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mircea_popescu: this is mostly important because considering on one hand the uninformed low level arithmeticizing of reality prevalent in the esl world, and on the other the utter insanities passed for "graphs" on the forum, but also generally in the world - say that abject "cross model", people really need
a little example of PROPER use of numbers.
mircea_popescu: phillipsjk the deleted 2020 is more of
a playful rethorical device
mircea_popescu: bucharest is and always was such
a hellhole the likes of which no one has ever seen.
mircea_popescu: phillipsjk if every 170k blocks it increases 35 times, and there's 365 days to the year and 24 hours to the day and 6 blocks in
a hour
mircea_popescu: "can't figure it out when
a mater of abstract objects ? that's fine, do it over but with cunts and fucking this time. see if the carefully evolved mamallian brain isn't more
a help than
a hindrance in matters it's actually evolved to handle!"
mircea_popescu: i had this girl... she was
a psych grad. weighed about 50 kgs if dressed, and had spent three years as the prison shrink.
mircea_popescu: i guess i'd do okay as
a lord with his own court in some marsh cca 1300, but otherwise...
mircea_popescu: i'd probably make
a horrible judge, on the grounds that i'm generally inclined to let off everyone who kills purposefully.
mircea_popescu: "One ought not to pay any attention to Hitler's recent line of talk about being the friend of the poor man, the enemy of plutocracy, etc etc. Hitler's real self is in MEIN KAMPF, and in his actions. He has never persecuted the rich, except when they were Jews or when they tried actively to oppose him. He stands for
a centralised economy which robs the capitalist of most of his power but leaves the structure of society
decimation: actually, I would consider getting
a german-speaking au pair
decimation: there was
a class locally, but it was canceled for lack of interest
mircea_popescu: yeah, you want her to learn german, get her
a german speaking dog/
decimation: I'm trying to teach her German, but it goes much better with
a native speaker
cazalla: seems like
a sure fire way to give your kid brain damage
decimation: my daughter loves her 'app' that forces her to re-order numbers, letters, and phrases to receive
a cartoon reward
mircea_popescu: i borrowed an ipad for
a coupla weeks to check out the games and i gave it back without regrets - more with relief.
mircea_popescu: i have half
a dozen laptops which i use... maybe
a day
a season, or something, between the lot.
mircea_popescu: i guess im
a reactionary. i own, substantially, the exact kind of machine i had as
a child.
mircea_popescu: good god.
a cloud of now useless paper, and
a criminal eyed mp
mircea_popescu: and the worst thing
a maid could do is drop
a wreath of books on the way to shelving
decimation: no, it's
a 'read-only' device. the model is that the reader has nothing to say
mircea_popescu: o wait, this is like
a woman that's useful as long as another woman is around ?
decimation: but probably not fast enough for
a full terminal
decimation: today you could build
a really cheap serial terminal, perhaps with 'e-ink' display
decimation: had
a 'laser scanner' peripheral, even
decimation: aye, my first job was
a library clerk, using an ibm serial terminal
decimation: actually that little device (wi-copy) would be
a good buy just to harvest the parts
decimation: ah no the android software is running on
a phone connected to the device, sorry for the confusion
BingoBoingo: That it was. I wasn't
a fan of the aesthetics of the redesign
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: 89 was same "civillian" form factor as 83, On the 92 user accessible rom like that could be
a thing.
mircea_popescu: "And yet somehow the ruling class decayed, lost its ability, its daring, finally even its ruthlessness, until
a time came when stuffed shirts like Eden or Halifax could stand out as men of exceptional talent. As for Baldwin, one could not even dignify him with the name of stuffed shirt. He was simply
a hole in the air. "
decimation: it was built as
a favor to one of the wash dc land barons
decimation: asciilifeform: re: road 200 << I actually drove on this road
a few times. it was pointlessly empty, as well as having
a low speed limit (55 mph)
mircea_popescu: myeah. obviously point meant as
a general - and thus indefensible - jab >
mircea_popescu: 'I don't want to join the bloody Army, I don't want to go unto the war; I want no more to roam, I'd rather stay at home, Living on the earnings of
a whore.'
mircea_popescu: set it to go off whenever
a large collection of radiodildoes, phones and toy cars goes over it
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform heh reuters has
a yearlong delay off trilema huh.
mircea_popescu: people's disenchantment with their own wives isn't predicated on the theory that somewhere there's
a sane woman waiting.
mircea_popescu: decimation they probably manifest that list of qualities which made "state' such
a damning adjective in romanian.