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mircea_popescu: "missouri constitution includes right to farm - this right doesn't include any actual activities ftr"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo how exactly can judge go "wait it doesn't include x" ?
mircea_popescu: brought to you by the "she's a whore anyway, what rape" department of legal thinking.
mircea_popescu: by the time yoiu're that old, more women held your cock to pee than to suck it anyway
mircea_popescu: mats you are perhaps too young to remember, but this is STILL DONE
mircea_popescu: i dunno dude. by the time being romanian's a crime in itself i have very little interest left in doing anything but killing people indiscriminately.
mircea_popescu: this stupidraven has come back to roost, where brainfried derps without a working interposed ideal layer are claiming the ideal object they fail to interfacr with is "really a real object nao".
mircea_popescu: the obviousness of all this is inescapable if one actually has at the same time the intellectual werewithal to regard the matter and the emotional disinterest of not giving a shit about the whole lot of it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but then to go on the strength of this and interpose "an ideal layer" between ideal objects an human industry is simply runaway complexity. because zero one infinity, once you got two you got an infinity and in practice everyone seems to end up trying to juggle an ever-approaching infinity number of balls.
mircea_popescu: which then had to interface with reality, and the whole subject of "ecology" is essentially trying to deal with one particular suite of bugs in this interfacing. which, incidentally, we know on good authority will NEVER be perfect.
mircea_popescu: there was the need to interpose an ideal layer between actual items and human industry.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field see basically, standard AS A THING even exist because
mircea_popescu: tbh the standard is : if you want to make a "new language" and you don't have written code that transforms WITHOUT ERROR all other programs in all other languages to yours, you do not have a lnaguage.
mircea_popescu: exactly this is at issue. what "competing language spaces" for crying out loud. explain to me the "competition" to be had between waveform and heisenberg notation already.
mircea_popescu: like, ask engineer "what's the result of dividing apple by orange ?" "zero" sort of thing
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i think that's an undefined result of an out of domain operation you're choosing to interpret a certain way.
mircea_popescu: so i'll condense this yet vague and uncoallesced and thus impractical notion in my head by saying : that a body of standards is where engineering starts with physical objects ; and the proof engineering failed with ideal objects.
mircea_popescu: it still doesn't follow that you should treat them like a nut and a bolt.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> it is when it ~began~ << yes, and engineering in "making real objects" sense is exactly that. but from this it does not follow that the same everywhere!
mircea_popescu: yes, it's true that irl if i misplace the screw and then sit on it it'll puncture my ass.
mircea_popescu: there is clearly a problem here. ideal objects (such as software) are not comensurate with physical objects. this attempt to "engineer programs like screws" was a reasonable first hack at the novel an dunexpected problem,
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the things they have to pick in nature ARE AN IMPOSITION OF NATURE. the reason you need to pick screw sizes is because "your screw" shares its physical attributes with a different item of the same shape in the same place.
mircea_popescu: "we are the best practices body for functional analysis"
mircea_popescu: but as far as software, and computer programming generally, standards are actually the proof positive engineering failed.
mircea_popescu: i get it, your only experience with movement comes from observing nature.
mircea_popescu: the notion that good engineering = standards, by the way, is a specific bit of fucktardation not unlike "good flying machines have moving parts".
mircea_popescu: it should be "mom, look what i don't need to do. chief among which, i don't need to go "mom, look what ican do.""
mircea_popescu: i think a lot of computing continued unchecked on a paradigm of "mom, look what ~I~ can do!!11"
mircea_popescu: the only reasonable conclusion here, from an outside eye, is that too much complexity is the problem. throughout.
mircea_popescu: well inasmuch as you made some irc comments, no. i did look to see if your balance had magically vanished, which it had not.
mircea_popescu: is reddit anything more than usg employees talking to spammers ?
mircea_popescu: "Imagine you get pulled over for speeding once and they smell the meth or weed then search your shit, your fucked."
mircea_popescu: i have a running mmorpg that's simpler. gimme a fucking break. bitcoin is not part of the os-mmorpg-bitcoin trinity.
mircea_popescu: incidentally : bitcoin is, as is, both needlessly and too fucking complex.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: not quite, but the "what does this knob do" investigations are starting to run into human memory failures.
mircea_popescu: dude what do you want from me ;/ i had nfi what to do with things.
mircea_popescu curses the poor, informal quality of his own previous approach to the problem V solves
mircea_popescu: atm the explanations are, bad tcp/ip implementation on the machine running it in a very subtle way, or some issue in the firewalls downstream
mircea_popescu: ascii_field thanks. alrighty, leave this for now until i can have something more sensible to say from this end.
mircea_popescu: in other news, from #eulora : <VariaVarietatis> What is the best way to buy and hold a little bit of btc so I can buy copper from jurov ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo when you're done with that i got a bit of malbolge needs reversing.
mircea_popescu is too lazy to log etc, but... did he also helpfully edit the history ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field for what it's worth, dc swears up and down and has under grilling for the past coupla days that, in its own english, "By the way, our admin monitors said that no unplanned reboots were not."
mircea_popescu: see alf, the crumbling of the empire starts in the craddle.
mircea_popescu: Nowadays, I believe, bed-wetting in such circumstances is taken for granted. It is a normal reaction in children who have been removed from their homes to a strange place. In those days, however, it was looked on as a disgusting crime which the child committed on purpose and for which the proper cure was a beating."
mircea_popescu: "Soon after I arrived at Crossgates (not immediately, but after a week or two, just when I seemed to be settling into routine of school life) I began wetting my bed. I was now aged eight, so that this was a reversion to a habit which I must have grown out of at least four years earlier.
mircea_popescu: certainly a better novelist than literary critic / sociophilosopher / w/e he fancied himself.
mircea_popescu: merits–thereby distorting their aesthetic and ethical understanding–is a great evil, as is every untruth."
mircea_popescu: ve, he has once again re-read the entire works of Shakespeare, including the historical plays, and I have felt with an even greater force, the same feelings–this time, however, not of bewilderment, but of firm, indubitable conviction that the unquestionable glory of a great genius which Shakespeare enjoys, and which compels writers of our time to imitate him and readers and spectators to discover in him non-existent
mircea_popescu: "Tolstoy begins by saying that throughout life Shakespeare has aroused in him "an irresistible repulsion and tedium". Conscious that the opinion of the civilized world is against him, he has made one attempt after another on Shakespeare's works, reading and re-reading them in Russian, English and German; but "I invariably underwent the same feelings; repulsion, weariness and bewilderment". Now, at the age of seventy-fi
mircea_popescu: pretty much owned optics 100 years ago, moreso than the us or china own computing.