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mircea_popescu: punkman: any objections to punkbot changing name to "notary"? << i like it.
mircea_popescu: in the end. and its a great point. but before he gets there he steps in it.
mircea_popescu: no but wait, my question is, if not {[()]} then what, ()[()]() etc ?
mircea_popescu: "If you wrote @bold{foo} instead of <bold>foo</bold>, you would not even /want/ to say @bold{foo @italic{bar} zot} if you expected to get foo in bold, zot in italic, and bar in both." <<< wait, wut ?
mircea_popescu: dude.... spend the time to put a (was it clock driven ?) spectrometer in a laptop
mircea_popescu: giving idiot "web designers" a gamma= is like giving idiot web designers autoplay video with a volume=.
mircea_popescu: "Professional graphic artists generally produce Web sites on Macintoshes. They slave over the images until the mid-tones look just right, mid-tones that will be mapped almost to black on a typical Sun workstation or PC. The solution to this problem is trivial: a gamma= field in the IMG HTML tag."
mircea_popescu: yet the thing still survived to present day. makes stuff like the www look likely to live on.
mircea_popescu: it's basically a normal bacterium genome that was completely mushed to bits, barely a third of it still works.
mircea_popescu: anyway, speaking of leprosy, that thing is a wonder to behold.
mircea_popescu: i guess after all the tb and bedbug outbreaks in the best socialist california, twas unavoidable.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it was a fun thing to make, that. i think i still have the publisher responses somewhere, "omg you write the greatest letters and whoa so sorry i can't publish this"
mircea_popescu: chetty can you believe people still buy your stuff a decade later ?
mircea_popescu: "The result? A formatting language too wimpy even for a novel." <<< this is pure nonsense. i had my novel on the web just fine in plain html.
mircea_popescu: i believe the proper femsociety word for one who does not care about stupid shit is rapist.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck ever read whatever software the dns letters run ? who ever wrote a patch for it ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, re the entire extension and so forth : everything that works on the internet and in the world works on "our" principles.
mircea_popescu: PeterL the reason i said "for the theoretically minded" was exactly this tongue in cheek point. "take your broken models and try make sense of the world whydontcha!"
mircea_popescu re-reads, notices he misspelled guns as huns, wonders why the fuck has he not realised this before.
mircea_popescu: PeterL look at the discussion about al schwartz's failed measurements.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is necessarily so. because godel is a cult.
mircea_popescu: code works slowly, you spend a life and in the end it's all a waste.
mircea_popescu: PeterL huns are open for anyone to take, and kill themselves with.
mircea_popescu: i hear gavin is planning to fork bitcoin and make his own version.
mircea_popescu: that safadean fellow can get in the wot. but otherwise, most people can try.
mircea_popescu: and i did happen to have the finest bitches in the place, buncha losers.
mircea_popescu: yes, anyone can read it. i went to a swinger's club yest, anyone could look at my bitches.
mircea_popescu: suppose ninjashogun wants to push a patch for deedbot. or, whatever, the cardano.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform PeterL it's developing software, is it not ?
mircea_popescu: yeah hacking the supernintendo is actually still part of training hackers afaik.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, for the theoretically minded : would you say the b-a software paradigm is open source or closed source ?
mircea_popescu: they use exaclty a biological implementation of personal sovereignity to build open but not too open systems that survive well in the world.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, living things seem a little more advanced than our computers on this exact path
mircea_popescu: the open/closed software has no stable solution otherwise.
mircea_popescu: this is, at least in my view, why personal sovereignity is not avoidable on the mid or long term.
mircea_popescu: as stupid as the man in charge can be, the benefits often outpace the damage. this was discussed here re stalin
mircea_popescu: PeterL yeah, flash running browsers have been a ubuntu specialty.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> personally, i have always used only the most basic and essential subset of pgp std. functionality. <<
mircea_popescu: mod6 it's no big deal, just change your pref and forget about it.
mircea_popescu: appreciate my "in the end it's unclear" instead. it's damned good :D
mircea_popescu: course then russia was trying to join california in the warsaw pact, and a bunch of topless aggitator chicks kept fucking the pot,
mircea_popescu: these piled up, eventually the us collapsed of it, took them twenty years to regroup, but meanwhile lost alaska and california.
mircea_popescu: at some point in the cold war, the united states president was a totally inept ninkompoop, principally remembered for having taken his shoes off in the un council. this guy had an oversized military and inept economic policies that stalled the country. his fellow americans didn't think much of him, kept making little mistakes.
mircea_popescu: easiest thing in the world is a mistake. the fucking cold war was won not by any other means than... mistakes.
mircea_popescu: big bad is dumb as rocks, on its own. has nfi what all the things mean.
mircea_popescu: gotta understand that any big bad only exists as a work of fiction, otherwise is simply a collection of men. gotta give those men ways out, so that "mysterious" and "inexplicable" things happen
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, and suppose you see a message from me using sha1 when you know i use sha512.
mircea_popescu: fwiw, asylum, which i typeset myself, was printed as a pdf. the house ran a large web press, did my run in like three hours.