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mircea_popescu: "Calling Bill Ayers a school reformer is a bit like calling Joseph Stalin an agricultural reformer."
<< that ayers ?
decimation: re: obaama
< he has an actual history, some one knows it
mircea_popescu:
<williamdunne> Is the source for the WoT available?
<< if you mean, how to interact with assbot ? it's in wiki.
whaack: what -does- concentrate at mit, and this was a pervasive-enough problem even in the golden days, as attested to by old hands - is concentration of braggarts and showmen
<< my point is the showmen are simply the loudest
whaack: to anyone who does not immediately apprehend the reason for my position, i invite a look into the 'mit press' catalogues for the last decade or so.
<< as was expressed in my conversation with mp, mit's press facade is different than its internals. Much like bitcoin
mats: 22:22:28
<+asciilifeform> ^ see his article on why he allowed his iconic 'structure and interpretation of computer programming' course to get the axe.
<< link?
felipelalli: williamdunne: "Oh, I was wondering the other day. What caused the removal of options from MPEX?"
<< I wonder the same.
mircea_popescu: " The ability to incrementally develop programs (featured in the first video) has been a cornerstone feature of Lisp since the 80s (or earlier). "
<< you know this is the only way i like to program in the rare cases i actually do ?
ben_vulpes:
<ascii_modem> ben_vulpes: what did mit do, eat your cat?
<< 'tis a tentacle of the beast slithering out of the lake, seeking to fasten its suckers onto and drag under those who'd otherwise fight by my side
ben_vulpes:
<whaack> ((changes resume to name, bitcoin address, and gpg key))
<< you only have the one addr, and plan to tell folks about it?
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> well here's to not.
<< happens to all of us, no sense derping about when or under what conditions.
whaack: now we're going to excuse everyone on the grounds that hey, no matter how badly the perceptible mit sucks, there's a really cool meta-mit ?
<< basically, yes
whaack: so now we're split in three, technical, humanities AND podium shenanigans ?
<< I'm confused what you're saying
mircea_popescu: Googling "Leeland Yee", "California IOU", "Keith Jackson" or "mexican gangs" paints a rather grim picture.
<< i thought the web was broken.
mircea_popescu: " Prior to this, the IRS scandal, and currently the administration is refusing to take action on the illegal immigration problem. "
<< the main clause lost its verb.
ben_vulpes: "not one functioning brain"
<< oversimplification
ben_vulpes: "Regular expressions cannot respect a language's syntax (detect false positives short a full parser)"
<< this strikes me as a special case of the "cannot simulate a universe without a universe" claim.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: craftsman allowed to put a history mark in there,
<hr /> is quite reasoanble actually.
ben_vulpes: if you want to, deliniate with an
<hr /> and a note.
trinque: regendering
<< what a time to be alive
funkenstein_: sorry i didn't get through reading the references in the references in the start of your material
<-- how slow i am
gabriel_laddel:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=25-03-2015#1069268 << for the record I was not attempting to "pass off" anything, but rather clearly define what it is that I'm talking about. I'm rather happy to have second-guessed that decision because the correct answer is that the lordship isn't clearly defined outside of what has been posted to trilema and as one who isn't a lord I have no buisness calling it anything other
☝︎ mircea_popescu:
<Chillum> aw crap just dumped an ashtary on my keyboard and naken body
<< proof wikipedia is a nudist colony.
mircea_popescu: "[W]hen a writer’s education on a topic consists in interviewing an expert, he is apt to offer generalizations that are banal, obtuse or flat wrong."
<< in romanian this is known as "a waiter at one of these places where university professors gather can actually soak up a lot, often enough to pass himself for one"
assbot: Logged on 11-04-2015 00:04:38; asciilifeform:
<mircea_popescu> ... dude, why so disdainful ? if you don't trust people you don't know on the basis of what they write
<< because i can see the hallmarks of educated mendacity. the man, whoever he is, knows that i know the history. and pretends otherwise, and that he has some sort of 'lesson' for old ignorant me. i know the type, they infest (or once did) my comments section.
mircea_popescu: "ascii_field: the only thing i can promise for the $trillion is: more material for the next fella to work with"
<< oddly, this sounds exactly like social studies.
mircea_popescu: "Basement is probably the worst place for a massive battery bank and lithium worst way to do it."
<< word.
Chillum: "I went out the door and got my mail"
<-- terrible... "If I went to the market I would buy bananas and then go south to the dry cleaner" much better
trinque: asciilifeform | perhaps this was done, and i am lsd cat
<< LOL
BingoBoingo:
<Chillum> asciilifeform: she contributes to the household, our cats do not
<< Do they neglect their anti-vermin duties?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: whaack why would nickserv drop an account ? i never heard of this.
<< They drop registrations after just a few weeks of disuse, because Freenode
assbot: Logged on 10-04-2015 20:19:28; ascii_field: Chillum: not all applications call for security
<< ?!?!!!!
BingoBoingo: ascii_field: actually farting sarin gas and spitting bullets at your enemies would be your best bet.
<< Greatest challenge is storing it in the colon without absorbing it.
assbot: Logged on 10-04-2015 19:57:02; ascii_field: trinque: why would any powerful man use himself as another's rocket fuel?
<< in so long as this is phrased this way in his head - never.