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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> f everyone were to come by car. << the city
as we know it is before that a creation of the "not everyone's invited" principle.
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: probably
as some tacit matter of policy
mats: 21:49:57 <+asciilifeform> ... the nuance here is that the city
as we know it is fundamentally a creation of mass transport.
as in, you would have to demolish almost all of new york or london to park cars, if everyone were to come by car. << you ever been to LA?
mircea_popescu:
as orwell pointed out, stupid regulations always favour cockroaches.
mircea_popescu: to be noted, of course, that this "if you're poor enough to need to use our mnass transit, here is how you must sit" nonsense follows twenty-thirty years of "oh using cars is bad for the environment, when mass transit is just
as good"
mats: mebbe i could move back to san jose and hope it survives
as meta-cn
mats: i rather like living in the US northeast and would like to put off my migration into cn for
as long
as possible
mircea_popescu: (my own interpretation of reality being that china has decided there is no need of a us in the future, which would be implemented through a slow divestment so
as to extract the maximal value possible out of their holdings. now that they've actually moved on it, they're not going to change course. which means 2010s are the last decade for the us.)
mircea_popescu: and i don't care how "raceis", "rapey" or whatever else the understanding of women
as people is.
mircea_popescu: therre is no such thing
as "creativity" in tech, and there's certainly no place for "women in tech" understood
as monkeys.
mircea_popescu: reality may surprise and remain valid. thoughts may not. surprising thoughts are ipso facto invalid. which is why the destruction of engineering
as an intellectual activity is covered in "creativity"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform see, if i were to say "the appearance of best business practices is proof positive business
as a going concern is dead" you'd see what i mean
ag3nt_zer0: asciilifeform: ok thx... I was speaking generally to the atmosphere of the degenerate adult-fail of the contemporary populace in failing to take on their roles
as mentors and superiors of the children, combined with these wretched inner-city armed guard metal detector ghetto schools...
mircea_popescu: im not making any claims
as to value or quality, mind.
mircea_popescu: (this , incidentally, is a large reason why classic texts are so commonly misunderstood by the layman - such
as for instance shakespeare by tolstoy. there exists this device where a is replaced by b with the expectation on the part of the writer that the reader notices the substitution and holds it meaningful
mircea_popescu: the fundamental driver being the stupid woman in question's inferiority complex. she knows she's filth and she knows actual people wouldn't give her idiocy the time of day. which is "resolved" in her mind
as "of course what everyone spends ever ymoment doing is thinking about my stupid shit. yes that's right i'm that central"
pete_dushenski:
as to spain proper, well, they still have a few museums of note, but other than that it's just doner kebab stands and beaches
pete_dushenski: shinohai: because
as stupid
as english-speakers are today, this hasn't always been the case. whereas spanish,
as mircea_popescu points out, has always been the language of slaves.
mats: lol, dong inspection
as proof of jewry
mircea_popescu: ascii_field see basically, standard
AS A THING even exist because
mircea_popescu: there is clearly a problem here. ideal objects (such
as software) are not comensurate with physical objects. this attempt to "engineer programs like screws" was a reasonable first hack at the novel an dunexpected problem,
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but
as far
as software, and computer programming generally, standards are actually the proof positive engineering failed.
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 21:51:18; mircea_popescu: incidentally : bitcoin is,
as is, both needlessly and too fucking complex.
mircea_popescu: well inasmuch
as you made some irc comments, no. i did look to see if your balance had magically vanished, which it had not.
mircea_popescu: incidentally : bitcoin is,
as is, both needlessly and too fucking complex.
☟︎ 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
☟︎ ben_vulpes: regarding that ancient optimization of expenditures thread, in america the ceo will have to report his place of residence if purchased/rented by the company
as income, correct asciilifeform, mircea_popescu?
mats: americans are fat
as fuck, barely anyone these days can pass a BMI evaluation and run 2mi in reasonable time
ascii_field:
as for 'willing', no shortage of dea/fbi/dhs/etc. goons today
BingoBoingo: <kakobrekla> how do you want it so its not spammin chan? << stream
as bz2 compressed xml
mats: kakobrekla: if you would parse that with assbot
as 'empyex' and 'mpexbot' are nao defunct i'd be grateful
shinohai: I like your idea better ben_vulpes. Wife implies marriage and I sure
as hell have had my lifetime dose of that.
ascii_field: remove .emacs-bufflst, .emacs-places, and,
as last resort, remove (after backing up) .emacs
assbot: Logged on 21-08-2015 21:04:08; ascii_field: 'The absence of evidence shouldn’t be viewed
as proof of guilt, but tell that to the U.S. federal court—where Khairullozhon Matanov received a 30-month sentence in mid-June, in part for deleting his browser history. Though he wasn’t an accomplice in the Boston bombing, the FBI charged that the friend of the Tsarnaev brothers with obstructing justice by destroying evidence in the case. That evidenc
ascii_field: 'Never in my wildest dreams would I have expected PayPal to accept screenshots from the seller,
as proof of anything.'
assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 14:03:35; asciilifeform: i, for one, only have a mechanical vacuum pump. it clatters, spits oil. would have looked at home in edison's house. i know that i will not be making so much
as a triode valve with this pump.
kakobrekla: convincing fake = looks same on pic
as original ?
mircea_popescu: Nowadays, I believe, bed-wetting in such circumstances is taken for granted. It is a normal reaction in children who have been removed from their homes to a strange place. In those days, however, it was looked on
as a disgusting crime which the child committed on purpose and for which the proper cure was a beating."
funkenstein_:
as I haven't reread any Tolstoy in German or Russian, I must withhold comment
fluffypony: By any other name would smell
as rotten;
kakobrekla: the chinese on the other hand, go
as 'low'
as faking the current tube production lines.
mircea_popescu: merits–thereby distorting their aesthetic and ethical understanding–is a great evil,
as is every untruth."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
as part of the perennial hate of ru in ro, "Shura-Bura" is how you say "utter nonsense"
punkman: hmm, guess I misremember
as working on linux
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally it occurs to me - one theory that'd very well fit the soviet ibm insanity would be, "the captive thief". ie, a guy so enamoured with the idea that "this calculator is hot (ie, stolen)" that he'll gladly expend $1500 to get a shitty pocket calculator, instead of $1100 to get a 10x
as powerful desktop.
mircea_popescu: in that sense might
as well just endorse your paycheck to obama and forgetdaboutit
mircea_popescu: "progress" means, smaller contingents of anything useful
as time goes by.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not replenishable because the natural rate of decay through aging is negative. ie, su shittifies like everything. if in 2000 it could produce 0.0001% of population, in 2020 it can produce only 0.0000965%.
as population itself declines, the natural size of the thing shrinks. 10k in 2000, 9972 in 2001 etc.
pete_dushenski: "
As noted above it was an extraordinary claim, yet it was accepted instantly without checking it. This had the effect of destroying the credibility of the IPCC and the previously respected publication Nature."
mod6: (19:17) <+ben_vulpes> mod6 probably has his own
as well. << mine is basically a by hand list. it really needs some attention/tlc. I gotta get something more structured.
mircea_popescu: the poor usg how it only wanted to restore peace and democracy to those poor iraquians, beleaguered by corrupt officials and tyrannycal despotism
as they were, and then this capitalist concern of evil capital came and abused the entire good will of the people of usia and their elected representatives.
mircea_popescu: (in kbr's case, it's not that they're stupid, it's that they were raped. the classic "we provide indemnity so now you may not not break the law
as we tell you to" trick. "key is in your pocket" in legal parlance)
☟︎ phf: asciilifeform: yeah, suggestion is not intended
as the correct solution. more like send kill -HUP -> system goes into an hour long snapshot state
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 22:21:22; phf: asciilifeform: what about something like this
http://paste.lisp.org/display/154647, put a flag on sighup, put a couple of checks (i'm not sure if my guess
as far
as mainloop is correct) for the flag, do a stop the world snapshot. can have it running normally, periodically send kill -HUP ...
ben_vulpes: he also fought entrenched interests, and they won.
as they do.
phf: asciilifeform: what about something like this
http://paste.lisp.org/display/154647, put a flag on sighup, put a couple of checks (i'm not sure if my guess
as far
as mainloop is correct) for the flag, do a stop the world snapshot. can have it running normally, periodically send kill -HUP ...
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so no, microbes can not be used
as substitute for your original " usg will happily carpetbomb own subjects if it needs to." specifically because that one chief ingredient is missing.
ascii_field: i mean, it was happily spreading microbes in own cities,
as early
as '60s
assbot: Logged on 10-02-2015 22:07:54; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the llvm thing, prior to career
as apple crud, had a previous life
as a darling plaything of u.s. 'comp sci' academitardia
assbot: Logged on 15-02-2015 21:43:42; asciilifeform: 'but Richard is seemingly frightened about the compiler competition from LLVM that is out under a permissive free software license.' << fud artist lies through his teeth. rms is not 'frightened of competition under permissive licenses', but is pointing out that organized attack by shitgnomes flying (
as always) flags of convenience, is under way.
mircea_popescu: or to quote the webexperts in derpxertises, "The elephant in the room is that GCC and emacs aren't competing against proprietary compilers so much
as they are against LLVM and clang. Whichever one has better features and support for programming is going to win mindshare and without mindshare you are dead. This is compounded by the fact that there are several major corporations helping LLVM along so you need steady cont
ascii_field: consider, flip so much
as one bit in the product
ascii_field: thing is, it also needs to be rebuilt
as discussed before, where it stores ~known factors of any given modulus~ in the db
mircea_popescu: ascii_field go in
as root, lock the db, dump it, unlock it.
mircea_popescu: the design
as described is good, and it should be db-replicated
mircea_popescu: "I was amazed that they were able to persuade RMS not to block the conversion to C++, and
as the article points out, five years of plugins have not led to disaster;"
mircea_popescu: "I recognize that you don't want me to "change the subject" to refactoring, but I don't see this
as a change of subject."
assbot: Logged on 15-05-2015 03:34:04; assbot: Logged on 14-05-2015 21:44:05; ascii_field: i'm kinda curious why mircea_popescu considers a new key signed with a previous key to not be a logical continuation of the same identity. (is it because of the impossibility of hard-guaranteed revocation,
as discussed in previous thread?)