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williamdunne: I've not used Uber before, but I have used AirBNB and it was cheaper than
a premier Inn but in
a really nice house in the centre of London
williamdunne: I don't see it as
a scam, maybe you can change my mind, but it seems like
a pretty efficient way to do things
trinque: meanwhile somewhere in
a dark, dusty WU cubicle, "Sir! You wont believe this but... someone's *disrupting* us!"
mircea_popescu: (there's
a passive gossip-y sort of sorting that occurs as time goes by, because new clients join and so the "overall" blockchain is ever more sorted in early blocks as time goes by)
ascii_field: every time someone spews out
a bastard, we end up snarfing preceding blocks
ascii_field:
a block gets fetched, here, potentially infinitely many times
ascii_field: if any part of the patch does not make immediate sense, ask now - i'm about to get into
a wheeled coffin for
a few hrs
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i have
a clock on the wall
ascii_field: (recall 'mule' debacle in emacs ? that almost killed it as
a living project ?)
mircea_popescu: "The drawback of using loadable objects is not
a problem in the GNU C Library, at least on ELF systems. Since the library is able to load shared objects even in statically linked binaries, static linking need not be forbidden in case one wants to use iconv."
mircea_popescu: maybe once we get 100k pounds
a year to study our memories of collegiate dentistry.
ascii_field: again, this is
a very preliminary thing. i strongly encourage others to attempt replication.
ascii_field: note that this one isn't
a backport from anyone
ascii_field: testing is just
a cheat-heuristic for finding structural problems
pete_dushenski: "Canada's Bombardier Inc and Egypt's Orascom Construction and Arab Contractors will build
a $1.5 billion monorail near Cairo, Egypt's housing minister said.The 52 kilometre (32 mile) project is set to be completed by mid-2018 with funding from
a 14-year loan" << monorail, monorail, MONORAIL!
funkenstein_: hmm. . exploitation (n.) 1803, "productive working" of something,
a positive word among those who used it first
funkenstein_: actually they will not let you wear
a police uniform if you score too well on standardized tests
funkenstein_: Often the "exploiter" is just
a moron that has been given
a gun and
a uniform.
ascii_field: are precisely adopting one of those two options. (Social democracy is
a little more advanced: Kill everything outside 2 sigma.)'
mircea_popescu: "
a novel method to live. not previously described in art."
mircea_popescu: imagine
a programming language in which bubblesort was periodically rediscovered with awe.
mircea_popescu: i mean think about it, dialectics was
a novel device early 1900s, impressive and all.
ascii_field: the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen
a shot fired hailed as the heroes of imaginary victories; and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building
ascii_field: 'I remember saying once to Arthur Koestler, ‘History stopped in 1936’, at which he nodded in immediate understanding. We were both thinking of totalitarianism in general, but more particularly of the Spanish civil war. Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in
a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even
mats: 14:48:49 <+mircea_popescu> anyway, the general idea of people who did intellectual work with/in china is that the chinese folk, while broadly very servile, are utterly uncreative. << i hear such things repeated all over the english speaking internet... might as well be
a meme now
ascii_field: entire departments of u.s. universities have been converted into cn embassies of
a kind
mircea_popescu: confucianism IS very good at
a well specified set of tasks.
trinque: this scheme of the govt giving you
a report card seems intended towards precisely that
mircea_popescu: the problem, of course, being that with globalization you really can't get options. it'll have to be pret
a porter, one thing universally.
ascii_field: this is, in
a way, an inescapable professional disease of cultures that 'got' industry in
a hurry
mircea_popescu: only by sheer luck is there such
a thing as the us, too.
ascii_field: only by sheer luck, there is still such
a thing as chinese
ascii_field: that review is
a zoological specimen indeed
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: actually china is
a case study in failure to develop (invented, sure, but -develop-) various techs
pete_dushenski: trinque: seems nuts to us, then again, there's
a method to the chinese madness or else they wouldn't have ruled so much of the world for so much of modern history.
mircea_popescu: it's very subtle, the quality, but for this reason valuable. not aggresing sanity and common sense is worth
a heck of
a lot more than "making it work"
pete_dushenski: trinque: 'teaching the controversy' is
a variant thereof
trinque: there needs to be
a term for that
trinque: Without such
a mechanism doing business in China is risky, she stresses, as about half of the signed contracts are not kept. 'Especially given the speed of the digital economy it is crucial that people can quickly verify each other's creditworthiness.' << wearing
a deer-skin and calling yourself bambi
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mircea_popescu: <funkenstein_> anyway, i don't think they will be able to make lying about your age
a violation. << should be funny if they do... fill the jail up with 29 yo women.
pete_dushenski: but how else do you manage
a billion plus without reducing them to ones and zeroes ?
pete_dushenski: chicom thing's not
a wot, no, but rather
a bizarre quantification of fleisch
pete_dushenski: that's what
a blog is, really, an expression of one's ability to swish and swirl one's energies into new spaces.
pete_dushenski: "Lets consider two extreme" << ok, now it's just
a stylistic thing.
funkenstein_: anyway, i don't think they will be able to make lying about your age
a violation.
mircea_popescu: how about she is affixed to
a whipping post in front of the town church for two weeks, for being
a disgusting nag and
a total stereotypist ?
mircea_popescu: davout anyway, nothing in that piece makes me think this is anything but
a very sad drama, of an old man who is being rejected merely for being old, and is forced to live in
a society where random woman (who is no spring chicken either, "une trentaine my foot") can send him to prison arbitrarily.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's really about as nonsensical as "carbon causes global warming". men and apes have
a common ancestor is all.
mircea_popescu: "Il
a été mis en examen pour «viol par surprise» en mars dernier."
mircea_popescu: hopefully i get to drink champagne off
a chick's tits at the ceremony where an 80yo gets
a major prize for this advance.
mircea_popescu: certainly your model is
a lot better than anything keynes spit out, or hence.
mats: 12:58:25 <+funkenstein_> in more current news,
a small scoop offering ... << "ren ming bi" == "renminbi"
mircea_popescu: but the idea that any fiat-oriented economics is essentially studying fart flow is sound, and yes it's all
a matter of diffusion.
danielpbarron: funkenstein_, "why not place the Earth at the exact center of
a set of large mechanical spheres with seem to move at arbitrary unexplained speeds?" spheres which* seem
mircea_popescu: but this aside, yes scurvy - and to
a much larger degree pellagra - were endemic and major qol reducers up until very recently. one of the many "blessings" of agrarian settlement.
funkenstein_: it's
a good point, all species have evolved the same amount of time
funkenstein_: anyway how are things asseteers? sorry i've been out of touch,
a lot of logs to go through ;)
funkenstein_: mircea_popescu: no matter what happens, it's still not going to be relevant to the human behaviour. <-- I may not be
a monkey but I am
a primate
mircea_popescu: not like it's free at home.
a liter of gasoline =
a dollar = 3kWatt-hours =
a dollar or w/e
mircea_popescu: nah, not at all. she got hired as
a great brilliant mind, came up with her brilliant great plan, some men grumbled but w/e, woman haters. it got implemented, it was
a disaster, she was canned.
pete_dushenski: "Police in Texas killed two men who opened fire on
a security officer outside
a contest to draw cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, the Associated Press reported." << hahaha
a muhammad drawing *contest* !! you just know that's going to lead to fireworks.
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pete_dushenski: somehow carla didn't end up mentioned in this article 2014/12/17/
a-swimming-pool-of-idle-tears-wont-spare-the-affirmative-action-fallguy-shes-still-the-canary/ but she was definitely in mind when writing it.
pete_dushenski: "As the only woman likely to run for president as
a Republican, Carly Fiorina, who officially announced her candidacy Monday, is the GOP’s counterweight to Hillary Clinton." << o hey look what the dead dog of silicon valley dragged in.
mircea_popescu: maybe you know, random idiots who failed in academia and took to the internet with their dog and pony "scientific" show did this FOR
A REASON,
mircea_popescu: and the monkey is going "fuck you bitch" quite literally at the experimenter, whom it (wrongly) perceives as
a monkey of the same age and sex.
☟︎ davout: i'd tend to think that if this was envy, the first monkey would eat the cucumber, and then express some sort of anger at the experimenter, but yeah, what do i know, i'm not
a monkey, at least, most of the time
mircea_popescu: how do you know god didn't mean for you to be
a woman ?
mircea_popescu: and inasmuch as
a "animal fairness" is not in common use, calling that fairness is really not unlike calling the guy cunthead.
davout: maybe fairness is meant in
a broader sense than "the human notion of fairness"
mircea_popescu: yes, i understand that cunts run perl and people on the internet posing as scientists with their "experiment" consisting of
a two monkey show use cunts for brains
pete_dushenski: maybe
a better suggestion than the one above will materialise in my dreams. off to find out!
mircea_popescu: before shitheadism/peronism/populism, argentina was
a major world power.
mircea_popescu: when's the last time the bulk of the news about
a major find consists of various scams ?
mircea_popescu: re that 3,658 views youtube : them riots aren't as notable as
a minor football game.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that "largest deposit" thing, ie vaca muerta, is as best i can determine
a massive government-sponsored scam.