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mircea_popescu: being an us style "independent" has about as much
to do with independence as being a us style "liberal" has
to do with liberalism ; or as much as
the 6th grader's idea of "a lothario" has
to do with fucking, partying and generally
the dyonyssian world.
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2016 20:09:29;
trinque:
the whole rest is what information you put in
the skulls
mircea_popescu: 10% failure rate is based on
the concept
that a)most will be artisans, ie, gardeners and b) periodic war and disease anyway.
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2016 20:09:20;
trinque: if you bothered
to breed well a 90% failure rate is deplorable
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2016 20:05:42; asciilifeform:
trinque: everything
that is ~actually worth reading~ would fit in a large room.
assbot: Logged on 07-03-2016 23:26:24; assbot: Logged on 07-03-2016 23:20:09; mircea_popescu: you
think you're running a node, because, symptomatically, in
the windows definition of running code (hey, click items
till it works) you are. but
the sense of running code contemplated for bitcoin is negative, not positive, and you don't know how
to check for
that nor do you specifically care.
mircea_popescu: PeterL i
tohuhgt you were scientists ? "this experiment came out right - what more ?"
PeterL: the equipment does what we want it
to, what more do we need?
mircea_popescu: let me guess, "nobody could have foreseen - no one got fired for following
the herd".
mircea_popescu: PeterL and if you
tell
the head manager
that
this is a miserable abdication from his job - which is
to assure you
the stuff will work no matter what, he says ?
PeterL: asciilifeform my current lab goes
the direction of paying for "service contract" with equipment manufacturers
to keep our software up-to-date
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2016 20:00:36;
trinque: fell out
the womb and of
the random shuffling of life, some were spartans
mircea_popescu: and of course i'd prolly have a wailing chorus of stakeholder idiots, whom i'd
tell
the usual get fucked.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> because how do you budget for
that. << i have no idea wqhat
the because would be, other
than idiots. if i ran
the lab i would, simply on grounds of independence.
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trinque wonders which of
the ancient conquerors ever sat waiting for power
to show up of its own accord, shield and spear in hand
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trinque: maybe gotta actually
train an army at some point, instead of hoping heaven drops its own
PeterL: <asciilifeform> i saw a win98 box once, uninfected, i shit
thee not. it was connected
to an alarm system, in a closet, no net connection, for decade. << my previous job we had a windows 98 box dedicated
to a piece of equipment
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2016 19:52:06; asciilifeform: what, you
think ~their~ students, ~will~ ??
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2016 19:50:53;
trinque: what is
this magical people-essense we will rediscover other
than good leadership?
PeterL: <thestringpuller> I haven't had
to reinstall windows on my gaming rig in 3 years << I havn't had
to reinstall
the OS on my mac in 9 years, it mostly sorta still works
mircea_popescu: they were
trying
to emulate
the previous functioning of actual science, which was very much b-a.
mircea_popescu: PeterL "peer reviewed journals" became a
thing in 1950s,
together with state-funded science.
PeterL: thestringpuller I am not really strong on history, I would say 1800s, peer reviewed journals became a
thing
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trinque: if #b-a is not growing its own
theorem-provers, it is merely feeding off
the
tit of
the world it works against.
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2016 19:38:02; asciilifeform: he has a good grip of military craft, and understands
that only idiots engage enemy on ~his~ strong
turf
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2016 19:32:16;
trinque: maybe gotta actually
train an army at some point, instead of hoping heaven drops its own
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2016 19:26:45; asciilifeform: rereading
the
thread re:
the 5 necessary spare asciilifeforms leads me
to ask related q, where do we get a spare mircea_popescu if our current one breaks !
thestringpuller: I haven't had
to reinstall windows on my gaming rig in 3 years.
thestringpuller: i'm more specifically pointing out formative moments like in 2001 when
the monkeys encounter
the monolith
thestringpuller: but
that's just congealing knowledge from alchemy
to chemistry :P
thestringpuller: i don't
think
there are any grants for
turning led into gold
funkenstein_: well if you can get a grant from
the king
to do real chemistry by suggesting
there might be immortality in it, why not?
thestringpuller: I agree we should stop playing fast and loose with
the scientific method
tho...
thestringpuller: modern alchemy? psuedoscience in a sense... But I was more referring from
the psychological
transition of viewing
the world
through
the lens of alchemy vs.
that of chemistry
☟︎ shinohai: Funny I was looking at
that same article before gf came over.
funkenstein_: thestringpuller, imho as long as grant-writers pull
the wool over
the eyes of
the grantors, alchemy continues
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Was looking at
that actually, may make
the cut.
funkenstein_: R. Boyle's name comes up often in
this context
thestringpuller: PeterL: being a chemist what was
the formative era when alchemy became chemistry?
trinque: funkenstein_: it makes more sense for you
to make your own decisions about which patches you like, and if I don't like it I'm free
to alter your patch
to suit me
PeterL: funkenstein_ or do you just have
to ask which keys are in his wot, and you can generate a
tree from
there?
funkenstein_: so when
trinque asks me
to regrind, perhaps I should ask him for his
tree
☟︎ funkenstein_: also if people don't like a patch SN which you have in
the base,
they will not get
to use your patch
PeterL: so if your patch is not included, you have
to keep rebasing it every
time a new patch is added until it does get included?
funkenstein_: asciilifeform, so if I would like
to make/rebase a patch.. i should
take
the longest chain I have seen as
the base of
the diff?
PeterL: <asciilifeform>
the kitchen, regardless of what ants may
think, was NOT built as an ant restaurant. << I dun get it, how does miners not including your
txn equate
to raiding
the kitchen?