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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.
mircea_popescu: BUT if the computer you are talking to is equally redundant and badly built, you are either an idiot or very very unfortunate.
mircea_popescu: the great utility of the scribe / secretary, rather than the tits, is that natural languages have piles and layers of redundancy built in. a good note taker is a cheap way to gain 50 to 100% speed and a decent 10 to 25% quality for very little cost.
mircea_popescu: so i agree that talking to computers is loathsome. however, i often use note takers when speaking rather than writing myslelf. the latter explains the former.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform re the "Have you ever actually used a speech recognition system to enter serious lengths of text? " line in your comments : i agree talking to a comp
mircea_popescu: like, the node, which is an always on demon, and then various things connecting to it : such as other nodes, on the eth card, or the user, always on the specifically delegated interface, etc ?
mircea_popescu: mod6 does that idea go as far as making bitcoin a sort of xserver ?
mircea_popescu: "do not tell me of what seems acceptable as an idea to pudgy people driving on the interstate towards connecticut. i do not care."
mircea_popescu: " My standard of comparison for any technology will always be everything previously achieved by mankind, rather than what is available on the market today."
mircea_popescu: and a sad testament to what you get stuck with if , like satoshi, have to jackbuild a house
mircea_popescu: why the fuck we're importing from a different project - and THAT one in particular is anyone's guess
mircea_popescu: mod6 this issue is critical because it's easily the squishiest point of the whole protocol.
mircea_popescu: such is the fate of right wing movements tho, bereft of means and resources as they are.
mircea_popescu: is how that spammer guy killed qntra and then bitcoin-assets.
mircea_popescu: you recall, the one that's so well tested apud gmaxwel
mircea_popescu: course also what the wunderbar vc boys are trying to do with their NOVEL inmplemetnation
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform can you be specific rather than rhetoric ? i dun follow
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i am willing to bet there are over 1kbugs in this thing. all distinct.
mircea_popescu: might be a bug specific to the 9.8o but then that doesn't explain how all the others worked
mircea_popescu: this is pretty massive if true. mod6 do you feel like testing for this insanity specifically ?
mircea_popescu: whereas if you compile itwith more 2011 ish openssl itdoes ?
mircea_popescu: sooooo... on account of bitcoind recompiled with new openssl, actual bitcoind compiled with actual openssl as of 2009 does not pass blocks in 2011
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