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mircea_popescu: "To stop the this" ? nobody here has such bad grammar.
mircea_popescu: But oh no! Here comes the Legion of Evil: Dr von Trope, The Dog Kicker, The Chessmaster, Superdick, Mr. Macekre, and the Brotherhood of Bowdlerization, Sir Jerkass, and the villainous Mary Sue! Together they'll bring about The End of the World as We Know It...
mircea_popescu: It's our hero, the Egregious Trope-Man! With his amazing trope-related powers, he always saves the day!
mircea_popescu: gpg has been around for 20 years, pgp for 30, this guy just discovered "bitcoin signatures"
mircea_popescu: most americans got this just fine back when america was going up.
mircea_popescu: anyone recall the damned name or the (very young at the time) star ?
mircea_popescu: so theres this 70s film about a kid living in repressed california fucking his neighbour's wife and then her daughter.
mircea_popescu: question : since asics have to be special built anyway, could one build a ternary asic ?
mircea_popescu: so you are actually sitting there and telling me that ternary based machines a la setun actually have a computational future, technologically speaking
mircea_popescu: i don't think apple for instance would have a problem with making a system that doesn't work with any computing hardware in the world.
mircea_popescu: well to confess, my interest is to cheaply extract gems i can later use in my administrative career, rather than to geek out on math.
mircea_popescu: but if you didn't have the luxury to make it more complicated than that ?
mircea_popescu: isn't it the case that the situation summarizes as "the russki folks came up with the idea of trying out alternative logix, made the setun, proved thereby the thing is a waste of time" ?
mircea_popescu: seems a reasonable suggestion, if you're going to the trouble of building a boeing
mircea_popescu: just have a true and an (arbitrary?) number of falsehoods.
mircea_popescu: and since we're on that logic topic : don't you find it that if indeed you go for 1 false then it would make sense to get rid of the ancient&antiquated binary logic model ?
mircea_popescu: apparently "we switched true and false around notwithstanding this breaks the logic / arithmetic superimposition" isn't quite as big
mircea_popescu: not because there aren't eggregiously bad examples peppered everywhere, but because it is the one phrase that came back underlined in all the review copies i sent out
mircea_popescu: ". Decrement isn’t a basic operation and requires linear rather than constant time" << this is perhaps the best part.
mircea_popescu: chiefly through stealing old irc discussion. guess now ima have to steal more.
mircea_popescu: this is all eerily related to the article im in the process of writing,
mircea_popescu: anyway, i originally though the guy was a programmer, which seemed interesting.
mircea_popescu: no consumer has ever demanded anything in the history of business to date.
mircea_popescu: it's supposed to be a diversion! the fucking trade is called variety!
mircea_popescu: in the case of fortran, yes. in the case of "entertainment" ?!
mircea_popescu: or maybe you wouldn't. "mit still running fortran". big whoop.
mircea_popescu: i spent a decade of my youth in roughly equal halves between producing porn and handling hollywood ip. you'd be surprised how often it is the case that "no scripts are new".
mircea_popescu: When asked about their shared Catholic faith, Eszterhas said of Gibson, "In my mind, his Catholicism is a figment of his imagination."
mircea_popescu: maybe this is how bitcoin dies, we run out of longints to save the diff.
mircea_popescu: people spendign 12 mn to buy mining gear in a month ? definitely.
mircea_popescu: maybe there's someone in a cave somewhere, never turned it off.
mircea_popescu: and the humans got 5 ph and the elves 7 and the dwarves only 3 cause they were midgets
mircea_popescu: if you went to the us army and said "you have to increase your firepower by 50%. you have one month. you can't get a bank loan for this"