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assbot: Logged on 02-02-2016 14:14:45; mircea_popescu:
trinque so not with
the intent
to pressure you, but : is deedbot patch insertion likely
to come online soon or should i re-learn how
to do it via email ?
assbot: Logged on 02-02-2016 15:19:04; mircea_popescu:
the role of libraries is exactly like
the role of
the fridge in
the supermarket : "here's
this capsule of other people's
thinking so you don't have
to"
mircea_popescu: it's
the hand
that can be arsed
to make it
through
the mental cage.
mircea_popescu: but nevertheless. it's not merely
the hand
that feeds.
ascii_butugychag: do you recall
the photo of a very peculiar boar
that kakobrekla once posted ?
ascii_butugychag: the activities listed above are a) actual work,
that involves not sitting in a climate-controlled chair all day b) really needs having been raised 'free range' chicken instead of cage-born
mircea_popescu: they have a very narrow cage
through which
they might be fed.
mircea_popescu: for instance, another hand would feed
them if
they went nude dancing.
they don't.
assbot: Logged on 02-02-2016 14:03:19; mircea_popescu: or you
think bhagwan chowdhry &
the merry bunch actually have some sort of loyalty, or even any sort of conception of "US" ?
assbot: Logged on 02-02-2016 13:59:52; mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo sadly,
the alf
totally dominates
that field.
the bundy's dun have what it
takes. not even remotely.
BingoBoingo: Library now means Ycombinator floaty arm
things
mircea_popescu: which is how
the entire world (except brazil) enjoys
the benefits of refrigeration, even as
there's maybe a guy in a
thousand people
that could explain how it actually works.
mircea_popescu: the role of libraries is exactly like
the role of
the fridge in
the supermarket : "here's
this capsule of other people's
thinking so you don't have
to"
☟︎ BingoBoingo: libraries don't help make
the graph
theory learning faster
phf: there's no library substitute for
thinking.
the "bug" is not obscure, it's just not implemented right :>
mircea_popescu: if you're going
to get an endless slog of obscure bugs
that came from nowhere and aren't apparently anything, why not just use something
that actually has libraries ?
phf: nah, my graph
theory is rusty, and figuring out
the right algo is a slow mind grinding process
PeterL: you mean lisp is less magical
than
they say?
mircea_popescu: excuse
the naive approach, but isn't
that sort of
thing precisely what lisp is supposed
to by its nature prevent ?
phf: fwiw
the graph is still not quite right, i.e. shows presses
that couldn't happen.
mircea_popescu: one of
the founders was arguing it shouldn't get govt support, just let it die
mircea_popescu: ok so does anyone have a ready link or fresh context in head re
that discussion recently (~month) of
that british game publisher
that went under with 20mn investment ?
gribble: diametric was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 3 days, 15 hours, 41 minutes, and 4 seconds ago: <diametric> not sure
that makes it a
trivial non-crime at
that point.
gribble: artifexd was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 40 weeks, 5 days, 16 hours, 19 minutes, and 16 seconds ago: <artifexd> I'm comfortable calling it a review. Not just of what it is but what it was and how it got
to where it is.
mod6: we're about
to get some snow. not as bad as IA
tho.
BingoBoingo: But in
the positive side, 20 more posts
than December while wordcount stayed rather steady.
BingoBoingo: Fuck I wrote December instead of January in
the first line
mircea_popescu: trinque so not with
the intent
to pressure you, but : is deedbot patch insertion likely
to come online soon or should i re-learn how
to do it via email ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: yeah, which will happen five minutes after
the usg stops hiring idiots, which will happen half hour after anyone who's not an idiot stops exclusively dedicating himself
to
the republic, which happens after i'm fucking dead, i should hope.
BingoBoingo: But
the point is
the Shaun Bridges have
to stop falling for
the
trap where
they reveal
their Gobag&fortune
to loyalists.
BingoBoingo: I don't know
that
the Indian bureaucrats like Preet can
think any other way.
mircea_popescu: the maggot language doesn't have a word for "corpse", and certainly not one for
the corpse's ex-marital status.
mircea_popescu: or you
think bhagwan chowdhry &
the merry bunch actually have some sort of loyalty, or even any sort of conception of "US" ?
☟︎ BingoBoingo: Anyways.
The point is
the Bundy fumbling has
to happen for militia movement
to develop which isn't 75% USG informant by weight.
mircea_popescu: four people and
their dog aren't part of
this discussion.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Nah, but mebbe
the inspire
the kid
that did. 4 people left in Free Oregon lead by kid named Fry. Fry seems like he's staying a while since FBI killed his friend.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo sadly,
the alf
totally dominates
that field.
the bundy's dun have what it
takes. not even remotely.
☟︎ BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Under foreign management, under
the Bundy's, however
PeterL: Can we sell ourselves
to Canada?
mircea_popescu: than americans
themselves having any say whatsoever in who gets
to fuck
their ass for
the next ~century.
mircea_popescu: PeterL neither of
those are options. a russian oregon alaska and washington, a chinese california, a mexican arizona nm and
texas and a european protectorate all
the way
to ohio is much more likely
mircea_popescu: this is
the one bit us folk are
too blinded by
their own internal narcissus
to grasp. you don't get
to retry on your own as a failed state. you get put under
the management of your neighbours, because you suck. it happened
to
the indian
tribes in
the same geography before, and
they were extinctified by it.
PeterL: Or dissolve all
the states and start over from scratch?
PeterL: Split it up by state? Let each state decide where
they want
to go?
mircea_popescu: on
the basis of how
the american handles himself
there,
the immediate future is decided.
mircea_popescu: there will come a major pass with china, probably in
the next five years.
BingoBoingo: I endorse parting
the
thing out and starting over.
mircea_popescu: anyway. in my detached view,
this presidency is important for purely exterior reasons.
the us, as it is, is irrelevant
to everyone, including itself.
the future of
the us is mostly determined by
the management of
the image of
the us, which is well divorced from
the us of
today, and a sort of future
tendril of
the us of 1970.
PeterL: but I figure some candidates are going
to make it worse
than others, and I
think Clinton would be one of
the worst
mircea_popescu: the country is
terminal
tho. it's falling over on its own anyway.
PeterL: well, some candidates (Paul) might get in my way/wreck
the country less
than others
PeterL: at least Sanders is honest about what he is going
to do
BingoBoingo: <PeterL> but Hillary has been "waiting her
turn", so
the party bosses are
trying
to get her in despite her being a horrible monster <<
THis is how
the GOP sank in 2008 with
the lich, and 2012 with Rommit
mircea_popescu: people not
trusting politico actually makes for one of
the best recommendations
they could have.
PeterL: I know she's smart, but I don't expect her presidency
to help me any
☟︎ mircea_popescu: PeterL you're not supposed
to
trust your ruler. you're supposed
to feel
threatened by
them, i guess, or fear
them, if you don't have a readier way
to express submission in your own mind.
mircea_popescu: the woman is intelligent and determined. certainly a lot less stupid
than it is average for
the us. she's no bush nor any kind of redditobama.
PeterL: I certainly don't
trust her
mircea_popescu: ftr, i may be
the only one left, but i don't
think she's anything of a monster.
PeterL: not
that Sanders is much better of a candidate
PeterL: but Hillary has been "waiting her
turn", so
the party bosses are
trying
to get her in despite her being a horrible monster
mircea_popescu: all
those nobodies on capitol hill gotta derive
their delusions of relevancy somehow.
mircea_popescu: i would expect
there's a lot of power brokering going on
there.
PeterL: maybe we should make it easier and skip
the voting and go straight
to a coin flip
to decide
the presidency?
BingoBoingo: PeterL yes. Hilary ended up
turning a vote
tie into a 6 delegate advantage late last night on... COIN FLIPS
PeterL: so with iowa delegates getting split between candidates, it really did not change
the election at all
PeterL: for all
the media
trumpets who gets
the "WIN!!" in each state, many of
the primaries are not winner-take-all, so multiple candidates come away with delegates from each state
assbot: Logged on 02-02-2016 06:09:12; mats: i'm looking for something either on
trilema or
the logs, about advertising fraud
assbot: Logged on 02-02-2016 05:58:13; adlai: fight leeches with leeching; maybe reserving some capital for post-leech correction mitigates
this
BingoBoingo: Well, first
they gotta make a Jim Crow Grand Lightning Network on
top of BitBetBet results.
mircea_popescu: as
the ancient rule says, "people will do
the sane
thing just as soon as all alternatives have been exhausted".
assbot: Logged on 02-02-2016 05:50:41; adlai: shouldn't somebody who understands parimutuel betting better
than
the average bitbettor make nearly risk-free profit if
the outcomes add up
to "over 100%"?
BingoBoingo: In other news,
the crap weather
that lifted Rubio
to a
third place victory in Iowa has made it here. At least it's
too warm
to freeze here... so far...
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Is
there any other way
to vote
that doesn't involve doodling horsecocks on
the ballot?
assbot: Logged on 02-02-2016 06:22:46; mod6: give
these a compile & quick
test if you don't mind and
then upon confirmation, I'll update
the mirror.