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mircea_popescu wonders if by
trumpreich rules, he is more us citizen
than colored woman born
there.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's clear bannon has no more use of
the gop
than of
the dems ;
trump's intelligent ouvertures
to libertard reps evidently bear his signature. you're going
to get your brown shirts next year chances are.
mircea_popescu: whole
thing has
to be scrapped and rebuilt,
they're a laughingstock not for actually competent players such as romania, but for utter nobodies from fucking arfrica / latam
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
there's no way around it - us signals is more of a joke
than stalin's were in 1938.
mircea_popescu: now
the part where
the financial markets afford a once-in-a-century opportunity
to rebuild is sound ; but
the part where jacked up "iron works and shipyards" are
the answer is ridiculous.
mircea_popescu: and
the point where
the conservatives are likely going
to hate
trump more
than
the liberals ever did,
two years from now.
mircea_popescu: the point where
the murdoch clan is going
to probably
try and reconstruct "conservative" fox into a "centrist" bullshit built around
that mispelled megan kelly harlot (really, ambitious news anchor who lied about
the network boss "sexually harassing" her
to
try and
take his place, what a fine clinton!)
mircea_popescu: the
thing everyone-but-us fails
to comprehend is
that
the ~only way in which a relatively simple functional system becomes
the de facto standard is
through a lofty body of pretense declaring a much more complex and dysfunctional system "the standard".
mircea_popescu: "Allocate an array and free
the middle
third? Sure! Why not?"
mircea_popescu: here's
the whole story of standard : 1. hey, wouldn't it be great if we mattered ? 2. so if it'd be great,
then
therefore we matter! 3. our not mattering is wrong!
mircea_popescu: (pro
tip -
triple fault resetting is STILL in
the linux kernel.)
mircea_popescu: or, for
that matter, look into why
triple-fault switching rather
than using
the god damned reset signal ended up a programming standard.
mircea_popescu: for
that matter, exercise for
the curious youth : find out why
the 21st pin on
the system bus in your fucking machine can be set
to zero.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger re
the above, consider just
the fucking x.500 x.509 debacle.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform absolutely everyone, from grace hopper
to you name it, went away 1990-2010.
a111: Logged on 2013-09-12 00:26 mircea_popescu: just don't
try
to sell me on any sort of comittees making "industry standards" or anything.
Framedragger: this is mircea_popescu in september 2013, in response
to "pankkake: federated xmpp isn't
that bad. it can do voice/video/text with encryption" ;)
Framedragger: ahaha, 2013: "mircea_popescu: i would never use anything
that implements a protocol for any serious purpose anymore."
mircea_popescu: but
the notion of handling 1to1 rather
than 1tomany and manyto1 is not without merit ; and it allowed
them
to protect
the users from many problems of irc, which is why it blew past irc usage by 2000
mircea_popescu: note
that irc is also based on centralized servers, freenode flimflammery about donated servers aside - sure, you can donate, if your name doesn't start with m, but n.
mircea_popescu: at a
time when irc required a lot more competence
to use.
mircea_popescu: also from a cultural pov perspective - it was
the first one of many
things ; including
the first im.
mircea_popescu: or at least was back when
the jews owned it, no idea now. iirc aol actually bought
them
mircea_popescu: Framedragger ironically, it didn't smell
that bad. smell is a subjective sense.
Framedragger: "emp shielding grates, power supply on wheeled rails" <<
that's just plain sexy
mircea_popescu: oya. most people involved on
the business side still have and daily use icq
mircea_popescu: nah, icq was cool.
to
this day it dominates
the pronz, but back in
the 90s it was simply
the
thing./
mircea_popescu: which is kinda
the point -
the context must be a) narrow and b) poking you in
the eye.
the problem with irc, and es-fucking-pecially irc as practiced here is
that
the context is vast, so vast it makes a circle much further out
than
the general myopia can perceive.
mircea_popescu: i don't
think
the general public is mentally capable of using irc. it just doesn't fit
the reddit/disqus/chatroulette/4chan/whatever
thing
Framedragger: tbh i
think
there still are some small subreddits with people. couldn't confirm
tho.
Framedragger: socially awkward and generally inept, choose 2 of 2
to describe
typical redditor.
Framedragger: i
think
that many of
them do not, in
the sense
that e.g. you understand "conversation". i don't know. i got
that picture when i had spent
time on reddit.
Framedragger: maybe not used
to irc. "i can't add a shallow-pun-comment and feel like i contributed. i'm supposed
to do.. dialogue, or something."
mircea_popescu: at least she has her active social life
to fall back on.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-19 04:41 mircea_popescu: "no, i found it in a plastic bag in
the alley behind
the hotel where i used
to work."
shinohai: I keep
trolling ver but he won't block me! @zooko blocked me with a *single*
tweet
mircea_popescu: somebody should
tell ver
the 2010s blue shirts are no longer fashionable.
shinohai: Autotweets all Qntra and
trilemas
shinohai smacks jhvh1 for not
tweeting
the latest Xtended.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: lol, anyways I'm planning
to subtitle Xtends going forward so I can
tell WTF past extends were roughly about
mircea_popescu: "Allocate an array and free
the middle
third? Sure! Why not? Multiply a character string
times a bit string and assign
the result
to a float decimal? Go ahead! Free a controlled variable procedure parameter and reallocate it before passing it back? Overlay
three different
types of variable on
the same memory location? Anything you say! Write a recursive macro? Well, no, but Real Men use rescan."
Framedragger: trinque: you're right. was laziness on my part (it logs
to actual log,
too, so
this is unneeded
to boot)
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i love
the "immanent
trumpreich" bit. kant ftw.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-20 05:10 pete_dushenski: re: diff jump, largest pool now down
to 18%, 2nd place at 17% according
to
https://blockchain.info/pools. top
two pools had ~50% just six months ago when famous bbet
tx was 'lost'. competition is heating up within
the not-so-monolithic chinese cartel. nothing divides and conquers like btc y'know.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-20 03:29 pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu:
the difference between eyes and electronic sensors on cars, ofc, is
that you know when eyes stop working before it's
too late. either way, if
trumpenreich is
to restore full employment
to amerika, abolishing
the minimum wage will make a full-time chauffeur affordable
to anyone who can also spend $100k on a
tesla or equiv.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-20 02:43 BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i actually planted a bunch in romania, for
the flowers. << Different salvia.
Tripping balls salvia has sparse shitty flowers if it flowers.
pete_dushenski: "it would still be unsurprising if
they gave up on
their fiction1 and began reporting magenta, dove gray, or old hot dog as
their exchange rate" << lol.
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pete_dushenski: my only defense of
that likely fraudulent chart is just
that a warped measuring stick is at least wrong in a consistent and predictable way.
this assumes all sorts of beneficence on
the part of bc.i, however.
ben_vulpes: is
there any good reason
to
trust
that chart?
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: ViaBTC and antpool are a case of
twincest
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pete_dushenski: re: diff jump, largest pool now down
to 18%, 2nd place at 17% according
to
https://blockchain.info/pools. top
two pools had ~50% just six months ago when famous bbet
tx was 'lost'. competition is heating up within
the not-so-monolithic chinese cartel. nothing divides and conquers like btc y'know.
☟︎ trinque: Framedragger: ^ yo dawg, log somewhere you can read it;
the information here is entirely useless
to me
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pete_dushenski wonders if anyone else sees potential
to be annoyed by scriba's constant interjections vis-a-vis link archival.