assbot: The danger of unchecked assumptions, or the surprising depths of inequality. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... (
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punkman: Buterin doesn't get to keep 44k btc
punkman: he must spent it on stupid shit
punkman: he already had a chance to do that
punkman: or maybe never had the keys
punkman: somebody has, and they will spend it on eth "development", "conferences", etc
punkman: whoever keeps it, is smart
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but this is the problem of the bloody book. in "removing the requirement for a wot" it creates more problems than it resolves
mircea_popescu: and NO, idiots are not able to propagate anything without the printing press. which is why prior to it there were 5000 different idiocies summing to 0 and ever since tyhen we've been deluged in organised imbecillity.
mircea_popescu: books mean a very specific PERVERSION of culture ; much like usg is a very specific perversion of governance.
mircea_popescu: the guy does, the mechanic hammers it one solidly, the camel takes off doing something between scared hare and arrow in flight
mircea_popescu: "that's nice but... i'm still here. how do i catch it now ?"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, the thread was about you saying how nobody should have to reprocess books ; and i made the point that but for the historical accident, one wouldn't even have to process them in the first place.
BingoBoingo: How does someone sooth a man with such clear and limited emotional registers?
BingoBoingo: shinohai: If you qntra that now make sure to include details and history.
assbot: Logged on 10-11-2015 20:21:31; jurov: rly? lol
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BingoBoingo: Seriously, now everybody in rf range can sniff their packets
shinohai: You're right BingoBoingo the pic makes it
BingoBoingo: But yes, these are typical failings of USia's other socialist party
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assbot: Logged on 10-11-2015 22:16:48; mircea_popescu: the consequences of the derps "revolutionizing" things are always this one and the same.
gabriel_laddel: Well folks, we're 202 days into MP's sustained attack on Stan's identity, and neither side shows signs of tiring. Meanwhile, the cardano languishes on the sidelines...
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ben_vulpes: gabriel_laddel: good afternoon to you as well
punkman: hmm Uncle Vanya production is visiting, is the play any good?
punkman: from greek version of Federico García Lorca's Bodas de Sangre
punkman: sounds like the wire is damaged, not the insulation
kakobrekla: yeah cable microphonics are annoying as fuck.
punkman: without current, like cans and string?
kakobrekla: put them on, unplugged, move the cable, hear noise.
punkman: question is, does nobody test the things before making a full factory run
punkman: so you think it has big magnets?
assbot: Islamization Watch: EGYPT: Chinese Alert, Fake Pharaohs and Incomplete Digital Korans Invade the Market ... (
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assbot: Logged on 11-11-2015 00:20:11; mircea_popescu: "put ballsac on anvil."
assbot: Logged on 11-11-2015 01:51:21; punkman: lol, bag of sand?
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assbot: Logged on 10-11-2015 23:04:08; mircea_popescu: what's that great quote...
BingoBoingo: Is it just me, or does this feel a fuck of a lot like November 2012
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BingoBoingo: It's still early, but that's what the correspondence to the past is *feeling* like
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pete_dushenski: BingoBoingo: guess i should've specified tag heuer MONACO
pete_dushenski: this is the only watch of theirs that's ever caught my eye
pete_dushenski: also the one tiger promoted, and thus the one that private club golfers aka 14% aka professional class aka middle-upper-class are most likely to wear
pete_dushenski: though i have to admit that i didn't realise just how much more expensive it was than 'normal' tag
assbot: Logged on 11-11-2015 00:46:29; gabriel_laddel: Well folks, we're 202 days into MP's sustained attack on Stan's identity, and neither side shows signs of tiring. Meanwhile, the cardano languishes on the sidelines...
pete_dushenski: "382`293 seconds since hearn put his foot in his mouth"
pete_dushenski:
https://archive.is/bN7tZ << "60 billion yuan will go toward a new memory chip plant, and 16.2 billion yuan toward acquisitions “upstream and downstream in the microchip supply chain.” The remaining 3.8 billion yuan will go toward Tsinghua Unigroup’s purchase of a 25% stake in Taiwan’s Powertech Technology Inc."
punkman: mircea_popescu: did you find any antique vacuums?
pete_dushenski:
https://archive.is/I11Jn << "Mr. Schneiderman doesn’t see how he can prove harm from fossil fuels. So instead of RICO he appears to be focused on the Martin Act, the appalling New York state law enacted in 1921 to prosecute stock-sale boiler rooms. The Martin Act doesn’t require prosecutors to prove intent to defraud, which is why it was a favorite tool of the Empire State’s disgraced former AG Eliot Spitz
assbot: Logged on 11-11-2015 00:46:29; gabriel_laddel: Well folks, we're 202 days into MP's sustained attack on Stan's identity, and neither side shows signs of tiring. Meanwhile, the cardano languishes on the sidelines...
pete_dushenski: because that's what civil discourse looks like from the bottom of the mountain or something
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assbot: 'Women are just better at this stuff': is emotional labor feminism's next frontier? | World news | The Guardian ... (
http://bit.ly/1Qhnz2T )
pete_dushenski: "“It suggests to me that there is a detachment to home that I do not have the luxury of having. Because if I did, then our everyday life would be a nightmare. So I take on that role. That’s not my authentic self, but I have no choice,” she says."
pete_dushenski: "is it time we started forgetting the birthdays too, time we stopped falsely screaming ecstasy, and demanded adequate, formal remuneration for emotion work provided in the workplace as a skill? Now that, right there, would probably be a shake-patriarchy-to-its-core revolution."
pete_dushenski: myeah, because the patriarchy is totally stealing those free smiles from you
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ben_vulpes: in other news, appfolio is a giant steaming pile of horseshit
ben_vulpes: a half-baked rails app pretending to be able to do things like manage billing and maintenance requests
ben_vulpes: not only do they have multiple login paths, some of which do not work and return entirely useless error messages
trinque: it must be some new security strategy, like ducks and their false vaginas.
ben_vulpes: but they will drop your regularly scheduled rent payment with no fucking notice
ben_vulpes: brian donahoo, of the "gotomeeting" bitcoin virus
ben_vulpes: and particularly you, jon walker of appfolio, you miserable rails-propping, giving-no-shits-about-customer-banking, are all hereby fucking fired from having any future relevance.
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ben_vulpes: in particular re jon walker of appfolio, adjunct professorship is not a resume bullet. "multiple patents" under the auspices of the usg is not a resume bullet. you had a single job: shipping software that worked, and you failed. you failed spectacularly.
ben_vulpes: may all of you involved in the appfolio scam dance for venture capitalists for the rest of your lives. may your children emerge from college bearing hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt. may your development teams never accomplish anything, and may you never know the reason why. may your lives complete devoid of meaning, wasting away in poverty and ignominy.
ben_vulpes: punkman: good to know i'm not the only one thinking about this
punkman: ben_vulpes: python, ruby, javascript, haxe, lua, redis, couchdb, zeromq, wget, wpull, curl, rsync, phantomjs, THIS LIST DOES NOT END
ben_vulpes: while nobody in the wot's issued fatwa against ruby yet, it doth loom.
mircea_popescu: it IS an app. seriously, you had an expectation apps work ?
mircea_popescu: punkman is that the archive.is stuff or the imo bullshit alexa thing ?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: appears to dump archives into archive.org
mircea_popescu: also i saw a man today showering out of a bucket, in front of someone's house. this man... he had tits. and i'm not kidding around, he had a pair of d's on him no girl'd be ashamed with. except they were in the ridiculous shape of manboob
ben_vulpes: at risk of giving away crown jewelz, archiving without indexing for search is mind-bogglingly stupid.
punkman: mircea_popescu: what's wrong with archive.org?
punkman: they accept all kinds of dumps
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: in the same news, 3/4 full pop can knocks white bitchez the fuck out. and black men ~can~ duck
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ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: "last i checked, and i actually checked", but no citation?
ben_vulpes: sure, but your particular setup is not particularly representative last i checked and i checked etc etc
pete_dushenski: tons of people sell cars, those are the numbers. and cars are the 2nd biggest ticket item after houses. and womenz are pretty much always involved, be it wives, gfs, mothers...
ben_vulpes: maersk is a big ticket. a car is a car.
pete_dushenski: and a watch is a watch. you see the problem with this line of logic ?
pete_dushenski: and we're talking about well-heeled families, not cargo !
ben_vulpes: and i'm talking about capital allocation, not fashion.
pete_dushenski: if you're not talking about fashion, you're missing the point.
pete_dushenski: they're (attempts at) signal, whether valuable or not, useful or not, effective or not
assbot: Logged on 10-11-2015 22:25:29; mircea_popescu: ie, there, "it's not the job of the state to protect the cultural patrimony OF INDIVIDUALS and their clans ; if those individuals and clans are so degenerate, bankrupt and chlorotioc as to no longer be able to protect their heritage, let the worms havce it. no, not even for comunist metaphisics ; no, the property of x isn't "ours", no x's history isn't "ours". let them uphold it or let it die.
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assbot: The danger of unchecked assumptions, or the surprising depths of inequality. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... (
http://bit.ly/1RNtr1v )
BingoBoingo: I support Dr. Carson because he is a neurosurgeon who is quite a few shades darker than Obama
BingoBoingo: None of this community organizer bullshit. Dr. Carson cut people open and reassembled them.
BingoBoingo: "He is a member of a prominent Omaha family. The newspaper says that Butler's father is Eric L. Butler, executive vice president for sales and marketing for the Union Pacific Railroad."
ben_vulpes: > Building a security team. Runs up-to-date software.
ben_vulpes: > Large attack surface that relies on a quickly-built custom application.
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BingoBoingo: Imma guess Miller ended up working for the circus?
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jurov: sooo... my stator is @ 376820, would be synced in 2 weeks if i did not hit my foot with btrfs
jurov: also, it seems to work fine with oldest 9 blk000?.dat on slower disk
shinohai: Nice jurov ... just got mine back up a week ago @ height 356995 currently
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assbot: KingDian S200 SMI2246XT 2.5" SATA3 Solid State Drive SSD - Black (60GB) - Free Shipping - DealExtreme ... (
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shinohai still needs an SSD to test on, uses cruddy lappy drives.
jurov: i'm syncing over LAN from core 0.10, just to complete the picture
jurov: btw, is it possible to continue running a blockchain synced on amd64 on pogo?
shinohai: jurov seems to work here, I cat'd a few over to pogo and it syncs against it ^^
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assbot: france 24 - Wine before diplomacy: Iran snubs French state dinner invite over alcohol - France 24 ... (
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PeterL: Is it more insulting to offer wine to Muslims or to turn down wine from Frenchies?
BingoBoingo: No idea, perhaps davout can weight in on this matter
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mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> I support Dr. Carson << so soes every other reasonable / educated / middle class guy i know in there. which is how i know he doesn't have a chance in hell.
mircea_popescu: <shinohai> Amazon GC ? <<< every time i see one of these marketed i grin. because i know about eulora, and they don't, and somehow the fact that the swarm loses out pleases me.
mircea_popescu: <PeterL> Is it more insulting to offer wine to Muslims << this is not insulting to muslims. it is only insulting to 3rd generation americans who pretend mulsimity to fill the existential void.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, every time in an islamic country i was everyone's best friend on account of the magic my passport could wreak at the "special shop for foreigners".
mircea_popescu: ascii_field aptly named, but no : for the underclass "gc" means "gift certificate"
mircea_popescu: they even have pavlovian responses to it, like a sort of "privately run bell", salivation begins.\
mircea_popescu: "I never knew Pirate were a shining star of brilliance and intellectual depth…
mircea_popescu: And I hear Buterin just got 44,000 BTC smarter." << lol alfie massacring the priesthood.
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assbot: Crickhowell: Welsh town moves 'offshore' to avoid tax on local business | UK | News | The Independent ... (
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assbot: Logged on 10-11-2015 15:29:16; punkman: "A wealthy, elderly man, for example, could technically marry the father of his daughter’s children. This would enable an estate of any size to pass tax-free into the next generation on the older man’s death. After his elderly “husband” had died, of course, the younger man would be free to marry the daughter, with the estate thus secured intact."
mircea_popescu also had occasion to hold one of these in house of avid gamer
pete_dushenski: the adjustable palm grip is a godsend for these big mitts
mircea_popescu: you know the reason everything was steel in the 70s was because they couldn't mold plastics worth a shit yea ?
ascii_field: the didn't know how to make ersatz chocolate, either
mircea_popescu: And “social goods” is how we got to be surrounded by idiots and their trinkets to begin with. << yet again and again it comes back to the name of the rose, and the old monk's hater of laughter.
mircea_popescu: i confess this is perhaps my foremost area of research at the present time
mircea_popescu: and boy oh boy does it require atomic dirigible ciclotrons.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field you've perhaps noticed me doing a credible impersonation of the old fart yest i imagine.
mircea_popescu: the problem with kids reading above their paygrade (which is to say, the sort of typically ustardian kid who, instead of coming at it plainly and getting trampled AT HIS LOWER LEVEL OF UNDERSTANDING protects his ego through "ironicity" and interacts with the written excrement of great forefathers at a time when it's safe to do so [ie, afrter the "death of the author]) is that they ALWAYS misinterpret the silences.
ascii_field: 'Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence. And though admittedly such a thing has never happened, still it is conceivable that someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence certainly never.' (ol' franz k.)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it IS, btw, a very fine understanding of the matter at hand. it is in things such as these that we (ie, actually cultivated folk) recognize that people like kafka, or nietzsche, or picasso or who have you actually IS a master, who just chooses to go at it differently.
mircea_popescu: inept kids just imagine "art was revolutionezed and the old thrown out". not so, but who can be arsed to discuss the matter with novices in their terms.
mircea_popescu: anyway : kafka is exactly right, and this is where the siren story meets narcissus' story.
ascii_field: hey i've even run into folks who imagined that 'physics was thrown out'
mircea_popescu: i confess i was reading all through the (very fine!) tlp piece on narcissus expecting a kafka reference at any point
mircea_popescu: that it never came is to my eyes proof that, willing or not, you ARE redoing galois by hand, alf.
ascii_field: this sorta plugs into the root of my allergy for tlp
ascii_field: and why i can stand maybe 5 min. of him in one sitting:
ascii_field: he seeps with pus from sores of radiation damage from amer. 'pop'
mircea_popescu: see ? i could read the whole thing through because also horses!
mircea_popescu: well because i can't stand the bullshit "will to power" prose of the derp, either.
mircea_popescu: oh check it out, he's gonna be the next best thing to a super secret service agent aka "practically james bond" : he's gonna be a ~practically~ secret service guy!
pete_dushenski has tickets to 'spectre' this afternoon, with modest expectations
ascii_field: 'Gosh, all of this warm fuzzy coverage of the NSA just brings a tear of thanks to my eye. While you're at it, could you do a puff piece on Stasi, and the KGB/camp system in the Soviet Union? I'm sure they did a spectacular job saving lives and keeping people safe, as well.' << from the not-yet-censored commentz
shinohai: Christophor Waltz may save it.
mircea_popescu: "The House voted Thursday to pay for planned highway construction by drawing on the Federal Reserve’s capital. The idea of using Fed capital to pay for government spending, which comes up periodically, is a bad one, for several reasons."
mircea_popescu: " but they find easy money too seductive, and S. 190 goes down in flames before a horde of political activists chanting that easy money is sound, and opposing it is racist, nazi, ignorant, and generally hateful"
mircea_popescu: "More substantively—and this is what I want to focus on in this post—“paying” for highway spending with Fed capital is not paying for it at all in any economically meaningful sense. Rather, this maneuver is a form of budgetary sleight-of-hand that would count funds that are already designated for the Treasury as “new” revenue."
mircea_popescu: exactly. ie, the usg needs, for continued survival, to count all its money TWICE
mircea_popescu: "does this mean i sell the government a truckload of pork and it pays me for it three times ?" "no dummy, it means that if you do enter into a contract with them to sell them one truckload of pork you a) will never get paid and b) will have to deliver three truckloads. yearly. daily. fuck you!!1"
mircea_popescu: (legal precedent :
http://trilema.com/2013/the-endless-story-of-korea/#selection-81.0-81.349 aka "Plaintiff seeks to make his case solely upon the theory that, by reason of the change in the weight of the dollar he is entitled to $1.69 in the present currency for every dollar promised by the bond, regardless of any actual loss he has suffered with respect to any transaction in which his dollars may be used. We think th
jurov: as children we were playing toy casino, and when the chips ran out we invented that we issue new ones,
jurov: but to avoid inflation, we always got a negative and positive paper with the same value together
mircea_popescu: they gotta pull stories multiple times a day each day by now huh ?
jurov: but each could be played independently
jurov: we had endless fun with it
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: dunno if in logs but is there gonna be an MPOE statement this month?
jurov: seems we invented fed
analmaster: they redact things without even saying they are redacting things
analmaster: like there will be no trace of anything on the internets
mircea_popescu: analmaster and tghere isn't , becausw really, who gives a shit what the agitprop machine "says".
analmaster: i cant wait to send my children to a nice school like this one
analmaster: mircea_popescu: where do i go to live to escape this amerikkka
ascii_field: at my uni we had two separate incidents, complete with organized mooing, 'candlelight vigils', protest marches, etc. of 'nooses found' (noose is supposed to be a symbol of impending lynching, yes...) - one turned out to be a popped balloon's string on a tree, the other - was never seen by any witness save the instigator of the hysteria
mircea_popescu: you wanna tell me an entire campus never does erotic asphyxiation ?
mircea_popescu has a pre-made noose in this very house! nice thick rope too.
mircea_popescu has observed dildo and paraphenalia rain out of window on campus b4.
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pete_dushenski: "Last December, when Rolling Stone’s account of a brutal gang rape at the University of Virginia began to unravel, some commentators argued that we should nevertheless take claims of sexual assault at face value, on the grounds that statistically, they are very likely true. “I choose to believe Jackie,” Jessica Valenti wrote in The Guardian. “I lose nothing by doing so, even if I’m later proven wrong.
pete_dushenski: ” In The Washington Post, Zerlina Maxwell argued: “We should believe, as a matter of default, what an accuser says. Ultimately, the costs of wrongly disbelieving a survivor far outweigh the costs of calling someone a rapist.”"
pete_dushenski: jessica, you lose EVERYTHING by affirming the right, nay, the duty to be a victim.
pete_dushenski: society, culture, the whole lot. gone. out the window. never coming back.
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jurov: i read in south america there still some of that system survives.. but i guess mircea_popescu is not interested in herding peasants
phf: there are stores in u.s. where you can buy some quality rope. hemp, jute, nylon in garish colors, all by the meter. there's probably a harness worth of rope next to a dildo collection in every dorm
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jurov: it's disguised as macrame
phf: different rope, although i wouldn't be surprised..
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phf: kakobrekla: is the first column, the #id ?
trinque: what's a reasonable deeding interval, weekly?
kakobrekla: well are you going to keep weekly 100mb+ copies of log saved somewhere?
mircea_popescu: except claims of "Sexual assault" made by a native english speaker are very likely false.
trinque: kakobrekla: I could diff them on my end, or you could chunk them on yours
mircea_popescu: i would expect less than 1% odds of them ACTUALLY being sexual assault, and perhaps as little as 5-10% of them being some sort of contravention.
kakobrekla: well i asked before if you want it chunked or not and the answer was not
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> less show-offy, more 'vertical' social life << jurov you are fucking crazy if you imagine the thirld worlders are BETTER at being real. they all got tvs over here. every god forsaken favela in brazil, salta, what have you has a tv. no fridge, but tv.
mircea_popescu: wasn't that your idea ? that in fabled south america people didn't actually invent the telenovela ?
trinque: kakobrekla: in either case, once we settle on what gets deeded, I'm happy to rig up the cron and make it happen
jurov: point taken, even the remnants of nobility in rural argentina don't have vertical social anymore
mircea_popescu: you know, 100mb every day ? what is this, the blockcain ?
mircea_popescu: why not ? could just make directory structure like trilema does it, by year/month/eachday.txt
mircea_popescu: i suppose actually the eachday.txt is the log already.
mircea_popescu: jurov thinking about it, the non-people's desire to not-exist is pungent. palpable. yet they keep getting their ways out denied, "oh, war is bad", "oh, suicide is the wrong answer" or blablabla. can't even lick lead paint anymore, can't ride without helmets, honestly we deserve everything we get for stubbornly keeping the dead alive against nature and its own fucking wishes.
phf: in 60 years will be using "f", a fits in head filesystem implementation by ascii, that can store terabytes of data, but technically indistinguishable from tape archive
mircea_popescu: i still haven't figured out if he loves immutable (ie, tar) or else volatile (ie, party bits).
phf: <asciilifeform> speaking of tape, i've always lamented that no one sells a reel-to-reel for modern pc
phf: but that was not the thread i was looking for..
assbot: Logged on 30-07-2015 20:30:25; ascii_field: nothing on a pc is 'append only' !
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assbot: Logged on 30-07-2015 20:25:52; ascii_field: keep all blocks in antifuse rom
ascii_field: things that have no business mutating, ought to live on a physical 'WORM' sorta thing
trinque: kakobrekla: wonderful, ty. I will cron their deeding this evening.
phf: kakobrekla: is the current month updating at that 10 minute interval?
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whaack: hey again, I've been working on my "IRC Yeshiva" and been patiently lurking. I wanted to let you know you have another programmer pretty much at your disposal should you need one.
ben_vulpes: have you taken mod6 or asciilifeform's 'v' for a spin yet?
whaack: I've looked at it, and I saw in the comments it needed testing so I figured maybe that's where I could start.
☟︎ ben_vulpes: if you're feeling adventurous you could try installing gabriel_laddel's masamune and then scream into the log about gentoo quest
mircea_popescu: perhaps try and help mod6, he's doing a ton of different things, maybe he has time later today/this week to give out discrete tasks
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whaack: Great, I'll try to install masamune in the meantime.
analmaster: can i get some black men over here please
analmaster: white men just will not do for the occasion
analmaster: takes a real men to do the job here, a real black man.
ascii_field: rumour being, apparently, that the somewhat odd move of kicking out reporters is explained by there having been present 'komyoooonity organizers' from ferguson et al
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the move of kicking out the media is not odd in the slightest.
mircea_popescu: ima just quote tlp, because he has a very nice distillation of the problem :
mircea_popescu: If you hold a protest and you aren't throwing rocks it will fail. I'm not telling you to throw rocks, I'm explaining why your march won't work.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: The reason "peaceful protests" don't work anymore is because now the protests are slower than the media coverage. When they threw the tea in Boston Harbor it was urgent, immediate, and by the time the press could interpret it it had already been digested by the public. But now even before the protest reaches critical mass the media, whose agents outnumber the protestors 100 to 1, has packaged and produced it, like
mircea_popescu: a reality show, and by the time Naomi Klein got there I had already been told to expect someone like her. Do you see? She had already appeared before she got there. Yes, I can take pride in thinking for myself but if I'm going to be honest, all I'm doing is reacting to what I'm told
mircea_popescu: the rules for successful are very simple : a) throw rocks ; b) no media.
mircea_popescu: obviously you can't make "the media" aka usg agitprop machine unhave all the vans and ex-sorority chicks and whatnot. so the only practical solution when you can't prevent them acting on their options is to limit their options to one.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: throw rocks at the media, force them to pick the "evil people" narrative.
mircea_popescu: like soviet union was on both sides of THAT chessboard.
mircea_popescu: yes, they're all soviets. slightly hungry pissed off low level grunt soviets vs fatcat libertard soviets.
analmaster: i thought they just throw them off the cliff
mircea_popescu: ascii_field understand : if the "huge hedge fund masquerading as church" engine gripes, the democrat party will have to be restructured.
mircea_popescu: the grunts know why they're showing ivy league the dead cat. /me enjoys the popcorn while people we don't like fight to the death.
mircea_popescu: best "victims of our own success" story of the decade, really.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: are you familiar with the process whereby the 'xyz studies1111!1' departments at u.s. univ. came to exist ?
ascii_field: (it was quite similar to what appears to be happening now)
ascii_field: they 'came out of nowhere' in the 1960s-early-70s - as a concession to terro^H^H^H^H^protesters
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mircea_popescu: "issued by google internety authority g2" which is pretty lulzy but w/e.
mircea_popescu: well, firefox complains, but if i hit it up with curl on the same agent string it just hits a dumbass redirection thing. prolly some cookie based discrimination and fuck me if i have the patience to debugt the webshitstack.
mircea_popescu: let's leave it at "google ssl fails", it's good enough.
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ben_vulpes: "First, when the iPad Pro is open with the keyboard attached, holding your arm up to touch the screen for anything longer than a moment or two is ergonomically uncomfortable. " << fucking duh, your arm wears out. human factors research on the shop floor demonstrated this decades ago, but does the american tech industry know or give a shit? ahahaha don't make me choke
ben_vulpes: "On iOS 9.1, Safari tries to support this, but it is dreadfully buggy. Instead of paging down just less than one screen-height of content, it pages down about 1.5 screen-heights of content." << continuing the "apple can't make usable software" thread
shinohai: I'd rather do everything with a quill pen and ink than use an ipad for anything.
jurov: my bro won one, mom uses it for email
jurov: i tried to find simplest possible calculator app
jurov: guess what, it shows ads and error popups...
shinohai: If my mother were still around, she'd probably ask me how to install all the toolbars and IE.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> the whole libtard charade literally busting at seams. << I'm telling you cultural fukishima. The core has breached
BingoBoingo: <phf> there are stores in u.s. where you can buy some quality rope. hemp, jute, nylon in garish colors, all by the meter. there's probably a harness worth of rope next to a dildo collection in every dorm << "Rural King" is the best of those places. Can get rifle, circus peanus, cattle prod, and flowers in the same trip.