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mircea_popescu: Q : "ie. mining your competitors’ data
to send unsolicited and misleading marketing messages isn’t allowed, so if you didn’t breach
this clause how exactly did you send
those notices?"
nubbins`: some guy who bought a print off me yesterday now wants
to use it for his band's next album cover
sheldonthomas: i know man. i had reviews from
trades in 2011 with people like justmoon and
then i lost
that harddrive and
thus
that wot identity
sheldonthomas: i’ve lost my fucking wot identity more
times
than i like
to admit
decimation: I would note
that Mr. Wolfram & co. are slowly migrating Mathmatica
to be "pay us
to use Wolfram Alpha in
the cloud"
fluffypony: with
the bushy hair and
the moustache?
sheldonthomas: not really. i occasionally linger on assets. maybe we met back at
the bruce wager bitcoin conference. i sat in
the 2nd row
mircea_popescu: i have
this impression your name's familiar, any idea whence ?
mircea_popescu: obviously if one applied
the same standards
to quarks as it does
to bitcoins, one could never
trust
the fucking quark. obviously quark-nsa is behind it.
mircea_popescu: <thickasthieves> "The U.S. government is rapidly expanding
the number of names it accepts for inclusion on its
terrorist watch list, with more
than 1.5 million added in
the last five years, according
to numbers divulged by
the government in a civil lawsuit." << hey asciilifeform look at
that! what was gulag, 50mn ?
decimation: I guess I was picturing "determinism" as "God sets
the outcome of
the quark-dicerolls in
the way He sees fit"
sheldonthomas: what’s
to be expected when you finish
the migration? everything back in place, accounts and
the like?
mircea_popescu: sheldonthomas anyway,
that was
then. meanwhile a lot of progress'been made (notices of which scattered all over
the log), and we're coming out of da woods.
mircea_popescu: basically god is just
this very large dice assemblage in non-space, feeding all
the quarks dicerolls.
mircea_popescu: no,
the contrary. in
the quest
to make determinism infeasible, it requires some sort of entropy reservoir outside-the-world.
mircea_popescu: and about as close as one can get
to physically proving divinity.
mircea_popescu: one of
the core (if unknown) principles underscoring all creation is
that
the qty of entropy in a system remains
the same if it's cut in half.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> any source of finite entropy would eventually exhaust <<
this breaks physics.
decimation: turn
the screwdriver clockwise screw
turns,
turn it counterclockwise and it explodes
decimation: yeah I've been hit by
that ssh/scp
thing many
times, enraging
fluffypony: I believe
they're about
to start waterboarding him
fluffypony: the owner was arrested and deported
to Argentina
assbot: MPEx status update pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: so it
turns out
that ssh specifies ports with -p, but scp specifies ports with -P and -p is something else entirely.
decimation: interesting, you use ERC
to host proxy?
benkay: curse of emacs - it can behave any way you want it
to, provided you put
the
time in
to make it so.
BingoBoingo: benkay: For a
thing
that updates weekly it seems
the optimum haw
to handle feed generation
benkay: i've not customized
this irc client
to both show
those
things but not display notifications for
them
assbot: Racing Scanners: Frequently Asked Questions and Listening
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decimation: indeed, and some of source must shine
through with a mechanical generator
decimation: although,
the first practical
test of any source of random numbers is
to get a large quantity of
them and see if
there are any repeats
thickasthieves: "The U.S. government is rapidly expanding
the number of names it accepts for inclusion on its
terrorist watch list, with more
than 1.5 million added in
the last five years, according
to numbers divulged by
the government in a civil lawsuit."
decimation: it seems
to me
that if you had an infinitely large pot, you could
tell whether
the numbers were random or not
decimation: I was
thinking about
the "poisoned soup" model of determining
the "randomness" of some numbers
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: It's hard
to predict derpitecture
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, it COULD be designed as a concatenation somehow,
thus actually retaining 500ish bits. maybe.
mircea_popescu: "and it's illegal
to not let us do illegal shit when we want
to anyway, so."
mircea_popescu: "have a 4096 rsa key made out of 8 parts! it may not be as strong as
the proper key, but
that's good : if you forget your passphrase you can break
the key and retreive your stuff!"
mircea_popescu: what's
this, a way
to reduce key entropy
to breakable levels ?
Namworld: All I need now is
to find it a name, eh.
Namworld: Well definitly.
That cat would chew a door
to get
to me. Can hear it scratching doors
to follow me.
That plus always laying at my feet. It's more like a dog.
Namworld: So I wonder what kind of sorcery
this is.
Then I notice a service panel
to pipes slightly opened.
That fucker was opening
the cabinet under
the sink, crawled into
the walls with
the pipes and made it's way
to
the room.
mircea_popescu: so you know... stop misrepresenting
the swastika as something bad just
to serve your need
to scapegoat imagery.
mircea_popescu: "Don’t depict
the Magen David (Star of David) as an equivalent
to
the Nazi swastika.
The Magen David represents all Jews—not just Israelis, not just people who are violent against Palestinians, ALL JEWS. When you do
this, you are painting all Jews as violent, genocidal racists. DON’T." << and for
that matter,
the swastika represented all germans, not just
the ones involved in homicide.
assbot: (At
the Back Desk) episode 2, English subs - YouTube
BingoBoingo: Pierre_Rochard:
There's a lot of small shit schools getting on
the doctoral
train
trying
to escape
their regional labels, so it is best not
to use bachelor+masters as a measure.
That and
there are Bachelors (sometimes + masters) schools
that are better candidates for escaping regionalness
than some shitholes like Ohio State.
mircea_popescu: appointing yourself
the judge of all fucking creation is
the point of life.
Namworld: to bed. Noises in
the room. I look, he's back in
the room.
Namworld: So I have
this cat I just adopted. He's always following me around and
tend
to lay down at my feet. Won't let me sleep, walking on me and
trying
to get under
the sheets. So I close
the door
to
the bedroom.
Then shortly later, I hear
the cat and look. He's inside
the room playing. I
think wtf, must have slipt back in while I was closing
the door. I go put him out, close
the door, go back
mircea_popescu: "Don’t call Jews you agree with “the good Jews.” Imposing your values on another group is not okay.
Tokenizing is not okay. Appointing yourself
the judge of what other groups can or should believe is not okay." << omfg.
this is about as offensive as it gets.
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard i originally
thought it's a highschool/municipal sort of stadium for some reason.
Pierre_Rochard: BingoBoingo: I guess we’re just using different definitions of “regional”,
the one
that’s “bachelor + master” is more commonly used
mircea_popescu: ima end up persecuting fucking jews as
the initiators of
this "vocal minority
trying
to opress majority" meme.
mircea_popescu: this is
the most preposterous shit i ever read. hey, fifty million jewish people ? about a billion people happen
to not give a shit.
this is how it should be.
assbot: This Is Not Jewish (How
to Criticize Israel Without Being Anti-Semitic)
BingoBoingo: Pierre_Rochard: Regionalness is an attribute
that can feature differently on Aspects of a University. Consider a school in
the opposite situation,
Texas
Tech. National University in athletics and very regional school academically.
assbot: Bobby Dodd Stadium - Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard so basically it's
the georgia
tech stadium ?
BingoBoingo: Pierre_Rochard: It seems
that list strengthens
the case of it as a regional school when it comes
to Athletics.
assbot: Top 50 engineering &
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Times Higher Education
assbot: This Is Not Jewish (How
to Criticize Israel Without Being Anti-Semitic)
mircea_popescu: it's a mpex sort of corp, not a hot
topic sort of corp.
BingoBoingo: Also not
there aren't very many "Halliburton Stadiums" because
the contractors
that abide know lean years are possible
mircea_popescu: thanks
to all
the inflation,
they're safe :
they didn't have
that much
to spend anyway. i doubt anything under 1bn even registers anymore, especially after
the great successes of govt contractors in
the mideast.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: For sure. With one of
these discovering how much was spent will be a hard problem unless
they just let
the number slip.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo
this is starting
to look so much like classic doctom bubble burnage...
mircea_popescu: this is
the package maintainer's path
to divinity : prevent all
the f-students, masquerading as women-interest, "general public" interest etfuckingc from breaking math.