for poor moral courage, and that nobody in the US military with the rank and position to plan and launch a coup had the courage to do so successfully."
pete_dushenski: i still keep reading him. but he really ought to show up here. i'll have to invite him around one of these days.
pete_dushenski: i left him a comment trying to wipe the shit from his eyes but i dun think it was particularly effective
pete_dushenski: been following that spandrell character that decimation put the chan onto a few weeks back and i have to say that i enjoy and appreciate his historical research and perspective, but it's a shame how badly the kid still cowers in fear of his own shadow ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 20-06-2015 13:32:44; mircea_popescu: so im binge-reading trilema and shit i love myself.
mircea_popescu: the minds are scarcely the problem. which is part of why i credit so little the entire "iq" verbiage. if iq were the determining factor in anything we'd be living on the moon already.
mircea_popescu: "Unfortunately at the time of writing I am in a great hurry and some of my best thoughts, actually many of them have been to be left out and lost forever. But I believe enough great White minds are out there already."
danielpbarron: i guess there were two shootings recently; the church one is all over the news and apparently the police station guy isn't
mircea_popescu: "I will say this though, I myself would have rather lived in 1940's American than Nazi Germany, and no this is not ignorance speaking, it is just my opinion." << holy shit, by the time a guy with serious respect for opinions as a mental construct and a preference for historical us over nazi germany goes shooting up the police station you know the sops problem hath come full circle.
mircea_popescu: "I think that if we could somehow destroy the jewish identity, then they wouldnt cause much of a problem." bwahaha dude...
mircea_popescu: The event that truly awakened me was the Trayvon Martin case. I kept hearing and seeing his name, and eventually I decided to look him up. I read the Wikipedia article and right away I was unable to understand what the big deal was. It was obvious that Zimmerman was in the right. But more importantly this prompted me to type in the words �black on White crime� into Google, and I have never been the same since that
danielpbarron: > I dont pretend to understand why jews do what they do. They are enigma.
mircea_popescu: so im binge-reading trilema and shit i love myself. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: all i can see is
mircea_popescu: i have no fucking clue how greenspun keeps from going on a shooting rampage, living with these idiots. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: "[How is it possible for an adult American to need to spend full-time maintaining a 20-year-old house? I got some insight into this the other day. << holy shit the us has turned into 80s romania.
mircea_popescu: "Q5: What if I can't get physically close enough to the target computer?
mats: no i think indiancandy is funny
indiancandy1: i watched her documentry
indiancandy1: i got sleepin issues
indiancandy1: i duno
mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 i fucked plenty of them, dun worry.
indiancandy1: producer is the finance i belive
mircea_popescu: memory is getting hazy after all the years, but i dun think i actually directed anything
mircea_popescu: well so then that's why i didn't tell you, because i told them. i can't do everything myself.
indiancandy1: i was like no way
indiancandy1: i was in here
mircea_popescu: i was a producer/backer.
mircea_popescu: decimation i have nfi.
asciilifeform: phun phakt: 'scheme' programming language has its 'call-with-current-continuation', perhaps the oddest and 'most generic' control structure known, which takes the current place in execution and turns it into an assignable (yes) closure (i.e. callable function!) -- typically it is implemented using setjmp(). ☟︎
decimation: I assume he meant .50x99mm
decimation: I have a friend who has one, they are fairly common among shooting enthusiasts
asciilifeform: if anyone recalls, a while ago i posted photos from my town's police expo. they had just such a rifle, and introduced it as 'for cars'
decimation: I doubt a .50 action express has enough power to penetrate armor
mircea_popescu: i dun wanna hear any more bitching about that gun
decimation: "I cannot quote chapter and verse, but Larry Rosler, who was chairman of the language subcommittee (I think), has assured me that X3J11 considered it carefully and decided that it was legal."
mircea_popescu: i dunno.
mircea_popescu: and i bet you for any bayesian filter you can come up with someone can find a circumventer
decimation: I guess if it compiles and produces machine code, machine will execute
mircea_popescu: actually i appreciate now why you mentioned it
assbot: Logged on 19-06-2015 23:08:30; kakobrekla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-06-2015#1168375 < actually sennheiser is meh. here i have a 20$ headphones that beat the shit out of 200 and 350$ sennheisers.
decimation: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-06-2015#1169188 < yeah sennheiser has gone down in quality over the past few years too, they have to try to milk the idiot-herd too I guess ☝︎
mircea_popescu: "It amazes me that after 10 years of writing C there are still little corners that I haven't explored fully. "
asciilifeform: duff's device is ~3 wks older than i am.
asciilifeform: for instance, i've met folks who 'i know c' but cannot tell me how 'duff's device' works
mircea_popescu: honestly i never saw someoine who could code call themselves "code literate in x". sounds more like something i'd say.
Adlai: i'm code literate in java << they've really been lowering the bar eh
mircea_popescu: best pray ~i~ don't identify you as lobster/
trinque: I identify as lobster; this is offensive.
mats: i think ill have a lobster roll this weekend
mircea_popescu: i dunno, just, what i orderer
mircea_popescu: i had... the sushi :D
cazalla: mats, i love thai food.. i have a kaffir lime just for this alone
mircea_popescu: i have no doubt it's food, ie, a product of human industry.
mircea_popescu: well i never ate anything in china, that's for sure.
mats: anyway not really a productive discussion, i don't enjoy thai food but i recognize it takes skill
cazalla: that also doesn't really fit with yum cha and the one i ate at was full of chinese so you'd think it was the good one
mircea_popescu: for instance - i never ate chinese food in places not owned and operated by chinese people.
mircea_popescu: mats how could i evaluate this ?
mircea_popescu: the entire "consensus" bullshit collapsed because i said back in january exactly what the plan is.
assbot: Logged on 19-06-2015 10:54:47; wyrdmantis: I was asked if there is a "defense" plan to "isolate" the Bitcoin XT nodes or something similar. I thought this is a non-issue for you guys...
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-06-2015#1168568 << i can always tell, because of the tell-tale "metallic" aftertaste a half hour to an hour later, coming from all the exhausted overfired neurons. ☝︎
cazalla: agreed, but i didn't want to offend him so i did not mention this heh
mircea_popescu: in truth i don't care much about most chinese cuisine either, but not because it'd be bland. because they can't cook. some stuff is actually excellent, but plenty of stuff is "hey, let's throw everything in the kitchen in the same pot. vinegar, oil, sugar, what the hell."
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-06-2015#1168563 << i absolutely despise tofu. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-06-2015#1168522 << i've had bear. ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 19-06-2015 08:06:30; copypaste: they flipped their shit when i told them in the US that if their boyfriends took the pictures that means the boyfriends own the pictures and only they can write DMCAs
trinque: oh texas, how I love you
ascii_field: i put on a 30k set of electrostatic phones in a linguistics lab. air piles to ears instead of wires. still meh.
kakobrekla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-06-2015#1168375 < actually sennheiser is meh. here i have a 20$ headphones that beat the shit out of 200 and 350$ sennheisers. ☝︎☟︎
assbot: Logged on 19-06-2015 04:28:39; decimation: funkenstein_: yeah I know, people here bitch about the lack of 'adult' products. glitzy candy beats serious in the market every time
mircea_popescu: anyway, i agree they're stupid. originally it was "they must go out because they break backups". turned out they don't. now it's "they should go out because they're stupid", which is valid, but also an aesthetic judgement. we're not at aesthetics yet. but eventually, whole wallet scheme needs to be made by someone who's not retarded in the fucking head.
ben_vulpes: i suppose you'd have us leave testnet in as well
ascii_field: i'd like to see someone present a coherent argument for the negative here
ascii_field: personally i see the random-change-addr thing to be as screamingly retarded as memory leak
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: i could shoot the change-addr thing in the head in ten minutes, but mircea_popescu wants to keep it for some reason
ascii_field: 'A lot more men than women choose to do seemingly irrational things such as become petty criminals, fly homebuilt helicopters, play video games, and keep tropical fish as pets (98 percent of the attendees at the American Cichlid Association convention that I last attended were male). Should we be surprised that it is mostly men who spend 10 years banging their heads against an equation-filled blackboard in hopes of
mircea_popescu: (this is actually an anciend graham post, i subscribe entirely)
assbot: Logged on 18-06-2015 22:59:55; cazalla: for a moment i was like.. why would jurov not give qntra the scoop? http://www.coindesk.com/latin-america-coinbr-acquires-coinverse/
trinque: I'm not a rich guy or head of state, but seems either merits better shuffling around than what I use
mircea_popescu: trinque im still in shock someone proposed 7k a seat as outrageous. i must be buying in all the wrong places.
mircea_popescu: i think modern eyes still understand bulgaria's a shithole.
ascii_field: i've been reading an autobiography of hans baur, best known as hitler's pilot. he spoke of various folks he had flown, and described how king of bulgaria flew part of a trip with him, then caught an ordinary train
decimation: I think the uk prime minister flys on british airways
decimation: I assume chimp class
decimation: greenspun: "(compare to about $25,000 per flight hour to charter (source)). If American Airlines spent this much during the 7-hour flight from London to Boston it would cost $1.44 million for the trip in operating cost (i.e., not including the capital cost of the aircraft) or about $3500 per passenger (i.e., a round-trip coach ticket couldn?t be sold for less than about $7000 plus taxes and fees)."
mircea_popescu: so i guess they decided they could make more money by keeping fewer clone tanks
decimation: I thought it was well known that anything to do with 'popular music' is essentially nothing more than a marketing chumpatron
mircea_popescu: omfg! i totally called it. ITS THE SAME LIFTED PHOTOS GUYSE!
mircea_popescu: i got the letters wrong
decimation: yeah the sx was without the floating point unit I think
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> turned out, it lacks a bios battery << oh i recall those shitty boards.
trinque: I have no delusions about having a generally useful computer this decade
trinque: I've avoided the shit like the plague otherwise
trinque: after which who knows, I might dare dabble in C++ for the second time in my career
ascii_field: back to the 'plz recommend standard hardware that isn't retarded' thing - i can't help but rub in the point here, that we are playing 'junkyard wars'
shinohai: @ trinque I am a dumb fuck that knows nothing about gentoo. I wish I could so I could slap Luke Jr in da face.
shinohai: I <3 Debian but the bloated systemd kills me
shinohai: I can do the same thing with any discarded android, with enuf time
shinohai: I'd rather build something on my own when I haz knowledge