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mircea_popescu: "it doesn't do anything useful" "yes but we're women, we like make-up"
mircea_popescu: Obama administration officials don’t dispute that, but say it has helped connect the dots on potential threats."
mircea_popescu: "Mr. Paul has made his opposition to the Patriot Act a key plank of his 2016 White House campaign and argued that the program hasn’t foiled a specific terrorist plot.
mircea_popescu: seeing how the only question is "what fraction of bitcoin reserves is safe to be kept as fiat"
mircea_popescu: whenever trinque is the 2nd word in a sentence my latin parser kids in
mircea_popescu: remains staying outside of the Core fork << spurious staying
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla in general the housewives that succeed in their life's work of "getting everyone to stop messing up the house" are ~a year away from having to decide if they wish to file for divorce or just come to terms with the fact that the husband lives with a younger woman now.
mircea_popescu: pete_d has been trying in his own way to fight this i gather, with mixed results.
mircea_popescu: certainly all sorts of buried gems in there by now that all of 3 people maybe know about.
mircea_popescu: but so stated (say i wanna reread everything that x), the problem is obvious to me too. we're in danger of losing it.
mircea_popescu: the total size has balooned but each person has their own comfortable paths cut through the field, like so many mice.
mircea_popescu: this results in 100 mutually incomparable sets of 1-3 mb notes.
mircea_popescu: uni professor comes before the class of 100 kids, reads the 30mb of log,
mircea_popescu: no, the idea is you keep your own lecture notes, which are not necessarily equal to another's.
mircea_popescu: which is how intellectual life organized the large conversation back when people still had an intellectual life.
mircea_popescu: think the old system of "library cards" or "study notes"
mircea_popescu: if you had a summary you would in principle be able to.
mircea_popescu: anyway, slaves schmlaves. i tried to do it myself, the summarization of logs, gave up in anger.
mircea_popescu: the thing is tho, from my own experience reading logs, every time i try to jump forward in time i end up with a mess. works much better for me to read them serially and think about it that way. which is why i parse the logs to this day, years later.
mircea_popescu: the recent experience of gabrielradio trying on the (imo easier) task of translating trilema articles makes me think it will NEVER be done.
mircea_popescu: if you recall we were toying with the idea of getting someone to summarize the logs. fluffypony even offered to finance it. nobody could be found.
mircea_popescu: as far as the later thing is concerned, it's not clear it actually is any better (because you will necessarily have to read EVEN MORE), we know from experience that machines can not do this, and contemporary semiotics seems to indicate the task is intractable in principle.
mircea_popescu: one thing i can see : the conversation graph is incredibly complex. there's two practical ways to present it : either as a flat file without any structure other than what's provided by the author ; or else as a properly restated graph, which will do a lot of node replication as oyu have to unwind the rat's nest of reference.
mircea_popescu: i confess i dunno what the problem is. this certainly should not mean no problem exists.
mircea_popescu: i mean, for as long as there isn't a solution, the best thing to do is not pretend to solve the problem
mircea_popescu: if it doesn't do that might as well forget the pretense and do this.
mircea_popescu: suppose i quote two different things respondent. the thread should now split, as a tree. it does not do that.
mircea_popescu: as far as im concerned the classic forum is unusable because it is perfectly unable to handle quotation. it's the same exact problem of "inline" comment display for wordpress : you end up either with an arbitrary node depth or else single character lines
mircea_popescu: architecture made by humanists for humanists. "here, look how insignificant the human is!!11"
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski what was shady ? there's nothing national about corporations.
mircea_popescu: have the firewall set up so it can only connect to them (deny from all accept from X Y Z) as a way around the incredibly braindamaged way the client itself handles connections
mircea_popescu: trinque if you're running it in cramped position you could just follow the republic nodes i guess
mircea_popescu: "spend 35bn to save 50k we call 1bn because all numbers are the same number. WE ARE HUMANISTS DAMNIT"
mircea_popescu: lol @ the "feminist anarchist" gargle. yay, Michelle Goldberg, you go roar girl.
mircea_popescu: "The question I have is why do we have to learn about it through guesswork, aren't miners themselves interested in Bitcoin being a reliable payment system?" aka "why don't people in bitcoin give a shit about people on reddit/github/tardstalk"
mircea_popescu: just because killerstorm doesn't understand what's going on doesn't mean "sophisticated devils etc"
mircea_popescu: at some point this'll have to be systematized, ain't nobody got time to keep track of all the retarded arbitrary shit.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: if you think "the patriarchy" is causing "global warming", you go on the foodstamp list. if you think government is causing the decay of society, you get on the no travel list.
mircea_popescu: if you're a 20something woman working in an office and you think you might have been raped by a 50 something outdoors type of guy, poor you. if you're a 50something outdoors type of guy and think you might have been raped by a 20something irs office drone, fuck you.
mircea_popescu: if you're smoking you're evil. if you're fat you're alt-beautiful.
mircea_popescu: if you're trying to get an abortion, yay! if you're trying to buy a gun BOO!!!
mircea_popescu: if you think you're "transsexual" that's a protected class. if you got allergies, fuck you.
mircea_popescu: heh. the lulzy this yes that no selection the usg does.
mircea_popescu: war was won by romanian troops with russian auxiliaries under romanian command. so HA!
mircea_popescu: „Turcii, adunând cele mai mari mase de trupe la Plevna, ne zdrobesc. Rog să faci fusiune, demonstrațiune și, dacă se poate, să treci Dunărea cu armata după cum dorești. Între Jiu și Corabia demonstrațiunea aceasta este neapărat necesară pentru înlesnirea mișcărilor mele.” etc.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field what do you think happened in teh turk-russian war ?
mircea_popescu: except there's no romania around to save the russians' butt this time
mircea_popescu: no, it's not "the internet". it's the usenet/bbs/forum model.
mircea_popescu: the only problem with that thing is that IT makes emotion unreadable
mircea_popescu: thinking about it twitter is particularly apt for this job.
mircea_popescu: should be there in days rather than yerars, yes. should be there in microseconds rather than seconds ? mno.
mircea_popescu: if anything real-time is truly DETRIMENTAL, if my mpex and our ba experience has taught us anything.
mircea_popescu: the alternative is susceptible to filtering on infrastructure you don't own.