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mircea_popescu: and i am pointing out that in that story... the author's side is abominable, and the story doesn'
t even credibly flow as he claims.
mircea_popescu: violence got nothing to do with it, it's a convenient scapegoat. like 13 yo girls claiming they don'
t want to associate with boys because they smell, rather than the obvious "my vagina's not yet developed enough"
mircea_popescu: the incident in question where they assaulted some schmuky blond kid (and the police had to come - i wouldn'
t have bothered) was iirc alabama
trinque: asciilifeform: ah I don'
t buy that; the hairbrained thing it was doing is in that bug thread, I think
trinque: doesn'
t mean it was any good then
assbot: Bug 531268 – app-crypt/dieharder-3.31.1 - In file included from bits.c:7: /usr/include/unistd.h:1043:20: error: unknown type name 'intptr_t' ... (
http://bit.ly/1TEE9tE )
mircea_popescu: most people wouldn'
t hire girls what went to school for the longest time.
mircea_popescu: just as long as he doesn'
t wiggle them into kicks to his shn
mircea_popescu: and no, stupid folks are perpetually asked to run smart on emulator, and they don'
t even have one.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in any case, i had to spend half my fucking life yelling at people that "the difference between stupid and smart is that stupid can'
t be smart, BUT SMART CAN BE STUPID. IF YOU'RE UNWILLING TO EVER BE STUPID YOUR SMART'S JUST ANOTHER FLAVOUR OF DUMB!1111"
jurov runs crying to mircea_popsecu "i broke eulora again and chetty isn'
t around!!!"
mircea_popescu: this guy's got a pretty fantastic racket. i hope i won'
t next hear i've heard about bitcoin from curtis yarvin.
assbot: Logged on 13-04-2014 22:27:18; asciilifeform: the 'a) wanna buy strela? b) fuck off c) really, dontcha? b) ok sure c) off to jail' thing has been going so long that it doesn'
t even make national news every time now.
trinque: sorry, blacks didn'
t do walmart and country music
decimation: yeah I don'
t get how this 'black church postal' guy accomplished anything
mircea_popescu: ask someone why shouldn'
t they fuck their sister next time you want an angry puzzled man.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i will say for the record that a) the "economic" model contemplated by the naive socialist pseudo-anarchists cooking up the story is broken and b) anyone aged 16 who can'
t figure out how to extract value out of it should go hang.
assbot: Why "representative democracy" doesn'
t work and doesn'
t make sense on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1GdnKDj )
mircea_popescu: in any case : people who don'
t steal do not become by this better thieves. they do instead become part of a different world.
mircea_popescu: well no. you are in the unique position where someone killed himself, and you say "his death was not effectual - as it didn'
t resolve his problems. lo, they are still here!"
mircea_popescu: sane + civilised is only available at times when a civilisation prospers. these aren'
t these atm.
mircea_popescu: but the comparison can not be properly carried in civilisational terms - there aren'
t any. the only common ground is natural, and that's what yields there.
mircea_popescu: no. i don'
t think your idea of "aims" actually applies to them.
mircea_popescu: nono, the idea is that calling everything the same thing is the opposite of trying to understand. you can'
t analyse by synthetic means.
assbot: Logged on 20-06-2015 12:23:56; mircea_popescu: some other schmuck by the name of "jim" explains that he would really really want everyone to beliueve that hte children of special people are not in fact special by this fact, but merely indistinct mass, because everything's equal, and moreover that kids who didn'
t go through the everything's equal idiocizer "lack the ability to empathize with their peers", which is codetalk for "do not credit the i
assbot: Logged on 20-06-2015 11:45:17; mircea_popescu: punkman antenna has to be very close and the reason they use it on laptops is that it doesn'
t actually work on metallic chassis desktops.
danielpbarron: i guess there were two shootings recently; the church one is all over the news and apparently the police station guy isn'
t mircea_popescu: some other schmuck by the name of "jim" explains that he would really really want everyone to beliueve that hte children of special people are not in fact special by this fact, but merely indistinct mass, because everything's equal, and moreover that kids who didn'
t go through the everything's equal idiocizer "lack the ability to empathize with their peers", which is codetalk for "do not credit the idiotic propositiopn
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "Q5: What if I can'
t get physically close enough to the target computer?
mircea_popescu: punkman antenna has to be very close and the reason they use it on laptops is that it doesn'
t actually work on metallic chassis desktops.
☟︎ decimation: " In Shanghai the children, age 5 and 11, had attended an international school that was so demanding the parents had to stay up tutoring until 11 pm some nights. Public school in the Boston suburbs, by contrast, is so easy that the children don?
t need any after-school help."
mircea_popescu: the director's more like the spiritual leader of teh tribe. the producer just makes sure they have enough food and don'
t fight with it.
mircea_popescu: well so then that's why i didn'
t tell you, because i told them. i can'
t do everything myself.
assbot: Logged on 20-06-2015 00:50:54; mircea_popescu: anyway : the do doesn'
t exist when it appears in the code, but when the returning while is looking for it. much like the tits on the girl don'
t belong to the girl.
decimation: yeah it isn'
t clear if this article is about actual snipers or designated marksmen
decimation: "Their covering fire kept Whitman down and limited him to shooting through a drain opening, pretty much stopping the killing and giving officers the opportunity to get into the building. The officers also deputized one of the citizens to go with them into the tower to give them a bit more firepower, although he didn'
t end up facing Whitman.
mircea_popescu: anyway : the do doesn'
t exist when it appears in the code, but when the returning while is looking for it. much like the tits on the girl don'
t belong to the girl.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: decimation the only way that wouldn'
t compile is if you specifically put custom code in tyh4e compiler to complain about it
mircea_popescu: "It amazes me that after 10 years of writing C there are still little corners that I haven'
t explored fully. "
mats: anyway not really a productive discussion, i don'
t enjoy thai food but i recognize it takes skill
cazalla: that also doesn'
t really fit with yum cha and the one i ate at was full of chinese so you'd think it was the good one
mats: can'
t, food is a personal matter. you don'
t like what you don'
t like. cultural context notwithstanding
cazalla: agreed, but i didn'
t want to offend him so i did not mention this heh
mircea_popescu: in truth i don'
t care much about most chinese cuisine either, but not because it'd be bland. because they can'
t cook. some stuff is actually excellent, but plenty of stuff is "hey, let's throw everything in the kitchen in the same pot. vinegar, oil, sugar, what the hell."
mircea_popescu: somehow "if you made a business you don'
t own that business", yet "if you have a pair of tits it's your pair of tits"
mircea_popescu: anyway, i agree they're stupid. originally it was "they must go out because they break backups". turned out they don'
t. now it's "they should go out because they're stupid", which is valid, but also an aesthetic judgement. we're not at aesthetics yet. but eventually, whole wallet scheme needs to be made by someone who's not retarded in the fucking head.
mircea_popescu: you don'
t actually want the president to travel with the immigrands ?
decimation: greenspun: "(compare to about $25,000 per flight hour to charter (source)). If American Airlines spent this much during the 7-hour flight from London to Boston it would cost $1.44 million for the trip in operating cost (i.e., not including the capital cost of the aircraft) or about $3500 per passenger (i.e., a round-trip coach ticket couldn?
t be sold for less than about $7000 plus taxes and fees)."
trinque: decimation: they don'
t even make 'em do that r&b yodel anymore
ascii_field: back to the 'plz recommend standard hardware that isn'
t retarded' thing - i can'
t help but rub in the point here, that we are playing 'junkyard wars'
shinohai: I have a shitty laptop that came with Win8, I wouldn'
t trade it for a Mac even if you added a few btc to the mix
shinohai: @ thestringpuller i had a pm from a guy using a mac last night using gpg on a mac (gui) I couldn'
t help because I know dick about macs.
mircea_popescu: i suspect what they mean is, "someone with experience with crapple software that doesn'
t suck"
mircea_popescu: so, it may vary but it won'
t vary as drastically as you propose. prolly more in line with coffee/caffeine.
trinque: when it doesn'
t kill them, great
mircea_popescu: wasn'
t it the case caffeine tolerance actually builds to degrees of magnitude ?
trinque: hazirafel_: those types tend to do what they're told; wouldn'
t call it understanding
trinque: obviously paste the whole thing; escape codes didn'
t make it in
mod6: hazirafel_: along with the logs: trilema.com if you don'
t already
trinque: wiki.
t-o-f.info/uploads/EDM4600/The camel has two humps.pdf
shinohai: Well those kids learned what *doesn'
t* work
hazirafel_: mireca i didn'
t get your comment about the kidz and the errors
hazirafel_: i did this course where i wrote in java for 30 hours a week, i have no problem doing it, no pain, didn'
t love it, it was mildley fun . my problem was organization, i expect it's much worse in C , but i could see it as a motivation for thinking in a more organized way.
mircea_popescu: the advantage is that c++ grease doesn'
t irritate the skin. the disadvantage is that well... this thing has i would estimate about 10 to 100x more moving parts than a car,
ascii_field: ^ many would-be 'doom' authors discover that they can'
t actually stomach the very notion of a machine which behaves precisely as instructed and not 'as intentioned'
ascii_field: for some reason i can'
t help but recall the kidz of 1990s who always began with 'where do i learn to write a game like 'doom' ?'
assbot: Logged on 19-06-2015 19:21:25; hazirafel_: don'
t know if this is a good place to ask, but here ... i'm code literate in java , and i really want to learn to know my way around fiddling with blockchains and bitcoin, i would love advice on places to start and where to get help and information. i guess i need to learn C first but i'm looking for more advice. thanks!
ascii_field: where was the thread where mircea_popescu observed, 'if they weren'
t dumb shits we would not even be having this line of thought' ?
shinohai: The blockchain is sacred. Don'
t fuck with it ala Gavin
mircea_popescu: didn'
t you grow up like sane people, in a sovblok urban development with 1k kids your age / acre and no tv to speak of ?
mircea_popescu: well yeah, but i don'
t know you, and so i have nfi what reference points to use, and so...
hazirafel_: ehh... complete learning C++ or bitcoin literate ? Ivy League doesn'
t mean shit necessarily, from the people i've met