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a111: Logged on 2018-05-14 23:05 mircea_popescu: and existence is predicated on intelligence, and mit never had one. it's just a humongous pile of printed dollars, the us-style equivalent of the chinese "sovereign funds".
a111: Logged on 2018-05-14 23:03 mircea_popescu: doing "the opposite" or "moving to garage", or anything, ANYTHING WHATSOEVER that in any way is biased by the mit is no go.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-14 23:01 mircea_popescu: mit says minksy must use the color green. minsky ignored. mit spent 500 politruk-hours to discern whether he even did what they said or not ; came up with either of these. minsky still ignored.
a111: Logged on 2018-05-14 22:56 mircea_popescu: out of mit's gear. NOT on mit's terms. use, you understand me ? use. like a thing.
lobbesbot: mircea_popescu: Sent 2 hours and 47 minutes ago: <asciilifeform> the link http://logs.minigame.bz/latest.log.html on yer www, appears dead
asciilifeform: !Q later tell mircea_popescu the link http://logs.minigame.bz/latest.log.html on yer www, appears dead
asciilifeform: possibly i am missing a subtler mircea_popescu subthread , but asciilifeform's orig puzzler was 'how to avoid making a bolix', if you will.
mircea_popescu: like the world of literate egyptian in http://trilema.com/2014/more-about-caesar-cyphers/#footnote_2_52126
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'literate english' is already a ~archaeologists-only affair.
asciilifeform recalls mircea_popescu's silk hats thread
asciilifeform: even 'mircea_popescus' get replicated... albeit very, very slowly
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'magic', in this sense, is a phlogiston, a measure of ignorance.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: by the 'to your eyes' standard -- i dun think i own any artifacts that work to any other standard. even cement block -- we do not presently know precisely why cement hardens. ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the strugatsky brothers, before sinking into senile delirium, had a tale 'roadside picnic', where unknown aliens land and leave buncha rubbish behind, and immediately depart. the rubbish includes 'usefuls', such as 'eternal batteries', but also various deadlies, and plenty of things 'in between', and earthling culture is rearranged by it. ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2018-09-10 16:24 asciilifeform: it wouldn't be any dismay to asciilifeform if we end up filling the rack with strictly mircea_popescu's successful patients, say.
asciilifeform: rright, but if in order to succeed , need mircea_popescu's psi powers, then we're in tight spot, unless http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-10#1849188 ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2018-09-10 16:22 mircea_popescu: no hazel grows where you live huh ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there are examples in the past, e.g. the orig nazi folx. (or the ww1 britain, from prev thread?) but these didn't end well.
asciilifeform: if there's another mircea_popescu somewhere, likewise curing, i do not presently know about it.
asciilifeform: it wouldn't be any dismay to asciilifeform if we end up filling the rack with strictly mircea_popescu's successful patients, say. ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the puzzler is, how to knock out the crutch. or persuade the sufferer to part with it on own power ? pizarro is isp, not psychiatric clinic
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: did this patient also reach for calculator to mul by 10 ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: by all appearances the 'free men on free soil' folx are http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-10#1849132 -stupid. without (to date) any detectable exceptions. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-03-08 22:29 mircea_popescu: in other lulz : femen, the "ukrainian" organisation is selling shit priced in dollars via 2checkout.com, the columbus ohio us corp.
asciilifeform: aaa so ~indeed~ the lichen-fungus symbiont described by mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: afaik the clearest 'schoolbook' example of folx suckered in by pseudorepublic, were the weev people
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in point of fact we do currently open boxes on explicit request of owner, to emplace FG
a111: Logged on 2015-12-09 03:27 assbot: Logged on 06-10-2015 19:36:34; mircea_popescu: <Naphex> https://xotika.tv/static/report06102015.html << speaking of which, plox to give the guy's numbers a good shakedown, because im considering listing xotika this month.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is rather like if snail could speak, and was threatened with the loss of its shell, in the hot sun
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the name sounds familiar, but i think the bulk of him happened before asciilifeform tuned in
asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu had a piece where 'usg.college victim, thoroughly hollowed out, incapable of discussing subj , because he perceives that he ~is college~' or how did it go
asciilifeform: ( then again iirc there was a mircea_popescu thread where explained that these dun use trng at all, as matter of principle )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: can you think of anything that oughta be in there, that aint mentioned above ?
a111: Logged on 2018-09-10 15:30 mircea_popescu: "why are you reading that crap ?" "because i wish to know how the news relates to me. spoiler : it doesn't." is verbatim contained in the slavic word's meaning.
asciilifeform: ( how did mircea_popescu formulate it earlier, 'if yer this stupid, a usg will coalesce out of the vacuum for you' )
mircea_popescu: "William, Prince of Albania explained What is William, Prince of Albania? Explaining what we could find out about William, Prince of Albania. [Search domain everything.explained.today] everything.explained.today/William_of_Wied/" << check out this gem. "what they could find". guess how the could works.
a111: Logged on 2018-09-10 14:54 mircea_popescu: "we found that the BMC code responsible for processing and applying firmware updates does not perform cryptographic signature verification on the provided firmware image before accepting the update and committing it to non-volatile storage."
a111: Logged on 2018-09-10 14:16 asciilifeform: esthlos: http://summaries.logs.esthlos.com/#2018-09-08_4 << was re ww1, not 2
asciilifeform: esthlos: http://summaries.logs.esthlos.com/#2018-09-08_4 << was re ww1, not 2 ☟︎
lobbesbot: esthlos: Sent 2 weeks, 5 days, 21 hours, and 51 minutes ago: <asciilifeform> http://summaries.logs.esthlos.com/#2018-08-17_1 << again it's 'phuctor' , not 'phunctor'
esthlos: mircea_popescu: thank you
mircea_popescu: esthlos : http://summaries.logs.esthlos.com/#2018-09-01_2 << "the"
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i suppose my wut is spurious ; while it's true i can eat it about as much as salt, nevertheless salt ALSO comes in kg boxes. << It doesn't really come in much smaller packages. They go UP from here.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the most eyepopping nonsense was where timis was covered in 'win a flat in bucharest' ad crapolade
a111: Logged on 2015-07-19 21:13 asciilifeform: http://gothamist.com/2008/01/31/nitrogen_tanks.php
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: when i think 'inhabitants of current bucharest', immediately think of http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-29#1730399 ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: only by 'stopped clock is right 2x/day' fortuitous accident
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Terminal disconnect from reality
a111: Logged on 2018-09-09 20:07 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this cleverness leads to "implemented solar panel out of wooden stick"
mod6: Thanks for your input mircea_popescu.
a111: Logged on 2018-09-09 18:11 mircea_popescu: in entirely unrelated non-news, the surprised by joy thing has been most read article this month since the day it was published. it's so fucking rare for a same-month article to even rank... i wonder wtf happened there.
asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu fatwa'd bot that speak by themselves , other than deedbot
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have a (limited) idea
asciilifeform: sad earthlings already farther along this track than anybody cares to admit ( or mircea_popescu would not be running his sea water reactor )
asciilifeform: or could have scenario in the vein of mircea_popescu's parasitic worms tale
a111: Logged on 2018-09-09 18:03 mircea_popescu: notwithstanding that if either logic or experience have any say, should a multi-century "space colonization" thing occur, women'd be EXACTLY that, taken for the ride chained to a post.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> in entirely unrelated non-news, the surprised by joy thing has been most read article this month since the day it was published. it's so fucking rare for a same-month article to even rank... i wonder wtf happened there. << USG.Blue&Red derps suspecting steganography?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: coupla times in recent yrs asciilifeform , in saeculum, was asked to recruit various hands ( programmers, reversers, etc ) and you can prolly guess result
a111: Logged on 2018-09-08 17:18 mircea_popescu: "I am not to be common, Kyle, ok? I am a creature like no other. I know that. I am a creature like no other. And I will not -- I willnot be common. "
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hey, he prolly played 'aces', so learned barrels!11 if played 'flight simulator' instead, whoknows, maybe would've bellylanded
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you smelled enuff, you prolly drank some
asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu even had essay re subj
asciilifeform: https://www.versuri.ro/versuri/puiu-codreanu-sant-copil-de-romanie-_si27.html << subj
mircea_popescu: lettuce offer a mn ECus to whoever of the rotaku club that produces the correct notation of that thing. hanbot diana_coman an' spyked are kindly asked to stay out of it!
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/mircea_popescu_initiator_concurs_proza_arhiscurta_paul_lica_de_la_roman_sunt_sofer_de_camion_4981_a.mp3 << in other lulz.
asciilifeform: i imagine errything in mircea_popescustan gets coated in quetzal shit in 6months tops
a111: Logged on 2018-09-09 02:20 mircea_popescu: gotta also take into account his desk is special.
asciilifeform: guten morgen mircea_popescu
mod6: mircea_popescu: cool, thx for checking it out
mod6: mircea_popescu asciilifeform trinque ben_vulpes ; et. al. ^
a111: Logged on 2018-09-08 15:37 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hah, pretty interesting : the dram turds differ by... 3 bytes
mircea_popescu: diana_coman sounds like a plan.
a111: Logged on 2018-09-07 13:24 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-07#1848461 << plox not to do this "who are you" upping anymore.
a111: Logged on 2018-09-08 17:45 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you and i may be the last folx still using sed and awk, they gathered dust since perlism plague began
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you and i may be the last folx still using sed and awk, they gathered dust since perlism plague began ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2018-08-20 18:48 mircea_popescu: do you realise less than one in a million hits anything these days ?! never has the quarry/bullet relationship been this tenuous.
lobbesbot: mircea_popescu: 0.583333333333
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: upstack : so who was j r davis ?
asciilifeform: well yes, will dig until 'too hard' and go gabriel_laddel'ing somewhere.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i think it is clear that if digger aint willing to contemplate 'maybe i die before hole, but next one will dig, cross the barbed wire over my corpse' will dig no serious holes.
asciilifeform: e.g. gabriel_laddel, then proceeded to re-enact the same splat
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nein
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: dun think so?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'local peace' would go, for, what, week at a time ? before somebody cuts loose
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: when pg wrote this, in late '90s, hdd surgery was still a seller's market
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: plox to expand ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ww1 was not what you imagine. the controlloing aspects are http://trilema.com/2018/surprised-by-joy-the-shape-of-my-early-life-adnotated/#selection-3045.2154-3045.2200 in the theoretical and http://trilema.com/2018/surprised-by-joy-the-shape-of-my-early-life-adnotated/#footnote_155_80959 in the practical.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i find it interesting that ww1 didn't cure him
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hah, pretty interesting : the dram turds differ by... 3 bytes ☟︎
hanbot: lol diana_coman ! kiddo's expertly-annunciated "a bit!" lives on in daily interjection here.
a111: Logged on 2018-09-08 14:34 mircea_popescu: the cab driver with a leningrad doctorate, gone to new york to "this is america!" is almost endearing ; the iowa farm girl gone to new york to "i r become a writer" is just...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: is 'egon wheels' a back alley pill pusher ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what are these ?
a111: Logged on 2018-05-05 18:05 mircea_popescu: aand in other items of entomological interest, the wikipedia take on politicized pseudo-literary criticism is something else. aphra behn is lionized, because they're ever-so-desperate to discover, invent or if need be entirely hallucinate "remarkable" cuntbearers of the shakespeare period that some random jailbird is A HEROINE OF FEMINISM!!!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: contour ?
a111: Logged on 2018-09-07 14:08 asciilifeform: evidently not errybody noticed mircea_popescu's new subjline for #t.
asciilifeform: 'eat stone soup, contributing the stone' or how did mircea_popescu formulate it.
asciilifeform: evidently not errybody noticed mircea_popescu's new subjline for #t. ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what do you suppose killed oxford ?
rain2: mircea_popescu: did you just call me scipt kiddy