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mircea_popescu: spears
thought she "recorded records", altman
thinks he "made reddit gain more users
than hn has in
total"
gabriel_laddel: He has people run
their grubby little fingers
through all HN comments, and
they warn people who are
too "right-wing"
gabriel_laddel: That sam altman is a fuckwit isn't in contention amongst
those in here.
punkman: asciilifeform: because you were shouting "get off my lawn" at
them?
mircea_popescu: i fully expect
they elect 15yo christina ricci as
the next president.
mircea_popescu: (argentina is moar racist
than 1850s charleston, you gotta be white.)
assbot: Logged on 20-01-2015 23:17:04; mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes well, it's clarified some
things for me. i live within blocks of
the center of all "manifestations" "public meetings" and so forth.
there's on average
two a week of
these.
they're not all political, but
the political ones seemed quite suspect
to me
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: local political situation (are
the orcs known as such?), number of useful nuclear engineers
to
take care of
the
two reactors you've got etc.
mircea_popescu: ahaha
that pete mercedes pic. dude looks like a
total stoner paratrooper.
gabriel_laddel: perhaps mircea_popescu will expound on
the situation
there?
gabriel_laddel: I will note for
those reading, Argentina's orcs look
the part.
mircea_popescu: us has been run on
the path of least resistance since at least
the 60s
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
there's nothing whatever optional about
these "plans".
they're not plans in
the normal sense, moar like, "what is
the plan b of yonder artificial lake, once dykes fail ?"
assbot: Logged on 01-03-2015 00:04:30; asciilifeform: ben_vulpes:
to round off
the earlier
thread, house will be confiscated a) ahead of schedule, if you get lucky b) when your local real estate racket's ability
to crank out drywall, pour cement, assemble
the
thing is outpaced by, e.g., flood of $refugees from $pisshole who 'deserve' your house and your neighbour's
gabriel_laddel is not entirely sure how
things will play out, but MF's prescription is really
the only available option
gabriel_laddel: nah,
those who invest in voodoo will get slaughtered by
those who enact
the plan you voiced on Mr. M's blog.
gabriel_laddel: Only a crisis - actual or perceived - produces real change. when
that crisis occurs,
the actions
that are
taken depend on
the ideas
that are lying around.
that I belive is our basic function:
to develop altenatives
to existing policies,
to keep
them alive and available until
the politically impossible becomes politically inevitable.
☟︎ gabriel_laddel: Vaguely related
to
the conversation above, I'm hoping for a war sometime soon -
they are a good way
to go about separating content from nonsense. Von N.,
Teller, etc. wouldn't have been able
to work on
the atomic bomb without
the various powers
that be helping out.
cazalla: damn, you scooped
that instantly scoopbot
gabriel_laddel: BingoBoingo: well yes, c does modify
the rewards pathway, but one neednt do it.
BingoBoingo: gabriel_laddel: When you make your fortune on stupidity,
the cocaine you can afford makes you liek
the stupidity
gabriel_laddel: related
to "cocaine" -
the only way I can do boring parsing
tasks anymore is by drinking enough caffine
to get high.
gabriel_laddel: also, I've been doing
this programming
thing for going on 3 years - let me be clear - I /hate/ it.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> when you solve certain kinds of problems long enough, and get good enough at it, you start -liking- it << With regard
to
this
gabriel_laddel: my search failed, but I specifically remember you complaining in here about what you currently do. You've been doing
this for some
time now iirc
BingoBoingo: "Cocaine Induced Brain Atrophy" is
the obstacle
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: after putting your brain
through x86 etc. you're unable
to
think non-von neumann?
gabriel_laddel: If your goal is
to do a chip level restart, one needn't start
there, from a business perspective.
gabriel_laddel: I disagree. You want
to do
this in one fell swoop.
There are other ways
to go about it.
gabriel_laddel: My point with
the 20k is
that
there are individuals who are willing
to fund such ventures. Yes, MP hasn't put up 5MM usd for sane computing, but afaik, no one has proposed such a plan
to him.
gabriel_laddel: I'd happily pay 100k for a computer
that actual /worked/
gabriel_laddel: Also, MP gave 20K
to openBSD -
there are people willing
to fund such ventures.
gabriel_laddel: Yes. Someone needs
to specify
their requirements,
then someone else needs
to
take a
trip
to china, find suppliers etc. and assemble somthing sane. Like system76, except not for Ubuntu crap
gabriel_laddel: (I have a $300 compaq
that I prefer
to any apple crapware - same one as MP iirc)