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mircea_popescu: "i have nfi what receptive member of a sexuate species would want to "experience sex" rather than run as fast as legs would carry in opposite direction."
a111: Logged on 2017-05-08 21:25 asciilifeform: i for one have nfi why anybody at this point would want to 'experience american', rather than run as fast as his legs would carry him, in opposite direction.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1653599 << happened all through south america. it's not "considered food" i nthe sense that "it's expensive", and they have some vague intuition as to the whole "in parismadrid they go to mcdo to experience american -- and SO DO WE111" ; however they are poor and cheap food is cheap food and they have local shitholes that "invented foccacia" sell them "pizza" or whatever, produced according t ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1653594 << the problem with this theory is that culture is reposited in the elite in all cases. the arab world at the time it was saving the classics from the idiot hordes of europchristians ALSO mostly made of arablite by mass. if i pile up a bunch of coal over your heirloom diamonds can i thereby convince you to throw out "all this pointless carbon" ? ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-05-08 21:09 phf`: i think that traditionally would be called pogrom, rather than genocide. problem is that unlike jews, coptics, parsi, etc. american blacks don't have a culture to fallback to, and their persecution narrative is artificially constructed, so they just fall back. there's not going to be a tzadik in projects, unmovable, because torah told him to suffer
a111: Logged on 2017-05-08 20:59 phf`: i thin genocide in this case is not the literal lynching, but rather the systematic removal of agency under the guise of help and support, aka "useful idiots"
asciilifeform: massive lulzmine, complete with -- yes,i shit thee not -- 'rust'
phf`: i think, but i might be wrong, it's this guy https://github.com/mnemnion who posted above
asciilifeform: i'd imagine at this point some 'reality setting in' and scaling down of appetites -- but what would i know.
asciilifeform: i for one have nfi why anybody at this point would want to 'experience american', rather than run as fast as his legs would carry him, in opposite direction. ☟︎
asciilifeform: i have nfi presently what their mcdonalds looks like.
phf`: when i was growing up, mcdonalds was a place where you go to get a milkshake before going out. nobody ever thought about it as food, because people cooked at home and still do. i noticed this in paris this time, how similar mcdonalds is, that it's not food and not treated as such. it's a place where you go to experience american. if there was going to be qualitative jump where bulk of population considers mcdonalds primary source of nutrients, i suspe
phf`: i dunno, i'm not convinced of that. orlol's target audience are cultural honkies, people who otherwise would be wiggers or otaku or "i'm irish, 5 generations ago". yes, those people don't have any culture, but it's chiefly american problem. i'm not convinced it extends to the rest of the world that well
phf`: i think that traditionally would be called pogrom, rather than genocide. problem is that unlike jews, coptics, parsi, etc. american blacks don't have a culture to fallback to, and their persecution narrative is artificially constructed, so they just fall back. there's not going to be a tzadik in projects, unmovable, because torah told him to suffer ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-05-08 20:59 phf`: i thin genocide in this case is not the literal lynching, but rather the systematic removal of agency under the guise of help and support, aka "useful idiots"
phf`: i thin genocide in this case is not the literal lynching, but rather the systematic removal of agency under the guise of help and support, aka "useful idiots" ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: lolwat genocide. i went to annapolis , mega-rich ~100%-of-visible-people white and yacht-riding. walked by a school yard -- guess what, 100% dark faces.
asciilifeform: phf`: i dun see any respectable alternative to fuhrerprinzip.
mircea_popescu: as you use it, i gather. as the historical element, not so much.
phf`: re i've had this visceral moment of "cheaper also" when i was standing in the part of topkapi palace where sultan was making decisions, and the guided slowly and patiently explained "no, this is all of the government. sultan here says what needs to be done to this other guy there, and that's that".
asciilifeform: i dunno what form of social organization lacks some kind of 'hang rustlers'.
ben_vulpes: how does this work when i send my brother out in my car to do something?
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i don't get stuck in traffic
mircea_popescu: i wish atms pilloried obnoxious sheilas typing in wrong pins n times.
asciilifeform: i suppose very rich can duel with colliding 'boeings' also, why not.
phf`: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1653398 << best driver i knew was chinese, drove a beat up honda (mazda? acura?) that would cut off the engine at 120 mph, so he would drive it on 119. he'd get into racing fancy cars, and of course they can dust him on acceleration, etc. but he'll always overcome them by being a) habitually good b) calculatedly reckless ☝︎
asciilifeform: i dun even care about background gamma, but only the 'own goals' from the Lu's ~3% unstable isotope itself
asciilifeform: i'd like cheaper.
mircea_popescu: i don't think there exists more accessible sensitive photodiode.
mircea_popescu: i think i've 50lbs on the premises.
asciilifeform: i did take photo of water, from yacht, but it's a snore, didn't even feel like posting.
asciilifeform: speaking of auto, i recently for the first time in entire life saw a 'bentley'.
asciilifeform: i always wondered why 'speed devils' don't drive hovercraft.
asciilifeform: i knew a d00d who had a g-sensor on the dash of his 500 horse bmw. laughable.
asciilifeform: jets -- i can see
mircea_popescu: yeah. i think birds deeply care about your head plumage, which you might not even known you had.
mircea_popescu: next stop, girl mooses him. but like, in all seriousness, turns around, does it. she's in a cocktail dress, i'm in a suit, they're NOT LOOKING
asciilifeform: for him, i can picture, driving -- fun
asciilifeform: i had an old colleague who lived in arizona, in the desert, had sov 'ural' motorbike.
mircea_popescu: round and turkey the driver. total idiot look, you know the "drab tshirt, close shaved for beard and hair, stupid glasses" i-m-a-java-engineer look ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform gotta love the folx who buy 12-cyl mazeratis to go REALLYREALLYFAST!!! between same red lights as the toyota goes << oh i had the lulz of all time with this yest. so we were coming back, in cab. on other side, porsche SUV! black! dude just peels off like crazy, in the middle of the night. i go "hey, i think he won" and dun think more of it. till... guess who's lined up at next stop ? oh, us and them. so i turn a
asciilifeform: one day i want to be shown this place where 'driving is fun'
asciilifeform: i'll repeat my old verdict: the fastest, most luxurious, most cushioned, most speedtrap-proof auto, is ~not having to drive~
mircea_popescu: i have a pretty good guess by now : ai.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform fun fact : i was walking with a girl, she groks maths and things, we were lulzing at the socioeconomic/politicoscamful aspect of qc. ended up discussing its future, i said it's on the outs, no gimmick long outlives its failure to produce anything, and the qc has been promising stuff for long enough now. i said, "i just dunno what they're moving to next, but they'll move".
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i clean by moving to new lab, lol
mircea_popescu: gizmolearner honestly i don't think anyone is. politics is like cleanning, nobody builds himself a lab for the joy of having to clean it up periodically.
ben_vulpes: "it's there, i guess we gotta put something in it"
ben_vulpes: i will admit to the same
mircea_popescu: i guess he doesn't care for chan topics.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i long ago came to terms with my poor acuity.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i wasn't even going to go into how i spot a lot more tiny geckos, lost earrings, etc than my glass-blessed friends.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-08 15:35 mircea_popescu: and yes you have some dB loss because of the resistence of the medium. "i couldn't see that light officer". of course not, it was faint and you were wearing glasses.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i wear 'riot shield' face thing in machine shop. worx great. and 0 sweating.
ben_vulpes: also proper impact resistant glasses when i had to sojurn across the fab floor when i did that.
asciilifeform: i've yet to meet these, 'good ones', sweat evaporates and condenses inside the lenses, ick.
ben_vulpes: yeah i wore 'em. sweat and all.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform get good ones. but anyway, i do, in the grand total i dunno, 100 hours i spent in a chem lab over three decades.
mircea_popescu: gizmolearner i actually believe that point was cca 2005.
ben_vulpes: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1653028 << regularly. "when i'm rich!!!1" ☝︎
mircea_popescu: i don't think you either know or could meet if you dedicated a year to it someone possessed of an ai capable of identifying who the fuck to shoot. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: the us is turning socialist because average us produced cuntlet can't bridge the gap between what she thinks her priceless snowflake of a snatch is worth and what i might consider paying.
mircea_popescu: can't say i follow those jumps.
gizmolearner: I think in the not so far future most poeple will be obsolete, so capatlisim is out. If machines can outthink and outwork the average person that is a lot of redundant people. On the plus side, the world would still be producing as much as ever. So what do we do ? Try socialsim again?
gizmolearner: The Gulag Archipelago makes me want to retire from the human race. Capitalism is pretty broken, but I prefer it to what people in the USSR had to go through.
mircea_popescu: no, that's what i meant, more nominally, worth ~nothing.
gizmolearner: Even starting engineers make more than I did as a CTO for startups 10 years ago
mircea_popescu: oh, i'm worth like a billion give or take a few start-ups.
gizmolearner: McAfee was sort of mid startup when I joined, so 90% of my money was from them becaause the stock was actually worth somthing. By startups I had higher salary, but it wasn't on a level to complete with the stock.
gizmolearner: I'll say this about back then though, it was nice to have a company to buy thinigs like SoftIce and IDA.
gizmolearner: Saying would identify me, and I prefer to be somewhat anonymous for now.
gizmolearner: I was software architect for the av group for a while, got their enterprise product started, got like 20 patents, decided I hated patents and was just working against my future self, left, couple startups that failed, nothing really too noteworthy
mircea_popescu: seems rather like the whole nic-dma combo is being fortified as a wolf's last stand. i guess they expect ot lose cpus (to the chinese).
gizmolearner: mircea_popescu: used to do security software, goofed off for a few years, running out of savings so I need to either make something or get a job again
asciilifeform: iirc i got all known, at the time, variants, in there.
asciilifeform: i even put the amd pubkeys in phuctor, recall.
mircea_popescu: in the sense that rather make that, best make new comp. trb-i all over again.
asciilifeform: now i've thought about having a mobo for ~classic~ opterons made. but this would easily go 10,000 $ a piece in small qty. and needs docs that i dun have.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-08 14:31 gizmolearner: I thought it was just a null password? https://www.embedi.com/files/white-papers/Silent-Bob-is-Silent.pdf
mircea_popescu: i expect, yeah
mircea_popescu: i guess with the new leadless bs you'll ruin the board before you get the socket off anyway
asciilifeform: aite, i'ma find a photo.
mircea_popescu: i must not be understanding something.
asciilifeform: gizmolearner: you do it with induced pci write cycles. see 'flashrom' (i have the beginnings of a 'flashrom' back-end to sage, but not finished yet sadly)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform wow rly ? that's ~all they did, bpg lifters, interposers and i guess some cable shits
gizmolearner: but I know it's just a jump so it's all good
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1653085 << i dun see an interposer in that catalogue ☝︎
mircea_popescu: and yes you have some dB loss because of the resistence of the medium. "i couldn't see that light officer". of course not, it was faint and you were wearing glasses. ☟︎
Framedragger: there is that. i don't do lots of driving at all, and plan to avoid driving at night, ever. but, yeah, point taken.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1653033 << this is a terrifyingly stupid idea. gf knocks your glasses off next you drive into me then ima have to get out, beat you into a pulp and set the rest of the eu on fire because htye'll be all "hey, why you beat guy into pulp, that's against eu regulations" and i'll be all "fuck you and your stupid mothers" ☝︎
mircea_popescu: also, this was a field where waiting for computing paid off, past 2 decades. but i'd be gut-guessing it's just about mature by now.
Framedragger: re. soup, i dunno stats / anecdotal cases, but there have been instances of otherwise-high-hygiene folks getting nasty bacteria by forgetting not to use tap water, once (source is unreliable bbc article so yeah, meh); etc.
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: multiple operations? i haven't even considered that. hmm, thanks for the pointer
gizmolearner: I figured it out. Instruction at 0xfffffff0 is a jump. The probe doesn't refresh the registers until after you execute an instruction. So after reset the registers are stale.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-08 13:12 gizmolearner: Soldering debug I can do. Having PCB manufactured is a bit beyond me
gizmolearner: I wonder if the probe takes a few instructions before it stops
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1652992 << not much, but still better than "skateboarding", i guess. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: can't say without the docs for your specific item, but i guess it doesn't ?
a111: Logged on 2017-05-08 10:04 phf`: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1652797 << i don't get it. i'd say i could get rid of about 20% of my books, but the rest i read or consult regularly. i had the bulk of my books in storage last year, and it was inconvenient (unlike say clothes or random "useful" junk that i have, that, once it goes into storage i don't even remember i had)
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1652989 << no, i have no objection to it being incomprehensible, it strikes me as nutty also. perhaps a major part of the explanation is that whenever i don't remember something i just pick a girl who likely doesn't know it, ask her about it, and when she doesn't know it she gets ordered to research it. another part of it, maybe even larger, is that the stuff that actually interests me isn't ☝︎