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mircea_popescu: there WAS the molten metal tech, same as what they printed the 1929 nyt on. but cca 1970s it was replaced by photo
mircea_popescu: as usage i mean, not as the item.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-18#1658008 << idea was, you ~are~ 'moving' objects by asking them to be laid out on a display of unknown (to author) resolution. this began as a ~sane 'postscript' and bloviated into a usgologic monstrosity, pdf ☝︎
mircea_popescu: suddenly puts the ai as digital-machine-intelligence problem in its proper perspective, and also supplies a very good explanation for the genysym issue. people going think() are ACTUALLY approaching the river at the other end.
mircea_popescu: i'll receive it as i'll receive it, that's my problem.
mircea_popescu: depict in as what, adding some screenshots in the text ?
mircea_popescu: moli_ i think the media's just as petrified of saying my name today as years ago.
mircea_popescu: next time just load the fucking images, as images, like trilema does it.
phf: pretty much as close as it gets to pdf-izing html
asciilifeform: almost as if they have a if (xres < yres) barf()
Framedragger: as an example
Framedragger: yesyes, the whole format is broken, yes EC, so basically almost as bad as bitcoin :)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is literally free to produce whatever rubbish it likes. because this is somehow useful to the folx who were dropped as children and wrote unix.
Framedragger: is itoa implemented in stdlib by default, then, as expected? NO! because fuck you
mircea_popescu: this'd seem to explain why the redditards are single, as opposed to harem'd. not why they're poor.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-18 12:40 phf: i will probably get this wrong, but as far as i understand, here houses are sold any arbitrary number above list, and it's whatever seller can get away with
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-18#1657737 << as i understand it, house 'buying' (virtually nobody actually buys , in usa, they take out massive mortgage) by a human, is not a financial transaction in the usual sense, in the sense you buy petrol . it is instead a fat-harvesting transaction, where you pay 100% of what the lizards weigh you to be worth. ☝︎
ave1: my division was many times slower (as I did a shift N left on every iteration)
mircea_popescu: javascript idiots actually implemented base64 as "btoa" and "atob".
phf: i will probably get this wrong, but as far as i understand, here houses are sold any arbitrary number above list, and it's whatever seller can get away with ☟︎
mircea_popescu: almost as if it were the case the whole "contradictions" bs is really a subcase of "unearthing hypocrisy", ie the traditional codeword of the inept adolescent "fighting" with authority.
mircea_popescu: to be sold later as part of "sting operation".
asciilifeform: recall, i was handed one as prize
mircea_popescu: same as then. you bought right ?
mircea_popescu: mortar and pestle, graded pipettes, tube for your own burning, bunsen burners you could hook to same thing as stove, etc.
mircea_popescu: "leveraging the synergies" or how's it called, "ironing out the waste and inefficiency" ? anyway. why need apple when has windows and intel ? samsung can make the tablets as usg.intel profit center.
asciilifeform: it was a sort of canary - dying co. since 1990s, propped up by hell-knows-what, 'brand value', 'must maintain business-as-usual', i have nfi
asciilifeform: 'the fact that the back wheels were attached to the outside of the body rather than any kind of axle, as per the latest fashions and discoveries of French technology at the time' << l0l!!!
asciilifeform: i can still observe sharpened stick and guess, likely correctly, that it was made so as to go into flesh; vs different stick, that - again correctly - i will say broke off a tree, by the wind.
mircea_popescu: once it's obvious that either everything has a purpose or nothing does, it's therefore established there is no such thing as purpose.
mircea_popescu: the clear proof (for the expert) that purpose is meaningless is the simple fact that if you accept it, then it follows as universal, whereas if you don't accept it, it's universally absent. this is always and everywhere the fate of null notions.
mircea_popescu: which is why a good hospital is the one where the doctor says "well mr p, here's what we could do to you" as opposed to "here's what we want to do "
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this theory of yours is flawed. there is no such thing as purpose in nature.
ben_vulpes: not wrong so much as very fittingly /silly/
mircea_popescu: and the simile is, "if your lungs and liver and etcetera worked the way you code, you'd be just as dead as this guy."
a111: Logged on 2015-01-29 05:22 asciilifeform: as in, hot iron.
mircea_popescu: don't like the guy's driving, shoot his kid. sure, "kid is innocent", "that was uncalled for" bla bla. point fucking remains -- now he has to make another one, which takes no driving. at driving -- he sucks, so he can't appreciate what that means. putatively at other thing he doesn't suck nearly as much, so he CAN appreciate.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, but the usual retellings don't include the EMH reference, there's no explanation as to why it worked.
mircea_popescu: but the best thing that you could do as google manager is, have swat teams round up all the employees in a field somewhere, randomly shoot 10% and tell the rest the next round of shooting is in six weeks, they'd better impress.
asciilifeform: and as, interestingly, china's likewise did
mircea_popescu: vory/suka, for the record, is this ancient dispute in ru penal system, whereby it is verboten for respectable criminal to help the government. this going about as far as the jews, dudes won't push a fucking button.
mircea_popescu: the way scum reproduction works is that when scum's tiny it does dumb shit like this and nobody really cares about it ; then as it grows up it moves to stealing mysql and naming it something else, like facebook.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-17#1657324 << funnily mirror of the "We used to go out and talk to women, which was interesting, but it turns out you don't need to do all that, as there's all these... um... uh... massive...errr... data..sets, yeah, that's right, massive datasets to explore!" ☝︎
mircea_popescu: but they're not learning anything, which is to say, as a self-transformative activity. they're "learning" in the sense of "raising awareness" about themselves, which is to say : they expect, or rather act as if they rightfully expected, that the whole world changes so as to accomodate them as they are. that's the whole story of this "learning".
a111: Logged on 2017-02-18 22:29 asciilifeform: '... what was once dedication is replaced by greed and sometimes sheer need as the motivation to enter the field.'
phf: i saw a rambling talk by peter norvig (he called it "as we may program", considering the complete lack of substance that's as bombastic reference as it gets)
diana_coman: phf, the sad reality is that "school" nowadays *teaches* kids stack overflow/monkey copy/paste/ you-can-program-without-knowing-maths as "the way to learn"
BingoBoingo: And no, Apple is not as big as Sears was. Apple sells no iHouse, and Apple has never conducted a public service on the scale of Sears donations of toilet paper to the masses that they wrote off as marketing
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2017/05/sears-takes-tool-giant-tti-to-court-as-suppliers-flee/ << Qntra - Sears Takes Tool Giant TTI To Court As Suppliers Flee
trinque: trump loves suing people; what prevents him as president for suing the rag for libel?
asciilifeform: if the crate had not taken as long as it did, to come -- would have saved quite a bit of time.
asciilifeform: it ain't a rhetorical flourish, either -- nubbinses live life entirely same as a roach : set of reflexes
mircea_popescu: there's no such thing as genuine naivite enduring over half a decade unchanged.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, same as in korea - 20 years of slowly fading away.
mircea_popescu: ~same as best korea.
mircea_popescu: while that lasts. god knows the scum are trying their best to scumify china as well ; and sadder still -- the ~only reason it exists is that it's really just an alternate pathway to scum. slightly different sort of cockroach, that's all and no more.
mircea_popescu: but why! could have washed! good as new!
asciilifeform: incidentally, ~whole thing is trivially siliconizable/fpgaizable, given as it does not rely on von neumann flow control for anything
Framedragger: hailed as "citizen kane of bad movies". for a reason! it's terrible, horrible, amazing movie you should watch!
mircea_popescu: "same moo as op. moo."
asciilifeform: 'OSX El Capitan. SSD + 32 GB RAM, ENS app super sluggish yesterday and same problems as OP. backed-up everything, deleted Mist and support files, re-installed. imported jsons after merging, working fine now, except for the fact that owned domains to be finalized are disappearing from the side bar. Domains cannot be finalized when typed in, mist refuses address lookup, type in a different domain and the retype the domain to be finaliz
shinohai: The Ether DNS seems to still be in exact same shape as I wrote about weeks ago: https://github.com/ethereum/ens-registrar-dapp/issues/128#issuecomment-301561198
ben_vulpes: prototype the stack as a "turbo furace"
pete_dushenski: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-14#1655830 << speaking of throttles, 'car throttle' was started at the same time as my old car site by a very entrepreneurial brown brit by the name of adnan ebrahim. we used to email back and forth in those early, uncertain days and we met up in london in 2014 for a few drinks. he obviously went the vc-route and has done very well by the metrics of that world, certainly better ☝︎
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: not saying you should depart with btc for $car, but i've yet to meet the seller who turned down, as you say, incadollars.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: india isn't as socially stratified as it used to be. member of parliament was recently banned for ~all air india flights~ for chiding an attendant who stuck him in an economy seat.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: even artist can grow up as poor canadian, never exposed to culture, and continue 'successful career' equally sheltered, shuttling from airport to hotel and hotel to arena, forever contained in $bubble.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-16#1656952 << aha, same principle as the flooding backwards-flowing rivers of siberia / alaska ☝︎
asciilifeform: ( as described in 1st link )
mircea_popescu: shinohai its position as 5th altcorn yo. not it's. its.
BingoBoingo: Only disadvantage I am seeing here is that reconfiguring chainsaw to be chainsaw instead of bike mover takes time. Time that could be used to clear obstructions like hamplanets had one been simply traveling as a pedestrian with a chainsaw.
BingoBoingo: Advantage of chainsaw as powertrain is having a chainsaw to clear road obstructions provided rest of chainsaw is kept in saddle bag.
BingoBoingo: and automatic chain oiler as a bonus
mod6: probably some. i think i've had it quite a bit. not to the point of decay or amputation or anything. but there've been many times I remember playing hockey outdoors as a kid in 10 or 20 below f weather.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-16 03:45 trinque: http://www.houstonpress.com/news/houston-homeless-brace-themselves-as-anti-encampment-ordinance-goes-into-effect-9436174 << h-town heard the republic, is making poverty illegal inch by inch.
mod6: i've always wanted to do my best, or be as good as I can be at something that interested me. im not as smart or as clever as many, but I put in the work. i find that putting in the work pays dividends later.
mod6: altogether, i'm trying to stay focused on trb too. and learn these other topics as I go.
trinque: http://www.houstonpress.com/news/houston-homeless-brace-themselves-as-anti-encampment-ordinance-goes-into-effect-9436174 << h-town heard the republic, is making poverty illegal inch by inch. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: mod6 basically, a digital machine has no real reason to store a 1 as a 1 rather than any other arbitrary time-pattern
asciilifeform: mod6: it simply means that you store a bit as ~phase~
asciilifeform: theoretically power draw of this device will be exactly the same , at all times, as if it were resistive load
asciilifeform: now you store bit as ~phase~ of the square wave, rather than absolute steady state of the flipflop. ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: this'd annihilate such a thing as ram remanance
asciilifeform: ( and you certainly could not do it under any such thing as an os, even if there were no pipeline. )
mircea_popescu: as the one, the only, the forever carlin said, "the man himself was philosophical about it : it's that much less skin to wash."
asciilifeform: as opposed to 'worked on the 1,001 cases i came up with'
Framedragger recommends egan's "wang's carpets", to contribute, in all seriousness. (later incorporated as a chapter in his "diaspora", asciilifeform will know)
mircea_popescu: "sure, and as anything they want to! there's a fortran for that."
asciilifeform: Framedragger: feynman, iirc it was, had a piece re the trickiness of using stellar bodies as 'talk to martians' reference, when you have nfi even which way the martian's display scans
Framedragger: the pulsar part i think would count as asciilifeformic diagram, maybe. but just that, and only just
mircea_popescu: https://logmatic.io/blog/balsamiq-founder-on-building-a-lifestyle-federation-as-a-business/ << irresistible title.
mircea_popescu: connectsolutions got aquihired by aaski (usg front, recently got 1bn in pork for unspecified services. primo target for some data liberation, as it happens.)
mircea_popescu: as if anyone gives a flying fuck what difficulties middle eastern dorks have in going naked down the street.
mircea_popescu: anywya, im not reading this pile of garbage ; but from the skimming -- the whole argument is born of ignorance. reddit got its start as a heaven for child porn peddlers who got banned on digg. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: (for the record, since apparently dictionaries are as shitty as always - no, prepuce is not "technical term for foreskin". it is technical term for the space between foreskin and the glans ; similarily, it is not the skin surrouinding the clitoris, ie clitoral hood, but the fold between the two.)
mircea_popescu: whatever, they're too fucking smart and in charge of things and matters to be catholics like "those beasts" of "the dark ages". too busy getting "just the facts" and "drawing their own conclusions" so as to be polytheistic dorks like the aztecs, the harappan, and whatever other tribes forgotten through disuse.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as if the greeks were alone in 'the party will end'
mircea_popescu: "the sun was walking down shithead avenue in maryland, and as it sat down at the starbucks it felt a ..."
mircea_popescu: the whole fucking thing is that for ~as long as there existed human culture, which is to say the greeks, it was both known, evident, and accepted that the situation of life on earth is precarious, and the party will end.
BingoBoingo: And as socialists candadians treat money and markets as a waste stream