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mircea_popescu: and sure, a bunch of boys get married because who
they want
to be.
ascii_field: i suspect
there is a 'cargo cult' aspect -
they can see other people laugh, and say 'i could also laugh!'
mircea_popescu: sense of humor. aka faux hipster irony. in other words, a facility with
the faux.
mircea_popescu: sense of humor, you know ?
there's a reason all
the frustrated dudes on forums picked
this from a sea of random crap.
mircea_popescu: and he wants a girl - if only
the women would understand how great a sense of humor he has.
ascii_field: a good number of people were
there for identical reason as mr o
mircea_popescu: see, all
the other dudes are
there for whatever reasons - he's
there because of who he wants
to be. "the sort of guy who fights in
the civil war - if only
the latrines weren't barbed wired"
ascii_field: this was
true of perhaps all but a handful of folks on eastern front
mircea_popescu: soldiering it was, but his protestations make it obvious he didn't reallyt have any business
there.
ascii_field: i
thought it was ~my~ job
to mystificate like
this!
ascii_field: in most people's understanding of
the profession - he was a soldier.
ascii_field: d
the detail of our lives is just as sordid and degrading as it could be in prison, let alone in a bourgeois army.’ Many other
things reinforced
this impression later; for instance,
the boredom and animal hunger of
trench life,
the squalid intrigues over scraps of food,
the mean, nagging quarrels which people exhausted by lack of sleep indulge in.'
ascii_field: made of some kind of polished stone so slippery
that it was all you could do
to keep on your feet. In addition
they were always blocked. Now I have plenty of other disgusting
things in my memory, but I believe it was
these latrines
that first brought home
to me
the
thought, so often
to recur: ‘Here we are, soldiers of a revolutionary army, defending Democracy against Fascism, fighting a war which is about something, an
ascii_field: 'One of
the essential experiences of war is never being able
to escape from disgusting smells of human origin. Latrines are an overworked subject in war literature, and I would not mention
them if it were not
that
the latrine in our barracks did its necessary bit
towards puncturing my own illusions about
the Spanish civil war.
The Latin
type of latrine, at which you have
to squat, is bad enough at its best, but
these were
mircea_popescu: anyway, it is strictly possible soldier actually believes in
the war and his side.
there's nothing wrong with
this.
thestringpuller: That is, a soldier's only purpose is
to "complete
the mission".
thestringpuller: I was under
the impression a soldier is nothing more
than a political
tool.
ascii_field: soldier is in no sense
the example of 'man impervious
to wire'
ascii_field: so he is really still boxed in by 'barbed wire' - just not
the wire you see in front of him
mircea_popescu: more importantly - soldier doesn't havfe
the choice of "i'm
too good for
this"
ascii_field: this works because infantry is a machine (yes) not man. i.e. soldier hasn't
the choice of 'i don't feel like it'
mircea_popescu: infantry cuts
through it faster
than infantry can deploy it,
think about
that.
mircea_popescu: who exactly kept
them
there ? why not go into business ? work for businessmen ?\
mircea_popescu: like
the people who "stayed in statal employment" cca 1992.
mircea_popescu: you understand
this ? it doesn't DO anything. it's
there so
the fucktards can BLAME IT for who
they are.
mircea_popescu: it is
there
to JUSTIFY one's own lassitude, even as
that becomes socially inacceptable.
ascii_field: barbed wire largely works on
the expectation.
mircea_popescu: why aren't you all
the
things you aren't doing, like putting your cock in
the mouth of girl sitting across
the
table ?
mircea_popescu: be worried when no barbed wire and guns, like
the us 60s.
mircea_popescu: barbed wire and guns are more of a sign
that
things are improving
than anything.
ascii_field: thing is, a situation like
this is impossible without barbed wire & guards (in one form or another)
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, in
the "value is what people want" paradigm,
the former is incredibly poor.
mircea_popescu: so in
the only sane paradigm,
the latter is actually more impoverished.
mircea_popescu: notably,
the 10k fuckholes aren't "more valuable" in either scenario.
they ARE however LESS UTILIZED in
the second.
ascii_field: and
the gurlz play
the equivalent of
the role of chocolate bars ?
ascii_field: so
this is more like
the 'pay' you pay in auschwitz, work until you drop with
the hope
that you get moved down, and not up, in
the chimney queue ?
mircea_popescu: 3k people pay 1.5mn each per fuckhole, have no
time
to do anything but run arround
trying
to service
the 2.8mn
they owe
mircea_popescu: suppose
they're 10k american fuckholes. 11k dudes want one, on which basis 100k more dudes are made
to
think
they want one
mircea_popescu: ah. suppose you have 10k soviet fuckholes, and 11k dudes want one. 10k dudes pay 10k per fuckhole each, and spend
the
time alternatively fucking
the hole and laughing at
the 1k.
ascii_field: how does it work? politburo hoards all
the womenz ?
ascii_field: they are not shipped in from mars, no. so how is it
that 'they are unaffordable' ?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: 'And it is because
the real estate prices in Beijing etc have made it so
that young women are unaffordable.' << what does
this mean?
☟︎ ascii_field: aha.
the
trees do not get
together and decide 'there is room for
three oaks'
ascii_field: it is another where it is encrusted with so many mines, of such variety,
that you can hardly make out what
the
thing was (a bridge? a railroad ? what?)
ascii_field: it is one
thing
to subtly, secretly sabotage a
thing.
ascii_field: hint
that
the RNG of
the JMS583S is not cryptographically safe, showing clear patterns in Figure 4.'
ascii_field: 'Comparing
this plot
to 10000 4-byte values retrieved from /dev/urandom ( Figure 6 ), gives us a strong
ascii_field: (lolzy. built-in key generated at factory; other key is entered
through a winblowz proggy!)
mircea_popescu: somehow working
together it was 1 minute, i am confident it'd have been half a fucking hour of my life otherwise.
mircea_popescu: it IS a search problem. "i want X". "can you put X in X' ?" "no but i can
tell it
to alf"
ascii_field: 'i need
to compute
the volume of hydrogen in
this bottle' 'compute volume,
take
the pressure....' 'i've never seen
the bottle!'
ascii_field: i dare say
that 99% of my search itches are entirely scratched by grep on my own disks
ascii_field: when such a
thing exists for a subject, it is clearly
the winner, yes
mircea_popescu: well, i got my link about 500x faster
than if i searched for it. somehow.
☟︎ ascii_field: (the canonical experiment involves a jar full of coins or
the like. but if you were
to put
the jar behind a door,
then no signal. only noise.)
mircea_popescu: but if he simply asks another idiot and averages
the
two out, he reduces
the error 3x
mircea_popescu: the experience he discusses (afaik
this is amply documented) is
the strange situation
that if an idiot guesses, he's off by X, if he "tries"
to
think about it, ie, meditates on
the answer and why it could be wrong he improves
the guess (reducing he errror)
mircea_popescu: btw, you ever read
that article by
tlp about how "asking another is
the best bias reducer" ?
assbot: Logged on 18-11-2014 19:17:32; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what's
the connection << organized abuse of statistical concepts for satanic purposes
mircea_popescu: ascii_field do you happen
to have link
to log where we discuss idiocy of "bayesian" approaches
to stuff ?
assbot: Logged on 20-10-2015 16:22:05; mircea_popescu: because why would
they ? if
they know
the
topic
they don't need
to search google, what
the fuck is
that you know, "i would like
to see what
the republican party says, i wonder if
they have a website". on
the other hand if you don't know it, why would you
trust google. "i wonder if
thye have a republican party in bali. o look, republicanpartyinbali.blogspot.com comes up first."
mircea_popescu: in line with
the "sane measure
to be applied just as soon as all alternatives exhausted"
ascii_field: and at any rate
this is a beautiful election.
teaches
the childrenz how ~actual~ usg works
mircea_popescu: im sure
they did. i would say overal
there's no stupid
thing
the us haven't
tried
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: funnily enough
they
tried 'toy pregnancies' in american schools
ascii_field: instituted by
the school
to begin with, as i understand
mircea_popescu: you can't have a
toy election anymore
than you can have a
toy pregnancy.
mircea_popescu: i don't get
this nonsense. who
the fuck gave her
the autority
to overturn
the election.
mircea_popescu: yeah but of interest here would have been
the convicts
that don't write.
ascii_field: 'Van Haren went on
to say
that she is considering a variety of fixes
to
the problem, including appointing several new positions in order
to ensure more minorities are represented without kicking out
those who actually won
the election.'
ascii_field: no. i do have a secret pasttime of reading just about anything written by prisoners, in all
times and places, with emphasis on modern americans. but i cannot pretend
to be an expert.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, it's not hard
to meet convicts.
there's a program you can sign up for, host one getting out of prison for a few months.
assbot: Logged on 20-10-2015 15:39:52; mircea_popescu: in fact,
the reason prison is better
than
the web (no, it's not "the internet", fucking reddit facebook and washpo aren't "the internet") is preciely
that
they fuck up
the derps in prison.