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assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 04:54:13;
mircea_popescu: there's going to have to be a bisection and it's hard work, of the "do not bother me for three days" sort.
ascii_field: kakobrekla:
mircea_popescu's implication was that it ought to be a sane continuation of what gentoo once was (a linux for literate folks to use)
assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 04:52:47;
mircea_popescu: there's gotta be a complete bitcoin distro. kernel and all.
trinque: anton_osika: I think those here are tired of the pleading; I didn't voice you for that. And no, we do not vote on
mircea_popescu's actions.
punkman:
mircea_popescu: Title IV are just the ones the gov will loan you money to attend
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> there's gotta be a complete bitcoin distro. kernel and all. << What, rotor stopped making enough Linux?
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 22:51:17;
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller ask her!
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: << i have always wondered! why do
mircea_popescu's contracts /always have names/ in addition to the fingerprints? << array of conveniences. your govt id includes your name aside from your number too.
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 20:29:47;
mircea_popescu: but V is the best simulation of how actual math learning happens (in those brains actually capable to learn math) that we ever had as a fucking species.
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 23:06:04;
mircea_popescu: "american" is not a thing, to begin with. he just lives there.
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 22:47:27;
mircea_popescu: trinque well, i see merit in it. the presumption you can enforce borders comes from what ?
trinque:
mircea_popescu: hm yeah, even that is euphemistically skirting the issue of "was commanded A, did B"
trinque:
mircea_popescu: looked up the levels; I must've stopped at 29, as I recall the water
trinque:
mircea_popescu: as the concept of the WoT sunk in it occurred to me that we have very weak social connections here in american meatspace too
anton_osika:
mircea_popescu: Where is it that I wan't to go you say?
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu since when is "space" the primary consideration?
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu do you suppose they'd still be holding the sign if tanzania was a first-world country that also happened to carpet bomb syria?
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu well ya know. if i'm on fire, i'm heading for the water, not the gas station
anton_osika:
mircea_popescu: That is one lesson learned, from all this agony.
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu that's a succinct explanation
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu "good faith" &c.
cazalla: i think anton_osika actually understands but hopes to wear
mircea_popescu down
anton_osika:
mircea_popescu: Thats a very valid comparison.
anton_osika:
mircea_popescu: => BTC fork worries = irrelevant?
anton_osika:
mircea_popescu: I have to say that I do agree with you regarding ETH not being the best of bets though.
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu i'm not 100% sure that our contract allows such
anton_osika:
mircea_popescu: Well my situation is regarding my life savings so it does matter a bit less as of now.
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu and fwiw "world of nubbins" is a world in which contracts are entered and people retain their keys
anton_osika:
mircea_popescu: How do you mean clearly defined underpinning?
anton_osika:
mircea_popescu: I see it as encouraging for new users to use WoT without being afraid.
anton_osika:
mircea_popescu: Hey since I read your first draft of the contract between you and me I have learnt a lot.
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 07:35:35;
mircea_popescu: What the “reformers” promote, that is open-ended problems, “real-world” problems with clouds of answers, activities instead of problems, create a fuzzy world, ~~~in which students always have to guess the teacher’s mind and can not learn to discriminate between right and wrong by their own means. ~~~
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 09:38:51;
mircea_popescu: i don't really see oo bullshit as anything more than wank, but then again that's me.
Naphex:
mircea_popescu: it's a full blown cult, and the programs are extended with training and all other social bullshit that will cost everyone
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 00:39:19;
mircea_popescu: clearly the internet has so much helped
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 00:19:29;
mircea_popescu: i guess they couldn't properly have called it "estic system" and be done with it
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 21:33:51;
mircea_popescu: no, they aren't. theyt're exactly the grade of orc ukrainians are. except here they have good steak and there they have good whore.
hanbot imagines
mircea_popescu absolutely slaughtering 'the price is right'
williamdunne:
mircea_popescu: It certainly does, just yesterday I heard a girl maybe a few years older myself bragging (in a thick western accent) about her mother doing Cocaine and Ecstasy while heavily pregnant, and how "she turned out alright"
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 23:14:41;
mircea_popescu: (the other thing is that while the audience is struggly to follow [some appear to merely struggle to appear to be struggling to follow], or to even see, brin has this very clearly cut disapproving disappointment on his face, like a major stupidity was just uttered and well... they'll never know.
williamdunne:
mircea_popescu: Never thought I'd see my hometown mentioned on #b-a..
trinque:
mircea_popescu: because hacker. and spreading hacking!
trinque:
mircea_popescu: that was the thing criminalized at my public school, certainly
cazalla:
mircea_popescu, perhaps, mine was a shitty public school, missus was exclusive private and seems to be that is just another type of bezzle (all students must go to uni to get loaded up on debt type thing)
cazalla:
mircea_popescu, yeah pretty much, could've left in 1997 but they managed to stretch it out to 1999
cazalla: gotta go through bezzlar wringer of naughty boy schools, career counselling and other make work positions before principal gets the parents in the office
mircea_popescu ,least that was my experience
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 06:41:58;
mircea_popescu: see, this is the problem. we go around like we're all people and shit. but then some of us go home to where we know what fractals are, and some of us go to whatever that is, where they don't.
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 06:28:45;
mircea_popescu: the geometric notion of the point, and the geometric notion of a line, and the geometric notion of a plane, and the geometric notion of wolfram's mother impaled on a triple cheeseburger ALL SATISFY THIS DEFINITION
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 21:09:39;
mircea_popescu: gavrea, whom i've recently mentioned, had a very similar saying to distinguish between the "mathematical understanding" as described by funkenstein and the genuine article, by using the difference between the romanian words muzician (musician) and muzicant (roughly speaking, illiterate gypsy that can play by ear)
assbot: Logged on 04-09-2015 22:33:02; assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 14:16:12; assbot: Logged on 10-12-2014 00:51:50; asciilifeform:
mircea_popescu had an article (or perhaps a thread here? but can't seem to find it...) about an archetypical u.s. expat. fellow keeps a pub somewhere in thailand, or cambodia, etc. the locals - drink for free. he fancies that if he begins to run out of dough, he can always start charging. but somehow in the back of his head
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 15:47:45; asciilifeform: i did try to explain this to
mircea_popescu assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 20:38:00;
mircea_popescu: for the reason discussed! no access to verifiable, predictable small parts
assbot: Logged on 01-08-2015 05:46:04;
mircea_popescu: taci si suge.
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 10:18:46; phf: ascii_field:
mircea_popescu: go give ben_vulpes a unix and laptop co-designed with it, then he can throw away the crapple << there's three apples in my mind, 90s one, the early 2000s one when programmers migrated from linux to a unix that Just Works, and the post iphone explosion apple. the first two are dead (10.10 is the final reason i froze my setup and migrating my entire stack away). but my point is that
assbot: Logged on 19-08-2015 00:18:24; asciilifeform: cabbie: 'this ford is a piece of shit. stalled again.'
mircea_popescu: 'i have a solution!' cabbie: 'oh???111'
mircea_popescu: 'here, have this broomstick.' cabbie: 'how do i drive customers on that, feed my family'
mircea_popescu: 'you misunderstand, my good man. you stuff it in your arse.' cabbie: 'and... how does this feed by family?'
mircea_popescu: 'no, you sit there with it in.'