asciilifeform: 'the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics'(tm)
asciilifeform: hey arithmetic worx on apples and bricks alike
asciilifeform: ( to draw it as a graph, lay out only moves that 'conserve mass' )
asciilifeform: the odds/evens aspect gives it a 'nim' flavour , so there might be a seekrit optimization..
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i was thinking of your puzzler: if you want always optimal path, it afaik reduces to A* search. actually quite similar to pcb routing.☟︎
asciilifeform: in similar lulz, 'libXcursor could write one byte out of bounds when processing Xcursor theme files. In certain cases, such as when used in the Firefox web browser, this could be used as part of an exploit chain to allow further attacks on an X client process...'
asciilifeform: speaking of which, there was a 'designated' hobo who for 30 yrs sat on the pavement there, unmolested, with picket signs 'end nuke reich' or to that effect
asciilifeform: recall, the ones where usg confiscated their life insurance post-facto
asciilifeform: (afaik the only such case on Official record)
asciilifeform: i recall a husband-and-wife set, Officially 'islamic' flavoured, coupla yrs ago
asciilifeform: ( on rare occasions, the dylan finds a klebold, and they go bang as a duet, but this is uncommon )
asciilifeform: tho the mechanics of the biology, i suspect, work against it, when d00d 'goes t-cell' he closes in, in rightful mistrust of stoolies and 'helping hands'
asciilifeform: i expect at some point their !!key will work
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'ma go with the trad 'liberate' !11
asciilifeform: it isn't as if the 'legit owner' is somehow not cow.
asciilifeform: and not like the other fella's usg.parents didn't give him the airline for free.
asciilifeform: as i understand, the morons didn't even have the simple lock on the ignition that a toyota has.
asciilifeform: 'ownership is power to destroy' or how it went.
asciilifeform: as for 'property', from my pov the janitor was no more or less 'proprietor' of the boeing, than the recipient of printing press largesse who paper-'owned' it.
asciilifeform: 'Andropov: Why did you decide that you are a judge and can decide with a gun in your hands? Ilyin: Because a person should live not exist.'☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: ( interesting case, btw, they decided that shooting's too easy for him, put in 'psihushka', reportedly still alive today, as vegetable )
asciilifeform: or take the sargeant who stole two makarovs and narrowly missed brezhnev's head. etc
asciilifeform: ( 1980s. wasn't publicized until after the final curtain call, unsurprisingly. )
asciilifeform: there were at least 2 sov mechanics who climbed into migs and took off.
asciilifeform: the moar militantly retarded inca reich becomes , the moar tcells will produce.
asciilifeform: recall solzhenitsin and his 'if erry zak took an axe to nkvd head' lemma.
asciilifeform: erry d00d who , instead of retreating into 'world of warcraft' and drink, goes out with a bang, is a nail in the inca coffin.
asciilifeform: the janitor with a pail of petrol, is a t-cell, killing off inca cancer, whether knows it or not.☟︎
asciilifeform: i can't resist to ask, if mircea_popescu will say, what he was doing on the bus. what, all 63 porches were in the shop ?
asciilifeform: if mircea_popescu were to go on the bus here, he will likely be the only white face on board
asciilifeform: in some places ( e.g. east usa ) it is rare to see a fella who owns >1 shirt, on a bus
asciilifeform: the man who pulls a great heist, is pissing on his assigned cattle stall and makes break for it. normally gets nowhere, but this is orthogonal.
asciilifeform: not erry pickpocket, naturally, rises to leading golden horde. but basic principle same.
asciilifeform: upstack, i dun buy 'thief doesn't understand property'. chingishan understood property. just unzipped and pissed.
asciilifeform: 'sir can you spare a dime' -- erry beggar who ever lived . neh
asciilifeform: hm the 'knights and knaves' trilema or where was it
asciilifeform: ( perhaps stretching the analogy, but possibly makes sense ? )
asciilifeform: it's healthy in 5yo kid ( imho, and possibly asciilifeform is not unbiased, he did it... ) but there are folx who dun grow anything on top of it..
asciilifeform: i suspect the latter is simply adult-neotenous variant of that pasttime of just about erry intelligent little boy, to take group of playmates and 'put them in regiment', march'em around with wooden muskets
asciilifeform: 'hey, you read /r/nguyen!' 'mee tooo!'
asciilifeform: if they stuck to the ~60-strong village -- could even scratch that itch. but as it is nao, no dice.
asciilifeform: trinque: witness just how much of the homo redditus psychopathologies cluster really reduces to doomed , head-against-wall attempts at becoming individuable
asciilifeform: 'and in the shit future, the biomass will become so nguyen that will have to be branded with hot irons on forehead'
asciilifeform: i always liked that legend. tho i suspect that i read it somewhat differently from the ameri-christians.
asciilifeform: at a certain point, the entomologists who still insists on distinguishing individual specimens will be stuck trying to catch'em and put numbered collars on, like on giraffes in africa, or how else to distinguish the indistinguishable..
asciilifeform: '...there exists exactly one Nicola in the entire villagevi, and the only smaller kid at the age of rumspringa is Daniel, so you've got them...' etc
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-22#1843560 << possibly i'm thick, but i read mircea_popescu's puzzle statement and dun grasp how this is possible, for the value to be conserved, if every mix operation rounds down to nearest whole☝︎
asciilifeform: complete with '5 C++ developers with over 95 collective years of development experience' etc.
asciilifeform: in other heathen lulz, https://archive.is/yUvwS << 2017-style shitfork , rebranded as a kind of faux-trb, 'Satoshi Vision' of... 'block size to 128 MB'☟︎
