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deedbot: 2019/12/16 09:33:35 <spyked>
http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-12-10#1954760 <-- certainly looks like a spin on
greenspun's rule: any system that amasses enough complexity (for some values of "enough", at least) becomes a contender for the "operating system" label. imho emacs, wp, cltrons all fit in there.
mircea_popescu: and i include
greenspun in the idiots pile. along with the rest of the "luminaries".
mircea_popescu: i dunno how familiar you are at all with cultural trends in that uneasy federal empire of entirely uncommunicating groups, but does eg
greenspun sound cali to you AT ALL ?
mircea_popescu: ok, but that's technological, at least
greenspun's chiclid observation applies.
spyked: editor might actually make a good basis for a browser. emacs, if we were to take
greenspun's tenth rule into account.
mircea_popescu: note how ffa ends up satisfying the
greenspun rule, through the predictable entry point.
pete_dushenski: i'd put taleb,
greenspun, tyler cowen, russ roberts, and matt levine in this camp.
pete_dushenski still guiltily checks
greenspun's blergh once a week, isn't always disappointed
pete_dushenski: if only
greenspun wasn't so old, jewy, and busy with winblozboxen, he could shut up about 'no-fault divorce' and how 'banging school principal in mass. is a better career choice for girls than medicine' and just suggest the only right and proper remedy to that particular poison pill.
ben_vulpes: and from le wik: "One of
Greenspun's most famous students is Randal Pinkett, who built an online community for low-income housing residents in
Greenspun's 6.171 Software Engineering for Internet Applications course."
mircea_popescu: college works exactly like
greenspun memorialized : "the reason you are having trouble with this problem is because you aren't very smart and aren't woking very hard."
pete_dushenski: even
greenspun's trollage has its appeal for me, if less so than taki even.
pete_dushenski:
greenspun, despite appearing to be happily married and fathering and what have you, is ~obsessed~ with alimony / child support / no fault divorce litigation in the states. he openly advocates that young ladies skip 'career' and instead have illegitimate children with lawyers, dentists, school principals, etc.
ascii_butugychag: mircea_popescu: holy shit, shitgnomes are trying to pervert even
greenspun's law ?!!
adlai: slime is a massive turd, most of which is totally irrelevant for shiva (unless bitcoin-os is planned to serve as yet another example of
Greenspun's 10th)
mircea_popescu: anyway,
greenspun in this interpretation embodies the affliction, in how he falsely if conveniently paints a will-to-live in the terms of "impressing the group"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform when
greenspun wrote that, he wasn't entirely wrong. yet.
mircea_popescu: holy shit phillip
greenspun actually runs windows 10 ?!
decimation:
greenspun thinks that if starbucks went 'full coke machine' and got rid of the employees, they wouldn't be able to charge the rates they do, because 'not hand crafted'
assbot: Philip
Greenspun's Weblog » What other currencies besides Bitcoin have experienced inverse debasement? (“basement”?) ... (
http://bit.ly/1RGSg3h )
assbot: Philip
Greenspun's Weblog » What other currencies besides Bitcoin have experienced inverse debasement? (“basement”?) ... (
http://bit.ly/1JpIIzL )
pete_dushenski: this quote, of course, being the first of two that
greenspun wrote on 'look who's back'
decimation: how did
greenspun put it:
http://philip.greenspun.com/materialism/early-retirement/investing " Note that Harvard's total is 105 percent because of leverage, i.e., situations in which they've borrowed money to purchase investments. Conspicuously absent from these portfolios are heavy investments in American companies run by Harvard and Yale graduates. "Domestic Equity" are publicly traded stocks such as GE and Microsoft. Harvard and Ya
pete_dushenski: ^
greenspun rehashing the 'usa becomes africa just like it always wanted' thing from the logs
assbot: Logged on 20-06-2015 12:24:13; mircea_popescu: i have no fucking clue how
greenspun keeps from going on a shooting rampage, living with these idiots.
mircea_popescu: i have no fucking clue how
greenspun keeps from going on a shooting rampage, living with these idiots.
☟︎ assbot: Philip
Greenspun's Weblog » Home school, Shanghai school, and American K-12 all in one conversation ... (
http://bit.ly/1fnFENk )
assbot: Philip
Greenspun's Weblog » Home school, Shanghai school, and American K-12 all in one conversation ... (
http://bit.ly/1ewosVy )
decimation:
Greenspun was just making the side point that the aircraft is relatively expensive to operate compared to others in its class
decimation:
greenspun: "(compare to about $25,000 per flight hour to charter (source)). If American Airlines spent this much during the 7-hour flight from London to Boston it would cost $1.44 million for the trip in operating cost (i.e., not including the capital cost of the aircraft) or about $3500 per passenger (i.e., a round-trip coach ticket couldn?t be sold for less than about $7000 plus taxes and fees)."
decimation:
greenspun has a continual rant on the divorce racket
decimation: yeah the best comment on
greenspun's article: "This is a subject and comparison that has been written about at length. German roads last longer because they are built substantially better than most U.S. roads. The German system of road construction relies on large long-term contracts with national companies that must build and maintain the roadway and are responsible for repairing any design and engineering defects. There is a powerfu
assbot: Philip
Greenspun's Weblog » Why you shouldn’t sell any product to an American (MU-2 crash in Oklahoma) ... (
http://bit.ly/1Q4V9qr )
ascii_field: for what it's worth, my hypothesis for the maleness of the profession is that it is the very epitome of
greenspun's tournamentmarket
mircea_popescu: i'da made the comment there, but apparently
greenspun doesn't know how to comments.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller not at all. look at
greenspun'ssad story with arsdigita
assbot: Philip
Greenspun's Weblog » 2005 » March » 08
assbot: Philip
Greenspun's Weblog » Massachusetts State Police New Helicopter
mircea_popescu: anyone recall
greenspun's retelling of whatever imperial visit ?
decimation: re: small plane safety:
http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/safety " If you don't want to die like JFK, Jr., who became disoriented on a dark and hazy night over water, don't fly at night or don't fly at night unless you're absolutely sure that it will be clear with a bright moon. If you don't want to die when a 25-year-old part fails in mid-air, get a new airplane. "
decimation:
greenspun agrees that the sr-20 has challenging flight dynamics:
http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/cirrus-sr20 " In terms of avoiding an accident, one problem with the Cirrus is its unforgiving handling compared to other basic four-seaters. For pilots accustomed to learning about an impending stall by feeling reduced airloads on the flight controls, the Cirrus provides much less stall warning. This is due to spring cartridges that
decimation: hehe yeah. as one commentator put it (on
greenspun's site): "I doubt that Obama (or Bush in his day) even thinks about what kind of travel arrangements are being made on his behalf. It’s the lackeys around them who like to be part of a grand spectacle, compounded by unfettered risk aversion in the federal and MA security apparatus."
assbot: Philip
Greenspun's Weblog » Obama and New England aviation businesses start their vacation
decimation: yeah, I was reading
greenspun last night and I thought of you - his post about the low quality of rentals available to citizens