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decimation: asciilifeform: have you ever actually tried to
grok ipsec? it's a nightmare
nubbins`: asciilifeform the space of "humans who
grok their fields" is ever-shrinking
liquidassets: "People try to, because of the misguided belief that Bitcoin value is somehow related to or deriving from its crossection in the retail market" <<ok I"m starting to
grok pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu btw i didn't fully
grok your comment on my infanticide article. sarcasm or no ?
ben_vulpes: i'm too much of a derp to really
grok the implication of the statement, though, having failed all of my tradecraft classes.
lobbes: even if fetlife -had- proper security, there's still the whole 'once on internet, it is forever on internet' that people fail to
grok ben_vulpes: sure, coinsetter's not liked around here but
grok i not how 'tis a newspaper.
mircea_popescu: i very much doubt that after he ignored the "if one wins now you've gotta taint 2x as manby btc, if the other wins you lost track." bit he's in a position to
grok this one, but hey.
gabriel_laddel: e plug on that thing three months later, at the end of which they.had.not done.anything. I'm not sure you exactly
grok me, it's not that they hadn't round up the town's minorities and set them on fire. It's that they couldn't get together to make some stencils which someone (hopefully, someone else) was perhaps sometime (2015 ?) going to use for some purpose. Somewhere. Whatever."
mircea_popescu: to properly
grok how rich the triumvir was : he could afford to pay for ~18 million usians to go fight for tikrit.
mircea_popescu: the idea being that contracts (of the old sort) are flexible and useful, just as long as the chumps
grok that there is no such thing as "a standard contract".
gabriel_laddel: it remains to be seen if he'll
grok bitcoin. if he does, he'll probably end up funding interesting things.
mircea_popescu: i say it, you say it, five people
grok it and everyone else just whooosh.
danielpbarron: in an attempt to
grok this, i read the sentence so many times even the word 'her' doesn't look right
mircea_popescu: your average doobie, with a mediocre college degree and an ESL culture mostly geared towards ingested summaries is perfectly unable to decode metaphor or recognise complex enough patterns and fill in the gaps. this to him is frustrating, and the frustration is predictably resolved by lashing out (hey, it's the guy fault for using rferences i have to google and math i don't
grok!11). in no way better than a clinical mor
ben_vulpes: well okay i
grok that it's related to thread safety
gabriel_laddel: hoever it was, and I'm fairly sure I
grok ASCII's plan and will be handling some intro documentation for it + figuring out how the PGP code needs to interface with it exactly.
nubbins`: and a page from a word-a-day calendar with the word "
grok" defined, that occasionaly *is* a dictionary
mircea_popescu: A Person Paper on Purity in Language << i don't
grok wtf this is supposed to be.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes sadly it's the equivalent of the beatings. women
grok wtf it all means, by virtue of their existential quality of being women. little girls, of whatever age, even 50 should they be, have no avenue to comprehend wtf is being said.
pete_dushenski: i spent a bit of time trying to
grok them since they came across my desk this week and it's really quite challenging to find much positive in their thinking
mircea_popescu: because that's why we go to school : so we can present our inquiries in such a way that OTHER PEOPLE can fucking
grok wtf we want to know
mircea_popescu: i still can't
grok why the man'd have put his name on it.
hanbot: mircea_popescu perhaps i'm reading poorly, but not sure i
grok the foreboding re choosing life: "But if you choose "life", remember one important point from Shrem's misadventure :" --if the dead are the old reptiles a la newhouse, clinging to relevancy, wouldn't choosing life be the sane, independent choice?
mircea_popescu: i very much doubt half his closest collaborators
grok what he means on the strenght of his text. you yourself, i suspect, followed the logic of the situaiton not the logic of his words.
mircea_popescu: on the 0 1 infinity scale i readily see why 1 rather than 0, i just don't
grok why infinity rather than one.
mircea_popescu: well no, if you make an engine and i ask "show me the part that'll make me
grok wtf this is" you don't wanna show a leaflet.
nubbins`: <+nubbins`> i didn't
grok "weird" until i tried salvia
nubbins`: i didn't
grok "weird" until i tried salvia
mircea_popescu: borlandc++ sucked by comparison. maybe because i was too dumb to properly
grok the language, or too lazy to learn the spec
ben_vulpes: moving slowly, endeavoring to
grok and verify each and every stemp.
nubbins`: <+mircea_popescu> asciilifeform statistics is perhaps the hardest thing for the monkey brain to
grok << +1
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform statistics is perhaps the hardest thing for the monkey brain to
grok mircea_popescu: this'd be a decent idea for an oglaf strip : a retarded indian that doesn't quite
grok the entire scalping business so he's going around with a string of pubic hair patches
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i am notorious for taking more than one pass through the material to
grok it, more than one set of lips on the tool to spill it etc.
mircea_popescu: julia_ are you old enough to
grok that reference incidentally ?
mircea_popescu: and i don't just mean people who don't know irc. i mean people who barely
grok computers.
pete_dushenski: the only part of the article i didn't totally
grok was the aryan bit
ben_vulpes: you may as well tell me that GPG logins are too hard for advertisers to
grok. well, fu. learn gpg, and play nicely with the people running your ads.
pete_dushenski: pankkake: he's not dumb so much as born too late to
grok the internet
BingoBoingo: justusranvier: There are many reasons why homeopathy is a scam, mircea_popescu: but yeah, i suppose it's a good proof they don't
grok objective reality. << Homeopaths make their cheddar on conditions that test well against placebo
mircea_popescu: but yeah, i suppose it's a good proof they don't
grok objective reality.
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves this is the benefit of aging. you start to realise your time is worth more than money. << a lesson few, even more aged,
grok. intentionally i often suspect, as they're too unimaginative to find better uses for their time
fluffypony: ThickAsThieves: yeah not bad, some of it is above my pay grade and I don't quite
grok the nuances, but it's still interesting
benkay: dude mircea_popescu you srsly don't
grok us preskewl scam?
benkay: do you know it took me two days of explaining how badly you've fucked up this thing to my partner for him to
grok what you'd done?
punkman: mircea_popescu, I'll give it a look, see how much I
grok mircea_popescu: just so some forum tards possessed of .1 btc don't bitch about your "very poor security" which they don't
grok ?
mircea_popescu: punkman: seems strange << few people actually
grok opsec. this is probably because most adults were once children, and most children are forced to renounce their hardline attitudes, such as "won't eat any peas ever no matter what"
mircea_popescu: it's so unexpectedly absurd i can see why it'd be hard to
grok.
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete: fluffypony: i could see people who aren't writers/thinkers being perfectly ok with the "cleanliness" of buried urls << yeah, because to the idiot everything that he doesn't
grok is dirty.
dub: yes google don't
grok smtp
ThickAsThieves: i understand, yet can't
grok how you'd actually go about proving a "house" can stand without load-bearing walls, in practice
mircea_popescu: bounce i myself am happy with the "clueless woman, learned to use gpg last week, does not quite
grok what keys are or how they work"
ThickAsThieves: accounts.
GROK is used to log keystrokes. And SALVAGERABBIT exfiltrates data from removable flash drives that connect to an infected computer."
mircea_popescu: i can't
grok wtf is causing it, because i never heard of a civilised country with begbugs before san francisco came along
kakobrekla: <mircea_popescu> i mean this channel was fundamentally born out of some clueless noobs' inability to
grok that intelligent discussion is more important than avoiding displays of cunt. < not really, was just to impress girls.
mircea_popescu: i mean this channel was fundamentally born out of some clueless noobs' inability to
grok that intelligent discussion is more important than avoiding displays of cunt.
benkay: nubbins`: that's precisely the problem. when people can't be arsed to figure out how to get their tools to make money, they don't arse themselves to
grok the tools either.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform srsly, seems more like a ploy to give your buddy 10k, because i can't for the life of me
grok what exact damage can you do to an airplane with a ground laser.
mircea_popescu: Namworld i don't think you fully
grok the mechanics involkved.
nubbins`: one nice thing about having a degree in pure mathematics is that you can
grok wikipedia articles on math
mircea_popescu: are they saying "we don't have to sign something we don't want to sign because jesus" ? is it mopre like "we don't want to say anything definite about abortion in writing because we can't
grok the consequences" ?
benkay: it is the fate of all who do not
grok their computation platforms to forever wail and thrash in incompetent rage at their continuing inability to do business and acquire as much capital as their self-image indicates they should have
benkay: i'm fresh out of a code retreat with some humans who really
grok oop and yet failed to put together class hierarchies to implement the game of life in 45 minutes.
mircea_popescu: yeah i don;'t quite
grok what it's supposed to be. thought maybe the owner is here.
davout: mircea_popescu: i'm at chapter 2 of my book, hopefully i'll
grok moar and come up with better questions as i progress
mircea_popescu: we cut it out, because curve notation is more than the average person can
grok mentally
☟︎ unbalanced: But futures the average new holder of BTC can
grok.
mircea_popescu: now, you will need a rom reader, and the ability to
grok microcode,