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mircea_popescu: great training tool tho. what's clueless girly to do ?
mircea_popescu: as in, castigat ridendo mores. to, literally, beat into shape.
mircea_popescu: williamdunne what you'll be more interested will be to hear that a) romanian uses a unified concept for gain, which covers "gain from playing the one man bandit", "gain for gainful employment", "gain from having said a funny joke", "gaining time" etc, but the actual word, cistiga, is a direct usage of the latin castigat.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field one day ima have an original thought. i swear.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field this goes right into our discussion about how the only reason lisp is ok where c is shot is that the hordes haven't sat on lisp but on c, would have been the other way around if they had sat the other way.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: the notion that one can run out of it by running out of c is ridiculous.
mircea_popescu: "one can only imagine what having to lie to your compiler _every_ day and to make unwarranted guesses that your colleagues will depend on the same way they depend on your hard-earned knowledge _does_ to a human brain -- I know I couldn't handle even the prospect of it." << ya ya. welcome to real life (tm). this is what it is. exactly. there shall never be an escape from it, it is the indelible mark of superiority,
mircea_popescu: williamdunne point being, if the bitch ain't working for you, she's the pimp and you're the ho.
mircea_popescu: which makes it very much an idealism masquerading as an objectivism which then drives a particular sort of people up the wall.
mircea_popescu: "objective", except the objectivity is pure nominalism.
mircea_popescu: "why should i know who some guy's name is to be able to tell a joke ?" "you only need to know the name if you plan to reuse it"
mircea_popescu: the former is often trampled on by scoping questions by the [lamer] members of the audience. the second uses misdirection (the name's a throwaway) to perhaps enhance the results.,
mircea_popescu: now, you've probably heard enough jokes in your time to know there are two basic styles. one style is "some guy walks into a bar" and the other style is "this bloke joe walks into the bar".
mircea_popescu: ascii_field even cpp. let's model this on the act of telling a joke.
mircea_popescu: williamdunne why would you prefer a wife that didn't work, and if you do, how do you know you're not actually looking for a mistress ?
mircea_popescu: but for what it's worth, i don't believe C actually does this. i believe it is merely perceived to do so.
mircea_popescu: either "how do you know that", "how was i supposed to know that" or the more broad "this shit is just fucking stupid already"
mircea_popescu: you know there's actually a strong possibility this assertion is correct. from my experience discussing programming with girls that don't program, it often comes to some derivative of exactly this.
mircea_popescu: "C++ is philosophically and cognitively unsound as it forces a violation of all known epistemological processes on the programmer. as a language, it requires you to specify in great detail what you do not know in order to obtain the experience necessary to learn it. "
mircea_popescu: julius an' vincent have a number of intelligent, culturally relevant discussions. whych is why qt is such an intellectual titan.
mircea_popescu: ah which reminds me. ascii_field you ever seen pulp fiction ?
mircea_popescu: or was it for trying to get out ? i always get my empires mixed up.
mircea_popescu: but, unlike other places that are not user friendly, like the us or the uk, at least it doesn't employ armed men to shoot you for trying to get in.
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mircea_popescu: in other news, that dude i tried to hire to do bitbet advertising absconded with the budget did he.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: groups benefit from a certain knowledge that a mechanism for disproportionate reaction exists (as discussed in that old arta pedepsirii article). this arrangement simply makes it exist without anyone actuall being personally involved, which is just what you'd expect these days.
mircea_popescu: osanali^ is the plural, and it'd need a thing on the i. otherwise osana, singular.
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mircea_popescu: turkish word. this specific calisthenic routine, person kneels then raises hands and then puts them on teh ground.
mircea_popescu: mike_c oh, is that where the whole family gathers around to do osanali and genereally worship you ?
mircea_popescu: <gribble> 9.99999999994e-08 << that is an... interesting result.
mircea_popescu: (such as being amorphous turds that can be molded to fit what world wants) << this is not what you make it out to be.
mircea_popescu: no dude. the species is coded so that women are sluts. which is to say, they fuck the novel.
mircea_popescu: "he couldn't leave because he couldn't leave things he couldn't leave and then he left them"
mircea_popescu: funkenstein_ interesting how contradictory the proposition is huh
mircea_popescu: more on account of not asking the bank clerk about fucking her over her desk ?
mircea_popescu: yes, i get it, you have heavy physical equipment. he was a software man.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the point was that location's irrelevant, there. which it is, or do you dispute ?
mircea_popescu: yes but it carries more of the conjecturer than of the subject.
mircea_popescu: "i will see the world is more important than people!111!11"
mircea_popescu: well it irritatyes not merely the feminist worldview, but also the collectivist worldview,
mircea_popescu: williamdunne a twink is how you say ephebos these days. intelligence got nothing to do with it, just the internet derp seems to insist that anyone sensual is necessarily dumb fior this reason.
mircea_popescu: the same womenz exist in london, you don't see them in retail bank branches because nobody gives a shit about the english peasant.
mircea_popescu: anyway, eastern europe bank strategy has been to hire supermodels because a) they're stupid b) they're cheap and c) the stupid and cheap peasants that are their parents still own their own real estate and the best way to get them to lose it to austrian banks is by hiring thei better looking daughters. which they don't fuck because weirdos, but merely drool over..