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asciilifeform: it will likely surprise no one if mircea_popescu tells also that he has never tied own shoes with own hands.
asciilifeform: incidentally, mircea_popescu's article with the 'brujula' (compass), i could not help but wonder, is this same root as 'bruja' (witch) ?
a111: Logged on 2016-08-13 12:54 mircea_popescu: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/student-takes-porn-star-cherry-7445540 << anyone know this dude ? should totally be in teh wot.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they 'happened' to them during peter I
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the brits have ~nothing on usa: we have a whole supreme court judge here who is solidly suspected of illiteracy
a111: Logged on 2015-10-10 17:48 mircea_popescu: "here's the laws and and if you don't like it, you can leave" "i'll go join the people that'll fuck you up" "o wait you can't leave" "does that mean you admit your laws are dumb ?" "nope" "does that make you a hypocritical idiot ? " "no it doesnt!!1"
asciilifeform: who - as incidentally mircea_popescu did - shows the tx.
asciilifeform: next mircea_popescu will tell me that P(aids|shoots heroin) is not > P(aids|clean), etc.
asciilifeform: btw if mircea_popescu wants to do a shannon-style proof a la otp bits, i'm all ears.
asciilifeform: i get it, mircea_popescu has this 'if we pretend coin movement carries 0 bits of info to the enemy, mebbe it will become true' thing going.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-13 00:03 asciilifeform: if mr thief picks mircea_popescu 's pocket, goes to the races, wins, and put the money back, he is still a pickpocket
asciilifeform: and cash being fungible, mircea_popescu won't blink when he notices that his pocket had a hundie five minutes ago but now has 5 20s, right ?
asciilifeform: and mircea_popescu in the right to collect his balls
asciilifeform: if mr thief picks mircea_popescu 's pocket, goes to the races, wins, and put the money back, he is still a pickpocket ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2016-08-12 23:45 mircea_popescu: let me put it this way : the fact that we don't have a proper money market is much more the problem of "the community" than the problem of the misfortunate whoever that ran bitbet. whether he was a scammer or not, as a factual matter, as an idealised, theoretical construct the observation stands.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: What every Indiancandi has the same name or something?
a111: Logged on 2016-08-12 23:19 mircea_popescu: this is just another of those "sunk costs of mp's that we don't recognize nor compensate him for - just expect bitbet to magically work for free"
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-12#1520211 << did mircea_popescu ever say why he did not charge the full cost of bitbetronics? it was loss leader? or wat. ☝︎
covertress waves goodbye to mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu gonna love the veery speshul seeeekrit rogervergerian offer!!
asciilifeform: but i do expect that if a phriend of mircea_popescu borrows his moneyz, and goes to gamble with it, and loses all, he will be made to pay with balls
covertress: mircea_popescu, I've meant to speak w you in private but, thought it rude to PM you.
asciilifeform: so jon corzine was an honest man per mircea_popescu's lights?
asciilifeform: what do you call it, mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: whether 'can trace' or cannot, gambling with escrows == scamming
covertress waves hello to mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu knows, as fact?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have nfi why strausskahn went
a111: Logged on 2016-08-12 13:38 mircea_popescu: phf and this because kim totally fucking won the assculture war.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: tlp obviously went after this aspirational angle, even if he tripped over the patek philippe price points, as per http://www.contravex.com/2015/11/10/the-danger-of-unchecked-assumptions-or-the-surprising-depths-of-inequality/
a111: Logged on 2016-08-12 22:36 mircea_popescu: wait what happened ?
pete_dushenski: http://qntra.net/2016/08/brexit-fallout-illiterate-british-justice-enacts-breach-of-european-declaration-of-human-rights-into-british-legal-precedent/#comment-67051 << mircea_popescu
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Yeah, but not mockable News Roundup (TM)(R) marginal either. Next move prolly has a place.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what scarce resource would it exhaust in ar to have working clubs ? molybdenum ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: their pile of zeros elongates at least as quickly as the price tag's
a111: Logged on 2014-03-26 00:23 mircea_popescu: "hey, what's this guy worth in trust ?"
a111: Logged on 2014-03-26 00:23 mircea_popescu: you don't know him, but know me. so you come to me
a111: Logged on 2014-03-26 00:22 mircea_popescu: TestingUnoDosTre suppose this guy comes to trade 5 with you.
pete_dushenski: http://btcbase.org/log/2014-03-26#581551 http://btcbase.org/log/2014-03-26#581552 http://btcbase.org/log/2014-03-26#581554 << go figure that the logs have covered most every situation imaginable, to which i'd like to ask mircea_popescu specifically about znort987 : how much trust is he (she?) worth ? ☝︎☝︎☝︎
asciilifeform: if mircea_popescu were awake, he might say sumthinglike 'nothing human is foreign to me', etc.
asciilifeform: see mega-thread with mircea_popescu and china.
asciilifeform: nor do i expect to find out, unless mircea_popescu reveals tidbits.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-11 16:16 mircea_popescu: as it dislodges the meat robots from their comforts and forces them into towns.
a111: Logged on 2013-12-25 21:05 mircea_popescu: Itzhak is a respectable moneylender in the small neighbourhood of Fool's Crossing.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-12 19:03 mircea_popescu: "alf's idea of a think he has no sensation access nor cares to reasses to has remained unchanged over the interval the foregoing held"
asciilifeform: (as per mircea_popescu's article circa, iirc, 2010)
a111: Logged on 2016-08-12 16:40 mircea_popescu: kinda why you need more womenz to process that payload.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: any of, e.g., the notation threads. or the dope thread. or any ' mircea_popescu: this is worthless crapola used by posers to appear relevant . asciilifeform: no, i saw it used, and perhaps used personally, to palpable effect. mircea_popescu: bullshit, i can do same thing with shoestring and power of my mind. asciilifeform: ...'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, i suspect, was originally allergic to the 'roman numerals' observation for approx same reason as in dope thread
asciilifeform: because he was not mircea_popescu and did not have any knife sharp enough to actually make a palpable mark on the wall.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: he had a blog.
asciilifeform: (or for that matter mircea_popescu's 'rural and urban' piece.)
asciilifeform: or the hammer-drill from mircea_popescu's latest piece.
asciilifeform: possibly because mircea_popescu misreads the meaning of the wordz.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as you know, this is not how he solved 'mule'.
asciilifeform: and yes, triangular bits will drill mircea_popescu's square holes.
asciilifeform: to naggum, mircea_popescu is boss if he is paying.
trinque: mircea_popescu: Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing computadors is no basis for a system of computing!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: have you ever met, e.g., mechanical engineer, who has never heard of alloys ?
phf: mircea_popescu: that point is consistently being driven home. in fact i got to talk lisp to a bunch of random people and had a very visceral experience of the gap. hathayogapradipika says to keep your yoga secret, i.e. don't be a incomprehensible myst. but sometimes i still get carried away. ~some~ people grok me though, even when i start speaking internal experiences.
phf: mircea_popescu: i don't take it all the way to the cave, i believe that one can tap into shared mythic space which has more to do with human condition than it does with humanless abstract. but for how often i'm misunderstood, i suspect that socratic method is much more effective.
phf: mircea_popescu: i'm actually more of jungian
phf: mircea_popescu: i think that it is shared between all designers, it's just that newbs have a very adhoc design space vision, it's better formed with experience
phf: mircea_popescu: i think asciilifeform and gabriel_laddel goals are very similar, combined together they'll produce an easy low complexity (but perhaps less glamorous) design space traversal path. gabriel_laddel doesn't see it, because he thinks that a certain stop on his path is "dirty" or somesuch, so he wants to avoid it altogether
a111: Logged on 2016-08-12 15:19 mircea_popescu: phf define for me the concept of "bridged on architectural grounds"
asciilifeform: there is a concept, ad-hoc, i refer to as 'pressure', but there is quite likely a better and more specific name for it. e.g., mircea_popescu , walks into a village, and the menfolk line up in one column and the wimminfolk in another, the men - pick up rifles, and wait for order, the chix - get on knees, ready to pleez, etc.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: and what is your idea of cowardice?
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: women who are uneducatable but intelligent are exausting..
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: thing is, he ~is~ doing clim in win95, best as i can tell.
a111: Logged on 2016-04-16 06:38 mircea_popescu: folding proteins for instance is essentially a search over a very large graph space
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as per the 'shit hanging off the side' thread.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: I have 3 closed bank accounts.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: it is not lost. Simply out of reach atm.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu's toilet is in his kitchen ? or not ?
mircea_popescu: unlike you, mircea_popescu doesn't lie to himself about what's going on.
asciilifeform: and so does mircea_popescu .
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: naggum was, as you can probably tell, 'roman', or 'man of civilization', 'i'ma drown like a gentleman ! (tm) (r) (brit officer)' etc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the coming of 'justice holman's, preets, etc. is not unlike the fungus in aids patient - it is not there from insufficient antifungal intake. by the time it appears, ought to pick out tomb stone, write will.
asciilifeform: subj is not about whether mircea_popescu likes to plow through swamp. but about whether roads are unnecessary because let's all buy amphibious bulldozers.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the two items have nothing to do with one another.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: naggum's 'dynamism' is a very particular thing.
trinque: mircea_popescu: I'd have to start collecting that information, but yes
phf: mircea_popescu: i haven't had time to integrate it, my spare cycles were going into bot rewrite
phf: mircea_popescu: i don't have the 2012 ones yet
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as for deedbot - apparently never.
asciilifeform: oh mircea_popescu -- https://archive.is/Mvc6x - enjoy.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but stock x60 bios did not permit 'illicit' nics.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nobody uses the stock nic. it was largely the impetus for the bios swap.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i ended up reversing the vendor bios on x60, or rather, the particular routine that concerned the hardware whitelist, and nopped it out
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha, i reproduced it
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: ty. asciilifeform: I think that the rotating screen is spiffy, and would love to stop carrying around a notepad + computer
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: waiwat
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you mean, a bloke wandering around looking for a woz to bamboozle?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the 'most of x11 is unnecessary' is a 20 y.o. heresy, that ends up summing to 'let's do graphics the way microshit does' in all cases.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the reason i sometimes try to 'wake up' young, excitable folk like gabriel_laddel is that they are not yet at a stage where one made various dead-end design choices , that, now locked into, man enters a sad lifetime of justification and 'just wanted to' and 'only a terrorist would throw out my life's work of library'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: until i want to send a pcb print to a laser printer.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: my understanding of the present situation is that the linux kernel is here to stay, as it is a result of the way that the cee machine works, and contains drivers for a bunch of useful hardware
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: was my interpretation that in 2002 people were dong a lot of client side font rendering?
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: it is not yet clear as I don't know enough about the kernel to know if I can do away with the whole "user space" thing.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hey, i didn't show up at fella's house with megaphone.