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pete_dushenski: though it's probably fair
to say
that anyone
trinque associates with is an sd or
two above
the mean
trinque: I don't speak with many
that'd be unaware
they were well off.
pete_dushenski: i guess it could be
the mistaken belief
that 'men of
the people are by definition
the people incarnate and are
therefore as average as anyone even
though we remember only
the names of
the best of us and not
those of
the men who were
truly average and
truly of
the people'
pete_dushenski: the americans at home are free
to correct me here,
tis just my impression from afar
pete_dushenski: as if
that was
the only
true basis for
their xtianity reborn
pete_dushenski: i'm not sure what it is with americans imagining
that
their founding fathers lived in filth and squalour
their entire lives.
mircea_popescu: (at
the
time
the 60k acres were perhaps worth a few k ounces of gold. maybe. for instance.)
mircea_popescu: acreage was ~1 dollar per. ONE YEAR of govt sales produced in excess of 1mn dollars during "normal"
times and well over 10 mn during speculative bubbles.
mircea_popescu: "Washington was a land developer, often described as
the richest of his generation. By
the end of
the American Revolution, General Washington controlled about sixty
thousand acres of land" << and
there lies
the debunk. it's
true
that george washington was well off. it's
true he controlled some
tens of k's of acres. it is UNTRUE
that made him "richest in his generation".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: like hell! real sports fans
think
the sport outcomes OBVIOUSLY MATTER.
they just don't
think
they matter
to anything in particular, but
that's fine, neither does
the punditry fan.
mircea_popescu: Political
TV punditry is like sports for
the intellectual set. You get
to keep
track of who's on which
team, who gets
traded, who made what play last night...and none of it could possibly matter less
to what actually makes
the world go 'round. At least sports fans don't have
the same delusion of
their choice of entertainment "mattering".
BingoBoingo: Saw it. Imma sleep and do draft
two of Qntra submission guidelines when I wake up
taking in
the feedback since
the original publication and my waking.
pete_dushenski: but if monday rolls around and you find my pgp sig on a mortgage and a !rate
travispatron 10 bbf4lyf, i'm in a better place.
pete_dushenski: also, if anyone's looking for me, i'll be away
this weekend sans internet. just a heads up
BingoBoingo: Second space not only means nothing, it means less
than nothing.
trinque gets another beer,
triggered
trinque: browser smashes multiple spaces
to one
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: For a browser
to care you do.
pete_dushenski: "Who said smartphones weren't useful ?" v. "(Run moar winbloze!™)" <<
though i seem
to only use a question/exclamation mark once every 4-5 articles, so maybe not a big deal.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: For a browser
to care you actually have
to use
the special character
to force
the second space.
trinque: well I mean, what one does
to cope with a world of shit is forgivable
BingoBoingo: So before it gets
to
that debate you have
to ask yourself "Am I
that much of a pretentious dick" or am I going
to
trust
the reading software
to know.
pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo i use a space 90% of
the
time on contravex, but i've been even less consistent in qntra submissions.
trinque: punkman:
to
take
this
to
the absurd extreme, imagine your crawler had
to OCR an image of
the web page
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: It's html,
there is no second space. Browser enforces
that unless you a a dick who adds a second  
pete_dushenski: i was suprised
to see
that neither BingoBoingo nor mircea_popescu mentioned a guideline for a space (or no space) after
the last word in a sentence and any subsequent question/exclamation mark.
trinque: point being your crawler wants facts not
tag soup
trinque: I wouldn't want
to
take your crawler from you; I'd just prefer it were crawling structured data
that is solely data
trinque: and so on;
they're very poorly defined
punkman: trinque:
the whole semantic
thing in html is horse-shit << well I can't say I prefer <div> and <table>
to <article> and <nav>, but maybe
that's because I write crawlers often
trinque: the idea with "em" and other such "semantic"
tags were
to remove
the notion
that any particular reader would be used
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: You've been very guilty of
that. Now it is official.
trinque: BingoBoingo: in
those cases it's somewhat reasonable; CSS does
that
pete_dushenski: No footnotes in
the first (or only) paragraph of a submission. << good idea. i've been guilty of
this and it does look sloppy
BingoBoingo: Now <center> and other alignment
tags, depreciated still
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu b i works. is
that what you use on
trilema ?
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: You also write
to much
to make every contravex mandatory, every
third past article.
pete_dushenski: "and every
third past contravex post article keeping up with
the news ones is a good starting point." << kinda broken, BingoBoingo. no comprendo
trinque: the whole semantic
thing in html is horse-shit
punkman: supposedly
they have some "semantic" diffeence
punkman: strong and em were in vogue for a while, but
then html5 brought b/i backj
pete_dushenski: <b></b> for bold and <i></i> for italic << my dumdum wp install does <strong></strong> for bold and <em></em> for italic. don't ask why but it seems unnecessary
to specify which precise
tags
to use if strong/em seem
to work just as well as b/i, which
they do.
trinque: punkman: I don't either, likely due
to string quoting in programming.
punkman: I never liked
that rule, ever since learning it in school. never used it either I
think
mircea_popescu: right it's exactly
the opposite of "literary" english.
pete_dushenski: " Links
to sources out of Level 1 of assbots Web or
Trust and links
to dynamic pages
that change content as a function of
their nature should be followed with a link
to an archive.is snapshot of
the page in
the form" << specified here, mind you.
trinque: hell, if we're uprooting other
things, why should
the greedy quotation marks be safe!
pete_dushenski: "Links
to sources out of WoT and links
to dynamic pages should be followed with a link
to an archive.is snapshot of
the page in
the form (archived)" <<
the
thing about
this is
that assbot's wot =! BingoBoingo's wot =! author's wot. so whose wot is
the correct wot ?
trinque: seems rather odd
that some side effect from
that which is quoting
the inner material should end up inside
the quotation
trinque: pete_dushenski: it's an odd rule, if considered right in english grammar. I'm not aware of
the rules in other languages. Regardless, why do
the quotes eat
the punctuation at
the end of
the sentence, but require no internal puntuation when
the sentence quoted otherwise would.
pete_dushenski: if
that's
the rule, i'll abide, but if it's up for discussion, i'm in favour of
the 'wrong.'
☟︎ pete_dushenski: (Right : He said "this sucks". Wrong : He said "this sucks.") << not a fan of
this 'right'
BingoBoingo: Well if we are
talking food name diversions, I came up with an interesting "alt white Russian" last week
punkman: well
those
two I can easily get, but finding real chocolate is a hassle
BingoBoingo: It wasn't here
till 2005 when Hersheys pushed
the limit. Fucking Chicago bastards
punkman: BingoBoingo: yeah
that's common here
BingoBoingo: For a while Hershey was advertising
that shit as chocolate... since
the ruling
they just don't sell chocolate now, just "chocolate product"
☟︎ punkman: do
they allow vegetable oil in US chocolate now?
assbot: Logged on 22-10-2015 21:54:01; mircea_popescu: "(1) Hershey's, et al, petitioned
the FDA and EU
to allow
them
to change
the definition of "milk chocolate"
to allow for
the substitution of vegetable oil for cocoa butter.
The FDA said no, but
the EU
thought it would be awesome idea.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: No one yet, but I suspect someone is going
to scan a document and
think "this format is old enough:
☟︎ BingoBoingo: Because Qntra actually cares about delivering Bitcoin news
to dial up and Africa
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo
there's
this growing
trend where "is better with images", derp media ends up with
the most ridiculous images published
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo well
to discourage derps from plundering google images. << ic
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> wow
they made 6 saws ?! << 7, Maybe an 8th in a year or
two. 1, 2, 5, and 6 are watchable.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo well
to discourage derps from plundering google images.
BingoBoingo: Betsy Russell, very under rated and very super
titted "scream queen"
BingoBoingo: cazalla,
thestringpuller, pete_dushenski, hanbot, PeterL as
the qntra contributors with more
than 3 pieces a piece, your feedback is especially welcome. Every contributor will get a ;;later
tell in about 12 hours baring messages lodged in channel.
BingoBoingo: At
the moment I am liking
the smashing and
tensing of
the content and non-content material
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Concerning images can you clarify
the concept of ownership considering
the #b-a corpus: "Images are acceptable if you own
them"