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mircea_popescu: ironically, those people like me about as much as us democrats like ron paul.
mircea_popescu: "You beast! You will pay hand over fist, you and the [Romanian political party]'s newspaper The Power that allows you to shit your dirty shit! This time you're fucked! See you in court garbage!"
mircea_popescu: "Nevertheless, C's approach to strings works well." :D
mircea_popescu: X3J11 committee standardizing C would face the same problem.)"
mircea_popescu: "The most important of these has been the tolerance of C compilers to errors in type. As should be clear from the history above, C evolved from typeless languages. It did not suddenly appear to its earliest users and developers as an entirely new language with its own rules; instead we continually had to adapt existing programs as the language developed, and make allowance for an existing body of code. (Later, the ANSI
mircea_popescu: took me like five minutes to figure out wtf happened with that one hour gap.
mircea_popescu: anyway, those fucking idiots. just how hard is it to mine a coupla guard towers.
mircea_popescu: but nuland's ukraine coup failed so spectacularly it's contending with the iran contra affair.
mircea_popescu: adlai from what i've heard, they want to form a Third Foundation. this is getting even thicker than asimov << lolz. the part where they carefully avoid the why of it, and how exactly the old one died is also the part that ensures they stay irrelevant.
mircea_popescu: i doubt they generally comprehend there is such a thing.
mircea_popescu: that's the main epic device : he crossed the state line!111
mircea_popescu: half the usian literature (which is 2/3s cinematographic) revolves around the shock and horror of... BORDERS!111
mircea_popescu: heck, even something as banal as jurisdiction limits or alternative currencies are "confusing" and uncomfortable.
mircea_popescu: average usian has never traveled, never read a book in a foreign language, never fucked a woman he didn't know etc. his ideas of "isis" are necessarily a reflection of his own pen, nothing else.
mircea_popescu: isis the symbol, not isis the real item it purports to stand for.
mircea_popescu: also no cc debt, not caring about college, no idea what a quarterpounder with cheese is, completely dissinterested in police sirens in traffic etc.
mircea_popescu: i think "isis" is really the only available symbol to describe chtulhu, the borg, entity q and so forth.
mircea_popescu: those dudes find themselves in the position where atrocities that were just fine suddenly are viewed as atrocities by a cohesive group.
mircea_popescu: really, bitcoin is quite aptly "a microscope". specifically, in this case : the sort of bs idiocy we deride used to pass for "business" and "entrepreneurship" as a regular thing. sop.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you said write, not you know, make useful stuff :D
mircea_popescu: well if you're going to write asm you'd better know the opcodes.
mircea_popescu: "Thompson was faced with a hardware environment cramped and spartan even for the time: the DEC PDP-7 on which he started in 1968 was a machine with 8K 18-bit words of memory and no software useful to him."
mircea_popescu: when you peer into the b-a, the b-a peers back into you.
mircea_popescu: granted, the communist halp was by and large not much better, but anyway,
mircea_popescu: "Multi legionari ar fi dat orice ca sa-i insoteasca in aceasta Cruciada. Insa lipsa fondurilor si previzibila impotrivire a guvernului fata de o expeditie de amploare au facut ca Legiunea sa trimita pe front o echipa alcatuita din numai sapte oameni." << "everyone wanted to go but too poor to afford the trip, and besides, parents wouldn't approve. so they had their own 7 man condor legion."
mircea_popescu: im not all that up to date to their internal strife, but think in terms of ny mafia. some underboss or other.
mircea_popescu: oh, the first two are prolly repatriated dead in spain.
mircea_popescu: it's the 1930 anthem of romania's fascist group, rewritten to quite outrageous ribaldry.
mircea_popescu: "accordingly, we're cutting down our expenditure" said no wh ever.
mircea_popescu: "Accordingly, I respectfully ask Congress to raise the debt limit as soon as possible," Lew wrote in his letter.
mircea_popescu: "About 7.5 million HealthCare.gov customers are at risk of losing those subsidies, which help them pay monthly premiums for health insurance plans purchased through that federally run marketplace that serves 37 states. Experts predict that more than 8 million people would become uninsured next year after finding their plans too expensive without the subsidies, and after plan prices rise to compensate for the loss of cu
mircea_popescu: pretty much everything on cnn seems to be on the topic of populism.
mircea_popescu: And that six-month grace period in turn could ratchet up political pressure on Republican opponents of Obamacare to develop a plan to replace the valuable subsidies, which would be expiring right on the eve of the 2016 presidential primary season, instead of this summer."
mircea_popescu: "A leading tax expert says the Internal Revenue Service can, and likely will, let HealthCare.gov customers keep their Obamacare subsidies through the end of this year if the high court rules in June that those subsidies are illegal.
mircea_popescu: what goes next ? "no, because i bought that new pair of shoes and dinner" ?