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mircea_popescu: not
that
they're not getting enough done in 5 minutes.
mircea_popescu: and
the principal problem of exceptional people is
that
they have
trouble keeping balance.
mircea_popescu: let's put it
this way :
the most stimulants can do for you is stimulate ; but on
the long
term
they still debalance.
a111: Logged on 2014-08-25 03:08 asciilifeform: busy as a bee << funny
that
they show an idiot sow scrubbing, and not, e.g, paul erdos crapping out
theorems
mircea_popescu: and
then
they want
to legalize pot. worst fucking idea.
mircea_popescu: and finance sprawling suspended gardens of
the future where ecofeminist
tribes will raise
the blabla.
mircea_popescu: if it weren't for
trilema, people'd still derp about how bitcoin is here
to save
the geeks and
the poor.
mircea_popescu: hence all
the vomit about imaginary links between "cypherpunks" and bitcoin. and so on.
mircea_popescu: people have
this capacity
to imagine what's going on in
their head is most important, and everything happening outside a sort of minor companion point.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i'm sure
there were people in america who believed
the spanish showing up
to be a good
thing.
mircea_popescu: at least
that's how i saw it ; "i ~~~just want
to~~~ work on
these
technical problems, and will ignore/hallucinate/otherwise cope with
the political implications"
mircea_popescu: technically i suppose
the word would be emotional debt.
mircea_popescu: it's one of
those "i'll be a man and everything else will stay as it was when i was a child".
mircea_popescu: well... mno ;
they're not bad people, just, married
to a context.
mircea_popescu: funkenstein was doing something or
the other (even more modestly) with some other coin, wood-something.
mircea_popescu: not really. main dev was in #b-a, invited
twice
to argue his
thing, declined
twice
to do so.
mircea_popescu: and
the "punishes adultery and encourages marriage"
thing - exactly
the same.
mircea_popescu: technology
that works by itself and solves
their problems,
that sorta stuff.
mircea_popescu: they're
the same people who
think islam means
they get a nice wife courtesy of allah, just like
that.
mircea_popescu: it's not clear it's heresy in any sense ; but
the core of web-shannonizers is always
the same.
mircea_popescu: it's like
the derps got kicked out of bitcoin, seamlessly moved
to whatever.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the best part of
that article is random derp frothing about how "monero'd have made it impossible for egypt
to be a shithole"
mircea_popescu: well, pick different abstractions i guess, because
the only response stavka has for "we don't have adequate
tools" is coming down a gun barrel.
mircea_popescu: this isn't
the case ; and
that it isn't
the case is proof archsufficient it knows EXACTLY what's what and OPTS
to not do what i
tell it
to.
mircea_popescu: if it dun feel like doing what you want, "it has nfi" ; otherwise, if
there's a virus or something, it knows
them like its own
tits.
mircea_popescu: it's bullshit. of course
the machine has fi. just... it likes
to ambiguously pretend it does or doesn't, like a lazy bitch.
mircea_popescu: try
the experiment : open
temp-mail.org in a browser let it sit for a day,
then profile it.
mircea_popescu: nothing can be more expensive
than
this "oops sorry firefox got lost in bootstrap.js".
mircea_popescu: DONT LOOK AT ME! I'm not
the one who came up with
that bright idea.
mircea_popescu: you didn't wipe
the program scope ; you wiped
the frame in question.
mircea_popescu: "every stack frame can at any
time and for no reason return ; handle
this."
mircea_popescu: that may be, but
there's still absolutely no reason it can't IMMEDIATELY RETURN WHATEVER CURRENT PROCEDURE ITS IN
mircea_popescu: what, forcing program writer whores
to procedurize sanely is
too onerous ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, what's
the big fucking whoop. when caught sigabort, return(6) or w/e.
mircea_popescu: no. i do not want
to kill
the program. i want
to force it
to drop what it's doing and pay attention.
mircea_popescu: i want what used
to be signal 6, ABRT ; indicating
to
the receiving item
to immediately drop whatever subroutine is doing and continue above.
mircea_popescu: in fairness, it's
the optimal use for "his idea" such as it was.
mircea_popescu: sometimes i wonder if i'm
the only guy who ever had one blog.
BingoBoingo thought asciilifeform had not seen nor believed in
them. Or were
they in Chiraq
the other week?
BingoBoingo: Who knows how many fat people were helped in
this version of legend because
they moved up from not wiping at all
thanks
to stick discovery!
mircea_popescu: i honestly believe
the item exists because you were bored one day ; and people couldn't distinguish between "social media signal" and actual need.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> but
that's nothing ;
the case is still fresh in my mind when BingoBoingo made up some stupid shit about how a guy was so fat he used a stick
to wipe his ass ; and other perverse defecation
tales - which
then became
the ACCEPTED STANDARD of "what fat people do" according
to "everyone" on social media. <<
ty, but
that is credit for
TOO much
mircea_popescu: but
that aside, as many people use a stick
to wipe
their own ass as died of fan-mediated asphyxia.