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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, it boggles
that
this orlov fellow has somehow managed
to get all
the us diseases. srsly, an amateur is going
to joseph smith his way into a better way
to read ? and pushes
this on random kids ?
mircea_popescu: in short, you're better off living in a country of immigrants
than in a coutnry of citizens.
mircea_popescu: well, obviously depends what your goals are, but if some sort of either efficiency or adherence
to reality is among
them
then an open system will alway sbeat any closed one.
BingoBoingo: Well,
that's how one keeps elected office generally
decimation: I predict
that
the number of H1b visas will at least
triple
decimation: I predict
that now
the republicans have won
they will quickly give away
the farm on immigration,
taxes, more welfare, etc
BingoBoingo: To
trim
the budget he cut
the wrong bezzels. Also broke
the rule in Illinois
that Governor must be Unrepentant criminal, he was repentant
mircea_popescu: it simply means
the "voters" scum expect on average more out of
the forcing of
the public
treasury
than on
the maximum
the public
treasury may contain
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo
the final phase of dissolution is when
the best predictor for electoral failure is being
the incumbent.
decimation: so it was kinda like you could volunteer or be
told
that you were volunteering?
assbot: Quinn concedes Illinois governorship
to Rauner : Politics
decimation: asciilifeform: I didn't realize
that
the soviet army was a 'volunteer' organization
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i'm not averse
to it at all but i can't even
tell what's bdb and what's other
things.
mircea_popescu: iirc
this was considered and rejected for good reasons in array.
decimation: it seems
to me
that sqllite might make a reasonable stand-in for bdb
mircea_popescu: but cunt-less-ness is lost, and
then people wonder why women feel unequal.
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> ben_vulpes: bounties << my unwedging << first i'd have
to invent
the universe
mircea_popescu: i read enough
to know
the person is not only never going
to produce a good solution, but is actually ignorant enough
to not even realise what
the difference may be, and on
top of
that impudent enough
to imagine
this not
to be so.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform my point is merely
that if a space already has a bad solution, implementing a bad solution by nobody is stupid.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform speaks as a formerly very regular 'in anger' user of ipa << IPA is
the java of
the linguistics world.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes let's consider
the general point. a) elvis at
the hight of his popularity offers a beer
to anyone
that runs a mile in five minutes ; b)
totally unknown autistic otaku offers a million internet funbutts
to anyone
that runs a mile.
decimation: wrt english pidgin <
This already happens, ever been
to hawaii?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: so in your opinion bounties for biggies like "wedged 0.5.3" aren't going
to produce much?
decimation: well, chinese solves
this with a little gui
tool
mircea_popescu: how does one use a wiki ? specifically, i wish
to add an answer
to "what is
the desired behavior here?"
mircea_popescu: decimation
the
thing with ipa is
that it roughly works like a modular pluggable
thing.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: a foundational question: do bounties work? <<
they work best when large audience, small rewards.
BingoBoingo has seen on several occasion musical scores in not Amerglish which had
the
target language only in IPA
BingoBoingo: <decimation> supposedly most opera singers 'sight-read' IPA so
they don't have
to learn
the
target language << Actually
this is indeed a
thing.
BingoBoingo: Well, I mean
the mines flood
themselves with it
decimation: supposedly most opera singers 'sight-read' IPA so
they don't have
to learn
the
target language
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Old uranium mines filled with radon would be great, except for
the radiation flipping bits <<< if you're going
to fill with gas, fill with
technological gas.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> what difference does it make anyway. if ruby were more like perl would you use it
then ? << If by like perl you mean
the runtime doesn't suck,
then maybe?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform wonders why
the setup wasn't under permanent inert gas
to begin with << margins.
mircea_popescu: what difference does it make anyway. if ruby were more like perl would you use it
then ?
BingoBoingo: Ah, Yeah, it's a pain. Latin alphabet works one way, Anglophones have retarded vowel shift,
the irrelevance of Chinese supposes azns should look
to Castellano as a lingua franca for dealing with white people.
mircea_popescu: the most notable example is
that polari gypsy lingo
thing, which is notable for how shitty it is.
mircea_popescu: on
the other hand,
there are numerous attempts by various poetterings
to create a "better language" because maybe
that way
their mother will not have been a crackwhore anymore.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway,
to sum it :
there already exists a phonetic notation, and has, for a century. it has
the advantage
that it works in all languages, and it is also fine enough for absolutely any conceivable use, with its extensions.
kakobrekla: btw you can do subcategories
there as well
BingoBoingo: Old uranium mines filled with radon would be great, except for
the radiation flipping bits
assbot: Crypto attack
that hijacked Windows Update goes mainstream in Amazon Cloud | Ars
Technica
ben_vulpes: i suppose mining really is so low margin
these days
that even
the antifire stuff ruins profitability.
assbot: Here is why
the hash rate jumped and
took a dive in days. EST. $3,600,000 worth - GONE! : Bitcoin
BingoBoingo: * asciilifeform also remembers
that he forgot
to eat. << And you're
the one worried about everyone else's starvation!
mircea_popescu: any mathematical symbol is defined within its context and
there only.
mircea_popescu: note
that he's not proposing
to get rid of
the
training weights
to replace
them with actual anythings.
mircea_popescu: holy fuckingshit, fifty years of making it progressively easier for kids were enough
to squander 500 years worth of accumulated advantages,
to
the point even
the fucking indians can now compete with american kids.
mircea_popescu: And
the kids are supposed
to be able
to make sense of
this? At what point are children allowed
to learn a set of symbols
that unambiguously represent
the speech sounds of English? << <this idea
that if kids had it easier
the world would be better is not unlike
the idea
that if
the government spent more money
the economy would work well.