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mircea_popescu: if(document.getElementById("warning
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ascii_field doesn't expect to be taken prisoner alive, but wishes mircea
_popescu a jolly good meinkampfing
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: ... consider rewriting the history of the world from the only sane perspective : as the endless "interplay" between two types of people : the sane, and the imperceptibly mentally ill << nietzsche, or, far better, limonov
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field there was this mildly famous gay boy of athens whose name escapes me at the moment, literally got a whole trireme detachment on unbacked promises of great pay (from persia iirc ?) and well... there they sat.
☟︎ ascii_field doesn't (as far as knows) have super power. possibly one has to be mircea
_popescu weight class to notice this effect.
jurov: ascii
_field: UPS ships everywere, but the vendors don't want to
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> it works FROM mongolia. << I've had to use my USian powers to ask sellers questions potential buyers could not ask because they were outside USia
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: they are not entirely unobtainable in usa. just, again, have to buy online.
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: afaik you do buy it (pre-08 pc parts, etc) but through meatwot suppliers
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field similarly, the "reputation system" works perfectly for anyone not using it.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell mike
_c yo, want a fiverr acct ? prolly got a coupla hundred bucks in it.
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: the payment thing was the mega-feature
trinque: mircea
_popescu: ran into your hierarchy of needs article by way of pete. interesting to note that at the top of maslow's was this vaguely communist "self transcendence" idea, whereas at the top of yours, the man's concept of self seems to engulf others.
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field i think it's because for a while they added new keys in batches ?
mod6: mircea
_popescu: lot of nice pics in there thx!
mod6: <+ascii
_field> every country should have an exhibit of its 'zimbabwean' currencies << agreed.
mats: mircea
_popescu: nope
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: the gold balance suggests that they had something like engl. 'trial of the pyx'. did they ?
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: The museum of the National Bank of Argentina << mega-article.
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 15:11:30; asciilifeform: mircea
_popescu forgot e) sane person adds kludge to enable some semblance of civilization to function, creating schizoid split and opening would that bleeds complexity
bagels7: [11:38] <+mircea
_popescu> how do you know it's faggot insecurity ? << When I am waiting at a bus stop at 2 in the morning and a guy walks by and pretends to be waiting for the bus as an excuse to talk to me while I am merely being polite then after 15 minutes has the nerve to tell me that I deceived him when he was only being nice to get laid
mircea_popescu: mike
_c q : how hard would it be to enforce fixed placement on the inner circle ? i dunno how they're placed now, but how about just divide 2pi to however many people and each gets that much sector
williamdunne: mircea
_popescu: Scoop was down for a while, I committed an upgrade too early
ben_vulpes: pete
_dushenski: plz foar to nuke gravatar
assbot: Logged on 27-04-2015 16:32:38; pete
_dushenski: like the dentist who's busy when priced competitively, wants to be less busy, jacks up his prices to the highest in town, and then has his doors beaten down with customers like never before.
pete_dushenski: mircea
_popescu: the impressive and simultaneously worrying aspect of the bb-pgp biz is that the owner was a former tradesman who apparently thought to himself "hey, you know what the market needs, properly encrypted messaging!"
assbot: Logged on 30-04-2015 13:00:33; pete
_dushenski: apparently he has some large contracts already, something in the order of $6mn per year and no employees.
assbot: Logged on 30-04-2015 04:41:10; asciilifeform: <mircea
_popescu> ah, installed nginx, yeah << on top of apache again ?
Pierre_Rochard: pete
_dushenski: or at least make reasonable bookkeepers out of you, I couldn’t call someone an accountant if they don’t know how to do a multi-entity, multi-currency consolidation
davout: ;;later tell Pierre
_Rochard /me is pretty interested
☟︎ davout: ;;later tell Pierre
_Rochard do you have some background to share regarding your accounting software? probably missed it if it has already been discussed
assbot: Logged on 30-04-2015 03:33:07; mircea
_popescu: hey various folks whose pgp keys i've signed at teh conference key signing party... you're supposed to also sign mine!
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 17:11:55; mircea
_popescu: "The studious will note that this is a completely solved problem that no machine learning algorithm will be able to approximate anytime soon." i'm sorry...what ? solved how ?
mircea_popescu: gabriel
_laddel natural languages are not formalizable.
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 17:12:02; mircea
_popescu: and why the fuck am i referencing pastebins.
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 15:00:28; mircea
_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-04-2015#1115422 << this, i will point out, is in no way related to any inherent property of either (unless you mean lisp is inherently going to fail), but simply a function of context. had the linux kernel been implemented in sclb, and had the past 20 years been spent with scbl being "the cool language", you'd be having zhe pronouns and assorted idiocy to the tu
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 14:41:31; mircea
_popescu: gabriel
_laddel "Why isn't there grammer/spellchecking for my comments? " << this i can readily answer. because I am what's called "a creator of language", which is to say one of those people who, through his usage, ENACTS the rules all amateur users of language MUST follow, as a mark of their linguistic inferiority. like fucking shakespeare.
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 14:29:15; mircea
_popescu: gabriel
_laddel "why are the holes not marked or filled?" << ftr this is not what i was contemplating. what I was contemplating is, why the fuck don't defaults pop up. bring back the fucking paperclip, put it the ONE place where it makes fucking sense. "hey john, I see you changed FuckOff() from bool to int. This function is called 82 places in 22 files. Would you like me to a) check all places where
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 18:06:30; mircea
_popescu: 2.x immune.
decimation: mircea
_popescu: so have you been poking around centos or scientific linux?
mircea_popescu: Pierre
_Rochard a large chunk of the utility here is education, seeing how a bunch of people are going to get involved in a sort of you know, de novo, revolutionary economic process.
cazalla: yeah, qntra has plenty of those and other variations mircea
_popescu
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 14:42:28; mircea
_popescu: (and yes editors, which trilema doth employ, send the corrections with "did you mean to X" half the fucking time)
BingoBoingo: pete
_dushenski: No, as in the historical person Pulitzer.
BingoBoingo: pete
_dushenski: Anyways the Post Dispatch was the first Pulitzer owned newspaper
BingoBoingo: pete
_dushenski: Stahp using javascript everywhere
lobbes: pete
_dushenski: yes! that second one
mod6: !butt should just do like: (
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_)
trinque: ascii
_field: rubber rounds in pic #5?
ascii_field: i also love how mircea
_popescu put this box in a war zone
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: the way it works is that when polling interval elapses, it does everything in the queue
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: if you read 'werker' - there is a polling knob
ascii_field: ty mircea
_popescu, for a very palpably faster box.
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: It truly is. Guy's probably just flipping the ball into the stands out of habit, but seriously in the middle of the day they can't have spectators because... riots?
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: He's flipping the ball into the stands for the fans... Who aren't there because Baltimore, playing the game with an empty stadium because riots
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: it doesn't eat any key, lol