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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: story is, the particulars of making just-that (and it had to be just-that, on account of the detonation process) foam, were never fully written down
trinque: mircea_popescu: yeah we can work that out too
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: good evidence that it was indeed a product
asciilifeform: if mircea_popescu does, plox report back, i will read.
asciilifeform: thus far thread seems to compress to a very discouraging http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-19#1468598 ; mircea_popescu: 'me an' the other wizards got vastly moar powerful!1111' asciilifeform: 'waiwut how' mircea_popescu: 'yer puny brain will never apprehend the smallest part of it' ☝︎
asciilifeform: i assume mircea_popescu read, e.g., polya
asciilifeform: if mircea_popescu is going into 'mathematical creativity has never been and likely will never be technologized' he is preaching to choir.
asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu routinely taught it to the gurlz
asciilifeform: but if mircea_popescu is a gifted telepath, clairvoyant, and spirit-summoner and proposes to use 'technology' to describe his abilities, imho this is abuse of terminology.
asciilifeform: and spoken to by mircea_popescu for first time.
asciilifeform: or does mircea_popescu propose that i could not possibly perform the match trick even if told all.
mircea_popescu: this "is_technology" function is never as usefully decidable as schoolteachers like to pretend.
asciilifeform: i can readily believe that mircea_popescu's magic got stronger, sure. but did he singlehandedly surplus all of the obsolete meatbags ? or did somebody else's magic also get stronger, and if so how..?
asciilifeform: does it reduce to mircea_popescu asserting 'my magic got stronger in ineffable wayz and stfu' ?
asciilifeform: well is it, to use mircea_popescutronic analysis, a matter 'for the forum' or 'for the gynaecaeum' ?
asciilifeform: yeah but it is also possible that mircea_popescu benefits from scratching his toes just-so when he wakes up. this is not a technical advance as generally understood, because the recipe is useless to anybody else.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lsd, famously
a111: Logged on 2016-05-19 15:27 mircea_popescu: notrly. finance is basically "engineering for large systems with complex parts"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in life he was ~same as all the other greyhairs in the room
a111: Logged on 2016-05-19 15:37 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2015-04-02#1084144
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: chumpatronics quite clearly moved forward! yes
asciilifeform: until very recently i used to think quite like mircea_popescu above, 'sure, i'll read even if implemented in js'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: on the contrary, there isn't a reference implementation.
asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> you wish to think in terms of your chosen art, which is meaningless. it's not always the same art that provides the additional leverage. <<< pretty much everything other than the infernal machines has been going to hell, visibly to naked eye. so which art would it be that mircea_popescu was thinking of ?
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: yeah... thinking...
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: yeah ok i'm afraid i've to agree
BingoBoingo: Anyways it looks like reddit doesn't get much traffic anymore compare https://voat.co/v/Conspiracy/comments/1050659 to https://www.reddit.com/r/farming/comments/4k1jyv/monsanto_embargoes_argentina_from_getting_dicamba/
mircea_popescu: and in other news, http://65.media.tumblr.com/c068547109830b95fb0f57bbe9657a8c/tumblr_o6xqe2V4B51vn1bdyo1_1280.jpg
shinohai: I grudgingly admit that mircea_popescu was right as always, that I would enjoy it if I got off my ass and did it.
shinohai: tor convo again? (-_\) #facepalm
Framedragger suspects mircea_popescu is baiting him about tor because he remembers those comments on trilema where framedragger said "evidence or gtfo mircea" ;)
a111: Logged on 2016-05-19 01:40 mircea_popescu: oh ok, so changed 16^64 to 10^64 and the "generate entropy in the shape of floating point number" thing clearly indicate these fellows are windows programmers with a strong javascript focus.
mircea_popescu: and in other news, http://66.media.tumblr.com/23b4f68abb37458b79eed98fd6b48cc6/tumblr_o1qr28FnO21v6j0qbo1_400.gif
a111: Logged on 2016-05-18 21:23 mircea_popescu: lol i see the Framedragger fellow got his baptism by fire ?
asciilifeform: if we are thinking of an academic, the qualities mircea_popescu would admire would be inversely correlated with promotion
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not a matter of temperament, matter of rank
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: not unless he were 'royalty' or in a profession that requires travel to human landz
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: nope
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: correct
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'нетрудовой доход' (tm) (r)
phf: mircea_popescu: you know that is weird, seems like sop was accessible prices even at fancy places, but was discouraged from attending. i might be misremembering something
a111: Logged on 2015-04-07 00:10 mircea_popescu: just like having a car doesn't alow having gasoline. it's true that often people who have cars also independently have gasoline, but the two are fundamentally unrelated, and there is such a thing as the fool's breakdown, ie, car's outta gas on the side of hte road.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: depends where. though with weed about to be legal, probably more places soon to be.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: plenty of winnerz had the keys to stockpiles of tp, plutonium, etc.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski tell them to hire chicks for lewd and lascivious washing
asciilifeform: (consider folks who came out golden from su collapse, e.g., mircea_popescu, putin, etc. ; is it because they prophetically set up warehouses of toilet paper ??)
a111: Logged on 2016-05-11 19:33 mircea_popescu: fwiw, young males that aren't entirely dumb go almost universally through this phase of "fantasy busienss" where they keep doing various coups in their heads, start a carwash then buy a shoestore with the proceeds then trade that in for a chain fo restaurants etc etc etc.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: no ?!
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski did you also read the stories about how you needed a sniper assassination squad just to visit your own outhouse ?
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: generous gift for the beoble?
trinque: pete_dushenski │ very small rocks << ehehe
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: hilarious instructions from seller: http://www.loper-os.org/pub/tube_lulz.jpg << Who gets plastered on 6 pack of beer?
asciilifeform: aha pete_dushenski has it
asciilifeform: i prolly ought to point out for pete_dushenski's enlightenment that going to restaurant was a quite uncommon thing in su
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: yeah i saw
a111: Logged on 2016-05-12 15:47 mircea_popescu: also, please don't refer to tmsr as "a community". it is not "a community", it is your liege.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: hilarious instructions from seller: http://www.loper-os.org/pub/tube_lulz.jpg
shinohai waves at pete_dushenski
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'will not work' means that sks gossip protocol requires blessing on both ends of the line, so i'd have to make friends with an existing user
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i wanted a leechatron
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu soooo i went through the epic headache of setting up sks server on dulap, only to learn that the thing will not work without blessing from existing sks operators.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: two weeks
a111: Logged on 2016-05-18 14:47 asciilifeform: pete_dushenski, by all appearances, seems to live in a peculiar reaganite fantasy planet where su refugees cream their pants upon tasting delicious american mickeydee, and wax ecstatic while kissing bald eagle in the beak without having to watch out for kgb and no longer having to feed the bear or adjust the vodka level in the house reactor.
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski, by all appearances, seems to live in a peculiar reaganite fantasy planet where su refugees cream their pants upon tasting delicious american mickeydee, and wax ecstatic while kissing bald eagle in the beak without having to watch out for kgb and no longer having to feed the bear or adjust the vodka level in the house reactor. ☟︎
asciilifeform: ;;later tell pete_dushenski http://www.contravex.com/2016/05/18/not-all-soviet-food-is-created-equal/#comment-46477
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: great, thank you! will do (i'll be on-and-off today, too)
deedbot: mircea_popescu rated Framedragger 1 << old timer
deedbot: mircea_popescu has not rated Framedragger.
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: fwiw, posted as comment on your article, and paste here: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/516b9972-337a-4b88-ba48-711af84dc281/ - easiest format of responding is probably as a follow-up comment on blog, though.. anyway. i liked the overall idea.
asciilifeform: and it boggles my mind that mircea_popescu had to have this item of furniture machined
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: transportable in sections
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: so it can be made from pipes which screw in
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: steel
asciilifeform: at any rate, the device mircea_popescu is describing seems to resemble a standard hammock stand
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu never bent sheet metal ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have proper machine toolz here.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: these climb routinely into 5fig
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there is always the 'can't be arsed' theory
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there was a few hr outage.
mircea_popescu: hey ben_vulpes , would it be possible to move the orig link right under the wotpaste header, and add a home one next to it ?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-17#1467679 << omfg now i also wonder what's in bb's tobacco. this insanity coallesced in my head like that iconic cartoon scene of all the clocks going off, except you know... with loud obnoxious two stroke engines. << More noise == More Powah ☝︎
asciilifeform: http://trilema.com/2013/the-future-in-the-past << great vintage mircea_popescutronic lul re trb...
a111: Logged on 2016-05-14 13:23 mircea_popescu: bad crop, bad pose, what the fuck is it with the milkstained, nipple torn bra and so on.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-05-14#1466468 << important question that perhaps only mircea_popescu could answer: is there a 'background lactation' ? ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/The_Pentagon << related comedy
asciilifeform: (although mircea_popescu pretty convincingly explained that it ought to)
gribble: I have not seen funkenstein_.
asciilifeform: ;;seen funkenstein_
asciilifeform: from the dept. of ancient things that were neato, http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/bitwise/2014/01/robot_odyssey_the_hardest_computer_game_of_all_time.html
a111: Logged on 2016-05-17 08:01 mircea_popescu: honestly, it's a surprise to me they haven't introduced cockcaging for us kids as of yet. for one thing, they're doing the entire fucktarded "can't drink till 21", so they definitely could. for the other thing, it'd make so much fucking sense, in the twisted psychopathy that passes for sense in the us world : kid gets a nice cage around the age of 3 or so. prevents penis from growing, which is +++. mom gives the key to a well
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: noshit.jpg
asciilifeform: from ben_vulpes's link,
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my point is that the whole motherfucking orchestra is not reliable
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes maybe BingoBoingo if he can be arsed.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: what's didi
a111: Logged on 2016-05-17 11:44 a111: Logged on 2016-05-17 07:50 mircea_popescu: ftr, that butnodes thing is not terribly reliable. 91.218.246.31, 46.166.160.36, 46.166.170.208 all online talking to the public, but it "doesn't see them".
a111: Logged on 2016-05-17 08:01 mircea_popescu: honestly, it's a surprise to me they haven't introduced cockcaging for us kids as of yet. for one thing, they're doing the entire fucktarded "can't drink till 21", so they definitely could. for the other thing, it'd make so much fucking sense, in the twisted psychopathy that passes for sense in the us world : kid gets a nice cage around the age of 3 or so. prevents penis from growing, which is +++. mom gives the key to a well
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes well, maybe you find something.
ben_vulpes: http://66.media.tumblr.com/c674eb0ca22b78f6f3527bf1ff37a14f/tumblr_o5ftx1qfGK1v05rsfo1_1280.jpg
a111: Logged on 2016-05-17 07:50 mircea_popescu: ftr, that butnodes thing is not terribly reliable. 91.218.246.31, 46.166.160.36, 46.166.170.208 all online talking to the public, but it "doesn't see them". ☟︎