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BingoBoingo: Also note that Gawker/Kinja pages take longer than ever to be processed by archive.is ... Almost
as though there is an arms race between archiver and those not wanting to be preserved
mats: i told a friend these events in exactly the same order
as irc and she told me i'm gay :(
mircea_popescu is rather nonplussed at how social media in its "experts exchange" format has given rise to what amounts to a distributed network of "experts" recruited from among the highschool "metalworkers"
as they were called
mircea_popescu:
As late
as the autumn of 1945, a Gallup poll taken among the American troops in Germany showed that 51 percent "thought Hitler did much good before 1939". This was after five years of anti-Hitler propaganda.
mats: fun fact: ru cosmonauts have used the time it takes spit to freeze on insulation
as a way to measure temperature
Adlai:
as my unfamous friend is apt to say, "same shit -- diffrent day"
Adlai:
as in, loaded it in a browser, yes
mircea_popescu: "It is Sunday afternoon, preferably before the war. The wife is already asleep in the armchair, and the children have been sent out for a nice long walk. You put your feet up on the sofa, settle your spectacles on your nose, and open the NEWS OF THE WORLD. Roast beef and Yorkshire, or roast pork and apple sauce, followed up by suet pudding and driven home,
as it were, by a cup of mahogany-brown tea, have put you in jus
Adlai: or
as they're called these days, "verses"
mircea_popescu: passion's
as good
as whoever puts it forth, which means that with most people it has the consistency of puss and the aroma of old faces.
mircea_popescu: a bored professional. But, unfortunately,
as every editor knows, that kind of thing is very difficult to organise. In practice the editor always finds himself reverting to his team of hacks–his "regulars",
as he calls them."
mircea_popescu: (commie romania had weirdo "to buy x you must also buy y" quota system to prop up the central economy. that particular book was outrageous in a country nobodyu owned
as much
as a raft, let alone yachts. so it became symbolic)
Adlai: ascii_field: iiuc sfine,
as long
as you "declare the pennies on your eyes"
Adlai: well that's why book buying needs a wot just
as much
as pretty much anything else
mircea_popescu: "Meanwhile, what is the actual amount that the British public spends on books? I cannot discover any figures, though no doubt they exist. But I do know that before the war this country was publishing annually about 15,000 books, which included reprints and school books. If
as many
as 10,000 copies of each book were sold–and even allowing for the school books, this is probably a high estimate-the average person was on
Adlai: "i don't think i smoked enough to pay for a decent book" <<
as though books are priced by content and not... who knows
assbot: Logged on 12-08-2015 21:09:46; mircea_popescu: <mats> wasn't telling a lie, merely made a mistake <<< it's a very interesting point
as to how do you establish this ?
mircea_popescu: "Twenty-five pounds a year sounds quite a lot until you begin to measure it against other kinds of expenditure. It is nearly 9s. 9d. a week, and at present 9s. 9d. is the equivalent of about 83 cigarettes (Players): even before the war it would have bought you less than 200 cigarettes. With prices
as they now are, I am spending far more on tobacco than I do on books. I smoke six ounces a week, at half-a-crown an ounce,
mircea_popescu: i owned > 10k volumes before getting rid of the lot,
as a 20yo man.
mircea_popescu: The books that I have counted and priced are the ones I have here, in my flat. I have about an equal number stored in another place, so that I shall double the final figure in order to arrive at the complete amount. I have not counted oddments such
as proof copies, defaced volumes, cheap paper-covered editions, pamphlets, or magazines, unless bound up into book form. Nor have I counted the kind of junky books-old schoo
mircea_popescu: so : those could
as well be the remote part of a fritz chip
mircea_popescu: not sure how to best convey this
as the guy's terminology is a sort of pigdin latin numerals.
mircea_popescu: not even necessary in the case at hand, but
as a general rule.
mircea_popescu: <mats> wasn't telling a lie, merely made a mistake <<< it's a very interesting point
as to how do you establish this ?
☟︎ ascii_field: i mean, it's one thing to consider a whole computer in a safe which sets off built-in nuke if anyone so much
as scratches the door
mats: he is quite clear about what it can and can't do, no dishonesty
as far
as i can tell
ascii_field: i never understood how anyone could ever be so gullible
as to believe that 'remote attestation chip' could be a thing
punkman: works on AMD
as well right?
mats: guy's not a scammer
as far
as i can tell, and you do a disservice to folks (and yourself) by coming to judgment so quickly
mats: in the parlance, 'HARES' is not so much
as a 'crypter' than a 'packer'.
ascii_field: 'cool' in precisely the same sense
as the bomb collars
mircea_popescu: Had the atomic bomb turned out to be something
as cheap and easily manufactured
as a bicycle or an alarm clock, it might well have plunged us back into barbarism, but it might, on the other hand, have meant the end of national sovereignty and of the highly-centralised police state. If,
as seems to be the case, it is a rare and costly object
as difficult to produce
as a battleship, it is likelier to put an end to large-
assbot: Logged on 12-08-2015 16:31:25; phf: precisely how many people died in remote locations like that during the 90s
as a result of rapid transition from central planning economy to a "free market" by way of so called "shock doctrine". that info might never surface
phf: precisely how many people died in remote locations like that during the 90s
as a result of rapid transition from central planning economy to a "free market" by way of so called "shock doctrine". that info might never surface
☟︎ phf: this must be a puton, his twitter says "Described by @wireheadlance
as the Anthony Bourdain of InfoSec"
mircea_popescu: "The divergence between the theoretical Turing machines and the machines designed to emulate has grown significantly; most of the "work" modern computers (including mobile devices, etc.) perform is not computation oriented
as it was with a Turing machine. Today networking, graphics/audio and interaction with the physical world (SCADA, wearables, etc.) have become the key features that the industry is working on improvi
mircea_popescu: at the very least he'll be henceforth known
as abdulbek the schoolteacher or something.
phf: "my brother's brother heard it from the guy WHO WAS THERE" "man, i wish i could just steal girls from classrooms like a brave chechen, because i sure
as hell can't talk to them"
mircea_popescu: "Another time, in school, a group of Chechens stormed into a classroom in the middle of a class, selected the three most attractive girls, and dragged them away with them. Later we found out that the girls were presented
as birthday presents to a local Chechen criminal authority."
phf: that orlov quote is questionable, with the same message
as his other writing, i.e. "orks are cooler then you" where you is a u.s. office worker. i grew up in intelligentsia family and when i started getting into fights i was sent to sambo. i also saw fights involving chechen boys, including "деревня на деревню" kind, and in none of those were russian boys holding back. what is this
mircea_popescu: but teaching a boy that he should somehow cleave his intelligence from his activity is just
as fucking criminal.
mircea_popescu: you know, teaching a woman that she's supposed to neglect the functioning of her head so she can focus on... the kitchen, i guess,
as the puritans can't quite make the cunt point, is criminal.
williamdunne: Well the only references I'm seeing to it are describing it
as a traumatic experience. While traumatic can be a force for good I can't see anything suggesting it did her any particular favours
mircea_popescu: "The business model associated with the Sabr.io service is noble and honorable,
as the company wants to eliminate any criminal activity associated with virtual currencies."
williamdunne: yeah, mine came over to my house
as well to deal with all the paperwork because she gave me some other pricks passport.
mircea_popescu: <williamdunne> The whole apostille thing is fuckheaded
as well << yeah srsly.
mircea_popescu: <shinohai> I see change.org
as simply an outlet for the masses to feel
as if they are inspiring social change. << well mostly it's an obama thing. guy made his own reddit, somewhat more dysfunctional.
williamdunne: If you're gonna be into crapcoins, might
as well do it on a simple platform like shapeshift
shinohai: When in Rome, you gotta do
as the Romans do I guess.
williamdunne: The whole apostille thing is fuckheaded
as well
shinohai: I see change.org
as simply an outlet for the masses to feel
as if they are inspiring social change.
punkman: mine
as long
as utility company doesn't cut power, make new account, start over
punkman: "GAW Miners failed to pay for months of electrical provision
as well
as infrastructure installation. The utility initially sought $346,647.29 plus interest and court fees."
punkman: "Lipkin also agreed to give up a vacation home in Delray Beach, Florida
as part of his plea deal, but he was allowed to keep another home in New Jersey, his stamp collection and another Red Skelton painting."
mats: Maintains the strong set, displays some statistics
as to it in the manner of Penning's thing [
http://pgp.cs.uu.nl] <<
mats: this penning's thing is turning out to be
as much work
as the rest of the key server comined
mircea_popescu: "Mostly it's laziness (or shallowness) and an attempt to seize the moral high ground. It's hard to defend specific issues when you're confronted by someone who simply rejects your basic premises. How do you find out what lines of argument they would find persuasive? (Hint: ask them. Say "what exactly would you accept
as proof that I'm right?" Most of the time they don't have a clue, because most people only think about
mircea_popescu: "Ultimately it's undergirded by one of the great intellectual fallacies of modern times, the obsession with structure
as opposed to content. If structure is all important, then if two conflicts have similar structure, they are similar."
nubbins`: dory tried to climb up onto my shoulders
as i stood up ;/
mircea_popescu: “The reality of the situation is that the U.S. dollar hasn’t been this strong in decades. The thought that it could be replaced
as a reserve currency is laughable at this point on a geopolitical basis and nothing in the Iran deal even remotely touches upon that issue,” he added.
mircea_popescu:
As for the “lesser of two evils” argument, I just have to quote from Ijeoma Oluo who was saying earlier:
trinque: this, my brain decided to file away for important moments such
as now
hanbot: shinohai: hanbot compiled pogo ? O.o << nein. have built stator "manually"
as of last night, tho still need to verify runs
as expected, after which will put together notes. have not pogo-ed, rotor trial to come. (ubuntu 10.04 32bit + mod6's gracious help)
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 21-10-2014 01:30:35; asciilifeform: '
As progressively dumber programmers build progressively more complex systems we will see more of this kind of attempt to paper over coding mistakes with lawyers, sanctions, policies, and laws. Hollywood and the RIAA are usually the most successful at getting the government to do their bidding. Thus I predict that one day Disney will have a Web site where you can buy access to any of their movies.
mircea_popescu: "The Trotskyist is AGAINST Stalin just
as the Communist is FOR him, and, like the majority of Communists, he wants not so much to alter the external world
as to feel that the battle for prestige is going in his own favour."
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: these folks are at the stage where they openly expect to be able to use law
as lettre de cachet
ascii_field: 'If we determine
as part of our analysis that scan results could only have come from reverse engineering (in at least one case, because the report said, cleverly enough, “static analysis of Oracle XXXXXX”), we send a letter to the sinning customer, and a different letter to the sinning consultant-acting-on-customer’s behalf – reminding them of the terms of the Oracle license agreement that preclude
mircea_popescu: the expression "white men can't jump",
as an artefact, which it is. comes,
as far
as i know, from actual black people,
as a local creation. like the word "trayvon". not from white people,
as a projection.
shinohai: Did not the Ottomans enslave whites
as well?
mircea_popescu: the work they currently do is about
as economically useful
as handpickingf cotton, for the record.
mircea_popescu: "The Southern Poverty Law Center, a non-profit civil rights organization, has described the 'Oath Keepers'
as a 'fiercely anti-government, militaristic group,' and St. Louis County Police Chief Jon Belmar condemned their appearance in Ferguson."
assbot: Logged on 11-08-2015 12:20:12; mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=11-08-2015#1234470 << in its own mind the us is always going to be firstest bestest. it ends
as the twerps in question die out, britannia also thought itself first bestsest 4evar!! all through the 30s, and the 40s, and the 50s (remember the humiliation they and the french got in egypt, bested by sadat ?) and so on. it died meanwhile through the biological process o
mircea_popescu: so - without inflation they'd still be around, derping on,
as if their ideas and values are valuable and useful.
mircea_popescu: you understand ? the society of 1971 is just
as broken
as this one, but not actually raped yet.
assbot: Logged on 11-08-2015 12:00:46; mircea_popescu: the most relevant part of all this to bitcoin being that price stickiness (principally, the stubborn refusal of old people to admit that real estate they once bought is not now worth what they paid for it) may very well require inflation
as the best social solution.