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pete_dushenski: "He said: "Some of the people will be too old or too weak to carry the food to their cars so you will have to carry the food for them". What shocked me was that these people were being given food hampers because they were poor but they drove cars. Some of them had very nice cars too. In Zimbabwe, poor people don'
t have cars."
shinohai: srsly gribble? You couldn'
t have just parsed that in a single statement?
phf: you don'
t seem to grok how "mediated" works in this case, you or your tour is assigned a dedicated kgb handler and a politruk. if you're not part of tour, then you are assigned those. personally. sop for any sort of interaction with outsiders. politruk is ~personally responsible~ for you not doing anything dodgy. your level of artificial integration depends on how important you are and how experienced your handlers are at running this
pete_dushenski: phf: that's very much why i specified '2nd-tier' ru city, though i suppose this was based on the presumption that most of the mediation was happening in larger urban centres, which i suppose statistically it must have been, but whether that made it easier or harder to break mediated mold in smaller centres isn'
t thereby granted as being in any way obvious, admittedly.
pete_dushenski: can'
t teach old dog new tricks. no sense trying to persuade 60yo that life was wasted in the pursuit of the evil and the wrong.
pete_dushenski: i wouldn'
t send them anywhere. it's not for me to lead their lives. but a couple of years in 2nd-tier city in 80s ru wouldn'
t have hurt.
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2016 13:21:34; mircea_popescu: seriously, if you can'
t paint a canvas within 10x10, or if you can'
t tell your story in 700mb, you've got other problems than painting or making movies.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: he's from an older generation than we are, knows what he's doing. believes in legitimacy of copyrasta wholly afaik. can'
t be far from retirement either, and it's awfully hard to imagine anyone bothering to hang him for his crimes.
pete_dushenski: " Double Dick Nightmare - A nightmarish dream involving voluntary double penetration of massive cocks." << i don'
t care what you say, this is a much funnier ddn
mircea_popescu: it doesn'
t matter when it would apply. it turns out, through bitter experience, that c machines and especially the slaves that feed them can NOT live in a world where there's not strict, table-lookup-based, equivalency between words and chars.
phf: i kind of look at it like version 0.5.3. there's barely any development on it, very little actively harmful code, if you don'
t count asdf 3.* in contribs. it works, it can be studied and improved upon, as it stands it's utterly ignored by the cool kids. there are also of course technical merits, the compiler is conceptually identical and on average almost as good (there were many micro optimizations done by sbcl team, but even they are
mircea_popescu: "The top games on mobile in 2015 are the same games that were at the top of the charts in 2012" << if that pond ain'
t dead...
jurov: i don'
t see where, you mean the "hd fury" box?
mircea_popescu: some people didn'
t really want to have said what they did in fact say back in 2012! awww!
mircea_popescu: seriously, if you can'
t paint a canvas within 10x10, or if you can'
t tell your story in 700mb, you've got other problems than painting or making movies.
☟︎ punkman: sure, I don'
t watch dvds or blu-rays. but you were asking who would buy these things
mircea_popescu: even better : don'
t use any electronics with closed bullshit. what, can'
t play on computor ?
mircea_popescu: (this, for any deeply insecure personalities that may be reading the logs, does neither say that big is good thus therefore bigger is necessarily better, nor does it propose that there can'
t be a "big enough". so simmer down.)
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes> i am categorically unqualified to opine on this << wasn'
t a matter of cryptography, merely of you know, "what's reasonable management of contest"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo> punkman: Also they stole hanbot's pirateat40 joke for their exchange name << 24`733 people around the world tried to run off with shit and it still didn'
t work for them.
punkman: disc pirates can only get around some DRM schemes by finding discs that don'
t have it.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i don'
t get it, derpy windows-based, closed source dvd copy thing ?
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2016 00:29:59; mircea_popescu: the idea being that i announced a contest, haven'
t seen much in the way of submissions, ima award the 10 btc prize to alf for an implementation of a c-s derivative.
assbot: Throw_it_all_away_99 comments on Redditors who are now married because you didn'
t know how to break up with your significant other, how is that going for you? ... (
http://bit.ly/1Qfv61C )
mircea_popescu: so people weren'
t too keen to pay the city when there were cheap gas based wall units they could install instead.
mod6: That way we don'
t wait, but we don'
t slam the door yet either.
mircea_popescu: the idea being that i announced a contest, haven'
t seen much in the way of submissions, ima award the 10 btc prize to alf for an implementation of a c-s derivative.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: hey, don'
t blame the hammer because idiots stick it up their ass. we already discussed the "inane collective rulesets" thing above.
mircea_popescu: yes, but i can'
t acquire the title to that to heal my defect.
mircea_popescu: and the problem doesn'
t end with egress. suppose i wanna take down a wall. "can'
t - building will collapse" "but my title ?" "fuck your title, our wall".
mircea_popescu: ok, but title is about some important things. for instance : can'
t acquire title on good without egress.
mircea_popescu: nah, apparently govt doesn'
t like males disciplining the household cows.
pete_dushenski: why not just require 20' of barbed wire on top of all building >2 stories ? because it can'
t. still, "we tried" (tm)
mircea_popescu: yeah but afais it doesn'
t do any of htre things claimed ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that yellow snow ain'
t piss, my dear fellow.
trinque: someone who isn'
t pobre, clearly!
mircea_popescu: one doesn'
t have to go to war with the salt in order to stop oversalting his food to the point of inedibility.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: can'
t seem to dig up the neo bee pic in question atm, but at least i now have a mental image of it with which to scan the archives. not sure i've ever seen the original even once, however.
mircea_popescu: i couldn'
t give less of a shit about buterin myself, yet another amir taaki, like the antonoderp (- did he do neo bee btw ? )
mircea_popescu: he only doesn'
t mind it because his ganglional vacuole is thoroughly empty.
mircea_popescu: dude does all the work three midlevel project managers in a shitty thirld world country wanna-be second hand tech firm do. you perceive this as "not have to work", on the grounds that he doesn'
t seem to mind it.
assbot: Logged on 24-02-2016 18:59:19; asciilifeform: (and yes, he probably isn'
t 'can send money to isis'-rich, but is 'not having to work' rich, surely.)
phf: only quality asian ones use glass vacuum chambers, also on account of those people being careful with their stuff. can'
t even buy those in usg unless in specialty asian stores
jurov: ikr? the vacuum doesn'
t compensate for the added weight
pete_dushenski: babies are a lot like drunks : shit pants, mutter incomprehensibly, can'
t walk straight
jurov: but thermoses don'
t have the right comforter
mircea_popescu: and as a more general point : we aren'
t sealing ourselves off in an ideal world (see the "island of Bitcoin" / "let's get a geographical unit started" threads throughout log history). we are simply constructing indefeatable corruption.
mircea_popescu: the whole point of gossipd, as i was trying to explain it to that torhead dude, is that you can'
t know.
mircea_popescu: you can'
t say this is the case for any one node in particular.
phf: l1 or l2 runs trb, where behavior can be improved. better sync mechanisms, bandwidth/cpu conservative network activity, etc. anyone in the wot can also be punished for abuse, i.e. if asciilifeform starts sending me gigs of bogus transactions, and it's not a test and he can'
t be reasoned with, etc.
phf: i can'
t figure out if "there's no network at large" is a semantic point or a technical one. or is the claim that a semantic point makes technical conversation irrelevant?
mircea_popescu: perhaps. but this really wasn'
t the thesis. you do know that ~nobody is running prb, and this has been in ample evidence historically throughout.
mircea_popescu: for all you know engineering assumptions aren'
t to be made this way.
mircea_popescu: so there is no "the network". just people you don'
t know your friends are fucking.
phf: you get disk thrash or network thrash or both. that graph i posted some time ago shows that nuking orphanage kills disk thrash, but increases network thrash. our step one has so far been removal of disk thrash, i.e. nuke orphanage, nuke mempool. step 2 presumably is nuking network thrash by relying more on trusted peers. that still doesn'
t solve the problem of talking to net at large
punkman: doesn'
t it cost 90% of salary?
mircea_popescu: i can'
t think of a time this was the case, in either the old country or the america.
mircea_popescu: like the vory, they don'
t know how to pick women. and so they don'
t.
mircea_popescu: just like lenin is the definitive soviet tho he didn'
t actually live there significantly, marx is the definitive american, tho he didn'
t even speak the "official" language. he spoke german, the unofficial one.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless. i need unextensible symbol set for very good reason : you can'
t have static compilation without it.