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decimation: weirdly there aren't any decent restrants/cafes within
a short walk
decimation: once I was trapped on the mall during
a summer thunderstorm
trinque: they tell you specifically to *bury* it? like
a cat turd?
decimation: I bet if you went down to the grounds with
a metal detector you could find 1000 knives
cazalla: and with the imminent aussie budget due, muh country slide further down the drain.. "
A new tax on bank deposits to build
a fund that could be used in the event of
a banking collapse. In
a handy little boost, the money would also sit on the budget balance sheet. "
trinque: old dude owned
a basketball team and said something not even that racist
williamdunne: Then there will be
a separate exchange in the future without the BS
williamdunne: 23:50:20 - mircea_popescu: if you're serious about this, go to
a country that's not part of the usg, run
a proper exchange. no kyc/bs.
mircea_popescu: if you're serious about this, go to
a country that's not part of the usg, run
a proper exchange. no kyc/bs.
mircea_popescu: taking shit from b-
a log and pretending like your "expert" economists finally figured it out
a month later is one thing. taking code and backporting it is harder to deny.
mircea_popescu: odds of that are low, seeing how
a) they're too stupid-proud to do it and b) we got better shit to do than maintain dead forks.
mircea_popescu: they have
a solid tradition of covering old shit that;s starting to stink with freshly laid shit.
davout: also i finally understand why the power rangers think checkpoints are
a good idea
cazalla: anyway, having your step son shovel rocks sounds like
a good way for the guy to bang your mum without you interrupting
assbot: Logged on 11-05-2015 20:24:22; trinque: step dad once dumped out
a big pile of rocks from
a dump truck, handed me
a shovel
mircea_popescu fondly recalls elena dragos. woman was
a bit of
a famous thing in cluj at the time. an entire year, 180ish students HATED the woman.
ascii_field: <mircea_popescu> at some point, once you discover that X isn't
a proper master, nor Y nor Z, the realisation is forcibly dawned on you that perhaps you just suck. << the popular version of this was, iirc, 'the bad dancer is hindered by his own arse'
trinque: the difference between the naive, single-step "compassion" and the longer view, which involves pain, suffering, so on, but
a better outcome
trinque: points at
a thing I don't have
a word for.
trinque: yeah nobody I've learned from was
a sweetheart
trinque: right, the pile of rocks could've been
a papua new guinean tradition nobody had
a coherent reason for
trinque: thought the guy was just having
a twisted laugh watching me shovel
mircea_popescu: at some point, once you discover that X isn't
a proper master, nor Y nor Z, the realisation is forcibly dawned on you that perhaps you just suck.
mircea_popescu: "
A kid comes into
a boxing gym. Your job as
a coach is to discourage him so that he quits early on and does not waste your time."
trinque: also teaches you to stop being
a pussy in the face of every hard task
trinque: there was
a backhoe nearby
trinque: heh, the task was to flatten them out into
a driveway
mircea_popescu: ascii_field it's only
a progression to somewhere sometimes.
trinque: step dad once dumped out
a big pile of rocks from
a dump truck, handed me
a shovel
☟︎ ascii_field: cabbage (or the proverbial potato-peel-detail) are points in
a progression to somewhere.
mircea_popescu:
a vast majority of the great she-cooks i know (younger than me) started their cook life by being made to cut cabbage, and beaten for cutting it badly. and made to cut more.
ascii_field: this is supposed to teach the value of following
a master ?
mircea_popescu: in many
a young man's life, it's the first time when someone says "DO X!"
ascii_field: very few folks have the good fortune of
a proper apprenticeship
assbot: Patriarchy is
a thing because nobody likes living in
a world populated by little girls on Trilema -
A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1ASqBPD )
ascii_field: thing is, 'being judged re: what one is best for' has
a baked-in implication of brute slavemarket
trinque: I tend to think there's
a lot more learned helplessness out there than actual uselessness.
trinque: anyone remotely useful tends to actually enjoy the structure of being given
a worthwhile task
mircea_popescu: "why do you think you're an olympic athlete ?" "~~~BECAUSE~~~ I'm
a quadriplegic. If I weren't, I wouldn't give
a shit about the olympics, like everyone else."
mircea_popescu: just because some twerp is in the doctor's room at the hospital doth not mean he's
a doctor.
trinque: undefined in js means the property or varname hasn't been given
a value, whereas null is
a value meaning... no value
mircea_popescu: trinque well, took
a while to figure out wtf actually needs testing in those two pages of blerg
mircea_popescu: For checking if
a string is empty, null or undefined I use: return (!str || 0 === str.length); For checking if
a string is blank, null or undefined I use: return (!str || /^\s*$/.test(str)); For checking if
a string is blank or contains only white-space: return (this.length === 0 || !this.trim());
mircea_popescu: and not even
a female child at that. katrina did way better than you.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the only reason you're not walking through walls is also, that you're pushing with the strength of
a child.
mircea_popescu: clearly the largest use of tandem computing in the history of humanity, by any measure, by
a very fat margin.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: tandeming without
a single point of failure - 'trusted' vote counter, etc. -- requires something like 'millionaire protocol' and purpose-designed iron.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field success comes from
a very patent absence of intent.
thestringpuller: williamdunne: seems like d00d thinks GPG is
a toy or marketing ploy.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> i don't get why they'd make
a x86 sparc. << this is scary. i'd think you'd lose all ops/clock-cycle optimizations doing some translation between the two right?
mircea_popescu: (this is not as lulzy as it sounds. there MUST be
a fractal pattern somewhere that also makes
a machine)
assbot: Logged on 11-05-2015 17:41:50; ascii_field: from standpoint of boobytraps, an example of 'worth writing home about' would be
a machine 1) with pedantically open spec, to transistor level 2) with provisions for tandemming with implementations of same by other, foreign makers
ascii_field: but i see
a number of oddities right off the bat
mircea_popescu: give it
a coupla years, they won't even be able to fix anything anymore because of deployment
ascii_field: i'd buy in
a hearbeat if had any lead on where.
ascii_field: probably answer is 'not made in cn, therefore add
a zero to cost'
assbot: Logged on 11-05-2015 17:18:59; ascii_field: to the end that thread re: whether 'we' will buy something is really
a thread about whether mircea_popescu might buy something, and ought to be labeled correctly
assbot: Logged on 11-05-2015 16:58:26; williamdunne: MPEx did pioneer many things in Bitcoin derivatives and they deserve credit for that. However, I find it unlikely that an exchange with such
a high up-front fee just to participate will ever find mainstream acceptance.
assbot: Logged on 11-05-2015 16:39:56; bitcoinquestions: Came to post this link, but you beat me to it. OP take the time to read this. Derp. << Do you feel the comment is pointless because OP is likely
a bot etc.? Or do you feel the article is irrelevant to the matter at hand?
ascii_field: there is
a (plausible) legend that the strike on the cn embassy was deliberate - as it was where the carcass was hidden
ascii_field: it even sits in
a museum, one can visit it
jurov: yea, there's
a piece exhibited in belgrade
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: wut, it connects to wireless << it casts
a shadow in microwave spectrum
mats: fun fact: since OLPC machines use IEEE1275, they all have
a Forth implementation baked into the firmware.
ascii_field: mats: not only
a thing, but effectively defeats famous 'stealth airplane'
mircea_popescu: anyway, if there are any javascript experts in the room, you, trinque, whoever : currently it pisses me off because if you click on page it scrolls you to top. any idea how to fix it so it ignores clicks ? just, never scroll as
a result of
a click.
mats: fun fact: passive radar using 802.11 points and such is
a thing.
davout: i kindof expected
a little pop-up like on the btc-dev mailing list
ascii_field: essentially
a byword for 'let's find
a way to enforce ban on general-purpose computer'
mats: jurov: p much what it sounds like: generating
a proof of certain properties re: integrity, e.g. configuration and state of hardware/sw stack
davout: is it supposed to work on trilema? as in, i select arbitrary text and i'l given
a URL reference?