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mircea_popescu: it was almost entirely built late 60s and throughout 70s, and populated as it was built.
mircea_popescu: as a kid what i did with my time was that i ran up three flights of stairs to drink (straight from the faucet, who the everloving fuck has the time or the patience for glasses!) a stomachfull of water, then run back down and keep fucking running.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-13 17:29 ben_vulpes: some yes! monetization algorithms get the humans to do a lot of the work as well, which helps the whole 'ecosystem' escape local minima
mircea_popescu: doesn't pay as much as... BingoBoingo you know that line, "it doesn't profit a man nothing to lose his soul for the whole world... but for Wales ??!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i know. but i sure as fuck am not contemplating "a woman for every man and who cares what she looks like" nonsense.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-12 23:41 mircea_popescu: he doesn't specifically care if it's 1500s german peasant life, ie, outright medieval peonage. just as long.
mircea_popescu: (the film is exceptional in that it summarily but correctly renders the early capitalism dissolution of traditional feudalism : the lord wants a "ballet" so as to line up the nubile daughters of the land for feeling up ; the councilmen do not wish to give him ~the money~ to make one because it's their fucking daughters. capital exists, in the early modern phase, to dissolve the traditional family, in the strict sense of liber
mircea_popescu: phf word. numerous stories, as far as eu was concerned, us were a sort of you know, haitians.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no such thing as restaurant outside of paris, vienna, and a few more.
mircea_popescu: a lot of smarter folk put A LOT more work than i ever did into "modern computing plarform" and didn't get as much out of it.
mircea_popescu: this is a revelation ticos, for instance, by and large never achieved ; and you will be surprised if you examine young slavegirl hopefuls, in that they also, do not see the world as mere covers stretched on a numeric structure.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-13#1750682 << in retrospect, regarding the matter cooly and with the disinterest of old age, i can affirm that this is ~the only important and enduring portion of computing as an education tool in my life. it's what feeds eg http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-11#1749457 and everything in between ands up to that : the 6yo mp's discovery that there exists a numeric universe underneath, and that it's t ☝︎☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i used to work with a number of d00dz who had young chillunz, they all bought rubberized tabletrons for'em 'as soon as knew how to hold it'
ben_vulpes: some yes! monetization algorithms get the humans to do a lot of the work as well, which helps the whole 'ecosystem' escape local minima ☟︎
phf: ben_vulpes: as far as i understand some of those videos are actually algorithmically generated?
mircea_popescu: both strands live and well as late as 1900s.
ben_vulpes: lol right, salary last time i checked as a kid was what, 100k? sounded like lots when i was a kid but today...
mircea_popescu: as they all did.
ben_vulpes: it's almost as though they never thought to have the fun of putting novel tastes in the kid's face
a111: Logged on 2017-06-17 17:31 asciilifeform: 'FDA specifically bans from human infant formula ("felonious fortification") the addition of a tetraunsaturated fatty acid only found in human breast milk. Near as anyone can tell, its only metabolic purpose is to encourage brain development. Human milk for human babies - or you bring up a Democrat.' ftr.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i guess if all the "exclusive gated community" schmucks weren't so schmucky thery could have a delegated hunter, get your steak in the mail by 10am. << In old country missouri village of "Town and Country" licenses hunters, but only as far as reducing the traffic hazard posed.
mircea_popescu: but in temperate zone, really, ima pay to freeze that much meat for months so as to have month-old meat for months ? BUT I DUN WANNA!
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i am in hunter mode, applying numeric factor of 2x to 9x as need be.
asciilifeform: one day i'd like to so much as see one
mircea_popescu: but in general -- the duck is harder shooting, because pheasant is dumb as rocks, will let you come close enough to fucking arrow it to death. duck will not. but with modern rifles this isn't a problem.
mircea_popescu used to go just about now, for river ducks. early to mid december, when it snows a little and as aresult warms.
mod6: It warms up when it snows (as it's cloudy), so it's at least 15 degrees warmer than yesterday. Tradeoffs :]
mircea_popescu: the polychinelle's secret about people is that everyone wants a new friend just as much as you do, if not more. makes things easier.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo do. find an upmarket steakhouse, take her for lunch (not dinner) one day at her convenience. this isn't in any sense sexual ; but it is a good idea to leverage the environment to impress upon the help that it is indeed a very good idea to be as helpful as humanly possible.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: this -- supposing it actually worx as-printed-on-the-box -- is pretty neato.
BingoBoingo: Anyways, the consultadora has begun the work of massaging a bank account out of Itau which apparently is impossible for estadosunidense as private individuals, but no problem for business individuals.
mircea_popescu: shinohai : http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-13#1750345 (and also, consider constructing a mass messaging rig as pluriously described on trilema ?) ☝︎
asciilifeform: ( so long as one doesn't suffer from http://btcbase.org/log/2014-08-30#816570 problem ) ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-13#1750286 as they say. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: and other clarifications as may in time be needed.
asciilifeform: so may as well buy the single-shot wipes, same type as for rifle barrels
BingoBoingo: Plastifuzz has great utility as cloth for dusting, but that property makes me disinclined to cloth self with plastifuzz
a111: Logged on 2017-12-12 17:54 BingoBoingo: Also, the local accent is beginning to break into discrete works as opposed to noise. The epic 2.5-3 hour AA meetings here have been an invaluable opportunity to listen to a variety of local speakers one at a time.
mircea_popescu: now if that 7k bathrobe came with priviledge affixed, such as ye caftans of ye olde sultans did, it'd be one thing.
asciilifeform: as it is, i haven't even mustered the givingashit to go there as pure tourist
asciilifeform many times offered work in ca, equally many times refused. 'tell me why i should take the double pay , so as to pay 3x for flat, and it will have roaches , why ? '
mircea_popescu: anyuay, the quoted piece from a 1990s bit from a local landlord. as such it reflects the predominantly hopeful mood of the landed gentry at the time "yes, it's a downturn portion of a cycle but that's what cycles are".
mircea_popescu: the "web 2.0" "mobile" etc "revolutions" however failed to catch, so its port is getting sanded as we speak.
asciilifeform: fwiw ( and supposing the item is true as written ) i dun get why usg would say no to an idjit willing to pay $mil to move to usgistan
mircea_popescu: but as the old saying goes, "if anyobne's selling it, you don't want to buy it".
mircea_popescu: the "lottery" theory is very much in the vein of "when one is born male, one gets advantages", ie, statistical retrofitting. the past 30 years have well proven that there's no causality there -- yes people who were born male i nthe past also coincidentally later developped into enviable positions. but the maleness was not germane, as proven by the sad scum that is just as biologically male born these days, and holds all the p
mircea_popescu: "really feeling" as opposed to, importantly, "not really" feeling. it's a matter of degree not of reality that's being spoken to
BingoBoingo: Or as the locals call it "The planetaria"
asciilifeform: re subj of link, seems like uniquely poor idea from opsec pov , for some reason usg likes to search arse ~first~ , sometimes even they leave the rest of the 'patient' alone. as with the famous fella pictured in old thread, who ate a pistol inside a police station, while already booked, on camera
a111: Logged on 2017-12-12 17:54 BingoBoingo: Also, the local accent is beginning to break into discrete works as opposed to noise. The epic 2.5-3 hour AA meetings here have been an invaluable opportunity to listen to a variety of local speakers one at a time.
asciilifeform: ad been for sixteen years. While he used AA. meetings as spy drops, his appetite for what the meetings offered spiritually was real. He once told me, in all sincerity, that the greatest contribution America had made to the world, a contribution that would be remembered for thousands of years, was the invention of A.A.'
asciilifeform: 'Kraft knew a lot more than I did about wines, and he often brought home cobwebby treasures to go with a meal. But, even though Kraft always had a filled glass before him when we sat down to eat, the wine was all for me. Kraft was an alcoholic. He could not take so much as a sip of wine without starting on a bender that could last a month. That much of what he told me about himself was true. He was a member of Alcoholics Anonymous, h
a111: Logged on 2017-12-12 17:54 BingoBoingo: Also, the local accent is beginning to break into discrete works as opposed to noise. The epic 2.5-3 hour AA meetings here have been an invaluable opportunity to listen to a variety of local speakers one at a time.
mircea_popescu: they only perceive their duty to http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-12#1749979 ie push the empire ; their percived duty never is to personally change so as to fit the republic ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-12#1749871 << https as entirely worthless as ever ; though evidently i don't expect smartypants a la eg http://trilema.com/2017/lets-revisit-the-google-is-irrelevant-discussion/#comment-123821 to perceive THEIR DUTY to now mourn / worship in compensation. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: as per teh logs...
mircea_popescu: yes well. flamethrower effectual when enemy pinned down, such as in bunker, pillbox or clearing trenches.
asciilifeform: not as if most of the shooters made use of max rifle distance.
mircea_popescu: or... wait for train to almost pull in, shoot, keep mental bets between your multiple personalities as to whether falling into pit from pressure of squirming mob will do more damage than gunfire./
asciilifeform: approx as lame as most of the small arms people , who (with a few notable exceptions ) manage to put entire crate of ammo to waste and maybe injure 4 or 5
mircea_popescu: incidentally, speaking of orc techs, could oyu believe that schmuck in new york ? so... in preference of walking into gun shop, buying gun, killing half the town, this dude "made" bomb, which sure as fuck cost more than a walk-in in terms of effort and more than a grand in terms of dough, to... burn himself with it.
asciilifeform: ( as in, chix went to break heads on own power, with 0 prompting )
mircea_popescu: but it sure is ~actually~ transgressive, as opposed to expectedly.
mircea_popescu: suppose you're 16yo girl. are you going to a) tell your mom you hate her, which is transgressive except for how she read you were gonna do that in a book when you were 6 ; or b) join isis so as to shoot your classmate in the face by the time you're both 24 ?
asciilifeform: thing's about as transgressive as joining komsomol.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform because youth is fundamentally transgressive as part of what it even fucking means.
mircea_popescu: it's what they do 10-20 years before beaching over on okcupid, as best as my xenomorph psychology studies dept can explain
asciilifeform wholly unequipped to even guess as to why.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-12 15:42 asciilifeform: meanwhile in pinoy spamola, http://peltebesining.tk/giwe/asic-bitcoin-miner-schematic-1634.php << image-embeds asciilifeform's lispm keyboard schematic as 'asic miner' . bonus : if loaded via archive.is, gives entirely ~different~ spamola, prolly based on ip block
mircea_popescu: as to the above : these are marginal schmucks! their only chance to matter is to go be meaningful in faraway lands.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: their strategy is http://btcbase.org/log/2014-06-04#700916 solidly today as in 2014. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: ned for that yudkowsky character and just as so following.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, in other productive discussions that never were, i expect NOT A SINGLE ONE of the various "experts" in their own mind, economists, political theorists, whatnot will actually engage http://trilema.com/2017/the-ecu/ ; much like buffett "couldn't find shorts" back in the days of http://trilema.com/2014/an-era-ends-today-a-new-era-starts-today/ and just as http://trilema.com/2015/the-harry-potter-challenge/ never happe
mircea_popescu: yeah, no offensive jews, as discussed in the http://trilema.com/2013/the-dead-jew-and-the-raped-girl/
mircea_popescu: he doesn't specifically care if it's 1500s german peasant life, ie, outright medieval peonage. just as long. ☟︎
asciilifeform: i dun see the 'life was so inconceivably sweet before the fr rev' d00d as so different.
asciilifeform: orc wants whichever paradise he conceives his orcistan as having been derailed from
mircea_popescu: above and besides the "worker's paradise" as described in badly penned fiction of the recently literate cca 1910s.
mircea_popescu: so he's not eschewing anything, he's just as pantsuit as the pantsuited hilarity herself.
mircea_popescu: but i am convinced that strictly, very and absolutely strictly the only reason why mr adrian crisan is spending his afternoon writing up that and then xeroxing it in preference of say "editing wikipedia" or "working for google" as a "moderator" is that he does not perceive how the later would deliver him more usg empire per unit effort than the former.
mircea_popescu: the dedication of the imperial peons is remarkable, worthy of a greater goal as it may find itself.
mircea_popescu: well, litmi as the researcher decides. but to my eyes, the simple fact that he imagines this is how democracy works as a statal matter ("dragi concetateni" is "beloved fellow citizens", ie smacking very much of "les trois glorieuses", not that he'd know) is enough.
asciilifeform: reminds me, when su was a going concern, 'классическое образование' usually referred to pre-1917 gymnasium, latin, greek, etc. but apparently ~today~ folx on ru net refer to su-era school as classical.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i had no fucking idea, back in 2010, what a big deal a random photograph of mailboix spam will become in not even a decade. but it IS a huge deal. consider -- that guy, who IS NOT the proponent, WROTE!!! by hand!!! ie just like http://trilema.com/2017/of-ducks-and-lameness/ !! so as to stuff my mailbox with xerocopies.
mircea_popescu: similarily, we imagine the usg is a thing, independent and of itself, rather than correctly understanding "usg is the PRODUCT of what the orcs will believe, very much in the http://trilema.com/2014/la-florida-and-other-places/ sense ; usg is what's left after all the items impossible as far as orcs are concerned were removed ; much like byzantium was "what's left after we eliminated everything the bulgarians wouldn't buy".
mircea_popescu: HOW exactly they do this is incomprehensible. but consider : guy who was 3rd echelon politruk under shoemaker ; guy who was too dumb / poorly connected to make anything of the 90s, resurfaces in 2010! with a "proposal" which consists of "here's this adaptation of usg-isms as i understand them".
BingoBoingo: Also, the local accent is beginning to break into discrete works as opposed to noise. The epic 2.5-3 hour AA meetings here have been an invaluable opportunity to listen to a variety of local speakers one at a time. ☟︎☟︎☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-08-21 12:00 asciilifeform: 1 level below, x86/arm/pci,sata,usb, etc play same role as unix and microshit -- accumulated layer of sewage
asciilifeform: meanwhile in 'The Internet of the Future' ( as pictured in http://www.loper-os.org/?p=208 ) noose : https://www.meo.pt/internet/internet-movel/telemovel/pacotes-com-telemovel << and also it lies to archive.is , so screenshit : http://www.loper-os.org/pub/plebenet.jpg
a111: Logged on 2017-10-03 03:05 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-03#1719979 << gotta appreciate this peculiar fact : asciilifeform used nfs co. service since 2007. not misprint : a decade sharp as of a few mo. ago. with ZERO MAINTENANCE and ZERO hassle and ~zero downtime and laughed at GB/s ddoses and do i have to go on ?
asciilifeform: aha, as far as these go.
asciilifeform: meanwhile in pinoy spamola, http://peltebesining.tk/giwe/asic-bitcoin-miner-schematic-1634.php << image-embeds asciilifeform's lispm keyboard schematic as 'asic miner' . bonus : if loaded via archive.is, gives entirely ~different~ spamola, prolly based on ip block ☟︎☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-12-12 03:27 asciilifeform: trinque: i've wondered for some time , is the thing where your walletron throws pgpciphered matter into the greater void, as in e.g. http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-12#1749739 , without the addressee's name in the line -- deliberate design choice ?
asciilifeform: trinque: i've wondered for some time , is the thing where your walletron throws pgpciphered matter into the greater void, as in e.g. http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-12#1749739 , without the addressee's name in the line -- deliberate design choice ? ☝︎☟︎
trinque: is the "illa" there not "they" or "those", as in referring to the subjects at end of the first line?
a111: Logged on 2017-11-08 21:13 lobbes: and yeah, I overlooked that I apparently had to also remove expiration on the sub -explicitly- (via gpg --edit-key). Even though it was showing the sub as 'expiration: none' after I had removed expiration on the pub way back when
asciilifeform: fromloper: not published as such. but was in my docs pile next to the actual docs.
fromloper: the macroinstruction set doc was actually published as a dead tree book?
lobbesbot: Logged on 2017-09-11 01:43:33: <lobbes> New fees are now as follows: 2000 ECu per hour for auctions ending with a sale, 10000 ECu per/hr for auctions ending in no sale
asciilifeform did picture mircea_popescu as having a dedicated 'muhahahahaha' balcony