mircea_popescu: "In its early years the Group produced a few carefully researched papers, which the Conservative Party really had to take notice of because no-one else in the Party gave the impression of doing any thinking at all." << he's talking of the republican party in the 80s, ie, that supposed golden age of reaganism. and he's not right, either.
mircea_popescu: truth be told it's very common for large groups of people to do ~no thinking whatsoever.
mircea_popescu: there's a difference across the atlantic, conservative/republican aren't ~same, so on.
mircea_popescu: the woman he mentions (corinne camilleri-ferrante) died a few years back. the guardian has an empty, google spam page on her name.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-29 13:29 mircea_popescu: diana_coman yes, and this is exactly my greater point here : competent people don't understand how to defend themselves from the tedx crowd, and don't. they're, basically speaking, dodo birds.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it is verboten, in today's reich, to employ anyone.
mircea_popescu: if you employ them you might have relations with them outside of facebook (which is assault!!!) and they may be grateful or in any way develop positive feelings for you (which is abuse!!11)
jhvh1: shinohai: The operation succeeded.
shinohai: Buenas dias Sr. Popescu. asciilifeform
mircea_popescu: "I can already hear the chorus of execration. How dare I say such a horrible thing? How dare I stir up trouble and inflame feelings by repeating such a conversation? The answer is that I do not have the right not to do so. Here is a decent, ordinary fellow-Englishman, who in broad daylight in my own town says to me, his Member of Parliament, that this country will not be worth living in for his children. I simply do not have
mircea_popescu: the right to shrug my shoulders and think about something else. What he is saying, thousands and hundreds of thousands are saying and thinking – not throughout Great Britain, perhaps, but in the areas that are already undergoing the total transformation to which there is no parallel in a thousand years of English history." et al.
mircea_popescu: in other words - it's not like there wasn't ample warning. there was. the fucktards of #england failed to act in the proper manner.
mircea_popescu: "That tragic and intractable phenomenon which we watch with horror on the other side of the Atlantic but which there is interwoven with the history and existence of the States itself, is coming upon us here by our own volition and our own neglect. Indeed, it has all but come. In numerical terms, it will be of American proportions long before the end of the century."
mircea_popescu: basically, englidiots permitted their "allies" to airstrip one them.
mircea_popescu: that's the only practical point in all of this. yes england was a piece of shit slated for the garbage heap anyway, sure. but there can not be such a thing as an ally of the us.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, england would have fared a lot better if it made a humble peace with germany cca 1939, than as it did making a gaudy, and empty, alliance with the only true enemy of humanity, and human liberty.
mircea_popescu: but then again, zee prussians always had a higher view of englishmen than of russians.
mircea_popescu: and besides, tiny island of shit, nobody wants and nobody cares.
mircea_popescu: point being it'd have worked closer to a sort of nepal / taiwan / whatever than to a sort of north korea.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yep. and with germany acquiring india the whole lebensraum thing'd have been gone out of anyone's mind.
mircea_popescu: imagine a belgian congo the size of all india! virtually no indians left today, etc.
mircea_popescu: aha. but i was for the sake of argument going to the outer edges of the perhaps unlikely.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless : a whole population of redskins disappeared over a coupla centuries because, day after day and year after year, each individually made their choice : would i rather work and think, or would i rather die ? and they chose to die, and they died, AND THEY ARE NOT MISSED.
mircea_popescu: sadly the same process was stopped short in congo, and in india, and generally.
mircea_popescu: the overflow of all the "i'm too lazy to work, and i have twittering to do rather than thinking" is certainly in the way.
mircea_popescu: but to quote napier, which is why i even linked him, "So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another."
mircea_popescu: anyway, this is the fundamental limit of "democracy" in ~any sense~. no sort of consultative body, no matter what kind or type, would have ever fallen on the correct solution cca 1939, which was to say to hitler "hey, you seem like a strapping young chap, tell you what, each dog must have his day says our poet. would you like india ?"
mircea_popescu: a richard might have had, perhaps. he certainlt found the ~equivalent in the saxon-norman dispute. but no body of man ever can.
mircea_popescu: it's an argument often found in the hands of the socialist / statist , that single men make mistakes which deliberating bodies might have avoided. this is a ridiculous argument : for every case of that there's ten thousand cases of mistakes them bodies make single men would have readily avoided.
mircea_popescu: anyway, to get back to the history of the dodo bird : enoch did in the 1970 election about what trump did in the 2016 election. except enoch did not get the prime minister job (same dork hath got perpetuated, by the same exact swamp for the same exact sort of reasons).
mircea_popescu: o, right, because the criminal gang will tell you what to say.
mircea_popescu: heh. according to whom, this ? he can't talk to "the media".
mircea_popescu: if i kidnap your sister and say she's signed marriage contract which is why you can't see her no more, your inference is what exactly ?
mircea_popescu: i can't deem the instrument valid, no matter what the (known terrorists) say.
mircea_popescu: eh, dude got shipped to paris young slut in tow. utterly asking for it.
mircea_popescu: so this barrett brown, was he sent with... whatever, pick a 20yo slightly slack-jawed beauty to beijing, whence he returned to the us "because he can't live outside of the great satan" ?
mircea_popescu: (incidentally, he was very popular with xiaoping, who was 30 at the time. why was he not in #china ?)
mircea_popescu: no, no, bukharin got sent to buy the marx archives from the french socialists.
mircea_popescu: to briefly revisit kochanski, "I was subsequently elected to the post of Research Secretary of the Bow Group, which meant that I was the general editor of its published papers from 1989 to 1990. My abiding impression of the foothills of the Conservative Party at the time is of a world where people eyed their friends suspiciously and if they saw signs of possible talent then they knifed them before they became a danger. Perha
mircea_popescu: ps things were always thus; but there is a particular danger when a party has had too much power for too long: its members cannot compete to attack the enemy so they attack each other instead. If future commentators identify a "missing generation" of politicians who were in their twenties during the Thatcher years, this will have been the cause."
mircea_popescu: from the monkeystan link : "Ms. Luz Lujan, his BOP contact, refused to provide him with copies of program statement rules". but ofcoars. and "ms" luz lujan is going to do no time for this, because hey, good soviet.
mircea_popescu: the pretense to be taken seriously is so fucking lulzy by now. i expect next is a shoe banging moment, yes ?
mircea_popescu: ”The U.S. government decided today that because I did such a good job investigating the cyber-industrial complex, they’re now going to send me to investigate the prison-industrial complex,” he said, thanking the government for providing “free food, clothes and housing as I seek to expose wrongdoing by the Bureau of Prisons officials and staff and otherwise report on news and culture in the world’s greatest prison sy
mircea_popescu: at any rate -- it is worth pointing out that the original "charges" proferred by the sops terrorist organisation were dropped ; the current "sentence" stems from posturing around a youtube video the guy made discussing said "charges".
mircea_popescu: which is a perverse sort of reminder : taking the usg seriously, IN ANY WAY, is what the usg lives off if.
mircea_popescu: not somebody is an imbecile, like adlai et al, to actually dose themselves.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, le pen has a lengthy list of other-provinces-generals to name in various places once she wins. such roman empire.
mircea_popescu: o check it out, github has a "pricing" tab i never noticed before. $9 per user per month ? really ?
mircea_popescu: see, bukharin who idiotically will not go to china to hang out with a 30yo deng xiaoping also pays $9 a month "for his team" to github.
mircea_popescu: it's not just passive stupid. it's organizedly and layeredly stupid
mircea_popescu: anyway, i invited steve arnold aka sarnold over ; plox to voice / explain how to register his key if i'm not around.
mircea_popescu: graybeard, perhaps not entirely objectionable. ~the iota of value in the whole pile of idiotic kids trying to bypass mp's "talking about bitcoin doesn['t make you part of bitcoin" by hanging out in ##crypto and pretending like they know maffs.
mircea_popescu: conceivably he might also explain how to make a gentoo that works, and in the process of trying find out a few things for himself.
jhvh1: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: ahem ? if the product of the leading q bits isn't equal to the leading q bits of the result, you have overflow.
mircea_popescu: i thought this was the reason computers EVEN USE binary in the first place.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform isn't it the case that if the result was 0-led you'd know the product had overflown ?
mircea_popescu: 1x * 1y will never result in a 0y no matter what happens!
mircea_popescu: to put it another way, two N-bit items muliplied so they yield a M bit result, where M < N, overflowed the buffer.
mircea_popescu: if two numbers of lengths l1 and l2, with l1 and l2 < N are multiplied, and the result is less than l1+l2 bits long, then it has overflown.
mircea_popescu: if l1 of x1 added to the l2 of x2 exceeds N then it doesn't represent x1 * x2
mircea_popescu: so then. if these two added together are less than N you've lost some high bits.
mircea_popescu: for convenience, consider 16 bit registers : 8245×8 = 65960 which overflows. you know this because 0010000000110101 x 0000000000001000 ie 2 + 12 = 14 which is < 16.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile 255 * 255 does not overflow ; you know this because 8 + 8 is not < 16.
mircea_popescu: we also notice that 0 +1 = 1 which being < 3 we lost bits.
mircea_popescu: anyway, as i said : i thought ~this~ is why computers even use binary in the first place.
pete_dushenski: shinohai: there ain't no happening like an unhappening. just priceless.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you will have to consider the parity of the two items to decide if you go by N or N-1.
mircea_popescu: alrighty, this is turning out to be more interesting than i thought.
pete_dushenski: "Oxford University has apologised for saying that avoiding eye contact could be "everyday racism" after it was accused of discriminating against autistic people." << in other british sads that i can only wish were trolls.
mircea_popescu: hey, the whole point of even buying tickets at the Decaying Empires show is to watch special interest groupas gfoing at each other.
mircea_popescu: mats i'm pleased to see trilema moved teh overton window so.
pete_dushenski: lol speaking of special interests going at each other, "She’s the Alternative for Germany’s new co-frontrunner despite a great divergence from the party’s typically conservative, xenophobic portrait. Alice Weidel, an openly gay economist, was nominated as the anti-immigrant, far-right party’s chief candidate on Sunday, set to run alongside AfD co-founder Alexander Gauland in September’s federal
a111: Logged on 2017-04-29 05:56 mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes whart's the difference between auto_ptr and unique_ptr, dja know ?
diana_coman: asciilifeform, a search for that thing turned out what seems to be the MSc thesis behind it if that's any help
diana_coman: actually I found the paper too meanwhile, ping me
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the only practical use may be that it's perhaps cheaper to count l's to exclude unoverflowing mults and then appl ythe double reg mult to the remainder, than to apply the double reg mult uniformly throughout.
mircea_popescu: double carry ? this sounds eerily familiar in retrospect.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes at least theoretically auto_ptr was the standard replacement for unique_ptr, with the difference that it can also be copied, not just moved. so in point of fact plain replacement of one for the other is bound to cause grief.
mircea_popescu: ("fixing errors you didn't know you had" in his sendoff is of course very welcome for SVtards / webshit and utter poison for stuff like bitcoin)
jhvh1: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform write a blog post ; then reference it from code commetns.