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mircea_popescu: seems
there's ~7k colleges in
the us. "hundreds" is meaningless in
this context.
mircea_popescu: and "college graduates" earning 2k per month is bs, incidentally.
that's what
the living wage is.
mircea_popescu: are
those "hundreds of colleges" pretty much community "colleges" etc ?
thestringpuller: Go
to school work for school for cheap. Pay back loans for years
to come.
punkman: "The Department of Education calculated
the percentage of students at each college who earned more
than $25,000 per year, which is about what high school graduates earn. At hundreds of colleges, less
than half of students met
this
threshold 10 years after enrolling"
fluffypony: cazalla: he follows me on
Twitter and we've pm'd a bit, don't know him outside of
that
cazalla: and here i
thought it was money, or lack of it
cazalla: fluffypony, do you know "Francois Harris
the founder of Bitcoinzar"
ben_vulpes: it's great - a whole new world of indignities and hilarities
to enjoy
the spectacle of
thestringpuller: i actually don't
think all
the xanex in
the world would help
thestringpuller: being on
the male side of child bearing is
the unappealing part i was referring
to! lol
thestringpuller: like hitting dudes in
the balls?
that isn't very fun either.
ben_vulpes: the
things women generally enthuse about doing
to cocks doesn't appeal
to me either.
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: "the whole point of
the last month of pregnancy is
to make
the idea of childbearing very appealing"
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu>
there's gotta be a complete bitcoin distro. kernel and all. << What, rotor stopped making enough Linux?
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 22:51:17; mircea_popescu:
thestringpuller ask her!
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: << i have always wondered! why do mircea_popescu's contracts /always have names/ in addition
to
the fingerprints? << array of conveniences. your govt id includes your name aside from your number
too.
assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 02:41:49; *: gernika aims lower. would be satisfied
to be able
to reconstruct algebra on death bed.
mircea_popescu: the problem is
that until and unless someone
takes a serious byte out of making
the damned
thing, it's kind of hard
to guess if and how
the graph is actually summarizable, or w/e
the
term is.
mircea_popescu: maybe 1% or so is
the best you can hope for, as a human.
mircea_popescu: wich strictly means
that a) mathematics is not open
to human beings and b) even ultraspecialised approaches are pushing
the proposition.
assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 02:34:49; asciilifeform: problem is, most folks asking for
this kind of
thing, have vastly overoptimistic idea of what can be expected from a single book and a reasonable amount of study.
mircea_popescu: <gernika> I feared as much. <<
the objection is valid, and in no way different from "you can have a working os, i sort-of have one here, it's made out of 400 pieces and i could maybe remake it if i had a week off."
mircea_popescu: there's going
to have
to be a bisection and it's hard work, of
the "do not bother me for
three days" sort.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but for some reason either
the histeresis is great or outright resistance
to
the notion is great.
mircea_popescu: and go
to great lengths
to manually bypass barriers << incidentally,
this is why a b-a linux is such a low hanging fruit.
gernika aims lower. would be satisfied
to be able
to reconstruct algebra on death bed.
☟︎ gernika: asciilifeform a book
that connects pythagoras
to newton, with proofs for all
the nodes in between?
nubbins`: but...
the only way
they can
take it away from me is by rendering it useless
throu... waitaminute
nubbins`: came across my uni
transcripts recently: yipes.
trinque: exactly what I meant about
the right man's library index
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 20:29:47; mircea_popescu: but V is
the best simulation of how actual math learning happens (in
those brains actually capable
to learn math)
that we ever had as a fucking species.
trinque: asciilifeform:
there we have no disagreement
trinque: as it stands I'd like
to go back
to an addressing system for flat
text with
the option of involving more code as I see fit
trinque: asciilifeform: if
there could be hard constraints on what someone else's code could do on my computer, I'd be far more willing
nubbins`: you
think
that's
too real, don't ask me about cellular automata
trinque: nubbins`: mime
types are a shitty implementation of something
that came before it
nubbins`: keep going and you'll reinvent MIME
types
trinque: asciilifeform: we all use
the web all day; I'd have
to be persuaded
that it's useless
trinque: and maybe
the data source proposes
to me
that my system fetch some new presentations it needs, but
that
the act of browing around does not *at all* involve running someone else's code
trinque: seems entirely clear
to me
that a better web would be nothing more
than something like a CLIM listener here, and a network of data sources out
there
nubbins`: i did some
typesetting with LaTeX in uni,
the math dept required it
trinque: obviously I'm searching for
the latter
trinque: node over
there has data; I want
to view it with presentations over here
trinque: had a
thread with gabriel_laddel recently on whether hypertext was even valuable; I hold
that it is
trinque: asciilifeform: better question might be whether
there are existing hypertext system implementations from
that era
nubbins`: "Assays of GD bars are determined by
the refiner at
the point of manufacture. An assay is likely only
to be checked again when a bar is used as raw material in a refinery, for example, for
the manufacture of small bars or in a plant manufacturing products like jewellery."
trinque: asciilifeform: seems
to me
the right way is simply
to barf sexps
that look like function calls over
the wire
trinque: fine answer; I've developed
the habit of at least
trying
to look for prior art before reinventing something
trinque: wondering if
there was some elegant way of doing
this in
the civilized era
nubbins`: they're still forever
tho, right?
trinque: asciilifeform:
that guy has a function I wanna get
the result of via a socket
nubbins`: what ever became of all
that perfect synthetic diamond hype?
danielpbarron: if you're reaaaly good, you plan your levels out so as
to not get stuck in battles at all
trinque: asciilifeform: is
there something respectable
to look at in
the CL world in regards
to RPC?
nubbins`: you can play
the whole 2p game yourself if you're good in battle mode