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ag3nt_zer0: haha it isnt even just under the surface
ag3nt_zer0: trinque: yeah I suppose... unless you have to sit through a multiculturalism focused education program in humboldt county run by marxism-hypnotized dykes... then noticing fruits of their labor in Silly Valley public ed... then start thinking warrior again
asciilifeform is ^ much of the time
mike_c: bad busy. Time is sucked away on things that aren't worth it.
mircea_popescu: but experimentally, it seems to be a transient phase
mike_c: got a couple of good blog posts coming up though that are half way done.
mircea_popescu: sounds like you reached the age of cazalla ☟︎
trinque: heh, I know that feeling
mike_c: way too busy!
mike_c: Who knows. I try not to think about it.
mircea_popescu: mike_c how you doin' these days
trinque: the idea of a "warrior" seems foreign these days, I guess
trinque: wasn't the majority of them, but some felt that way
trinque: had 'nam vets and such talking about how they couldn't come back from war mentally because they liked war so much
mike_c: Sorry for part spam.. different client/computer than usual.
trinque: I'm trying to recall the name
trinque: ag3nt_zer0: there's another along these lines, was pretty good
mircea_popescu: there is no conceivable reason the combined cultural pull of us should exceed that of greece. they're about the same toilet.
mircea_popescu: and generally, the world will be broadly a better place once the colonies get their voice turned down to the 1.6-2.2 they deserve.
ag3nt_zer0: I wasn't in the mood the first few times I started it, so I stopped... finally last night had the receptivity and it hit pretty good...
mircea_popescu: i'd have much rather had french internet than ustardian internet.
trinque: funkenstein_: docu has folks from kissinger's indonesian bloodletting reenacting and recounting their stories
mircea_popescu: "The government chose not to enact coercive measures, however, stating that the regulation of the online activities of children was up to parents, not the government. " << most important thing about minitel.
ag3nt_zer0: trinque: yeah, natural in a way... but the vibrant colors, the recreations, them watching the takes and commenting... the translations... fucking crazy
trinque: I figure I live a pretty padded life not knowing what that's like
trinque: having them reenact the events was a little strange, but what I was struck with was the matter-of-fact attitude they had towards the events, mostly
trinque: ag3nt_zer0: eh them recalling the days of murdering people... it seemed rather natural
ag3nt_zer0: trinque: what'd you think? fucking bizarre?
mircea_popescu: that film or whatever it is, does it have a script or some such textual equivalent ?
assbot: Disqus - Could Travelling Waves Upset Cognitive Neuroscience? ... ( http://bit.ly/1Sbpgvv )
assbot: Logged on 09-07-2015 18:20:13; asciilifeform: or this thread!
ag3nt_zer0: mircea_popescu: a text? don't understand
mircea_popescu: ag3nt_zer0 can it be a text ?
mircea_popescu: maybe after teh war.
ag3nt_zer0: mircea_popescu: well, it's called The Act Of Killing and you should look at it
asciilifeform does not expect anyone here to do this.
asciilifeform convinced, but it took many years of actually working through the maths
mircea_popescu: (that reason being, obviously, that they can't get to play their inept advertising with it)
mircea_popescu: ag3nt_zer0 vimeo never worked. for some reason html5 standards are too hard for these schmucks
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i am not even convinced yet. just, not particularly convinced of the contrapositive.
trinque: ag3nt_zer0: I watched that last week.
asciilifeform recalls the ordeal of convincing mircea_popescu that al schwartz isn't a 'timecube'
asciilifeform: no new essays for some years though
funkenstein_: i think i saw him on sci.physics.relativity a decade ago
assbot: The Act of Killing - Official Trailer (HD) - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1SboL4C )
ag3nt_zer0: anyone seen this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD5oMxbMcHM
asciilifeform: or this thread! ☟︎
mircea_popescu: or the discussion of the apparatus
mircea_popescu: he should be here, i'm sick of being the most lines.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: he's a compulsive ant-stomper. went where the enviro-whiners congregate
mircea_popescu: i mean of all the places... no wonder it took forever to find him.
mircea_popescu: fucking discus. what the fuck is wrong with that guy.
mircea_popescu: yeah somebody with still a reddit acct plox ask scwhartz to come over.
decimation: yeah the ds3231 has the same spec for time performance
decimation: oh they also use them in gps receivers
asciilifeform: sram could be useful, to keep 'last seeds' in or whatnot. but entirely luxury.
decimation: any case where you have a cheap sensor that you 'launch'
decimation: asciilifeform: I think at least one use is utility meters
decimation: I think the 3231 is end of life, probably trying to ditch stock
decimation: asciilifeform: yeah DS3231 is the older version of the same chip that doesn't have any onboard sram
asciilifeform: where do these little modules go? toasters? time bombs in afghan ?
asciilifeform: clearly ~somebody~ isn't eager to use ntp for everything.
asciilifeform: what i wonder is where these are typically used.
assbot: High Quality IIC Module Real Time Clock Memory Module for Arduino DS3231 AT24C32 | eBay ... ( http://bit.ly/1RmwFwO )
asciilifeform: decimation: http://www.ebay.com/itm/High-Quality-IIC-Module-Real-Time-Clock-Memory-Module-For-Arduino-DS3231-AT24C32-/400932997447 << also temp-compensated ?
asciilifeform: might be time to attempt persuading him to visit, again.
asciilifeform: incidentally, for anyone who missed, gabriel_laddel found that schwartz is not only alive but cranking out nonstop commentary re: everything, largely on some godforsaken redditron
asciilifeform: 'Anyway, it is my considered opinion (along with, I wager, most everyone else's) that positively the ONLY way that's getting show to be inconsistent is by some intoxicated kids during having sex or somesuch. Everything else was tried to death.' (from mircea_popescu's www) <<<< 'ftl drive will be discovered by an ee student on the verge of flunking, designing stero amps.' (al schwartz)
assbot: Women In Cages on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1RmuYQ9 )
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mircea_popescu visited one such thing, in costa rica. it is the closest i ever got to a medieval hospital.
mircea_popescu: ever seen the sexploitations in question ? women on cots, 500 to a hall, separated by hanging sheets ?
mircea_popescu: like they have in indonesia / poor asia generally and it fascinated tarantino
asciilifeform: probably not too far off!
asciilifeform: something about it pisses off certain types
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: y'know, all kinds of folks spent whole lives 'lala i can't hear you' to cantor's diagonal.
assbot: Squares do Morals. A Porno. on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1Toj2L7 )
asciilifeform: a maths prof informed me that until recently, it was customary to answer their letters. but not any more.
mircea_popescu: where is that discussion with cads
asciilifeform: and there are still legions of crackpots trying to prove ftl with what they studied in school.
asciilifeform: sometimes the 'construct future with past' thing gets taken up and run ragged, though. as in the case of 'square the circle with ruler and compass' problem that drove folks batshit until 19th c even.
mircea_popescu: it should be standard class in disinfo ministry, but hey. they're also saving these days.
mircea_popescu: even the most cursory effort to consider the matter sunks people like orlov.
mircea_popescu: a superlative form of hermeneutics if you wish. certainly decent training exercise for the more advanced students.
mircea_popescu: (but this is perhaps the most obscure field of all scholarship - constructive cultural antrhopology, which is to say : construct FUTURE development of science on the basis and with the methods available in X context.
mircea_popescu: and so it came to pass zeus eventually ran out of book.
asciilifeform: romans could very well have 'proved' that their arithmetic is 'optimal'
funkenstein_: see e.g. the god algorithm for cube solving
asciilifeform: however, there are still interesting boojums:
asciilifeform: (being able to prove that you can't do better runtime than particular algo, say)
asciilifeform: it is actually a very rare thing
asciilifeform: highest compliment paul e. could give a colleague was to say 'this is from The Book'
asciilifeform: he liked to say that god had a book, containing the best possible proof of each theorem
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: didja know that paul erdos had a story about these ?
mircea_popescu: it is smart enough to be the END of a class.
mircea_popescu: i propose that gcd is one of the few smart things we know.
funkenstein_: the reason wealth is often correlated with dumb is probably similar to why gps ownership is correlated with poor navigation skills
mircea_popescu: like how would that be ?
asciilifeform: such as the bacteria that eventually eat everybody's girlfriend
asciilifeform: there very much ~is~ such a thing as 'stupid and effective'