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ben_vulpes: also with shitty constants gleaned in
a hurry
trinque: possibly already scooted in your area? but not sure, 8.0 is quite
a jostle.
trinque: looks like there was
a 4.7 closer to ya yesterday, off the coast of el salvador.
mircea_popescu: srsly, there can be
a 8.0 earthquake 1k miles away and it'll pass entitrely unnoticed ?!
ben_vulpes: i recall this being
a useful feature once upon
a time
mircea_popescu: really, fat chick with no marketable skills is gonna sit on
a pile of empty takeout wrappers and "score" things ? because anybody totally gives
a shit how $nobody evaluates $item, according to $nobody at least ?
BingoBoingo: lol, October 19th, 2016: "Do you remember the first time you thought Donald Trump’s presidential campaign had hit rock bottom? By now, we’ve learned that there’s no depth that Donald Trump and his team won’t sink to. And today, like most days, marks
a new low. Because when Eminem thinks that your presidential campaign is in poor taste, you know that you’ve reached
a historically unprecedented political nadir."
mircea_popescu: whether she conceptualizes this sexual mutilation as "i hate the man and so i bit off his penis" or "i rly LUV!!1 the man so much i... cut off his penis" is irrelevant. yes the latter is the sort of perversion (in proper terms, cognitive dissonance) "civilised" individuals tend to come up with to explain their own choices to themselves. nevertheless,
a cut is
a cut, it has no philic component.,
mircea_popescu: black doods simply manage to count as subpar for
a larger percent of females than whites.
BingoBoingo: Here's
a rather big lol from the wikipedos, on their page for Al Sharpton's social engineering firm: "In 2011, Walgreens announced they would be ending their relationship with Express Scripts,
a prescription drug program serving mostly poor individuals that gave them discounted prescriptions.[9] This would have resulted in low-income individuals paying up to 30 percent more for their prescriptions.
A coalition of minority groups, led by
fromloper: but in terms of
a hashpower attack?
mimisbrunnr: Logged on 2017-08-23 16:58 BingoBoingo: Even with BCH's "Emergency difficulty adjustment" (allegedly drops difficulty after X time without
a block found)
ben_vulpes: i see you racist misandry and raise you
a racist sandwich: "Applying critical analysis to food is essential to understanding and framing 'big picture' ideas about white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchy."
☟︎ BingoBoingo: From deep in the lulzmines: "The Man-Not is
a theoretical starting point that tries to capture the history of black males being killed, mutilated and raped beyond simply saying it is racism that causes this violence … History has shown black males are eroticized in an anti-black world. Their genitalia has been imagined to be at odds with the endogamy of the white races of America and Europe, so our attempts to study black males must ta
mod6: Didja like "
A Farewell to Arms" ?
shinohai: (Old Man and Sea being, for all practical purposes,
a "short story")
mircea_popescu: onveniently-abstract items to be represented in more intuitively approachable forms, the principal point of modern galois theory is to prove that certain fields admit no closed-form solution, and in
a very narrow sense are not properly speaking math. or rather -- that our current notations share aspects of roman numerals most visible in those particular points.)
mircea_popescu: (quick likbez : evariste galois among
a whole school of northern french/swiss 19th century mathematicians wished to know why there's 5th degree polynomials which don't admit closed form expression. this seemed, and still seems, intuitively impermissible in some sense. the proof of the abel-rufini theorem might be interesting here. nevertheless, other than the practical use of bridging field and group theory, allowing some inc
mircea_popescu also appreciates the terseness as
a stylistical choice. in english, it is at worst
a forced mistake, by the medium, and in general
a good idea.
mircea_popescu: certainly not many english writers can hold
a candle to him, that much is out of contention.
mircea_popescu: all math things have
a closed form, whether we know it or not.
mircea_popescu: but -- language doesn't work this way. the reason the bags aka words are useful AT ALL is that there's
a little of each and every other bag in each and every single bag.
mircea_popescu: you could make soup out of
a bag in which there's peas mixed with carrots in some proportion, and another bag in which there's pasta and some chicken, and
a third bag where there's more chicken and some celery. it'd still come out soup. nevertheless, the CORRECT way to make soup, arbitrarily, is by using
a bag in which there's peas and nothing else ; and
a different bag in which there's chicken and nothing else, and so follow
mircea_popescu: now, forcing
a point : if complex numbers are notated as
a + bi, then it is
a correct approach to describe
a sum as x (=
a +
a') + y (=b + b') i rather than x' (= q + p i + r + t i) + y' (=q' + p' i + r' + t' i). the former notation would be
a normatively correctly stated theorem (elements are orthogonal) whereas the latter would, while still equivalent, nevertheless be normatively incorrect (it mixes up the lemmas!).
mircea_popescu: it wouldn't mean anything to elliot himself, or to the blonde girls that "didn't give him
a chance", but it'd nevertheless be
a perfectly correct description of the situation they found themselves in, unwillingly the lot.
mircea_popescu: come to think of it,
a fine answer to "what the fuck was elliot's problem" could correctly be "he used orthogonal language".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform oya. really, vulgar latin on
a "butter me up and roll me in dicks like they're nonpareils" kick.
trinque:
a wandering barbarian happens upon
a temple kind of moment
mircea_popescu: and romanian has ESPECIALLY
a problem with orthogonality (as
a necessary drawback of its insane bond power), which is why and wherefore it ends up thinking all languages are just badly spelled romanian.
mircea_popescu:
a language where ALL parts are orthogonal is entirely the phone book, unable to mean anything. i thought the contention was language where SOME parts are orthogonal.
mircea_popescu: but i think the point transpires, if metaphorically : the fundamental reason language even exists in any usable, useful form is the rejection of orthogonality as
a possibility.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not really, because there's no such thing as orthogonality in natural language. that's
a property of
a correctly constructed theorem ("let it have no overlapping lemmas") and therefore relevant in computing.
mircea_popescu: very much throwback to the problem of "man is that animal with flat nails" / "here's
a chicken" issue
a111: Logged on 2016-12-21 18:32 mircea_popescu: because no, words don't "have meanings". your meanings for ANY WORD are
a function of ALL THE OTHER WORDS YOU KNOW. which is why my definitions regularily blow out english dictionaries, wikipedia and other sources of "wisdom" out of the water - i know more words, and in this knowledge i know all the words i know ~better~. infinitely and irreproducibly so.
mircea_popescu: (who are borne out of the interaction between their stupid mothers and
a weak language)
mircea_popescu: which brings back the sad fact of the matter : there's no such thing as
a weak language ; only imbecile speakers
mircea_popescu:
a fine example in that very same paragraph : "I don't expect I've done" is very much different from the "plain english" "equivalent" "I don't think I've done" : as there is no relation between expectation and reality, saying "i don't expect i've done" is
a perfectly fine sendoff on
a masterpiece. not same in the case of the latter
mircea_popescu: which is why english is ~soup. unless fortified with
a lot of latin / middle french, shakespeare style.
mircea_popescu: very direct measure of the power of
a language -- weak languages only have van der waals links and thereby can't support complexity such as life
mircea_popescu: textual tension is
a measure of relation complexity per unit space.
mircea_popescu: i second the blog idea. PeterL you have
a healthy output phi, you should not leave it at the mercy of archive-bot-saved-
a-paste.
trinque: hey PeterL, mind getting
a blog together and putting this on it?
PeterL: Lane is
a mod 2**64 type
PeterL: keep in mind I am just learning ada as I do this, I feel like there might be
a more efficient way to do some of the things (like the type conversions)
mircea_popescu: turd, like all others. whereas the first petawatt laser IS, as
a factual matter, the first such laser ever built. for all we know -- every built anywhere in the universe.
mircea_popescu: you understand, it's not that "this is
a new model of spoon, we had spoons before but this is just
a different take".
mircea_popescu: the former is physics, the latter is math. the building of items THAT NEVER BEFORE EXISTED is
a defensible activity to
a degree most others (spawning, doing art, including shakespeare, etcetera) are not.
mircea_popescu: they'rte the ones whining for relevancy. why the fuck did zuckershithead spend 100bn on "instagram" or w/e random spamsite with "here's
a number we printed on
a webpage and we labeled it USERS!!!" instead ?
a111: Logged on 2016-07-11 16:22 asciilifeform: 'So basically the LIGO team is admitting to publishing
a manipulated final result and no real exact means for anyone outside of the LIGO project to duplicate it. It also appears the team tried to bolster and perhaps even justify their reporting of this highly questionable second event by including
a third one they had previously dismissed.'
mircea_popescu: say phf ! since you're in moscow, what's the bdsm scene like ? do they have
a club ? mind doing
a field report ?
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: inept dork, can't even die at
a normal pace. everything with him was slow.
mircea_popescu: so is that vomit mccain dead yet ? or still clinging to
a world that really has no place for him ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
a correct, if not novel idea, near-equilibrium and far-equilibrium physics.
mimisbrunnr: Logged on 2017-09-02 16:41 mircea_popescu: one major point is that other than mpfhf which has been well implemented thanks to peterl, sina and ben_vulpes (and to some degree researched -- speaking of which, still cooking ben_vulpes ?), there's keccak which HASNT yet been implemented much ; and we really could use
a fixed-block hash function that's any good.
trinque: ^ did
a bit of maintenance; node back online
mircea_popescu: (which fraction of this via
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-27#1703771 they're not required to declare, as per "fair and balanced" pseudo"legislation" enacted by self-same pantsuit. but it'd be
a fair guess half to two thirds of comcast income is entirely fake, govt gifting, putting them at
a hefty 20 to 30bn loss
a year from continued operations)
☝︎ mircea_popescu: (speaking of subtle differences : wikipedia has
a mention of televisa's income (700mn profit over 5.3 billion gross, 2012 figures) but not of nbc's. this is of course not
a meaningful omission, IF you're the sort of mentally dull retard that actually takes wikipedia seriously. the word fucking "income" is not on the nbc page.
mircea_popescu: but yes, they never fucking imagined THAT is going away. us never managed to write
a novel, nevertheless new york hacks off tin alley readily imagined themselves some kind of cultural power.
mircea_popescu: yes, it's "mean", but at least it doesn;'t leave your ass flying as
a kite the moment the "everyone wants to be
a roman citizen" dries off.
mircea_popescu: just goes to show the libertards are actual retards. who the fucking hell picks "headcount" over "metaphysics" as
a tool to bezzle, if given the choice. and they did have the choice.
mircea_popescu: it's very vulnerable to border strangulation in
a way the republican corporatelandia is not (their scam is "high tech" instead of "job creation")
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo re
http://qntra.net/#fn2-7835 : this is both correct and well grounded. pantsuit exists by and for
a certain section of us corporatelandia ; which entirely exists of and for "job creation" as the racket through which to launder "public funds" ie fake money printed by fed on the basis of chinese indiscriminate crediting of the us foreign account.
ben_vulpes: each nugget comes with
a verification code! to verritify that the pantsuits did in fact say the thing!
mircea_popescu: "there isn't an euro firewall" is very much
a constructive "there isn't
a great bureaucratic conspiracy to kill every man". sure, there "isn't" in the sense it's not working, but strictly due to them being inept. if they could they would and if they could do it any better they'd do it.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> imho the remarkable bit is that there ~isnt~ yet
a 'great firewall of' eu (usa, etc) << Eh, not enough for me to feel like newsing on it's own. May support
a later newsing
mircea_popescu: "the 5yo boy isn't
a criminal because while he lay in wait in the little girl's closet for her to fall asleep and then tried to force
a plastic knife in her eye, he didn't have enough force to actually reach the brain. he did leave behind
a work on "most efficient ways to kill people" open at the stab-to-eye page in the library, but nevertheless!"
mircea_popescu: the argument wasn't "
a firewall implemented so and so for purposes this and that". it was "
a firewall".
BingoBoingo: With the night already ruined, the pair went into the bathroom to try to solve the crappy problem. The windows open from the top, so Smyth’s date — an amateur gymnast — got
a boost from Smyth, then went upside down into the gap from above, grasping for her turd."
BingoBoingo: Unfortunately, her poop didn’t make it out the window at all. Due to
a design quirk, the bundle instead fell inside the wide gap between the window’s two panes.
BingoBoingo: OMG it's there: "“ ‘I went for
a poo in your toilet,’ she told me,” Smyth wrote on his GoFundMe campaign site. But when the toilet wouldn’t flush, she lost her head
a little: “I reached into the toilet bowl, wrapped it in tissue paper, and threw it out of the window.”
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu>
a kiss is
a contract! << The sacred ones are just there witnessing
BingoBoingo: AHA, those sperm have been saved from
a social contract by those girlie's faces
mircea_popescu: i considered sending it as
a qntra, but... in the end i judged trilema better positioned to absorb the fake newsness of it.
trinque: also any extra water the thing's pulling up would slow it. more mass, more friction. harvey slurped up
a big drink before hitting us, and lost what, 120mph of wind in the process.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-05 23:33 asciilifeform got
a chinese arm board going, 'mx28', after it was quite near the rubbish bin. tip for future folx trying to get one of these things up, but it resets itself every second or so : look for 'watchdog' in the schematic, and try to find and kill