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mircea_popescu: And as it is something unusual, the usual verbs cannot be applied to it. Can the ants from the outer space be "forgiven"? No. They can be only wiped out. It is an existential issue, not a technical one. That's why your brilliant arguments won't work"
mircea_popescu: "The problem is the people cannot fit the behaviour into any customary category. It does not look like usual editor's behaviour, does not look as usual spammer's behaviour, etc. They do not know what expect from it. They still cannot stop the bot fixing the dead links. They have angst.
mircea_popescu: the wayback machine thing reminds me of one of the lulziest things ever drug up in my nets :
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes "computers are not about hurtful things like math but more like about feelings and so the fact that there exist unevaluable statements does not worry me, but on the contrary"
mircea_popescu: no, and i do mean NO english speaker of 1712 would have come up with that string.
mircea_popescu: "Ancient Rome would envy us if my program is implemented. As our boat sailed south on the James River, named for our illustrious King, whose version of the Bible we cherish"
mircea_popescu pictures legion of corporals going "omfg end of fucking world igmme a drink"
mircea_popescu: much more brusquely, as if a cowboy in dirty footwraps at a bar somewhere decided to cut it short and end with a joke.
mircea_popescu: they STILL deal with their own fear of death, just, not iun the very refined jewish manner.
mircea_popescu: the payload is, amusdingly enough, a very primitive answer to the same problem.
mircea_popescu: (sicilians more in the "kingdom of two sicilies" than in the island of ~ sense)
mircea_popescu: the only other people i know about this stupid and stupid in this manner are the sicilians, and they are fucking fixated on the holy cunt.
mircea_popescu: basically, THIS if anything is the red thread of a putative "american nation". religious obscurantism divorced from religion per se.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and you obviously notice that after the "god spoke to me through stones in hat" west of the early 1800 and the "god spoke to me re black people" of the mid 1800s, they moved on to "god spoke to me re rhodesia" almost seamlessly. and before that it was...
mircea_popescu: fucking bs, there's nothing novel about it, they just did to science what they had been doing all through 1800s. which apparently is, for unclear reasons, all the ycan intellectually do ?!
mircea_popescu: then people jump at the fundamentally antiscientific restructuring of science the americans did (and many places copied) after 1950 as a sort of noivel phenomena
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform apparently. it's kind-of strange that this shared psychosis was never investigated.
mircea_popescu: this makes him no more a philosopher than the soviets.
mircea_popescu: i never read anything important he wrote. he did a lot of abolitionist propaganda, for which his party attached titles to him.
mircea_popescu: kinda lends a lot of substance to a notion that usians are actually broken in the head structurally, rather than accidentally. at least the usians of the time.
mircea_popescu: he sounds exactly like a better read joseph smith. substantially the same inclination to pass counterfactuality for fact "because who's to say it didn't happen" and "it damned well serves the purpose of making my understanding of the world more palatable ot others".
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: meatspace friends blessed me with three rare books as birthday gift "Slave to her nigger", "Temptress in the Slave Quarters", and "A Craving for Black Flesh" these people know me too well << wtf, these are books or more like photo albums ?
mircea_popescu: "come watch a bunch of folks sit at desks on a green field, make numbers go up."
mircea_popescu: and if in a scored sport, say baseball or soccer, they started messing with the scoreboard, the game'd stop right then and all the players etc would just move to working teh board.
mircea_popescu: nothing ever gets done anymore because everyone's energy is spent dragging everyone else down.
mircea_popescu: inflation economy is basically the cheapest most reliable implementation of "crabs in the pot" to human society.
mircea_popescu: chetty: [...] which makes stupid ideas like min wage even more ridiculous << there's simply no way to avoid it. it IS a stupid idea, of course, but in an inflation driven economy everyone just keeps trying to climb on everyone else.
mircea_popescu: "i represent the family of a rich ferguson, mo merchant who has died in the recent troubles..."
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: and i'm pretty sure africa's heard of ferguson mo << at least the part that can read. although... it seems improbable that if they did we don't see the output.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: (why piano keys - story for another day) << im pretty sure those are illegal in your jurisdiction.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: got this pavlov goin on here. saw your name pete, and subconciously refreshed tab with your blog in it. voila new article. ;) << ha.
mircea_popescu: stupidest protocol in common use since the bretton woods agreements
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: asciilifeform that bit of russian gets spit out as "tvnz" by google translate << it's not russian ye kook, it's the hammer and sickle sign
mircea_popescu: it looks like a pretty good attempt at being the onion
mircea_popescu: jurov "Behind the scenes, however, some new that peace was definitely not secured."
mircea_popescu: about as much as they know about psychiatry : everyone has his own story.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform scoopbot's down, deedbot not here, it's like microsoft over here.
mircea_popescu tries real hard to imagine the next generation shamir putting to paper the 'friend of the us' string.
mircea_popescu: "why get now for free what you won't be able to afford later on ?!?!?!!?"
mircea_popescu: "As a friend of the US I am deeply worried that if you continue to delay visas in such a way, the only thing you will achieve is to alienate many world-famous foreign scientists, forcing them to increase their cooperation with European or Chinese scientists whose countries roll the red carpet for such visits. "
mircea_popescu: In my humble opinion, we are heading toward a disaster, and I have heard many people, among them our top scientists, saying that they are not willing anymore to visit the US, and collaborate with American scientists, because of the difficulties.
mircea_popescu: mebbe we should ask adlai to pay him a visit ? do an interview for qntra
mircea_popescu: "how long is a program ?" "that depends. on 64 bit registers, roughly 21kb
mircea_popescu: everything should be dereferenced every 1337th instruction
mircea_popescu: i think you see my point. well "my". porobably the oldest point in computing.
mircea_popescu: i can follow that logic there. "for ten cents we can't be bothered, write your own damned card"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so i fail to see how "reference counting" is any sort of anything resembling a solution nor c etc demented for not having it.
mircea_popescu: chatquack i just went through home made cherry brandy, im full up on sweet liquor
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller reddit runs out of 6k a month worth of servers ? impressive if true.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> to avoid winblows. << it could be because they don't givew so much of a shit about the money. if he/she could afford a pointless masters,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but you dunno to begin with wtf data strcutres its gonna have.