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mircea_popescu: everyone had one, and you could walk from basel
to luxembourg.
mircea_popescu: the whole fantasy is very cs-scientist level of naive. read villon's
testament - it should make it very plain what
the point of university life was cca 1500 :
THAT YOU COULD WALK IT.
punkman: i see. pretty dense history lesson
there
mircea_popescu: as a ready shorthand, remember
that in 1400
the entire material production of
the entire archipelago was worth about
the same as
that of one neighbourhood in milan.
mircea_popescu: three centuries later
the dutch conquered england, moved
their fleet
there and so yes oxford eventually flourished. but
the claim
that it was "there in
the 13th century" is spurious.
mircea_popescu: at
the
time,
the english were exactly like
the 1600s scots (see
their darien gap adventure). so
they copied
the bitcoin out of some idle kids and some peasants, which ended kloinking each other in
the head.
mircea_popescu: at
the
time
the paris university was starting
the entire university
thing,
the king of france wouldn't have
traded a middling french province for all of england ; which also he didn't.
mircea_popescu: the
thesis was whether oxford was
there in
the original wot. it was not.
mircea_popescu: derpy brits keep
trying
to retcon
their insignificant island into
things.
mircea_popescu: " If you wanted
to learn, you headed
towards where
the books were and
the people who could read
them and
that meant
the great universities like Paris and Oxford."
punkman: asciilifeform: a
tenured prof is prolly
the closest
thing
that presently exists in
the western world
to ~titled nobility~ << I don't buy it. Back when
tenure was a
thing,
they wanted
to keep professors around until parts started falling off. Now
there's an endless stream of "professors", and gotta hire
them so
they can say "our PHDs get jobs"
punkman: usually same demographic as
the kids
throwing rocks and molotovs at cops, not actual hungry people
punkman: not really, it has happened a few
time in past decade
though
punkman: indeed. on a sidenote, all
the recent instances of looting around here were mobs
taking food from supermarkets, not widescreen
TVs.
mircea_popescu: "The media's preferred symbol for
the disintegration of public order is looting, i.e
the opposite of shopping."
v_diddy: "oh your wordpress is very very insecure. it has shared php hosting. you need
to spend $maxint
to migrate
to custom blablabla with frufrufru
to protect your reputation and reduce
the risk of br34ches!1"
v_diddy: impression i walked away with was
that of nerd's protection racket
v_diddy: what
traveling do quants do,
they work for
the bank.
v_diddy: "have haskell, will
travel"
v_diddy: have worked with
them numerously!
☟︎ v_diddy: ehehahueahuaehu
this aughta set asciilifeform off
mircea_popescu: well
toy maker i dunno, but you can do it if you care.
v_diddy: if you want
the systems
to behave sanely, you have
to rewrite everything down
to
the wire protocols
v_diddy: mircea_popescu: uav/rc suffers from
the pile of chairs problem
mircea_popescu: i don't get
this : not like you can't put encryption on
top of a clear channel
v_diddy goes shuffling
through drawers for
the uav wargames notes
v_diddy: anyways,
the "drone" comms are /entirely/ unencrypted.
v_diddy: yes, i was
typing something along
the lines of "anyways, using gps for mission critical anything is braindamaged. you're better off with dead reckoning and navigation by star."
v_diddy: with its own sounding rockets
that relay
the real gps signal back
to
the launch platform!
v_diddy: asciilifeform: ah, but
the
tightly-coupled gps-imu
v_diddy: dude mircea_popescu would you handle agorecki and
therealjohngalt while you're at it?
trinque: seems like it creates an immediate market for hack
tools like what
they use
to
take down drones
trinque: v_diddy: neat, surely armed security
though?
mircea_popescu: yes.
the original one : you have
to put a golden bubble around your kid's neck so powerful man behaving badly knows
to rape some other kid in
the gaggle of kids your kid's playing with.
v_diddy: mircea_popescu: re "powerful men behaving badly" is
this symmetric with "powerful women behaving badly"?
mircea_popescu: either
that or flush
them in one of
those special hopsital
toilets
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the problem is
this : out of a billion people, his father in 1960 was part of a group of a million, and
the other 999 million were more
than happy
to be coolies.
today,
the author is part of
the group of
the useless.
BingoBoingo: <v_diddy> really? scratch-offs are provably
trustable now? << Even more of a Gamble in Illinois. Prize over $600, get paid maybe nevar.
trinque: originally, perhaps
the "nuh uh" is collectivised now
v_diddy: so where does
the magic 5K number come from?
v_diddy: oh
this is an obab product
trinque: so
this petition gets "upboated" or w/e
they called it here, and Obama is supposed
to
tell him "nuh uh"
v_diddy: and
to set your own bar and
then fail
to jump it?
v_diddy: the dumb
thing would be for
the petition initiator, right?
mircea_popescu: in other news : eggplant salad in mayo goes well with
the local malbec.
v_diddy: anyways, at a high level, one aspect of
the wager i'm making here is
that if a moron like me can with dilligence and self-discipline figure out how
to
turn a dollar into a buck
twenty, if i bring
the discipline and insist on
the dilligence, i oughta be able
to crap out at least one kid
that can support me
through $enddayz when my meatwot is all dead and dried up
v_diddy: trinque: man can i get $legendaryshitshow1 and $...2 from
that guy yet?
v_diddy: "5k bonus pool cash, divvied up amongst ye, or 5k of lotto
tickets (purchased at my convenience store) divvied up amongst ye"
v_diddy: no
this was something different
trinque: I'm just mocking
the poverty of $oldboss
v_diddy: trinque: bonus pool
type scam?
v_diddy: and also
that any given individual including v_diddy
thinks
they're not an entirely average schmuck
trinque: I would die laughing if
that became a practice after I left