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mircea_popescu: me
too, but i'm not intelligent enough
to be able
to say something
this soon.
mircea_popescu: the syren song of "oh, how wasteful" is always
the side a of a record
that goes
the same old droning rooseveltism.
mircea_popescu: phf no, it is not failure or waste. it is
the necessary basis for independent human intelligence.
phf: well, i regret spending so much energy on infrastructure, but i saw it as necessary evil.
the fact
that others had
to i see in
terms of personal failure at best
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you conflate many
things. having
the car ready doesn't necessitate it being launched early.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-07 17:30 mircea_popescu:
this has been a honest-to-god real-time davout node emerging in march going "so guyse... chatlog-block-419333 is highest rite ?" and resyncs ensued.
mircea_popescu: sorta goes in
the "parachute - folded before jumping" vein.
mircea_popescu: the "at some point
the idiots pulling on
the
tablecloth will rip it, and
the a) here's a replacement is way better
than
the b) i guess we should
think of replacement" ?
mircea_popescu: nao not much. we have between us a literal raft of problems with
tentative statement and
tentative possible solutions.
mircea_popescu: i may dare say
the same, especially in
the evenings after a cognac or
two.
mircea_popescu: how
the fuck is someone who doesn't know supposed
to choose.
mircea_popescu: free fucking will, suppose you go
to a mall where
they blindfold you and
take your credit card.
mircea_popescu: "and having so judged, i will now apply myself
to problem i selected by criteria."
mircea_popescu: and in general,
the hallucinant delusion
that person is in position
to "own free will" and "self determination" and fucking humanism is five quarters of
the whole problem.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi how
to address
the problem (clearly generated by
the unfortunate combination of deep imbecility inborn in americans and
the deep suicidal streak of
the female state as it is), and so what can i say.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
to come back
to it :
there's a particular vacuum occuring in bitcoin, 2016-2017 so far, whereby
the
technically competent are relatively improductive, and
the inept, instead of standing
to attention before
them, are stuck producing
the inane bs
they produce
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i expect it;s some flimsy attempt
to attention whore
through keyword stuffing by some inept cunt in california, who has a lot of college debt and utterly no skills
to speak of.
mircea_popescu: in other news in
the same vein,
the pirate bay doesn't seem
to have...
the story of o.
mircea_popescu: but i'm not about
to burn regency furniture for heat, and i'm not about
to set girls
that can go out and
talk
to people in front of a computer
to ada.
mircea_popescu: well,
there's no if. i dun need,
tis
the fucking point of life in any sense.
the less you need
the better off you'll be.
mircea_popescu: i'm not going
to squeeze
the world
through
the eye of a needle because i'm so infatuated with conceptual beauty
that i can't resist. i can resist jus' fine.
mircea_popescu: understand, i was mp before bitcoin was invented. i will be mp after it crashes and burns.
tis not a need, for me.
mircea_popescu: anyway. not all good
things are for
that goodness necessarily permitted
to exist. maybe humanity is altogether
too dumb
to have a bitcoin. i guess in
time we'll definitely find out.
mircea_popescu: so no,
there won't be any
turning of gurls into dudes. maybe
the reverse,
though it seems
the process is kinda lossy.
mircea_popescu: i'm not about
to
turn an ox into a duck. and
to be very clear, one obedient gurl is worth about fifty or so exceptional programmers.
mircea_popescu: 99.9x% of everything is done by people who have been here since founding.
tis a little worrysome.
mircea_popescu: truth be
told, we have a very serious problem getting new people
to actually get head out of ass do something useful.
mircea_popescu: if
they manage
to stumble in
their own robes and
throusers until 2030 or so,
trb might even live!
mircea_popescu: vaguely maybe we cut
the wallet, i dunno, sometime in 2018, vaguely maybe we make
the first steps
towards
testing some basics re possible db move, maybe by 2019 etc
mircea_popescu: point fucking being,
technologically we're what, 10 years away from actually having a worthy replacement ? at
the present rate, at least.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-07 18:49 mircea_popescu: just as long as i pay 700 bux
to
the
trb, it's not going anywhere.
mircea_popescu: not like we're anymore prepared for
this summer
than we were for
the last.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's not simply
that, you'll have
to actually go drink
the
tardswamp if you want specifics.
mircea_popescu: anyway, irrelevant as it is - currently "bu" is ahead of "segwit" in
terms of prbisms.
mircea_popescu: after
the horrific failure of
the "voting" bs last
time around, most nobody gives a shit.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform some voting bs, i've not followed
too closely.
ben_vulpes: ironclad dood wrote
the
thing in college and
then got a job?
a111: Logged on 2017-02-19 15:51 phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-20#1507131 << in related news, gbyers,
the original systems guru of ccl, who responded
to every "modernization" attempt with "sure, if you can explain me what's
the point" stepped down. within a day, clozure cl was moved
to github, with current list of "issues"
https://github.com/Clozure/ccl/issues. in case anyone was wondering "what happens when linus steps down"
phf: these narratives are all
the same
phf: it all sort of
ties
together somehow. and yes, as
trinque said, starts with a particular face
phf: last post from "symbolics lisp engineer": I've decided
to participate in ProcJam 2016
this year. For a change of pace, I'm building a small roguelike in Clojure with a Unity3D front-end.
phf: i was on a channel with
that character, until
the s/r got so low, i had
to leave. amongst
the
things he did, put in a chip backwards "it dun work", rebuilt power supply by sending it
to "we rebuilt power supplies" company
that did it for $900 for him
trinque: they have a particular face, don't
they
trinque: I guess it's
the next step up from "no, I only
type on a mechanical
typewriter"
phf: guy is an idiot and a butt of many jokes. exactly
that, wealthy aspy cto buys expensive
toy, proceedes
to make a full of himself
a111: Logged on 2014-08-30 21:23 asciilifeform: i later learned
that v. n. chelomei (famous soviet rocket designer) proposed
the placement of atomic bombs near u.s. east costs using a scheme much like
this. (official story - it was vetoed as barbaric)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know
the need
to cut apart
the hardware of a 50yo defunct company strikes me as batshit insane
mircea_popescu: in other lulz,
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