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mircea_popescu: i think it's a fine language! i just don't have anything to do in it.
mircea_popescu: "Even when there were still plenty of Neanderthals, it must have sucked to be one. The Cro-Magnons would have been constantly coming over and beating you up and stealing your food."
mircea_popescu: "I think that, like species, languages will form evolutionary trees, with dead-ends branching off all over. We can see this happening already. Cobol, for all its sometime popularity, does not seem to have any intellectual descendants. It is an evolutionary dead-end-- a Neanderthal language."
mircea_popescu: "i'm married - gotta make sure my kids have no better anything to look up to than i did"
mircea_popescu: (which incidentally makes me curious, if you get usg advance on promise to deliver and then fail to deliver, do you hjave to repay ? or go to jail ?)
mircea_popescu: and defo more than the lousy one year salary gavin got for attempting (and failing) some
mircea_popescu: they'll sell for way more than the gpg "dev" got to sell out the thing she doesn't represent.
mircea_popescu: and no doubt once they sell to facebook / washington mutual / obama's pubic hair,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform um. this seems to me just a completely inept, disorganised kid.
mircea_popescu: actually... the swj shit is what the left likes to think the tea party.
mircea_popescu: "It's all crap. This SJW shit is the Tea Party of the left. "
mircea_popescu: phillipsjk trusting summaries, especially when "graphical" is a sure path to perdition.
mircea_popescu: phillipsjk non compliant signatures are non compliant in trivial ways,
mircea_popescu: signatures are a major vulnerability. mostly because nobody in fucking crypto except for us understands the actual constraints.
mircea_popescu: hey anyone remembers these bits i quoted some weeks ago about this woman that did a kickstarter-like thing for her oyung adult novel
mircea_popescu: aawww, troll was a ... woman ?! ethnic ?! NOT POSSIBRU
mircea_popescu: ironically, irc was a big thing when i was a teen. then pretty much forgot about it. only rediscovered it in a frustrated attempt to make sense of the ever mounting idiocy that bitcoin appeared to be.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: a) she didn't choose ; b) you don't actually see a "that" there.
mircea_popescu: you ever walk behind couples wondering why she chose THAT loser ?
mircea_popescu: could it be just 25k worth of fraud which really "isn't all that much" especially seeing how "everyone deserves a living wage" ?
mircea_popescu: 723 backers £12,927 pledged of £3,500 goal 0 seconds to go
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding that you know... you gotta spend nine months eating for free
mircea_popescu: so if i fuck you, and you get pregnant, well... is it worth it ?
mircea_popescu: " This of course adds the complexity to Clojure. The question is – does this acquired complexity worth it? I think it does. You gain a platform that is being poured thousands of man-hours every year into, you gain a GC that is being optimized for you, you gain the crossplatformity basically for free. You may call that opportunism but it works after all."
mircea_popescu: "Engineering complexity is a form of environmental pollution; perhaps even the worst form of all, because it may yet turn out to be the case that it can kill whole civilizations, not just individual people."
mircea_popescu: i suppose "resonance chamber" isn't actually a good enough answer.
mircea_popescu: "in a sense, Windows is a result of the way C++ builds environments, like Unix is a result of how C does it." << and in this sense... their merging would be expected at about the time "most people" couldn't if press explain exactly what the ++ stand for.
mircea_popescu: not all of them actually end in a resonant chamber do they ?
mircea_popescu: so... sparrow cooked, sure. simple man should be safe.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform laugh if you will, but if pressed to come up with a definition of humanity, at least as an ideal object, the most sound i can think up is, "that collection of objects which construct relations which degrade gracefully"
mircea_popescu: now that... that is EXACTLY what i had in mind earlier.
mircea_popescu: 00 times more than it did in 1950, when managers scribbled unreadable notes and very quick and efficient typists corrected their spelling, grammer, and language and adhered to "company style" effortlessly."
mircea_popescu: ce tag, a secretary does not produce any more measurable output now than in 1950 -- in fact, the evidence suggests that obtaining _half_ the productivity of a 1950's secretary in 1997 is a major feat. the fact that managers write their own reports at down to 1/10th of the speed of a secretary that used to be paid 1/10th of their salary also means that the time spent producing a letter or a report can cost as much as 1
mircea_popescu: "according to a report in the Economist earlier this year, the cost of producing any piece of business communication dropped along with advances in computers from 1950 through 1980. from 1985 through 1995, it rose sharply enough to consume all earnings made since 1950. it is significantly more expensive to produce a business letter in 1997 than it was in 1950. despite many technological advances with a very high pri
mircea_popescu: there's two kinds of socialist minds in this world, the sort that expect all people to be equally stupid, and the sort that expect all people to be equally smart.
mircea_popescu: at which point does the use of "seperate" in the original text suggest to him that he's dealing with a simple man with simple problems and he'd better stick to simpler solutions ?
mircea_popescu: lol this naggum thing. jesus christ he's impossible to talk to.
mircea_popescu: (note that this does not mean the same as "was ever married" in the slightest, which is the point)
mircea_popescu: which of course in a different time would beg the snide question if orwell were ever married.
mircea_popescu: (to dampen that : fry likes wilde more because wilde was a fag than because wilde was good. which he wasn't THAT good. but nevertheless, THIS point is sound in this context)
mircea_popescu: also obligatory, wilde. "i will leave it to you to fix the ifs and thens and wherefores"
mircea_popescu: but the reason itdoes is specifically - that recipient is not computer.