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mircea_popescu: http://ask.fm/Mircea_Popescu << check me out, i'm like popular and shit.
mircea_popescu: i distinctly recall this 16yos lip gloss too
mircea_popescu: ahahaha i recall that
TomServo: So, I woke up with this 1990s turd rolling around in my brain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WEtxJ4-sh4
mircea_popescu: i dunno what i mean anymore.
mircea_popescu: i mean racist
asciilifeform: i suggest that someone else try.
jurov: explain like i'm 5
mircea_popescu: "This is really, really autistic and I love it."
asciilifeform: although i hear those are still around and kicking, somewhere
mircea_popescu: but it must be noticed, this simple fact : the current shoehorning nuts approach to communication does in fact offer an absolute guarantee. even if what i say doesn't make sense on the first pass, either you reread and get it or you throw an error which THEN makes sense to me and i fix it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform imagine for a moment if you spoke a language derived out of ground down steel balls instead of shoehorned nuts found in the forest, and in exchange you had a chance for what i say to make any sort of sense comparable to the matter density of the universe.
asciilifeform: at any rate, i doubt mr o entertains delusions of his gizmo being imposed from above
Adlai: mircea_popescu: tl;dr because i'm about to leave for a movie?
mircea_popescu: <assbot> Logged on 16-05-2013 02:56:36; mircea_popescu: tell you wahjt, if i'm the boss of a tribe and i need a curtrency ima make teeth the currenyc. <<< shit that spelling.
Adlai: +asciilifeform | if no information asymmetry (i.e., everybody can see your cards) - no win. << each limit order Lᵢ is one of Nⱼ orders belonging to a single entity, say Pⱼ. Lᵢ are known, but unknowns include ⱼ, Nⱼ, and Lᵢ→Pⱼ
Adlai: interesting. seen a certain way, i'm a slow-bleeding rape of things like MACD crossover bots
asciilifeform: if no information asymmetry (i.e., everybody can see your cards) - no win.
assbot: Logged on 25-09-2014 21:16:22; asciilifeform: (in fact, i suspect that any bot whose strategy is not a game-theoretical-finesse-rape of other bots - is quite useless)
Adlai: if i'm ever too spammy in repeating this, please tell me
Adlai: fwiw, if anybody in here is interested in geeking out a little on scalpl and trying it out for themselves (or just get a better idea for how well it works atm), i'd gladly do that in PM. i try to keep my horn-tooting to a minimum, although http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-11-2014#913050 is still going ☝︎
assbot: Logged on 16-05-2013 02:59:23; Chaaang-Noi: i find your guys reaction to gold and silver as a store of value very funny :)
bounce: ew. I think I'll prefer rai stones, thanks.
assbot: Logged on 16-05-2013 02:56:36; mircea_popescu: tell you wahjt, if i'm the boss of a tribe and i need a curtrency ima make teeth the currenyc.
assbot: I scalp coin (@scalpcoin) on Twitter
gernika: mircea_popescu: im pretty sure 3rd stage reader actually has two cvasi-simultaneous processes where the same photogram as registered by eyes is first parsed for stems then parsed for endings and they get superimposed in a 3rd stage << Is "3rd stage" a reference to a formal description of the classes of reading ability that I can research elsewhere?
Adlai: asciilifeform: contract, so i can eat until the avenue ( http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=07-11-2014#913052 ) opens up again ☝︎
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu, bounce: "gods" << mayer l brenner's dance of the gods series was very entertaining. i endorse.
Adlai: i'm not sure anybody knows exactly how much of the collected works of erik naggum is trolling and how much is genuine hatred for bullshit and idiocy, but i imagine most was the latter
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: damned if i know. herr naggum was a shot, though. afaik it was one of his favourite pasttimes.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3185426046243327@naggum.net.html <<< i read a few dozen lines in that insane rant, then got bored, scrolled down past 4x as much material, ended up with the signature. sniper rifle ? srsly ? is this guy trolling ?
ben_vulpes: Adlai: "python", "anything.el" << perhaps i am an emacs hipster but i rely on Helm and Elpy.
asciilifeform: approximately: 'the soviet den of thieves / to council it did go; / the soviet den-of-thieves / to enemy, said 'no!' / we turned that bitch right in / to the chaps at kgb / since then, at not one prison / i ever him did see! '
mircea_popescu: from what i heard from the remnants of people actually involved, dealing with the germans was more or less like dealing with a party that had done a bunch of drugs, sober.
bounce: parallel construction! I knew it!
bounce: the impression I got was that the SIGINT is quite good, but the inter-office communication not so much
Naphex: asciilifeform: hey, in the small town i live in, like 300k
Naphex: what i'm thinking is that they just infiltrate comunities, and then start drilling down
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform exactly. which is the angle that i stand behind here. usg is using the tor as it was designed to be used, meanwhile lies about how they got the data, and the people accused are too fucking stupid for that not to stick.
mircea_popescu: "can use spoon to eat soup but not paddle a small boat. because i am an idiot" wtf.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> punkman: hah, same story as SR1.0 <<< im not so sure i believe that, incidentally. iut's called parallel construction for a reason, and that reason is, "lying through the teeth". << SR 1.0 parallel construction, SR 2.0 comedy of errors
mircea_popescu: notably, primitive minds in egypt had pretty much the same fiirm conviction last i visited.
mircea_popescu: i don't happen to be stuck in either of those two fixations that he proposes as fundamental, and somehow the sky is not falling upon the earth.
mircea_popescu: " Losing respect for people is the first step towardsthe criminally insane mind. Losing the ability to think of otherhuman beings as of one's own kind is the last, the idea that one isdifferent from others, an outsider to humanity. You have crossed thatcrucial line, probably a long time ago." <<< fwiw, naggum i trivially invalidated by example.
asciilifeform: something i can certainly sympathize with.
mircea_popescu: i would say the definition-tree for the average noun is megabytes long.
mircea_popescu: anyway, for the record, because i realised this while sleeping re some convo a few days ago : "knowing what a word means" is, for the marginally illiterate "read-by-letter" type, a matter of memorizing definitions. this however is at best a sorry approximation of the real deal.
asciilifeform: 'I have concluded that it is a phenomenal curse when it is and children experience that they can guess faster than they can learn. This latter thing is what I mostly associate with stupidity, however, and why I do _not_ equate intelligence with absence of stupidity. Quite the contrary, the more intelligent, the more potential to be stupid in just this crucial way, to believe that what you can pick out of your o
chetty: nah, I grew up with 'sound it out', and 'look it up' always linked.
mircea_popescu: i hold that libtards are born by using "own head" as a source to extract the unknown.
mircea_popescu: i dispute this is a limit.
mircea_popescu: (i mean, cases where the text was correct, but your brain threw an exception)
asciilifeform: aha, i for one reread when 'brain compiler' spews 'syntax error'
mircea_popescu: for that matter, i mostly read by-sentence-structure, especially when skimming
mircea_popescu: "I was able to validate my hypothesis that quite a few English-speakers lack phonological awareness and are not aware of the alphabetic principle. Many people have simply memorized some number of words, by sight and by sound. And since learning Unspell involves having the ability to analyze spoken English as a series of phonemes, people who have been taught to read English using the “look and say” method, which doe
chetty: well this rape culture thing seems to mostly consist of lopped off balls, that is something I regret. Much better uses than fertilizer for such things
asciilifeform: in ru net, there is actually a perversely reactive 'memecult' based on 'lookatme, i'm not a special snowflake at all!' - folks replacing their 'avatar pics' with little red squares with 'serial number'
chetty: I been hearing that term 'rape culture' a lot recnetly, what the hell is that?
mircea_popescu: somehow i forgot to mention this prior, sorry if it ruins anything guise.
mircea_popescu: in other news, i don't want to be a fat black woman.
mircea_popescu: assbot: Gavin Andresen: I don't want to be 'king of Bitcoin' <<< mmmmywah, that was really on the table lol.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: so what's best practice when something like this gnupg 2.1.0 modern comes out? <<< i use 1.4 branch. depends what you're after, but in general best practice is read the update notes see if anything you actualy want [then in the unlikely case that yes, patch your sources with just that and recompile].
mircea_popescu: punkman: don't think I've ever had a good mango <<< ew, you're missing out.
mircea_popescu: and i must say, i have never in my life seen public works like in argentina. so three days ago they announced they will fuck up the sidewalk before my building, and garage won't be accessible for two days. then two days ago they fucked it up, yesterday they were fixing it and today it's all fine, new pavement.
mircea_popescu: i mean he's a god for crying out loud, what bs is this insecure egotism as depicted by teh jews. nonsense i say!
mircea_popescu: incidentally, if one were a god, but i mean actual, honest-to-god god. wouldn't you expect he'd mostly want to hang out with assorted unbelievers, unrepentant sinners and firebrand heretics ?
mircea_popescu: sinners i swear
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla i dun get it ?
mircea_popescu: punkman: hah, same story as SR1.0 <<< im not so sure i believe that, incidentally. iut's called parallel construction for a reason, and that reason is, "lying through the teeth".
assbot: Gavin Andresen: I don't want to be 'king of Bitcoin'
Vexual: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKvA3AN3ApY if i die you can laugh
cazalla: BingoBoingo, what i read as a fix is just as likely to be now broken and vice versa, so i would prefer to defer to those smarter in here, i'm sure someone will discuss the addition of elliptic curve keys at some point
jurov: I suggest to use this excerpt from the gpg announcement: "Die Gedanken sind frei. Ausnahmen regelt ein Bundesgesetz."
cazalla: i mean in regards to using it or not
Vexual: i like dried
punkman: but I got there too late
punkman: don't think I've ever had a good mango
Vexual: i just hadmy frist mango for the year
Vexual: i signed up to sr 1.0 just to look
cazalla: if i was a small time operator and wanted to steal some coins, maybe i'd copy/pasta the silkroad 2.0 shut down images and claim i too got shut down and knick whatever coins were on the site
cazalla: yeah but i've never heard of em, not into drugs so i'd have to spend half the day finding out about these small sites and then they're shut down now anyway so difficult to verify
mircea_popescu: ah i've not gone through the complaint.
punkman: mircea_popescu: re: deed errors, guess I should make it say "3rd deed invalid" instead
Vexual: well, I also liken you to him a lot
asciilifeform: in the past season i got to watch precisely how deer work.
mircea_popescu: best i can see he's the luddite sort of socialist, believes technology empowers intelligence to manifest as difference
asciilifeform: as i gather, he sees bezzlamatics as baked into, fuck knows, aristotle onwards.
mircea_popescu: take my earlier piece re cooling. i in fact had counted fucking gas molecules, in the untold zilions.
asciilifeform: but, suffering from some of the same intellectual vices, i find him entertaining
mircea_popescu: see, dirty thinker. i mean the squirels are a much ulterior consideration to thinking.
mircea_popescu: i dunno.
mircea_popescu: so i suppose "in the real world" pluricellular organisms don't exist.
mircea_popescu: decimation: if you want something modern and not a rusty bucket you are talking ~$1-2 bn and your money can't buy one << you gotta be kidding me. an aircraft carrier is like 5bn. and i mean a large 100k tdw one, not the shitty 50k uk has.
mircea_popescu: Adlai: but sometimes it takes a tough turd to season a savory salmon <<< i've yet to see this in practice.
mircea_popescu: i am blessed in that i can just order cake into being.
thestringpuller: i thought it was the insurance companies
thestringpuller: i guess people got sick of being the "gemholder"
cazalla: yeah, i'm aware of how it goes, i buy from you for $750, we both say it was $75,000
mircea_popescu: PeterL: Speaking of bezzle, I just did my yearly health insurance signup. makes me mad how much I have to pay now, about 4 times as much as two years ago for the same crappy plan <<< terrorist doesn't understand how obamacare works.
Adlai: decimation: i'd think that if you have that kind of money, you wouldn't be buying an entire sub anyways