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trinque: mircea
_popescu: could be; not sure
assbot: Logged on 02-09-2015 14:16:12; assbot: Logged on 10-12-2014 00:51:50; asciilifeform: mircea
_popescu had an article (or perhaps a thread here? but can't seem to find it...) about an archetypical u.s. expat. fellow keeps a pub somewhere in thailand, or cambodia, etc. the locals - drink for free. he fancies that if he begins to run out of dough, he can always start charging. but somehow in the back of his head he knows what will happen to his sorry
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 04-09-2015 22:09:22; mircea
_popescu: ascii
_modem if women had thermite up their ass which blew up every time someone grabbed it, ~I~ wouldn't have any arms.
mircea_popescu: <ascii
_field> ^ guess who and what isn't cited in this paper, l0l << omfg that is FUCKING RIDICULOUS.
mircea_popescu: ascii
_modem if women had thermite up their ass which blew up every time someone grabbed it, ~I~ wouldn't have any arms.
☟︎ trinque: mircea
_popescu: sad state of affairs
mircea_popescu: ascii
_modem if they break into his car and thereby lose a hand in the explosion he's going to jail.
ascii_modem: sorta what i tried to explain to ben
_vulpes
mircea_popescu: <funkenstein
_> the language is the lexicon << this is beyond naive and absolutely never the case.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: <ascii
_field> and nobody can make me. << gotta love republican thought!
mircea_popescu: <ben
_vulpes> great, but why? << this is a complex point and would require some more indepth discussion to do it justice. in summary to my eyes it is an early attempt by the microsoft citatel to parlay compatibility problems of early linux into a "here, we've strangled it" usg solution. it failed to work irl, and the failure of java is torvalds' chief merit in this world. using it today is not unlike using ripple. you'r
☟︎ trinque: or if ben
_vulpes wants to, sounds fine too
ascii_field: ben
_vulpes: there are two kinds of brevity
ascii_field: ben
_vulpes: this is fine if you're adding a useful knob
ben_vulpes: ascii
_field: any changes i'd make would produce higher linecounts.
assbot: Logged on 25-04-2015 22:06:38; asciilifeform: to paraphrase mircea
_popescu article, if christ saves in java - let me go straight to hell.
ascii_field: perl was the only serious candidate, and if ben
_vulpes would like to attempt a cleaner version (!) in it, i'm all ears.
ascii_field: trinque: no, ben
_vulpes has a point, python sux
trinque: ben
_vulpes: I recommended testing!
ascii_field: ben
_vulpes: let's get to the matter, if you would like to rewrite 'v' in sed and awk, go ahead. i was not equal to the task.
assbot: Logged on 04-09-2015 17:36:10; ben
_vulpes: "i'll cut stainless, but you keep that piece of shit al off my machines"
trinque: ben
_vulpes: python's probably riddled with holes everywhere somebody wrote a shoddy python c module
trinque: ben
_vulpes: and yes this whole thing runs into pragmatism vs pure science, no?
trinque: ben
_vulpes: nah but they're smaller
wilbns: funkenstein
_: yes, but most people on the street don't care as long as their money is worth the same today as it is yesterday and they can still go buy a relative equivalent of whatever with it tomorrow.
wilbns: funkenstein
_: maybe m-pesa could utilize the tech for more efficient settlement of transactions. if someone just wants to send money to grandma or someone else in the next town, though, it's a bit of a hassle to suggest bitcoin. unless one party already has it, then they can sent it to bitpesa and they'll deliver it to the m-pesa number. if neither party has
wilbns: funkenstein
_: hey, sorry, i don't understand your question.
assbot: Logged on 04-09-2015 02:54:44; pete
_dushenski: asciilifeform: there's plenty of poor v. rich dialogue in this latest contravex for ya
trinque: ag3nt
_zer0: lived there for a time, yep. grew up in the Houston burbs
trinque: ag3nt
_zer0: got me on dylan now, good job
pete_dushenski: watch, mircea
_popescu will try chengdu for a year then move back to romania.
trinque: pete
_dushenski: it continues to yield fruit, this tree
trinque: pete
_dushenski: I'm yielding to your point here, I think.
trinque: ag3nt
_zer0: kinda what I meant about "command structure" in teh logs
ag3nt_zer0: pete
_dushenski hmmm working on my end...
assbot: Logged on 04-09-2015 00:13:31; shinohai: pete
_dushenski: Nope, worse. My parents became Evangelical Christians. "Jews for Jesus" if you will.
thestringpuller: mircea
_popescu: ah I see. more of a cave. always thought superman was the one with teh "fortress"
thestringpuller: mircea
_popescu: i assume you're referring to "The Dark Knight Returns".
mircea_popescu: ben
_vulpes that's complicated. but on the balance of it, too much fat makes you fat. which is problematic for the circulatory system
BingoBoingo: pete
_dushenski: I just got a lot of momentum going these past couple days
shinohai: pete
_dushenski: Nope, worse. My parents became Evangelical Christians. "Jews for Jesus" if you will.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 02:47:29; mircea
_popescu: trinque i'll give you an extra lol. recently the source of the "salt is bad mkay", ie the ustardemia, came out with an admission of the fraudulent nature of that entire swathe of "research". this however has not yet reached the latino "scientists" who mostly exist through translating things and pretending.
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: unless you have a 'eizo' or 'barco', those numbers have very tenuous relation to physical reality
phf: mircea
_popescu: how do i kill a backlight?
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 22:33:16; mircea
_popescu: ascii
_field: they happily send their sons to army so they can 'die for a fat bitch's right to marry her dog' << wow. that, right there, is more valuable to orlov's employer than orlov's entire body of work to date. mebbe you get job offers nao.
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field: they happily send their sons to army so they can 'die for a fat bitch's right to marry her dog' << wow. that, right there, is more valuable to orlov's employer than orlov's entire body of work to date. mebbe you get job offers nao.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 20:13:18; ascii
_field: or 10,001 other exercises of his would-be pashtunism
ascii_field: but strictly the kind mircea
_popescu describes - with true three-axis box
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field for proper graph display. imagine mike's wot graph in 3d.
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: i use a (very large) tablet thing to read djvu scans, and (occasionally) hyperlinkified therealbitcoin src. that's it.