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mircea_popescu: "The Cannabis Eradication programs have historically inflated the size of their hauls by including non-psychoactive "ditchweed" in their totals of plants seized. In past years, ditchweed accounted for up to 98 percent of seized outdoor plant totals."
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.brendafdez.1:bd0936d5e7c2db1878ac7d3ac05fb79ac1087d9de8c7139108bbc564651c4aa1
mircea_popescu: lol. imbecile "Foundation", a problem for every netbsd clone since day one.
mircea_popescu: "The existing NetBSD Foundation must be disbanded, and replaced with an organization that fulfills its original purpose: to merely handle administrative issues"
mircea_popescu: "As one of the 4 originators of NetBSD, I am in a fairly unique position."
mircea_popescu: anyone who has this problem is an idiot of the same breath as the guy with a bitchy wife.
mircea_popescu: you can put anything you want on paper, doesn't mean jack.
mircea_popescu: no excuses, no slack cut for any reason. you keep a blog or fuck you.
mircea_popescu: they have to be forced to come to terms and accept the plain fact that if they don't publish, they ARE lying.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo yeah, but still, as a point of procedure, muppet should be trained to back himself up. "here's what i say it was then, and here's where i published it then"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the only reason gpl stays gpl atm is because it's not worth much. otherwise... it didn't happen in the cccp only. it happened in the us, and everywhere else.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> it's ironic that the guy doesn't want to have the 'virus clause' interfere with BSD distribution yet was apparently willing to let some random company take over the project << actually... it's all in the bias. irrespective of what the words may say, these were govenrment men. of course they saw no problem giving their thing to governmenty-something. their only actual problem would have been "terrorists", a
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> 'Even today, blablabladerp.' << wat? << i'll tell you what. "mommy, i got a 7 in algebra, but you should have seen all the other kids at retard school, they got 3 and 4!"
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron it doesn't seem to be in there tho. besides, i'd hope he's not relying on theo's testimony ? does he have his own bundle ?
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron he can of course point to deedbot deeds proving these claims,
mircea_popescu: i fucking wrote about it. elite me lived in the same bus as some alabamian black kids, to no detriment of either of us, au contraire.
mircea_popescu: when you get a bunch of idiots who wish agency without agency, looting is both necessary and ideal.
mircea_popescu: nah. that's natural, and welcome - capitalism rebuidling itself.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'd ask how you know this, but i'll let it slide :D
mircea_popescu: i think you drastically overestimate the well being of others. but at least it's consistent with the meta nsa/lizard hitler outlook.
mircea_popescu: this pov where women without further specification are somehow valuable still boggles me.
mircea_popescu: and out and out nudity is more of a terrorism&money laundering trope than anything
mircea_popescu: well... you gotta put something up, you know ? gavin can't run to all of them in his satoshi costume
mircea_popescu: "I enjoy speaking at financial firms on human rationality." << there, your mystery's solved. he's doing the entertainment for vc teambuilding events.
mircea_popescu: so your theory'd be, fitting with the above, that this is what they called a "sensitive child" who is trying to assuage his existential vertigo by "taming" [pseudo]science to play the role of a sort of marketing ?
mircea_popescu: I’m not sure why you’d use persuasion/marketing as a shiny metaphor for science, other than its the theme of this chapter. ”If you know science you can manipulate people as if you were literally in control of them” seems like a broad, and mostly untrue claim.
mircea_popescu: This whole conversation feels ham fisted, Hariezer is consistently telling us about all the manipulative tricks they are both using. Its less a conversation and more people who just sat through a shitty marketing seminar trying to try out what they learned. WITH RAPE.
mircea_popescu: (dunno about yer lands, but that's exactly how kindergarten was done when i was 5ish)
mircea_popescu: very successful with a certain age range, mostly because well... the gals are itching for a trashing, but also kinda affraid it may hurt.
mircea_popescu: i dunno if you know this sort - often comes out at the beach. tall, good looking kid, not a jock, has learned some poetry and gazes into the distance a lot.
mircea_popescu: in any case, .ro space has a coupla of these, "artists" that wish to be philosophers/scientists. the result is endless lol fountain.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but the language is the message, here. guy's not writing down to anyone but himself.
mircea_popescu: If the Flare interpreter knows that "human" is a class defined in the module "people", then it knows to expect that the tag "arms" refers to an instance member with numeric content. This is how the Flare interpreter knows that 2 means the number 2 and not the string "2".
mircea_popescu: in what complang is it the case that you can't add stuff to code ?!
mircea_popescu: easily created), these properties are shared by Flare objects and Flare programs."
mircea_popescu: "Flare is based on XML. In dialects of LISP, both the program and the program data are represented as lists. In Flare, the program and program data, and ideally the program state, are all represented as well-formed XML. Because XML is annotative (additional sub-elements can be easily added to any parent element without destroying the structural integrity of existing data) and extensible (new sub-element types can be
mircea_popescu: ^ check it out, it allowed them to mix text with display rules, because xml.
mircea_popescu: right, that's what i;m saying. obviously cunt gets pounded. but all the pretense around it ? y ?
mircea_popescu: nothing wrong with it, as a process, but the acultural approach to it... o brother.