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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
thestringpuller: i also asked him what a kolhoz, and he looked at me funny and said, "Those haven'
t existed in a long time. Although we are probably in one right now."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: right but i mean you don'
t know the face you don'
t know the name, i guess "nobody" ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field wasn'
t it in that time traveling british thing with the guy with wild hair and the two kids ?
mircea_popescu: "This is how I know that anyone who says, "If only I could live in Mad Men time where you could pinch a girl's ass and not get in trouble for it" is going to be way disappointed if a TARDIS shows up, because they wouldn'
t pinch them back then, either, not because they are afraid of trouble but because they are afraid of girls. Exhibit A: you know what a TARDIS is."
keyless: just listening today (mike_c at work). Don'
t have my key accessible.
mircea_popescu: (psa : if you're female, in your 20s and ~couldn'
t~ replace either girl at my option, you fail at life. practice more, this is important. reading jezbel is not.)
mircea_popescu: There's only one thing it can do: say that these women don'
t know better, that they're broken women from broken homes... that they're not real women."
mircea_popescu: " Sex addiction rarely breaks laws so it can'
t be punished, and there's no God so the immorality of it is debatable, i.e. inconsequential. It must be a disease, that way other people don'
t want to catch it. All psychiatric treatment of constructed syndromes isn'
t about cure but about regression to the mean, where mean= cubicle drone. " not even, just... please believe that monogynous fambly is the only fambly and it
mircea_popescu: "i know nothing about how kernels work but i'm 36 and i don'
t think the nielsen box in my house does enough to mess up society - here's some rephrasing i've done in my mysteriously abundant spare time"
mircea_popescu: not like you can'
t make one of these as an actual autonomous system sitting in hdd cpu
mircea_popescu: "so then what hope for anarcho-syndicalism is there ???" you mean that enchanted land where you don'
t have to work because you're somehow rich and yet idiots being rich does not degrade richdom ? plus you have "all the choices" but never have to take one to get there ? "yes!!!!"
mircea_popescu: this is the overarching point. idiot : "bitcoin empowers idiots just like me". no, it doesn'
t.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile dumbass white kids in montana can'
t get laid with or without assistance, what markets.
mircea_popescu: word. "why can'
t i quit pop culture ?" "because to you it's a solution, not a problem."
mircea_popescu: culture isn'
t a symptom of our dying society, it is its heroic measures."
mircea_popescu: "There is no information there. It is there in order for you to talk about it-- so you have something to talk to others about, through a screen darkly or face to face, because if it weren'
t for these meaningless media stories which includes all partisan politics people would have nothing to say to each other, and society's collapse into hikikomori narcissism would be total. Which is why it is correct to say that pop
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?
BingoBoingo: But for srs, isn'
t that the Startup incubators eating college kids racket in a nutshell. 19 year old buterin taking it in the ass for money. Aged as though he's thirty he can'
t the the VC money, he gets the crack rock every fifth blowie in an alley money.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing to fix here. these aren'
t problems people get. these are problems things trying to masquerade as people get.
mircea_popescu: this acting like every vessel that didn'
t happen to get a soul at fill-up is nevertheless full and should be given attention... sigh.
mircea_popescu: "I'm an economics major who doesn'
t know what the hell he is going to do for a career after graduating, and frankly doesn'
t feel qualified to do very much. I went into university thinking that I would try for medical school, but I was one of those kids in high school who got good grades without trying very hard, and my nearly non-existent study habits have left me with a C average, although even that has been slipping
assbot: Logged on 02-11-2015 03:34:54; phf: our moscow neighbor was a burned kgb spy, who upon his return from washington in the late 80s brought with him 5 boxes of tapes, recorded from u.s. cable television, commercials and all. i remember watching the whole thing, but i wouldn'
t be able to recall any specifics. i'm pretty sure it had the entire american ninja there, for example
mircea_popescu: people who actually like/can afford those things have all sorts of obscure preferences, people who don'
t buy rollexes on credit.
ben_vulpes: with suits and ties and didn'
t do the matching originally and daily selection selection on an ongoing basis?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes but anyway, your intuition is broadly correct, the one thing that can make your shop flourish / ensure its survival is heavy duty investment in IP. the real thing, the sort of IP that can'
t be intellectually-protected.
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,
mircea_popescu: (for the people who weren'
t hipsters in the 60s, russ meyer is this guy doing footage of chicks with absurdly big natural tits. nothing happens.)
mircea_popescu: phf i really can'
t watch anything with/about computers
phf: our moscow neighbor was a burned kgb spy, who upon his return from washington in the late 80s brought with him 5 boxes of tapes, recorded from u.s. cable television, commercials and all. i remember watching the whole thing, but i wouldn'
t be able to recall any specifics. i'm pretty sure it had the entire american ninja there, for example
☟︎ ben_vulpes: i don'
t actually know anything about pop culture, my parents only let me watch Oregon Public Broadcasting.
mircea_popescu: imgur obviously doesn'
t get kicked off because "cp" because "we have no control what the internet does". but slimgur does get booted.
mircea_popescu: stupid bitch won'
t put out ? thinks the world is the set of seventh heaven ?
mircea_popescu: well... it's either a disability or it isn'
t. what, you hate the lame and worship the deaf so you put people without legs in prison and give tax money to the deaf ? pick a stand lol.
shinohai: hey had to restart lappy, don'
t b troutin me
mircea_popescu: since she got her key anyway, doesn'
t matter so much, just have it reg'd with assbot
assbot: Logged on 01-11-2015 21:30:42; mircea_popescu: "I have more than a thousand rules: specific detailed rules about how to hold your chopsticks and your bowl, how to pick up food, how to hold a cup, how to sleep, how to cover yourself with a quilt," Xiao says. "If you don'
t follow the rules, then I must beat you."
ascii_field: aha who doesn'
t love job postings with 100 million and one fishwrap-derps bloating the mailbox
mircea_popescu: "I have more than a thousand rules: specific detailed rules about how to hold your chopsticks and your bowl, how to pick up food, how to hold a cup, how to sleep, how to cover yourself with a quilt," Xiao says. "If you don'
t follow the rules, then I must beat you."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: outside of the perceived need of an author to make characters fuck that wouldn'
t, there's no reason for it.
pete_dushenski: "Christ people. This is just sh*
t. The conflict I get is due to stupid new gcc header file crap. But what makes me upset is that the crap is for completely bogus reasons."
shinohai: mod6: yeah 32-bit but still havin static issues, it isn'
t compiling against ourlibs
pete_dushenski: if you've lost your sense of humour and can'
t stop being a victim whore FOR ONE DAY A YEAR then you deserve to rot in a very fiery and exquisitely painful circle of hell.
assbot: Logged on 31-10-2015 03:15:59; v_diddy: i don'
t think pete's actually interested in /building/ the skoolarium
mircea_popescu: <trinque> this is strange, isn'
t it? << not at all. bitcoin still malleable. also, transaction ids ARE MEANINGLESS
adlai: 0conf txids aren'
t actually a thing
trinque: this is strange, isn'
t it?
BingoBoingo: Would frustrate the hell outta junkies too. Just leave ampules of the stuff around, because you can'
t just shoot oil into a vein.
BingoBoingo: Thought of the night: Why hasn'
t big pharma marketed a product that tacks a long ester onto an opiod molecule to create depot product for treating cancer pain?
mircea_popescu: in other news, "Hmm, isn'
t it weird how just as soon as women entered the workforce it became completely impossible for a family to achieve the American dream without the woman in the workforce? Turns out that part of the drive to get women into the workforce was driven by... the workforce owners. Get it? Whenever you don'
t understand geopolitics just ask yourself where the lowest labor costs are, and wait for the
assbot: Logged on 30-10-2015 15:57:35; mike_c: ;;later tell adlai yeah, I don'
t see why not. I'll take a look at posting it somewhere.
shinohai: mod6: V isn'
t finding my .wot directory in arm :/
mircea_popescu: ""Marching gets our message out." No it doesn'
t, it gets CNN's message out. "We don'
t watch CNN, we use the internet." Yet given the infinity of the internet you still surf the same 5 websites, looking for and finding exactly what you want, like a baby playing peekaboo in a mirror over and over and over and over and over and over and..."
assbot: Logged on 31-10-2015 22:29:23; mircea_popescu: "Whenever I see a reference to a statement that seems insane to me, two things will be true: 1. It will take me as long to get the study as it did to conduct the study, i.e. 45 minutes. No hyperlink. No free access. Then I have to go into the university's PubMed, which takes me through three windows to Science Direct or some other outlet. Why, oh why, can'
t I just click "(15)" in the original pap
mircea_popescu: "Whenever I see a reference to a statement that seems insane to me, two things will be true: 1. It will take me as long to get the study as it did to conduct the study, i.e. 45 minutes. No hyperlink. No free access. Then I have to go into the university's PubMed, which takes me through three windows to Science Direct or some other outlet. Why, oh why, can'
t I just click "(15)" in the original paper and immediately
☟︎ jurov: spam isn'
t as nutritional as i thought, seems
jurov: asciilifeform: sadly i don'
t have your message because it started eating the bounces for yet unknown reason
assbot: Logged on 31-10-2015 16:46:49; asciilifeform: phf: in case this wasn'
t obvious, i was not speaking of a ~literal~ return to v6
assbot: Logged on 31-10-2015 15:43:52; jurov: well, you're bound to see your software broken by people who don'
t agree with you then
mircea_popescu: just because bunches of barbarians "do without" the ablative doesn'
t mean they can fucking think in their pigdin
mircea_popescu: and just because you can'
t see where this problem breaks shit down from where you sit doesn'
t mean it's not gonna. it will.
mircea_popescu: wouldn'
t it be great if you couldn'
t read azn code because "if" was written in coolie ?
mircea_popescu: i suppose the people who inform me also didn'
t think much of it.
phf: actually i don'
t think v6 has threads
phf: could crosscompile the core, but openssl/boost, i don'
t even imagine the scope of that one
punkman: my guess is it doesn'
t work with utf16 because it can'
t find linebreaks
phf: jurov: so did i, and i appreciate utf-8 in my music selection or random durp i download from the internet. i wouldn'
t care if there's some frequent surrogate issue with track file names, but i do care that i can'
t have a professional tool where that sort of questions have predictable, if not necessarily easy and fun answers
jurov: btw, that "string" = "byte array" thing, specifically people who like to do pointer arithmetic around it caused enough grief i won'
t miss it at all
punkman: diff works fine with utf-8 documents, doesn'
t it?
jurov: oh it won'
t behave sanely to your standars, anyway
jurov: and in any other cases where you don'
t have to choose exact glyph printed, you can ignore 99% of unicode spec
jurov: well, you're bound to see your software broken by people who don'
t agree with you then
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