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mircea_popescu: "A scripting language modifies a working system to do certain additional tasks or existing tasks differently and cannot exist without the working system. A programming language builds a working system from scratch."
<< cute.
pete_dushenski: I have only seen conspicuous consumers and Apple fanboys wearing the things.
<< i've seen exactly two young men wearing the apple watch. exactly two. "no one could've predicted!"
pete_dushenski: "The worst thing that can happen to a man is for him to invest speculatively as a sideline and for it to work. He then runs the risk of considering himself a good investor."
<< hardly the worst thing that can happen to a man. depends entirely on what he does with his self-confidence as an investor
pete_dushenski: "My naïve Tesla "buy" call was predicated on the American green fetish at the time"
<< did you actually pick up some shares or just 'recommend' ?
☟︎ BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> here's a bit of truth for one bb : "Note that when scienticians talk about, say, the increase in alcoholism, they never go back before WWII, otherwise they'd have to label most ancient Greeks, all Vikings and everyone in colonial America as alcoholics. "Well," they'll explain, "it wasn't until then we started rigorously treating people as data points." "
<< Or the society is broken as illustrated by the differing
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: qntra?
<< reading into it, mebbe?
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> and wtf, the usg Official Truth is that MOST small arms homicides in usa have .22 hole.
<< Pehaps he had the fancy copper plate stuff.
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> almost qntrable.
<< Someone give it the right treatment it could be.
mod6:
<shinohai> Arch 64 is a go
<< cool! thanks for testing.
mod6: asciilifeform: mod6 feature request for your 'v' - degrade gracefully if the graphing lib thing is absent plz
<< sure, will look into it. thx!
thestringpuller: Samuel: "mommy why can't humans work together like ants?" - good question.
<< the actual fuck?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: 'Worse, cynicism and aspirational branding aren't two opposite ends of a pole, they form a cycle: the chasm between your cynical view of real life and the perfect definition of the aspirational images in ads makes you even more cynical towards real life; which drives you further into the safety of branding. Which is why you drink.'
<< y'know, i'd appreciate tlp moar if he were not talking, in every odd
mircea_popescu:
<davout> "Bitcoin XT: a project run by two men
<< who are the men ?!
mircea_popescu:
<btcdrak> Mike is an outright liar.
<< this is neither surprising nor remarkable by this point.
davout: "Bitcoin XT: a project run by two men who already shipped a compromise solution that reflects the demands of miners, users and companies."
<<< it strikes me as weird then that "users", "miners", and "companies" aren't running it, why could it be?
ben_vulpes:
<mod6> that place punches me in the colon
<< i lol'd
mircea_popescu: "Not even the girls will condescend to it, and if you can't sell fashion goods to the girls, you can't sell the goods."
<< fun fact, ties are a purchase mostly controlled by women. JUST LIKE HIGH HEELS,
trinque: ben_vulpes | tonight we fuzz deedbot-!
<< escuse
Cristina:
<+shinohai> ya mañana que es algo tarde... a parte que estaba en ello
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Cristina:
<+shinohai> me dice que esta correcto enviado
Cristina:
<+mircea_popescu> entonces no lo acepto :P
Cristina:
<+ascii_field> por que guardo un poco mi identidad