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mircea_popescu: i do not say any such thing. i say he is a competent smith, running
as best he can a convenience shop, which for whatever reason is blessed with a wall where every jay and silent bob in the county is attracted to rest, and rap, and what they do.
BingoBoingo: My opinion of JK Rowling increased over the weekend when I learned that she released the new Harry Potter story
as a printed play. A++ Trolling.
diana_coman: Tolkien made his universe
as a place to experiment with his language; I can fully see and agree with the point that it is "not real life" - I read him very late and therefore I knew this already, I never for a second considered it
as "real life" or reflection of it or whatever; I guess that's where the whole thing comes from
diana_coman: hm, funnily enough I did love Sadoveanu
as a kid but got over it somewhere in the teens
mircea_popescu: i even loved him
as a kid, and thought it great fiction. just don't seem to summon the interest these days.
mircea_popescu: by now the only places left outside are left outside because too dumb to qualify for anglotardation, such
as argentina.
phf: i don't think even tolkien fans think of tolkien
as a writer, that's why him and his brood get own section at a bookstore
diana_coman: well, fwiw tolkien
as far
as I know did NOT consider himself a writer
diana_coman: well,
as long
as it "makes" them, it's the same thing
diana_coman: what point? that hobbits were special? they are meant to be exactly not-special, that's why I suspect BingoBoingo perceives them
as boring in the first place
diana_coman: uhm, what worlds where people are special BingoBoingo ?
as far
as I know Tolkien's point was quite the opposite of this really
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform (the french point, for ease of following : at the time james was king. the king of scotland. scotland was, throughout, and recognised at the time, a french outpost in the islands. shakespeare's own henry says
as much.)
mircea_popescu: yes, but i specifically disclaimed the argument
as to craft. yes, the man is a crafty writer, archeologist, etc. put in the work. hard work. intelligently. yes.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform their characters don't fuck properly. yes, good,
as in crafty writer. still has nothing to say besides "god save the queen"
mircea_popescu: yes, this includes tolkien. no, i don't see him
as much more than an earlier, therefore craftier, woman what's her name.
mircea_popescu: hopkins does probably his best role ~
as a man~, to jack nicholson levels. debra winger is utterly superb. perfect performance.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-27 17:51 mircea_popescu: meanwhile the eth "rednecks" are "acting against their own interest".
as per usg verbiage now current.
mircea_popescu:
as per usual the name of the anglotard game is "you may complain about any part of our retardation provided you import the fundamental principles that guarantee it reproduces itself in all its parts"
mircea_popescu: b) poor people spend more on the symbols of "wealth" such
as a shitty chinese import than sane people would,
as a proportion of their expenditure.
pete_dushenski: maybe in putin's russia, where stasi are organised, blogger can 'have accidental gas asplosion in apartment', but canada is about
as militant
as a sack of wet bean sprouts.
pete_dushenski: ut in general, they will kind of talk you up. But then when you get up to the same level or maybe even higher, they get in attack mode; they are maybe not
as supportive. I kind of felt that this time."
trinque: god, nsa has the same copypasta problems
as any large american software firm!
phf: one bug requires a special broken version of mozilla for example, where x-imap4-modified-utf7 is exposed
as a possible meta charset encoding
mircea_popescu: battery lasts ~hour/gram. so if you buy a bag ~same
as carrying a wall socket with you
trinque: which seems to never be able to act
as an actual phone
shinohai:
As for the insolvency rumors, I guess cryptographic proof is just too hard.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the matter should be chased shinohai ; a good time
as any to put a fucking end to that miserable cancer.
mircea_popescu:
as long
as the pathogen is included in the organism, the situation is called "infection"
ben_vulpes: the interest doesn't sting quite
as badly when you've a plan and wait for the right moment.
mircea_popescu: but
as a heuristic, "things which will have to be done anyway are best done right now."
mircea_popescu: anyway, they prolly bought swag, crack and bitcoin for the whole sum already.
as per the ancient "borrow all you can, trade the shiatola for proper currency, disappear."
ben_vulpes: anyways this malaysian thing is hilarious and interesting on several other axes
as well: 1) the malaysian government is nowhere mentioned in the pr-wank 2) if one accepts the usg narrative, gs is an obvious stooge of *someone* in the play due to not doing dd adequate to determine that bond monies were going to an organization with inadequate controls to keep the money from draining immediately into the
BingoBoingo: Olds at OCLC making things that should be easy hard, and taking the things that ARE hard and farting over them
as though they don't exist.
mircea_popescu: so basically, "the business case for ethereum is just
as good
as for bitcoin" just got kicked a little in the teeth with a big fat "DO NOT USE CONTRACTS FOR ANY PURPOSES!!111".
trinque: eh assbot was disconnected time to time
as well
mircea_popescu: love how they present this "anyone has to assume they are being eavesdropped on"
as some sort of bad thing. cuz you know, it's not mother-usa doing it.
mircea_popescu: but my vituperations of "iliteracy"
as exemplified by your arcane symbology et all is not unrelated.
mircea_popescu: it is ALSO answerable, except not in certain ways. from a particular solipsistic position, the "probability" of there existing such a thing
as a cube of bronze is just
as remote
as the probability of there existing a cube of antimatter the same size.
mircea_popescu: title,
as a convenient fiction in common parlance, nevertheless translates a deep and important ontological difference.
mircea_popescu: mno. title
as understood by idiots is a convenient fiction, much like santa-the-gift-giver is a convenient fiction. this fiction does not mean it's a good idea to be a bad kiddy, in either case.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-29#1511434 << this example doesn't work because when valuing "cars" one makes a deliberate exception of the $15 cost of the raw sheet metal going in. there is no such thing
as minerals that aren't also stolen cars. again for the obvious reason - nobody's mommy picks molybden ingots from under her nails
as normal part of morning hygiene.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: ough
as it is, with everyone lying to everyone every chance they get,
as part and parcel of what economics IS, this branch of cryptocurrency.)
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-29#1511429 << not
as a civilian, and for the very obvious reason. (or at least it should be obvious - past a few hundred or so, adding more "opinion"ators does not improve the overall quality of the resultant opinion, even if it increases the costs of resulting it.which is also why "inclusive" programs always fail. so people trying to figure this shit out really don't need anymore noise. good en
☝︎ shinohai: yeah i diddled the sigs on each part and reran. Failed
as expected
mod6: so i need to still do some negative testing; i need to kinda run the script a section at a time. and in each section, exiting after it pulls an artifact, diddle the signature by hand on the fs, then resume; this should cause the signature check to fail, and the signature conditional to exit the script with an error
as designed.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-29 06:39 mircea_popescu: that difference is perhaps best understood
as the difference between "find me the real roots of f(x)" and "find me the limit of f(x) with x->inf". different stories altogether.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-29 04:10 trinque: and for fucks sake there is no such thing
as "the cost of fission power"
mircea_popescu: that difference is perhaps best understood
as the difference between "find me the real roots of f(x)" and "find me the limit of f(x) with x->inf". different stories altogether.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: t. the 25 cents may not be exact, but they're not far off for one thing, and based on actual reasoning
as opposed to "let's say things see what happens".
trinque: and for fucks sake there is no such thing
as "the cost of fission power"
☟︎ ben_vulpes: "kindergarten opsec lessons!11!"
as asciilifeform would say
trinque:
as in, "the train wreck cost him his life"
mircea_popescu: there isn't "the cost of there being such a thing
as saudi arabia". this isn't how costs work. and in general, this isn't fucking fiction.
ben_vulpes: nah pete_dushenski you gotta install a bouncer so that nobody knows when you're around or not, and
as a consequence can't raise an eyebrow at 'too much time in #trilema'
mircea_popescu: fwiw i can certify
as to accuracy, this is an actual physical item she pointed out to me. we had coffee watching it.
ben_vulpes: “The engine, with a bore of 950 mm and a stroke of 3,460 mm, provides 6,870 kW/cylinder at 80 rpm and 21 bar MEP (in L1) and was introduced
as a supplement to the successful S90ME-C9/10 engine types, allowing the engine to be further de-rated thanks to the larger cylinder bore and/or fewer cylinders to be installed.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: for
as long
as the usg provides for my externalizing onto its citizens, i will do so.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: i prefer to think of it
as 'albertade' but ok. not like charging cars is phree.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-22 17:42 trinque: jurov: there, be
as floppy
as you want, puny human
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: no dispute on musk's contribution to range. but it's still like making the best ipad ~intheworld~. call it what you want but it's a poor replacement for a workstation, just
as is electric car for gas car.
ben_vulpes: would *love* to have pushed one of the electric-drive ones around. not
as a useful car thing, but
as a dope little driving chassis with an electric powertrain.
covertress: I'm off to grow a company. Thank you #trilema for accepting me
as a citizen. ttyl