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qq1932:
mircea_popescu: I can understand this but in this particular case the principles are no more advanced (by comparison) than the Watt steam engine at the time. It's a different field, this is an analogy.
qq1932:
mircea_popescu: I disagree with you that it always takes much more than "highschool understanding" of any topic to recognize fundamental innovations that eluded people. In fact, this is the reason a lot of people think the "obvious" bar is too low and no patents should be granted . I had someone tell me that there is no fundamental innovation of any kind in the past 200 years that was not "obvious".
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: I'm going to infer Angela was the blond
hanbot:
mircea_popescu i don't think it's that simple, most people "beating their children" would likely result in the kids hating their parents rather than hating fucking up
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: There probably a label used for that condition somewhere in the USG, something as an analogue to the soviet "Slowly Progressing Schizophrenia"
kakobrekla: <
mircea_popescu> no, i'm with you, that ui died. < well every ui so far died. gui however did not.
kakobrekla: ok then, no ui, <
mircea_popescu> in a "better design" sense
midnightmagic:
mircea_popescu: I can speak it well enough to order a beer, buy groceries, and insult the locals, with a halfway bastardized accent between parisian and quebecois, and I can hear it enough to get about 70% of radio broadcasts and conversational (polite) parisian french, and about 30% of slangy quebecois..
midnightmagic:
mircea_popescu: I see. Just curious. I know nothing about Romanian, sadly, but I love the weird incompatible concepts that seem to pervade languages like tlingit..
kakobrekla:
mircea_popescu dont worry, the next question is did it hurt more than half.
midnightmagic:
mircea_popescu: It is universal; some languages are resistant to it, for various reasons. There are some theories on that based around a language's resilience and flexibility, but I thought the population speaking Romanian was large enough to preserve it. It's pretty unfortunate if that's not so. :(
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform>
mircea_popescu: people fucking the same woman also share a relationship << 'milk brothers' where i come from << Around these parts the term Eskimo Brother is used
kakobrekla: <
mircea_popescu> kakobrekla yeah i know. ftr, i dun really believe that's why. cum hoc etc. < you know, just ask the chumpatrons.
kakobrekla: <
mircea_popescu> <kakobrekla> 350k registration, 40k phones << i gotta partner with these poeple somehow. < just learn their sekrits
thestringpuller:
mircea_popescu: he is apparently speaking at MIT as an expert and giving away prizes to the freshman...
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu: i'm not sure that bitz think any new tech is cool on guys
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu: xiaomi has people hooked with, get this, weekly software updates
kakobrekla:
mircea_popescu i dont see why they wouldnt
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu: not just one man. the man with something to say. there was never anything of any value or utility come from listening "to people" and "their needs" << the apple watch is past the inflection point. a point that was, in my estimation, the iphone 5's 4" screen
punkman:
mircea_popescu: you ever try to open 500mb spreadsheet in LibreOffice or whatever?
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu: "TGI Friday's << they actually had one of these abominations in riga
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu: i stopped the car, got out and spent the next hour screaming at people on the phone. << nao there's a man who doesn't take shit from people who are used to giving it all day.
kdomanski:
mircea_popescu: I don't know about the cams, but the driver's front window is an array of mirrors, usually
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu: i can't fucking believe scientificamerican seriously is advocating making tanks run windows. << i read this as "building tanks with windows for looking out of." funnily, they may just replace seeing windows with mircoderp windows
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu: now the reports and the contract are fucking diverged and jurov has legitimate complaint #873 << c'est possible!
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu: you think i make joke? the logs are really quite splendid this 16th of september
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu: no, that's not retirement, that's being alive. << la vita bella, to be sure
mike_c: <+
mircea_popescu> mike_c btw, make yourself a banner << hm? a banner for what?
los_pantalones:
mircea_popescu i couldn't believe how many people came up to me
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: "go to san jose" << har dee har har
cazalla:
mircea_popescu, i had planned to forum post past weekend, came down with flu so didn't get the chance, fever is the worst
mthreat:
mircea_popescu: we're going to patagonia, but in October....
boolrap:
mircea_popescu: what % of your womens time is spent for meals?
decimation:
mircea_popescu: there's a whole 'gentrification theory' based on gays moving to a neighborhood full of swarthy thugs and making it 'safe' for women and children
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu> the fuck do people know what their needs are, you might as well be the veterinarian that offers pet-managed pet care. << Time to go long on bacon as dogs move over to a diet of pork and more pork
kakobrekla: <
mircea_popescu> nonsense. there is absolutely no reason to cater to idiocy. < broad statement. totally depends what ones goal is
kakobrekla:
mircea_popescu 99% of online betting/shopping volume doesnt know what 'originating address' could possibly be.
kakobrekla: <
mircea_popescu> but i mean, bitbet works just fine without expiring addresses < cause bb has to do with fiat as much as well.. with fiat.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Craetes room for them to be scammy fucks
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: You sold all of the cock cages
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: that's the point of using "poorly engineered"
ben_vulpes: what is this reference
mircea_popescu ?
assbot: Logged on 20-07-2014 08:41:26;
mircea_popescu: maybe i visit after the fall. play fallout in new reno irl or some4thing.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: Fast Food, but they make you wait for it.
BingoBoingo:
mircea_popescu: I think it is just the guy who developed this thing hardcoded donations to himself.
chalbersma: @
mircea_popescu let me see if I can find an explanation of it.
kdomanski:
mircea_popescu: the article's author is a lawyer specializing in technology law and a member of Senate Whatever Comittee of Inteligence, go figure
kdomanski: [01:42] <kdomanski>
mircea_popescu: 40 celsius for me
kdomanski: [01:41] <
mircea_popescu> not mining or anything.
kdomanski: [01:41] <
mircea_popescu> hm, what's a normal temperature for a normal desktop videocard to normally run at ?
kdomanski: <kdomanski>
mircea_popescu: what did you do before bitcoin?
mircea_popescu: <
mircea_popescu> kdomanski i was retired before bitcoin
mircea_popescu: <kdomanski>
mircea_popescu: what did you do before bitcoin?
mircea_popescu: <
mircea_popescu> hm, what's a normal temperature for a normal desktop videocard to normally run at ?
kdomanski: so
mircea_popescu, before the netsplit I asked what did you do before bitcoin
jurov: either
mircea_popescu ignored its own prospectus (100`000`000 shares for 4`657.83 BTC) or I'm getting crazy
assbot: Logged on 09-09-2014 16:03:20; jurov:
mircea_popescu when are F.DERP asks starting? or you just sold all of it to yourself? :D
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu if you didn't have coffee since 2004, you'd probably be surprised that your local shop now offers Ethiopia Chelelektu Kochere instead of "medium roast"
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu try canada some time
nubbins`:
mircea_popescu: uh... the thing you just remembered
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu: 's quite vast. gargantua & pantagruel around the world in 80 days can even be done straight in french. for canadians. << would definitely enjoy this!