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mircea_popescu: ie, "let's lie prettily to each other -- you, call us scientists notwithstanding we're social cases, like any other ghetto queen ( with just as absent child rearing skills) ; we call you rational notwithstanding you're fucked in the head"
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, this is very transparently the aim here : "supporting social policy" on "science", as the necessary v2.0 of "supporting sorta-science financially through some bureaucratic process".
mircea_popescu: "Herein lies a presupposition commonly harbored by philosophers: namely. that empirical claims are only as reliable as the data from which they are inferred. The fact is that we can often arrive at rather accurate claims from far less accurate ones. Scattered measurements, for example, are not of much use, but with a little data massaging (e.g.. averaging) we can obtain a value of a quantity of interest that is far more ac
a111: Logged on 2016-07-10 00:53 asciilifeform: 'A 59-year-old woman who was a senior official at a Washington think-tank was fatally stabbed in Baltimore’s Roland Park neighborhood as she was walking her dogs Friday night, police said.'
mircea_popescu: other than repurposed cat growers / arts & crafts poets, the foremost female on the list (at #9) is http://www.profnancycartwright.com/ ; as contemptible a piece of pantsuit shit / femstate "architect" as could be ever found. replete with all the makings of a typical macauley ☝︎
mircea_popescu: dumbass cuntlet wouldn't qualify for my introductory course on "how to write academic work as opposed to spinning wikipedia content like retards" at the night tradeschool for economically disadvantaged youths.
mircea_popescu: then there's the problem of "anglophone". by such criteria as could be insanely reconstructed from the piled remains, naggum would qualify ; and then he has to be on the list.
mircea_popescu: aaanyway, dude (carnap i mean) is probably the thing all the g. supran subhumans perceive as their "truly truthiful undergirth", genuinely academic and intellectual because not-from-america and-we-dont-talk-about-that etc.
asciilifeform: pretty odd photo, imho, loox almost as if the tits were in place of cuntlips somehow
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: did nobody answer the req ? or not even got as far as anyone asking
asciilifeform always found it interesting that e.g. evolved nn sim, and many other related problems, work pretty well as distinguishing litmus for prngism vs trng
a111: Logged on 2014-08-27 02:03 asciilifeform: bats_cd03: 'random' means one thing if you're running 'monte carlo' sims (digits of 'pi' work beautifully, as does 'A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates' (rand corp, 1955. book.))
asciilifeform: ftr asciilifeform is satisfied that the only final pill against http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-17#1918482 is 'gossip' net, approx. as pictured in mircea_popescu's piece & accomp. thrds. ☝︎
hanbot wonders what quantity of busypaperwork/waiting in line/befriending idiot doorkeepers suffices as standing for "paying for ticket"
asciilifeform: as described in ye olde mpex thread aha
mircea_popescu: and now ~that board~ is a readily available avenue of attack for the sort of morons who are threatened by naked women, slavery, nigger inferiority, what have you. as per ye olde http://trilema.com/2013/digging-through-archives-yields-gold/
asciilifeform: as, e.g., 'sr', 'localbitcoins', 'ebay', all do
asciilifeform: hanbot: i suspect that the entire idea of centralized bulletin board for 'buy & sell coin' is as intrinsically usgistic as that of a gox (i.e. centralized coin/fiat exchange). it makes for an irresistible target, and is why all to date eventually were killed & replaced w/ honeypot taxidermy of self
a111: Logged on 2019-06-17 05:49 mircea_popescu: in other http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-05#1917374 obscura : apparently the "just as good" (spoiler : not very good) replacement is something called "paxum". also the hardcore wannabes / rape victims gathered around "ethereum" made a localethers something or the other clone, of course.
BingoBoingo: Throwing out how the world appears to work as I understand it for the readers because I have the good fortune of having good reader who can rattle me closer to correctness if I am too far off
BingoBoingo: Anyways the Uruguayos did demonstrate they are not as fucked as the Argentines by at least an order of magnitude, maybe two or three will be demonstrated by July first
mircea_popescu: they can do whatever it is they do without. without power, without anything else. in fact -- they could do whatever it is they do just as well without existing at all.
mircea_popescu: in other http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-05#1917374 obscura : apparently the "just as good" (spoiler : not very good) replacement is something called "paxum". also the hardcore wannabes / rape victims gathered around "ethereum" made a localethers something or the other clone, of course. ☝︎☟︎
BingoBoingo: I suspect "la criticaron" when used by Mujica is him trying to sell his socialism as Frenchish
BingoBoingo: I suspect some sort of exhibition or maybe the Harlem globetrotters misrepresented as the NBA. Worst NBA team versus national champion Aguada could be pretty lulzy
diana_coman: that much is true and partially why the old houses are "better" - because at least less mchouse in principle, at least along the lines that it's anyway picked as "the best of old houses since the worst are anyway not even standing anymore"
mircea_popescu: yes, but standardized "the times" housing as available now is... well...
mircea_popescu: sure, one might preserve them, as museums. but i wouldn't wanna live in the house a rich jew from 1819 built for himself and his family anymore than i'd wanna live in the mote & baily some never-washed briton built for the ugly lass he broke his prick in
mircea_popescu: but it's also not rock -- that stands upon itself as only support.
diana_coman: I don't think I actually know of ANY orchard as I'd want it in whole Romania, myeah.
mircea_popescu: as i said, was ~entertaining~
mircea_popescu: as cool concrete two level subteranean "parking" / basement built to industrial standards would be... in this shithole it'd be a liability more than anything.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, as 2020 is just around the corner -- three quarters of the top quarter left.
mircea_popescu: dying-dead-decaying-decayed as a metaphorical approach sounds trite through overuse, but it's also chillingly accurate. from the very specific feel of the particular manner in whichaustro-hungarian architectural heritage's decaying (becayse yes, this is very highly specific, it's not just a word or just ten words, it's "german musical universe" sort of precise, particular and specific)
asciilifeform: the only thing to add, possibly for n00bz, is the observation that you can actually use all the machine regs, as pictured above, if you dun have any c or other compiled lang in the proggy
asciilifeform: you run it as e.g. ./mips disk.img 31337 and connect on latter port, get uart.
asciilifeform back to ffaism, after short 'vacation' . will order piz irons in coming 2wk, as the req'd fiatola piles up ☟︎
asciilifeform: you can just as dressed, if zipper worx, neh
asciilifeform: still rly oughta, imho, live as a fairly straightforward seq of numerics
BingoBoingo: Meanwhile in local news they had a debate between two of the many candidates from the many parties. One was the Colorado who identifies as an economist http://bingology.net/2019/05/26/overview-of-local-electoral-politics-heading-into-the-impending-party-internals/#selection-127.0-131.39 the other some FA guy that didn't make my write up
mircea_popescu: practically, it'll prolly work as a hostile fork.
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't even go as far and say india is in asia.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i actually went through coupla hundred datashits in late '17, for various srams. after rejecting various 'pseudo' (i.e. internally dram, with built-in refresher) , left with buncha items, typically <=64MB, where in small print, if you actually use it as random access (i.e. not in long burst) it runs at 1995 speeds (7-15ns typically access)
diana_coman: Unfortunately, as Cojocar et al. [13] show, the synchronous
asciilifeform: on the surface, seems to use the ecc corrector delay as sidechan
mircea_popescu: in other news, pillars of eternity is a fucking great "good old Infinity engine days". up there with planescape : torment i'd say (not as deliberately-artsy-quirky-???).
asciilifeform: hey, spark of life left, e.g., ibm, 50y ago, still zombies on as 'hedge fund'. or for that matter, roman church, 1000y
mircea_popescu: all of them, no exceptions, princeton of great fame, stanford, mit, what have you -- they survive as sovereign funds, exactly like china's (only much smaller, worse managed and with way shittier portofolios) with an entirely spuriously magic cap on. ☝︎
asciilifeform: i never saw it other than as fragmented fossils.
mircea_popescu: i suppose lisp stands as a leftover of the time you speak of, so it must've existed.
asciilifeform: but may as well have been in time of atlantis, for all it matters nao
asciilifeform: asciilifeform out of school was dumb, from chumpatronic pov, as a sack of rocks, got conned into designing for these people a certain iron part, ~in off hours~ from cleaning ducts. it was, as i understand, put into production, with a mit grad's name attached.
diana_coman: what can I say; fwiw on one hand entrance exam at my uni was already getting seriously watered down and onth in 500 students/ year (minimum), I have former colleagues that are happily microshitting now as they were then
diana_coman: my observation re numbers is that it's not as much whether reich or not but simply whether "public education" as in "for everyone" or not; because if profs are recruited based on need, there will just never be enough really; and the wider the base aka the greater the need, the more chickenhouse, inevitably
asciilifeform: not only this, but they're as wanted by the brass as fox in chickenhouse.
diana_coman: well, how would anyone find as many exceptions as needed to fill all the unis basically (not to mention all schools!)
asciilifeform: we had ~same type of profs here, with very few (~100% emigre) exceptions, i imagine much fewer exceptions than at diana_coman's uni. y'know the type, that reacts to 'made to think' same way as mcd clerk to being asked to make exact change
asciilifeform: inca fears p2p radio like the proverbial vampire -- crucifix. i'm actually surprised somewhat, that 'ricochet' was even permitted to be built as it were
asciilifeform: tbf not exactly new idea, various usgisms used as early as '80s
asciilifeform: being pushed as 'find my stolen irons' 'feature'
billymg: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-05-13#1913031 << something i'm thinking a lot about as well ☝︎☟︎
billymg: always seems to save with the post id as expected
a111: Logged on 2019-05-27 21:35 diana_coman: in other stepping-in-all-the-holes : it seems I found a fail-mode of mp-wp browser interface namely if one pastes the content of a post first and only then (possibly after it rushes to quick save it or whatevers) the title, it fails miserably as it apparently tries to save it with title "" (notwithstanding that no, it should not, there is actually a title to it)
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in sad lulz, the http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-08#1917766 item most eminently does not live up to the legacy of the name ; there's none of that exquisite attention to detail that made the original. the dialogue's terrible, both in conception as implementation, the maps are shoddily made... ☝︎
mircea_popescu: as anil dash would no doubt wish to know, "are you even familiar with the redemption cycles in that culture".
asciilifeform: these live for as long as the maintainer feels like maintaining, on his lunch breaks
mircea_popescu: https://www.sosgame.com/ << other sduch lulz. "We are saddened to share that SOS and SOS: Classic has been permanently shut down. However you can use this website to play free Slot Games and win $25 per day by simply spending time on this website. [...] Free slots were created as a consequence of a growing need of the market to play slots..."
mircea_popescu: as per hanbot's http://trilema.com/2013/of-men-and-mice/#selection-213.79-213.92
asciilifeform: ( re eulora, as i currently understand diana_coman's main work atm is an excavation, similar to trb circa '15, of heathen coad )
asciilifeform: as of ch19.
diana_coman: "a break" as in taking a break (from the mess)
asciilifeform: ( the 1 annoying aspect of lysotronic fg as currently drawn, is that it gets the +45v bias voltage for the detector, from batteries, as asciilifeform does not know of a 'rng safe' method to generate it from +5 without oscillators )
asciilifeform: as of 1+yr ago.
asciilifeform: ... at any rate, 'peh' will continue to use the single-fg eater (as depicted in ch8, it hasn't changed) unless someone shows very good reason why it ought to be made moar complex and eat >1.
mircea_popescu: yes well, just as soon as someone wants to do all-visible-celestial-bodies montecarloisims / novel protein folding etc -- can pay you to do the lyso array
asciilifeform: incidentally, re 'valve co.', and also elliotisms, didjaknow -- it appears to have been named for... an actual valve. as in, 1 of those nyc-style steam main valves, as big as a desk, it is ceremonially mounted in their house...
asciilifeform: 'MERCENARIES TO KILL' << english-as-she-is-spoken(tm)(r) lel
asciilifeform: ... evidently this is the 'new gen' of dope people, as pictured in mircea_popescu's piece
BingoBoingo: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-06#1917487 << I imagine there's not much room to be corrupting Raleigh or the East Coast USA one local trade at a time. In contrast each local trade in Uruguay can chip away at the USDubaloo position as the local reserve currency. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2019-06-06 11:31 mircea_popescu: is this wrong, should i jus tstfu so as not to ruin the small trades for interested ppls ?
BingoBoingo: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-06#1917490 << The long USD position was during the recent market bottom. Now datacenter needs paid monthly again and I don't know if going USD long is the most prudent decision. Jurov put in a bid for the DC wire, and I'm curious if the bidding will get more heated near the end as it did with the smaller 500 USD auctions. ☝︎
asciilifeform: 1 moar hypothesis : on boxes where very slow rng (e.g. fg unavailable ) or where heavily milked fg, generating e.g. ephemeral rsa privs with high frequency, economy may be much greater, as fewer doomed m-r shots means fewer '?' invocations for their witnesses gen.
asciilifeform: nao it ~is~ possible that in avg case ( again, if not obv, the above could easily be a fluke, given as whole algo is monte carlo ) there is greater economy.
mircea_popescu: someone explained somewhere the popup-human interaction, drom the chairwarmer pov : "perceives it as roadblock, clicks it away like his grandfather cut a clearing through bushes"
mircea_popescu: ][TAKE] the results, just as soon as there's something there to take.
mircea_popescu: as per that excellent ballas point, "if you're still working for the government, just with no pension" : usg.ebay is mroe than happy for you to do the difficult, risky and expensive part of its job (market research) -- and they'll gladly [http://trilema.com/2014/people-us-dollars-are-not-worth-a-fifth-of-a-bitcent-stop-selling/#selection-129.0-133.2
a111: Logged on 2019-06-06 08:10 mircea_popescu: in other lulz, it's funny how "sleek, modern" rounder corners etc bla bla always goes AWAY from productivity. firefox version 5 mn, five years ago or so i last looked, had a bar for url and a bar for search. firefox 4bn, latest vintage as of a few days ago -- no longer search bar. url bar only.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-06#1917460 << sorta why i see the asic thing as a serious failure. as i understand, the centralization of supply is extreme, and gettin' worse ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2019-06-06 07:11 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-05#1917355 << i do not think data should be included with ffa ; while i do believe data should be included with bitcoin. the reason for the split is that i perceive a difference between design and implementation / algorithmics and code, so following. if you see peh as a sort of "packaging of this theory for consumption" then maybe worth including,
Mocky: re pimp, I have no gripe with the guy. as good trades with him as with anyone
mircea_popescu: is this wrong, should i jus tstfu so as not to ruin the small trades for interested ppls ? ☟︎
Mocky: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-06#1917453 << I should restate as 'would love to continue finding new traders in the small market of raleigh...' ☝︎
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, it's funny how "sleek, modern" rounder corners etc bla bla always goes AWAY from productivity. firefox version 5 mn, five years ago or so i last looked, had a bar for url and a bar for search. firefox 4bn, latest vintage as of a few days ago -- no longer search bar. url bar only. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: because bitcoin exists. this is the very definition of market as an integration-of-value-symbolics metric.
mircea_popescu: currently you can put a much better price on privacy (and meaningful, too, as a % of the wealth involved -- contrary to what the poortards imagine, privacy is not an abstract, privacy is strictly a function of money as a counter of value.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-05 22:19 asciilifeform: Mocky: if i had bottle of 'become mircea_popescu' elixir, i'd share with you a glass. but as it is e.g. asciilifeform was entirely unable to get hold of bitcoin at all for many yrs, when could not find anyone who had it + would not deal with goxisms
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-05#1917394 << here's glass : 1. talk to all the girls ; 2. enslave the better ones. adjust as needed, s/girls/whatever/g ☝︎
mircea_popescu: specifically with peh, as distinct from ffa.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-05#1917355 << i do not think data should be included with ffa ; while i do believe data should be included with bitcoin. the reason for the split is that i perceive a difference between design and implementation / algorithmics and code, so following. if you see peh as a sort of "packaging of this theory for consumption" then maybe worth including, ☝︎☝︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: (i eminently do not say it has no failure rate. not even pregnancy tests make that sorta claim -- piss on one as a dude long enough you might be surprised eventually.)