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mircea_popescu: there's that expression that there's two kinds of fools in this world, the kind that says this is old, and therefore good ; and the kind that says this is new, and therefore better.
just because we're awash in type 2 idiocy from the ipaditiots and mactards dun mean the type 1 went away.
mircea_popescu: do you wish to know how did some old farts manage to stick it into the missus,
because "the concept" of getting it up is interesting in the sense of well, not actually, you have the concept, it
just, what exactly ? yours dun work ?
mircea_popescu: nah. "i'm totally worth it ;
because i'm
just that good ;
because i'm special ;
because i'm too dumb to realise how trite i am."
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-17#1628626 << i don't see this at all. if you fuck a woman "normally" and she's not on the pill, you will obtain 8 kids in 10 years. you will also obtain an extremely shriveled woman,
because like it or not females are essentially the cotyledon of children. biology is merciless and the ultimate empire, it dun care one whit your girl is smart and pleasant and worships you, it
just cares to push o
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: the significant point, of course, being that the female state DOESNT EVEN DARE ADMIT IT.
just like working class mom not buying kid shoes
because $reasons, rather than
because "i was too dumb when i was 20 to not be poor now that i'm 35 and look like 49, honey."
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes yeah, i'm
just giving him a hard time.
because for srs!
mircea_popescu: that's
because you stepped away
just as the firehose was going towards 30 lines/minute. you'll be stuck catching up for hours now.
mircea_popescu: the traditional caliphate, incidentally, exists as a memory today (ie, a cultural mark) and existed historically (ie, as a civilisation) principally, and i do mean that, ~principally~
because an early fellow invented the superb literary device of giving people in payment not
just actual value, but caftans! strips of cloth written on! that then they can value to whatever arbitrary value they wish, to offset the absurd valuatio
mircea_popescu:
because yes, i'm sure she learned by watching another interchangeable item
just like her.
mircea_popescu: but
just because we're all going to die it does not follow we should go around on stilts and weird beak masks either
mircea_popescu: i mean the kitchen cockroach is not kitchen cockroach sp as opposed to bedroom cockroach
just because that's where they happened to be captured.
mircea_popescu: understand that water is important
because it does (at least) two pumps simultaneously. firstly the heat pump, secondly the synthesis pump. it is : a) an oxide (this means it doesn't burn -- not
just "not in oxygen" but not in general, few elements are more reacrtive to substitute) which b) has an immense caloric capacity and also c) is a very powerful universal solvent.
mircea_popescu: it won't actually break with prbnet, mostly
because prbnet is not actually run on prb nodes. they
just connect to it.
mircea_popescu: smatterings of "
just because x I SHOULDNT HAVE TO y" now and again
mircea_popescu: mostly
because there's, in spite of all the noise and burbling,
just a smattering of ustards. there's about 100x more of them in uttar pradesh alone.
mircea_popescu: they're not even going to try and defend obamacare ; or global warming. that's pretty much it. they're being outflanked on education $$$, there's literally nothing left. desperation moves from umd or the conclave of "tech giants" are
just that, beaten dog sqealing
because stepped on.
mircea_popescu: "To be fair, the economic flaws are mostly justified
because there seem to be no technically sound way to fix them. For example, there is no incentive for Miner Mike to forward to Miner Molly the transactions that he received from Client Charlie. And there is also no incentive for Mike to forward to Molly a block that Miner Mary
just solved and sent to him. Those flaws need to be fixed, but AFAIK no one has figured out a way
mircea_popescu: in other news from the lands of the retards, it is now impossible in argentina to buy normal male underwear. all they have on sale, ANYWHERE (
because yes it's 10mn strong, but no there's no five distinct shops,
just 10k clones of the same one) is male stripper underwear.
because hey, faggots won the culture war or some dumb shit.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: dude,
just because you're male doesn't imply you should try and emulate ascaris lumbricoides.
mircea_popescu: much like to the elf and her friends any round refusal of "considering what people like" smacks, residually and vaguely, of "racism" ;
just so to the dwarf and his friends any round refusal to refuse to consider "what people like" smacks, residually and vaguelly, of laziness. ie, the only reason the elf's an elf is
because she's aforedecided she won't put in any work, and all that's left for her thereby is astrology and "what
mircea_popescu:
just because a bunch of irrelevant games are utterly broken means jack. a) eulora isn't broken and will kill them ; and b) nobody wants to play them anyway
mircea_popescu: consider the fine case of mod6 's vtron since he said something. so he built a vtron, then later we decided didn't like how it works, he put the time in to understand the thing, fix it... all this happened
because he made the first one ; and wouldn't have happened if we were
just sitting 6months ago holding dicks and discussing it theoretically.
mircea_popescu: the burning of ub is significant culturally. they won't rebuild it
because TO THEM those aren't
just some shitty yurts.
mircea_popescu: skills are skills. the expectation that one will go from craddle to grave without having to touch arbitrary class of skills "
because i
just don't go that way" is entirely hallucinant nonsense.
mircea_popescu:
just because it works(tm) ie could be got away with is no good reason to actually try.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck does this pass someone's filter ? so the dorks trying to push a scam decided the one thing that'd best improve the flavour of credibility would be spurious relation to existing practice, so now it's SILICON quantum computers, and you buy this, and even underline it of your own volition, as if it were a thing
just because you wish it to be ?
mircea_popescu: ractically bragging out loud that she had contraband candy. At six weeks into basic training, it
just wasn’t worth it, and yet that scene has stayed with me all these years,
because for Manning, it somehow was worth it. Maybe by then, she thought she had nothing else to lose."
mircea_popescu: dude they don't have to be stupid
just because they're stupid.
mircea_popescu: beyond "i disagree with what mp
just said
because my tooth hurts and i agree with him"
mircea_popescu: what, everyone wants to write the bootlegger's guide to $object,
because it's such a funny recipe, you
just add water in the shape of own drool and presto, another cracked.com article ?
mircea_popescu:
just, he doesn't know how to speak,
because not educated [in this field] and consequently trades the offending of the many for the offending of the few. obviously a bad deal.
mircea_popescu: if two girls that are close but the sexual bubble between them's not popped and they run into this guy at a party who looks kinda cool and interests them
because maybe he's gonna do it but then he wants them to kiss this other guy they may
just pretend to be going to do it to see if he stops them.
mircea_popescu: and since i'm on a moldy tome kick, let's note down ܝܳܠܕܰܬ ܐܰܠܳܗܳܐ ie joldath allaho. in syriac.
because yes, even as egypt was mostly christian in its recent history (
just as all of the "arabic" middle east), allah exists in arabic as a corruption of a syriac notation of a greek interpretation of a hebrew name for god.
mircea_popescu: it's hard, C i mean, in that it is nonsensical. nobody appreciates truly
just how nonsensical it is (except eg naggum, he wrote about it)
because nobody actually keeps slaves, in the proper sense of the term, and thus nobody gets to see an actual, balanced human mind interact with the ball of insanity.
mircea_popescu: but do you suppose christel feels the need to ANSWER ? no, he'll
just speak.
because hey, we're all on fucking tv over here.
mircea_popescu: iirc this even made it to qntra,
because the usg.dept of legal pretense's failure to act was exactly
just as much damning of the whitehouse website based in maryland as of the bitfinex website based in nowhere.
mircea_popescu: if your criteria becomes "i won't do that
because too hard ; and i won't do this
because too easy" then yes you've
just about described present day academia.
mircea_popescu: ^ recommended not
just because of the 85 bitcents in prizes
mircea_popescu: diana_coman i guess the rurality point is actually very apt.
just because the monkeys got force-moved to urban "developments" doesn't mean they're not still retarded.
mircea_popescu: i suppose he has a point - and if you're trying to make one of those clock walls, you'll
just you know, paste down the code three or five or n times with various offsets on the TimeSpan timespan = DateTime.Now.TimeOfDay; plus should one of the clocks have to go backwards you'll paste the code once more but put a minus somewhere (which maintenance will take off
because automated bounds checking indicated they should - and befo
mircea_popescu: and plox do not tell me "i
just assumed it does
because it is the usg.this-thing and i automatically assume the usg.this-thing in all cases and for all things offers".)
mircea_popescu: hardly competing.
just because item b depending on item a for part of its job may end up having to implement a doesn't mean b competes with a.
mircea_popescu: so, predictably, they
just parasithized it,
because of the wanna-be-woman faggotry, some wanna be woman "as historical essence" and some "as current fashion", so you ended up with that wham idiot doing shoulderpads and girly hairdos ; and sir what's his face, the fat ugly one doing "historical hats like queen liz"
mircea_popescu: (of all the weird therein included, it's of particular amusement to me that they do have the slant, but that they evidently introduced it graphically rather than numerically. nobody did the math required to see how that front apex should go ; it's
just there
because "that's how tanks look", forget blast flow simulations etc.)
mircea_popescu: you ~can~ after all rebase a patch ; not
just because of the patch, but also
because of the sig.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but fwiw, serbian chick stands out in my mind, she was 19, her poor head had
just come out of 12 years of which 6 were spent doing cyrilics and the other 6 doing ~BOTH~ latin and cyrillic and who genuinely thought that you know, this is BETTER EDUCATION!!
because where other people got one, she got both!!1
mircea_popescu: trinque my comment is re a more general case, not
just txn,
because i am confident you'll end up stuck with a more general problem in practice.
mircea_popescu: am i nuts or something ? wtf "I think Fizz-Buzz is "hard" for some programmers
because (#1) it doesn't fit into any of the patterns that were given to them in school assignments, and (#2) it isn't possible to directly and simply represent the necessary tests, without duplication, in
just about any commonly-used modern programming language." (as per
http://wiki.c2.com/?FizzBuzzTest )
mircea_popescu:
just because i can't keep up with the horse doesn't mean it won't get its exercise. we have mechanics!
mircea_popescu: married woman in belgium, a modernist society, expects to fuck her husband, or another man (ie, the who is indifferent) PROVIDED they woo her properly. the what is discerning, and "i fucked him
because he bought me roses
just like you did 20 years ago you pig" is perfectly "rational".
mircea_popescu:
just because it's your daddy's modern dun make it traditional.
mircea_popescu: it's
just therapy is almost never successful
because it is almost never willing to address the actual core of the problem - which is society, specifically, the impossibility of intelligent youth controlling things.
mircea_popescu: anyway - the reason the yaching ant is such a good example is
because - it COULD
just fucking cut off the god damned sail. couldn't it ?
just drag the seed without the air drag ?
mircea_popescu:
because that's a key ingredient of "i
just want to" - deciding various arbitrary bits (especially ones the jwz doesn't well understand) are "small matter". which decision then drives poor resource allocation and is the deep reason for the festering morass of unsolved problems that should have been ; while tons of herbivores run around "revolutionizing" things that needn't on the shaky in reality but strong in perception found
mircea_popescu: the whole "downshifting" subculture is headed for a serious collision with the bureaucratic tradition. from the etsy "textile creator" and "vintage" "reclaimer" all the way to lazy bums generally there's this entire "we don't need no exit paths wtf are fire extinguishers 50 to the room is good man
because we can't
just walk up to a girl and tell her to strip and dance". serious fire hazard to say the least.
mircea_popescu: the wot isn't a computable graph. i mean it's drawable, obviously, and the drawing's not futile, but
just because the machine can draw it dun mean the machine grasps it.
mircea_popescu: "Keep in mind we do all this,
because we can and
because we like the thrilling excitement of winning over the other competing groups. We absolutely don't do all these releases, to please the general user that rather want to spend their cash on updating to the latest hardware, and see's the scene releases as a source to play all these games for free." << all the way down to despising the consumer / i
just want to jwz.
mircea_popescu: tis a risky venture to pick one's example from a period when the consensus was to call all deaths "of poison"
just because everyone was trying to appear worldier and therefore jadeder and cynicer than everyone else.
mircea_popescu: anyway. it's pretty obvious someone magicnumbered something
because i have the distinct impression gfx works fine
just offscreen.
mircea_popescu: give trinque 's idea a bit of a kick, basically.
just because something was mentioned here doesn't automatically mean it's worth reading ; though it IS a sign it exists.
mircea_popescu: they wish not merely to be personally insured against the situation where the owner of capital forces them to subjectively change - they wish for this to not happen, anywhere, ever.
because if it doesn't happen anywhere ever, it's not even that they're retards (literally, infantile minds trapped in adult bodies), but "
just how things are". the normalisation of neoteny is the fundamental point of regulation.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-19#1571048 << it's not a matter of "cpu at 100%" nor is it a matter of free disk space. if on that os ssh hangs off eg dbus, and if dbus gets locked out by kernel
because "dirty page" or "waiting on journal update" or whatever similar idiocy, your process is stalled. and these are
just random examples, so much can go wrong in a modern box it's not even worth my time drawing the broad strokes.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in point of fact i have asked the public force to locate car drunk ho abandoned "dunno where". they did. i didn't throw a shitfit about "o noes surveillance state". this
because a) i asked them to do it and b) obviously they
just put the number in the stolen cars interface and then a patrol saw it.
mircea_popescu:
just because i'm influential doesn't mean i'm universal. a grass eating quadripede in south america is
just as much a herbivore as the common horse, even if they never met.
mircea_popescu: in the end, the only difference between us and them is that we're not particularly impressed with the notion of "bn datapoints!!1"
because whatever, i'll
just cat/grep them. their computer only has notepad and it can't load bn line files.
mircea_popescu: why does everyone
just assume i don't know what i'm talking about.
just because i sound like a clueless grandfather doesn't mean i am one omygerd.
mircea_popescu: also as taleb correctly points out, this example is
just a very good example, but not the whole story. what it exemplifies is the ineptitude of a class of people, whom we call jews, and whom we wish to see in camps. these people understand some - enough to be harmful - but not enough, so as to be useful. they are worse than stupid,
because of this familiarity with first order but incapacity for higher order reasoning.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
just because police sometimes beats people up with vacuum hose does not mean vacuums hoses should be banned. we're not french fucking bulldogs, what sort of dogreasoning is this.
mircea_popescu: kinda the point of the whole "special" bullshit. everything the anal child does is directed towards the same protection of his childhood, and in this particular case - if he's special enough then you can't "say bad things"
because are outside ; and if you're not outside he'll
just... specialize more.
mircea_popescu: they built usg in not for any reason than
because they WERE usg. postel's "oh noes - otherwise CHAOS" is exactly symptomatic.
just like the arab mind can't quite comprehend how one who doesn't give a shit about allah may manage to drink from a cup,
just so usgtards can't comprehend how one who isn't a socialist can at all live.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in a very theoretical principle, this. the mechanisms involved in the practical discussion, however, aren't nearly there.
just simple cash starvation, "why is roach motel full of roaches!" "
because you're paying $8 a night"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: they will literally pay more to have shitty sex with inept whores
BECAUSE this is something that'll for sure come back to haunt them. i say
just introduce mantises and be done with it already.
mircea_popescu: google.com?hackdog.me should go to google com notwithstanding it belongs to hackdog.me by the standard
because IT HAS GOOGLE COM IN IT!!1 and hackdog.me doesn't understand how the world works! and anyone who still remembers the standard is
just putin's bitch! and hurr durr!
mircea_popescu:
just because i could bomb city hall doesn't mean i may not register a church there. optionality is mine, all of it, without restraint. i can do both, if i feel like doing both.
mircea_popescu: also,
just in case anyone had any doubts - vlc is thoroughly broken. no historical package up to 0.7 (ie five years ago) is capable of compiling (fails
because can't find dbus >= 1.0.0 which you know, 2006)
mircea_popescu: ot without safeguards (
because yes, they're THAT dedicated to security) : first email received didn't get delivered, instead they
just sent a notification from facebook explaining... how to opt out. after which they sent all further emails straight up. consequently emailing the entire facebook userbase was ~trivial.
mircea_popescu: no,
just, idiot born in the us, doesn't comprehend how utterly irrelevant it is.
because "THE COUNTRY"
mircea_popescu:
because when they do it, it's all good.
just when others do it it's "an attack on our democracy"
mircea_popescu: (the outer space idea being that you get up there a thing with immense rtg / solar panels, and a supply of bb shells.
because far from heavy grav fields (as per definition of outer space) all shots are guided by default - you
just gotta get close enough. fast flying bb projectile hitting the other ship is ~doom.)
mircea_popescu: so i
just spent every last peso i had,
because i was up all night partying
mircea_popescu: sure.
just mentioned
because it'd be an opportunity for 'em to grasp the problem.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually the mempool-node and the blockchain-node split is pretty evident and definitely necessary. they got spit-glued together
because well, early on in the prototyping phase people didn't know what's the engine and what's gonna be the carriage so
just made one ball of everything.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes (if you think about it, the first block breaks with the software-as-protocol
because eg it doesn't reference a prior block. rather than bake a test into code forever, more reasonable to
just make it by hand.)
mircea_popescu:
http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160917/#562 << let's instead talk of bridges. badly designed brigde will collapse in rush hour. or maybe not in rush hour. or maybe while closed for repairs,
because heavy winds. or maybe
just of old age. or perhaps for other reasons. however you model psychoactives - as cars, or as winds ; however you model other people being assholes, cars, winds - fact remains that the less it's used the less it
mircea_popescu: in lisp as discussed here, and generally, a lot of checks are to be performed. this happens to jive well with a matrix calling system for functions and the muiticore design of cpu.
because you as lisp will
just a) maintain a matrix of all checks to be perfromed as functions and b) keep them permagoing on all processorss. so this way, the cpu count influences internal parallelism in the os, and thus os speed ; not program spee
mircea_popescu: wow / eve / etc : people go through the early game, master it, then can't move on to the logical next phase so they
just quit. so now AAA studio is forced to salvage broken game that broke their playerbase through... oh shit, incentives. ie, inflation, ie, "we'll give you free level 60 characters".
because guess what, the inflation was actually better than death, and their success at doing what they wanted to do (prevent bots
mircea_popescu: which incidentally... it really makes me chuckle at the predicament of "AAA" studios. so first, they make a broken game (broken here defined as, not-neutral state-evolution-graph) ;
because their game is broken, they have to forbid bots - not
just in form, but in practice. then if they don't manage to forbid them too efficiently they die everquest/diablo 3 style, inflation. but if they do manage to forbid them, they die like
mircea_popescu: i suppose it's supposed to be "funny" ; the only problem being that cancerous fags can't possibly be funny. not no matter how hard they try ; not
just because they try too hard.
mircea_popescu: they're
just petty thieves with the wrong address, walked in the bank
because to them it looks
just like the 7/11
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
just because owner currently automated a hole into the ship doesn't mean that hole doesn't come with a pre-made hatch.
mircea_popescu: i'll
just continue using my current system,
because such a gossipd would be an outrageous degradation of everything.
mircea_popescu: oh, you thin kthat's
just there
because grues hate you / were bored one day ?
mircea_popescu:
http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160906/from:62/to:62#62 << the same thing is in principle true of cryptography generally (funny how it
just keeps coming back to this again and again) : "no matter how long you make your key, it can be factored by adding more computers". this is true ; but it's up to you to make it irrelevant. the reason whenever someone does manage to ddos trilema / qntra / etc i tend to
just wait is
because time
mircea_popescu: "i met this asshole on irc and i'm biased
because hey, totally, this is a thing, asshole-from-irc bias. you know,
just like with relatives, except not."
mircea_popescu: o confusing" and this is "better technology"
because it "
just works" etc. but holy hell, it so fills me with furious rage...
mircea_popescu: Framedragger i won't try yours,
because i
just said i'm not interested in this "it works, no promises though" approach to anything. it's not a way to live. i'm not committing downstream to your napkin doodle.