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decimation:
mircea_popescu: The Register is the only non-pure-pr tech news source that I know of
gabriel_laddel:
mircea_popescu: people not keeping track of this is the problem.
gabriel_laddel:
mircea_popescu: not necessarily. middle management worldwide likes java... why?
gabriel_laddel:
mircea_popescu: I doubt this very much. 'Lisp' simply needs managers to understand why they should order those not good enough to sling dope to write it.
assbot: Logged on 10-10-2014 00:22:32;
mircea_popescu: the only conceivable purpose i can see for government would be to allocate limits. you want to write a facebook ? register with govt, get a 10k line/250kb limit. if you overrun it you get shot.
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu: ty for another comment! that post deserves a plaque for the names it's attracted.
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu: lol funny you should mention that… i was toying around with that this morning, trying to add a second sidebar column a la trilema and… i fucking borkt the whole thing.
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu you are now the bearer of "the romanian school" torch!
gabriel_laddel:
mircea_popescu: Funny little bit of history. Steve Y. goes on and on and on about how C++, java, etc. (algol derivatives) predictably create massively bloated codebases, gives lip service how Lisp solves these problems (which is does) and then goes back to... writing in ~ALGOL. (I asked a Googler who was recently on the same team as Steve what language they worked in - Java.)
thestringpuller:
mircea_popescu: do you have a sample script for the bitcoin cartoons?
assbot: Logged on 09-10-2014 16:13:02;
mircea_popescu: this apparently works to some degree, he's ahead a cigarette from xanthyos' ex, and was the senate hearing catered ?
cazalla:
mircea_popescu: mebbe qntra publishes a summary, then i can "watch" it too <<< i can't sit and watch that guy for 2 hours
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BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> which kinda explains the unholy proliferation of the "vlogger". derp that can't be bothered to write shit down because it's too much work, and so instead he wants everyone to see past his out of shape flesh and obnoxiously poor vocalisation. beause that's somehow not a lot of work. << Why Vlogger's can't be relevant
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu it's more of a radio thing than a tv thing, throw it on in the bg ;p
assbot: Logged on 09-10-2014 06:51:52;
mircea_popescu: basically bitbet hgas paid 190 btc in dividends to date
mircea_popescu: <
mircea_popescu> i don't really like the mr trololo treatment << this was re the seuss link
decimation:
mircea_popescu: certianly not 'everyone'
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: you guys and your normcore style << do elaborate! << this thing where one just barfs raw HTML elements all over the page
ninjashogun:
mircea_popescu, that is a lot of negatives :)
ninjashogun:
mircea_popescu, it's pretty hard not to see how making random USG accusations isn't exactly the same as using a made-up hot-button "she used DMCA take-downs"?
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Best part. The authors and subjects... all white as gypsum
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu: hmm. maybe gavin is trying to tip us off below the radar of his handlers?
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu: and incidentally exactly, but EXACTLY how idiots just like gavin end up with mortgages they can't pay. << such forecasting these guys.
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu: moreover, the way net neutrality etc is going, not to mention the realpolitics of you know, actual wars, financial or otherwise, it wouldn't be surprising if in 20 years the average us citizen is on dialup << only then will their derping be tamed. when it actually costs something.
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu: and i don't care specifically because we want bitcoin to take over the financial, and with it the political power in the world. all of it. << so *that's* why we're here!
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: so average bandwidth in US (where Gavin is based) is 10Mbit. An incearse of .5 per year is like what 15 next then 22.5 after that etc etc <<< in 20 years the per-block subsidy will be just about 40 bitcents. at that same time, gavin's block size will be 110 mb. << whoa.
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu: yet somehow the bitcoin crowd is supposed to have forgotten why it got into bitcoin in the first place, and apply the inflationary economy it's ran off from here << they didn't forget as much as were attracted by the *new shininess* in the first place. now new thing is shiny.
hanbot: ty kindly
mircea_popescu BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: No, he was too stupid and the stingray too wily
assbot: Logged on 08-10-2014 03:44:52;
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: i really trust him with 6 but motherfucker is already leading. << bwahahaha WAY AHEAD
hanbot:
mircea_popescu: how's slotful lust ? asciilifeform: you of all people should know << ahahaha, this convo....
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ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: prior, iirc. the context of the remark was that the sultan (subject of the chapter) began to address the plagues that had routinely decimated the capital with european medical techniques. this was, iirc, one of the last three to rule before the sultanate was brought to an end by the young turks et al.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Hanta, still endemic to the America southwest. Goes through dormant, emergent cycles
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Most cattle here lack the cardiovascular endurance to really... Stampede... McDonalds et al
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Who knew we'd all be appreciating assbot's !up !down so much nao
Azelphur:
mircea_popescu: no, and if I was I think I'd rather shoot myself than work for EA :P
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: One of them. I dunno if he is a ranger, but he lurks a lot of places and interupts
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: That -dev conversation has some interesting derping lower down with luke and Gavin agreeing
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: A bit of drama in the convo. Haven't finished it myself.
cazalla:
mircea_popescu: o heya cazalla. how was the lass ? <<< no time for that, to sydney and back again in 2 days
assbot: Logged on 07-10-2014 18:01:23;
mircea_popescu: making it n-0, retroactively. THEY HAVE YET TO ACTUALLY SCORE ONCE!
Naphex:
mircea_popescu: i agree, but security you can improve. but functionality will be harder
Naphex:
mircea_popescu: and most full nodes out right now except core are all shit
Naphex:
mircea_popescu: i'm not arbitering shit
Apocalyptic: <
mircea_popescu> yet somehow the bitcoin crowd is supposed to have forgotten why it got into bitcoin in the first place // that's a recurring thought I have these days
mike_c: <+
mircea_popescu> i don';t giuve a shit what usefullness you see or don't see. << another contender for the b-a tagline :)
go1111111:
mircea_popescu: I don't see the usefulness if high fees, except as a means to secure the network. but fees will be a small portion of the reward to miners for a while. low fees enable transactions to occur that would otherwise be too costly, eliminating deadweight loss
Naphex:
mircea_popescu: so yeah, i haven't found anything even close to stable as bitcoind :)
Apocalyptic: <
mircea_popescu> blocksize is a scarce resource. // and it should remain so, precisely
mthreat:
mircea_popescu: in case you want to confront him about bitcoin posts on the forum (that seemed to be filtered at one point)
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu: kids active today grew up in a world of computer game word filters << different is bad and not nice and trolling and mysogyracist! poor fucking kids...
nubbins`: <+
mircea_popescu> how's slotful lust ? <+asciilifeform> you of all people should know <<< my sides
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu: nubbins` that's because you have canadiancare, which is really just nationalised obamacare. you're socialists over there, not like the true capitalists down south. that's why. << better this way. both losses and profits are socialized unlike tbtf american cos.
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla how about wild boar ? << best dish i had in lithuania was wild boar. paired with pears!
ben_vulpes: morning, vex, thickasthieves,
mircea_popescu Vexual:
mircea_popescu: i wish
Vexual: well im sure i never scool any eaasy reader as well as
mircea_popescu did
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> i think if that were a question on a junior college class - in humanities, mind you - you'd be lucky to get a kid in five spot it. << Ever the optimist
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu maybe if obama had pushed canadacare instead...
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu and most aspies will be running schwartzenegger_0.9_early_beta_SiKOSiS_cracked_with_keygen
nubbins`: <+
mircea_popescu> if only liv tyler were inhabited by stoya.
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu FWIW he fucking slayed the song
kakobrekla:
mircea_popescu you forgot 'edible house mouse'
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu i guess everyone figured you had the answers
cazalla:
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> any insight into where qntra traffic is coming from? << cazalla ran off with a lass, but he'll be back midweek, ima push him to put quantcast in there, then you can see directly. <<< i will do this in the morning
assbot: Logged on 04-10-2014 02:47:05;
mircea_popescu: but anyway, only someone who had physically visited switzerland cca say 1994 can appreciate the immensity of the drop
nara__narayana:
mircea_popescu funny you mention that, cousin committed suicide just recently