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mircea_popescu: now listen here. the fact that the turks have worn salvari for x centuries does not mean a suburban kid showing up for some school function in silken longpants isn't following a fad.
saifedean: "so the paleo fad diet experts among us" Fad? Humans have been eating paleo from before they were humans. Grains, seeds, and sugars are the passing fad, it's only been 10,000 years or so, and it won't be much longer...
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell peterl seems teh code didn't werk.
mircea_popescu: the idea isn't that jacking off is less of an intellectual activity than learning chemistry or reading nabokov, so we pile on it.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: mircea_popescu: nobody needs three hours of video to rub one out <<< tell that to the people that take 3 hours to find the ideal clip for that session << well yeah, i kinda fucked up there didn't i.
jurov: i don't think it's bad, just..idk, maybe someone else can pinpoint it better
cazalla: well, not much else one can add with something like that, his talk isn't online so difficult to know what else he said
asciilifeform: answer is, in many cases, they don't (often people reverse engineer them from recent patches)
decimation: sure, but it is at least possible that is stomping on the code in such a way that it doesn't work in one version, but then works in another
decimation: I guess my point is that if something external to the turd participates in the 'wedging' then the bisect plan won't really work
decimation: ben_vulpes: won't you need much disk space per 'try'?
nubbins`: i mean, old cheddar doesn't have much lactose to begin with.
mircea_popescu: the genome doesn't change over the lifetime of the individual
PeterL: most animals don't eat milk as adult
PeterL: then she decided she couldn't stand to see another sweet potato and we started adding lots of stuff back in
mircea_popescu: or more like "whatever, we just won't eat too many sugar frosted dumplings" version
PeterL: yes, there are many dishes which just don't happen on paleo
PeterL: I've had sushi, didn;t like it much, probably not high quality though
ben_vulpes: "rice doesn't count!!!1"
mircea_popescu: don't tell me the thing's intended for kansasites who are barbaric enough to never heard of and so never miss sushi
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic no argument there, but i just don't happen to give a shit about chess, what can i tell you
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic because... i don't know it ? so ended up making some shit up on the spot ?
mircea_popescu: wasn';t x the king /
decimation: re: semi quad-copter << I don't get how that's more effective than a semi-truck full of small guided ballistic missiles
xanthyos: you don't need to physically see the same board
decimation: yeah I also found it interesting in 'stierlitz' that he didn't send his own morse/radio traffic
mircea_popescu: while the exercise is instructive, i don't really believe it's the girls' fault exactly.
asciilifeform: it's a serious problem, and folks who don't routinely discuss 20+ year old, moderately-obscure documents don't even know the beginning of it.
asciilifeform: ('eternity' was one of the more braindamaged ones, so perhaps that wasn't it)
BingoBoingo: Fuck, whoever made this scan isn't very good at the whole scanning books business
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, there is a lot of overlap between the problem of packing bits and the problems of blockchain and crypto isn;'t there.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: american 'can't say exactly who i was' vietnam vet.
asciilifeform: or it isn't a real discussion.
BingoBoingo: I've located a copy. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=running+rings+of+spies+kickass.to&t=canonical
undata: asciilifeform: same question as who hosts, isn't it?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform at least it didn't get all the way to snotislav or something
mircea_popescu: i like it when hirelings go "hello micrea". on a first name basis with people you don't even know the first name of ? way to fail multiple times per line!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform most folk get this idea that "they're in control of their own life" and that "they won't have to do anything they don't want to do" and so...
BingoBoingo: Why won't people learn to pastebin: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2L0hRICAAAAKSg.png:large
mircea_popescu: i haven't a clue if they mostly do or don't.
asciilifeform: (bugger: 'i wouldn't work for no russian scum' agent: 'aha, but we're mossad, friendlies, dontchaknow')
asciilifeform: 'A portrait of an ideal agent for spetsnaz emerges something like this: a man of between fifty-five and sixty-five years of age who has never served in the army, never had access to secret documents, does not carry or own a weapon, knows nothing about hand-to-hand fighting, does not possess any secret equipment and doesn't support the Comunists, does not read the newspapers, was never in the Soviet Union and ha
asciilifeform: mostly on account of i can't be bothered to give a shit.
mircea_popescu: i don't see you churning out an article a week about how "evil nato" and "nice putin" ☟︎
mod6: mircea_popescu: eh yeah, just making sure i guess, those wern't posted to the mailing list.
ben_vulpes: not rm_rf_upnp you aren't
mircea_popescu: mod6 shouldn't you be able to tell ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't disagree the brain works. im just saying, it's not working till it does work.
asciilifeform: doesn't do any work << usually folks ask 'if x works' with the understanding that x may be on a shelf, in a crate, has not been used in anger yet
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't agree. it doesn't do any work.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i can't say that i agree. they're cheap as dust. but very far, typically, from the 'levers of power'
asciilifeform: stuxnet << as i described in my article 'don't blame the mice' - imho, iran doesn't really want to live. how we know this? if they wanted to live, there would have been a public impalement of whoever said 'everyone runs winblows, it's ok for us to'
mircea_popescu: "the sec wants to matter, the sec better get in the wot". hasn't turned bloody yet.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if they weren't worthless they'd be invovled NOW << tricky bit here. 'involved now' almost always means 'share the fate of the new york death ray plot' or 'citadel corp.' or a thousand other stoolie-run shams.
mircea_popescu: if they weren't worthless they'd be invovled NOW. since they aren't now, they won't later.
undata: mircea_popescu: here in Oregon there are plenty of farming operations that I wouldn't be surprised if later they take on a more political nature
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform americans aren't a nation. no such for them.
asciilifeform: undata: in many (most?) places in usa, they won't be readily distinguishable from existing policemen.
ben_vulpes: i can't imagine that was set at any time.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes and so it doesn't use just the name ?
mircea_popescu: and apparently you shouldn't get into those guts anyway, just pick custom structure and form a string
notary: punkman: Of course, you wouldn't have any 'extra' tobacco
mircea_popescu: wouldn't surprise me.
thestringpuller: hopefully blender doesn't does do crazy stuff (like MS) between versions like change from lhs to rhs
thestringpuller: isn't that kako's job?
mircea_popescu: something that happens with regularity to fiat banks, "sorry, we can't process txn, our so-called system is down"
thestringpuller: you can't serve the terrorists. it's unpatriotic
jurov: thestringpuller you haven't met him.
ben_vulpes: and we don't have access to the original boxen
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell richih listen, your blog is down. there's no point sending broadcasts if your thing can't take the traffic.
cazalla: poor cunt didn't know what to do
mircea_popescu: it doesn't suck, get out.
Vexual: leaving an fa-18 can't be easy
Vexual: they don't fuck about thats for sure
Vexual: don't chew the pillow; it's cotton
asciilifeform or no, he won't, because likes box spring, rather than pit of own shit
cazalla: pete_dushenski, i don't know about cashews, there is a shortage didya know?
pete_dushenski researching which "nuts" are actually seeds. can't remember
pete_dushenski: saifedean: if you eliminate grains, seeds and sugars, you effectively eliminate the possibility of developing most modern diseases, including diabetes, cancer, alzheimer's, obesity, and so on << aren't nuts part of paleo ?
mircea_popescu: also, total trust prolly shouldn't be emphasized.
Vexual: i was joking how tinychat isn't a thing
pete_dushenski: don't mess with xanthyos' girl
pete_dushenski: i'd definitely recommend checking out the anthropological museum if you haven't already
joecool: yeah i don't recall having much issue in the maritimes this summer, i was fine in montreal too
joecool actually wasn't kidding
Vexual: did you buy any plastic money yet pete_dushenski? they don't take greenback here
Vexual: is it because the rigged snakes and ladders borard i send as tribut eisn't on it?
ben_vulpes: (i can't resist - what is it?!)
mircea_popescu: the pretense of "government" is nothing but exactly that : pretense. useful, to a very limited degree, for fucktards, like the kids that won't "learn" unless there's santa there with the notebook.
mircea_popescu: "As the night proceeded, all of the Carter era military malaise became evident. The Air Force lied to local law enforcement and media about what was happening, couldn't communicate with first responders, failed to send an evacuation helicopter for a gravely injured person because an irrelevant piece of equipment wasn't available, and could not come to a decision about how to respond as the situation deteriorated. Also
mircea_popescu: it's like a strategic decision that "people who read us aren't actually interested"
cazalla: mod6, i just checked, it didn't go out, i'm guessing the auto feed thing didn't catch it after i changed it from sgornick's account to mine
mod6: cazalla: huh. ok. didn't see that one in the list. maybe i missed it?
asciilifeform: 'sewer pipes in two Malmstrom launch facilities ruptured and a deep stew of human waste lingered at the bottom of the capsules. Despite the intolerable stench, the colonel in charge refused to take the units offline for repair. The men were instead ordered to defecate in a cardboard box lined with a plastic bag, but since nobody wanted to carry the box upstairs when it got full, the missileers began relieving t
asciilifeform: what man, woman, child on planet hasn't seen the 'domino pizza' one ?
asciilifeform: 'He later confessed to chatting for most of a night with the hotel's cigar sales lady, who was asking questions "about physics and optics"—and thinking to himself: "Dude, this doesn't normally happen." Carey was stripped of his command in October' << lol, 'cigar lady' gets 'order of lenin.'
decimation: yeah: "Ditching the ICBMs would save taxpayers $14 billion over the next 10 years, but not everyone's a fan of the idea: Senators from states where the missiles are based and tested have formed an ICBM caucus that isn't shy to throw its weight around. As a condition for confirming Rose Gottemoeller, Obama's recent pick for undersecretary of state for arms control and international security, the caucus insisted that the Pentagon
Vexual: xiando, I'm black and I hand out down by the canl in stockholm after sunset sometimes, you haven't seen me?
cazalla: xiando, we don't have black people in australia so i was not aware nigger is offensive, thank you for telling me
nubbins`: "i don't like the N word but we do not have any here" lel any what?