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assbot: Logged on 17-03-2015 14:46:42; nubbins`: i got bogged down last night
trying
to cross-compile arch linux for
the pogo. osx is no fun
Adlai: I Asked For A Railgun But All I Got Was
This Northop-Grumman
T-Shirt
assbot: Logged on 17-03-2015 14:03:07; chetty: <shinohai> I'm more if it isn't broke, why fix it kind of guy.// more of
these needed in
the world
mircea_popescu: brendafdez:
the same happens
to me with portuguese, which i walways perceive as broken spanish <<
to me it sounds like a bunch of russians
trying
to pretend
they're speaking latin.
mircea_popescu: Adlai
the bit was
to my
taste, which is why i clapped. my
tastes are rather... odd, but i guess it's possibru.
Adlai: long as
the choclate's dark
Adlai: doesn't have
to be 'coincidence'
though, could just be
that you reacted fastest out of all
the clappy folk, giving
the illusion of causality/coincidence
mircea_popescu: so i'm having cognac and chocolate cookies for breakfast at 3pm.
this can't be bad for me, can it ?
mircea_popescu: these weren't even 1k, and romanians are very herdy animals, and were more so back
then.
Adlai: was
the
theater clap not at a
typical claptime?
nubbins`: i started a slow-clap once
that spread
to about 7k people
Adlai: dev behind popular open-source-closed-dev spv wallet is also behind a sybil attack
to correlate
transactions with jurisdictions... so
that's why local
trader is so cheap!
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i once
took a girl out
to
the very nice
theatre in my home
town, 1800s baroque building, and we sat in
the presidential seats and at some point i started applauding
mircea_popescu: nubbins` clearly if he was applauded by a whole roomfull of people he's not a
total failure.
Adlai: mircea_popescu: what's your
take on
this "what's your
take"
thing?
nubbins`: nevermind
that
this is not evidence of
the awesomeness of bitcoin, but of
the fact
that
the audience was at least feigning politeness
mircea_popescu: virgins experts in dating, dependent adolescents experts in "making money", otakus writing books on how
to meet and influence people, etc etc etc.
pete_dushenski: likewise, some people who don't own a bitcoin gather around a reddit
to imagine
they matter
mircea_popescu: some people who don't own a history book gather on a blogspot
to emit nonsense.
mircea_popescu: some people who don't own a dictionary got opinions about
the usage of words.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski no but it is
typical of what i'm
talking about.
nubbins`: that's more germanic of you
than usual
mircea_popescu: motherfucker,
these ignorant clods. asciilifeform srsly, cluborlov is
this collection of almanach-educated
twerps.
mircea_popescu: "in 1972, which culminated in Nixon's historic handshake with Mao Zedong, completing China's civilizational pivot away from
the USSR and
toward
the west. In hindsight,
this dramatic opening could only be properly characterized as a swift dagger-in-the-back against
the USSR"
mircea_popescu: these were fucking broken, mostly because
the "Swiss company" is a bunch of poor ass niggards with delusions of grandeur.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski not
the point.
the point is
that if you make a spy node, you have no conceivable reason
to make it act outwardly in any way other
than a common node.
mircea_popescu: i agree with
the chinese.
the part where
the young girl chooses is utterly burgeois, and
the part where a choice is made is definitely reactionary.
mircea_popescu: Urals Mountain-Ash” (Уральская Рябинушка), a Russian folk song in which a young girl meets
two nice boys under a mountain-ash
tree and must choose between
them"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform : "It so happened
that my aunt,
then a sensitive and somewhat dreamy young woman, had stubbornly and haplessly clung
to certain musical
tastes which at
that
time in China came
to be regarded as politically incorrect, being said, in
the
trendy ideological jargon of
that
time,
to reflect “decadent bourgeois revisionist aesthetics.”
To wit, my aunt had kept in her record collection a rendition of “The
mircea_popescu: really
there was absolutely no reason (apart from
their
tim swansonesque contemptuous idiocy)
to make
the nodes visible.
pete_dushenski: The Swiss company, headed by ex-Kraken COO Michael Grønager and former Mycelium engineer Jan Møller, created over 250 'false' bitcoin nodes
to harvest information on
the whereabouts of
transactions.
The firm claims
these nodes have now been shut down."
pete_dushenski: "Compliance startup Chainalysis was forced
to defend itself
today after allegations its surveillance
tactics had disrupted services and
threatened
the privacy of bitcoin users.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: what's your
take on
this "foster's rule"
thing ?
mircea_popescu: but for one
thing it's bullshit and for
the other
thing, it doesn't really wash.
mircea_popescu: i get it
that everyone everywhere, say
the derps on argentina, or
the derps on
the internet exactly alike and exactly for
the same reasons identifies as
this "workman" bullshit.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ironically enough, i consider myself cultural elites. cause if not
that, wtf else.
mircea_popescu: nope. reptiles generally work on
the principle of
the wound spring in more
than one respect.
Adlai: the ones
that ran - velocipator, orinthomimus - weren't larger
than say a stallion
chetty: <<< still wonders how dinosaurs even walked ...wouldn't
they need steel bones
to hold up all
that mass?
Adlai: in general
though
these are all nonlinear advantages, and
their nonlinearity varies among ecosystems
Adlai: (muscle power varies by
the cross-sectional area, but
the weight it must move varies by
the volume)
pete_dushenski: why aren't
there
then mini-zebras roaming
the serengetti
Adlai: their size upon arrival is already
the product of
those expenses, but
together with additional competition from larger animals, forcing
them further down
pete_dushenski: and now
they're in a new environment without said pressures
Adlai: these fresh arrivals came from a place where
they experienced downwards pressure from larger predators
pete_dushenski: it'd be expensive
to support a larger organism and might crush
the supporting food web
pete_dushenski: you might see more diversity in
the new environment but why larger and stronger ?
Adlai: although a medium predator which migrates
to a new land where it's
the largest predator will find little resistance in becoming a stronger, larger, etc predator (up
to a point, but
that point will be larger
than its current size)
Adlai: you don't always get larger animals, foster's rule just
talks about _change_
Adlai: it's an adjustment of
the available organisms
to
the available niches
pete_dushenski: that is, more diversity and complexity in an environment will lead
to smaller, more nimble animals with shorter gestations
pete_dushenski: it seems
to me
that diversity and complexity explain smaller animals
pete_dushenski: why grow larger when predation pressure is reduced
though ?
Adlai: simplest known explanation for
the observed facts
Adlai: this is a "rule" in
the same sense
that evolution is "more
than just a
theory"
Adlai: good
thing it's not for sale!
Adlai: except in
the case of australia, where everything gets larger
pete_dushenski: "he proposed
the simple explanation
that smaller creatures get larger when predation pressure is relaxed (due
to
the absence of some of
the predators of
the mainland) and larger creatures become smaller when food resources are limited (due
to land area constraints)."
Adlai likes it,
too bad it's in foster's hellhole
Adlai: pete_dushenski: what's
that mural
Adlai: who are
the golang fanboys here? artifexd etal, anyoya read CSP or some of
the descendant literature?
ben_vulpes: thestringpuller: brave
the
traffic for lunch?
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That It Had
to
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pete_dushenski: "Everything is
tiny in
the grand scheme!" << hey, reddit commenter understands his own impotence. progress!
pete_dushenski: "Bitcoin can power
the Internet of
Things (IoT). Vending machines could order
their own new merchandise, replacement parts, etc. Self-driving cars could pay for faster lanes,
toll roads, etc.
to speed up your
trip (borrowed
that idea from a Winklevoss
talk)." << goodness gracious
nubbins`: "You're doing a great service
to
this community.
Thank you."
nubbins`: no need
to click, all relevant info in page
title.
thestringpuller: alright pete_dushenski I will
talk
to you soon. I'm off
to brave
the
traffic for lunch.
pete_dushenski: ;;later
tell peterl as if scoopbot's continued ignorance of contravex weren't enough... " Warning: file_get_contents(
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pete_dushenski: the interesting part of
the jamaican diaspora is
that...
they go back after a few decades!