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asciilifeform: re quoted bit, the 'they stopped giving out form' is as questionable as 'nsa bugged my house, but i have no photo'
mircea_popescu: "alf's idea of a think he has no sensation access nor cares to reasses to has remained unchanged over the interval the foregoing held" ☟︎
asciilifeform: and remaining fat, what there is.
asciilifeform: now this, yes.
mircea_popescu: dubious there'll be a 2031 to palpate against.
mircea_popescu: the difference even 2001 to 2016 is palpable.
mircea_popescu: it's just about clear the ship's hollow and will sink.
mircea_popescu: myeah. kinda why the name of the game has been "suck it dry and expatriate all you can" for about a decade now.
asciilifeform: 'got burgled? here, have this refrigerator crate to live in'
asciilifeform: 'So she returned to the state disability office and told them this. Their response was, "Oh, I guess that's new. Okay, no problem, we'll assign you a different ID number." My cousin's kid was like "WTF?" and asked them why they would reassign her a number rather than reassign, or better yet freeze, the SSN thief's account. Their response was that they don't get involved in those legal issues, their job is just to provide the benefit
asciilifeform: using SSNs to get benefits, was to stop providing documentation so that the person who was actually associated to the number could prove it, because there were too many instances of this happening.' << this is actual and typical.
asciilifeform: 'The state told her she had to contact the SSA to get a specific form that says her SSN was misused and that she in fact was the "owner" of her number. When she went to the SSA, she said they wouldn't give her the form. The reason? They stopped giving them out (apparently recently as this just happened a few months ago) because they were getting too many request for them. So their decision, rather than going after the people falsely
a111: Logged on 2016-08-12 16:40 mircea_popescu: kinda why you need more womenz to process that payload.
asciilifeform: 'how to guard an auschwitz. make sure you have half a dozen....' etc
mircea_popescu: "how to cook crab ?" "make sure you have a half dozen or more"
mircea_popescu: crabs in the pot.
asciilifeform: somehow it is different when done in tailored, vs walmart suit ? i have nfi.
mircea_popescu: shoulda sold it to facebook for 10 bnz
asciilifeform: it was among the first arsebooks.
mircea_popescu: apparently these aren't ACTUALLY worth money after all ?
asciilifeform: nah, she prolly would've put some emo crapola in there)
asciilifeform: (could even be the man's acct, slowly draining?)
mircea_popescu: ex gf woman committed to doing that iirc
asciilifeform: somebody must be paying the bill...
mircea_popescu: do find the examples, worth our time to look at them.
mircea_popescu: the beauty of the fucking logs - what is actually said can, and IS actually extricated from the "reasonable interpretation" it forms at the time of the saying. this is both a) a necessary effect of the passage of time and b) actually exponential rather than log or even liear. Moreover c) it actually provides aggregating benefits to everyone's toolset.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: any of, e.g., the notation threads. or the dope thread. or any ' mircea_popescu: this is worthless crapola used by posers to appear relevant . asciilifeform: no, i saw it used, and perhaps used personally, to palpable effect. mircea_popescu: bullshit, i can do same thing with shoestring and power of my mind. asciilifeform: ...'
asciilifeform: and yes, walk across usa and meet 1,000,001 people who think GIGANTIC lathe, or tractor, or kalash with SHIT HANGING OFF SIDE, will make them THE GREAT MEISTER etc.
mircea_popescu: i suspect this may be a case of "you may not use that tool here" being taken for "i don't like that tool". it was a domain problem most likely, but do link ?
asciilifeform: was speaking of the generalized 'tool is +30iq'
mircea_popescu: actually, starting the week after proper log/search/irc took off.
mircea_popescu: when exactly was i allergic to it ; and for that matter i've been preaching blogging to people for years.
asciilifeform: but ~in the hands of one~ etc.
asciilifeform: nor the funny hat.
asciilifeform: nor the dope
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu, i suspect, was originally allergic to the 'roman numerals' observation for approx same reason as in dope thread
asciilifeform: finally this sinks in, i see.
asciilifeform: because he was not mircea_popescu and did not have any knife sharp enough to actually make a palpable mark on the wall.
mircea_popescu: you can explain to roman astronomer about proper numeration all you want.
mircea_popescu: myeah. this blog thing seems to me very strictly a problem of "tools are 30 iq points".
asciilifeform: because, i suspect, he realized that he was banging head on wall.
asciilifeform: too little, however, and too late.
asciilifeform: had the classic 'earthworm and ants' feel to it
mircea_popescu: guy's work would have greatly benefited of his having a log, where he could reference it properly to itself.
mircea_popescu: but one could pretend the entire car nonsense was his trying to say that and no more.
mircea_popescu: he ~almost~ nearly makes the "it is wrong to encourqage code writing over code reading" point, and then it oddly eludes him
asciilifeform: the ant traps in my kitchen also have to be repeated every odd year.
mircea_popescu: which also have to be repeated.
mircea_popescu: and requires complex, timewasting, resource destroying, excursions in fuck you.
asciilifeform: of the 'i want MY WAY, solely because MY shit dun stink, MOVE OVER old system'
mircea_popescu: so fucking far up their own ass is their head, that merely me ~saying~ something is stupid, which should be fucking enough among any group of adults with functional brains, is not,
asciilifeform: naggum is ~the~ go-to source, pre-bitcoin, in my mind, re this eternal war.
mircea_popescu: and they have to constantly, painfully, slowly, humiliatingly be beaten down with a large stick.
asciilifeform: when comp.lang.lisp was besieged by loud arsehats demanding to reopen the committee so they could have orc glyphs or whichever.
mircea_popescu: he has the strong excuse no bitcoin was there. but the main problem of bitcoin as "foss" is precisely this - that various idiots think they may change things.
asciilifeform: he observed the 'changes idiots perceive they are entitled to' at agonizing length re common lisp standard
mircea_popescu: it's not that "bigger systems require changes" AT ALL. on the contrary : it's that bigger systems do not PERMIT changes some idiots think they are entitled to.
asciilifeform: naggum's observation that it was a largely mindless 'protest' movement remains correct.
mircea_popescu: such as "in lowering the perceived barrier to entry, encourages idiots and degrades median code quality" ; "in encouraging writing over reading, it plays to software's weaknesses against its strengths" scl
mircea_popescu: it's true foss died ; for which reason it carries little water here. but the frustration is a) the inability of foss to maintain strong immutability in front of organised crime, be it usg or otherwise ; b) the part where it can't actually move is valid, but not exactly for the reason he describes.
mircea_popescu: han the ones people today think are usefully modified locally." << this, for instance, is oddly half-true/half-delusional.
mircea_popescu: "I think Free Software and Open Source addicts will get down from their current high and become tremendously frustrated when the obvious problem of having millions of pieces of source code available and they actually can't move in any direction because the ability to make modifications that they have so lauded in the past turn into a very serious problem when much bigger problems require modifications to much larger systems t
asciilifeform: (or for that matter mircea_popescu's 'rural and urban' piece.)
asciilifeform: re fundamental tradeoffs of civilization, city, etc.
asciilifeform: or the hammer-drill from mircea_popescu's latest piece.
mircea_popescu: anyway ; im putting this off to an exquisitely bad metaphor, with the cars.
asciilifeform: normally. but from the words i began to suspect that we had been to the same mine fields.
mircea_popescu: did to understand what he "meant" through "redefining what open() means in the middle of the text"
mircea_popescu: see, this is kinda backwards. normally, one examines what subject says to understand what he did. not what subj
asciilifeform: fwiw, i found myself having to examine what n. did, to fully grasp what he said and why.
asciilifeform: possibly because mircea_popescu misreads the meaning of the wordz.
mircea_popescu: mkay then. the man's deeds and his words are not alligned.
asciilifeform: at a certain point the heathen emacs surrendered.
asciilifeform: he trb'd it.
mircea_popescu: i thought he retreated to cave and wrote own ? oh ?
mircea_popescu: this titanic "start from scratch" nonsense is not of interest
asciilifeform: not 'bend over and spread arse cheeks for existing state of the art', no.
mircea_popescu: so then what's this gunk all about.
asciilifeform: he solved it the trb way.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as you know, this is not how he solved 'mule'.
mircea_popescu: naggum's solution to "bitcoin is broken" would be pointedly not to "take over source and discharge the delusional folks "releasing" "versions" in their own mind" ; but instead to "find another way". perhaps what, spam the forums ? to build consensus ?
asciilifeform: and yes, triangular bits will drill mircea_popescu's square holes.
mircea_popescu: i don't care about the consumer.
asciilifeform: even regardless of whether demand comes with a stack of cash that reaches to pluto.
asciilifeform: fact is, if konsoomer demands something that is fundamentally stupid, konsoomer is stupid.
mircea_popescu: this has naught to do with me or naggum.
mircea_popescu: "car goes through your house" requires "other way provider" to recognize car owner as boss.
asciilifeform: as described in his cpp chronicles. he largely quit programming for a good while, because disagreed with the use of the abomination.
mircea_popescu: his "car could go there some other way" requires car user to recognize "other way provider" as boss.
mircea_popescu: how fucking hard to see could this possibly be ?
mircea_popescu: it is a problem BECAUSE I AM THE BOSS OF YOU ; NOT YOU THE BOSS OF ME.
mircea_popescu: "|I don't see why anyone would insist on a way to do things that does not solves the real problem, but rather solve an ancilliary problem that is a problem only because someone is very stubborn." << the political ineptidude of these people.
mircea_popescu: also need a proper sized jade piece, which is rarer the bigger it gets.
asciilifeform: nobody gets to be journeyman-anything by doing it with hands.
asciilifeform: just takes patience.
mircea_popescu: in another life /me had set of five jade spheres, hand carved. whole thing about titsized.
asciilifeform: (warez in the general, rather than 'torrent')
PeterL: speaking of which, where is the best place to find torrents?
asciilifeform: ( a practice i suggest to refer to as 'shremming')
asciilifeform: i have nfi what deal idiot made with which preet to preserve the remaining empty skin husk of his arse.