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mircea_popescu: had
the deency not
to. plain asphalt, smooth, crushed ~every bone in her body.
a111: Logged on 2017-06-20 16:30 phf: building wot for all comers will suffer
the same fate as pgp. since nobody's using it, it
turns into an arms race of easy
to use, or "innovation" also known as masturbation over
technical minutiae. i sort of realized
this when i
tried applying
tmsr solutions
to my cypherpunk friends: "no we don't need
to research
the difference between signal and
telegram, just encrypt it
to my gpg key and post it on dpaste or whatever." eliminated all
the
technical di
mircea_popescu: "drag" is aconsideration in
this discussion for
the sort of intellect
that reads wikireddit and
thinks haskell is a useful programming language.
mircea_popescu: erlehmann really ? what do you
think drag is, magic ? where does "drag" hide all
that energy, not like people splat in flames.
erlehmann: ah, but
terminal velocity is <--[drag]-- o|< --[gravity]--> (rotate by 90 deg)
mircea_popescu: i just did
the math
to show you
the
thing you copy/pasted is nonsense -- surely someone jumping from 214 meters (about 100 floors) will still die.
erlehmann: mircea_popescu of course i have no idea how
to calculate drag from human body and believe skydiver websites
erlehmann: suppose people wanted
to splat faster,
terminal velocity for human in air is around ~200 km/h and is probably not achieved from standard issue rooftop.
mircea_popescu: odds are he's not competent enough
to reason about a cup of
tea.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the pretense some derp "reasoned" about suicide is ridiculous of
the prime order. who exactly is so equiped
that
they may so reason ?
mircea_popescu: doesn't have
to call it quits on calling it quits. just on calling it quits right
then and
there.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it just sits
there.
there's no
transition on a roof. if anything,
the lack of
transitions is calming, which is why jumpers can notoriously be
talked out of it. make no sudden gesutres, let him
take in
the outdoors, he';ll climb down.
mircea_popescu: have you ever seen an idiot stop in a doorway ? because his brain simply shut down confronted with
the
transition ? "oh, room. outdoors. whoa!"
mircea_popescu: trains provide numerous and precise
transitions. rooftops do not.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform people are not
thinking agents. in deprs,
transitions are a major consideration, much more so
than any others.
erlehmann: > JR East,
the line we were
trying
to
take, is
the most popular for suicides because it charges
the bereaved families
the least.
gribble: vragnaroda was last seen in #trilema 4 years, 31 weeks, 5 days, 5 hours, 3 minutes, and 59 seconds ago: <vragnaroda> Not until just now but
that's fantastic.
mircea_popescu: such lolz,
the kakobrelkas of
today
trying
to deal with
the logs of yesteryear.
mircea_popescu: do you know
that salo joke, "hey,
the muscovy went
to space !" "all of
them ?" "no, just one" "then what are you bothering me for"
mircea_popescu: ^ erlehmann
there's your source, courtesy of friendly birdy in my ear.
mircea_popescu: !~google mark saldana,
tokyo's human accidents jinshin jiko and
the social meaning of
train suicide
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i am not protesting
the passage of
time, nor its effects. merely remarking on it.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-07 01:29 mircea_popescu: "when a man grows old, and his balls grow cold, and
the
tip of his prick
turns blue, he may in
turn start do as
the subj link describes, an'
triage'm by symptoms"
a111: Logged on 2017-07-01 15:38 mircea_popescu: yet
these "measures of all
things" exemplars of pure humanity,
that honestly believe
their heads are capable of any lifting, if
they "just had
the facts" hurr durr lol lol snort, nevertheless can't see far enough ahead
to realise
they're "leaderless" because
their leaders are out and out bullshit, and for no other reason.
mircea_popescu: things
that "just happen", inferior nonsense pseudotech gaining usg
tendril adoption.
mircea_popescu: apparently "don't step in front of subway, you will die" is a lot less comprehesible
to 8 yo japanese girl
than "if i end up having
to pay a fine for it I WILL FUCKING KILL YOU!"
erlehmann: i am glad such stuff exists, because association with it shows stupid. if i remember correctly, debian response
to keybase fuckery was: we consider stuff showing up on keybase compromised, any keys showing up will be shot on sight.
mircea_popescu: amuysing factoid --
the japs got rid of
the problem by making bereaved families pay fine + repairs.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
there are ? you mean
the japanese
train jumping girly
thing ?
mircea_popescu: in other news, i got one of
those bar shot ladle
things, for ease of delivery. it's a very useful implement.
erlehmann: but
then
those are
the ones urging ppl
to upload
ther private keys
mircea_popescu: hey,
this could be gay slang. "is your butt use-full yet,
twink ?"
erlehmann: about as useful as
tingling feeling in butt
mircea_popescu: i mostly like
the intimation
that while
they may not have any exact proof,
they do have sufficient inexact ones.
erlehmann: WELL IF
THEY ARE PRETTY SURE
THAT IS GOOD ENOUGH RIGHT
erlehmann: asciilifeform crypto cranks need no proofs.
take
https://keybase.io/triplesec/ – money quote: “We don't have any exact proof of security for a cascade of block ciphers in CTR mode. But we're pretty sure”
mircea_popescu: "when a man grows old, and his balls grow cold, and
the
tip of his prick
turns blue, he may in
turn start do as
the subj link describes, an'
triage'm by symptoms"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform remember
the "England -- implementation of logarithm" ? await ye
till republic is actually where
the idle seek
their bread.
then watch and be awashed art
the deluge
mircea_popescu: i expect alf himself WILL voraciously read "proof" of former, no matter
the source.
mircea_popescu: anyway. his bad for inserting a conjecture among actually known shit.
there's a difference between "we don't know if rsa is hard" and "we know you can't compress all files"
mircea_popescu: i seem
to recall you spending some lines discussing
the problem of "unknown practitioner"
mircea_popescu: anyway, i don't per se dispute
the piece can be rescued with liberal application of benevolent reading balm. i just don't seem inclined.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but
the proposition
that a proof for fermat's conjecture is not worth reading past page four is not factual.
mircea_popescu: sure. and
they will. but dudley's piece is now... just as pseudo, and just as crank, as
theirs,