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mircea_popescu: g when their decks are awash. It is only that the other element in man, the lazy, cowardly, debt-bilking adulterer who is inside all of us, can never be suppressed altogether and needs
a hearing occasionally."
mircea_popescu: sentiments make no appeal. Nevertheless the high sentiments always win in the end, leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and
a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut in the torture chamber, battleships go down with their guns still firin
mircea_popescu: here asciilifeform : "I never read the proclamations of generals before battle, the speeches of Führers and prime ministers, the solidarity songs of public schools and left-wing political parties, national anthems, Temperance tracts, papal encyclicals and sermons against gambling and contraception, without seeming to hear in the background
a chorus of raspberries from all the millions of common men to whom these high
ben_vulpes: myeah, but i think i missed
a leap in your reasoning.
ben_vulpes: gabriel_laddel: for
a gentoo like what you describe, i'd go through the headaches of dual booting.
ben_vulpes: but that which gabriel_laddel described was
a damned siren song for
a boy who grew up on os x.
ben_vulpes: gabriel_laddel: i yet yearn for the day i dual boot os x and
a lispy gentoo
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: lol. The idea of
a closure doesn't need to be stretched out across several chapters, but e.g., the cl-ppcre chapter is good for the non-lisper to read.
mircea_popescu: an' tbh it wasn't much more than
a passing remark anyway, so we've made more of it than its frail back can carry
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the original point wasn't that there don't exist profilers, but that it's rare for
a language to put the bytecode in the programmer's face, and especially for
a new and (at least in my perception) hip one.
decimation: I am retiring gentlemen, have
a good evening
decimation: 1-based arrays are
a matlabism, which got it from fortran
decimation: I donno, they are probably selling each other software as
a service as
a service
BingoBoingo: substitute for perl, substitute for matlab, and all of this on version 2. Version 3 is
a hostile hardfork.
decimation: guido could have delivered
a better 'non-perl' instead of derping with stupid shit
mircea_popescu: decimation except ruby came to peak and then withered before python managed to get
a new major version out :D
decimation: who use it as
a license-free matlab (numpy)
trinque: might've taken
a while but the end result isn't
a piece of shit
trinque: almost done rsyncing my wad o blocks to the server; when I come back in
a bit imma publish the first bundle
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform basically, this thread is about new guy trying to make sense of the batshit insane that is b-
a.
mircea_popescu: of people with different characteristics. Animals are animals. It's
a thing into itself, not some anthropomorphized cuteness. Fundamentally, we could present the problem in saying that you're
a furry."
mircea_popescu: "You're thinking of animals based not on interaction with animals, but on interactions with human depictions of animals. Such as animals drawn by
a person in
a book, "animal" cartoon characters made to resemble people, people in animal plush costumes and so forth. All of this creates in you the false but deep seated impression that animals are residually
a sort of people. This is not true. Animals are not at all
a sort
phillipsjk: mircea_popescu, you called it :"The way the Air Force had it figured, if
a canopy could survive an impact with
a frozen bird, it would certainly live through
a chance introduction to one that could still fly under its own power. They further believed cold chickens provided
a better simulation of
a bird that had tensed to prepare for the impact. "
mircea_popescu: like the us borrowed
a uk gun, and then trying to understand why the damage was so bad asked the english
decimation: re: stronger airplane << can be
a problem - what if you want the engine to shut down?
decimation: they are actually
a fairly significant object to hit at high speed
decimation: I saw
a goose trying to cross an interstate once; it caused
a feather explosion
mircea_popescu: and to complete your headspin : there is no altruism, either ever seen or in principle possible, outside of
a domination/submission relationship.
mircea_popescu: but it would seem to me that even should i decide to take turns with the woman as to who's on top, this does not automatically preclude us from enjoying
a D/s relationship.
PeterL: I have
a couple of ebooks with typos like that
mircea_popescu: and to such
a degree they kill their children with their own hands, at that.
coderwill: the mass media pushes
a divisive agenda, whatever causes the most polarization makes the most profit
mircea_popescu: and b) wtf 2bn. i don't want to consider
a 2bn end scenario. what's wrong with 10 million ?
coderwill:
A few years ago I read
a white paper about this thing called the Olduvai Theory.
mircea_popescu: decimation quite exactly the trunk that my earlier "half
a milion people shoot half
a million cops".
decimation: for your impertinence is because you exercise power via the Constitution. If the Constitution doesn't count, you don't have any legitimate power. You are
a thief,
a brigand, an officiant busybody, somebody who should be tarred and feathered and run out of town on
a rail for trying to exercise power you don't possess. So, if you are going to--if we are going to start ignoring the Constitution, I'm fine with that; the first part I'm
decimation:
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/02/glenn_reynolds.html << "The parts he likes makes sense and the others are crazy; what do you do? Here's the problem with public officials--because that's really his audience--deciding to ignore the Constitution. If you are the President, if you are
a member of Congress, if you are
a TSA agent, the only reason why somebody should listen to what you say instead of horse-whipping you out of town
lobbes: mircea_popescu: seems dubious the us still has five years left in it. << would you not agree that it is already dead?
A decomposing body still sticks around for some time. Where is the line of 'no longer left'?
coderwill: mircea_popescu: interesting - i'm not sure if it will be similar to orwell, but i just bought
a book this afternoon called "the third policeman"
mircea_popescu: coderwill as chance would have it, im reading
a bit of orwell discussing exactly the same.
coderwill: i used to worry
a lot about what was going to happen in the world, but the things that are happening make no sense
mircea_popescu: he hibernates five years at
a time and would like to know if to drink some coffee.
mircea_popescu: completely unrelated, "Poe's outlook is at best
a wild romanticism and at worst is not far from being insane in the literal clinical sense. Why is it, then that stories like The Black Cat, The Tell-tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher and so forth, which might very nearly have been written by
a lunatic, do not convey
a feeling of falsity?"
mircea_popescu: no dude. send your aide de camp to drag
a naked victim behind his horse all the way to your gate and nail them there.
mircea_popescu: is enough reason to make his profession -ev for
a man of ability and intellect.
decimation: apparently while you are on
a hopeless mission in the desert you can email that 'socialite'
assbot: Logged on 02-08-2014 20:55:15; decimation: stand there, and look like
a captain. Chicks dig it. And yes, sir, it sure does pay.)"
assbot: Logged on 02-08-2014 20:55:13; decimation: "(I actually have great sympathy for the professional. In
a bureaucratic oligarchy like ours, the professional both rules and is ruled. At the top, there is no one on top of him. Yet he cannot change his mind. He would simply be replaced. There are always younger, more eager professionals. Sovereignty is conserved; it is always humans who rule; and yet, it seems that no one rules. Who gets to put
mircea_popescu: god help the man that
a) thinks ; b) gets
a result and c) expects the system to CHANGE to accomodate HIS result.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> thestringpuller prolly best to imgmagik it into
a png or jp << Actually used imagemagick 20 minutes ago assembling
a document package for qntra post in progress
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller prolly best to imgmagik it into
a png or jp
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller like 500-1k points on
a 700k field neh.
Vexual: GAMMPool spec are
a little thin, what do you actually wanna do?
mircea_popescu: for clearly it will not be the real camp, but merely
a spare one.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if that scrawny harpy is what
a fat paycheck buys in the us