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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: MB of... .bat script << the origin of batshit.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i actually added this to the list of things to do when im old and retired.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Introduce religion and then bugs become "canon" << they've been trying to do that to bitcoin for a coupla years by now.
mircea_popescu: so then what in the fuck. you take an infinite lifespan to try out 10k options on a computer ?
mircea_popescu: maybe that's what i'm not getting. how many routes are there on an average board ? thousands ?
mircea_popescu: ok so now... the number of possible connections is finite.
mircea_popescu: let's start with what autorouter does. it fills in routes you didn't make yourself ?
mircea_popescu: (yet another fundamentally wrong design decision that sits at the core of the us' failure, and can't be fixed)
mircea_popescu: in a town designed for walking everyone else does fine.
mircea_popescu: ok, here's another thing. asciilifeform: there are not (and probably cannot be) 'good' autorouter, but there are plenty of terrible ones. << intuitively it seems to me there should be good autoruters. why not ?
mircea_popescu: you gotta learn to computer on a language everyone despises, that'll keep you from thinking too much of fucking languages.
mircea_popescu: this has fundamental causes in the original training of the people involved with the code, which is why you don't want to learn to computer on bullshit fashionable languages.
mircea_popescu: dub: ff crashed because ff << more specifically, because mozilla co STILL can't make a half decent garbage collector, so they constantly leak memory. yes, even version 69 or w/e they're up to by now.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: gentoo is arguably a 'bad life decision' - like the folks who insist on bicycle for commuting << im interested to hear more of the latter part, do tell ?
mircea_popescu: i didn't eat the pork fried on the bible/coran/etc for the record.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: BingoBoingo has an odd penchant for eating byproducts of combusting strange << it's seriously not that healthy.
mircea_popescu: diametric: use truecrypt. hehehehe << lol ok. that was worth it :D
mircea_popescu: basically the 400bn mkt cap company is in its entirety a hundred people trying to maintain a web directory, and we're back to the early 90s over here.
mircea_popescu: someone should put the time into researching the matter, it seems clear to me by now google is entirely manual, they have no algo left at all.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, it DOES pop a right panel with a summary of mossberg's wikipedia page.
mircea_popescu: and speaking of mossberg : a google on re/code does NOT pop up the wikipedia page on the top 10 results, like for absolutely any other word with a wikipedia entry.
mircea_popescu: (mostly andrei soldatov, a much more interesting fellow than mossberg, imo)
mircea_popescu: benkay the totality of russian personnel residing on foreign soil would be the residentura. the subset doing interesting stuff out of them (such as, not the ambassador's personal homebred imported cocksucker - in most places you have to import women as they don't grow locally babes tall enough, blonde enough, fair skinned enough, lithe enough etc etc etc) would be the... agentura.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: there was talk a few yrs ago (russian) regarding a mesh net built on modern radio hardware in mexican mountains. supposedly destroyed (via agenture methods, no fancy tech) << built by the mexican mafia, was it.
mircea_popescu: Africans never discovered nearby islands like the Cape Verde archipelago.
mircea_popescu: "Sub-Saharan Africans never discovered Madagascar. Madagascar was settled initially by sailors from Indonesia"
mircea_popescu: that's also why it continues to exist after havingkilled numerous cats
mircea_popescu: too many kids running around, raising kids of their own
mircea_popescu: which is notreally distinct from the nature of sovereignity.
mircea_popescu: among people who comprehend the nature of freedom, so to speak.
mircea_popescu: pankkake: French hair salons love word plays in their names. it's ridiculous << the lumbar yard!
mircea_popescu: drawingthesun: I shudder to think what people have said about ActiveMining here << lol fluffypony who's she ?
mircea_popescu: well, the dorks that made bitcoin* stuff, at any rate.
mircea_popescu: now it will be bought for pennies in a court auction, and you will ALL have to be on my pissing on patents submarine, willy-nilly.
mircea_popescu: jurov: bitcoin is registered trademark nao << always has been. by... mtgox. bcause... "it;'s better someone with bitcoin's interests at heart have the tm than someone random"
mircea_popescu: your leader is not fucking here to tell you what to do.
mircea_popescu: there's this very active, latin approach to leadership that i object to.
mircea_popescu: fucking bullshit, collectivists arguing with each other as to the proper way to the gallows, pretending like it's a world.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im justannoyed that people like mises and hayek, ultimate fucking socialists, are represented as some sort of anti-socialism.
mircea_popescu: you currently are not, which is why assbot isn't upping you.
mircea_popescu: to auto-voice you need to a) identify with gribble. you don't need gpg for this, tho gpg works. you can also identify with your btc address ; b) be in assbot's l2 trust.
mircea_popescu: davout: do i read this one correctly or is euronext valued somewhere around a fifth of whatsapp << if you believe the numbers, yes.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: i do :) i should clean up some of my scripts and publish them sometime.. << prolly.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform still with the fucking pdfs. anything good in that sandkey thing ?
mircea_popescu: trilema serves 5gb a day on average. maybe you're just becoming famous ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo this may then be relevant to your interests :
mircea_popescu: were you born in a less dumb culture it'd have been more pleasant.