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ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: they have their place. i find it convenient to have tests when rewriting large swaths of a thing either i've written: with the behavior codified, i don'
t have to manually poke at the thing to ensure that it still behaves the way it did before i tore it apart and put it back together.
mircea_popescu: and by "Some girls" we mean "the vast majority of human females of reproductive age", but hey, they don'
t read random derpy us website nobody reads so they don'
t count\
mircea_popescu: " there should be no instinct at all to defend such a jerk, and yet----- and yet that is precisely the instinct many people get." << check it out, usg wants monopoly on orcdom now. IT can defend the outcasts so they can terrorize the cattle, i'm not "allowed to" because hey, there can be only one and it can'
t be me, amirite ?
mircea_popescu: it's not that there should be no controversy THIS way. There should be, and really there is not, any controversy the other way. ~Some guys~ SHOULD tell a girl they'll rape her. If they don'
t, how are you to stand out ? And "girls" in the general must be convinced in their bones that either they put out with their choice or get collectively raped by everyone. This part seems to work okay, anyway.
assbot: Logged on 15-10-2015 00:26:51; mircea_popescu: "If Biederman never existed, nothing would be different. You read his resume, you think, wow, he's a big player. You don'
t realize that if he didn'
t exist there would be some other person in his exact position, who would also have become a Distinguished Professor, won awards, written 450 publications, etc. The machine was already in place, his slot was going to get filled; his mind didn'
t discover
mircea_popescu: "Keeping in mind that actual stalking has never been dealt with in any significant way ever, the desire of a few female writers to curb online anonymity wouldn'
t be enough to get an @ mention, except that this happens to coincide with what the media wants, and now we have the two vectors summing to form a public health crisis. "Cyberbullying is a huge problem!" Yes, but not because it is hurtful, HA! no one cares about
BingoBoingo: Eh, it was one of those masked hero movies so if he didn'
t die and asked for too much money they could have replaced him.
mircea_popescu: "I'm pretty sure that's Charlize Theron, not Scarlett Johansson." And I'm pretty sure they're the same person, and just because now she's Rachel Maddow doesn'
t mean she's serious.
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 19:31:11; mircea_popescu: that if you don'
t despise yourself and your own achievements, you'll never get anywhere. but not too much! because you also won'
t get anywhere! etc.
mircea_popescu: l poison your toothpaste. Be careful: the point is not that a woman shouldn'
t post her baby pictures, the point is that the system cannot profit from her baby except as a photo, so that in order to get them to do it more-- to be online more-- the system teaches them to overvalue the photo; and this must necessarily be at the expense of the object itself. #porn."
ben_vulpes has just rediscovered that gpg doesn'
t handle filename wildcards gracefully or at all
mod6: because the 'each' keyword isn'
t supported.
mircea_popescu: well, just like in a movie : actor threatens the other actor AND the audience, but can'
t really hear the audience.
pete_dushenski: so no, vw won'
t be 'fixing' any old vehicles. you can take your carbon, nox, etc and huff it.
pete_dushenski: 500 and has no restrictions on where it can be used. The second, which may be valued between $500 and $750, will be limited to use at Volkswagen dealerships." << in which vw doesn'
t even try to 'fix' the problem that isn'
t and instead distributes cash to owners whose vehicles WILL BE WORTH MORE than the owners of post-scandal neutertronics
mircea_popescu: so wait, now that they lost "cryptoexpert" bruce whatshisname, and the entire zimmerman angle didn'
t work, the plan is to bring the deceased husk of esr back to complement the recently stolen cryptome into some sort of bitcoin-foundation-3.0-except-with-more-gunk ?
davout: jurov: bot will be back on monday, answered earlier turned out I wasn'
t voiced
pete_dushenski: wasn'
t it 'conscious uncoupling' or something equally vomit-worthy ?
pete_dushenski has only seen casablanca, can'
t speak to bogart's other roles.
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> though i grant that some actors only have one character, but we shouldn'
t even know the names of such fungible plebes << like who, bogart ?
pete_dushenski: but it's another to represent the businesses that converge in this space, be it mpex, mg, nsa, xotika, bitbet, or what have you. this representation wouldn'
t be voluntary, which means that it'd need to have a measurable output in order to be billable
pete_dushenski: though i grant that some actors only have one character, but we shouldn'
t even know the names of such fungible plebes
punkman: from the department-of-mailing-lists-I-didn'
t-read-but-saved-it-anyway-because-maybe-sometime:
http://dpaste.com/16WQEP7 Organizing the World's Delusions
mircea_popescu: What you don'
t see is that this logic isn'
t even self-justifying, it is self-destructing. Not "since I have sexual problems, I wish I had the drug"; but, "since I wish I had the drug, I have sexual problems." Since I wish I had the drug, two hours have already gone by. I'm staying in tonight.
mircea_popescu: which takes us round circle to viagra : yeah, i don'
t take it either. because i happen to be satisfied with the sex. because the women i fuck rock. because etc.
mircea_popescu: "productivity enhancing software", the surefire halmark of people who aren'
t productive and don'
t wish to be.
ascii_field: 'you don'
t hit much but twigs and brush, when you hosedown...'
mircea_popescu: what they do is go empty magazine after magazine in the worship of "look see, even THIS great gun can'
t hit anyone".
mircea_popescu: which is why "if you fuck it it only gets heavy and you still can'
t hit largest side of barn" does not deter him. nor even occur,.
mircea_popescu: the problem isn'
t that they want something. they do not. they pointedly not only wish not to have it, THEY WISH IT TO NOT EXIST. because it scares them like penis @ little girl.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> MOAR return for GIVEN amount of discipline. << this is fundamentally how it doesn'
t work.
ascii_field: hey wasn'
t it mircea_popescu writing prescriptions for ego amputation ?
mircea_popescu: "oh i've been raped". no, you haven'
t, you were whoring out. "but nobody asked me" yeah, they did. "i'm just here for the free food" well... enjoy the extra protein. actually natural.
mircea_popescu: "This is the whole gimmick of media, not polar but triangular, right, left, middle, mobilizing an army of assonauts to feel strongly enough about something that they don'
t do anything."
ascii_field: being nonsense hasn'
t stopped it from much, has it
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 20:01:08; mircea_popescu: They consider themselves leaderless. They can have representatives, they can have "evangelists" but they have to believe that their conclusions are all their own, through individual reflection and objective consideration. Interestingly, and on purpose, they believe their brains can handle such an analysis, any analysis. This isn'
t arrogance. They are told, by universities and the media, that their
mircea_popescu: "yes. and we sell it at a discount wirth this caveat, we won'
t take it back. it's already been returned by a dozen people. perfectly healthy parrot, fine specimen, but -"
mircea_popescu: re tlp's entire "universities don'
t produce producers, they produce consumers". there's some very specific requirements for "consumership" and they're not the obvious "oh bad people" bla bla.
mircea_popescu: They consider themselves leaderless. They can have representatives, they can have "evangelists" but they have to believe that their conclusions are all their own, through individual reflection and objective consideration. Interestingly, and on purpose, they believe their brains can handle such an analysis, any analysis. This isn'
t arrogance. They are told, by universities and the media, that their mind is prepared
t ☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, merely the contemplation of the plain if never discussed (shouldn'
t this be discussed in school ? you think ?) that cells do not actually have signalling for hunger built in, so the entire insulin system is left guesing, with all the attendant problems of insulin resistence etc. they didn'
t think this was important enough. apoptosis, yes. this, no. not fundamental enough, didn'
t make the cut.
mircea_popescu: which makes it a good movie ; which hollywood can'
t apparently do.
ascii_field: re: sleep, i have a ~26 hr circadian and this isn'
t fixable
ascii_field: i wouldn'
t want to fuck with sleep either if i didn'
t have to stand up at a post at x o'clock
ascii_field: it wouldn'
t astonish me to learn that 'will' is chemically goosable
mircea_popescu: then people wanna take drugs, as if juddling all this shit in the vain, vague hope that it's evolutionarized to balance isn'
t hard enough,
mircea_popescu: that if you don'
t despise yourself and your own achievements, you'll never get anywhere. but not too much! because you also won'
t get anywhere! etc.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, the chief problem with self esteem, and it is indeed a major problem, is that coping strategies develop and are tested as the name says : through coping. will is a fabulous thing, which serves approximately the same role as beauty in teenaged females : now you don'
t gotta work at anything, because lalaland. and so you don'
t. and so you suck at everything ELSE. and you're fucked. the problem with self esteem is
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 19:14:16; mircea_popescu: I totally don'
t know, Boardwalk Empire only goes up to 1924 and Mad Men starts 1960."
ascii_field: now the one puzzle imho is why this mutation isn'
t fatal
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 19:19:07; mircea_popescu: which is why if you're hungry and can'
t eat, you don'
t try to EXPLAIN to your aching belly anything. you try and WILL it to shut the fuck up.
assbot: Logged on 06-11-2015 19:19:07; mircea_popescu: which is why if you're hungry and can'
t eat, you don'
t try to EXPLAIN to your aching belly anything. you try and WILL it to shut the fuck up.
mircea_popescu: most people can'
t do that, obviously, which is why most people are most people.
mircea_popescu: which is why if you're hungry and can'
t eat, you don'
t try to EXPLAIN to your aching belly anything. you try and WILL it to shut the fuck up.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: I totally don'
t know, Boardwalk Empire only goes up to 1924 and Mad Men starts 1960."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: o wait, the jews don'
t agree they're in africa, was it ? only egypt is. jewlandia is in... well it's almost practically europe right ?
mircea_popescu: "you haven'
t even been to prison ? and you call yourself an american ? get the fuck out of my fucking office, loser."
mircea_popescu pays respect to the people who make it so he doesn'
t have to remember things.)
mircea_popescu: i would about 100x rather use a deedbot-based system. and i don'
t think something like that is usable.
mircea_popescu: jesus check out tlp getting shit. it doesn'
t seem to help him, but those were older articles.
mircea_popescu: ironically, the greeks invented cremation didn'
t they.
mircea_popescu: hence "scientific paradigms", ie, "don'
t look at magnetism".
mircea_popescu: now all we need are the sort of men who aren'
t liable to get scared.
jurov: so, don'
t mind that
punkman: I don'
t think that would work
punkman: "In Chinese, 保留 means "super important register fields that aren'
t on the datasheet.""
mircea_popescu: "Dove is telling you you don'
t need to do anything to be beautiful, but it knows full well women must do something to themselves to feel good about themselves" << aha. and now tell me WHY THAT IS ?
mircea_popescu: cally inseparable from the entrenchment of an aristocracy, can'
t have one without the other once you get bigger than 20M, ask Bismarck. "Does he write for Time?" No. But keep this in mind every time you hear how great it is Bill Gates is curing malaria after leaving us all with Windows.""
mircea_popescu: ng." How can you work in media and not understand media? The fact that feminism is in the mainstream means that it doesn'
t exist, it is no longer real, in the same way that when you hear "gun control debate" it's a lie and "fiscal cliff" is an easy to market, safe distraction from the structural problems that can never be named, here's one: for any heterogeneous population, the expansion of a "welfare class" is logi
punkman: he didn'
t, some other tard did
mircea_popescu: aaannd... "if we had a system of healthcare in which doctors were paid the exact same regardless of diagnosis or severity, then there'd be little attention paid to "correct" diagnosis, all of our epidemiological data would be totally invalid, and the number one drug in America would be Xanax. "Wait, isn'
t that the situation now?" Huh, nailed it."
mircea_popescu: relevant as the skin color. Not irrelevant for now, not irrelevant "until the economy improves"-- irrelevant forever. The economy doesn'
t care about intelligence, at all, it doesn'
t care what you know, merely what you can produce for it. The only thing the English grad is "qualified" for in this economy is the very things s/he is already doing: coffeehouse agitator, Trader Joe's associate, Apple customer ............
mircea_popescu: "When we see a welfare mom we assume she can'
t find work, but when we see a hipster we become infuriated because we assume he doesn'
t want to work but could easily do so-- on account of the fact that he can speak well-- that he went to college. But now suddenly we're all shocked: to the economy, the English grad is just as superfluous as the disenfranchised welfare mom in the hood-- the college education is just as ir
mircea_popescu: you really shouldn'
t stack the same play. if the wife's a lascivious blonde don'
t get ANOTHER one for a mistress. get a spirtous brunette sarah silverman sorta chick.
mircea_popescu: aged splendidly too. im not even sure if his best work isn'
t his last album
mircea_popescu: always suspected the trout doesn'
t actually mind being caught.
mod6: When I wasn'
t cutting down trees, I would blow up an air matress and float down this creek that ran through a private golf course. Where I would fish the golf balls out of the creek, shine 'em up and sell 'em back to the guys who just hit 'em in there for like $0.25 per ball.
mod6: Ripping people off for vaporware or whatever other bullshit isn'
t.
mod6: well, to some extent for me I have to be able to be honest and have integrity in my job or I wouldn'
t respect myself in the morning.
mod6: when I was younger I used to be a lot more idealistic about my job... now, couldn'
t care less as long as the money is wired on a regular basis. haha.
mod6: I pretty much keep my head down, work hard. I don'
t get emotionally invested in the mines.
mod6: but I don'
t work in these mines for the thrill of victory, i do it for the cash.
mod6: and rome wasn'
t built in a day. or 5 years or whatever. takes time.
mod6: i would like to help out with s.nsa. but yeah, right now foundation stuff is about all i can handle outside of mines. once I don'
t need the mines any longer, then I'll have some extra time perhaps.
mircea_popescu: this wasn'
t terribly controversial shinohai. howdja meet her anyway.