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mike_c: intersting. slash is
a word break but not
a period?
PeterL: pete_dushenski:weird thing is: bablogs.btcscoop.com seems to have no problem with it << I forgot I had to do
a funny trick with codecs to get that to work, lets see if scoopbot works now?
kakobrekla: idk if i was ever in
a position where 'everything is wrong' was legit claim.
kakobrekla:
a friend replied telling them he can fix everything that is wrong, but they dont want that.
cazalla: shame you can't todd gack someone on reddit with
a few thousand satoshi
mircea_popescu: but yes, the "sexual disorder" of the 90s is definitely coming to
a close. it's too expensive, and to most dickheads undesirable anyway.
ascii_field: porn -
a-ok in usa; viewing porn without usg permanent record of the act - nope
ascii_field: (i do have one of these,
http://i.imgur.com/EuoNzHn.jpg - ~18 usd - but it suffers from lack of sata, 32M(ram) 8M(rom), and
a wifi chip that cannot be disabled - built into cpu and embedded antenna)
ascii_field: (marvell will slurp up
a boot image via 'xmodem' though tty if you feed it)
mircea_popescu: they aren't thinking per se anymore than an ashtray is
a party.
ascii_field: quite possibly
a species only ever gets one or two of them
mircea_popescu: tell me, if i burn the walmart in connecticut tomorrow, has capitalism had
a setback ?
danielpbarron: ok well i got the usb thing to show up in
a live ubuntu, but nothing gets sent from pogo
assbot: If you are more practically inclined, and having understood, accepted and come to terms with your fundamental human inferiority as it flows from your poverty, some solutions to your predicament of "I wish to buy myself
a basket" have already been discussed. : Buttcoin ... (
http://bit.ly/1zdoOma )
ascii_field: one (often overhyped but afaik factual) example of
a total loss that is later 'un-lost' is archimedes having had fluxions
gabriel_laddel: what, the burning of the great library of Alexandria was just
a blip?
mircea_popescu: to illustrate what i mean, here's
a quote from the mooks in question :
mircea_popescu: and yes, most derps & mooks have only
a fleeting superficial view of it. so ?
mircea_popescu: amusingly, "Did the writer not know that the use of the term "the real world" is usually interpreted as
a symptom of rabid anti-intellectualism, or did he not mind? "
gabriel_laddel: I now have had my foggy crystal ball for quite
a long time. Its predictions are invariably gloomy and usually correct, but I am quite used to that and they won't keep me from giving you
a few suggestions, even if it is merely an exercise in futility whose only effect is to make you feel guilty."
mircea_popescu: need an expert to buy
a ticket, and for this discouragement of air travel we can be grateful" << my exact brand of ecology,
mircea_popescu: "Academic computing science is doing fine, thank you, and unless I am totally mistaken, it will have
a profound influence. I am not referring to the changes that result from computers in their capacity of tools. Okay, the equipment opens new opportunities for the entertainment industry, but who cares about that anyhow. The equipment has enabled the airline industry to make its rates so complicated and volatile that you
mircea_popescu: besides the point. that's what being in
a hurry looks like. "omfg, i wonder if there are many people following me", said that blair deffective while walking towards the elephant rifle in hand
mircea_popescu: ascii_field there are always plenty of crumbs scattered around for the man carrying
a large enough hammer.
gabriel_laddel: Yep. It takes
a while for people to figure this out though - especially when there are the remnants of actual intellects (von n., ulam) hanging around.
mircea_popescu: find your own crumbs. that way
a) we're stronger and b) there's no "income" tax.
mircea_popescu: versity scientists should co-operate more in order to become more competitive..... Bureaucracies are in favour of teamwork because
a few groups are easier to control than
a large number of rugged individuals."
mircea_popescu: "In the wake of the Cultural Revolution and now of the recession I observe
a mounting pressure to co-operate and to promote "teamwork". For its anti-individualistic streak, such
a drive is of course highly suspect; some people may not be so sensitive to it, but having seen the Hitlerjugend in action suffices for the rest of your life to be very wary of "team spirit". Very. I have even read one text that argued that uni
ascii_field: it is deceptively easy to avoid the problems of usg academia if you aren't trying to deal with the question of how folks are to eat. just like it is very easy for an electromobile to 'not pollute' - superficially - because it lacks
a tailpipe
mircea_popescu: scammers can't control
a wot specifically because it's
a wot.
mircea_popescu: even the fact that "firmly under scamzor control" shows that it's not
a wot.
mircea_popescu: the value of
a node depends on the path you take to it.
mircea_popescu: in the most important manner : it's summable.
a graph is not.
ascii_field: gabriel_laddel: except that they -have-
a wot. just, firmly under sc4mz0r control.
gabriel_laddel: I've been having fantasies about WoT for academic matters. The ability to turn off an entire viewpoint in
a graph-traversal. Ah.
ascii_field: he thought that university could become
a fortress against dark age
mircea_popescu: " The external pressures to do the wrong thing are enormous, but yielding to them would be fatal for the academic enterprise, while resisting the pressure reinforces its strengths. The pressures are, in fact, so strong that I do not know
a university where there is not some faculty or some department that has yielded, but there should be no mercy for snake oil pedlars on campus."
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel for the sake of argument, can you identify an university that closer adheres to dijk's ideas set forth in your 2nd url than b-
a ?
ascii_field: whaddayamean you don't have
a dedicated monitor for /var/log/messages
ascii_field: danielpbarron: in
a modern linux box, you get
a /dev/ttyUSBx immediately
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: I remember that
a while ago you mentioned you lectured at local universities. Was this in Romania aor Argentina?
mircea_popescu: well anyway. when
a bunch of idiots decide to make "their own exchange" and pretend like it has to do with bitcoin, it gets laughed at in b-
a and goes away in about 18 months.
mats: " When an indivdual wants to buy or sell any sizable amount of Bitcoin, they need to interface with
a Bitcoin retailer like Harborly or an exchange likeBitstamp, all of whom adhere to extensive KYC (Know Your Customer) policies." whats OTC?
mircea_popescu: and the very few that do work, take up bs jobs
a la "pr". which, in romania, is just about the 2010 version of "hairdresser".
ascii_field: i did
a good bit of supercomp heavy lifting for his eotvos thing, pro bono
mircea_popescu: goes for
a phd. parents support "education" becasuse parents are
a) idiotic and b) mostly women buy the time she's 25 anyway
mircea_popescu: same exact thing happens in romania, 20sometrhing yo girlie, still very much mentally 15, does not want to learn to suck cock, does not think
a job's high enough for her reddit-powered pretense,
gabriel_laddel: I've given
a few people links to PERUSING THE LIMITS OF FAILED SYMMETRY
ascii_field: got enough of
a squeak out of him to learn that he's alive, but he doesn't sit on the net much these days
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: folks aren't signing up for uni because of employment, but as
a temporary reprieve from... what comes next
nubbins`: and the answer is actually
a fair number of people, university professors included
ascii_field: who: folks who know they have
a 1 in 10 shot at employment if they play, but 1 in 100 if not
nubbins`:
a better question, who would fuck everyone else in the world, in the ass, for
a free book?
ascii_field: and housing cost, that of books (mandatory and unshareable because homework given through www for which password is
a scratch-off card in book) etc
nubbins`: there *are* more fees now -- rec hall fee, xyz improvement fee... but still
a shadow of non-frozen tuition
ascii_field: nubbins`: where i live, the 'tuition freeze' is
a total scam. they raise 'fees'
nubbins`: there's been
a tuition freeze here since like ~2001
mircea_popescu: punkman romanians just make them pay, it's beautiful. "got
a 9.9x on natl exams ? ok, free. got 9.85 ? 3k
a year. fu."
mircea_popescu: pity this got so fucking popularised. it's
a great march.
mircea_popescu: in any case, it's
a great system, but
a) most kids have to pay and b) i forget.
ascii_field: at this point i can tell the topology being printed by the sounds, though not the geometry, and it's creating
a strange picture in head
ascii_field is listening to
a '3d printer' go, and it's strangely hypnotic - like 'dot matrix' printer but less grating on the ear
mircea_popescu: imo this is the mark of
a good exam. if you don't get 1 female suicide out of 1k, you'e not really doing an exam.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, about one 18 yo girl per 1000 killed herself (chiefly by hanging) for having done
a poor job on the exames.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: you just need
a pulse << not how it worked in ussr. sadistic entrance exams (for sci degree, that is. not for meritwash of apparatchik children, that was done american-style)
gabriel_laddel: t about this young man. His net worth of 607MM should say
a lot to."
gabriel_laddel: "The intelligence level shifts because the experience level shifts. Warren speaks on his experience from 1930 – Jay is from
a different culture and different time in history. His intelligence should be measured by the decisions that he makes, not by stories he tells of his previous environment. Just the fact that he is making the decision to surround himself with
a mentor like warren buffet should tell you
a lo
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel you readily can. it's like trying to keep
a 16yo girlfriend today. think of that, you have the model.
mircea_popescu: it's always sad when
a great mind dies. it's worse when it just goes dark and keeps on living.
mircea_popescu: The final reason for my refusal is that the habit appeals to the quantitative mind and I come from
a culture in which the primarily quantitative mind does not evoke admiration. [
A major reason that we considered Roman Catholics to belong to
a lower class was precisely their quantitative bent: they always counted, number of faithful, number of days in purgatory, you name it.....]
mircea_popescu: whereas the hoodies of 2010 are
a testament of anomie.
mircea_popescu: perhaps. tho the "ibm look" of the 1980s was more of
a testament of obedience, much in the manner an [insecure] master may mandate slavegirls wear collars.