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mats: 14:48:49 <+mircea_popescu> anyway, the general idea of people who did intellectual work with/in china is that the chinese folk, while broadly very servile, are utterly uncreative. << i hear such things repeated all over the english speaking internet... might
as well be a meme now
ascii_field: not even chumps,
as such - many of these folks (i usedto work with'em) are laughing all the way to the bank, riding the thermodynamic waterfall between usd salary and cn cost of living
☟︎ ascii_field: goes kinda like this: 'my subjects are rubbish and only fit
as cannot fodder or to be worked to death in the mines. possibly after x centuries of this, we can make some better ones.'
mircea_popescu: course the model worked historically about
as well
as welfarism (aka popular democracy)
mircea_popescu: it seems altogether probable that's what the chinese communist party envisages
as ideal, and acts
as if were the case.
ascii_field: pete_dushenski: this is actually the historic ru model of development, once termed 'colonialism with crown
as the sole european'
☟︎ mircea_popescu: only by sheer luck is there such a thing
as the us, too.
ascii_field: only by sheer luck, there is still such a thing
as chinese
trinque: I'll admit I'm about
as far removed from being able to understand Chinese culture
as possible
ascii_field:
as per mircea_popescu's ancient observation, this one's an instance of 'it works on my box'ism
trinque: Without such a mechanism doing business in China is risky, she stresses,
as about half of the signed contracts are not kept. 'Especially given the speed of the digital economy it is crucial that people can quickly verify each other's creditworthiness.' << wearing a deer-skin and calling yourself bambi
pete_dushenski: funkenstein_: well,
as fluid
as the author in any event.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's really about
as nonsensical
as "carbon causes global warming". men and apes have a common ancestor is all.
funkenstein_: it's hard to tell how rapidly we are changing in this context
as well
mircea_popescu: anyway, re the 10mn years thing : the oldest split that created the rat (murines)
as different from other rodents is about 13mn years ago.
mircea_popescu: you will have to bear in mind that all hominid species other than us are extinct. this isn't some sort of direct lineage,
as the layman often imagines.
mircea_popescu: nah, not at all. she got hired
as a great brilliant mind, came up with her brilliant great plan, some men grumbled but w/e, woman haters. it got implemented, it was a disaster, she was canned.
pete_dushenski: "
As the only woman likely to run for president
as a Republican, Carly Fiorina, who officially announced her candidacy Monday, is the GOP’s counterweight to Hillary Clinton." << o hey look what the dead dog of silicon valley dragged in.
mircea_popescu: and the monkey is going "fuck you bitch" quite literally at the experimenter, whom it (wrongly) perceives
as a monkey of the same age and sex.
☟︎ davout: or
as in "fairness
as we thought was unique to humans"
mircea_popescu: and inasmuch
as a "animal fairness" is not in common use, calling that fairness is really not unlike calling the guy cunthead.
mircea_popescu: yes, i understand that cunts run perl and people on the internet posing
as scientists with their "experiment" consisting of a two monkey show use cunts for brains
mircea_popescu: re that 3,658 views youtube : them riots aren't
as notable
as a minor football game.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that "largest deposit" thing, ie vaca muerta, is
as best i can determine a massive government-sponsored scam.
decimation: add professional 'protestors'
as another side-effect of social democracy
Adlai: mircea_popescu: anything seems dead via youtube, or its moral equiv. let's talk after they tour b-
as Adlai views mircea_popescu
as an 'old people' fwiw
mircea_popescu: for the record, www was comparably irrelevant.
as long
as the processing was started, where exact;y the www responds... whocares.
Adlai: "Few Jewish religious texts have provoked
as much indignation and discomfort
as the brief passage that is recited by traditional Jewish men at the beginning of the daily morning prayers: “Blessed are you, Lord, our God, ruler of the universe who has not created me a woman.” For many, it expresses a quintessential misogyny that lies at the core of our patriarchal religion."
mircea_popescu: "a total of 15,495 accounts were identified
as having premium FetLife memberships” and that “Male doms make up far and away the largest proportion of FetLife’s [paying] customer base, accounting for 3,452 (22.28%) of the total customer accounts identified."
mircea_popescu: "Dr Green currently holds no salaried academic position, a situation her associates regard
as profoundly anomalous and unjust. One of the purposes of Oxford Forum is to reinstate her in the academic world."
mircea_popescu:
as far
as i know, not even linus "decides what is written"
decimation: "The mechanistic software beliefs, in particular, have permitted a powerful software elite to arise. In just a few decades, organizations that have in fact little to offer us have attained so much power that they practically control society.
As we will see in the course of this book, their power rests almost entirely on mechanistic software delusions, and on the stupidity engendered by these delusions."
mircea_popescu: somehow this idea that "privilege = bad" is getting passed around a certain group of idiots
as given gospel.
decimation: I was thinking about the quantity of language
as I was going through my books today. amazon has an app that lets you scan a book - even just the cover picture - and it will instantly return the price
decimation: "In this book we are concerned with one particular myth – the mechanistic myth; and we are especially concerned with its latest manifestation – the software myth. Mechanism is the belief that everything can be represented
as a hierarchical structure; that is,
as a structure of things within things."
assbot: Logged on 02-05-2015 23:02:20; jurov: dunno what would happen if you generated an addy for second bet and used it straight
as payout to first
jurov: dunno what would happen if you generated an addy for second bet and used it straight
as payout to first
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the idea here is that payments clear across a continent
as if they would in the home market.
assbot: Logged on 02-05-2015 18:38:05; williamdunne: Pierre_Rochard: I think you misinterpreted Preston's tweet. He's derping about his Eris Industries blockchain
as a DB idea
mircea_popescu:
as a result, the countless shanonizers are inches away from reproducing shakespeare.
mircea_popescu: the social studies million army may well be useless, but it is not in point of fact idle. the important difference is that while the printing presses of money are run
as fast
as they can run but by a central authority, the printing presses of discourse are run in overdrive independently.
williamdunne: Pierre_Rochard: I think you misinterpreted Preston's tweet. He's derping about his Eris Industries blockchain
as a DB idea
☟︎ davout: not sure your IRC nick needs to be the same
as your wot nick
trinque: well
as long
as you've been told...
mircea_popescu: this would be about
as sensible
as subsistence steppe hunters autotargetting whales.
cazalla: yeah, it's fkn old now but ripe for passing off
as new to the young ones
mircea_popescu: for the record, saying nigger and racism are about
as related
as saying synergy and making a profit.
danielpbarron: seems
as though the stock pogo is configured to look for a TFTP server without any modification -> bootcmd=bootp; setenv bootargs root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=${serverip}:${rootpath} ip=${ipaddr}:${serverip}:${gatewayip}:${netmask}:${hostname}::off; bootm
trinque: I stuck a debian install on one of the attached drives
as a workspace
davout: heh, guess you're right, happened to me back in the day, guess my brain at the time recorded 80€
as 'holy shit, lots of money'
mircea_popescu: 5 btc ? sure, he could amortize $1000 in advertising expenses just
as soon
as the wiki gets twelve trillion pageviews or something.
mircea_popescu:
as time went by, the two were merged into one, and so...
mircea_popescu: ascii_field people are on reddit so
as to be with other like minded people. it is a social function. what words they say... "world's best dad!"
mircea_popescu: for that matter, cold fusion is just
as theoretically possible.
ascii_field:
as a very small boy, i listened to a 'radio' consisted of a handset speaker from a busted telephone (circa 1940s?) and a diode (pulled out of ancient bobbin deck, also thrown out window by someone)
mircea_popescu: "Ebay did grant my item not
as described case. However, Ebay didn't acknowledge that an interdicted, tampered, infected and implanted device is an item not described.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: according to cash, it was rather because southern states ran extraction economy of soil and slave, but did not need the non-planter whites for anything - so left alone (
as 'fremen', in 'dune')
davout: i think both are required, one for the folks who want to inspect, audit or otherwise fuck with the device, and one to turn a crate of stock pogos into node
as fast
as possible
danielpbarron: comes
as no surprise to me; that's exactly the bottle neck i ran into when first getting into running a node
ascii_field: davout: be aware that we don't have a battlefield-ready 0.5.3.x
as of yet.
davout: ascii_field: i have the physical pogos you gave me, an ethernet cable, a power adapter, an internet connection, a few usb sticks, a working debian, and a 120gb sata disk that fits in the pogo. what's the easiest way to set it up
as a bitcoin node
danielpbarron:
as long
as you don't botch the re-flash, it should be possible to do everything over ethernet
danielpbarron: once you have screen, it's
as easy
as typing screen /dev/cu.usbserial 115200
danielpbarron: for me, serial adapter is only accessible
as root, although i think i read somewhere there are things you can do to make it work for other users
pete_dushenski:
as an alternative to minicom for serial communication between desktop and edgerouter
pete_dushenski: danielpbarron: i figure it's worth a shot seeing
as how i'm at a bit of a dead end with osx
williamdunne: RockHoster_: You don't qualify
as a neutral source
mircea_popescu: prolly going to be an endless parade
as we enter into the last phase. buffett started it.
decimation: "We tell them to do the best they can, and then when an individual cop messes up, everybody blames the police. And cops feel strangely victimized by this system — they’re put in the middle and used
as political tools."
decimation: " for example. If we take the last five minutes of flight
as critical due to the proximity to the ground, the lawsuit essentially says that it is more likely that a 1 in 756,000 probability event occurred (engine shutdown during a randomly selected five-minute block of operation time) than that a pilot with virtually no turbine experience or experience with the MU-2 crashed the notoriously tricky airplane through pilot error. "
decimation: and 'big iron' servers have ecc, raid
as standard features