mircea_popescu: fortunately this is a point that won't take a second pass to explain to the chinese. or, for the most part, to the russians.

mircea_popescu: help the guy draw the spec document and then let him do it, free a hand

mircea_popescu: was there a "lisp for 12 yos" anywhere ?

mircea_popescu: yeah. someone who deeply understands emacs could write a 100 page READABLE! INTERESTING! EMPOWERING! guide to emacs for it.

mircea_popescu: should probably include an x and a sound, at least eventually.

mircea_popescu: (in a jar, in a lab, in which someone put glucose. of course.)

mircea_popescu: if he iomagines that screeching pile of a failure mode is "lessons learned" and whatnot...

mircea_popescu: for that matter, eulora is not pve, it's evp. in point of fact player activity will attract environment challenges. you build a house, ogres come to it sort of thing.

mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-08-2015#1229502 << i am, and i did, and i see no problem with any of this. you may go to a museum whether you wish to take notes or draw copies, why should anyone care ? "oh but the statues were expensive to make, how dare you write abnout them, you should draw! el minimo respeto!!11" ?? ☝︎

mircea_popescu: this "progress" bullshit is dumb and must die. there's nothing in the future but a buggy, half assed, stupid reimplementation of the past.

mircea_popescu: you want to play, get a real card. FROM THE PAST.

mircea_popescu: well, it can be a signed binary, but only after it is a pile of source.

mircea_popescu: "One campaign unit of fire was sufficient ammunition for one campaign - generally understood to be a three month supply.(21) This called for the following rounds per weapon: 1,000 rounds per field piece, 25,000 rounds per machine gun, and 240 rounds per rifle." << contrary to what one would expect on the basis of "aciton movies", the expected rate of fire of a rifle in war is ~2 shots/day.

mircea_popescu: would have made japan into a sort of north korea.

mircea_popescu: "The strategy for Ketsu-Go was outlined in an 8 April 1945 Army Directive.(4) It stated that the Imperial Army would endeavor to crush the Americans while the invasion force was still at sea. They planned to deliver a decisive blow against the American naval force by initially destroying as many carriers as possible, utilizing the special attack forces of the Air Force and Navy. When the amphibious force approached wit

mircea_popescu: the only difference being that the usg was not either powerful enough or attentive enough to give a shit either way about consoles in the 80s.

mircea_popescu: what doesn't work is the 'i made a level in five minutes so i'll make 500 levels in 20 hours' linear thing from grinder mmorpgs.

mircea_popescu: and you can always mine, and low q mined stuff fetches a high % premium relative to their net value

mircea_popescu: did i ever get you a starter package ?

mircea_popescu: http://madsciencewriter.blogspot.com.ar/2013/05/the-foreskin-why-is-it-such-secret-in.html << this is an excellent anatomy write-up but (as is common for the past five centuries for some reason), a very poor phisiopathology write-up. of particular note : phimosis IS an actual pathologic state even if broadly misused. and dxo and a number of other genuine afflictions of the prepuce do legitimately exist.

mircea_popescu: you will perhaps notice wireshark is taking a saner view of btc protocol than the power rangers

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't exactly know how they'd do a better job

mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes do not be surprised that cli tools do not put out stuff in a format you don't know ☟︎

mircea_popescu: “Why should I only get this handout only the months that I attend school?” Explaining that he needs money for going out with his friends and buying clothes all year round, the young author concluded: “I don’t have anything against working. But if the government doesn’t make sure that I have a job, it is their responsibility to pay me the handouts all year around”.