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mircea_popescu: phf in fairness might be an age
thing again. a few years make all
the difference in humor like in war.
mircea_popescu: it IS shocking
to revisit,
though. "quite ?!" overpowers
the mind.
mircea_popescu: it was
transparent
to me, at
the
time. but
then again i'm weird.
phf: heh, you know for how iconoclast petshopboys were i never even
thought about "go west" being
tongue in cheek. at
the
time pet shop boys were moscows bards of freedom so of course
they would sing go west in earnest. fwiw,
they
tried warning us, but you had
to be in
the know
to get it
mircea_popescu: "to
the magic of
the moment on a glory night... here's more words without any particular meanings... it's
the way of
tomooooroooo"
mircea_popescu: "and don't forget
to release
the nuclear dancing bear..."
mircea_popescu: "let your balalaika sing what my guitar wants
to say"...
mircea_popescu: "totally... and
tomorrow in school
these assholes are gonna have sukhois and we'll get an F in algebra"
mircea_popescu: the cold war was won in
the manner of soccer game behind
the apt building being won by other
team's mom calling kids in for dinner.
trinque: meanwhile
the dirt
that "won
the cold war" no placehood my entire lifetime.
trinque: strikes me every
time when I get a whiff of
the apparent.. "placehood" what american folks would've referred
to as
the "post-soviet collapse space" of
the 90s, had
mircea_popescu: even
the shitty "i'm not even
trying" melody is part of
the experience.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-21 16:12
trinque: I'm 30 now; 90s amount
to a vague memory of "people might've done
things before. maybe in
the 80s?"
ave1: I see it was just so
that a little id could be printed in
the end, very stupid
ave1: as I had it
too, it skipped my attention
ave1: hmm,
the musl-cross repository was hg but should not be needed, will remove
a111: Logged on 2017-07-21 15:48 asciilifeform:
trinque: 'uncle vanya will giveya some work'
mircea_popescu: dun worry about
the rest unless you for some peculiar reason actually want
to
ave1: I'll look into getting it
to work with 2016 in
the mean
time...
a111: Logged on 2013-12-22 16:56 asciilifeform: 'what people “want” is a function of what
they learn is available. e.g., do Americans want
three-ring binders, and Europeans four-ring binders? or do
they want binders and
take whatever number of holes
they come with? or do
they want something
that can help
them organize
their papers and
take whatever is available? or do
they really want a less cluttered office and ease of storage and retrieval of
the infor
ave1: asciilifeform: for
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-21#1688362, it looks like you are building with adacore 2016 edition, could you
try with
the 2015 edition (no need
to do a real install, just unpack it and set path
to
the bin dir will be enough)
☝︎ mircea_popescu: i naively
thought industry is all about serving
the market ; not about
trying
to impose strange ideologies upon it.
mircea_popescu: why not you know, dick-mold
the
things from
the get go
mircea_popescu: not rly, if you look closely most have dumbass ridges lips etc in
the way.
mircea_popescu: you know it's
the only common element in
the preteen masturbatory history of all girls i met ?
mircea_popescu: i have a naked girl in my livingroom on all fours with a brush going at
the carpet. whom should i call ?
a111: Logged on 2017-07-21 18:08 mircea_popescu: could by now make ACTUAL bug-sized and looking item, with metal pike, insert into
tree. solar + etc.
triangulate and what, congrats you found a $15 prize ?
mircea_popescu: this is something a certain sort of mind can simply
take or leave ; but another sort absolutely desperately craves.
mircea_popescu: there's great relief, you see, in my own mind, by simply noticing
that, "hey, i was dead about
twenty years ago ANYWAY. what do i care".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i believe he is correct re similar, but incorrect in
the anchor. he, and most other folks who went, were actually looking for
the golden excuse.
trinque: wait, you were saying his
trauma was not going
to ww1?
a111: Logged on 2017-07-21 15:45 asciilifeform: ( it was his formative
trauma )
mircea_popescu: i was ungodly young, by all accounts,
to
the point of giving
the older people pause. and
this was WITH my great benefit of easily passing in person for significantly older
than i actually was.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-21 15:44 phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-21#1687977 << mostly age,
the few years
that i'm younger
than you i
think made all
the difference in
the 90s scheme of
things. by
the
time i "queuing up in
the recruitment strip" it was
tail end of
the epoch
a111: Logged on 2017-07-21 15:22 asciilifeform: '“Fact-toxic” information pertains
to actual
truths which,
the document complains, are “exposed in
the absence of context”, and
therefore poison “important political discourse.” Such information is seen as being most potent in
triggering outbreaks of civil unrest , because it: “… fatally weakens foundational security at an international, regional, national, or personal level. Indeed, fact-toxic exposures are
those lik
mircea_popescu: so
the bidniss case is here. mostly a matter of whether we can get
the ops
together.
mircea_popescu: besides, a mail point in
the empire of
the future can't hurt anything, and so on and so forth.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not a bad strategy but not immune
to augmenting.
mircea_popescu: we can use her
to i dunno, open a booth at chinese university distribute flyers.
mircea_popescu: in any event,
the business case is right here : if hireling gets 2k/month and
takes less
trhan a week
to find alf's above 5k esp8266s at 22cents each, we in fact have positive roi on
the scheme (for
that week).
mircea_popescu: works better for well understood
tasks in well mapped spaces.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform o no. sits for specified 4 hours, has link here, gets specific
tasks...
mircea_popescu: is
this something
the foundation may maybe consider ? open us an embassy in beijing, hire a chick
to sit
there 4 hours/day or such ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: by
the
time it'll be 5 years old, like
the "we should have isp expert"
thing is, we'll have it just as solved as
the isp
thing is solved.