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mircea_popescu: "oh, parallel construction". really ? why, because someone's gonna believe
this
that wouldn't have believed anything else anyway ?
mircea_popescu: i have no fucking idea why freenode feels
the need
to go
to
the inept lengths of all
this, OBVIOUSLY
they leak all ips
to usg. what
the fuck is writing extra state in
the machine gonna do exactly.
mircea_popescu: eh,
this was an entirely novel behaviour. apparently, i "disconnected" except not, and
then i "reconnected" except not.
mircea_popescu: and
the reason of course is bullshit 0 fee nonsense like 79910ccfde98875181b1abfec727fd0c19eb13cf1cd60bf0134c45f92278ed90 being mined.
mircea_popescu: this is for
the single address payment, 1/4 kb sort of item.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, per-tx fee
to ensure next-block is now ~3 bucks.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi what one'd have
to
think, comparing
the very elegant late 1800s items, often found on same street as
the humongously ugly 1930, and not weep.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
there's
that entire graceless "neogreek" ustardian
thing.
mircea_popescu: lol wtf is
this "pay homeless dude
to smoke my
totally novel bomb idea!!" nonsense.
mircea_popescu: they're disguising
the bollards as planets ? such subtle.
mircea_popescu: in any case, before getting angry and
taking a hatchet
to
the b) above, consider
that
the possiblity of loving a woman is strictly dependent on, you've guessed it, public expenditure not following efficiency paradigm.
phf: we have periodic
threads on scientism also, "i fucking love science", dawkins army, scientific realism, etc.
mircea_popescu: "i dun care what you fucking idiots say, show me
the proof of
this,
the logic of
that, who counted
these beans, wtf are you doing!"
mircea_popescu: in fact,
the "being impressed with science"
thing is rather ~same blather as "being impressed with state", recent gaselnita.
mircea_popescu: then again newton himself was not so very impressed with math ; certainly not impressed enough
to favour it above his religious studies.
mircea_popescu: religion for as long as it doesn't actually get in
the way of what i'm
trying
to do right now".
a111: Logged on 2017-05-19 20:22 asciilifeform: ( summary : 0**0 != 1 would make expansion of
taylor series a bitch )
mircea_popescu: now, obviously
the protest will be "but mp, your example with newton is scandalous, math is a fucking science". yes, it is. in
theory. in practice it is not, as far as every non-practician is concerned math is a religion by definition, and what's worse -- even as far as brilliant practicians are concerned! because what else do you make of
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-19#1659407 than "i am fine with interacting with math qua
☝︎ mircea_popescu: every religion is similar
to every other in
the fundamental points
that a) it is only accessible
to
the "initiated",
the bar for which is never so low as
to not demand
the subject WANTING
TO get it and b) public expenditure (not necessarily in
the shape of coin) is not driven by any sort of efficiency paradigm.
mircea_popescu: his position was ~same :
this shit makes no sense
to me, shouldn't make any sense
to you, and in any case should have no
temples (ie, public expenditure).
a111: Logged on 2017-04-19 15:38 mircea_popescu: incidentally, alf is correct on one point :
there is a painful spot in
the history of psychology (the pseudoscience). let us delve :
mircea_popescu: anyway,
there's significant linkage between eg "If you’re having
trouble understanding what any of
that means,
there are
two important points
to consider. First, we don’t understand it either. Nobody does.
This problem should have rendered it unpublishable in all peer-reviewed, academic journals." and, picking randomly,
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-19#1646034 / J. Michael Bailey lulz.
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2017-04-05 14:25 mircea_popescu:
this is usually included by
the shorthand string "bibliography"
mircea_popescu: but
this sort of bureaucratic scribble is very much not in
the vein
the matter is
taken. nobody's seriously interested in
the fact
that citations are bullshit --
they're bullshit
throughout and
this is by and large accepted and deemed acceptable as seen by
the whole
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-05#1637747 thing
☝︎ ben_vulpes: the part where it passes peer review with wholly fabricated citations is pretty funny
though!
mircea_popescu: n added c) it is coherent with
the rest of
the crap his nutty mathematician friends do, so clearly
that's
the only reason
they say "they can
tell
the lion by his claw".
mircea_popescu: you know, i'm sorry
to rain on anyone's parade, but
this "skeptic" "post structuralist gender
theory" piece is perfectly fine from said perspective. makes fine sense
to me.
the whole exercise is not so different from "proving"
that, eg, newton letters are "pompous" and "improper discourse" because a) he uses a lot of symbols and purpose-made constructs and b) some of
the stuff it says is counterintuitive
to
the layman. with a
a111: Logged on 2017-05-17 16:34 ben_vulpes: we call
these "lykkins"
pete_dushenski: the 'street' is definitely important in conveying
the vagabondiness so associated with pickpockets
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: dats
true. maybe street whore. or street slut.
mircea_popescu: how ~do~ you call it anyway ?
the "hates men and capitalism"
tomboy
that'll beg and if desperate fuck for pay ? like
that mentally ill nut with
the "scum manifesto"
mircea_popescu: or however you call in english
the hooker/pickpocket combo.
mircea_popescu: yeah,
this would be "plastic artist", ie, painter. but
there's also
the you know, "performance artist", ie,
tramp.
ben_vulpes: no
the kinda guy who played in bands in his early
twenties and
then got hoovered into $deathcorp because he can string passable sentences
together and shit out
the odd mockup.
mircea_popescu: are you
thinking "plastic artist" specifically, or do you include all
the dorkage, "performance" etc ?
ben_vulpes: ugh
this
thread is just comparing kinds of roaches
ben_vulpes: eh, "ux expert" more likely
to be a bad artist
than js anything
mircea_popescu: and every
tiresome hipster
thinks himself at least a little hacker. reddit and wikipedia is practically a hax already yes ? LIFEHACKS!
ben_vulpes: we all know
the alexas are relaying everything
to
the nsa's stats machines, "whatever, man, i just wanna get some more point on my steam collection"
ben_vulpes: no lykkin would ever
think
themselves a 'hacker' omfg, waste
time soldering
things
together
they can buy pre assembled?
mircea_popescu: maybe
the problem is just senescent myopia, i fail
to distinguish a hipster from a web designer from a "backend engineer" from an etc.
ben_vulpes: in my experience
the hipsters now live 3
to a room and
the corporate "senior javascript engineers" have
the mortgages
mircea_popescu: there's no reasonable expectation
that 2017 "hacker" can add ;
there'll be no reasonable expectation
that 2040 "artist" can fuck, or locomote.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes such a disjunction was originally predicated re hackers and hipsters. guess what - 20 years healed
the rift.
mircea_popescu: basically
they stumbled on metaphysics. very comfortable, all
this.
ben_vulpes: i gotta point out
that a lykkin is far more likely
to have a mortgage and beer belly by 23
than
to shack up with artists who might make awkward social situations what with
the dating multiple women and other such unspeakables
pete_dushenski: and "global warming caused lice
to infest my body hair"
mircea_popescu: i suppose next stop is angry newspaper articles about how global warming burned a bunch of
the lychens in some "artist studio" somewhere. because it
totally was not
the piled up dry garbage.
pete_dushenski: or "no one
told us building DOWN into permafrost was a
terrible idea so it's not our fault, we couldn't have known"
mircea_popescu: they get a free card. certainly NOT
their bumbling idiocy digging
the
thing in
the first place sent gushing meltwater. o no. not
that.
pete_dushenski: "It was designed as an impregnable deep-freeze
to protect
the world’s most precious seeds from any global disaster and ensure humanity’s food supply forever. But
the Global Seed Vault, buried in a mountain deep inside
the Arctic circle, has been breached after global warming produced extraordinary
temperatures over
the winter, sending meltwater gushing into
the entrance
tunnel." << no one fails more
pete_dushenski: jeez
that group is 80% jew by mass and
the other 20% is still eastern mediterranean. fuckimbiased!
pete_dushenski: i'd put
taleb, greenspun,
tyler cowen, russ roberts, and matt levine in
this camp.
pete_dushenski: there's something strangely appealing about reading
the musings of nearly sentient middle-aged gentleman of
the fiat persuasion.
they're just a bit
too over
the hill
to be here, but were
they fortunate
to have been born just a decade or
two later,
they would've/could've/should've made fine republican specimens.
pete_dushenski: if only greenspun wasn't so old, jewy, and busy with winblozboxen, he could shut up about 'no-fault divorce' and how 'banging school principal in mass. is a better career choice for girls
than medicine' and just suggest
the only right and proper remedy
to
that particular poison pill.
pete_dushenski first read alimentary independence as alimonial independence, figured
that bitcoin was as staunch a defense against prying states/spouses as anything
pete_dushenski: big
time. i rarely eat out because between
the girl at home and
the chef girl at
the office, restaurants just seem slow, overpriced, and less amenable
to my sundry whims and fancies
mircea_popescu: quite a different story
to be eating out cuz want
to eat out vs cuz want
to eat.
mircea_popescu: rather. just like you know,
taking back alimentary independence is making
the girls capable
to cook anything if need be, not everything all
the
time.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu:
thx for
the latest activism piece! very much enjoyed
the call
to arms. now,
to figure out how
to do away with fiat banks entirely...
pete_dushenski: Framedragger:
that paper is g-g-g-g-gold. should win pulitzer. hey if maya angelou can be nominated,
these guys deserve it
take home whole shebang.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-19 22:26 asciilifeform: didja have
the woman write
this post, pete_dushenski , or wat
mircea_popescu: that's
the whole story. if you're not ok with your kid cutting up
the puppy you bought it
to see what's inside, you're not ok with having a dick.
there's no stop on
the slope.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger come
to
think about it,
the logic actually follows. nature is red in
tooth and claw.
the hysteria of "removing
the red from nature's
tooth and claw", usually sold by
the "our democracy" lunatics as "rule of law" or equivalent, directly runs all
the way
to "male penis is not reproductive organ but social construct".
☟︎ ben_vulpes: didja
throw wires, or pete_dushenski's regrind of
the getpeerinfo backport or any other strange into
the
tree?
danielpbarron: i got a bitcoind
to compile with
the latest instructions and it is confirmed
to add new blocks
to my pre-existing .bitcoin which is now currently at height 450026
BingoBoingo: OMG, did
they just marginalize penises of color?
Framedragger: "We intended
to
test
the hypothesis
that flattery of
the academic Left’s moral architecture in general, and of
the moral orthodoxy in gender studies in particular, is
the overwhelming determiner of publication in an academic journal in
the field." noshit.jpg but also applause.jpg
ben_vulpes: i salute
the noise-floor raising achievements so displayed
Framedragger: "Some references cite
the Postmodern Generator"
ben_vulpes: "...and is
the conceptual driver behind much of climate change"