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trinque: "see even buffet does it for
the
tweets. now retweet
this shitty blog article."
ben_vulpes: for
the joy of seeing
the wsj write about something without citing any relevant papers!
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: now why would i do
that?
ben_vulpes: so does not even
the wsj do anything but contract for
think pieces without any research by people who know nothing about
the
topic but
that which
they can find on google finance?
mircea_popescu: "so
the biblical scholars mis-translated
the hebrew word for young woman into
the greek word for virgin. an easy mistake
to make, since
there's only a subtle difference in spelling. but it was
the virgin
that caught people's attention. it's not every day
that a virgin conceives and bears a son. so you keep
that for a couple hundred years, and
the next
thing you know, you have
the holy catholic church."
☟︎ trinque: so might be able
to
take one of
those and script
the generation of html
trinque: danielpbarron: ah you know what, no,
they were sqlite databases inside
ben_vulpes: i am not a linguist, do not have
the
tongue
to speak of
tongues
ben_vulpes: i can't
tell if hebrew/aramaic felt easy because i was young when i learned it or if it actually is a fairly sensible character set
danielpbarron: that would be nice, and
that's part of
the reason i like darwin; he did learn
to read
those
things for exactly
that reason
Framedragger: such dedication
to
the cause danielpbarron, i'm curious if you ever considered learning greek (new
testament) and possibly hebrew/aramaic (old
testament),
to read scriptures etc.
trinque: it has been a very long
time since I looked into such a
thing
danielpbarron: where possible i'll use Darwin Fish's
translation; i
think he did
the first few books of moses
trinque: iirc
there's
this "esword" program which might be balls of html inside
danielpbarron: it's nkjv with footnotes where kjv differs; also sometimes
the nkjv has footnotes of its own about where certain
texts differ
trinque: danielpbarron: curious where you're getting
the corrections
to your
transcription of
the bible
mircea_popescu: no rape
though. seems equally probable dood's one of
those gynonormative folk
the gynostate can't stomach. probably
told some fat waitress
to move her ass while brandishing a fork, aka sexual battery with a weapon or force.
shinohai: weird
thing is I see mimi ahead of blockchain.info lots of
times
a111: Logged on 2017-02-16 02:49 hanbot: what's
the proper name
to ascribe
to
this super fun phenomenon wherein
trb node happily catches up on blocks until 99.x% and
then drops connections and stops seeing new blocks after <10mins?
jhvh1: shinohai:
The operation succeeded.
BingoBoingo: How
the newspaper of Bush II whitehouse has fallen.
BingoBoingo: lol,
that fakenews weekly standard correction, from "made sentence"
to "was employed in sentence making factory"
ben_vulpes: Reuel: please
to stop with
the join/part spam
phf: i can see
that, i was enjoying
the status quo
though. blog is
the necessary next step
mircea_popescu: take all
the hotties out, get
them drunk and smiling at
the camera and
there's your first article.
phf: it is good
to be outside DC for
these exciting
times
mircea_popescu: they really gotta stop passing highschooler essays on a generalized regexp criterion.
that's not how writing works.
mircea_popescu: da fuck is "the american idea". i'd very much like
to hear
this, even as a draft form.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the only
thing
that was always abundant
throughout
the years was years.
phf: oh, man, "stairwell wit" as
the frenchmen say
mircea_popescu: didn't you
tell
them seeing eye dogs also
train for years ?
phf: well, i had drink with a group of protestan priests,
that, once sloshed, were ranting about
the "unfairness": priests study for 8 years, doctors study for 8 years, why don't both have same salaries? "what we need is a bloody revolution" (what like with guns? -- "... no. you mean, like bloody revolution"). what sort of "training" or "sanity"
mircea_popescu: oh speaking of
this, anyone saw city island ? delightful little mistaken identity item very much in
the proper commedia dell'arte
tradition. with andy garcia
though, so myeah.
mircea_popescu: enforce schmenforce, for
that matter. i do plenty of enforcing in
the sense of
training, either because girl "doesn't see" why she should x or didn't put enough blood and
tears into it. but i've yet
to you know, enforce her being meek.
that comes fucking naturally, for one
thing, and for
the other, really, what sane people have
to yell at each other ? i've never seen
this.
ben_vulpes: no rush, i'm going
to walk out
to 'breakcore mashups' night here in a few minutes anyways.
phf: right, my yoga
teacher friend, who's been "friendly" with all
the local boys had enough experience in
the matter
to "hell fucking no am i ever" as far as marrying an indian.
they ~expect~
their women
to be meak, but
they don't have any way of enforcing it, so
the dynamic goes straight into bitchy couple mode as soon as
there's any hint of "couple"
mircea_popescu: i give it even odds he's going
to
twink for pay before
the five year plan is out.
phf: there's one boy on
the beach, he affected caribbean accent (!!) and just fully committed
to
the whole kingston bad boy shtick. "ja man", king
tubby reggae,
the works.
they had a going away party for him, because he scored
the jack pot. married a homely english girl, who's bringing him back
to u.k.
mircea_popescu: (the divine part came from, not
that she was subservient but
that we had no substantial disagreements, which
to
them was precisely
the same
thing ; and didn't match
their observations among
the "truly successful" dudes of
the locality (there's a bunch of people who got a fat old bitty from londonderry
to move over, funnel some bezzle and build a house-foreigners-and-boat
thingee). )
mircea_popescu: they just couldn't comprehend relationship matching
their filter but not matching
their expectation. how could it!!11
mircea_popescu: i lived for months among a group of monkeys who considered me ~divine, because well, chet was
there with me.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: now
that you mention it
mircea_popescu: phf
that's btw muslim influence.
this is currently
the ~only alternative
to "blow shit up",
the white cow.
phf: i see
that skip generation here, boys want
to
transcend fathers, move
to Dubai for riches, and if
they manage
to return (because
the contract negotiator was a nice person), switch
to plan B. get some nodic lady
to
take
them
to
the promissed land.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes gotta distribute.
there's just no other way. i kinda hinted at it back when, but didn't want
to be
telling you how
to do your shit. anyway : make a half dozen nodes, not one.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, anyone read
that splendid piece, late austrian, i
think might've been kafka actually, in which a woman fucked in
the bushes complains,
to no one in particular,
that
there she is, still
taking it with
the dust ?
ben_vulpes: so in light of
the
triviality with which
the
TRB node
to which mimisbrunnr
talks is
taken out by even moderately determined actors, i'm considering
taking
the whole
thing down until i have a more robust data collector system in place.
mircea_popescu: the daughter of
the woman who gave birth in a ditch isn't gonna. with her life. it skips a generation.
mircea_popescu: tell you what, ben_vulpes 's girl, or for
that matter lucy (in disgrace) has no problem doing barefoot-in-mud
thing because once+ removed from
the grandmothers.
phf: i'm in
the south,
they have many choice words here for uttar pradesh here, when you get
them drunk
phf: well, it'll be easier for
them
to hard knock, because hipsters will just go back
to farming/fishing because ~father and mother~ did
mircea_popescu: a pile of
ten corpses is not
the same
thing as a pile of eight hundred.
mircea_popescu: mostly because
there's, in spite of all
the noise and burbling, just a smattering of ustards.
there's about 100x more of
them in uttar pradesh alone.
mircea_popescu: it'll be
truly sad when all
the indian hipsters discover
the hard facts
through harder knocks.
mircea_popescu: and unlike
the us, which
they "helped" into
their present predicament, india has no fat
to burn.
phf: it's
the original "helping africa"
mircea_popescu: it was a ridiculous piece of british nonsense about on par with
their middle eastern constructions. has no place in sanity.
mircea_popescu: phf hopefully indian "state" fails within
the next few years.
mircea_popescu: phf i have no confidence in "chemical cronometer" crackpot alfism. notice
that
there has never existed such a
thing as a chemical clock, not even
today. it is, i daresay,
the earliest application of "quantum computer",
this.
mthreat: people who don't shower in jail/prison are called 'vikings', or another name in Spanish which I forget.
There is peer pressure
to not stink in
there.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the washing
thing is a serious problem.
turns out
that if no women around, people stop seeing
the point.
☟︎ phf: ben_vulpes: right, i'm grokking where mp was coming from with "to real man, bring cash
to ag, start a forex"
phf: in fact ~best~ rate i could find anywhere in
the 40km radius came with a plea of "i'll give you even better rate, bra, if you can bring me some more of
them $100 bills"
phf: meanwhile, elsewhere, you can get better forex rate for $100 bills, rather
than $20 bills, which basically puts status quo on par with russia in '93
phf: next page lists about a dozen of different incompatible solutions ranging from an indian equivalent of viza network
to a dozen or so bank specifics "apps"
that are all competing for #1 payment solution slot
phf: there's a chapter on how switzerland is 99% cashless, and how
that should be a goal in india
phf: in unrelated lulz india has
this strong propaganda going on for switching everyone
to digital payments. i bought
this party line magazine,
that's supposed
to explain how safe, fast, secure, easy world is going
to become after
there's no longer any cash