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mircea_popescu:
as a kid, /me fambly had a neighbour. one day mom's cooking and i'm computing in other room. door was unlocked (most of my life i lived in a world where locks were not really useful). neighbour blasts in, goes past mom, into room, has a wrench, approaches heating element decidedly
mircea_popescu: and yes, much like the "don't thermite" thing, this worked fine in a world 1/50
as small and very deeply patriarchical.
mircea_popescu: owing to a population 1/20
as large, kept in check by a deeply patriarchical society.
mircea_popescu: and i suspect pretty strongly that the interest in romanian such
as it is is because ~I~ speak it, here
as well
as in my harem and anywhere else genuine interest exists for this particular item in the "crappy language pack".
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bingoboingo i must point out qntra is in fact satisfying its job
as a news site. I get news thgere.
mats:
as far
as i know the army only operates drones to surveill and recon
mats: what qualifies
as 'military'? i don't believe the army operates any uas with arms
thestringpuller: I could tell
as soon
as I read the nonsense you post about Blockstream
ascii_field:
as for cl, a unix tool with multi-second startup times is not usable here.
ben_vulpes: so java has an asym library, does that shell out to gpg
as well?
phf: su/sudo vfs would be handy for copying files between users without having to adjust permissions or escalate to superuser. one pane is user foo, other pane is user bar. doesn't matter if foo's pane is in 700 folder, and if you were to copy, file will be created
as belonging to user bar, with his umask applied
mircea_popescu: the way modern warfare works, you don't want planes and regular soldiers. you want missiles and partisans. and you don't aim to kill the enemy, you aim to maim
as many
as possible and encourage them to keep coming. the situation where US population is up 200mn and US war invalid population is up 50mn is a greater win for isis than the situation where the us population is 0.
funkenstein_: wilbns, if so, this applies
as well in switzerland
wilbns: funkenstein_: yes, but most people on the street don't care
as long
as their money is worth the same today
as it is yesterday and they can still go buy a relative equivalent of whatever with it tomorrow.
funkenstein_: wilbns, the point is - m-pesa guys can issue
as many
as they want. it's private and counterfeitable
mats: >t its heart, this calculator is an emulator of the HP-15C (running on an ARM processor, although a different family from what HP is using in the ARM-based current-production 12C and the 15C Limited Edition), and therefore has largely the same feature set and user interface
as a real 15C.
wilbns: also, in kenya, for example bitcoin doesn't provide much utility beyond what m-pesa already does. the current area companies like bitpesa are trying to get traction are in remittances (where one party doesn't have m-pesa because they're outside the country), or by pitching it
as a speculative financial instrument or novelty.
mircea_popescu: but the point is,
as your brain's not "sovereign" in this sense, no computer ever will be, and there goes that line.
mircea_popescu: i mean it's just
as ex post facto
as previously, you just hid it under a rug. srsly, "chewed at straps" ? you just call it that retrospectively.
mircea_popescu: heck, the japanese even deployed them
as a military weapon.
mircea_popescu: wouldja stop presenting
as fact things you have literally no idea about ?
mircea_popescu: anyway,
as a rule of thumb, the bluer a light runs the cheaper it is and the shittier too.
as phillips' been driving its crusade to replace all lights with shittier lights to complete the precious indications given at the 18th plenary of the permanent comission of the central committee of the economic planning bureau
mircea_popescu: none of the bitches that tan are
as alert
as the bitches that don't.
kakobrekla: some go
as far
as to treat jetlag with that
thestringpuller: “Now, everyone sees this
as a critical topic. I know of more than 100 firms that are trying to make the blockchain more scalable, more secure, to make the one that everybody will use. There’s a race on out there.”
ascii_field: jurov: i was never able to conceive of casares
as anything other than a 'wallet-inspector' sc4mz0r
phf: and they seem to be
as contemptible
as any liberal suburban family, just with some polarities switched
phf: trinque: but i'm thinking specifically of ~christian~ communities rather then rednecks specifically. my reference point are friends whose parents are "active in church" or work
as missionaries abroad
kakobrekla: but its most often taht you need to drive to pick it up
as seller doesnt give a shit to post it, even if you offer pay.
trinque: "should they later find the time, interest and inclination to contribute substantially (
as I have no doubt any actually could), there's going to be more revisions."
trinque: phf: I can see that point, but I see the problem
as a matter of what rules are imposed, not that they are imposed.
☟︎ trinque: shinohai: I see it
as just another way to line people up into some semblance of a command structure
phf: i'm disappointed that amazon caved and went the retard route with their kindle. i've gotten
as far
as booting temacs on kindle, back when it still had a shitty but hardware keyboard, gave up when i saw version two with touch screen, left in disgusts when fire came out
phf: i've noticed that. i have a pretty hacked up ccl repl, that does math for me in infix notation, and that's something that i reach for in anger. i'd like something
as easy, and preferably portable
phf: there's that conversion project, that takes one of the modern hp calculators and adds a programmer friendly firmware. the layout is not
as good though
ascii_field:
as in, does shr and shl, and/or/xor/not, hex->dec->oct->bin, each of these with 1 keypress
ascii_field: the main flagging criterion
as per various leaked papers is 'sim that connects only occasionally'
assbot: Logged on 30-04-2015 21:29:20; ascii_field:
as far
as i'm concerned, historically, ebay is just this gizmo that shaves a zero off the price of the costliest things i buy. so i was never moved to care whether it is run by hitler or fueled with baby seal juice etc.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the only good thing coming out of that parade (an event imbecile "world leaders" are not going to - and should be hanged by their constituencies for not having attended, if those constituencies weren't made up of retards) is that xi specifically mentioned discrimination
as bad. this is an improbable stance for china.
trinque: thestringpuller: there were a number of sensible things in the Confederate constitution
as well
assbot: Logged on 20-08-2015 01:13:47; mircea_popescu: trinque>china for example builds its *first* aircraft carrier, and people talk about the chinese being a military threat <<< you don't understand how this works. the aircraft carrier is irrelevant. china bet on the winning strat (missile defense) and bet a lot more than the us can afford, and
as a result now has unchallangeable area denial ability throughout the shores. this means it can pursue its
pete_dushenski: "we never anticipated that moore's law would've broken down in 2008 or that obama would be every bit
as much of a monkey/terrorist
as bush mk ii"
pete_dushenski: "“We never anticipated a drop-off in the wind resource
as we have witnessed over the past six months,” David Crane, chief executive of power producer NRG Energy, told analysts last month"
pete_dushenski: "Electricity generated by US wind farms fell 6 per cent in the first half of the year even
as the nation expanded wind generation capacity by 9 per cent, Energy Information Administration records show."
mircea_popescu: i imagine the grief of couples in that building you know, they move in
as 20somethings, can take it together
mircea_popescu: punkman : get a plumber's snake, a rag and gasoline. affix the rag to the bit, soak it, light it and shove it in
as far
as you can reach
trinque: I doused elderbook (
as it came to be called) with beer, coffee, god knows what else
ben_vulpes: i dont know why anyone would treat an apple product
as anything but a disposable terminal
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 21:45:32; ascii_field: which was astonishing, because debug.log ~does~ mention it (
as linked earlier) - though it is not correlated temporally with your node's disconnects
as seen on my end
phf: trinque: hosts file would most likely be still implemented
as a filesystem file
ben_vulpes: trinque: imagine nic internals
as clos objects
trinque: presumably various aspects of actual hardware state would also be represented
as data structures in lisp
mircea_popescu: oh and acutally, the first time i EVER encountered a rodent
as a domicile pest (of exactly three times total) is, iirc, on my blog somewhere.
mircea_popescu: had serious problems overcoming the mild curiosity. i don't see them
as THAT much of a pest yet actually.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i can not answer for taleb. i can tell you that
as far
as i'm concerned, a) my ass actually enjoys the company and b) my head actually doesn't much care about the industry.
mircea_popescu: early men building up the us
as an industrial power did want the part where maggotry allows them to run textile mills
assbot: Logged on 07-04-2015 00:10:01; mircea_popescu: just like having a car doesn't alow having gasoline. it's true that often people who have cars also independently have gasoline, but the two are fundamentally unrelated, and there is such a thing
as the fool's breakdown, ie, car's outta gas on the side of hte road.
mircea_popescu: and this is purely a subjective problem, no matter what it masquerades
as.
mircea_popescu: you can not "buy back own arse", at any price, for
as long
as you think in those terms or anything like them, your ass is public property.
mircea_popescu: much like genitalia belong, indivise, to "the other gender"
as a group
mircea_popescu: i agree you're poor
as per 3. you like to claim it's
as per 1.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think you two are conflating at least three things. there is 1. "not having any ability to direct the course of public affairs,
as encoded in "money" in this society" ; 2. "not having 1 and perceiving one should have it" ; 3. perceiving one should not have it.
pete_dushenski: mod6:
as if rich people don't weigh out costs and benefits ?
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: i developed gluten intolerance (not dissimilar to lactose intolerance
as an experience)
as an adult. why ? monsanto ? youthful rebellion against grain-growing ancestors ? who knows
mircea_popescu: that article i did about "cheers", the sitcom is very illustrative. twerp in question imagines "class"
as in, that ancient matter of a person's quality in society, is a matter of anointed. she thinks some vagabond is "high class" because she went to some school.
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 02:08:18; mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> the other interesting thing is that the market is segmented in such a way that anyone who doesn't want mcfood ends up paying for ~all~ the alt-crackpotteries, not merely the logical ones << this is a very valid point, and the one spot where alf's ideas re meta-lizzards sound most persuasive. i do not believe the market is gerrymandered
as it is by accident.
trinque: mhm,
as mircea_popescu noted re: chinese selling of us bonds
mod6: dow was up 293 points today. im sure they use the circut breakers just
as much when price movements are to the upside.
mircea_popescu: it is the one saving grace because otherwise twerpy
as they are they'd be entirely unsuable.