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mircea_popescu: there's some reasonable if banal shit floating around in
a sea of very annoying nonsense. wtf is "out of whack" even supposed to mean, and since when is an ipad
a better model of computing than
a desktop.
mircea_popescu: not every poltroonish german's
a gestapo agent, not every poltroonish soviet's
a kgb agent and not every reddit idjit's working for teh soup.
nubbins`: by my count, guy's got
a hundred bucks belonging to me
mircea_popescu: this is
a capital offense. mass arson, rape and murder is
a tea party by comparison.
mircea_popescu: doesn't seem
a terribly legit reason to stop withdrawals, who knows if they're piggybacking on it to excuse their own failure.
assbot: Logged on 21-03-2015 07:35:50; cazalla: mircea_popescu: im thinking cazalla bingoboingo thestringpuller danielpbarron right off the bat, cazalla lemme know who else should go in the magic dozen. <<< pete_dushenski, PeterL might be interested, personally i think while nubbins` would do
a great job, it's something i would look at once, put in cupboard and forget about
mircea_popescu: Tetra113 seriously, this isn't etrade in
a different color scheme.
assbot: Logged on 20-03-2015 22:02:49; danielpbarron: one of the best places to get like-new Bibles is
a used book store
nubbins`: on the surface, it looks like
a plain kettle-stitch binding, with the addition of those stress strips
mircea_popescu: should be glorified or cared about as being any more "special" than
a mircea_popescu: there's
a lot more of them. I don't think some spectacular security hole
mircea_popescu: ie, we've built
a much larger % of the computers that could be than there's been people alive as
a % of the people that could be.
nubbins`: meantime, if anyone happens to have come across
a guide to Smyth Sewing (re: bookbinding), would be forever in your debt
nubbins`: given that more people are familiar with changing DNS servers as
a result of wanting to watch american netflix, you'll see the turnaround on these things get shorter
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i dunno man, to me it's the crowning achievement of
a particular sort of technopunk, which is what 50 years of soviet industry really is.
nubbins`: if so, why in the world did she think her ass was
a good place for that to happen?
nubbins`: specifically, had she ever seen the release valve opened on
a full one?
nubbins`: "after
a colleague introduced them to the anus compressor hose"
assbot: Logged on 20-03-2015 21:48:38; ascii_field: in the sense that
a typical artisan binder would probably react to my laser suggestion the same way my musical friends react to the suggestion of connecting my air compressor to the tuba
nubbins`: incidentally, here's
a layflat binding
assbot: Logged on 18-03-2015 05:09:03; mircea_popescu: " Content preview: Dear Alare Kool, thank you for registering at Bitstamp exchange service! At this point you have just contributed
a great deal to future of decentralized monetary market."
assbot: Logged on 20-03-2015 21:10:47; felipelalli: mircea_popescu: Where can I find objective arguments against BTCJam? As
a lending service and reputation system? And what are the alternatives for P2P lending or we don't have? They have 113,000 users, should they be ignored?
cazalla: mircea_popescu: im thinking cazalla bingoboingo thestringpuller danielpbarron right off the bat, cazalla lemme know who else should go in the magic dozen. <<< pete_dushenski, PeterL might be interested, personally i think while nubbins` would do
a great job, it's something i would look at once, put in cupboard and forget about
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i guess i wouldn't make
a very palatable politburo member.
mircea_popescu: more interesting is, why did he get away with it for long enough to become
a prolbem
mats:
a sign of sleep deprivation. night
mats: looks like
a Carl Gustav
mats: reminds me
a bit about goodspeed's zigbee hax
nubbins`: my position is that wtf is
a plastic bag doing that the fuselage isn't
nubbins`: it might as well be "i can fly over
a cemetery as long as i'm playing tetris on
a nintendo game boy"
mircea_popescu: we'd be
a new sort of furry : the soulless! better than emo!
mircea_popescu: "and then everything failed because well... everyone was in
a bureaucracy, because the souls were like loist behind"
mircea_popescu: i'd read
a technopunk sf novel working on this exact premise.
decimation: unless you dream up
a robot ninja to fight on your behalf
mircea_popescu: actually i watched mosquitoes bite, and the head movement really resembles
a tank tower.
mircea_popescu: if survival depends on, say, spending
a week in
a fox hole paying the fuck attention, "intelligence", especially the dreamy "creative" sort the us is so enamoured with, is the topmost liability.
mircea_popescu: in some circumstances lack of intelligence is
a distinctive fitting advantage.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform on my own guesswork it's
a present but minor factor.
assbot: Logged on 20-03-2015 23:54:55; asciilifeform: and then mircea_popescu walks in with
a '45 and asks which one to shoot
assbot: Logged on 20-03-2015 23:54:02; nubbins`: there's
a large chunk of the book that could be misidentified as schizo by the unqualified observer
assbot: Intelligence, Personality and Genius: The decline in general intelligence estimated from
a meta-analysis of the slowing of simple reaction time ... (
http://bit.ly/1Bfx5Hq )
nubbins`: if you think genetic predisposition plays
a bigger part than whether you're surrounded by idiocy in your formative years, well...
mircea_popescu: im normally 6"2 but i woke with
a headache and im only 4"10
mircea_popescu: same difference as between being
a doctor and practicing medicine.
mircea_popescu: (and yes intelligence is, by and large,
a human behaviour. it's not
a fucking identity.)
mircea_popescu: and in particular the race -> intelligence one has, in my experience so far, about
a thousand times more often worked to illuminate the idiocy of the proponent than say anything about its intended topic.
mircea_popescu: anyway, back to the issue :
a plethora of persuasive arguments can be made starting with genetics and ending with behaviours. however, the most commonly encountered ones are neither persuasive
mircea_popescu: but that is an argument to sink
a competing theory with,
nubbins`: i feel shiftlessness is much more
a product of upbringing
mircea_popescu: decimation quite
a ways ahead of any genetic explanations for intelligence on tap
nubbins`: worst rabbit hole re:math was one winter eve i found myself thoroughly intoxicated at
a party i'd wandered across
decimation: mircea_popescu: "pregnancy comes from copulation" is
a fairly workable theory
mircea_popescu: at any rate : expecting human behaviour to be addressed by genetics is
a little like expecting food to be discussed by chemistry.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: tho by now that's migrated closer to
a personal relationship.
decimation: re: genetics of intelligence < the post makes
a good point, in that there's nobody who can tell
a story about how some genes 'cause' intelligence. But that doesn't really address the observation that when you give
a test to ethnic groups
A&B, the resulting distributions are different.
assbot: Logged on 20-03-2015 23:51:31; Adlai: well, you do become 'less yourself', until there's nothing left... although it's
a more complex process than just cells dying
mircea_popescu: "so then what is this nobility again ?" "oh, their blood was
a differentcolor." "ic."
mircea_popescu: but that aside : you will note that if i make
a bitwise copy of
a running system on anothjer system, eiteher will continue independently. if i then set the second on fire, the first is unharmed. whether the 2nd "Thinks" that "it" = "the first" is harmed oir not is irrelevant.
assbot: Logged on 20-03-2015 23:46:09; asciilifeform: the answer to 'is the copy you' is 'shutthefuckup you're asking
a broken question'
assbot: Logged on 20-03-2015 23:15:14; jurov: lol "we don't know what is
a consciousness? let's say it is composed of many of itself"
decimation: there was
a time when the husband could appropriately wait outside to receive the new little one after the moment came
mircea_popescu: the us equivalent, of course, being mammie to rhett butler : "theis ain't
a man's job, buzz off."
decimation: there is some of that in the us, in
a fossilized way. sometimes pregnant women are given priority for parking, for instance
decimation:
a few generations ago it was considered everyone's job (in the family tree) to assist with the young children
mircea_popescu: it's just, children are
a cost everyone seems to wish to externalize.
decimation: well, paying for young families has the further advantage of being
a limited-time affair
mircea_popescu: i dun think there's anything that can be done in
a whole decade of "education" that's as valuable as kid having mother at home first year.
mircea_popescu: as far as i'm concerned, giving
a mother
a year off at childbirth is perfectly reasonable.
mircea_popescu: what's different is
a bunch of ideological spew clouding the issues.