mircea_popescu: fluffypony im not even sure, but i think 16 was back in the 90s before all the nonsense about fucking teenagers gripped the us

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: moiety: i suspect that ocelot is quasi-tame (lives on the dock, fed fish?) << not that tame from what i hear

mircea_popescu: plenty of "owners" got bit / mauled. sorta like pitbull ** 2

mircea_popescu: lol

mircea_popescu: benkay hm ?

mircea_popescu: empyex sick ?

mircea_popescu: benkay that is besides the point. they are demanding dogs.

mircea_popescu: <benkay> that one must actually train them? << yes.

mircea_popescu: all the time. not whenever they have the time or feel like it.

mircea_popescu: and training means a thing. not whatever some derp has the stomach for

mircea_popescu: but actually hitting them over the head

mircea_popescu: that's you.

mircea_popescu: and maybe five other people in your town

mircea_popescu: so then. ocelot is even worse

mircea_popescu: it'll fucking love you if you're a better ocelot than it is

mircea_popescu: if you're an american it'll kill you in your sleep and feed on your entrails.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and also chartered accountants.

mircea_popescu: ;;google monty python chartered accountant lion tamer

mircea_popescu: moiety you know, animal eyes are empty. the humanity you see in there is your own projection.

mircea_popescu: moiety if you ever get to kill a bunch of people and a bunch of animals, you'll eventually notice the difference :)

mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03: i would buy many write blocking devices if s.nsa offered them for sale <<< asciilifeform when are we making this man happy ?

mircea_popescu: $conference

mircea_popescu: FabianB this shit is so damned cool but why doesn't it work!!11

mircea_popescu: lol

mircea_popescu: lol what are you, the new sr madam ?

mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/on-the-superiority-of-monarchy-or-adnotations-to-why-the-worst-get-on-top/#comment-101188

mircea_popescu: people arguing with me, always a funny sight.

mircea_popescu: moiety normally they rotate quarterly, but i've done like 3 or 4 this past month cause why the hell not sorta thing

mircea_popescu: uh why ?

mircea_popescu: well maybe she married to be sticked by someone

mircea_popescu: anyone of teh unvoiced looking to do a bit of coding ?

mircea_popescu: they can pm!

mircea_popescu: so a man reads "But that particular December nothing positive had taken place, except for the Soviet-Chinese talks - though even they seemed to have got bogged down - and the seventieth birthday of the Leader of the Peoples. He could scarcely tell the Germans about the trial of Traicho Rostov, at which the whole blatant MISE-EN-SCENE had suddenly come unstuck in open court and the correspondents had been fobbed off, af

mircea_popescu: ter some delay, with a false confession allegedly written by Rostov in the death cell. This was too shameful, and it would hardly have served the purposes of reeducation." and then goes to search, curious what the internets know of rostov ?

mircea_popescu: http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/18140285 << apparently they know a whole lot.

mircea_popescu: the last paragraph is perhaps quite important, for all the "bitcoin entrepreneurs" so very eager to sign plea bargains. broz tito outlived stalin, and nearly outlived the soviets.

mircea_popescu: %b

mircea_popescu: %book

mircea_popescu: lol cool.

mircea_popescu: ayup.

mircea_popescu: im playing moscopol tangos in the crisp argentine air, and chasing their splendid ciruelas with my splendid imported plum juice

mircea_popescu: it's a sort of paradise.

mircea_popescu: btw asciilifeform re zaraza : www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2Y8kylOsF0 (the original, uruguay)

mircea_popescu: (the uruguayan is SO MUCH BETTER too)

mircea_popescu: funnier still : "Buey zaraza, tus ojos tristones" in original. buey is commonly used in romanian today as a vocative address

mircea_popescu: (sort-of like "yo!")

mircea_popescu: meanwhile the term is actually... orcadian!

mircea_popescu: (where it means boy. spoken the same way)

mircea_popescu: certainly a forced mistake.

mircea_popescu: but look at the matter : ever since napoleon implemented the idiotic idea that people generally should have a voice merely for having been born,

mircea_popescu: europe has had naught but turmoil. the russians ended up taking it in the ass twice for this reason, and painfully too.

mircea_popescu: that on the 2nd pass they eventually had enough and followed is reasonably understandable.

mircea_popescu: that the 1800s quaint concepts of the superiority of the west, naive faith in the benevolence of the european man, and his general humanity, all that germanophillia etc

mircea_popescu: turned by1950 into a quite paranoid "we'll never be safe ever unelss we control it all" is equally sensible in context

mircea_popescu: the problem is that russia never was and likely never will be actually up to the task.

mircea_popescu: so it's a bit of a drama.

mircea_popescu: it's not voltaire, it's the french retard club, montaigne, saint simon, rousseau etc.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they'll forever go to this spiel.

mircea_popescu: it's unavoidable. who else ?

mircea_popescu: whether your father is a scientist or a drunk, or both,

mircea_popescu: as a six year old boy he's gonna be your father regardless.

mircea_popescu: meanwhile europe is going in it's second syphilitic-whore-with-a-gram-a-day-habit

mircea_popescu: such a thing kills everyone else, but it just goes to sleep and comes out virgin and 16 again.

mircea_popescu: (napoleon's "general's baton" bs is nothing but the reimplementation of the gracchi's reforms, 20 centuries prior)

mircea_popescu: quite.

mircea_popescu: cluny

mircea_popescu: no kidding.

mircea_popescu: it did all this before. better, even, arguably, since still no man was yet as rich as crassus.

mircea_popescu: http://www.youtube.com/embed/S2Y8kylOsF0 < here's a good one

mircea_popescu: damn

mircea_popescu: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE6-jlevnwQ that

mircea_popescu: !up davidlatapie

mircea_popescu: not bad

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: and there'll be plenty of folks ready to help << clearly.

mircea_popescu: the problem still remains, that merit isn't a thing.,

mircea_popescu: according to reddit, reddit's merituous.

mircea_popescu: <FabianB> <+mircea_popescu> FabianB this shit is so damned cool but why doesn't it work!!11 <-- i guess i should ask kakobrekla to include empyex in the list of voiced bots << o ya kako please add empy

mircea_popescu: <davout> mircea_popescu: around? << aye

mircea_popescu: <Mats_cd03> no << you're fucked.

mircea_popescu: <chetty> having a gpg key and a wot rating is elite? who knew << damn straight.,

mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> here's a recent pic of him: http://imgur.com/Ho4chGH << actually he looks like that guy when he was 30ish :D

mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> i was actually offered a consulting gig at a local credit union because of my wot rating << tru story ?

mircea_popescu: np, it shall be perpetuated as truth regardless.

mircea_popescu remembers when people were pissed off at hashking on the forum for stealing all their bitcoinz, and some forumer said he sounds like he's 14 and he sarcastically said o no he's 15. formonths afterwards ppl were like 15 yo stole our monyz!!11 in all seriousness.

mircea_popescu: especially not mine.

mircea_popescu: i was thinking, "he'll have to think about that"

mircea_popescu: hm, 16 core cpus are cool just because you get to watch the colored lines if you feel like it

mircea_popescu: kakobrekla afaik he was some neighbour of gigavps' or some shit

mircea_popescu: http://i.imgur.com/L4gH8Eg.gif

mircea_popescu: ;;ticker

mircea_popescu: nice

mircea_popescu: quite.

mircea_popescu: yay haha

mircea_popescu: ;;rated FabianB

mircea_popescu: http://fr.anco.is/2014/06/15/x-eur-june-15th-2014-statement/

mircea_popescu: davout is nao reporting nicely.

mircea_popescu: pankkake addition to irker ?

mircea_popescu: aha ?

mircea_popescu: so a bunch of spanish peasants burnt down mexico city.

mircea_popescu: they... rose up from the ranks.

mircea_popescu: well ?

mircea_popescu: what's hernan cortes' merit ?

mircea_popescu: merit only exists in a measuring context. the choice of a measuring context is political.

mircea_popescu: merit isn't a thing.

mircea_popescu: danke

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the space isn't discrete tho.

mircea_popescu: isn't this the probabilistic thing that finds the shortest path going through one city or we ?

mircea_popescu: ok, let's rephrase

mircea_popescu: the domains are not discrete ; the functions defined on them are not monotonous nor even differentiable.

mircea_popescu: the problem of merit is not analysable.

mircea_popescu: i suppose that's a much better statement than "merit isn't a thing"

mircea_popescu: degenerate cases aren't part of it.

mircea_popescu: this is part of the non-differentiability, it does not contain its degenerate cases.

mircea_popescu: right. which were never part of the discussion of the ideal temperature anyway

mircea_popescu: basically, this is a magical set that never includes its margins

mircea_popescu: no matter how they may be defined

mircea_popescu: and while it includes a subset, and all its members,

mircea_popescu: it doesn't include the margins of any subset

mircea_popescu: which i suppose is a very good formalisation of what i mean by "not analysable" : imagine a set of numbers which includes an order property, but excludes the highest and lowest member in any subset.

mircea_popescu: well if you were what'd we talk about :)

mircea_popescu: i'd be stuck getting back to this blogpost which is already too big anyway

mircea_popescu: thestringpuller i only fuck whores anyway. they're no longer fertile on the grounds of all the countless abortions back when they were 16.

mircea_popescu: (jk)

mircea_popescu: they should be happy to merely disappear

mircea_popescu: the actual risk is that they're getting rounded up and sent to extermination labour camps.

mircea_popescu: i doubt very much he meant that.

mircea_popescu: for that matter, the gulag shall be quite public. webcams everywhere, with ample explanation as to what the criminal did.

mircea_popescu: there should be a term, incidentally.

mircea_popescu: how do you say fascists in russian, except to denote not the folk that derped with hitler but the folk that dared propose the solutions to human problems are to be expected from groups rather than individuals ? and in english.

mircea_popescu: plenty of them.

mircea_popescu: it all starts in rome.

mircea_popescu: feeding the christians to the lions was perhaps insufficient, but nevertheless in the right vein.

mircea_popescu: the death of sir thomas moore, a fine example.

mircea_popescu: i bet you you can't.

mircea_popescu: stalin managed what, ten million out of fifty ?

mircea_popescu: you need tocome up with about 200 million names.

mircea_popescu: which is really not hard to do, take everyone that was involved in any manner in the government of an european or north american country past 1940

mircea_popescu: and their families

mircea_popescu: indeed so.

mircea_popescu: problem is, even if you put obama on the glory chair, he might not be able to remember who the fuck was in his cabinet

mircea_popescu: chetty well what, you expect to make omlette without breaking out some soviets ?

mircea_popescu: in general, in pursuit of an idea the bone gets picked rather closely of meat.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform someone needs to write an actual biography of stalin sometime.

mircea_popescu: all extant ones that i know of are written by dumbstruck idiots who think the man was somehow grand

mircea_popescu: the man was not grand in any sense. he was merelysimple.

mircea_popescu: the mental model for stalin is roughly speaking a 15 yo country boy.

mircea_popescu: somehow ends up in the laboratory of power, obviously he pushes that ftizic trotsky aside. why not ?

mircea_popescu: and then, kinda is constantly scared by and trying to escape his own creations

mircea_popescu: yup

mircea_popescu: the empire wanted (correctly) its sovereignity invested properly

mircea_popescu: and so it was.

mircea_popescu: i vote for "other reason" : because it's fucking dumb, that's why.

mircea_popescu: not only does it not work, but it provably can not work.

mircea_popescu: as is generally the case.

mircea_popescu: one does not bother to call another barbar unless the another said something that really scared our one.

mircea_popescu: and you don't get scared by imagination.

mircea_popescu: nature makes no jumps.

mircea_popescu: civilised man shall have his dawn, and a proper burial.

mircea_popescu: they had the same of nicholas

mircea_popescu: i blame his cousin or what was it

mircea_popescu: the general of moscow

mircea_popescu: !up olliec

mircea_popescu: lol

mircea_popescu: no.