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mircea_popescu: i haven't since the days i was looking through files to spot stoned.b
mircea_popescu: wtf is it going to do with it, give you asm error messages ?
mircea_popescu: actually it was a while until they had the first optimizing compiler working
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller it was [pretty obvious even at the time. they looked alike.
mircea_popescu: i kept editing the code to do weird shit. was loads of fun
mircea_popescu: jurov if you stole msdos to the degree you thought it was free
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's not pulling a bitcoinica, that's pulling a washingtonica.
mircea_popescu: we do not want "more adoption", especially if that "more adoption" is sandmans brought in by aspirin bitcoin "jesuses"
mircea_popescu: "This brings me to the core of what I dislike about Wolfram's book. It is going to set the field back by years. On the one hand, scientists in other fields are going to think we're all crackpots like him. On the other hand, we're going to be deluged, again, with people who fall for this kind of nonsense. I expect to have to waste a lot of time in the next few years de-programming students who'll have read A New Kind of
mircea_popescu: mike_c next time you want to ask me why the cardano isn't done by xmas...
mircea_popescu: the guy does declare he's trained as a phys, so i guess rank cluelessness about math may be excused
mircea_popescu: "Martin-Löf showed, again roughly speaking, that complex objects will pass many high-reliability tests for randomness, and conversely objects which pass randomness tests must have high algorithmic complexity."
mircea_popescu: kids that have no experience with beatings have no conceivable incentive to abandon the notion they invented jordan normal form.
mircea_popescu: i want this entered into the record of proof for the importance of beating schoolchildren.
mircea_popescu: "My teacher, more patient than I would be with adolescent arrogance, gently informed me that it was a standard technique, in any book on linear algebra, called "reduction to Jordan normal form", after the man who discovered it in the 1800s. "
mircea_popescu: must be cool to run a search engine that consists of promoting your friends.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, they return all the wikipedia pages possible.
mircea_popescu: also, google does not return the wayback machine for a "web history" query.
mircea_popescu: (joke beingthat the militsya was an obsolete institution, and famously the people it employed could not write)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform romanian canonical equivalent is "tu crezi ca te cauta militia pe messenger". ie, you think the militsya is pursuing you through im.
mircea_popescu: i do't think american expressions are allowed to contain words such as elusive
mircea_popescu: the top of a cake and the top of an oil tank aren't similar on grounds of topness.
mircea_popescu: in general one can't be both. whenever aristocrats were forced to be courtiers historically, they lost their aristocracy, and the state collapsed
mircea_popescu: bounce i meant aristocrats and courtiers are two mostly distinct things.
mircea_popescu: the sort that opposed the french and the germans, or the germans and the russians, or the french and the russians
mircea_popescu: lots of little kingdoms don't necessarily war each other, and moreover the wars of little kingdoms are not at all like the wars of national-socialist statal machines,
mircea_popescu: fluffypony but wait, you meant all of africa vs north, south and central america ?
mircea_popescu: <truff1es> just wait til the sillyness washes away << funny how on the spot this guy is. since forever the strategy of the mentally defective has been, just wait until the cool people get exhausted, and try to rebuild socialism then!
mircea_popescu: such as, putting your hand in the flame may in principle do all sorts of cool things, like charge your phone battery
mircea_popescu: fluffypony making mistakes should be encouraged in a narrow field : that where we don't know what the mistakes are. in the fields where we already know, they should not be.
mircea_popescu: and on the basis of what they know, aka 0, they're right.
mircea_popescu: idiots on the forum also think they know better. the reason they think so is because they don't know what they don't know
mircea_popescu: benkay im sure all of goethe's teachers were all supercool and worthy dudes.
mircea_popescu: this is nothing less than the point of existence : for you to drive lesser versions out of existence, or for them to drive oyu.
mircea_popescu: of course it does. fucking world is constructed so your existence is built out of the death of your siblings.
mircea_popescu: goonsamchi so your eating infringes on the rights of others, stop eating.
mircea_popescu: no, but the discussion is metaphisics, and being listened to qualifies him to speak./