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decimation: strangely no one even seems to think of this
as being an issue anymore
danielpbarron: not sure what it counts
as, but I'm not into that stuff anymore / burned my yarrow stalks and books on i ching and tao te ching etc
mircea_popescu: of course contemporary usage is unpaid shanonizers (such
as, reddit users), increasing the volume and decreasing the cost of their misrepresentations of their own social interactions.
mircea_popescu: harlan e has a piece where he explains how people like hubbard were optimizing their workflow by - for instance - typing on rolls of butcher paper so
as to not waste time changing sheets in typewriter
Pierre_Rochard: I’ll definitely be taking pointers from it, but end goal is tight integration with bitcoin wallets & APIs, and leaning on pgsql
as much
as possible. That’s what made greenfield a necessity
cazalla: ben_vulpes, i dunno but most cyclists are passive aggressive pricks may
as well join in with the honking
cazalla: oncoming traffic lane is fine to use
as an overtaking lane too, law allows for it but even without that..
ben_vulpes: naw ive seen your car it pollutes less and you're not nearly
as fat
as this old sack of shit
ben_vulpes:
as far
as i can figure, guesses (liberally sprinked with CYA) about what people did, extrapolated from their middens
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform : at battle of manzikert, spy to ars aslan : "my sultan, the enemy army is approaching us". ars aslan : "then we are approaching them
as well"
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: ... consider rewriting the history of the world from the only sane perspective :
as the endless "interplay" between two types of people : the sane, and the imperceptibly mentally ill << nietzsche, or, far better, limonov
ascii_field: to a sane future folk, he would seem
as frothingly-mad
as chingis khan seems to today's liberasts
mircea_popescu: if i were younger and more bored (really, less involved with actual things) i might consider rewriting the history of the world from the only sane perspective :
as the endless "interplay" between two types of people : the sane, and the imperceptibly mentally ill.
mircea_popescu: III. they take adrianople, and their presence alters "reality"
as the greeks perceive it. so their guy is named co-emperor.
mircea_popescu: II.b. and further promised them the "pearl in heavens", a very classical device in greek gay drama (since at least the days of darius, this empty promises
as a path to military glory. the greeks invented "fake it till you make it")
mircea_popescu: II.a. random byzantine (militarily worthless, intellectually overpowering) entity convinces them to help him "recover" his "stolen" throne,
as if the byzantines ever did anything else or anyone had a valid claim, or the possibility of a valid claim even existed in their world.
ascii_field doesn't (
as far
as knows) have super power. possibly one has to be mircea_popescu weight class to notice this effect.
ascii_field:
as far
as i'm concerned, historically, ebay is just this gizmo that shaves a zero off the price of the costliest things i buy. so i was never moved to care whether it is run by hitler or fueled with baby seal juice etc.
☟︎ ascii_field: the shops only supply items 'for the cattle' - that is, most common-
as-dirt and aggressively spamvertized
ascii_field: before that -
as a boy - was buying/selling junk on usenet
WolfGoethe: not really. i do it pretty anon right now...
as opposed to coinbase and circle who know everything about me, other traders don;t care
WolfGoethe: proper peer to peer is online only. using bitcoin
as the lubricant between fiancial instruments like bank deposits, wire, paypal my cash, prepaid cards, western union , domestic intnational methods etc.. and all currencies
mircea_popescu: o whether the key is authentic your guess is still
as good
as mine."
mircea_popescu: "To add insult to injury, despite the emails containing references to the aforementioned website and key, the following Microsoft announcements on July 10 and 11 were actually signed by the key 0xF0B7406D which is not referenced
as a key used for current Microsoft announcements. This key actually does contain a small number of signatures from external users, but
as with 0xA92965F2 none from any Microsoft employee.
As t
mircea_popescu: it's irresolvable, for
as long
as a) "being special" is valued formally rather than substantially, and b) people get to make choice on the mere grounds of existing.
mircea_popescu: anyway, that's the broad conflict. "being special" having been promulgated
as a social good, and smashing the classification being a bona fide way to manufacture specialness, you now have the conflict of the boring who aspire to hack their way to attention vs the people who don't care about them and wish to remain able to not care about them.
bagels7: "sexual normativity" just comes of
as heterosexual / vanilla propaganda
bagels7: where
as a man that was secure could admit that a trans woman is hot despite not wanting to sleep with her
bagels7: [11:38] <+mircea_popescu> how do you know it's faggot insecurity ? << When I am waiting at a bus stop at 2 in the morning and a guy walks by and pretends to be waiting for the bus
as an excuse to talk to me while I am merely being polite then after 15 minutes has the nerve to tell me that I deceived him when he was only being nice to get laid
mircea_popescu: incidentally, the original (mostly politically driven) explanation for violence against homosexuals - some sort of "homophobia" suffers a lot seeing how ALL SORTS of other sexual behaviours elicit the same violent response. such
as transsexualism, or pedophilia.
☟︎ bagels7:
As someone who is transgender I stay away from men in general. I make men angry that would rather kill me than to deal with their faggot insecurity
mod6: Sorry, I don't wanna make more work for ya. It's p. awesome
as is.
mod6: I love this chart
as well; are there any plans to make the name's in the graph link to the corresponding page for that user/keyid?
mircea_popescu:
as opposed to now where 1.05-1.1 is five people from cazalla to mats.
pete_dushenski: i tried a corona a few months, which are supposedly
as low on the gluten scale
as they come for normal beers, and i puked my guts out.
mircea_popescu: veblen goods are goods which exhibit reverse price relation (demand increases
as price increases,
as opposed to how it normally goes).
jurov: one of my first job
as admin were email servers. and from the beginning it was like "plz to raise limit on attachments" "plz why the email did not arrive yet" "plz why is the internet slow cant you, you know set some priorities for traffic"
jurov: explain that
as an admin to your CEO what that stuff means and why
mircea_popescu: iirc blackberry was positioning itself
as "text only. for important folk".
Pierre_Rochard: davout: I floated the idea last year - I’ve used a lot of different accounting software and never been satisfied - none of them use acccounting theory
as the spec
gabriel_laddel: apart from this, I have written Emacs Lisp functions to make a statement into a question and vice versa, to join and split sentences (not quite
as trivial
as it sounds), to upgrade from singular to plural and vice versa, to change the person from second to third and vice versa, et cetera. significant parts of grammar is the way it is to maintain correspondence between numbers and persons and tenses and such, and sin
gabriel_laddel: ad,
as most people would immediately recoil in horror, seeing something so very different what they're used to.
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 14:41:31; mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel "Why isn't there grammer/spellchecking for my comments? " << this i can readily answer. because I am what's called "a creator of language", which is to say one of those people who, through his usage, ENACTS the rules all amateur users of language MUST follow,
as a mark of their linguistic inferiority. like fucking shakespeare.
mircea_popescu: or you mean popular
as in, sought after. not
as in, where commoners gather
Pierre_Rochard: indeed, though I think the gems will become apparent
as pacioli becomes integrated with a wallet and the WoT. writing the core accounting part was necessary because of all the crufted OSS gnucash/openerp monoliths
mircea_popescu: applies to accounting just
as well, except even fewer people know.
mircea_popescu: if they have ~fundamental~ understanding
as a result of interacting with your thing, you scored major points.
Pierre_Rochard: in fact the database tables and query structures are
as close to perfect accounting theory
as you’ll get
mircea_popescu: what sort of an example are you setting for business people such
as myself!@
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: No,
as in the historical person Pulitzer.
lobbes vaguely recalls some tv show from ~15 years ago depicting robot fights such
as these
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: yes,
as a kind of torture test. anyone should be able to do this
mircea_popescu: "Attend our Remote coding school for
as little
as $2,780." omfg wtf.
trinque: "tits or gtfo"
as far
as that goes
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 08:38:32; gabriel_laddel: "I need the ability to publish a unit of research
as an interactive program containing all information used to draw my conclusions. It shall be entirely and trivially modifiable, extensible, and if reproducing the research is possible on this machine, running the program shall be a single click or procedure call away. WYSIWYG tools shall be included and fashioned from the precepts of geometry. Thus,
mod6: <+jurov> the libnss was done
as binary plugin to glibc << so there is no possible way to just build glibc by hand and not include libnss? or there are basically so many things that use libnss that even if you did, stuff wouldn't work anyway?
mircea_popescu: mod6 what i mean is, for
as long
as you use any sort of function touched, whether you yourself use any of the libnss "functionality" or not, its gonna be there
mod6: <+ascii_field> the patch, note, did not remove all (there is a 'what is my ip' thing in there ) << ah, i recall. ok and this is what initiated the conversation about SHA256 addy's
as opposd to dotted quads right?
jurov: the libnss was done
as binary plugin to glibc
mircea_popescu: (this may be a polichinelle's secret for which everyone here just happens to be polichinelle, but : the history of discussion, problems and criticism of languages
as approached by IT types almost exactly mirrors a very similar effort in teh humanities)
ben_vulpes: finding tango partners online is like 1/1000000th
as good a use of time
as finding bdsm partners
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel "Why isn't there grammer/spellchecking for my comments? " << this i can readily answer. because I am what's called "a creator of language", which is to say one of those people who, through his usage, ENACTS the rules all amateur users of language MUST follow,
as a mark of their linguistic inferiority. like fucking shakespeare.
☟︎ kakobrekla: the thing is that fucking conditional code is already in place
as well
mircea_popescu: i want it to complain to the dev about every.single.problem. EVERY SINGLE PROBLEM. and it must be
as a fucking clickbox, in his face.
HeySteve: mircea_popescu, do you have an opinion on Uruguay
as a place to live?
Adlai: "Arvind Mithal (usually referred to
as just Arvind)" well we solved that mystery
mircea_popescu: (mostly through historical accident : gypsy women used
as whores throughout middle ages, ended up with kids without actual parentage, got "soft" father's name
as it were)
Adlai: more common
as a girl's name, but it's found
as both
mircea_popescu: welcome to beartraps & caltrops day on bitcoin-assets. i'll be your lovely host, with the mostly incontinent Sharon Cohen serving
as my co-something or the other.
mircea_popescu: "Put another way, grep sells out its worst case (lots of partial matches) to make the best case (few partial matches) go faster. How treacherous!
As this realization dawns on me, the room seemed to grow dim and slip sideways. I look up at the Ultimate Unix Geek, spinning slowly in his padded chair, and I hear his cackle "old age and treachery...", and in his flickering CRT there is a face reflected, but it's my ex girl
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: "And,
as everyone knows, the best way to get amazing results is to set arbitrary goals without any basis for believing they can be reached. So I set out to search faster than grep by thirty percent." << damned straight. it's exactly how i manage. especially those... contractually obligated, shall we say.
mircea_popescu:
as opposed to "well it mostly works" "you just have to..." "hey it works on MY system" etc.
gabriel_laddel: ific inquiry, but
as a consequence of a comprehensible, expressive design that empowers the individual. "
gabriel_laddel: graphics routines are inadequate, I can fall back on an 'api' independent of man. Lessons,
as a refinement of research, shall offer the same capabilities. Networking (e.g., sharing these programs or crafting interactions between them) shall be trivial. No single authority shall dictate what is an isn't appropriate to publish. This is not to be enforced by social machinery which promises to promote and cherish scient
gabriel_laddel: "I need the ability to publish a unit of research
as an interactive program containing all information used to draw my conclusions. It shall be entirely and trivially modifiable, extensible, and if reproducing the research is possible on this machine, running the program shall be a single click or procedure call away. WYSIWYG tools shall be included and fashioned from the precepts of geometry. Thus, if the supplied
☟︎ gabriel_laddel: BingoBoingo: Making it production ready is going to take some time, but
as is, it is better than any other distro I've used.
BingoBoingo still wonders about the search for a singular #b-a distribution when x86 sucks
as much
as it does...
trinque: the database if told
as much
as is known about the data you want to represent, wont let you fuck it up
trinque: gabriel_laddel: asumming the AST is represented
as a set of tables with foreign key relationships, each table representing a production rule in the grammar
trinque: being able to reflect and consider things
as sets, not the tree, is valuable