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mircea_popescu comes from dairy country, likes girls with big tits and eats
a cup o' sour cream
a day.
mircea_popescu: eh don't be too harsh, you also have potato dumplings with
a little cheese in them.
Framedragger: after reflecting upon economic cycles and the crashes to come, ii have presently assumed
a state of relative tranquillity...
Framedragger: (there is that feeling (maybe just
a feeling) that folx here (.ko) always have some spare cash. (i mean like jb financial group, etc.) whereas in yurop, everything's on the brink of bankruptcy, disaster's around the corner.)
Framedragger: (oh god, i'll come back from asia believing that lithuania should seriously suck china's cock as much as possible so that it could *maybe* get bought by them. like, that's the best option for them. idem poland, only that the latter are way ahead (and
a tad bit more autonomous from bruxelles.usa) (e.g.: coaxing chinese to invest into gdansk port; .lt's port is just about done.))
jurov: btw, if you saw news.ycombinator recently,
a third of frontpage were about AWS. interesting noone noticed (or was muffled, dunno).
pete_dushenski: "That's the Unicode world,
a world where impotence was legislated
a litte further" << mircea_popescu, missing 'l'
pete_dushenski: maybe
a russian invasion, or at least
a smattering of carpet bombing campaigns, will straighten out their obsession with risk aversion. but that might be
a few decades off. unlikely trump can live that long, even if i wouldn't be surprised if he put an end to the two-term limit.
pete_dushenski: isn't such
a faulty approach something mattis could do away with ? or too embedded ?
mats: >Top-down training directives and strategies combined with brief leader development experiences for junior officers leads to
a perception that micromanagement is pervasive. They do not believe they are being afforded sufficient opportunity to learn from the results of their own decisions and actions.
mats: the zero defect approach to officer evaluation reports and utter lack of experience managing money in
a large org are not good traits
mats: fwiw, it reads like he made
a good call, with the information he had at the time
pete_dushenski: speaking of blogs, this comment came in recently with
a link to an reuters piece about how the tsx had just turfed canadian scammer king anthony di iorio as their 'chief digital officer', just as i told them to do exactly five months ago. so goddam golden. mega-satisfying even though i didn't make
a penny off the prediction.
pete_dushenski: many congrats to asciilifeform and mircea_popescu on squeeking in under the nth xmas deadline for #fuckgoats. looking forward to getting my hands on one, whatever batch that may be. will probably order
a few and give as gifts to sufficiently nerdy friends.
BingoBoingo: Related
http://epmonthly.com/article/treating-chainsaw-laceration-ep-enough/ "The patient claimed that he was given
a staple remover and was told to remove the staples in one week. Emergency department staff stated that they gave him
a staple remover to bring to his primary care physician to have the staples removed in 12-14 days. The patient removed the staples three days after they had been placed. Two months later, the patient returne
a111: Logged on 2016-12-01 19:25 mircea_popescu: i have personally repaired malfunctioning electronics with
a well placed hit to the side.
mircea_popescu: i think maybe it was reddit's rendition of
a cock ? crushed ?
trinque: I've got
a bunch of italians sitting around getting mops stapled on in my head
mircea_popescu: i mean, IVECO trucks, clearly made for municipal use, clearly delivered new sometime in the past 2-3 years. as loud as
a zil uphill.
mircea_popescu: it was long
a low level puzzle this, "seriously, 2010 toyota sounds LIKE THAT ?!"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and he used that shovel. to bang on the lower end of the steep pipe, ostensibly to induce it to take
a shape less offensive to his taste and good public morals.
mircea_popescu: so folks may recall the airconditioner pics ? in the same vein, this morning there was
a truck loaded with steel pipes, and two trabajadores. one of them held
a pipe up in the air vertically, with great effort, as the wind threatened to cause
a serious workplace accident any moment. the other had
a shovel.
mircea_popescu:
A student told his friend, "My teacher has amazing powers. He moves
a pen in the air and characters appear on
a piece of paper held on the other side of the river. What does your master do?" His friend replied "My great master follows Zen. When he is hungry, he eats and when he is tired he sleeps."
☟︎ trinque: mircea_popescu:
A student once asked his teacher, "Master, what is enlightenment?" The master replied, "When hungry, eat. When tired, sleep." << this thing?
a111: Logged on 2016-12-01 18:25 trinque: still didn't feel superhuman on either; more like excited dog that has to sniff everything in
a loop
mircea_popescu: does your wife go ? eh ? eh ? is she
a sport ? say NO MORE!
phf: sort of reminds me how i was trying to teach
a group of script kiddies to program. "this here shellcode -- that we use to pwn newwwbs!!! -- yes, yes, see it's x86 assembly -- ... -- and you disassemble it, and then even write your own -- so we can pwn newbs better????!!! -- yes yes precisely"
a111: Logged on 2016-12-01 18:06 phf: also made me rather mistrustful of
a lot of "hacker culture" elements, like too much coffee, night hacking, after hour sprints, weekend hacking, all things that i've confirmed from experience to contributing to atrocious code
mircea_popescu:
a good 2/3 of how girl gets in trouble. "but i've always done this".
phf: it's sort of like believing monopoly money is real money, must be
a cultural thing
mircea_popescu: yeah apparently he spent
a year trolling the internet for "spiritualists" lel.
mircea_popescu: o wow apparently he also got
a liver transplant, which obv comes with imunosupressants.
mircea_popescu:
a) people want to do x ; b) people don't weant to do x ; c) people pick the more lunatic marginal, make him Priest of X.
mircea_popescu: phf hey, the alcohol as medicine thing is
a joke older than those hippies' mothers.
mircea_popescu: i have personally repaired malfunctioning electronics with
a well placed hit to the side.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: though this is
a decent sf premise, imagine if nanotech allows one to drill implants into each neuron
mircea_popescu: "no doubt it was
a hit by the anti-tea-gasoline lobby because he knew too much"
mircea_popescu: the occasional death in
a garage fireball because idiot had leaky still...
mircea_popescu: they could have
a web forum dedicated to debating formulas...
mircea_popescu: wtf,
a crane is like 100 bux an hour already. why throw cars.
mircea_popescu: if only the exxon people had thought to mix mountain berries and chalk powder into the damned thing. but the anti-berry lobby is keeping
a lid on things.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-01 19:08 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-01#1575840 << he will no doubt be less than pleased to hear that i can / historically have stayed up for days at
a stretch because i wanted to. it's all in the brain, man!
mircea_popescu: trinque try as i might i fail to see self-administered medication in any better light than self-mixed gasoline. "oh, my fuel mix gives me much better power and gas mileage". meanwhile derp drives
a fucking honda and has an evil eye pendant dangling from the rear view mirror.
mircea_popescu: "mice were found in germany which is
a country that once invaded the soviet union where lenin introduced electricity which goes through tubes in which tubes today in england most mices live." "OH NOW IT ALL FALLS INTO PLACE!!!"
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: for
a while
a very popular ~tv format~ was this string of factoids going in
a sort of free association from
a noun back again to it. the whole thing read too fast and with "bbc noises" in the background (you know the idiocy, chimes intended to propose THE IMPORTANT IS OCCURING!)
a111: Logged on 2016-12-01 18:57 trinque: this dope topic is
a perfect example. I was making
a similar "psychedelics open your mind, man" argument
a year or two ago, and mp thoroughly trashed the argument.
mod6: but, i don't have
a link handy for ya or anything, it's just '
http://nosuchlabs.com' in
a private-window with all history cleared, no 'shop' link in menu bar.
mod6: and btw, i get
a 401 auth required when trying to hit: www.nosuchlabs.com
trinque: this dope topic is
a perfect example. I was making
a similar "psychedelics open your mind, man" argument
a year or two ago, and mp thoroughly trashed the argument.
☟︎ mod6: ooooh. i see what the problem was. the homepage doesn't have
a link to 'shop'. after clicking on 'the real bitcoin' link, then was taken to that page, where
a 'shop' link exists.
mod6: i didn't see
a link. i'm probably an idiot.
gabriel_laddel_p: both substances allow you to remain lucid after
a long time with little sleep
mod6: I aquired
a box, so was just gonna re-read some of the stuff and place an order later tonight.
gabriel_laddel_p: bly socialize with prior to getting
a new place to crash / drop masamunes off.
gabriel_laddel_p: I should have been
a little more specific earlier re: why cocaine in particular, or meth (in particular) would be useful IN MY SITUATION. I think it would be useful when you find yourself on
a forced march in the sense that you MUST stay awake for
a few hours longer than you normally would have, perhaps on the company of people who you should proba
mircea_popescu: none of this is much more than observing that you know, "in theory there's no difference between theory and practice..." ie, the represented difference between representation and reality reduces to
a representation.
mircea_popescu: consider the illustrative case of physics. newtonian mechanics (representation structured as representation) is valuable because
a) it works in representative terms, ie, math and b) matches observable reality. but there is no objective relation between
a and b, which is why science fiction can exist for instance ; and also why the only thing that can be said about nm is that it's ... not correct.
trinque: it is
a strange creature that resists learning, or work.
mircea_popescu: the sad fact of the matter is that the brain is not
a reasoning engine. in
a very purely naturalistic, bio-logical way, this is sensible. the practice of "talk to the text, not context or subtext" has become established through moo practice
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and consequently : he simply does not want it to be
a discussion about that, so he doesn't mention it.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-01 01:42 shinohai: This may be the best story I have seen all day: Former gay porn actor turned German spy arrested for secretly being
a Jihadist
http://archive.is/9SQqY deedbot: mircea_popescu rated gabriel_laddel_p 1 << Crazed Cali Kid, but at least banging his head against
a goldmine rather than
a brick wall.
mircea_popescu: !!rate gabriel_laddel_p 1 Crazed Cali Kid, but at least banging his head against
a goldmine rather than
a brick wall.
ben_vulpes: lol what is that
a lisp predicate joke gabriel_laddel_p ?
gabriel_laddel_p: I cannot currently up myself, but have registered
a new key for gabriel_laddel_p
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: or even more dilute, through
a whole cocktail
ben_vulpes: good idea though! i've dropped many
a dose of 'acid' into 'friends' eyeballs.
ben_vulpes: gabriel_laddel: there's
a metabolite that comes out when digestion booze and coke together
trinque: still didn't feel superhuman on either; more like excited dog that has to sniff everything in
a loop
☟︎ phf: haha, most definitely. cocaine is all the upper echelons (the drug of choice on capitol hill), alcohol is for the grunts. aspiring managers notably prefer vodka redbulls are
a nodick compromise
phf: the first part of writing happens in
a mapper mode, i.e. daydreaming for lack of better word before any kind of code is actually written, second in packer i.e. actual typing. that's also when cocaine/caffeine/aderal might help
phf: also made me rather mistrustful of
a lot of "hacker culture" elements, like too much coffee, night hacking, after hour sprints, weekend hacking, all things that i've confirmed from experience to contributing to atrocious code
☟︎ phf: i would've prefered criticism that involved quotes (since there are plenty of things to make fun of), rather than
a somehwat off mark general trash talking
phf: well, yeah, it's cybermysticism :) follows
a long tradition that well predates eric raymond