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gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: actually, re-reading your last message - isn'
t that really an argument against abstraction period?
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: nonsene. We know any programming language that doesn'
t allow the operator to manipulate its own ast programmatically is going to waste the operator's time.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel you're on very slippery ice sheet there. i'll save you the egg and point out that you can'
t form an apriori representation of why X model is no good.
gabriel_laddel: because some of the $random-african-gruntlangs don'
t have any means to describe the future or past.
mircea_popescu: see, and this is a FINE example of what i mean by "leak like a sieve". your observation was in fact accounted for in my model. because i hadn'
t leaked it. because it doesn'
t leak there.
mircea_popescu: anyway. i wouldn'
t want to go back to being 20 anymore than i'd want to re-take kindergarten.
mircea_popescu: of course this could be backed in my case by a solid wall of "i don'
t have to do anything i don' want to do"
mike_c: i think you are unqualified in that field. the wrong job is pretty mind numbing, especially if you don'
t see the path away from it.
mike_c: so work on your own goddamn boat with the confidence you won'
t end up on the street.
mike_c: idk.. you are looking for a very specialized type of job. I don'
t think you'll get far complaining there aren'
t a lot of them.
mircea_popescu: except he doesn'
t want tyo compete with the 16yos those guys hire.
ben_vulpes: ascii_field: doesn'
t want to "work". he wants to "think".
mike_c: so be clear about the position you are looking for that doesn'
t exist?
mike_c: i don'
t understand. maybe you are saying there is no demand for exactly what you want to do? there is plenty of demand for smart programmers.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: don'
t get me wrong, i shall write again. and yes - for the archaeologists, as before. but presently cut among 1) dayjob 2) s.nsa 3) sleep,eat,...,write
mircea_popescu: the entire "we're obeying the law because the law produces foodstamps" and "keeps the terrorists at bay" doesn'
t really look too functional at any rate.
mircea_popescu: then it lost gender. it's teetering, and i don'
t think it's any longer sustainable at all.
mircea_popescu: yes, it shouldn'
t inconveniently oppress. but that does NOT mean it should not oppress at all. tho i see how that mistake is easy to make.
mircea_popescu: i mean your proposal sounds sensible, but only if one (mistakenly) imagines law can exist sorta out of itself. it can'
t.
mircea_popescu: nowadays redneck simply means "someone who doesn'
t think transexuals have a special gender and gay marriage is a thing"
mircea_popescu: heh it couldn'
t be written by mp. i never signed anon in my lyf.
assbot: Logged on 09-04-2015 20:13:46; ascii_field: can'
t speak for mats, but basic idea is that once you leave your meatwot, you are a fungible machine. this is a situation that, as mats put it, 'resets you to entry level' - and overwhelmingly favours the very young
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: this is the boon of late adolescence/early adulthood : that you can do any stressful job and you'll be fine. what you can'
t really do is slef-manage tho. which is kind of why i'm indignant over all the wastage sv/the us generally is doing to these eager kids making them "ceos" of "start-ups". << hence, >>
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-04-2015#1094083 ☝︎ PeterL: why don'
t women have race?
mircea_popescu: notheywon'
t. and fuck walmart anyway, let it come up with its own business.
mircea_popescu: ok, nm, it doesn'
t seem like what i had in mind after all.
mircea_popescu: this is the boon of late adolescence/early adulthood : that you can do any stressful job and you'll be fine. what you can'
t really do is slef-manage tho. which is kind of why i'm indignant over all the wastage sv/the us generally is doing to these eager kids making them "ceos" of "start-ups".
mike_c: I hate this: "I don'
t know that my pull request is the best way to handle it, but I thought it might poke the bear enough to move the conversation along" translation - my code is shit, but maybe it will annoy someone else enough that they will do it correctly.
pete_dushenski: cazalla: tis all good, i see what you mean and i don'
t disagree
cazalla: anyway, don'
t pay too close attention, stuck into 3rd beer already
cazalla: but you can'
t be competitive on a console
BingoBoingo: IHB: Yeah, qntra didn'
t have anything on them in particular because BTCgaw followed the exact same for as a scam previously called out.
BingoBoingo: But the fight isn'
t until May 2nd (3rd in GMT land)
decimation: actually I kinda wonder why ada hasn'
t gotten more traction, given that it is far more 'portable' than C is
mircea_popescu: no wonder the ancients didn'
t have "intellectual property". too cultivated to imagine it's workable.
mircea_popescu: to derps making "submarines" because hey, can'
t just admit bitcoin has it and humbly join.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: it isn'
t an on-demand print, either
ascii_field: 'The real problem with this result, however, is that it is not Wolfram's. He didn'
t invent cyclic tag systems, and he didn'
t come up with the incredibly intricate construction needed to implement them in Rule 110. This was done rather by one Matthew Cook, while working in Wolfram's employ under a contract with some truly remarkable provisions about intellectual property. In short, Wolfram got to control not only when and
ascii_field: (pedants will answer 'desinfo ain'
t sigint' but in usa they are presided over by the same people)
ascii_field: and before we say 'the americans and their wasted effort on pointless sigint' - let's recall how they set up a whole planet as chumpers who can'
t access a sane computing system at any price...
mircea_popescu: "we can'
t afford to train and then to lose the agents what with these new techniques"
mircea_popescu: and if i couldn'
t that failure'd score pretty high up on the priority board.
ascii_field: didn'
t grow up drinking their swill, speaking their hundred-word language, watching their sporting crud, etc.
mircea_popescu: so you're telling me you couldn'
t flunk tests. because it's "in your nature" to pass them.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the difference between smart and stupid is that smart can be stupid, but stupid can'
t be smart. that's it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the other point, which for some reason you don'
t seem inclined to appreciate, is that if the difference between man and beast doesn'
t exist, then the nominal difference is spurious.
ascii_field: here i don'
t have a position as such, only observations
mircea_popescu: you know, the shapeshifting amoebic consistency of your position suggests to me that you'd rather it weren'
t discussed after all. which is it ?
ascii_field: can'
t speak for mats, but basic idea is that once you leave your meatwot, you are a fungible machine. this is a situation that, as mats put it, 'resets you to entry level' - and overwhelmingly favours the very young
☟︎ mircea_popescu: doesn'
t sound like you'll face a dearth of opportunities.
ascii_field: it isn'
t strictly an age thing, beyond a certain point
ascii_field does not, afaik, know anyone in local meatspace who 'doesn'
t need a job'
mircea_popescu: he doesn'
t sound old enough to need a job, that doesn'
t sound like a job good enough to want, etc.
mircea_popescu: more like "i have so little, please don'
t make it less."
mircea_popescu: as they cheapened and broadened they took their proper place. not because "there aren'
t real wearers anymore"
mircea_popescu: anyway, back to ellison, guy apparently wrote a shitton. i suppose it's mostly that we don'
t give a shit about their pulpy universes.
mircea_popescu: sf in the 50s was a spare cycle endeavour of the people who at the time didn'
t have bbs yet.
mircea_popescu: this doesn'
t qualify it for "some shit they made up for the cover" ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field note that i wasn'
t commenting on whether i or anyone else would or not would want x. merely on how much sense x makes, given other things.
chetty: ascii_field, also know as can'
t think outside the box
ascii_field: perhaps i -wouldn'
t- wear tailored socks, in practice
ascii_field: re: socks: i am reminded of dan mocsny's piece on how very few people can give honest answer to the question of whether they want, e.g., a harem - because they don'
t have the option in menu
mircea_popescu: if it weren'
t, the square eye wouldn'
t put 3x more focus on horiz than it puts on vert sync.
mircea_popescu: anyway. i don'
t hate scrolling. i hate the situation where my field is fixed.
mircea_popescu: because if you don'
t, seems to me you're looking through that tank periscope anyway
ascii_field: but don'
t try to say 'you should like scrolling and pixellated graphics, forget about paper and author-specified pagination'
mircea_popescu: so because -unprocessed- pdf doesn'
t actually exist you figure this is an argument ?
mircea_popescu: then people wonder about kaminsky. EXACT SAME THING. you lot have been so mentally stunted by the stupid welfare state, you do this sort of shit. "oh, i wonder if arxiv backwards . org paid funkenstein_ anything". no dude, they didn'
t, he's just silly like that. like everyone in that country.
mircea_popescu: you don'
t want me to think "hey that was a great piece, i wonder IF ARXIV ORG HAS MORE"
mircea_popescu: own your content, AND EVERYTHING ABOUT IT. you don'
t need someone else deciding anything whatsoever. not what url to use. not when to "put up a warning page". not. ANYTHING.
mircea_popescu: mats well, it's training, i gather. trainee pieces aren'
t either useful or valuable, per se. so you're not really "buying" anything.