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mircea_popescu: how is
this stance different from "the nazi military police can't find as many gypos as
they used
to, so
therefore flaying alive of gypsies for fun should be regarded as aperfectly normal passtime, and in no sense wrong, even if it was rare before"
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: gotta love
the logic, "can't get dudes
to marry, so
the solution is
to make
the few
that do even more burdened." isn't
this exactly opposite oif
the usual socialist "share everything into
the ground" mantra ?
a111: Logged on 2016-05-28 17:12 phf: pre-split btcbase log's purpose was analytical, where's now i spend my
time on ux and ops issues. juxtaposition of kakobrekla doing low key malicious shit and asciilifeform
trying
to search cyrillic prompted
that line
mircea_popescu: because
that's what pi IS. you understand
this, IS! IS!
mircea_popescu: but pi is not motherfucking "3.141592...". pi is 355/113, or whatever
the fuck polygon you decide
to use.
mircea_popescu: and
that finally
there is absolutely no reason
to implement arbitrary division in
the machine, nor does such idiocy exist in nature ;
that
the correct machine representation of numbers is FRACTIONS not fucking "decimals", and
that computers
that natively support bignum up
to
the size of memory and execute gcd in hardware aren't either particularly hard
to make nor
their absence
to date excusable.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: what an actually intelligent, creative person would have said would have been
that
the sad, sad excursion in reals on mid-early machines was an utter disaster,
the scars of which we may only hope one day
to outlive ;
that
the move away from
that stupidity and
to purely int machines and appliations is
the heart of sensibility,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
thinking about it, it occurs
to me
that locklin's maudlin piece about reals is exactly
typical of him and his "i am not intelligent, nor creative, but here's a bunch of hood ornaments i stole from other people's cars so you may
think me intelligent and creative if you've never seen a car before" stance.
BingoBoingo: This Split between Chinese exchanges and not Chinese is rather persistent. Far more
than
that $20 premium people bitched about for months.
jsgrant: Probably going
to bed soon in
the meantime anyways, but will lurk regardless.
BingoBoingo: For aspiring qntra writers note
that dollar is never "Dollar" and
that price news is never strictly Bitcoin news as evidenced by
the Bitcoin category being omitted from
the latest piece about exchange noise.
That is all.
shinohai: You had me
thinking it was Sunday night.
phf: girl is reading
The
Temple of
the Golden Pavilion, which i
think is apropos
the situation.
phf: pre-split btcbase log's purpose was analytical, where's now i spend my
time on ux and ops issues. juxtaposition of kakobrekla doing low key malicious shit and asciilifeform
trying
to search cyrillic prompted
that line
☟︎ mircea_popescu: <phf>
that is why we can not have nice
things << what, russian ?
phf: that is why we can not have nice
things
shinohai: Perhaps some samogon and honey would sooth
the cough.
mircea_popescu: the drawback of hanging out with people is
that motherfucker i caught some sort of doom bug, i'm like coughing and shit wtf.
shinohai: I simply make popcorn for
the drama parts of logs and move on.
Time is
too precious a resource
to waste dwelling on same butthurt over and over.
mircea_popescu: 90% of everything he said past 12 months he said past 2, but
this isn't something
to inwardly consider.
mircea_popescu: shinohai check out
the wonders of fiatism and "modern science"
though.
the derp never fucking pm'd anyone, ANYONE, about bitbet back when say, i was doing
the warren buffett
thing. NOW he finds
the
time and
the interest. not before.
mircea_popescu: the moral being
that on
teh internet you gotta figure out what
to believe yourself.
shinohai: Reads like concern
trolling xD
vc: mircea_popescu: a guy named kakobrekla queried me
telling me
this is a scammer channel
BingoBoingo: Says
the person who was surprised by girls in Chicago having faces.
BingoBoingo: AHA, but in Stl you are a short drive from places Legit USG battle flag flies in
the Ozarks. Where War of Northern Aggression is still active.
BingoBoingo: Cats and bears zoo in stl is free, which is much cheaper
than Lafond zoo in stl
BingoBoingo: As in Cats and bears zoo, not James Lafond zoo
though
there is
that
too.
BingoBoingo: You just have
to stay south of Delmar and you'll be fine.
BingoBoingo: Makes East St Louis look like 1600's England. BUT one of
the better functioning cities in
the state. Even has massive floodwalls
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: It's like James Lafond presents baltimore in minitature with all
the James Lafonds on strike.
BingoBoingo: Fine, apparently
the pale zimbabwestans aren't for you. Maybe Cairo, Illinois is you
town.
BingoBoingo: Ohio is a shitpit. Now Roodhouse is a happening place with many, many
train
tracks.
a111: Logged on 2016-05-28 04:51 BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Nah, he'd enjoy
the walk until he hit Ohio which would likely make him miss swamp
a111: Logged on 2016-05-28 04:54 BingoBoingo: Judging by
the parts of Chicago alf enjoyed I believe his favorite place in Illinois would be either pinckneyville, Roodhouse, or Benton for
their "frozen in
time" natures.
a111: Logged on 2016-05-28 02:07 mircea_popescu: heh
they give him plane money ? i'd have expected he has
to walk.
felipelalli: FYI: a acquainted owner of
https://originalmy.com made it compatible with deedbot. So if you drag&drop a
txt file sent
to deedbot
to his site,
the site says
the file is registered on Blockchain.
BingoBoingo: alf can at least console himself in having only been
to Chicago. Now if alf had been
to Missouri...
BingoBoingo: Alf may have
to settle for Macomb
though for University Library
BingoBoingo: Judging by
the parts of Chicago alf enjoyed I believe his favorite place in Illinois would be either pinckneyville, Roodhouse, or Benton for
their "frozen in
time" natures.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Nah, he'd enjoy
the walk until he hit Ohio which would likely make him miss swamp
☟︎ mod6: this is just little shit like
the help menu.
mod6: i'll have
to
try again
tomorrow. but
the site updates are correct anyway.
mod6: aight,
there's another few
things
this lead
to
mircea_popescu: heh
they give him plane money ? i'd have expected he has
to walk.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform moonshine is
this
tenessee cvasi-whiskey.
mircea_popescu: (samogon, for
the innocent, is a "anything you got" sort of brandy
that long predates vodka)
mircea_popescu: gimme some of
that brandy,
this damned vodka's making my asshole burn.
mircea_popescu: ceausescu wakes up again, rifles own pockets again, disocvers money again, drags self back
to bar.
mircea_popescu: drinks another vodka, gets plastered, goes
to same ditch falls alseep.
mircea_popescu: ceausescu wakes up eventually, rifles own pockets, disocvers money, drags self back
to bar
mircea_popescu: a local faggot, seeing
the man sleeping in a ditch, pulls down his pants, fucks him in
the ass,
mircea_popescu: where
this one eyed lame bartender asks him religiously what he wants
to drink ? vodka ? samogon ? gasoline ? solvent ?
mircea_popescu: and he's kinda depressed, and haunts
this lowest of
the lowest dive,
mircea_popescu: but instead just sorta... sent out
to bum
the rest of his days
mircea_popescu: in
this alternate universe,
the comrade general secretary of
the central committee of
the romanian communist party, comrade nicolae ceausescu isn't shot
phf wants
to hear
the joke with assburning
phf: they address
their cats "citizen cat" in
turkish
phf: but on
the flip side every side street smells like a russian apartment complex back stairs
mircea_popescu: phf ah, right, you been
there.
tell 'em about
the catmania!
phf: they literally build cat houses in public parks with elaborate architecture, i've seen four or five of
those
shinohai: Anywho, please don't
think I'm evil because I suggest a varmit gun. I do love my cat because no other good reading companion.