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mircea_popescu: in point of fact asm is quite transparent and quite transparently used by actually competent programmers, such as malware creators.
mircea_popescu: this is basically institutional laziness created to not throw the curve for black people.
mircea_popescu: it's a homologuous problem to beating the machine in the numbers game earlier.
mircea_popescu: the balance is between (laziness, ignorance and their offspring) in the human operator on one end and (sugar spice and everything nice) in the machine on the other.
mircea_popescu: this is untrue. writing directly in assembler is both the most control and the most speed.
mircea_popescu: well poorly optimised compilers are really a distantly related subdiscussion
mircea_popescu: lisp started doing the same thing strictly out of frustration, like the geek that's now wearing a new jockstrap each week maybe he gets to be as popular with the young ditzes as the jock
mircea_popescu: im not sure what's fashionable now that java and ruby are dead, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: c has been repackaged 12+ times in the intervening 50 years to appeal to retarded teenagers
mircea_popescu: no, language is a fine distinction. the practical choice one has today is still the same one had in 1960 : eiher something algol-like, something haskel-like, something lisp-like or perhaps an stack insanity a la asm.
mircea_popescu: competent people still use the 1950s C and the 1970s C compiler
mircea_popescu: retards imagine "all new code" is better, as if code rusted.
mircea_popescu: in general in computer science people split into two groups, ie, the retards and the competent, by the code they use.
mircea_popescu: i doubt there will be five liches active at any one time in eulora.
mircea_popescu: at least in their lifecycle. eulora for that matter is already available.
mircea_popescu: no. s.nsa sold ~4mn, which became the total authorised float. s.mg sold ~88mn, which became the total authorised float
mircea_popescu: still, probably the one applciation of asciilifeform's slavecoin
mircea_popescu: (in the sense the 100 iq average is periodically resampled)
mircea_popescu: by the way, didja know fiat-iq is also inflation prone ?
mircea_popescu: so who here has heard the term "neoreactionary" before ?
mircea_popescu: ense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is…in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
mircea_popescu: “In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their s
mircea_popescu: a guy with a name like darryl strawberry should be involved in the child sex trade, not fucking drugs
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo wait, that's the explanation of the bizarre written style some people employ filling any discussion of their past with "allegedly" ? they're pill poppers ?
mircea_popescu: dub i could swear they used it as antihistamine here in the 90s
mircea_popescu: ketamine ?! isn't that basically an anti allergic thing ?
mircea_popescu: some of the girls smoke, for that matter. i sometimes join in over coffee, but i don't recall ever craving it
mircea_popescu: this entire tobacco is addictive talk is hogwash. i've been smoking for about twenty years now, at the rate of about one pack a month
mircea_popescu: actually i think you can't even find a "food supplement" that doesn't include it.
mircea_popescu: also from the sudden avalanche of sodium blockers being less well tolerated by the heart
mircea_popescu: that's not the whole story there. crack is significantly more toxic.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo no, seriouslys, it's usually sugar cut. at least the upscale stuff.
mircea_popescu: you know, people who specify CRACKwhore make me thing ladyboys are a lot more popular than i imagine.
mircea_popescu: "October 24, 2013 will bring with it something that has not been heard of since 1921. The entire House and Senate, all of Capitol Hill will close for the funeral of a Representative. However unlike the 1921 Congress Closing, all members are being flown to Florida for the funeral by the United States Air Force."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if you toss a coin you'll get something like 1% over the machine in 1000 tries
mircea_popescu: sooo, in the latest installment of "libertards are owned by technology", it'd seem the uncompromised obamacare will in fact be delayed after all. because websites are hard.
mircea_popescu: basically if you can't score > 50% on 100 rolls you'll never be a card counter in blackjack
mircea_popescu: (as sooner or later you begin forgetting your earlier patterns)
mircea_popescu: it's not too hard to beat to shit provided you have infinite memory.
mircea_popescu: KRS1 i dunno about LorenzoMoney, he's been maligning my good name calling me a fascist science writer and stuff
mircea_popescu: nubbins` of course one has to appreciate it was on very narrow base
mircea_popescu: anyway, curious if we're in for a rehash of july 2010. (vertical degree of magnitude wall, i think there were two consecutive 400% increases there)