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mircea_popescu: (enormity also means "monstruous nonsense", for the record. even if it's a secondary meaning forgotten on the web.)
mircea_popescu: yeah, but this leaves a pretty serious hole for the rest of us, who you know, have pleasant relations with women and don't quite grok this "not person" immensity.
asciilifeform: it is worth mentioning that i am a connoisseur of subj, since the performance of mssrs. harris & klebold, yet the showing of rodger was so lackluster that it slipped my attention entirely in '14
mircea_popescu: suppose we run a simpler tiered system : people with his killcount or more may speak against him. seems a pretty reasonable implementation of your "in the arena, with retiarii" idea of adjudication. and he doesn't come out too bruised from it, either.
mircea_popescu: not to mention that impungning those terms is a much more difficult task than average vanilla derp intuits.
mircea_popescu: ftr, if this happened to you for a decade straight you'd be pissed off too.
mircea_popescu: to quote that usg official, "what the azn wants are loose shoes, cheap lattes and a tight pussy to shit in"
mircea_popescu: they have a neon-buzzer assemblage.
BingoBoingo: "a crowd of pathetic fans who reminded me of sheep cheered from the other side" << Aka hired from craigslist. Beats McDonalds where burgers actually are not flipped, but "cooked" on both sides at once.
mircea_popescu: a latte something.
BingoBoingo: The perfect post-pre-post modern leading teenage girl played by a late something
BingoBoingo: A jew bot, obviously
asciilifeform: wtf is a 'jhvh' anyway??
a111: Logged on 2016-08-26 17:25 mircea_popescu: has anyone a spare bedroom/garage/whatever willing to rent to me for a reasoble sum and park gabriel there for a few months ?
asciilifeform: 'i want a waveform generator box, i could spend fiddybux on it instead of drink, or hey! neighbour threw out tape deck and...'
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: when you're a student and time is 'worth 0', you do things like making own lab instruments out of rubbish
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: Error: "puppies" is not a valid command.
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: Error: "My" is not a valid command.
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: Error: "My" is not a valid command.
jhvh1: shinohai: Error: "lazerkittens" is not a valid command.
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: Error: "bc,stats" is not a valid command.
hanbot is having a fit of ignatius j. reilly-isms doubtlessly conjured up by the current trilema rodger telenovella
asciilifeform does often wonder whether there exists a black market in old-new stock parts such as toilet valve.
BingoBoingo: But if it were a capacitor!
asciilifeform: aaaaha i'ma spend a month on a $5 part. suuuure.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-28 00:37 BingoBoingo: Did you try casting a replacement out of pewter?
BingoBoingo: Did you try casting a replacement out of pewter? ☟︎
asciilifeform: but this - is a new thing.
asciilifeform: it's a float valve. it lives whatever pressure the water pipe supplies.
asciilifeform: re chinese engineering, i had a float valve, of the usual type, in toilet - EXPLODE the other day
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Error: "\"" is not a valid command.
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Error: "" is not a valid command.
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Error: "buttseks" is not a valid command.
asciilifeform: not so many a decade ago.
mircea_popescu: i very much doubt there will be a signle employable engineer graduating from ivy league this year.
mircea_popescu: shinohai why does your bot sound like a submissive streetwalker ?
BingoBoingo: shinohai: You're missing a command. ">ty" should be answered with "You are very welcome Daddy"
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: Error: "ty" is not a valid command.
BingoBoingo: "James became deeply disturbed by my anger. I wished that he wasn’t disturbed. I wished he could be a friend that felt the same way about the world that I did. But he wasn’t that kind of person. He was a weakling." << Twu Wuv
mircea_popescu: they write "news" in theguardian about how the chinese should give them moar attentions, and a car.
asciilifeform: i cannot picture anyone, even anglotards, conceiving of such a thing.
BingoBoingo: "On weekend nights, I took a few shots from my vodka bottle and set out on walks around the town, desperately hoping that I would stumble across some opportunity to make friends. I often ended up sitting alone at some café, hoping girls would talk to me before I sobered up." << Doing it wrong. SHould have drank the whole bottle.
asciilifeform: re the capacitors, the chinese story is a lie of omission, i've been swapping caps routinely in hardware made since 1990 or so.
asciilifeform: rs became a commonplace, something uncharacteristic for 1980s.'
jhvh1: shinohai: Error: "is" is not a valid command.
asciilifeform: count. Lawyers for Alfaro could not be reached for comment. An FBI official confirmed that agents were present at Alfaro’s home in Maryland but declined to elaborate. College Board spokesman Zach Goldberg said the leak of test questions constituted a crime. “We are pleased that this crime is being pursued aggressively,” he said. He dismissed Alfaro’s criticisms of the SAT test-making process as “patently false.”'
asciilifeform: moar recent völkischer beobachter lulz, https://archive.is/Y7pfH >> 'Federal agents searched the home of a former employee-turned-outspoken critic of the College Board, the standardized testing giant, as part of an investigation into the breach of hundreds of questions from the SAT college entrance exam.'
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-27#1530431 << 'keyserver' is a fundamentally braindamaged concept. ☝︎
mats: and on a similar subject, do you folks suppose there'll delivery of cardanos this xmas?
mircea_popescu: but for everyone else, identity is a deductive result, which is why there can't be such a thing as "an example of you"
asciilifeform: (glass, contrary to the mysteriously popular delusion, is ~not~ a liquid)
asciilifeform: dun mean you can go and pour a glass.
asciilifeform: hey, pitch is a liquid.
mircea_popescu: if identity is in fact "a set of deep habits" then you are a woman in the greek sense of that term ; and moreover i have nfi why you wouldn't be happy in the inca state.
asciilifeform: what's identity if not a set of deep habits
mircea_popescu: you can't prefer among a set with cardinality less than two, that's why. sure, your identity may require you to not do x. this is fine, BUT IT IS ALSO NOT A PREFERENCE. it's your identity.
mircea_popescu: yes, but it induces a whole slew of shit that then passes for thought.
asciilifeform: typically 'prefer death', for soldier who won't retreat, or whoever, is simply a fallthrough case in a switch(), if you will
asciilifeform: i will not disagree that if engineer gets up from his desk and asks for a sqrt(-2)-metre long stick, he has problem.
mircea_popescu: there's a long history of playing fast and loose with domain before one arrives at this wretched state where he "prefers complex numbers".
asciilifeform: rather than ask machinist to cut a complex length of steel
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a man who is a plumber is not by this measure "a plague victim". yes, the man works in shit all day. but : he does the work in shit with shit tools, and then he presumably eats with eat tools. he doesn't mix the two.
mircea_popescu: no example is required to decide any dispute. the example is a teaching tool, not a reasoning tool.
asciilifeform: i don't partake in the 'aristotelian' notion of correctness - 'do this because fella with a beard 3 metres long said it to be correct'. gotta show example of the kind of disaster one might arrive at via the incorrectness.
mircea_popescu: usefully, as a byproduct of correctly.
asciilifeform: the other observation re the greeks is that they did ~not~, by any indication, believe that a man who walks headfront into his death is necessarily acting illogically.
mircea_popescu: gtfo, by the same token elliot knows a lot about fucking ; and the exact-copies of him in charge of the circus act that in the us passes for finance now that the arabs have entirely decapitated it know a lot about bankruptcy
mircea_popescu: "oh, i spend all my time counting milimorts so i know a lot about death"
mircea_popescu: i barf at the idea that you dicking around with a statistical model has allowed you to cogently discuss the actual events.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i'd guess you pivoted the definition. "milimort nonsense" refers to the ridiculous pretense that statistics discusses discrete events ; it is not a proposition that statistical aproaches to risk management are infeasible or their lingo inacceptable.
mircea_popescu: this so far is merely a minefield.
mircea_popescu: look here : risk, as a statistical concern, and phenomenology, as a discrete history of the world, are entirely separate domains.
asciilifeform: actuarial stat is a thing.
mircea_popescu: no, nude isn't a pejorative, it's not better to be dressed than naked.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what'd be an example of a 'dressed call' ?
mircea_popescu: a nude call is a call that is not dressed. by parts : a call is an act of judgement, what's normally called "an expert call". when you produce through human heuristic a result that'd better be good enoughy because it's all there is.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: and this sounds like a homework question.
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: it's a kernelism, debug the way sane people debug kernels, on emulator with gdb hose.
mircea_popescu: a) your nonsense above is no demonstration ; b) my http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-27#1530301 is. ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what's a nude call ?
mircea_popescu: your calling induction "demonstration" and you pretending a nude call as to the future counts as either doth not actually change how reason works, you know.
mircea_popescu: a deductive, not an inductive concern.
mircea_popescu: the practical difference it makes is that if you stuprum definitions the results are - by definition - undefined. just like when you smash buffers, what you get is a no-longer-working machine. irrespective of what "practical" difference it makes understood as "i still see tiled windows so all is well"
asciilifeform: well i work with these for a living, what.
mircea_popescu: this qualifies as insanity. wtf do you mean the realia-idealia is "distinction without a difference" ?
asciilifeform: as far as i can see, this is a distinction without a difference
mircea_popescu: that whatever they pick, death isn't a present thing.
mircea_popescu: and you're way too liberal with this "oh, bigint ? sure i'll smush a string in there!"
mircea_popescu: if they won't eat the cockroach, they don't have a preference, they just gave up, or whatever.
mircea_popescu: if they ate dragonflies rather than wasps, they'd have had a preference for dragonflies and preferred dragonflies.
mircea_popescu: because preference, definitionally, is a choice between two or more present things.
mircea_popescu: not what's called a preference.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we did, iirc, have a crashed pilot thread
mircea_popescu: when it's a case that your boss wants you to do overtime, his competitor wants you to move over and there's five headhunters heating your phone, THEN you consider it's time to ask for a raise.
mircea_popescu: when it's a case that you're already fucking tanja, jennifer, rachel and the bubblebutt sisters, and this hottie cinema user begs you to let her come in with you and massage your feet while you watch the movie, and you're too exhausted to think that's a good idea, THEN you start thinking what you prefer, and ditch some of the crowd.
mircea_popescu: sexuate copulation being, in ALL species, the absolute lowest bar conceivable. numeration is a higher achievement.
mircea_popescu: kid is a wonder to behold, he effortlessly succeeds at things virtually none of his compatriots ever do, such as killing people (note how many of the "i shot a buncha losers" types are actually first generation or further as opposed to malibu-beachouse-timesharing-lizzardkin) or keeping his nose clean (seriously, find someone in californa born 80s or prior who is not and will not smoke), and then is all bitter and butthurt o
asciilifeform: it is not a boeing, no.
asciilifeform: (and in usa, bmw is not a rare or esp. precious item, this is not moscow circa '92, any idiot can max out his reddit card & 'own' one)
asciilifeform: schmuck in bmw is just a schmuck in bmw, not a picker of chix, just as if asciilifeform were to put on a priceless 16th c. samurai armour, he would not thereby become a samurai.