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CompanionCube: because I was saying that it either was or is
a deliberate clone
CompanionCube hasn't used tincd as
a VPN-to-the-internet, only as
a virtual LAN equivalent.
phf: i suspect back in the day it allowed vendors to optimize for usage patterns. "unlimited traffic vpn" vs running it on
a tightly metered box
ben_vulpes: funny how all manifestations of modernity look alike. entertain even
a smidge of wokeness and you'll wake up in trans camp.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: much like opting to have
a natural compost pile in
a shady spot in the garden instead of fertilizer and "modern our democracy" will result in
a much better ecosystem, with birds and earthworms and so on ; just like
a good cheese and yogurt diet rather than taking peptobismol will result in
a happier digestion ; just so havinga house full of linens rather than nylons will result in
a much happier overal environment to live in,
mircea_popescu: so you're up to
a certain point stuck overwashing once you buy the plastic angle.
mircea_popescu: plastics make
a splendid substrate for bacteria, much better than anything else.
mircea_popescu: let's consider
a simple illustration : normal milk going sour becomes
a different kind of aliment - sour milk. usian milk going sour becomes this utterly bitter horror.
mircea_popescu: this is up to
a point unavoidable -- the cheaper synthetics they use, especially fibers, stink.
ben_vulpes: moreover one large reason americans are so sick is
a dangerous obsession with the sterile living environment.
mircea_popescu: he has
a point though, there's good reason kids should be raised with puppies not kittenbs.
trinque: guy was possibly making
a joke
phf: well, it's
a telling selection of canine behaviors is my point. my dog was
a lot more useful than "sit" and "shut up"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes notrly. i mean i dunno, to my eyes the whole "dog as pet" thing is kinda inept. get
a hunting dog, go hunting with it, suddenly it's
a lot more respectable an animal.
ben_vulpes: you've been at it, what,
a decade and
a half at this point?
mircea_popescu: and in fairness i dun think i have to bid anyoine shut up once
a week.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-29 00:47 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: presently it eats blocks and tx in
a heapless and demonstrably nonoverflowable way, into
a general-purpose fixed space (no tx can >1MB) representation that is operable in O(1)
mircea_popescu: had mp not happened to make
a comment and alf to insist and mp to read this bullshit, mp'd have never known what miserable immoral acts bernstein engages in regularly. and nobody'd have told him.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't give
a shit about answers. i perceive i must send him
a one liner "you should be ashamed of yourself", because HE SHOULD FUCKING BE ASHAMED OF HIMSELF.
mircea_popescu: not for
a fucking second. he is enabling the misbehaviour of 30yo children. i gotta do more work bitchlapping these idiot cunts into the ground because he buys them food and doesn't makle them pay for the shiot they break.
☟︎ Framedragger: mircea_popescu: i thought he was being
a bit satirical and snarky in that particular passage you quote (those two paras), from when i read it first. not that his general pose of presenting an excuse (if diligently detailed) of this kind of
a good sign, of course. just that the tone is not *that* bad. (but, okay, perhaps bad enough when the piece is considered in whole.)
mircea_popescu: suddenly he's
a novelist when these grease spots are concerned
mircea_popescu: idiot actually wrote
a 12k word about this inept bullshit. where's his fucking 12k word discussion of any of his ACTUAL FUCKING WORK
mircea_popescu: but anyway, back to the upstream :
https://archive.is/9zD8D#selection-9.3336-9.4865 the whole thing is rather damaging of bernstein's own standing and credibility. he engages in this sort of behaviours, he isn't much of
a man, and certainly the sordid tale of his misbehaviour disabused me of any intention of rating him on the basis of his work.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: bing his floor. I want to be perfectly clear that there was nothing fun or kinky about this. I don't enjoy humiliation, and it was not
a consensual part of our sex life."
mircea_popescu: "During these discussions there was
a lot of gaslighting. One discussion in particular, he claimed that I had somehow deeply injured him (I don't remember what I did) and was inconsolable. I kept asking him what I could do, and finally he insisted that for him to feel better I needed to clean his floors naked. And I did it. I cried the whole time, in surreal horror. He cheered up and took photos of me, crying and naked, scrub
mircea_popescu: seafood also contributes
a healthy dose. especially these days.
mircea_popescu: polonium occurs from uranium decay ; and chemically masquerades sulphur which makes it
a joker in many biological pathways.
mircea_popescu: anyway, to not misguide noobs : litvenko, usg agent that got murdered by the fsb in london, was poisoned with polonium. the alpha emitter effect of the metal, while present, was not necessarily. polonium is chemically toxic, much more so than cyanide, ld50 being in the microgram range (ie 1000ths of
a grain of salt).
mircea_popescu: i thought it was just
a specially treated waste disposal method
mircea_popescu: phf nah these are quite elegant actually. and ferous granite also, it's
a slpendor.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, it is way the fuck cheaper to overweight flights than to fedex. by
a factor of like, 2.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-08 15:47 asciilifeform:
a c-grinder will also, should its lid come off, happily continue to fly (yes) around the kitchen, grinding whatever ends up in its path, drywall, chairs, people, van goghs, stradivaris, crates of ammunition, dogs, dildos.
mircea_popescu: but aside from
a whole crate with like 50 pogos in their original packaging, i carried over two granite mortar&pestle arrangements. because fu, i gotta have my pie spices hand ground.
mircea_popescu: i don't give
a shit about any excuses. this is the first, and the most important criterion of any place. no airport coolies, not civilised.
mircea_popescu: btw -- here's
a new mp rule : if the airport you land at does not have porters waiting at the ready, you have landed in the third world.
mircea_popescu: though i did give
a fiddy to the porter who handled all of it, dude earned it. also made his day quite evidently.
mircea_popescu: yeah i guess. sucks to live in
a shitty jurisdiction huh.
Framedragger: (i also called them to inquire but teh law is that they can't tell me more than on
a postcard (which gives amount to pay, basically, i mean for srs). i may have gleaned something more by showing up at relevant delivery office (not the closest one) but i didn't bother (paid online and got it posted to my door))
phf: only thing they shipping usa -> wherever is drugs. so it's
a pretty safe bet to investigate
Framedragger: i can post it later but need to finish
a thing tonight
Framedragger: the only form they gave me was basically
a fucking postcard saying "you gotta pay us if you want it"
Framedragger: minimum import duty amount ~£8, *but* there is
a tax for the tax (not kiddin) - administrative fee - which is also £8, so £16 in total for import (lololol)
Framedragger: it *could* be that it's because asciilifeform nicely noted down
a dollar value on the parcel but then if he didn't he'd technically be breaking some law or another i'm sure
Framedragger: re. FUCKGOATS customs hold-up in UK: according to their story the hold-up with uk customs was due to them having to apply import duty (had to pay
a bit) from u.s., *even though* i've had plenty of shit sent in from u.s. of
a. before, so who knows (they wouldn't tell me more) :D
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: japan is actually finding itself in
a very great conjuncture, reminiscent of early 1900s. both russia and china need it. the usg... who cares.
mircea_popescu: if usg asks for an apple, you bid
a dollar, and nobody underbids you, they'll decide they must "inspect" to "investigate" etcetera, and won't you agree to
a three dollar fine ?
mircea_popescu: if usg asks for an apple and you bid
a dollar and then they decide to define "apple" as
a sack of potatoes, you owe two dollars in merchandise.
mircea_popescu: aha. just making
a modest stab at chronicling the process
mircea_popescu: (basically, long story short, usg financed
a coupla units in georgia and ncarolina with japan's money, ain't giving it back. loss is whatever you want it to be, 3 to 10 bn)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in other news, toshiba seems headed for the ex-bin. after the "we made up 7bn profits over the past 6 years and are really losing 5bn
a year atm" 2016 lulz, they've announced
a 3.5bn looting by the usg this year.
phf: i met fare at one of international lisp conference's and i thought he was kind of off, but the kind of work he did on asdf3 precisely corresponds to his personal and writing styles. sort of like
a dirty kid that you have to constantly remind to like fucking go wash yourself dude, omg
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it's somewhat funny, in the side pocket, how paul graham's idle verbiage about "the power of tech entrepreneurs to reinvest and create wealth" ENTIRELY ignores how without exceptrion his chosen field consists of mark cubans, ie dorks who made away with
a large pile of corporate loot in
a very madoffian manner and then just kept piddling it away.
mircea_popescu: made
a bunch of money out of consumer plastication of computing, went on to "be entrepreneur"
mircea_popescu: there's
a very strict difference between technical competence and trustworthyness.
phf: i don't think fare was ever sane, but he at some point existed in similar space to asciilifeform, so people would mix the two together. i don't think anything he ever wrote was as lucid as "seven laws of sane computing", but
a lot of highly abstract verbiage on imaginary systems designs
mircea_popescu: i'm sorry, twitter is not
a platform. anyone can say whatever the fuyck they want 140 chars at
a time and i'll ignore it just like i ignore smsn
mircea_popescu: i'm supposed to give
a shit what tweets some dood tweeted ?
mircea_popescu: dude who the fuck cares what fare says/does, his head is more broken than anything you'd drag out of
a colombian by the hour hotel.
mircea_popescu: it's not however more to fix one or two of them ; and if this work can be pooled then
a complete system becomes quite feasible.
diana_coman: trouble is that unless the kick out is intrinsic, simply
a machine function
mircea_popescu: i don't need five minutes to expose
a bad collegiate paper, what's the exposure do ?