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Adlai: yes
that kind of runnings
Adlai: isn't
TAT running?
mats: isn't
TAT running a pc on mpoe? or is
that done with?
Adlai likes it, scalpl was always intended
to be an interactive
tool anyways
mircea_popescu: ahaha hey...
that'd be pretty epic. have
TWO pcs on
that
thing.
Adlai: kakobrekla: i'm still waiting on
the bit4x api
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform mind
that
these anecdotes in no way diminish
the book
Adlai is just glad
to be out of hiatus
mats: many
thanks
to mp and jurov
mats: mmm, my mpex
trading balance is nao up ~250% since march
mircea_popescu: so
today. with
the reddit of out of work waitresses and musicants
Adlai: of
the management class
mircea_popescu: strial centres in Europe, Asia, and America.
These super-states will fight among
themselves for possession of
the remaining uncaptured portions of
the earth, but will probably be unable
to conquer one another completely. Internally, each society will be hierarchical, with an aristocracy of
talent at
the
top and a mass of semi-slaves at
the bottom."
mircea_popescu: ame of "managers".
These people will eliminate
the old capitalist class, crush
the working class, and so organise society
that all power and economic privilege remain in
their own hands. Private property rights will be abolished, but common ownership will not be established.
The new "managerial" societies will not consist of a patchwork of small, independent states, but of great super-states grouped round
the main indu
mircea_popescu: "Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it. What is now arising is a new kind of planned, centralised society which will be neither capitalist nor, in any accepted sense of
the word, democratic.
The rulers of
this new society will be
the people who effectively control
the means of production:
that is, business executives,
technicians, bureaucrats and soldiers, lumped
together by Burnham, under
the n
phf: mircea_popescu:
that would be a very ungenerous way of looking at it
Adlai: so just
to lay
this
to rest: i only rewrote
the EC group function. ECDSA requires hashing and proper combination of EC group functions, which has not yet been verified.
tl;dr: don't use my code
phf: understood, you have a different objective
though
phf: fair, i'm itching
to validate blocks, but it'll have
to wait
Adlai: but if you need
to produce results: cannibalize, with extreme prejudice
phf: Adlai: i'm
trying
to decide if i want
to get working OP_CHECKSIG first by blindly using someone else's code or ffi'ing
to openssl; or write a first approximation of ECDSA myself. will probably offset me by a week
Adlai rewrote secp256k1.lisp, but ecdsa invovles more
than a mere ec group api
phf: Adlai: does
that secp256k1 implementation you have in your github works?
Adlai: you'd have
to spit all over everywhere
to get useful weather data
Adlai: well
that only measures
temp at
the point
the spit hits
mats: fun fact: ru cosmonauts have used
the
time it
takes spit
to freeze on insulation as a way
to measure
temperature
Adlai: they've copied
the mechanics, and leached
the self-identified "edgiest" parts of
the community
Adlai: as my unfamous friend is apt
to say, "same shit -- diffrent day"
Adlai is rapidly itching
to get his github streak going again
punkman: life's
too short for reading what reddit derps
think
Adlai spends
tons of
time on leddit, because "laughter is
the best medicine"
Adlai: well reading a review for lolzvalue is /=
to reading a review for wotrating value
mircea_popescu: t
the right mood. Your pipe is drawing sweetly,
the sofa cushions are soft underneath you,
the fire is well alight,
the air is warm and stagnant. In
these blissful circumstances, what is it
that you want
to read about?"
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 got a ping and goes
to check on
the kids
Adlai: or as
they're called
these days, "verses"
Adlai: upon
this principle have been built many subbreddits
Adlai: obviously someboderp with passionate dislike will write a more impassioned review
than one with mildly apathatic approval
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: and so
they imagined it's a panacea. which it definitely is not.
mircea_popescu: except it
turns out
that passion only seemed valuable because so rarely encountered from
the sort of women
these people hung out with (ie, carefully not whores)
mircea_popescu: "the editors" organized "on
the other hand a good deal of reviewing, especially of novels, might well be done by amateurs. Nearly every book is capable of arousing passionate feeling, if it is only a passionate dislike, in some or other reader, whose ideas about it would surely be worth more
than
those of a bored professional"
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:
the solution lies in getting book reviewing out of
the hands of hacks. Books on specialised subjects ought
to be dealt with by experts, and on
the other hand a good deal of reviewing, especially of novels, might well be done by amateurs. Nearly every book is capable of arousing passionate feeling, if it is only a passionate dislike, in some or other reader, whose ideas about it would surely be worth more
than
those of
mircea_popescu: "The great majority of reviews give an inadequate or misleading account of
the book
that is dealt with. Since
the war publishers have been less able
than before
to
twist
the
tails of literary editors and evoke a paean of praise for every book
that
they produce, but on
the other hand
the standard of reviewing has gone down owing
to lack of space and other inconveniences. Seeing
the results, people sometimes suggest
that
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"
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i
think
they give books more in line with "tehnologia navigatiei cu vele"
Adlai: aha it has
the staniseal of approval
ascii_field: prolly
the one i'd like
to
take
to my oubliette
Adlai: assbot: pls
to archive.is
Adlai: skimming huge chunks, sure, but
there are also interesting bits
mircea_popescu: they couldn't get into
the highschools, so prepuberty is
the last
time we met at
the
table.
Adlai: dunno man i'm still working my way
through GEB
mircea_popescu: the last
time i encountered humans
that balked for hours at reading "at least 50 pages" i was in jr high and
the humans in question where
the losers in
the class.
mircea_popescu: then do
the math on what 1-2k lines of daily log mean, in words.
Adlai reserves
the right
to have called bullshit on orwell rather
than our lord mircea
mircea_popescu: read
the piece,
tell me anything but skim is contemplated.
mircea_popescu: "Three of
these books deal with subjects of which he is so ignorant
that he will have
to read at least 50 pages if he is
to avoid making some howler which will betray him not merely
to
the author (who of course knows all about
the habits of book reviewers), but even
to
the general reader. "
Adlai: but
typically gets grossly mismanaged
mircea_popescu: (and besides, you said yourself : go, not "are lent
to")
Adlai: (go, not "are lent
to")
Adlai: you
think i
throw my books out
the window? no,
they go
to
trusted friends
Adlai: well
that's why book buying needs a wot just as much as pretty much anything else
mircea_popescu: if i ever want
to buy a bible, i do not wish
to buy a soggy dog eared piece of composted
toilet paper ensmeared with
the biological refuse of five generations of idiots of
the sort
that'd misread a bible.
Adlai: pay
the bag^H^Hookholders a little premium
Adlai: there is literally zero need for
that
mircea_popescu: ly buying, directly or indirectly, about
three books a year.
These
three books
taken
together might cost £1, or probably less."
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: last price i heard quoted for books was "50% of
the price you bought'em, if
they came from
this shop"
mircea_popescu: and
the mass of people
take an interest once
the poor activity becomes
the cheapest in a class.
mircea_popescu: no human activity ever survived and very few have recovered from
the mass of people
taking an interest.
mircea_popescu: "I have said enough
to show
that reading is one of
the cheaper recreations: after listening
to
the radio probably
THE cheapest."
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 ?
Adlai quotes
the answer, for logs: "Nope. Smoking is foolish in an age when vapourising
technology is so evolved and readily available."