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mircea_popescu: jurov * Cannot join #trilema-jurov (Channel is invite only).
<< you're not too shabby yourself :D
mircea_popescu: " not one of the every other countries that likes cocaine too"
<< "not one of the other countries where they like cocaine too"
BingoBoingo: * adlai exaggerates slightly, but this doc is not a pill pusher, which is why i sought him out - confirmation bias ftw!
<< Or he wants a baseline adlai without lsd...
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-01#1493859 << honestly, gpl, like everything else, started from the wrong premise. an expectation that "all people" WILL wreck your life, and everything you touch. all things, be they science, be they politics, be they family, love, art, whatever the fuck they be - are exactly that, a conversation between A SPECIAL KIND of people over whatever time and space expanses. nothing is open to the "com
☝︎ phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-30#1493744 << i think of these projects in the same terms i think of "knowledge" in general. same way as there's no abstract scientific knowledge that's somehow "accessible" to "society", there isn't universal good value to naggum's emacs, but there would've been value in naggum's ~to me~ as a kind of abstract node in what i'm hoping is a graph of sane people. same way as "scientific knowledge" is only a kind of comm
☝︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think on the lowest level complexity actually has a positive perceived value. "check out all the complex shit i
<<handle>>". much like kids in the same age bracket / cultural space in africa laud themselves with their voodoo accomplishments.
thestringpuller: the value of open source is actually negative
<< it didn't start off that way... the early 90's were an okay time...
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: "copy/paste me but don't ever read me!"
<< *sigh* In fact this just happened today. Developer tells me, "Hey copy this snipped into the codebase from github". I respond with, "Have you read the code?" They tell me, "Nope. But it works!" So guess who is stuck reading the code...
a111: Logged on 2016-06-30 02:57 pete_dushenski:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-30#1492971 << for all the times i've heard the exclusively alfian term of art 'kakotronic', it's never quite registered. care to explain like i'm 5 ?
a111: Logged on 2016-06-30 00:15 asciilifeform:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-29#1492935 << '40s was the time when agrarian shitholes had the choice - the ones that had a choice - of conversion to fascist industrial power, or to die.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-30 00:15 asciilifeform:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-29#1492935 << '40s was the time when agrarian shitholes had the choice - the ones that had a choice - of conversion to fascist industrial power, or to die.
a111: Logged on 2015-10-12 15:02 mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-10-2015#1296856 << china likes us start-up culture and its effects. "never interrupt enemy when making a mistake". traditionally you wouldn't have the gall to pointedly help him, either, but i think mr xi correctly inferred ustardian head too far up ass to even notice.
deedbot: pete_dushenski rated funkenstein_ 2
<< trb privkey patch guy
deedbot: pete_dushenski updated rating of shinohai from 1 to 2
<< trb tester+navigator
a111: Logged on 2016-06-29 16:50 asciilifeform: transform arbitrary byte array B into generator of datagrams, where you can collect N in any order, and N weights
<= 2B, to re-create B