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mircea_popescu: Chillum i don'
t think that's the shade of caring he had in mind.
mats: can'
t sleep, gremlins will eat me
decimation: Chillum: is there anyone 'working' on wikipedia who doesn'
t want to 'control information'?
mircea_popescu: this isn'
t strictly chillum's "she helps with the rent". recall convo re 40k ?
decimation: as in 'if the peasants don'
t want to work in the factory - starve them until they do?'
decimation: they can'
t be easily fired, generally treated with a degree of 'tenure'
mircea_popescu: i don;
t think "men as parts" is actually all that good.
mircea_popescu: but srsly, i can'
t for the life of me imagine a different way to run a tech corp these days.
mircea_popescu: on one hand, their patent inability to come up with anything worth the mention since adwords would be concerning. on the other hand, naggum's observation that you wouldn'
t know smarter than you if it hit you on the head holds a lot of water.
Chillum: I would hope that the sentence reflect the seriousness of the crime... 48 hours probation and a stern "Don'
t do it again!"
Chillum: well don'
t expect sense in law
Chillum: you don;'
t have to break anything for breaking and entering charges
Chillum: it is all new growth but there are so many ways away from people if you pick one at random you won'
t see anyone
Chillum: fire hoses of course pour water out every surface so they don'
t burn
mircea_popescu: i suppose we could put the string through teh entropy tests... but no, doesn'
t look like it's 8/8.
BingoBoingo: whaack: GPUs to password has is the solution when you don'
t have access to person with password and an anthill
Chillum: the amount of information someone and relay to a sketch artist about a persons face is in the hundreds of Kb, but our brain has hardware acceleration for faces and we can'
t normalize the data ourselves
trinque: whaack: so I might have a theory on why you can'
t keep your nicks
mircea_popescu: Chillum likely you just use the term in a particular way i don'
t.
whaack: BingoBoingo: I actually just never got the email that I needed to verify with. Reregistered and I still don'
t have the email.
mircea_popescu: lacan & co efforts to build an alt-physics didn'
t manage to do much, but mebbe it works in alt-cs?
mircea_popescu: but i wouldn'
t sign off on him being beaten because tcp/ip sucks.
mircea_popescu: "if you don'
t have > 1 btc with me you can'
t bid at all, fu."
mircea_popescu: if you could be trusted to choose parents correctly doom wouldn'
t be upon us.
Chillum: If you ever want to include a scripting language in an embedded device but don'
t have a lot of resources to spare, that is what lua was made for
mircea_popescu: Chillum something's amiss, actually. the +25dBm needs to output >320 mW. your thing can'
t eat 300mW peak and also output 320. but anyway, usual commercial puffery.
Adlai: the child was clearly adopted from inner-city parents who couldn'
t afford to raise it
Adlai: "war isn'
t about who's right, it's about who's left"
Chillum: trinque: religion isn'
t about getting something, it is about people taking from you
mircea_popescu: think in terms of impregnating women, trinque. why don'
t you do it ? because what it... means, what it implies. but imagine it implied exactly nothing. well then ? why not ?
mircea_popescu: what's the big deal ? animals are versatile. pigeons do it, why wouldn'
t monkeys.
Chillum: the people I was with said they don'
t normally live in that area but that one lives in the park
mircea_popescu: im kinda sorrty we don'
t have an ukr alf here, it'd be fun to watch the two.
Chillum: I don'
t see how I could confuse such different things
mircea_popescu: what motivates the monkey to pick up the rock isn'
t some sort of contorted dream about becoming a rockthrowing revolutionary ceo.
mircea_popescu: most of human history, and the vast majority of everything nice and good, came out of cause-oriented. so common in fact it didn'
t even have a name.
assbot: Logged on 10-04-2015 19:52:08; trinque: funkenstein_: I'm not saying long term projects can'
t exist; however, I think they're doomed if they do not benefit the participants all along the way
Chillum: naturally the books that sell by weight tend to be the ones that don'
t sell
Chillum: I used to sell books for a living, they really don'
t mircea_popescu: imo it's kinda dweeby, but hey. one doesn'
t get to choose the times
assbot: Logged on 10-04-2015 19:39:27; ascii_field: trinque: again can'
t speak for you, but i can'
t create the customer any more than can create the weather.
ascii_field: funkenstein_: likely means that there is a revocator packet in there for some key you don'
t have in your collection
funkenstein_: no public key - can'
t apply revocation certificate <--- gpg --import spits this out. what does it mean?
ascii_field: if you don'
t see this, you are playing mental gymnastics, but whatever rocks your boat.
trinque: doesn'
t require a zealot in service to something imaginary
trinque: person in question doesn'
t want to live in a world where comrades are ratted, or at least not his
ascii_field: or whatever equivalent exists in your particular culture (and if your culture doesn'
t have such heroes, it is moribund and time to gtfo)
trinque: I don'
t see the connection to fanaticism there
trinque: ascii_field: ah, I am not also saying that because something's not at walmart it doesn'
t really exist. the market being skewed towards morons is a separate problem which needs to be solved
ascii_field: trinque: interestingly, there are quite a few technologies which, in the popular mind, 'don'
t exist' because you cannot get them at the corner store.
ascii_field: thing is, you don'
t get to make herr lodygin not exist, just so your ideology can make sense.
ascii_field: trinque: lodygin didn'
t make terribly much from light bulb.
ascii_field: but -don'
t wake me up- if you want to be 'the delusionist'
trinque: didn'
t seem to work out for them
trinque: ascii_field: doesn'
t seem that nature takes these massive leaps
mats: can'
t securely access the thing
ascii_field: the tech level to allow -one individual who can hold the design in his mind- to attempt it - wasn'
t there yet.
ascii_field: see, idiot derps who do not know the state of the art and say that they do not need to, because taiwan isn'
t making it and their corner computer store isn'
t selling it - belong in africa.
Chillum: don'
t think poverty will protect you from the violent marauders
trinque: funkenstein_: I'm not saying long term projects can'
t exist; however, I think they're doomed if they do not benefit the participants all along the way
☟︎ Chillum: if you don'
t act like a tool then you can use the tool
funkenstein_: that depends on what you mean by "my" doesn'
t it
trinque: ascii_field: dunno the answer, but the question would be how you increase the visibility of the problem to those that have resources to fund the thing, but don'
t currently care
ascii_field: trinque: again can'
t speak for you, but i can'
t create the customer any more than can create the weather.
☟︎ ascii_field: trinque: arms races don'
t necessarily create long-term thinking.
trinque: if you can'
t create the product yet maybe the task is to create the customer?
ascii_field: trinque: i can'
t speak for you, but i cannot build anything whatsoever in my sleep.
Chillum: people get rich enough that they don'
t need to delve into their stash then they die without telling anyone
Chillum: I don'
t know why you think it is absurd for a large number of people to be able to pull enough gold out of the ground to get an air drop
assbot: Logged on 07-04-2015 00:10:01; mircea_popescu: just like having a car doesn'
t alow having gasoline. it's true that often people who have cars also independently have gasoline, but the two are fundamentally unrelated, and there is such a thing as the fool's breakdown, ie, car's outta gas on the side of hte road.
mircea_popescu: i am perhaps the only one here that has actually gone through a collapse, and if that's worth for anything - goods aren'
t helpful.
mircea_popescu: wouldn'
t just keeping a bunch of drug dealers (actual kind, not the derps) on your rolodex work better for the purpoise ?
mircea_popescu: im just saying, alt-universes aren'
t much of a guide for anything.
gabriel_laddel: ascii_field: iirc your argument was "it isn'
t worthwhile because if you succeed you'll not have enough of them to do anything interesting with"
gabriel_laddel: I can'
t remember your exact words, but I think you said in here once "my time would have been better spent putting together a demo than blogging"
ascii_field: gabriel_laddel: don'
t delude yourself that you are doing 'it'