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mircea_popescu: the notion of gravity is not elementary. the notion of magnetism is so fucking elementary it was observed 1k years before electricity and it still lacks a proper model.
mircea_popescu: this is not because the notion of number "is light on math -- 3rd grade". but specifically because it is not. nothing odf the fucking sort.
mircea_popescu: you understand, in frege's day "inquiries into the nature of numbers" were VERY uninteresting to kids in teh gymnasium
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-23#1774921 << amusingly i read it as a "well, gotta put best foot forward and don best suit", kinda unconvinced of why or what the fuck subjhectively, "but what can you do". which is why i just ignored it, triggered none of my tripwires. while apparently hitting TWO DIFFERENT!!! immune system protein pathways in two different people.
☝︎ mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-23#1774916 << he has it exactly ; for all the "intrinsic humanity" blah blah, humans are contextual automatons. "it would have never occured me to x" is the most common comment in all natural languages, unvoiced because so fucking trite.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, trident was actually a pretty great maker, in q/$ terms at least.
mircea_popescu: now this is going to run on loop in my house and the girls will lose their mind and come seek you alf and tear your liver out before your eyes
mircea_popescu: anyway, it was the rondeau by mouret. but it never heard a proper variant played on like yopu klnow, actual fucking musical instruments, that i even half as much liked.
mircea_popescu: in THAT specific variant, imo it gains a lot from the speaker.
mircea_popescu: but yes it was the damned intro. maybe it comes to me.
mircea_popescu: now if only i had a blog from 1993 i could dig in and find what the fix was.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, that actually was a known problem at the time! i REMEBER THIS
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform where's your logline saying "well, of course office drone is going to build by parts, wtf else is he gonna do"
mircea_popescu: lotta wasted time. phf has it, where's your edited civ savefiles ffs.\
mircea_popescu: did we do an "ye olde dacs on serial port" thread yet ?
mircea_popescu: also fyi, "faculty" is how you say the body of teachers, maybe. it dun has the ro meaning at all whatsoever. university would work, campus, whatever.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: we gotta have a conversation about gender balance and bias in this republic.
mircea_popescu: mod6 top of the list of potential inductees for this year methinks.
mircea_popescu: has nfi what the holes do but can tell you the bell rang at an unexpected time.
mircea_popescu: that's the modern "computer user" : the punchcard girl of ibm days.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform romanian has it. it's mostly used to denote taking the bus w/o a ticket / going to exam with a cheating mind.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile "programming", in the sense (and i quote exactly), "I'm working in corporation in finance and procurement department, so I can sum up my life with : excel, excel, excel, SAP, a little bit more excel" is not actuially a job 90% opf the walkers can do.
mircea_popescu: ie, there's two ways to control overabundant supply : through price and through convention. the union is the latter mechanism.\
mircea_popescu: which is the traditional point of the expression "union town" : a job you ~could~ do, but won't be allowed to.
mircea_popescu: yes, but that takes skill. waitressing takes a pulse and not oversleeping too often because you whored out / smoked yourself blank the previous night.
mircea_popescu: by all means alf, go, be cock-tail waitress in vegas!!1
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what honest fucking trades. like what, you open a lemonade stand, and through thrift and industry you end up owning all of the east end lemonade trade ?
mircea_popescu: it's either programming, "psychopathy" or else you go on the dole. and no, the sort of job parole officer gets for you ain't anything BUT the sort of "job" "social worker" gets your sister, ie "sit home, be rapebait, here's your supplemental whatever card"
mircea_popescu: which is even a welcome fucking idea, no more of this "DANGEROUS CURVE AHEAD". bitch, i don't know your idea of "dangerous", say "curve type W64" and be fucking done with it.
mircea_popescu: can pick whosoever is the mark through the trivial process of their all but screaming it.\
mircea_popescu: douchebag re last night's convo : spyked is actually a (retiring, i think ?) security professor / researcher, you might want to also check out his blog.
mircea_popescu: shinohai better titles! FUCKGOATS-unboxing.html why not.
mircea_popescu: you not gonna get mugged or anything, are you ? how do you have it arranged ?
mircea_popescu: no way to link to selection, but grep for "Original first"
mircea_popescu: in other news, it's so great that you can take a 2 year old article and it's actually fucking useful. but -- a point i think wasn't mentioned and it's a pity : i ~really~ like ben_vulpes code indentation style. those bars.
mircea_popescu: contract number, something. does your contract have a number ?
mircea_popescu: need an acct # or something, it gets put in the notes.
mircea_popescu: btw BingoBoingo, the thing with the wire : the receiver has to have some way to identify it was ~you~ who sent it. this isn't bitcoin, this is legacy ebcdic crapola, you can very well end up in the situation of "well, we did receive some money mr, but what says it's yours".
mircea_popescu: i was mostly trying to ascertain whether he's got what to eat left.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo an' dun drink no more, it dun work out well for you.