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mircea_popescu: supposedly some of the original crew at least for part of it
mircea_popescu: they got python to work with it in six weeks over pizza, and they still don't have python that works with special chars
mircea_popescu: and tcp with 2nd chan did not catch on precisely because added complexity.
mircea_popescu: im starting to think there's really a lot more than meets my eye.
mircea_popescu: and utf-8, or whatever other unfixed width translation scheme, is the right approach ?
mircea_popescu: so you agree that actually ascii is dumb and has no place in computing ?
mircea_popescu: but by that same principle, ascii is an unacceptable convention.
mircea_popescu: so you're not really defending a principle, you're just saying "we already have all the complexity for X idiocy, and not for Y idiocy, thus X i won't notice and Y i'll reject"
mircea_popescu: im not really interested in the practical example, but in the theoretical objection.
mircea_popescu: i can write a manual for how to interact with my file with hashes in it
mircea_popescu: there is necessarily no difference, at the conceptual level we're discussing, between "don't put hash in file" and "ascii doesn't exist"
mircea_popescu: the fact that your cat /dev/random breaks things is PROOF that you are already using something like "hash" in your file.
mircea_popescu: but on what basis does this particular alphabet exist.
mircea_popescu: because what is the difference between "this file is noted in ascii" and "this file includes a hash"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform back to the earlier issue. how do you reconcile your concept of "a file" with your concept of notation ?
mircea_popescu: except you can't "coin" anything if nobody ever heard about you or cared to read your stuff.
mircea_popescu: The term "alexithymia" was coined by psychotherapist Peter Sifneos in 1973
mircea_popescu: because if you say it in greek it ceases to be contemptibly stuopid.
mircea_popescu: in any case, sure, "buterin and hearn invented bitcoin in 2017" is just about the same deal.
mircea_popescu: but i am curious to see if this new trend will in some sort of timeframe bring us the black man invented cellphone of 2020
mircea_popescu: the two women named, miller and the other one, are unrelated to any academic field and especially unimportant for child rearing or child psychology.
mircea_popescu: b) it readily describes all sorts of known-broken apprtoaches and techniques. such as the use of blackmail. it pointedly has nothing to do with either beating or set time breastfeeding
mircea_popescu: that wikipedia article is a rare example of extreme millitant ignorance.
mircea_popescu: i just don't see any cause to suspect this is what they;'re talking about
mircea_popescu: and as the chief procurer pointed out "if you break the guidance at any point, we're still gonna call it stealth"
mircea_popescu: turns out the stealth airplane is not stealth in any sense.
mircea_popescu: then again i also didn't know telegram is some sort of chatroom, so.
mircea_popescu: there is no basis that i can perceive on which one could propose that the term "quantum" as used by usg in any context has any meaning.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if you add two and substract two and it comes out as what it was it's quantum resistant right ?
mircea_popescu: ridiculous. anyway, let teh usg keep on with the curves, wut.
mircea_popescu: we aren't recommending you do what we just recommended you do.
mircea_popescu: this is directly contradicting the last phrase in the previous snippet.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform wait wtf, don't move to suite b wait for suite qt ?!
mircea_popescu: anwyay, back to the issue. buck will maintain a perimeter of forest edge and brush. with his life.
mircea_popescu: so, no. the soviets will be obsessed with units of account.
mircea_popescu: there's a reason argentines are worried about "insecuridad" and mexicans abotu the fucking rain. they published a study here recently - the most worried about global warming is... south fucking america. they're still in the 1850s re sun here, even have their ozone.
mircea_popescu: the biological approach is, "all i need are three meals a day. half a meal a day is less than what i need, five meals a day is more. i prefer the latter"
mircea_popescu: it's not hard to explain tho. there's a political and a biological approach to life. the political approach is the thought of the alpha, the thing that results in half decade of trench warfare and a ruined europe : "either you sit lower than me or we fight."
mircea_popescu: there's no way to get rich while you sleep that doens't include everyone else getting richer.
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as at the time romanians declared they wish the latter, it was irrational.
mircea_popescu: in any case it makes the desires of post-capitalism, the welfare state and the consumerist society, impossible.
mircea_popescu: "teh shield of teh usg was strong in the 50s car industree"
mircea_popescu: do you know how many us car makers were all over japan in the 50s ?
mircea_popescu: like, say, at the time they were butchering around the don. how many hungarian dudes came over to ask questions ? dja know ?
mircea_popescu: do you know how many inquiries the mongols got from hungarians ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> or, if all else fails, the original gavinalert key. << not acceptable, been shared.
mircea_popescu: let me know if it actually makes any sense or i summarized to omuch