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assbot: Logged on 08-11-2015 00:22:48;
mircea_popescu: greatest number of blackshirts forced to act in animal / gay porn.
assbot: Logged on 08-11-2015 00:18:36;
mircea_popescu: which is why you're all stuck there, and will burn like rats.
trinque:
mircea_popescu │ incidentally : should we deedbot a version of the logs, in the manner of gpg source etc ? << certainly. does assbot perhaps dump what it has seen somewhere, kakobrekla? my logs would only go back so far.
assbot: Logged on 08-11-2015 00:10:55;
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform does she have children ?
assbot: Logged on 15-10-2015 15:54:26;
mircea_popescu: tru to life too. "he tried to make the trains wear out the rail!"
mod6:
mircea_popescu: yeah, perl v5.005 or whatever has been in use since 98, lot of systems have from that version forward. would be good to support older versions.
assbot: Logged on 15-10-2015 00:26:51;
mircea_popescu: "If Biederman never existed, nothing would be different. You read his resume, you think, wow, he's a big player. You don't realize that if he didn't exist there would be some other person in his exact position, who would also have become a Distinguished Professor, won awards, written 450 publications, etc. The machine was already in place, his slot was going to get filled; his mind didn't discover
assbot: Logged on 07-11-2015 06:51:36;
mircea_popescu: i<asciilifeform> 'yellow' is, one might suppose, wet pants ? << dja know the stephen the great jokes ?
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> who the fuck came up with gyms and why the fuck would you want the women working out outside the home. << To bring grief to the Mayogendered with a demonstration of gender. Also squats build booty.
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 19:31:11;
mircea_popescu: that if you don't despise yourself and your own achievements, you'll never get anywhere. but not too much! because you also won't get anywhere! etc.
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 21:07:48;
mircea_popescu: stop throwing the motherfucking curve. have some productivity enhancement.
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 19:40:43;
mircea_popescu: which is why teaching slavegirls to orgasm on command is important. the internalised sexuality is a good and useful proxy for a great many other things they need.
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 19:26:00;
mircea_popescu: ascii_field there are two kinds of three year olds. all three year olds sooner or later threaten their parents with holding their breath. all parents laugh at this, as it's a physiological impossibility : if you do any sort of a good job you necessarily pass out, and once you pass out autosomatic control restarts breathing. the two kinds of kids are : the ones that are dissuaded by this ; and the one
davout:
mircea_popescu: irloled at parrot joke
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu: 'method acting' does raise the question : as opposed to what ?
ascii_field: i would like to see how much attention
mircea_popescu would pay if he NEVER got a full night of sleep
trinque: perhaps; I would not know. as with modafinil, would
mircea_popescu say "yes, this is called paying attention, you idiots"
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 00:34:39;
mircea_popescu: better model; always asks current ego to die because current ego is a piece of shit.
ascii_field: hey wasn't it
mircea_popescu writing prescriptions for ego amputation ?
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 19:50:44;
mircea_popescu: you have to understand ontogenesis is a two step process. first, a blob develops.then, controlled apoptosis, a process so fundamental cells have signalling baked in for it (but not for hunger, not for pain etc) makes the spaces between what will be your fingers.
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: i am speaking of those who did not buy
ascii_field: does
mircea_popescu recall the 'repressed memory' trials in usa ?
adlai: trinque: not criticising deedbot-, saying that it's the answer to
mircea_popescu's question
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 20:05:45;
mircea_popescu: how do you ascertain the truth of this ?
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 20:01:08;
mircea_popescu: They consider themselves leaderless. They can have representatives, they can have "evangelists" but they have to believe that their conclusions are all their own, through individual reflection and objective consideration. Interestingly, and on purpose, they believe their brains can handle such an analysis, any analysis. This isn't arrogance. They are told, by universities and the media, that their
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: are you an aficionado (or the reverse) of m. minsky's 'society of mind' thing ?
trinque:
mircea_popescu: certainly is; I'm not opposed to the notion, but stating it
ascii_field: we know how to stretch a man's legs to make him taller than
mircea_popescu, but not this
ascii_field: i think
mircea_popescu also believes in this
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: there is a sov joke about this!
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 19:14:16;
mircea_popescu: I totally don't know, Boardwalk Empire only goes up to 1924 and Mad Men starts 1960."
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 19:19:07;
mircea_popescu: which is why if you're hungry and can't eat, you don't try to EXPLAIN to your aching belly anything. you try and WILL it to shut the fuck up.
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 19:19:07;
mircea_popescu: which is why if you're hungry and can't eat, you don't try to EXPLAIN to your aching belly anything. you try and WILL it to shut the fuck up.
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: in usa, it is traditional for folks showing up for a job opening to be asked whether they have been tried/convicted
jurov expects
mircea_popescu will end up with colored coins :D
ascii_field: btw latest word is that majorana is prolly in
mircea_popescu's graveyard
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: it will soon be my 8th year of 'fix computing'
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 23:05:37;
mircea_popescu: c worked in the 70s just fine, also.
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 22:00:59;
mircea_popescu: Thing 1. We're trying to reduce bitcoind to a form where it's actually worth cutting trees to print it ;
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 01:06:40;
mircea_popescu: in other news, johnny cash is fucking great.
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 00:32:40;
mircea_popescu: <mod6> had to find a new mine, place in tower of fascism was bought, outsourced all jobs to bangladesh or some place. <<< seems alf's going through exactly the same.
mod6:
mircea_popescu: haha
trinque: deedbot-'s blockchain has caught up thanks to
mircea_popescu's node
mod6:
mircea_popescu: yeah, they annouced the news of the acquisition on the 2nd of october, had a new deal closed by the 17th. was glad to find something new anyway, was really tired of working at the old place.
mod6: <+
mircea_popescu> iirc he also judges new stripper in a six county area. << my speciality
shinohai:
mircea_popescu: met her trollin about ... found out about camwork, decided to ask her to look into your offer.
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu is, i think, accustomed to smashing idiots' skulls and instinctively reaches for the designated hammer. but i'm not an idiot and don't expect things.
ascii_field: this might be asking the mega-s33krit, but what kind of people ~does~
mircea_popescu use to, e.g., maintain mircea_popescucoin ?
ascii_field: but i thought
mircea_popescu didn't care for those
assbot: Logged on 13-10-2015 21:01:03;
mircea_popescu: ok this is the most insane thing i ever saw. so plumber, looks like he escaped comicon or something, dorkiest dude ever. but THEN he proceeds to CUT THROUGH METAL PLATE FREEHAND
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: wasn't speaking of 'salary types'
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: i don't think it is 'emo' to question my priorities when, after giving away my work to apparent applause for a year, i mention starving and audience suggests 'web dev'
assbot: Logged on 13-06-2015 17:27:26;
mircea_popescu: if you need anything that has to be made on something in the middle, make it now.
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: in all srsnes i'd like to know how.
ascii_field: still is, until
mircea_popescu or i figure out how to make 100 cpus.
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: supposing for a moment that the notion was a serious one, who should we be hiring ?
phf:
mircea_popescu: i was referring to those instances where it's ascii fielding objections from assorted people, not necessarily debates between you two
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 19:03:04; PeterL:
mircea_popescu: there is no reason under the sun to process, manage, consider or in any way interact with subdollar transactions. << you are going to link min bet amounts to the USD/BTC price now? are you going to have the website show the "estimated $ amount" like the VC circus sites do?
ascii_field: they're only in my head in the sense that i'm not clever enough to be 'stand on own' economically as described in
mircea_popescu's article re: same.
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: i posted all of this to add another 'can' to the list: services for pay. if anyone is interested in such.
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: that's really the lot of it
ascii_field: anyway i know very well that
mircea_popescu runs a roman army, where you gotta bringe the horse, and the armour, and not a soviet army.
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 19:02:01;
mircea_popescu: this goalpost moving is giving me spots on the spleen.
ascii_field: wanted to see if anyone, incl.
mircea_popescu, might find an error in my reasoning.
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu seems to think that i was looking for an answer other than the one i already derived.
ascii_field: it is very valuable to, e.g.,
mircea_popescu assbot: Logged on 05-08-2015 13:54:55;
mircea_popescu: the stator saving of the continuity feeling was too narrow for my liking.
ascii_field: i have a puzzle for ben_vulpes, who is awake, and
mircea_popescu, who might soon awaken, and the rest:
PeterL:
mircea_popescu: there is no reason under the sun to process, manage, consider or in any way interact with subdollar transactions. << you are going to link min bet amounts to the USD/BTC price now? are you going to have the website show the "estimated $ amount" like the VC circus sites do?
☟︎ phf:
mircea_popescu: i'm just stirring shit up
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: i don't hate'em, but i did search in vain for signs that somebody was ~thinking~ rather than merely piling intel xeons ten metres high
ascii_field: iirc
mircea_popescu was speaking of petro cracking catalysts earlier ?
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 06:14:54;
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla listen, im running into a whole fucking list of problems with all the shitty dust people send to bitbet. do you suppose we put in a progressive fee structure ? like "fee is a minimum of 0.0001, + 10% of everything under 0.01 + 1% of rest ?
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: yer looking in the wrong end of the funnel. yes, women still wear stockings, but american south no longer can have plantations, because the fiber doesn't grow out of the ground.
ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: my broadcast later tonight when i get out of the pit
PeterL:
mircea_popescu: so what was the problem with MPEx?
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: you're familiar with stan's line about "working on anything not of my own mind is only slightly better than suicide"?
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: staff are guaranteed 32 hours/wk, client work backstopped out of my pocket.
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: myes, although mayhap we talk of different things
assbot: Logged on 05-11-2015 05:37:58;
mircea_popescu: you know this actually sounds rather interesting. why is it that it's not good for us ?
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> who the fuck are they gonna pick ? jeb ? the doc nobody heard of ? << Doctor Stoner is actually leading now. Rubio appears to be the establishment alternative now that Jeb is dead in the water
phf:
mircea_popescu: i honestly thought it was a thin wrapper around call to unix mkdtemp, glad i checked