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mircea_popescu: in any case : people who don't steal do not become by this better thieves. they do instead become part of
a different world.
mircea_popescu: ie, this may be
a valid discussion of trapmakers, as it discusses how much of
a trap it is, but not at our level, where we discuss what is is.
mircea_popescu: im not entirely sure i have enough data to build
a chain as you propose.
mircea_popescu: the man who has not shot an invader in his livingroom is not by this
a man who will not. just
a trap no invader has stepped on yet, is all.
mircea_popescu: at that time the first trap to ever spring sprung, and the second had not :
a) were the other eleven effectual or ineffectual ? b) was the one that sprung effectual or ineffectual ? note that still badgers around, AND FROM THE POINT O VIEW OF THE BADGERS, every item is just as much
a trap as the traps.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform let me approach the matter this way : you have an infestation of badgers in your living room. so you set down
a dozen traps. overnight, two traps have sprung.
mircea_popescu: hitler&gobbles' inane insanities certainly do not constitute more of
a nordic system than the current socialism.
mircea_popescu: sane + civilised is only available at times when
a civilisation prospers. these aren't these atm.
mircea_popescu: because what
a dead and decaying civilisation does to the brain is indistinguishable from the early stages of mental illness.
mircea_popescu: ie,
a being not informed by the rote assumptions of your culture.
mircea_popescu: what if - to him, hungry is the subjective sense of lack induced by watching tv without
a milk glass in hand like ... every single case of people watching tv he's seen on tv ?
mircea_popescu: but look : the standard european mecanicism is not
a universal ideology. actually, plenty of people have never even heard of it. they regard things - often the same things, yes - but that does not necessarily mean they see themwith the same eyes.
mircea_popescu: if your observation about
a fact is
a word that applies to all facts, you've not even attempted to study the peculiar of the fact.
assbot: Logged on 20-06-2015 12:24:13; mircea_popescu: i have no fucking clue how greenspun keeps from going on
a shooting rampage, living with these idiots.
assbot: Logged on 20-06-2015 17:04:21; 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
pete_dushenski: if there is
a lizard hitler, he's struggling for air beneath his 1000kg cloak of redditardation
pete_dushenski:
a buncha unmotivated, uneducated, unincentivised, uncivilised deskjockeys make up the most 'powerful' arms of the firstbestlargestfastest state in the world
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: "The French generals were
a lot tougher and better educated than almost anyone in US uniform today. They'd started off doing Jedburgh team jumps into occupied France in WW2, went on through the meat grinder of Indonesia (many through Dien Bien Phu) and Algeria. In the meantime, they'd gotten real educations, not degrees in Business Management from West Dickhole State like your typical US officer."
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
☟︎ pete_dushenski: "Using fossil records and extinction counts from
a range of records" << not the most complete picture, this. sorta hard to draw conclusions on how many cheeses there are in the world based on the ones at your local grocery store
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."
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: "
A horse and
a donkey can breed and make
a mule, but they are still two completely different animals. Just because we can breed with the other races doesnt make us the same. " << this is actually
a flawed argument on multiple levels. first off, the mule is sterile. second off, the ability to conceive is
a very good measure of species proximity. thirdly, there's no proposition of "identity", there's no such thing as bio
mircea_popescu: anyway, as
a present day slave owner that thing makes for
a pretty amusing read.
danielpbarron: > Yet when we learn about anything important done by
a black person in history, it is always pointed out repeatedly that they were black. For example when we learn about how George Washington carver was the first bobbaer smart enough to open
a peanut.
mircea_popescu: i have no fucking clue how greenspun keeps from going on
a shooting rampage, living with these idiots.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, the comments on that article are particularly retarded. one schmuck that can barely spell brings the entire "football team fan" argument, without
a trace of irony or even the faintest hint of self awareness. he honestly believes that since "technology" today is better than 100 years ago, while the math kids could do out of highschool back then was 10x harder, it then follows that studying hard has no payoff.
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: "In order to extend the attack range, we added
a 50dB gain stage using
a pair of inexpensive low-noise amplifiers (Mini-Circuits ZFL-500LN+ and ZFL-1000LN+ in series, 175$ total). We also added
a low-pass filter before the amplifiers. With this enhanced setup, the attack can be mounted from 50 cm away. Using better antennas, amplifiers and digitizers, the range can be extended even further."
mircea_popescu:
a producer is traditionally more like the adult in charge of the children on the set.
assbot: Why the Marines have failed to adopt
a new sniper rifle in the past 14 years - The Washington Post ... (
http://bit.ly/1IpmuO7 )
decimation: I have
a friend who has one, they are fairly common among shooting enthusiasts
assbot: Logged on 20-06-2015 00:56:22; mircea_popescu: you know what happened. some lt in that preceinct had
a .5 DE in his special closet.
decimation: I doubt
a .50 action express has enough power to penetrate armor
decimation: they probably didnt' use
a .50 DE, they probably had
a proper anti-material rifle
decimation: "Their covering fire kept Whitman down and limited him to shooting through
a drain opening, pretty much stopping the killing and giving officers the opportunity to get into the building. The officers also deputized one of the citizens to go with them into the tower to give them
a bit more firepower, although he didn't end up facing Whitman.
decimation: "What struck me as most fascinating were the accounts from several sources of how the police dealt with the lack of covering fire that
a SWAT team would provide today. They just went to citizens in the area and asked them to bring their rifles and shoot at the tower, and they all went to their pickups, got their deer rifles and did what they could to help."
mircea_popescu: you know what happened. some lt in that preceinct had
a .5 DE in his special closet.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "Police disabled the vehicle with
a .50 caliber rifle shot to the engine block."
mircea_popescu: that said, it's prolly
a safe bet that contemporary compilers do in fact complain
mircea_popescu: and i bet you for any bayesian filter you can come up with someone can find
a circumventer
mircea_popescu: but it is
a powerful indictment of the "colored bits" concept. because lo! the compiler doth NOT CARE whence this executionable bitcoin went. merely what it says
mircea_popescu: before fucking her
a while before cutting her up again
mircea_popescu: "they who imagine the computer is god" from "they who imagine the computer is this tramp they picked up hitchhiking and will fcuk her
a little before cutting her up to pieces"
mircea_popescu: this is
a subtle but perhaps excellent test for distinguishing the categories you proposed
mircea_popescu: "
A second poster tried the test, but botched the implementation, proving only that with diligence it is possible to make anything run slowly."
Adlai: used to be you needed to write
a macro to get your shilly wings
cazalla: you'll be needing yourself
a lobster girl then trinque
mats: i think ill have
a lobster roll this weekend
mircea_popescu: (this was on the boston wharf, so
a seafood choice perhaps more easy to understand)
mircea_popescu: ironically, my first exposure to azn cooking was in
a thai restaurant
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.