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mircea_popescu: in any case, dude droning on about "his ideas re evolution" is going to make a very poor impression. as they aren'
t his fucking ideas, and an apparent ignorance of the whole darwin thing does not plead in favour of either his intelligence or his culture.
mircea_popescu: the problem is this : i/we don'
t deem $nobody capable of independent thought.
shinohai: All these lurkers aren'
t her for nothing!
CompanionCube: *isnt' enough if you didn'
t originally find the idea somewhere else
a111: Logged on 2017-04-01 18:31 CompanionCube doesn'
t think the FPGA article plagiarises #trilema logz but I should most likely read/searc more to be confident about that
trinque: what, lord can'
t vacation?
trinque: ftr I don'
t see a problem with jurov being on sabbatical if he returns
trinque: nah, and I'd be surprised if your welcome weren'
t unanimous
diana_coman: mircea_popescu> the one other item is ... jurov fell off as lord treasurer. i dun exactly recall why or wherefore ; but he is STILL holding a considerable sum for the foundation, and moreover why sohuldn'
t he be a lord ? <- based on the work he did/does as far as I know it, I think he should be on the list; that being said, my understanding was that he got dropped due to
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-03#1444966 ☝︎ CompanionCube doesn'
t think the FPGA article plagiarises #trilema logz but I should most likely read/searc more to be confident about that
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it just shocked me, i have nfi how pilots don'
t kill to drive it, but the thing flows like an audi.
mthreat: asciilifeform: many people don'
t - they fly "experimentals" and save lots of money
mthreat: the albatros is under an "experimental" certificate, so it isn'
t subject to the same testing in the US
mircea_popescu: shinohai no, they just don'
t belong irl. girl has a point.
mthreat: i wouldn'
t only pack a life vest, i'd wear it the whole flight!
mircea_popescu: cr is a tiny nation, doesn'
t need to do anything in particular to survive. but at least they have the intelligence to produce cash crops like coffee rathert than commodity crops like fucking soy.
mircea_popescu had nfi idea what racism is ; and imagined it's mostly pretended. not so. i HATE argentines, fundamentally, and the only reason there's not 40 mn corpses in limed pits right now is that i don'
t have the pits.
mircea_popescu: can'
t really have a fucking code of conduct. beyond "don'
t be offensively stupid" i can'\
t imagine. he might even be gay or not wear a tie!
mircea_popescu: the one other item is ... jurov fell off as lord treasurer. i dun exactly recall why or wherefore ; but he is STILL holding a considerable sum for the foundation, and moreover why sohuldn'
t he be a lord ?
mircea_popescu: and it also provides drm! infected males can'
t reproduce with disease-free females (or females infected by other strains).
mircea_popescu: ONE of the things wolbachia does is... feminize! (because sperm can'
t carry it, only females do). so it makes these feminine or pseudo-feminine male insects.
mircea_popescu: here's some random lul : wolbachia is possibly the most successful bacteria ; in any case is the most widely distributed sexual transmitted disease ; about half of all insects extant carry some form ; many species can'
t reproduce if uninfected, or cant' even survive.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (believe it or not this was on mp's list of things for the scouts to look out for. not because of any disease per se but because i can'
t fucking stand the buggers.)
mircea_popescu: wait. do you mean YOU got zika fever and can'
t travel, or do you mean costa rica has it ?
scriba: Logged on 2017-03-31: [14:58:44] <Framedragger> shitoshi - no, don'
t recall.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-31 10:22 mircea_popescu: for the other thing, leaving aside the whole "pvc doesn'
t actually burn hot enough to melt bridge" - suppose it's 16 inch schedule 80 pipe. that means 30 or so meters per ton, but it also means that if you store ten pipes on the ground (4 meters wide, this), with nine on top followed by eight on 3rd level etc you get five levels of that per two meters height. pvc is about 40 MJ/kg, the arrangement would yield 10+9+8+7+6 = 40m
mircea_popescu: (to be clear : this isn'
t an argument in the vein of "what happened didn;
t happen", but merely an observation that the item must have been VERY poorly maintained for the collapse to occur. that it's being sold as disaster is very much in the vein of the 1923 "palace of established happiness" fire : the eunuchs dun really want anyone to see how much they've stolen, so there was a... fire.)
mircea_popescu: for the other thing, leaving aside the whole "pvc doesn'
t actually burn hot enough to melt bridge" - suppose it's 16 inch schedule 80 pipe. that means 30 or so meters per ton, but it also means that if you store ten pipes on the ground (4 meters wide, this), with nine on top followed by eight on 3rd level etc you get five levels of that per two meters height. pvc is about 40 MJ/kg, the arrangement would yield 10+9+8+7+6 = 40m
☟︎ mircea_popescu: iiincredible, you mean infrastructure doesn'
t upkeep itself ?!
BingoBoingo: If a bum want's money he's for hire. If he doesn'
t want your wage for doing your work, the bum can get fucked. Hence Bumfucked.
trinque: at least he has the dignity that the job he doesn'
t have pays a living waeg!!!11
BingoBoingo: Lesson of the day: The hardest part of buying paint is browising through color chips to find one that doesn'
t have a faggy name.
shinohai doesn'
t have one yet, but imagined he could run this from bench power supply ?
shinohai: But, if sealed window, bonus! She can'
t go anywhere!
Framedragger: especially their leader, this ridiculous fat turd who nevertheless is featured in various tv shitshows ('to popularise history', you know) -- he's just plain jelly as fuck, (quote) "i don'
t even know this schmuck, some kind of driver (sic; literal), i would have great doubts as to the document's authenticity [meanwhile confirmed by germany archivists etc etc etc]", so on and so forth, in a complete caricature-like jelly manner.
mircea_popescu: i suppose this is the current-day equivalent of the demo scene. "uhm... we can'
t code... but we'd like to hang out with you dudes... can we do anything ? i mean besides sucking cock, something we can display in public"
CompanionCube once tried corrode on some random bits of C with little if any success. Even when it worked, it didn'
t produce particularly good or even 'ok' code
phf: ah, i only have 2nd edition (1996). i agree though they went downhill from there. i don'
t think even armstrong's next book is particularly good
mircea_popescu: the lede being "if she doesn'
t like how your balls smell, she dun love you."
mircea_popescu: trinque the king wasn'
t in any sense shitty, mind. you familiar with the tea story, yes ?
mircea_popescu: misconstrued circumstantial constraints, "we're a business, we don'
t have the time to fix the world" "oh, those guys failed, we gotta '''learn''' from their experience" etc
mircea_popescu: in principle anything that can be run can be compiled, this isn'
t a matter. the question to you alf is, that "actual optimizing compiler, like gcc", is it WRITTEN IN ERLANG ?
mircea_popescu: then perhaps i am mistaken and indeed it doesn'
t belong in that list.
trinque: queues and workers and restart upon failure didn'
t need a syntax
mircea_popescu: lua also worked well in its industrial niche ; dob isn'
t that much of a consideration imo
a111: Logged on 2017-03-30 14:04 mircea_popescu: i'm not saying "rust is bad mmkay". i couldn'
t care less, there's been tons of "new languages" fulfilling the need of people to "revolutionize". they all work, exactly in the way custom pliers work.
trinque: they like it because it's like mother telling them they followed all the rules, and didn'
t even have to think about it.
trinque: nah, I don'
t write the stuff. just was subjected to some fat idiot prattling on about rust one night
mircea_popescu: i have nfi why they imagine this. in point of fact the system that delivers milk in a bottle so they don'
t have to milk their own cow is MORE complex, not less.
mircea_popescu: "automated" is a byword for "i don'
t have to do any work".
mircea_popescu: i'm not buying custom pliers, and the pretense of the custom plier fans that their custom pliers ain'
t custom but standard is uninteresting.
mircea_popescu: i'm not saying "rust is bad mmkay". i couldn'
t care less, there's been tons of "new languages" fulfilling the need of people to "revolutionize". they all work, exactly in the way custom pliers work.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: fucking decay of idiocy, they want to turn the nodes-notnodes binome into fullnodes-nodes ? if you don'
t verify blocks you're not a node, if you can'
t program the machine it's not a language etc. holy shit.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, when the fuck did a COMPUTER LANGUAGE, ie, a language you can program the machine in, become a "systems language" ? why, to make room for javascript being a language ? it ain'
t a fucking language, it's a scripting language which means jack-all.
pete_dushenski: you probably already know this but it's awfully hard to take your 'snore this' and 'kindergarten that' seriously when you move the goalposts so. but it's still fun trying to pin the lubed eel, don'
t get me wrong.
pete_dushenski: but both failed criteria 1 and 2. weren'
t cheap and kept breaking down (unless you think 'practical' is 'big boot', which imo is insufficient)
pete_dushenski: there aren'
t enough alfs on this rock for cheap ironmobiles with 'all 3'
pete_dushenski: in other sanities, having a business dispute ? don'
t look to the fiat bureacracy for help
http://archive.is/AHtKB ("In Brooklyn’s Kosher Pizza War, Modern Tastes Battle Ancient Law")
a111: Logged on 2017-03-29 23:05 asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: speaking of which, tell me, how come i can'
t buy a car where if it dents, i can just take off a panel and put in new one ?
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> ben_vulpes: speaking of which, tell me, how come i can'
t buy a car where if it dents, i can just take off a panel and put in new one ? << I have exactly this fucking thing. Also most incidents that would dent metal don'
t dent.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-29 22:15 asciilifeform: but there was that old mircea_popescu thread. where, approx, 'a dollar usg collects from mr.pleb in tax isn'
t so that usg can spend a dollar, it can spend $trillion, or ten, without collecting anything; it collects the dollar because otherwise mr.pleb will use it to bid up turkeys'
CompanionCube: fuck, even the US'd be a better place. There there isn'
t a law that literally states you must disclose encryption keys on-demand.
ben_vulpes: i imagine there's some "oh no, you couldn'
t possibly imagine the superiority of the su raskladushka" inbound