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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform would you believe that i quit, never to return, an assembly of esteemable finance heads when in congress they didn't agree, nor couldn't understand, why exactly "to split any item to two parties : one cuts, the other picks" is not only equitable, but the only equitable method so much so any other method is derived from it, and equitable only in
as much
as it's similar.
mircea_popescu: what was said was that for
as long
as you value the S for a, worth z, and for b, worth x, whereas she values the sack FOR THE SAME a, worth y and for the same b, worth x, then therer can be a market.
mircea_popescu: trinque ~same
as there's to envy about having been born again or w/e, having found one's religion, calling, life, hapiness, w/e.
mircea_popescu: odd that this doesn't occur to you
as the obvious answer to the whole "gold brick" bs. "oh, why doesn't mouse go down THIS tunnel!" "because there's a barb at the entrance and it stepped on it" "what barb ?!?!" "there" "oh, that ? that's just a barb!"
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-31#1474179 << nothing could be further from teh truth. with some regularity mp has to punish multi-year supposed experts for basic training items such
as "who the fuck said you may leave". the equivalent'd be a research lab where one has to explain the criteria of divisibility with 2 and 5 to the research leaders.
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2016-05-31 19:01 asciilifeform: young chix are programmable, they would just
as happily 'great is the prophet muhammad' if born elsewhere.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-01 11:26 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-31#1474078 << notrly, lost interest after unknown addressed "her ceo"
as "jeremy". they're obviously misrepresenting their private relationship, and i have no interest in participating in the banal scenes of fat anglo derps.
a111: Logged on 2016-05-30 17:55 asciilifeform: and yes, the ~cultural institutions~ that produced my library, are dead
as dodo.
mircea_popescu: the fate of humanity is to be this endless rat in an endless baited maze. we can't, even
as we sit and mourn the dead muroid next, stuff own gullet with the same fucking pellets, now can we.
a111: Logged on 2016-05-30 17:49 phf: pre-80s hard bounds
as a source of knowledge is a here and now sort of source, same way
as pre-2005 amds, etc. not only is it a limited source, it is also unstable. a year from now, we're going to see all the fullstack developers switching to "classics library", and buying up last-known-prints on ebay for +++ bezzle dollars on ebay
shinohai: may
as well BingoBoingo hang tite
trinque:
as per "not breaking shit that works"
phf: reload particularly needs to be fixed, and it's perhaps 5 lines of code, but requires dropping one large context, and lifting another to do it intentionally.
as is whatever fixes done to log str result of background radiation noise like effects of my brain, "i suddenly remember relevant bits, and here's the solution, go write it down"
phf: i wrote a bunch of rss tooling and dealing with non-unique ids is a bitch. i usually hash entry for entries with blank ids, and return that
as key.
trinque: were that unique
as per (iirc) the spec of atom it'd not be skipping posts
mircea_popescu: the one time when "has Latin", that, specifically, not "can write" or other junk would have served
as you wish it to serve, was cca 500 ad. and at that time it served like "knowing idish" served you in the new york harbor cca early 1900s. plenty of people were there because specifically "Pedalavo come se fuggissi, e in realta fuggivo, da lei, da quelle emozioni, da i sogni, da i ricordi, da tutto. E pensavo che dovevo dimenti
a111: Logged on 2016-05-30 15:48 diana_coman: well, a pgp message at this point quite serves
as that letter I guess
mircea_popescu: yeah, but he's fondly remembered
as the "let's keep going" guy.
mircea_popescu: very deeply embedded in my skull
as an example of "american engineering"
mircea_popescu: there'd better be tits bouncing there i'm in a mood foul
as hell
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i am not going to import
as much
as a nail's dirt worth of old crap, even for all the vases in the world, be they made of glass bead or kidney stone.
mircea_popescu: perhaps the most amusing example for our purposes here being the late forgery known
as "donatio constantini")
mircea_popescu: (and yes i do think you people are ~idiots for keeping chattels there, exactly for the reasons and exactly to the degree i think jews moving around berlin in the 30s with golden whatevers on their person, such
as teeth, idiots.)
mircea_popescu: it's expensive
as fuck to run because it is redundant
as fuck and built out of atomic shit.
mircea_popescu: mpex is written by people who, unlike you, live in the world
as it is. consequently, it doth not care. what you see is not ENVIRONMENT.
mircea_popescu: there exists no such thing
as a length of rope made by the fiat world that is genuinely what it claims to be.
phf: pre-80s hard bounds
as a source of knowledge is a here and now sort of source, same way
as pre-2005 amds, etc. not only is it a limited source, it is also unstable. a year from now, we're going to see all the fullstack developers switching to "classics library", and buying up last-known-prints on ebay for +++ bezzle dollars on ebay
☟︎ phf: the way i understood that old books thread is that there's no focus on building libraries, i.e. old books
as an accumulation of artifacts, but where you get your own knowledge is up to you. so if ascii is keeping a collection of scanz and gives me a copy, it's both purely between us and also about ~my~ education
as a cause of ascii's action
diana_coman: well, a pgp message at this point quite serves
as that letter I guess
☟︎ diana_coman: well, sewer rats is basically what I was calling the "mountain of idiots" and that is a generic problem, unrelated to books or writing
as such
diana_coman: plus it's probably not really all that cheap to have your own blog
as in truly nobody can bring it down etc
diana_coman: to me this sounds more like a personal matter really, not sure I'm buying it
as anything more than that
diana_coman: hm, that links to me to some authors' observation that writing digitally destroys the quality of the writing because you can modify more easily what you write, hence they'd rather use a typewriter /write in ink
as it "forces" them to think it through before writing it down
diana_coman: well, that's already going into the reason why books are dead, so in any case you accept then that yes, books certainly ARE dead and that was the original point of the article
as I read it really
diana_coman: hence content is still there, kids can still learn just
as previous kids learnt
diana_coman: asciilifeform, that is broadly "just
as *you* never knew ancient greek, don't come and tell *me* that you still read books" - with the very clear point that the author can and might read books just
as they can and might read ancient Greek, but that's not to say anything about the general public who won't read one just
as they can't/won't read the other
mircea_popescu: it occurs to the harem assembled in congress that there should be such a thing
as "whore's dew", and it should be an after shave.
jurov: i'm sure they can be done silent with modern materials
as they have no fast moving parts
mircea_popescu: in other news, the dictator is a shitty pile of forced memes, unfunny
as all hell. its only distinction being that the progress is show to benefit some derpy woman whose only qualification is that she's not shavign her armpits (but she's willing to drop that), whereas the only loser is the actual competent engineer ; and that peter norton is cast
as yet-another-celebrity whose only utility, value and stock in trade is being u
mircea_popescu:
as crude
as they were, the russian couple were much better
mircea_popescu:
as late
as 1944 anglos were not producing usable tanks. the us versions were midly miserable, the british versions were at best laughable.
mircea_popescu: (notably, all civilised countries consider said he/incendiary round not suitable for anti-personnel applications. except the us, of course, here
as everywhere else the epitome of the rogue state.)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform orly ? do this experiment. "has wasitline" is defined
as " waistline < (tits + hips) / 3". pick up a tape and measure!
a111: Logged on 2016-05-29 14:42 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: let this be a lesson to all kids watching at home : don't follow your fucking dreams. your dreams are shit. follow your principles. just
as long
as they're correct, you can't lose.
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"
☟︎☟︎ 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.
BingoBoingo:
As in Cats and bears zoo, not James Lafond zoo though there is that too.
mircea_popescu: i think 1mn people of the same mind live there. i've never seen
as many cats.
shinohai: germinare well in fridge
as well! >.>
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the letters in a circle were very important to have
as glyphs because some people can't think otherwise.
vc: shinohai, trinque: noted, along with ben_vulpes's offer. I will let you guys know
as soon
as I decide to expand :)
phf: grep is still there, and will basically remain
as such by doing `"dog"`