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mircea_popescu: (though i've read many convincing arguments that utf-8 is new jersey brain dead) << al lyou need to know is that it's what seems to have been left standing once the pain of "gotta support bullshit" washed off.
mircea_popescu: should have taken a god fearting major like the letters.
mircea_popescu: you god damned mathematician folk and your insane demands of language.
mircea_popescu: just because bunches of barbarians "do without" the ablative doesn't mean they can fucking think in their pigdin
mircea_popescu: this is not how things fgucking work. text means latin.
mircea_popescu: "oh, hurr, i kinda like the bible and my name is john smith".
mircea_popescu: and i will ritously say this is americanism at its finest. "oh, i like this girl, what need of her fambly ? we'll just live together under a blanked of sky, alone, like those two kids in the chinese myth!".
mircea_popescu: no matter how elegant the pretense can be made to appear.
mircea_popescu: a badly defined notion CAN NEVER fit well into a machine
mircea_popescu: and just because you can't see where this problem breaks shit down from where you sit doesn't mean it's not gonna. it will.
mircea_popescu: just because you can elegantly package idiocy in sexpr does not alter what text is
mircea_popescu: explain this to me. what the fuck is a "sane notion of text" ?
mircea_popescu: text means a very specific thing. latin alphabet. nothing else. if you'd rather work with 文本, work with 文本.
mircea_popescu: and it was important to separate the cowstumers from the coolies.
mircea_popescu: back then they still hoped china might be just a sort of magical closet.
mircea_popescu: wouldn't it be great if you couldn't read azn code because "if" was written in coolie ?
mircea_popescu: i suppose the people who inform me also didn't think much of it.
mircea_popescu: an ufo chock full of partying alien sluts on alien spring break could ~easily~ land in brooklyn too
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there is a huge wall of fire between easily and probably.
mircea_popescu: a) they know the secret is out, so this candle is burning - gotta use it NOW for maximum impact
mircea_popescu: and that what they attempt to do with the recently stolen item is to try and muddy up wikileaks is, at least to my eyes informative.
mircea_popescu: actually as frustrating as it is, iirc there was always a good reason
mircea_popescu: how do you do that from oxford, you swim the channel or something ?
mircea_popescu: THIS is why peasant chicks wistfully wisted for l'etudiant. because it is fucking fascinating, you are seriously telling me you can ~just go~ ?!?!?!
mircea_popescu: whereas the vagabond could carry all his possessions in his head!
mircea_popescu: this was immense - at the time a peasant who wanted to move, provided he somehow managed, had to fucking drag his entire possessions, on a rug. no wheels even, because too fucking techy for a peasant.
mircea_popescu: everyone had one, and you could walk from basel to luxembourg.
mircea_popescu: the whole fantasy is very cs-scientist level of naive. read villon's testament - it should make it very plain what the point of university life was cca 1500 : THAT YOU COULD WALK IT.
mircea_popescu: as a ready shorthand, remember that in 1400 the entire material production of the entire archipelago was worth about the same as that of one neighbourhood in milan.
mircea_popescu: three centuries later the dutch conquered england, moved their fleet there and so yes oxford eventually flourished. but the claim that it was "there in the 13th century" is spurious.
mircea_popescu: at the time, the english were exactly like the 1600s scots (see their darien gap adventure). so they copied the bitcoin out of some idle kids and some peasants, which ended kloinking each other in the head.
mircea_popescu: at the time the paris university was starting the entire university thing, the king of france wouldn't have traded a middling french province for all of england ; which also he didn't.
mircea_popescu: the thesis was whether oxford was there in the original wot. it was not.
mircea_popescu: derpy brits keep trying to retcon their insignificant island into things.
mircea_popescu: " If you wanted to learn, you headed towards where the books were and the people who could read them and that meant the great universities like Paris and Oxford."
mircea_popescu: "The media's preferred symbol for the disintegration of public order is looting, i.e the opposite of shopping."
mircea_popescu: well toy maker i dunno, but you can do it if you care.
mircea_popescu: i don't get this : not like you can't put encryption on top of a clear channel
mircea_popescu: yes. the original one : you have to put a golden bubble around your kid's neck so powerful man behaving badly knows to rape some other kid in the gaggle of kids your kid's playing with.
mircea_popescu: either that or flush them in one of those special hopsital toilets
mircea_popescu: anyway, the problem is this : out of a billion people, his father in 1960 was part of a group of a million, and the other 999 million were more than happy to be coolies. today, the author is part of the group of the useless.