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BingoBoingo: shinohai: practice? Start a blawg
to practice writing and
then submit newsy
things
to qntra?
shinohai: BingoBoingo: << Pile more qntra shares on
top of
them? <<< since I suck at writing, I don't see
that happening.
mircea_popescu: in other news, Pavlichenko was later invited by Eleanor Roosevelt
to
tour America relating her experiences. While meeting with reporters in Washington, D.C. she was dumbfounded about
the kind of questions put
to her. "One reporter even criticized
the length of
the skirt of my uniform, saying
that in America women wear shorter skirts and besides my uniform made me look fat".
phf: now lets see,
the pink pantaloons are out, and yellow jockstraps are in.
the handkerchief should be in
the ~left~ pocket of your velvet vest and not ~right~ pocket of a wwii bomber jacket.
that one
tripped up a bunch of contenders. last minute addition was a brooch, make sure it matches
the cravat, not a ground for dismissal, but judges look favorably at lord applicants
that are aware of only
the latest
tmsr fashions
mats: whats
the new criteria for lordliness?
BingoBoingo: <shinohai> ;;later
tell BingoBoingo when you have
time, need
to discuss what do with my paltry qntra shares. << Pile more qntra shares on
top of
them?
mircea_popescu: mechanical
turbulence in fluids ~10^8 more
than electrical
turbulence in conductors.
phf: my grandfather spent all his
time implementing,
than architecting,
than overseeing bunch of other people implementing and architecting analogue avionics for su rockets, mil and "gagarin space man" kind
shinohai: ;;later
tell BingoBoingo when you have
time, need
to discuss what do with my paltry qntra shares.
mircea_popescu: i'm all for "20 years ago", but
they're fucking idiots.
mircea_popescu: hey, my own father spent what he imagined
to be his golden years, at
the
time and after
that
time, doing "research" for his government on supposedly, computing, but really, holding each other's dicks like a bunch of chimps.
mircea_popescu: the only counter is
that
there is no such
thing as
too soon in
the flesh. until
the
time one stands up from couch, just how out of shape one is will never be known.
mircea_popescu: phf you are not alone in
the view
that
this whole
thing is
too soon.
phf: would still want
to figure out a bunch of problems before applying it "with computers" anyway, crypto, airgap, having it stored in a such a way
that
the inevitable arrest doesn't result in "5000 financial records were recovered in a daring raid by
the brave constables"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nono,
the use of ~~~SCIENCE~~~ will allow a collection of bureaucrats
to satisfy in practice
the delusional requirements of what mp "should have been"
mircea_popescu: they only seem fundamental
to
the hordes of spawn for which a soul couldn't be found, so
they ended up consumers.
mircea_popescu: yes, could benefit from soap and electricity, but
these aren't fundamental changes
mircea_popescu: i am convinced it is
the best we can do, as far as
the human element goes.
phf: given
the state of
things, i'm not convinced
that hawala is
the worst we can do
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> because without
this, a computer is not an asset, but a catastrophicly limitless liability. << hey, it doesn't matter, usg will pretend
to be mp and make it all good!11
phf: kind of like rms bringing back mit ai lab, when all
the cool kids left for smbx
phf: that's also an idea from "when everything had a spec, and everything was written
to spec, and
things just fit into each other neatly" decades
phf: but first we port symbolics ada
to scheme-81, so we can compile
trb with symbolics ada
phf: i'm just anticipating
the next
tmsr language
mircea_popescu: truth be
told our diligent efforts over
the years - and by our i mean mostly not mine - exposed so many hooks for fixing and improving it's not even funny.
mircea_popescu: on
the contrary -
the more crud
that can be snipped
the very better.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
there is no good reason - for
the contemplated july alternative offering
mircea_popescu: during
that blank space,
the jews conquered egypt and started a new dynasty, founded carthage,
tyre, byblos, etc ; dominated
the golden crescent and so on.
mircea_popescu: but
these are all considerations for one millennium prior
to what
the europeans generally regard as "history".
deedbot: $get
trust herro is not a command.
trinque: that's
the other bug on
the list so far
trinque: danielpbarron: might've had extraneous whitespace somewhere in
the command
danielpbarron: trinque, i did gettrust PeterL and gettrust jurov in private
to make him leave
the 2nd
time
mircea_popescu: sister
to "if you see a hungarian speaking foreign languages, you're looking at a jew."
trinque: PeterL's problem was
that
the
thing's caps sensitive; I'm going
to fix
that
today
trinque: what'd you say
to
the bot before it parted and rejoined?
danielpbarron: the Armenians are of very similar decent :
they are from Aram, a grandson of Noah
trinque: danielpbarron: imma
teach you guys
to give proper bug reports :p
mircea_popescu: "my sons... preserve
the jews! for once
they're gone...
danielpbarron: I don't claim
to or care
to study all religion, except
to say
that I will often look into
those claiming
to believe
the Bible for
the purpose of exposing false
teachings
to whoever showed it
to me
mircea_popescu: you know
the joke with
the old armenian patriarch dieing in anhalt ?
mircea_popescu: amusingly,
the parts
that didn't come
there in
the shape of "look what books we can't read we stole from
the jews, let's ignore half
the sentences" came
there in
the shape of "look what books we can't read we stole from
the armenians, let's ignore half
the sentences".
mircea_popescu: well... if one's
to study religion, even if limiting it
to europe,
there's a lot more
there
than anyone cares
to admit.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron you familiar with
the old idea
that you know,
the creation-god is
this hunchback covetous idiot of a fellow,
danielpbarron: at a quick glance, I see cathars believed
the old
testament God was a different God
than
the one in
the new
testament
mircea_popescu: PeterL no, i am saying
that opposition
to myself has ~0 chances
to come from
the sort of mind
that ignores half of what happens.
mircea_popescu: ideologically,
they, like
the manicheans (yes, hence maniheism) and
the bogomils and early gnostic christians held some
things about
the dual nature of
the perceptible world