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ben_vulpes: but that which gabriel
_laddel described was a damned siren song for a boy who grew up on os x.
gabriel_laddel: ben
_vulpes: I'm currently counting lines of algol and fixing up the dashboard
ben_vulpes: gabriel
_laddel: i yet yearn for the day i dual boot os x and a lispy gentoo
assbot: Logged on 05-02-2015 04:48:10; mircea
_popescu: You can see the compiled assembly code for any just typed in function
adlai wonders whether mircea
_popescu has heard of lisp
phillipsjk: mircea
_popescu, you called it :"The way the Air Force had it figured, if a canopy could survive an impact with a frozen bird, it would certainly live through a chance introduction to one that could still fly under its own power. They further believed cold chickens provided a better simulation of a bird that had tensed to prepare for the impact. "
assbot: Logged on 04-02-2015 19:39:56; mircea
_popescu: submission is cooperation, just, functional. the sort of cooperation you have in mind is simply not found in nature is all.
phillipsjk: mircea
_popescu, cooperation is common in nature. Even without submission/domination. Examples include Geese taking turns leading migrations, alarm signals (sometimes seen as altruistic), herd/school protection.
assbot: Logged on 04-01-2015 01:02:05; mircea
_popescu: apparently kids crying are annoying in general, but for that month it takes them to die of hunger...
coderwill: mircea
_popescu: yes, but collectively it ends in geopolitical turmoil, it seems
decimation:
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/02/glenn_reynolds.html << "The parts he likes makes sense and the others are crazy; what do you do? Here's the problem with public officials--because that's really his audience--deciding to ignore the Constitution. If you are the President, if you are a member of Congress, if you are a TSA agent, the only reason why somebody should listen to what you say instead of horse-whipping you out of town
lobbes: mircea
_popescu: seems dubious the us still has five years left in it. << would you not agree that it is already dead? A decomposing body still sticks around for some time. Where is the line of 'no longer left'?
coderwill: mircea
_popescu: it's really interesting that his sentiment was that it is either going to be this one or the next one that does us all in
coderwill: mircea
_popescu: interesting - i'm not sure if it will be similar to orwell, but i just bought a book this afternoon called "the third policeman"
decimation: mircea
_popescu: people who think (the phrase in the us is 'change the system from the inside') are generally beaten down and otherwised smashed by the system
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> thestringpuller prolly best to imgmagik it into a png or jp << Actually used imagemagick 20 minutes ago assembling a document package for qntra post in progress
coderwill: mircea
_popescu: thanks for the link, must not be any jobs since it 404'd, hehe
decimation: mircea
_popescu: her emails are not particularly intellectually stimulating either
decimation: then I heard this podcast:
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/02/glenn_reynolds.html << "Guest: It's funny--one of my friends, who has been a long-term, upper level bureaucrat in Washington said to me his favorite phenomenon to see is these people coming through these usually politically-appointed jobs and, he says: They think everybody loves them. And then they leave the job and they realize that everybody just loved the job. And
☟︎☟︎ assbot: Logged on 28-01-2015 05:19:40; mircea
_popescu: adlai how much capital were you looking for ?
adlai: 03:19:26 +mircea
_popescu | adlai ok so what did you have in mind ?
assbot: Logged on 28-01-2015 05:29:24; mircea
_popescu: adlai so that's how it works. you get some btc, publish your trades, etc.
cazalla: mircea
_popescu, barbers as well?
kakobrekla: <mircea
_popescu> cazalla: re: pastebin submissions, can we please use email? google snatches these up quick and pastebin gets the credit for the content << oops sorry bout that. < dpaste btw
cazalla: mircea
_popescu: phillipsjk you know you might be the first guy of your kind i ever met. so, you're on some isp's forum because... it's your isp ? and i suppose on the mazda forum if/when driving a mazda and so on ? <<< popular thing in australia, or at least was back in 90s, early 2000s
ben_vulpes: mircea
_popescu: natural questions for their business models, neh?
cazalla: mircea
_popescu, that works
mircea_popescu: ben
_vulpes specifically, they wanted to know "what zones im interested in" and "what my budget is".
ben_vulpes: <mircea
_popescu> today, sent responses to ~300 of them, that were inquiring to know a) where is the center of buenos aires and b) whether argentines are poor. << why were they asking if argentines are poor?
nubbins`: pete
_dushenski stop bogarting that dutch
cazalla: it's not just you pete
_dushenski so, nothing personal :)
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: Wow. I just woke up and won?
mircea_popescu: ben
_vulpes speaking of which : sent emails to ~500 real estate agencies in buenos aires, yes.
the_scourge: ben
_vulpes: is that because all of the non-stupid people ended up dispairing and turned malicious?
trinque: the
_scourge: heh, dude.. this feel, I know it
trinque: the
_scourge: gotta just ignore useless people and not miss the opportunity to hang among the worthwhile when it comes along
the_scourge: ben
_vulpes: it should respect what xrandr tells it to do, regardless. i've used tiling window managers with a retina laptop in 9 different shops in the last 18 months, sometimes changing desks throughout the week. just turn everything off and use xrandr, i'm sure your wm will respect it
the_scourge: ben
_vulpes: just do xrandr by hand. unless you're one of those people who has their monitors in the same orientation every day
jurov: mircea
_popescu: verifying is another problem. i can do that by hand
assbot: sha256sum wot
_ratings.sql.gz : 2675cf21e2655398640525b1a2841a9a980b5d05e26cc4844540534971a5b7a9
assbot: sha256sum wot
_users.sql.gz : f4de64eaf67a36a5f9f9af96ff4e6cf302c816b1093d252277a34d06e2c06add
mircea_popescu: pete
_dushenski: c'est mieu ? << mieux. the x, like the h, and the e, and everything else in French including the French themselves, is silent.
phillipsjk: ben
_vulpes, if you miss issuing a new key, you may still want to sign with an expired key to prove you know the secret.
jurov: mircea
_popescu: one cannot get full fingerprint out of gpg-signed stuff one get by email. t was already discussed
pete_dushenski: mircea
_popescu: this is true but there's some other writing i'm attending to
mircea_popescu: pete
_dushenski you know you could write it up yourself.