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assbot: How the other half lives, or Michael O. Church is
a scummy fuckwit pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: diametric may have
a point. you can prolly ge away with
a community agreement where every tenant has to play scrabble or some shit
mircea_popescu: does that russian forum actually expect someone to type out (2/3 * x ** (2/3))/((3/4 * x ** (3/4) -(6/7 * x ** (6/7) )+x as
a reply to
a captcha ?
assbot: Logged on 06-04-2014 14:59:26; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ok. considering the what/how debate as accepted foundation : at any time there's
a number of turkeys and
a number of engineers.
mircea_popescu: yeah well, partisan dugouts in the us may have to wait
a few years.
mircea_popescu: well yeah. was
a bunch o people, they got building permit and proceeded to built like at home. concrete pillars, brick walls etc.
☟︎ The20YearIRCloud: the fiberglass people
a pretty crazy when it comes to supressing new types of insullation
The20YearIRCloud: At least,
a trailer lives up to code when it was built, and it isn't illegal to use one that's old as dirt
rithm: shipping container buried the side of
a hill sounds lovely to me
The20YearIRCloud: But the premise is to take crappy trailers, and have my guys refurbish them in
a way that they'd be superior to most conventionally built houses with regards to energy, and then rent em out for median pricing
The20YearIRCloud: I've got
a pretty good concept of what i want to do, just need
a municipality where I can do it legally
mircea_popescu: anyway, the us-agitprop makes me chaf. "o noes, you can do anything, retards are people too, form
a circle let's hold hands"
mircea_popescu: shitty trade tho. i wouldn't spend
a year in wheelchair for an extra four inches
mircea_popescu: what if, ok. but i dun believe that has
a leg to stand on.
ThickAsThieves: i think eating frequency is
a factor as well, metabolism
ThickAsThieves: i wonder if people who only sleep 3-5 hrs
a day, live more or less waking hours than those sleeping 8+
The20YearIRCloud: It's
a fixed rate credit line, which is nice as we can go out, buy properties, refinance said properties, then just continue to buy more
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves you ever met that blessed folk that will spent sixteen hours
a day working to "make money while they sleep", 5 dolla an hour ?
mircea_popescu: suppose shady gringo in the kabul market offers to sell you
a dust which, if sparkled around, will teleport you straight into tent, no further need for "Wasting time"
mircea_popescu: suppose the normal introduction so you may be allowed there takes
a coupla hours, going through all the complicated pashtun honor ceremonies.
mircea_popescu: he lives in
a hut, like all the others, rural pashtun.
mircea_popescu: suppose there's
a well respected, honorful general of this one tribe
mircea_popescu: or maybe sleep is
a very high level cognitive function, and humanity still struggles with logic.
ThickAsThieves: maybe humans have
a built in hibernation function we dont know how to work yet
mircea_popescu: but at this point, we suddenly face the danger of falling into nominalism. consider
a pill that zaps 1&2 so you can 3-4 only, withj the caveat that to be used safe over
a century, you have to lie down for two to three hours each day and relax independently of sleep.
thestringpuller: walking into bitcoin-assets becomes more like walking into
a random lecutre hall at
a good university...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform note that for me to disprove your stance, all i need is an example of possible failure, which i've satisfied. for you to support your stance giving
a counterexample is not enough.
mircea_popescu: the human body being
a final case of "the protocol is the code". it works like we've discussed, as this insane collection of things repaired by malfunction in unassociated things
mircea_popescu: now, having
a period of time where it can relax and clean up may be exactly what it needs. even if this is enforced by cnc paralysis rather than another venue
mircea_popescu: the reason for this is that the heart can't do too many regime change cycles
a day
mircea_popescu: the heart is
a well designed pump, that works very well in its own engineering envelope.
mircea_popescu: it isn't. you're saying it's "
a waste of time",
a spandrel merely means "not directly resulting from selection"
mircea_popescu: and yes, you can login with nameserv from
a webirc session as well as from any other session
mircea_popescu: (i also have
a bet with some unfriendly parties as to whether that film' gonna be criminal insanity or not, but that's
a different story)
mircea_popescu: im curious who's gonna be the first b-
a alumn to become famous in an unrelated field.
ThickAsThieves: <+mircea_popescu> it's
a sf story about how the exposure to fractals make brains pop. ///
a couple weeks ago i was charting for hours on end, using fib spirals and picking apart fractal patterns, and this repeating melody started in my head, not
a song i knew, just
a sequence. It was there for
a day or two. First time I was musically inspired in
a while.
nubbins`: and, inexplicably, an adult male having sex with
a female child
nubbins`: (i know
a guy who claims he's had
a cube stuck inside his brain for ~17 years. he declines to elaborate)
mircea_popescu: it's
a sf story about how the exposure to fractals make brains pop.
assbot: BLIT -
a short story by David Langford
nubbins`: go visit
a bughouse and tell me none of those people recreated the damagingly illogical :D
mircea_popescu: it's
a biological protection on the level of "dead by holding his own breath", except implemented in nature rather than in the body.
mircea_popescu: anyway, one wonders what happens when
a coupla gals working canada's best whorehouse move in with nubsy.
nubbins`: itself,
a mixture of portuguese, english, and irish working dogs
nubbins`: besides, the aboriginal people in this province are generally innu; you'd have to go
a lot farther for inuit
mircea_popescu: cazalla lol speaking tours. this is roughly the equivalent of the plague, don't envy
a man his misery.
nubbins`: i'd like
a gribble module that polls alf's output for interesting short stories
nubbins`: one of 'em just got
a job at canada's top restaurant, which is, conveniently, just
a short tumble down the hill from here
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mircea_popescu: i think fluffypony was going to charter
a plane or i dun remember how that went.
chetty: mircea_popescu, said there should be
a gribble npc ...
RagnarDanneskjol: He and Alz had
a long convo about it
a few hours ago.. also put him in touch with chetty - discussed gribble for eulora
mircea_popescu: RagnarDanneskjol ima wait for delivery on that other thing first, and i have
a queue there anyway.
mircea_popescu: anyone want to make
a fork of git and implement all this ?
mircea_popescu: as
a v0.1. then for v0.2 of this, have an actual crypto signed procedure where everyone who reads
a line of code signs and it's wot-abble this.
mircea_popescu: other than proper cryptography for all foss, as discussed coupla days re gentoo overlays etc, i would fucking love for all lines of code to come with
a counter.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: fluffypony afaik lcompat just does
a gettimeofday clal anyway
xmj: BingoBoingo: you can *technically* exist on 2h of pure REM sleep
a day.
mircea_popescu: to me all this "let's improve sleep" stuff reads
a lot like "this cnc control code would be
a lot better if we took out all sleep() references"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: re: 100hz - i do lean towards the soviet hypothesis that at least
a third of the sleep cycle is
a vestigial waste of time. <<< why ?
xmj: if you're interested in having that question answered from
a BSD perspective, you could try #bsdports on efnet
xmj: hrm, i'm not
a c dev
fluffypony: xmj: so oaes_lib uses ftime() like
a retard, and we don't have spare contributors to rewrite the two places its used to rather use gettimeofday - is there anything particularly wrong with using -lcompat for the moment till we can see to that?