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mircea_popescu: what change's a webified ustardian "computer science major" got.
mircea_popescu: the "reddit experiment" is in full swing, even WE can't distinguish anymore.
mircea_popescu enjoys an immense inflow of pesos now that btc has dropped a little, because hey, local idjits price by medieval methods.
mircea_popescu: all come up for a strict search for "static variables exist for the "lifetime" of the translation unit that it's defined in, and:"
mircea_popescu: because people go around with links to that in their pastes ?
mircea_popescu: notice that the [no doubt actual] google software engineer behind the crapolade is deeply aware of what the holes in the levies are.
mircea_popescu: Dan: You explain things fully and in a way that just makes sense to me.
mircea_popescu: Dzek Trek: "@MooingDuck is the best teacher here. He explains everything in the way that just listeners want to hear."
mircea_popescu: ThePhD: "To this day, MooingDuck has probably been the most helpful lounge person I've come across."
mircea_popescu: that's more than wikipedia spammers such as yourself accomplish!
mircea_popescu: notice how high ranked the acct is in the site's own terms.
mircea_popescu: "ai", in the sense not of intelligence, but in the sense of "not distinguishable from average human".
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag then i read it carefully. notice how the whole thing makes no sense and there's actually visible lines where syntactic units were thrown together ?
mircea_popescu: gold is afaik still illegal to hold for chinese private parties.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller it could just as well be dude watching an insect burner thing going "i guess eventuallt it'll fill up"
mircea_popescu: derps on a first name basis with me. perhaps on account of my having fucked their mothers or something, no idea.
mircea_popescu: Mircea is free to attack the coming upgrade. He will fail, because "Bitcoin is not a reflection of Mircea's hopes and aspirations, but a check on them."
mircea_popescu: am i a truly miserable character if the sufferances of the young wethers in my own party actually amuse me ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag> a proper thing simply does not fit on this here desk. <<as the world famous afanti once said, "don't laugh at chinese nopee girls lest you come to ride on their desks one day"
mircea_popescu: not all intercourse is fucking to require something hard to get it started, alfie!
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes so what's the rest of that shaking ny black dude hands story ?
mircea_popescu: 27/12 : gribble: 837554982.002 ; 13/1 gribble: 886485320.427 ; 15/1 : 12:30:43 gribble: 765883451.143
mircea_popescu: it's not a matter of scale except to the layman. it is a matter of very alphabetical lists of things, for the professional.
mircea_popescu: the criteria for operability are very strictly given. for instance pancreatic cancer : has it touched the fat planes protecting the mesenteric vessels ?
mircea_popescu: that incidentally is a very informative field of study for he who aims to be a better systems expert : cancer cures.
mircea_popescu: "if it's a big tuberculosis, drink coffee. if it is still small, drink tea!"
mircea_popescu: but i look forward to you learned men and your treatises of medicine discussing tuberculosis remedies by scale.
mircea_popescu: what exactly is the difference between "politician"? and hobo ? student ? etc.
mircea_popescu: so basically to go through portland in relative safety one needs a half dozen fascia bearers to bullwhip a whole horde of plebs away enough to form a path.
mircea_popescu: i recall maybe ben_vulpes toying with this at some point ?
mircea_popescu: so far it looks like you don't have a working compiler basically
mircea_popescu: See `config.log' for more details. << what's that say PeterL ?
mircea_popescu: you want exactly what the market wants : a truck with good highway behaviour.
mircea_popescu: i have no idea what the correct way would be, but i envisaged an auto-transfer arrangement, where the engine powers the drive train except if torque pull gets too strong in which case it kicks off and electric engine takes over
mircea_popescu: and in spite of being able to pull train cars / tanks / your house, iut would still do ok on the freeway.
mircea_popescu: right. so the idea was that you could market a 100k real suv/pick up with 4k lbft torque, which if so attached would pull the light out and drag it with two yards' worth of sidewalk and the parked cars.
mircea_popescu: so 300k car. what happens if i attach that 300k car to a street pole and go ful lthrothle in the ist ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: how much does a 600hp turbocharged engine wiht 500lb ft of torque cost ?
mircea_popescu: not only it created powerful with a view to almighty enemies for the "well intentioned" idiots engaging in that nonsense, but also it... fell over, burned and then sunk into the swamp.
mircea_popescu: will not deflect a motivated attack, while adding a handful of SPOFs, risks and annoyance."
mircea_popescu: heh. to quote, "This is stupid way to adjust SNR for a few reasons not least that it is already solved in the IRC protocol. Chanops are a group of people the founder trusts sufficiently to regulate the conversation, deal with bad actors and operate the channel in the manner he intends. Kind of like a web of trust without the numerous failures this bullshit introduces. Default deny will prevent the channel from growing,
mircea_popescu: fat child rapist put his hand in an old pillow and is now talking to himself ? fu bahamas.
mircea_popescu: yeah, right. to quote : "E, se Vostra Magnificenzia dallo apice della sua altezza qualche volta volgerà li occhi in questi luoghi bassi, conoscerà quanto io indegnamente sopporti una grande e continua malignità di fortuna."
mircea_popescu: ie "we were trading while insolvent, which is a crime, except for usg agencies"