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ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: that it is not unreasonable to say 'i will not compete with 16 y.o. if i have any choice in the matter'
assbot: Logged on 09-04-2015 20:13:46; ascii
_field: can't speak for mats, but basic idea is that once you leave your meatwot, you are a fungible machine. this is a situation that, as mats put it, 'resets you to entry level' - and overwhelmingly favours the very young
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: this is the boon of late adolescence/early adulthood : that you can do any stressful job and you'll be fine. what you can't really do is slef-manage tho. which is kind of why i'm indignant over all the wastage sv/the us generally is doing to these eager kids making them "ceos" of "start-ups". << hence, >>
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=09-04-2015#1094083 ☝︎ ascii_field: ben
_vulpes: as a result, it is actually much easier to - usably - plant ada on 'bare metal' (sans os) than nearly anything else
ascii_field: ben
_vulpes: and even has own threading mechanism, scheduler.
ben_vulpes: <mike
_c> yeah? you claiming to be gandhi now :) << mike
_c gets it
assbot: Logged on 10-04-2015 12:49:45; mike
_c: this is from the ethereum github repo. and have no fear buddy, they took your code.
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: Once you set the cows free they stop going to Walmart
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> it's not heritable but a weak indicator. and one of the prevailing theories is that it's kindled, ie, you could be fine but then you had to go stress it to all shit. 99% get ptsd, 1% actually gets schizo. << Kindling is the dominant theory among the credible people.
PeterL: mircea
_popescu: you were looking for me?
mircea_popescu: mike
_c no see, it's not a sign of that, it's an effect of that. but yes :p
mike_c: <+mircea
_popescu> you know it's a major sign of early onset schizophrenia among other unsavory things ? << unsavory things like parenthood..
mircea_popescu: The
_Shrander no, but it is kinda lulzy. in any case trezor had mixed reviews at best here.
pete_dushenski: mircea
_popescu: speaking of tweaks, you have "gullbile" in your last article in footnote v
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: It's what it appears to be.
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: I'm seeing decimal odds pay 2.69 x stake for betting on Pacquiao
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: Yeah. Him and Pacquiao have just been doing old people set up fights these past few years, because boxing is uncompetitive as hell
mircea_popescu: mike
_c ben
_vulpes i seriously thought i had come up with it, then searched for it, found vulpes
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: it isn't an on-demand print, either
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field hey, we discussed last year this guy that was really butthurt about some professor stealing his invention ? up in canada ? something to do with mathematica maybe ?
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu could convince an eskimo that he is an eskimo ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ascii
_field the difference between smart and stupid is that smart can be stupid, but stupid can't be smart. that's it.
☟︎ BingoBoingo recalls suprise at mircea
_popescu's default chimp being the blowjob species
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field you propose that if you were taken to a jungle, you would have trouble exterminating monkeys ?
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: now you know why i'm in my mousetrap.
assbot: Logged on 11-01-2015 17:38:08; mircea
_popescu: "Jaron Lanier is one of the world’s great polymaths. He’s a computer scientist, composer, visual artist, and the author of a new book, Who Owns the Future?, published last month "
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: not only this, but feeds the academic mandarin class
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field nobody goes to jail for THAT kinda fraud right ?
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: hugo is voted on, iirc, by folks who go to (or at least buy ticket to...) 'worldcon' - an sf event attended mainly by writers (in practice, the wannabees i spoke of earlier)
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: that was more of a 'how dare they make an upvote ring, that's -ours- to do'
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: supposedly ellison witnessed the legendary bet b/w heinlein and hubbard. but afaik that's all..
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: ellison is interesting for another reason. he is the undisputed emperor of 'wrote a few good stories in the '50s, famous for nothing in particular since'; loudly rants demanding eternal copyright because 'creaaaatorz have riiiiiightz!!111!!'
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: who the fuck gets women off a menu << the fella with an already-assembled harem, such as mircea
_popescu ?
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field note that i wasn't commenting on whether i or anyone else would or not would want x. merely on how much sense x makes, given other things.
chetty: ascii
_field, also know as can't think outside the box
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: i find reading anything - other than plain text - not designed with a particular viewport geometry in mind - physically painful.
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field the problem is that you always have a finite workspace.
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field you're eliding the point. the fact that your misshapen pixels allow you to not see the distortion means your meat is made to look through a tank periscope in the first place.
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: the shape of the pixels is considerably less interesting if you have ones sufficiently small to enable affine transforms of whatever kind you like, without visible distortion
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: what i do have is 4 lcd laid out in such a way as to fill my field of vision
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: would love a square display with square pixels
ben_vulpes: yeah mircea
_popescu how does your meat know that 1cm?
ascii_field: sorta like mircea
_popescu's insistence on 1cm tall characters
ascii_field: i actually do not like pdf, for various reasons, some of which overlap with mircea
_popescu's. i prefer a wavelet-compressed format, 'djvu'
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: you are proposing equivalent of selling raw crude at the petrol station
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: aha lol 'tabletrons' etc. viewer gadgets expected to render .tex now ?
mircea_popescu: ascii
_field how about forget .ps which is fine, and .tex
funkenstein_: mircea
_popescu, their (arxiv / vixra) competion is journals that charge the author per page
ascii_field: funkenstein
_: pdf is more or less ps plus a bit of header
ascii_field: mircea
_popescu: in the sense of accurate and resolution-independent mapping to flattened dead tree
mircea_popescu: then people wonder about kaminsky. EXACT SAME THING. you lot have been so mentally stunted by the stupid welfare state, you do this sort of shit. "oh, i wonder if arxiv backwards . org paid funkenstein
_ anything". no dude, they didn't, he's just silly like that. like everyone in that country.
mircea_popescu: and im not reading a pdf. what the fuck funkenstein
_ .