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00:34 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: it was !
00:35 mircea_popescu heh
00:35 mircea_popescu stupid fucking idea, that.
00:40 asciilifeform in theory was to give a less stupid elsewhere in mechanism.
00:41 mircea_popescu i guess. there's ~no way to compensate that loss of mass though.
00:52 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/491B14123C0A1462D6FA0D215E2B288DF2EB4240F34281463E6608A2C70677F1 << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1480...8943 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '61.19.249.128 (ssh-rsa key from 61.19.249.128 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (Unknown TH)
00:52 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/491B14123C0A1462D6FA0D215E2B288DF2EB4240F34281463E6608A2C70677F1 << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1699...5459 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '61.19.249.128 (ssh-rsa key from 61.19.249.128 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (Unknown TH)
01:04 BingoBoingo The wankel is indeed a total oil loss system, which means FU PETROIL!
01:04 BingoBoingo But no, instead they wanna fake boring ole normal and instead the moo cows moo "Leak! Leak!"
01:10 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/279B4893BA48D6D4C86CBC5F0FBE8F4CAE794DE107F923335946D49DCF88AD37 << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1471...3069 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '92.243.4.151 (ssh-rsa key from 92.243.4.151 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (xvm-4-151.ghst.net. FR)
01:10 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/279B4893BA48D6D4C86CBC5F0FBE8F4CAE794DE107F923335946D49DCF88AD37 << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1794...6813 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '92.243.4.151 (ssh-rsa key from 92.243.4.151 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (xvm-4-151.ghst.net. FR)
01:12 * BingoBoingo today had to console poor fellow who burdened himself with a 4-cycle string trimmer "It seems to not be that powerful" "Of course it's not, there's half as many power strokes"
~ 41 minutes ~
01:53 mircea_popescu BingoBoingo i dun follow ?
~ 22 minutes ~
02:16 BingoBoingo The wankel being a 4-stroke, or poor fellow who misadventured on 4-stroke strimmer getting jewed of of half the power strokes he'd have on a 2-cycle
02:21 BingoBoingo But wankel while a 4-stroke is a total loss design that even has oil injection, a feature usually reserved for larger 2-strokes
~ 56 minutes ~
03:17 deedbot http://qntra.net/2017/05/doge-doldrums-drum-on/ << Qntra - Doge Doldrums Drum On
03:25 ben_vulpes BingoBoingo: palmer link broken
~ 3 hours 54 minutes ~
07:20 shinohai http://archive.is/Hv1n6 <<< Who will stop the Great Again? -- Preeeeeeeeet
~ 2 hours 4 minutes ~
09:25 Framedragger http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-14#1626725 << actually i want to try this sometime, too, any chance you've already fiddled with it pete_dushenski? :D
09:25 a111 Logged on 2017-03-14 03:18 pete_dushenski: open q : anyone tried this (or other) intel me 'cleaner' ? https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner/wiki/How-does-it-work%3F
~ 37 minutes ~
10:02 mircea_popescu shinohai lol, the butthurt of the idiot indian. he was already seeing himself consul, what do we mean his career is finished ?!?!?! CAN NOT BEEE!!11
10:03 mircea_popescu "scholar in residence", they wouldn't even give him a chair. NYU ffs! next step down was what, supervising the used sportsbras of the ohio state sluts ?
10:07 shinohai I was trying to think of how to spin a Qntra out of it, but it was quite lulzy on it's own.
10:07 mircea_popescu aha
10:08 mircea_popescu maybe he never overcomes the moment, spends rest of his life cringing over this, like a sort of lefty rms.
10:08 mircea_popescu would be pretty cool.
10:09 shinohai He can always learn 2 write shitty javascript and sell crap on fivver like all the other pajeets.
10:11 mircea_popescu but he thought he is a speshul pajeet!
10:15 shinohai He is, if I ever find some Indian city willing to accept Bitcoin in exchange for naming a designated shitting street after him, I will gladly memorialize him.
10:18 mircea_popescu phf` suppose this morning you have to read l'histoire de mademoiselle cronel ditte fretilon. because whatever, as part of your plurious activities you're helping a girl get a place off the ground and being a serious agent you scoop the quarries of truth quite that deep. what now ?
10:19 mircea_popescu i dun feel like paying amazon 30 bux because who the fuck are they, not like they helped me know i hafta read this, and not like there can exist another merit ; i dun feel like waiting till they deliver. i did see the book at one point, in library, of course, which is how i know it exists, but i'm not going back there to read a book.
10:29 mod6 mornin'
10:31 mircea_popescu hola
10:31 diana_coman hi mod6
10:32 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: no 13337w4r3zscan seems to exist, aha
10:33 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: send a gurl to library with a minox ?
10:33 mircea_popescu but the overarching point is that a life of the spirit requires you read books you DIDNT read before. re-reading the same books you already know is a dubious benefit.
10:33 asciilifeform aha!
10:34 mircea_popescu works well enough if one decides to be say, a playwright. all you need is already published and already known, learn greek and latin and go ahead.
10:34 mircea_popescu but some people are not specific things. what's they to do.
10:34 asciilifeform meanwhile, in the monkey house, https://archive.is/LS3sn >> 'And by the way, I think we can successfully make Zcash too traceable for criminals like WannaCry, but still completely private & fungible' -- zooko (perpetrator of subj scamcoin)
10:34 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: they end up with 20k tomes and get laughed at by mircea_popescu for 'hoarding dead tree'
10:34 mircea_popescu the meteoric path of that young careerist is quite amusing. started rather impressively, fell right in the shitter.
10:34 * shinohai wrote Qntra on that, hasn't yet been published
10:35 mircea_popescu asciilifeform not for hoarding dead tree per se, but for attempting to apply a linear solution to a nonlinear problem WAY past the point where the mismatch should have become obvious.
10:35 mircea_popescu i also hoard dead tree, it's called furniture. but in that application works fabulously well, the absence of a different couch does in no way detract from the damsel's moans who's overturned on it.
10:36 asciilifeform woah -- mircea_popescu stopped leasing furniture?!
10:36 asciilifeform ( asciilifeform associates the practice with mircea_popescu , he had never met anyone else, afaik, who did it )
10:37 mircea_popescu nope, still renting furnished!
10:37 mircea_popescu but at least i don't throw it all out the window, so there's that.
10:37 asciilifeform i'll grudgingly agree with the folx who remind that the correct thing to do with a rare b00k is to scan it, not to hoard it like koschei's treasures
10:38 asciilifeform but it's a whole-day chore ( if done correctly ) with current tech. so ~nobody bothers.
10:38 mircea_popescu hoarding it like ~ is borne of a very flattering view of humanity, supposing somehow that the worms could also not be worms, if $magic, such as you know, reading a book.
10:38 mircea_popescu experience shows they could not and do not.
10:38 asciilifeform well so's scanning, by same token
10:39 mircea_popescu you just scan it to carry it easier-ly.
10:39 mircea_popescu "here's this process makes the leaf impervious and weightless, sir. or would you prefer we gild the covers instead ?"
10:39 asciilifeform lolyeah
10:39 asciilifeform now it only if it also retained same readability !
10:40 mircea_popescu "yea, please, more gilding, and use thicker leaf, maybe i manage to sink in earth like a raft adrift the oceans."
10:42 asciilifeform in other lulz, https://archive.is/x3RZM >> 'The Allianz Deutscher Demokraten (ADD), a political party in Germany founded by Turkish-Germans, has faced another obstacle after their bank account was shut down for the fourth time for no reason.'
10:42 mircea_popescu asciilifeform "au-deflus des plus fenefees reflexions"!
10:44 mircea_popescu asciilifeform check out this lulz : in order to open a bank account, ALL banks of costa rica require the company present them with a PROJECTED CASH FLOW! supposedly because there's some law so requiring them, which i dun much credit, but i do intend to find a lawyer and ask their local constitutional court. in any case, all this supposedly because "since 9/11 the ustards forced them to", which is obviously lulzy since the ust
10:44 mircea_popescu ards DONT actuallty require that themselves.
10:44 asciilifeform tru!! they do not
10:44 asciilifeform they do require a postal addr that isn't a box, lulzily
10:45 asciilifeform ( what it did , is to prop up 10,001 previously unknown scamolade service where you get 'shared office' )
10:46 mircea_popescu aha.
10:50 * Framedragger had to supply a coupla raised invoices in UK for bank to say "mk this bzns looks like serious bzns". felt dodgy (i can raise invoice to ur mom)
10:52 mircea_popescu since when the fuck is bank allowed to judge, what is this, soviets ?
10:53 * mircea_popescu also refused to get himself "good fiscal behaviour" certificate when rotards came up with "requiring" such nonsense. they nearly fell over.
10:53 asciilifeform not as if 'free world' 'bank' were a private org. rather than a crown organ where plebe is to put his meager savings for ease of requisitioning.
10:54 mircea_popescu asciilifeform it's actually a public utility. has absolutely no right over the usage of its monopoly, much like electric co can't cut your power.
10:54 asciilifeform сберкасса.
10:55 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: not in this reich, it ain't. bank can unplug whoever. and charge $maxint, say, if it wants.
10:55 asciilifeform against a 0 balance, even.
10:55 mircea_popescu i don't live in that reich.
10:55 asciilifeform apparently it isn't contained.
10:56 mircea_popescu apparently a bunch of idiots watch too much netflix and don't encounter nearly enough clubs to the mouth to know better than trying to apply in life what they saw in the cartoons.
10:56 mircea_popescu but i carry a large stick, and dun mind hurting people.
11:00 asciilifeform meanwhile, microshit fud agency working overtime, https://archive.is/Hd2S6 >> 'Microsoft has criticized the NSA for their major role in spreading the WannaCry ransomware epidemic which paralyzed hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide. The tech giant urged governments to use and store their cyber warfare tools responsibly.'
11:01 mircea_popescu lol, usg.ms duking it out with usg.nsa over the fact that they got publicly raped a little ?
11:01 asciilifeform playing a rape scene for camera.
11:01 mircea_popescu "oh, the soviets got defeated by a buncha chukas, but it is not the peace&defense ministry's fault! it's the supplies&items ministry's fault!"
11:02 asciilifeform ( i'd guess even the furnace stokers at microshit grasp that the entire operation is very little more than a factory for nsa pwnholes )
11:03 mircea_popescu in other lulz : how to fix idiotic (fixed width paragraph) documents ? s/\n\n/\r\r/ s/\n// s/\r/\n/. thanks god for idiotic newline alternatives.
11:03 asciilifeform 'dos2unix' also worx
11:03 mircea_popescu asciilifeform sure, but that makes no difference.
11:03 mircea_popescu asciilifeform how does it work ?
11:04 asciilifeform or hm nm, not same problem
11:04 mircea_popescu no, problem is someone somewhere IS FUCKING IDIOTIC ENOUGH to touch the enter key for any other reason than end of paragraph.
11:04 mircea_popescu then unix crapola has non-flowing text because hey, let's be idiots.
11:05 asciilifeform i disagree
11:05 asciilifeform CONTROL over where paragraph breaks
11:05 asciilifeform where line breaks.
11:05 asciilifeform the alternative to mid-word idiotbreaks is 'dwim' attempt
11:05 asciilifeform which also dunwork.
11:05 mircea_popescu fu. it's not your fucking problem. your paragraph is a line. how (or whether) that line is broken is the problem of whoever displays it.
11:06 mircea_popescu stop being a fucking web designer in your spare time.
11:06 asciilifeform not if it's a line of code, it aint
11:06 mircea_popescu yes, it is.
11:06 asciilifeform there is not even necessarily a correct place to break it.
11:06 mircea_popescu so ? let the whoever views it do whatever they deem fit.
11:07 asciilifeform the number of displaytrons that exist, that can do this, is 0.
11:07 mircea_popescu your job is to write your line of code well ; not to "ensure" random person you don't nor can know LOOKS AT IT FROM THE RIGFHT ANGLE
11:07 mircea_popescu wtf.
11:07 asciilifeform fact. there is not a proggy that will intelligently, cleanly, break lines of code in every known lang
11:07 mircea_popescu so ?
11:07 asciilifeform so that i can print it on dotmatrix printer.
11:08 mircea_popescu let. the. owner. of. proggy. solve. HIS FUCKING PROBLEMS.
11:08 asciilifeform those of us who aren't mircea_popescu and have to clean own piles of shit, or they DON'T GET CLEANED, might disagree.
11:08 mircea_popescu otherwise you're right back to http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-07#1652460
11:08 a111 Logged on 2017-05-07 04:44 fromloper: I have NDA access, so I have slightly better documentation (but still shit and incomplete). Business decision. Intel only because that's where 95% of the market is. Also easier to do security research on ME and AMT if you can step through, which needs JTAG as well.
11:09 asciilifeform think of line breaks as a comment.
11:09 asciilifeform it is quite considerably easier to s/\n\n/\r\r/ s/\n// s/\r/\n/ --- than to put'em back IN
11:09 mircea_popescu mno. i'm thinking of them as what they are -- the author being mentally slow, and attempting the equivalent of ajax in my fucking text file.
11:09 Framedragger so instead of writing code i now need to write a code editor which can break code lines code-semantically? :/
11:09 mircea_popescu asciilifeform i never want them.
11:10 mircea_popescu Framedragger why ?
11:10 mircea_popescu nano fro instance doesn't break them at all.
11:10 Framedragger http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-15#1656231
11:10 a111 Logged on 2017-05-15 15:07 asciilifeform: fact. there is not a proggy that will intelligently, cleanly, break lines of code in every known lang
11:10 asciilifeform I WON'T HORIZONTALSCROLL
11:10 Framedragger yes and i hate nano, it's horrible for long lines
11:10 asciilifeform nobody can ever make me. everyone can go and pound sand.
11:10 mircea_popescu asciilifeform but WHY IS IT EVEN IN THERE!
11:10 asciilifeform and likewise will not edit code in nano or any similar.
11:11 mircea_popescu Framedragger im not proposing it be used, i'm just lulzing at the whole nonsense.
11:11 Framedragger ah, well then yeah, it's pretty luzly :D tis true
11:11 mircea_popescu anyway. you're telling me you can't read code broken on space like sane wordwrap does ?
11:11 asciilifeform nope.
11:12 mircea_popescu whyssat ?
11:12 asciilifeform well for one thing, it ain't valid, in , say , c
11:12 asciilifeform ( in a macro def, say )
11:12 asciilifeform for another, it fucks up indentation
11:12 asciilifeform which is the only sane way to read lisps
11:12 Framedragger code can't scroll horizontally, breaks too many things. e.g. visual selection of blocks. needs to literally-fit-in-head horizontal-wise
11:12 asciilifeform (indentation MUST remain as author put it )
11:12 mircea_popescu in my experience line of code that exceeds viewport is in all cases an example of badly written code.
11:12 asciilifeform python, say, or fortran, will not even build if you lose indent
11:13 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: in this we agree. but how big is the viewport ?
11:13 mircea_popescu as big as you fucking feel like.
11:13 asciilifeform not physically possible.
11:13 mircea_popescu and if you try to read people with viewport larger than yours, either buy a better system or live with your inferiority.
11:13 asciilifeform if yours is 120col and mine is 80, now you are demanding that i horizontalscroll.
11:13 asciilifeform and i won;t.
11:13 mircea_popescu no. i am simply saying i am a better man than you. and you will either 120 or live with knowing this.
11:14 asciilifeform tell me where i can buy an ips lcd that gives more than 80 reasonably sized fixedwidthchars when turned to god's proper orientation (vertical) and i'll buy.
11:14 mircea_popescu hey.
11:14 mircea_popescu fix your own problems.
11:14 asciilifeform i'ma ignore this nonsense coming from a fella who doesn't program.
11:14 * Framedragger has not-great eyesight and prefers traditional 80col, worx great
11:14 asciilifeform even if he has 64 parallel-operating 12 metre cocks.
11:14 mircea_popescu what, it's nonsense because we don't share the same incentives to misrepresent the facts ?
11:16 mircea_popescu it's one thing to say "this fellow has no idea what the fuck he's saying" ; it's quite another to say "this fellow doesn't know of our hardships!". the former's an argument. the latter...
11:17 asciilifeform it is very easy to prescribe that pilot's yoke should be shaped like pair of tits, if you are not and not at any risk of working as pilot.
11:17 mircea_popescu i am a bash programmer!
11:18 asciilifeform and i usedto be an asm programmer, 20 columns is all i needed, lol
11:18 mircea_popescu "oh but mp, it's not for a living". no, it's not, it's for a dying ;/
11:18 asciilifeform (on a bad day!)
11:19 mircea_popescu is the substance of disagreement that you want things to read like
11:19 mircea_popescu while {
11:19 mircea_popescu do stuff
11:19 mircea_popescu as opposed to while { do stuff ?
11:20 asciilifeform poorly chosen example
11:20 mircea_popescu because yes, your lisp code should be line=paragraph, and your ide should properly expand the parens, and afaik / afaies it DOES.
11:20 asciilifeform if it does, that's a diff-creating operation
11:20 mircea_popescu that the rest of the crap ~dun work that way... hey. i thought that's mostly why you don't like the rest of the crap in the first place
11:21 asciilifeform and the vdiff becomes unreadable.
11:21 mircea_popescu (not for the direct, but for the failure implicit)
11:21 asciilifeform this is EXACTLY the tab-sizes thread with mircea_popescu from year ago.
11:21 mircea_popescu pretty much.
11:21 asciilifeform and yes in 'proper comp' code would be stored as an ast, and not as ascii linear turd.
11:21 asciilifeform but we dun have one.
11:21 mircea_popescu to put it another way :
11:21 asciilifeform nor any tools that rely on such.
11:22 mircea_popescu it is INCREDIBLY lulzy to catch fire at "string = number" but to tolerate "my program is a strring hurr"
11:22 asciilifeform however on bright side!: mircea_popescu will quite like, i suspect, 'P' : all nonprinting octets are NOPs in P.
11:22 mircea_popescu why the fuck can't i add the string 68 with the numeral 7 to get the real 74.99999999 as god intended ? it's ALL STRINGS YES ?
11:22 asciilifeform when Character'Val(0) .. Character'Val(32) =>
11:22 asciilifeform null;
11:22 asciilifeform when Character'Val(127) .. Character'Val(255) =>
11:22 asciilifeform null;
11:23 asciilifeform ^ excerpt.
11:23 mircea_popescu ha!
11:24 Framedragger semantic diff would of course be spiffy, there is that.
11:24 Framedragger neat asciilifeform..
11:25 mircea_popescu no, Framedragger , it wouldn't be neat. it would be normal. code-as-ascii-string diff fundamentally can't work.
11:25 Framedragger yesyes, meanwhile i'll go and pretend i have a computer!
11:25 mircea_popescu aok then.
11:25 asciilifeform ( anybody recalls asciilifeform's crackpot diff thread ? it was more or less 'p prog in disguise')
11:25 mircea_popescu THIS MUST BE BECAUSE ~I~ AM NOT A PROGRAMMER.
11:25 mircea_popescu you know, unlike you people, tru drivers of your imaginary tractors / flying veyrons.
11:25 Framedragger well that's one way to stay sane!
11:25 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-05#1596583 << thread.
11:25 a111 Logged on 2017-01-05 00:24 asciilifeform: this is to abolish the line-based idiocy of unix diff.
11:26 Framedragger ast-based-diff does imply getting rid of 'line' concept in source, doesn't it
11:26 asciilifeform verily.
11:26 mircea_popescu well, i see it absorbed in paragraph, but whatever. item, how'd you call the thing.
11:27 asciilifeform the unfortunate bit is that lines are quite like 'stick shift' auto. an anachronism, but the supposed automation is not ~quite~ there.
11:27 mircea_popescu the humanities tradition is that meaningful text (eg law) is quoted by page and paragraph, whereas meaningless text (eg, ehtnological notation) is quoted by page and line.
11:28 asciilifeform human-speech generally doesn't nest >1level.
11:28 mircea_popescu depends who's the human speaking.
11:28 mircea_popescu but yes, peon outpour is generally linear.
11:28 Framedragger mircea_popescu: this explains why modern analytic philosophy got rid of paragraph notation (cf. kant and, like, everyone else), hmm...
11:28 asciilifeform and human-text with quotes-within-quotes begins to resemble fortran.
11:28 mircea_popescu or trilema.
11:29 mircea_popescu Framedragger and why ~nobody sane calls some randomly chosen species of the "reality tv show" "modern philosophy".
11:30 mircea_popescu you understand the difference between baudrillard and simona trasca is the packaging only, yes ?
11:33 Framedragger test
11:34 Framedragger sorry, problems with connection
11:34 mod6 ding
11:34 Framedragger ty
11:34 Framedragger (from irc backlog) eh, there's ~passable stuff, like chalmers (actually vaguely referenced in logs) etc
11:34 Framedragger but yeah. also paragraph notion vaguely relates to "log ranges" concept (which i haven't developed any further, yet.) l1 folx give labels to log line ranges; these 'breaks' can then visibly (not obnoxiously) appear in online logotron.
11:34 mircea_popescu sure, and the tv on occasion has hot chicks that are a pleasure in private. i know. so ?
11:34 Framedragger http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-15#1656333 << who is the latter? :D
11:34 a111 Logged on 2017-05-15 15:30 mircea_popescu: you understand the difference between baudrillard and simona trasca is the packaging only, yes ?
11:35 Framedragger mircea_popescu: hm so you would dismiss say the whole internalism/externalism debate as effectively tv show, then? :D
11:35 mircea_popescu random $50 an hour ro tv starlet. google images shows you the... well, you know, normal face, they all look the same.
11:35 Framedragger aha ic
11:35 mircea_popescu Framedragger i would dismiss the whole "public intellectual" v 5.0 as entirely like the tv starlet. they ALSO all sound the same.
11:36 mircea_popescu !!up fd_ghetto
11:36 deedbot fd_ghetto voiced for 30 minutes.
11:36 mircea_popescu the girls stuff their lips with silicon etc, the boys use certain textual devices, whatever.
11:36 fd_ghetto (sorry, very shoddy irc connection all of the sudden. ping is stable so not sure wtf)
11:37 Framedragger heh re textual devices, i guess i have to agree. baudrillard... i liked it when i first read simulation/simulacra. yes it was pretty vapous, i mean, beyond the "map != territory but depends how you use words, kid!!", summarised in a paragraph or two... so, sure
11:38 mircea_popescu and it dun has anything to do with the french style of going on tv. anglo derp sitting in his office "writing" for "peer reviewed" etc is not doing anything different. it's just a shitty tv channel nobody tunes in, the nature channel, the peer reviewed channel, etc.
11:38 Framedragger i don't have a strong case but don't consider all of analytic philosophy to be just "public intellectuals". a *large lot* of it, sure, so makes sense to just dismiss all of it for the sake of saving time / internal sanity
11:38 mircea_popescu there is no possiblity of meaning outside of a structure of authority, and the authority can not be predicated on the meaning.
11:39 Framedragger that's like some kind of anti-derrida
11:39 Framedragger (and hard to disagree)
11:39 mircea_popescu in the sense pointing and laughing is some kind of anti-mongoloid, sure.
11:41 trinque if one can't derive ought from is, and authority dispenses commands, not so hard to process.
11:42 mircea_popescu trinque or alternatively you could draw it directly from aristotle and the discussions of prime movers. though the subtleties of scholastics are not well understood by the "modern" mind.
11:44 mircea_popescu anyway, table stakes for derrida-ing, either as jacques or john, is writing that damned http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-15#1656241 as a universal errorless machine.
11:44 a111 Logged on 2017-05-15 15:09 Framedragger: so instead of writing code i now need to write a code editor which can break code lines code-semantically? :/
11:45 mircea_popescu of course, it's not generally the way of tv personalities to inquire what'd be the table stakes. they're just there, right ?
11:45 Framedragger so much heat
11:46 mircea_popescu welcome to hell.
11:47 trinque http://btcbase.org/log/2016-02-26#1416370 << oblig
11:47 a111 Logged on 2016-02-26 22:57 phf: ^- http://buttersafe.com/comics/2008-10-23-Detour.jpg
11:47 mircea_popescu lmao
11:48 mircea_popescu heck, you could actually draw it out of the kuhn-popper theory of paradigm.
11:56 asciilifeform ( oblig. mega-thread re aristotle & co, http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-21#1587301 )
11:56 a111 Logged on 2016-12-21 18:43 mircea_popescu: now we understand each other. dutch can't be "wrong" about aristotle per se. it is a fact he didn't much understand what the other said ; and it is a fact that in the dutch system, dutch's observations stand, however vaguely greek flavoured they may be.
11:56 mircea_popescu aha.
12:06 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-21#1587264 << so delightfully naive, in retrospect. "oh, the reason alphabet doesn't work is that the meaning of words gets lost through thousands of years, but if only they had slideshare then! the wholly contentless meaningless diagram is eternal -- nothing there to lose!"
12:06 a111 Logged on 2016-12-21 18:18 jurov: heh, nice example how alphabet is inferior to diagrams. if aristotle had drawn a diagrams that would survive to this day, no translation needed
12:06 mircea_popescu i should open a bank offering 100% guaranteed deposits -- for the poor.
12:09 mircea_popescu somehow the observation that they could read aristotle in the middle ages but couldn't read egyptian until 1800s doth not bother the diagramist.
12:11 asciilifeform maybe because egyptian is hieroglyphic, not diagramatic ?
12:11 mircea_popescu somehow the fact aristotle is a major source of quotes today in europe, but fukantothmoth or w/e her name was isn't a source of anything for "the great nation of africa" idem dun bother. why the fuck is it that i can recide names of ancient members of the republic of letters to fill an orthodox pomelnik for a full mass, and nobody can name three fucking egyptian authors he likes. supposedly they taught our barbarians magic an
12:11 mircea_popescu d mapmaking!
12:11 asciilifeform i.e. the glyphs do not carry meaning with raw geometry
12:11 asciilifeform the idiot yahweh book is even bigger source of quotage.
12:11 mircea_popescu asciilifeform or maybe because the hope that diagrams won't pile up and evolve to hieroglyphs entirely baseless ?
12:11 asciilifeform now wat.
12:11 mircea_popescu they already fucking copy/paste the slides into a shannonized mess.
12:12 mircea_popescu asciilifeform now nothing, torah is alphabetic.
12:13 mircea_popescu carrying meaning with raw geometry. if only. the easier case for this would be "carrying love with naked penis", ie, raping your way into marriage. that has better chances of working than the meaning of sheer existence.
12:13 asciilifeform all known humlangs are alphabetic or hieroglyphic. diagram is neither here nor there, it is a narrowly specialized thing
12:13 asciilifeform (written langs, monkeys not counted)
12:13 mircea_popescu like any nonsense, it claims no parentage. but no, it is a primitive kind of hieroglyphism.
12:14 asciilifeform do we have to do the 'find me whoever willing to work with humlang representation of electric circuit as the primary working medium' thread again..?
12:15 mircea_popescu the fact that you get an erection watching a picture of Anne rather than reading "Anne spent her days naked and her tits were big and milky" is no argument as to the ~meaning~. your erections ain't meaningful.
12:16 asciilifeform ain't about aesthetics, but about whether or not $machine ends up built.
12:16 asciilifeform and there is a reason why aristotles build 0 machines.
12:16 mircea_popescu i live among a people who prefer textual renditions of paths to actual map usage, or cartesian addressing mechanisms. the notion that you have a more direct understanding of some house by saying "Fuckenstrasse 17" than by saying "turn left art the church and follow the tit stamps on the sidewalk" is ...
12:16 asciilifeform ('because they are better men!' will say mircea_popescu .)
12:16 mircea_popescu i am unaware of this machine you built. last i recall, we're still at http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-15#1656316
12:16 a111 Logged on 2017-05-15 15:25 mircea_popescu: THIS MUST BE BECAUSE ~I~ AM NOT A PROGRAMMER.
12:16 mircea_popescu aristotle built plenty of machines that didn't work also.
12:17 mircea_popescu he had a whole workshop producing cutlery devoid of handles but missing the business end.
12:18 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/08239664E1641E8FB70737E2B951674A70E78F9970B49E2B9A79E3E2332D6635 << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1379...6713 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '207.210.106.19 (ssh-rsa key from 207.210.106.19 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (Unknown US GA)
12:18 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/08239664E1641E8FB70737E2B951674A70E78F9970B49E2B9A79E3E2332D6635 << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1639...5677 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '207.210.106.19 (ssh-rsa key from 207.210.106.19 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (Unknown US GA)
12:20 Framedragger one $sadthing re aristotle is that he did all his logic in verbal syllogisms. which is ~fine, but omg did predicate symbol notation help... and it took a long while. same with middle age logic (buridan et al, not an expert tho). guess knowing lating well helps a lot, tho :/
12:20 Framedragger middle ages*; latin*
12:21 mircea_popescu anyway, the amusing parallel ot all this is, of course, the "plain reading" of the us constitution.
12:22 mircea_popescu Framedragger latin is not so far off from predicate symbol notation in the first place, which easement did slow down the development of hte cleanner tool.
12:22 mircea_popescu how this works, whoever has nice weather ends up falling behind in textile mill development.
12:23 mircea_popescu quod me nutrit etcetera, vampyre class 101.
12:23 mircea_popescu btw, you know the famous case of buridan's ass yes ?
12:24 Framedragger the paradox re free will, been a long time tho
12:24 mircea_popescu yes, the ass that died of thirst and hunger being trapped equally thirsty and hungry at equal distance from a pail of water and a pail of oats.
12:25 mircea_popescu (amusingly enough, lots of "engineers" esp of the computing type display the behaviour.)
12:25 Framedragger if you constrain free will to rational-agent-acts only, then yeah, paradox applies.. right?
12:26 Framedragger "stochastic behaviour important part of agent!", something
12:26 mircea_popescu if you pretend "rationality" ie "i fucking love science" ie, meaning-afore-authority to be the prime mover.
12:26 Framedragger yeah i don't, heh
12:26 mircea_popescu the rest is just whitewash, mostly by people who imagine authority is something they can personally deny. speak truth to power or something.
12:26 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/3BBD8FF209786D03FDE90EF4FDF81AA49EC013F11715FE31332CE5A7023B2F95 << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1371...3537 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '87.139.51.192 (ssh-rsa key from 87.139.51.192 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (mail.elementarbau.de. DE NW)
12:26 deedbot http://phuctor.nosuchlabs.com/gpgkey/3BBD8FF209786D03FDE90EF4FDF81AA49EC013F11715FE31332CE5A7023B2F95 << Recent Phuctorings. - Phuctored: 1699...8117 divides RSA Moduli belonging to '87.139.51.192 (ssh-rsa key from 87.139.51.192 (13-14 June 2016 extraction) for Phuctor import. Ask asciilifeform or framedragger on Freenode, or email fd at mkj dot lt) <ssh...lt>; ' (mail.hanse-haus.de. DE NW)
12:30 Framedragger mircea_popescu: devil's advocate: can attempt to resist where-to-go paradox without making reference to authority if you admit that agent's free will can also include (while still counting as free will) "unconscious heuristics" ("water is priority"; but yes this is missing the point, i guess) / "random behaviour" (buridan would disagree that this is "free will", i guess)
12:30 Framedragger but yeah i see the connection re thread
12:30 mircea_popescu sure, and then the "random" is the authority.
12:30 Framedragger yeah i guess so.
12:30 mircea_popescu because every time baby-thought runs into insurmountable problem, it runs off to mommy "random" box. which is not random to mommy now is it.
12:31 Framedragger (heh, this relates in my head re taleb's "trust yer biology!!" point (iterated in multiple places))
12:32 mircea_popescu whether you are obeying the words of darius, the greatest man-god to walk the sands around babylon, carried to your ears by a stout fellow in weird pajamas ; or the echoes of the voice of some dumb woman nobody liked, whom you'de irrationalyl decided is important beyond all else in nature ; or the strange flickers of a tube which "is impersonal and therefore truthful, pay no attention at the jew behind the screen", in point o
12:32 mircea_popescu f fact you predicate your meaning on preexisting authority.
12:34 Framedragger i suppose one cannot avoid this general structural, at least i can't, yeah. does wonders for my ongoing internal-anarchism debate :D
12:34 Framedragger (will produce text from mind if anything good comes up, but likely won't)
12:35 Framedragger structural point*
12:35 mircea_popescu without exception one claiming "i fucking love science" or "where can i find just the facts" or etcetera is merely rejecting what they perceive as the NORMAL authority, in favour of an unvoiced alternative they deem superior.
12:36 mircea_popescu the problem of course being that http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-12#1655027
12:36 a111 Logged on 2017-05-12 00:57 mircea_popescu: how about "bitch, if you could know truth if it hit you on the head you'd be in power". not fucking evident enough ? how the fuck are the powerless to obtain truth, from their father, the god of the stupid ?
12:36 mircea_popescu cogent challenge to authority is a finnicky-er order than readily intuited by the desperate adolescent
12:36 mircea_popescu hence http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-08#1653263
12:36 a111 Logged on 2017-05-08 17:04 mircea_popescu: i don't think you either know or could meet if you dedicated a year to it someone possessed of an ai capable of identifying who the fuck to shoot.
12:37 Framedragger right.
12:37 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: where did the 'luvv science' thing come from originally ?
12:38 asciilifeform i've been seeing it for years and never knew
12:39 mircea_popescu was some black dude with tv show
12:39 mircea_popescu something with false color renderings of outer space telescope shots
12:40 mircea_popescu the idea being that "i fucking love britney spears because here's a painting of her in my bedroom" in 2004, "i fucking love science because here's a painting of science in my bedroom" 2005, then hs ended moved to dorm got stoned and plugged in all the holes.
12:40 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-15#1656409 << funnily enough this is a serious problem in digital electronics,
12:40 a111 Logged on 2017-05-15 16:24 mircea_popescu: yes, the ass that died of thirst and hunger being trapped equally thirsty and hungry at equal distance from a pail of water and a pail of oats.
12:41 mircea_popescu sort of last-stop on the train ride between virginity and mother of two. nobody can recount what happened in the intervening decade
12:41 asciilifeform !#s metastable
12:41 a111 7 results for "metastable", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=metastable
12:41 mircea_popescu though christina applegate did decent job in http://trilema.com/2016/vacation/
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13:03 asciilifeform in other horrors: http://archive.is/67DN0
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13:41 mircea_popescu i don't get what it is supposed to do ?
13:41 asciilifeform not obvious to asciilifeform either.
13:41 mircea_popescu rfid chip for your acrylics ?
13:46 Framedragger nfc => contactless payments, presumably. pay for condoms with finger
13:48 mircea_popescu maybe they could add them to foreskins, could pay per stroke.
13:49 Framedragger ejaculation charged extra, unless netfuxx subscription. where is my vc money?
13:49 mircea_popescu girls could charge by kinetic momentum / mass displacement / profile geometry etc. fairer.
13:49 mircea_popescu could get a ----- BEGIN DICK DESCRIPTOR ----- header that'd allow ytou to estimate upfront.
13:50 mircea_popescu "my dick's gnarlier but thicker than normal"
13:51 Framedragger worx for me as long as javascript callbacks are supported so developers can expand and add custom JS logic
13:51 Framedragger like, apple watch can start flashing when precum is estimated to be secreted
13:52 Framedragger just need to write a cashflow plan now!
13:52 mircea_popescu could make a whole bunch of "clever" romcoms around the newly upgraded mistaken identity comedy, omg his watch flashed.
13:53 mircea_popescu thanks god for progress, see, we can now re-do all the boccaccio which we pretend to not exist, because the old redos are no longer cogent of the new set of hyeroglyphs.
13:53 mircea_popescu best self-licking cone ever.
13:54 asciilifeform hey they were on vhs and nao bluray!111
13:54 mircea_popescu basically "modern culture" is strictly this : a special monkery where idiotic monks re-do the copying of old manuscripts in the font of the year.
13:54 mircea_popescu forever employed, and forever self-important.
13:54 mircea_popescu (no, it's not clear if monkery or monks is misspelled.)
14:02 mircea_popescu in the latest lulz re banking scams, third world banks discovered that if they just charge for wires anyway, notwitstanding sent OUR, nobody'll know the difference.
14:03 mircea_popescu i have nfi who imagines anyone would want to live in a world run by the bureaucrats in preference of a world run by the drug dealers. am i really supposed to believe a guy who always sells the amount he promises is not to be trusted with government, whereas a conclave of disgusting crows that never fail to break their promises are naturally recommended for the job ?
14:03 mircea_popescu fuck that shit, give me a country run by pimps and hookers, i do not want to see more "college educated" "respectable" schmucks raise head above water.
14:05 * ben_vulpes did turn all notifications off on all mobile devices
14:05 ben_vulpes it is abhorrent that apple decided to display who's texting me over my movies.
14:05 mircea_popescu no dude, everything is connected!!
14:06 ben_vulpes fuckoff.sh
14:07 * asciilifeform has one !
14:07 ben_vulpes ;)
14:12 asciilifeform only the filename, mindyou.
14:13 Framedragger ah, ssh blackhole-shell!
14:15 ben_vulpes sadly, the only fuckoff.sh for new apple retardation is not buying apple products
14:15 ben_vulpes "oh gosh, you know i think i'm too old to learn a new ui"
14:16 mircea_popescu the only fuckoff.sh for not having a dilated asshole and insulted prostate is... not taking cock up the ass. sadly ? I THINK NOT!!!
14:16 ben_vulpes "baby you are entirely capable of deducing what the new buttons do, i don't want to hear that kind of nonsense from you any more."
14:16 mircea_popescu i didn't want cock up my ass in the first place.
14:16 ben_vulpes mircea_popescu: it was a pussy when i first got in bed.
14:16 ben_vulpes went trans.
14:17 mircea_popescu i heard of those!
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14:47 deedbot http://qntra.net/2017/05/zooko-proposes-undermining-alread-questionable-privacy-measure-while-remaining-complete/ << Qntra - Zooko Proposes Undermining Alread Questionable Privacy Measure While Remaining Complete
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15:05 BingoBoingo In the "Sad That Not Scammed Files": You need to stop giving a fuck about how your car looks. I was cross shopping clean RSX-Ss against my CRZ, and I got a bargain basement CRZ at $7500. You paid $2300, maybe a third of what a nice one costs. The only amazing thing here is that you are stunned that your car that cost a third of "what it should" has tons of problems.
15:12 deedbot http://qntra.net/2017/05/new-plastic-definitely-not-sterling-uk-pound-notes-cut-noses/ << Qntra - New Plastic (Definitely Not Sterling) UK Pound Notes Cut Noses
15:16 ben_vulpes kek
15:16 ben_vulpes reminds me of the story of the american producer visiting canada who refused to sniff the maple-scented bills, certain that he was being trolled.
15:20 BingoBoingo Wait, Canadian bills are diabetic?
15:29 ben_vulpes whaddaya mean?
15:29 BingoBoingo Diabetic urine smells like maple syrup
15:30 ben_vulpes weird
15:30 ben_vulpes i suppose then yes, except for the actually producing piss part.
15:30 BingoBoingo Nah, it's the body trying to control blood sugar by dumping it through the piss
15:30 ben_vulpes and not all.
15:31 BingoBoingo And as socialists candadians treat money and markets as a waste stream
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16:07 Framedragger http://trilema.com/2016/how-to-fix-global-warming/#comment-122042
16:08 Framedragger is it _not_ true* argh
16:16 * Framedragger realised the term "inflection point" was actually used in the article itself (in a footnote), in the sense i had in mind, so needless to say, not an original point
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16:42 Framedragger also new weekly update on n-gate.com
16:42 Framedragger (author did not respond to query, before anyone asks)
16:48 Framedragger mircea_popescu: ty for response, no follow-ups for now :)
16:49 mircea_popescu :p
16:52 trinque Framedragger: is this query "supposing there were a bomb under your ass and nothing you could do, what would you do?"
16:53 trinque siberian permafrost methane or w/e?
16:54 shinohai The motivation for creating the shitty database boils down to "the one we were using wasn't written in a hipster language." <<< top kek
16:54 Framedragger trinque: hm, no, honestly the point *was* just about non-linearity. not about action or "hey we should hedge our bets just in case", etc.
16:55 trinque got it.
16:55 mircea_popescu the whole fucking thing is that for ~as long as there existed human culture, which is to say the greeks, it was both known, evident, and accepted that the situation of life on earth is precarious, and the party will end.
16:55 Framedragger i do not presently assign any high value towards AGW, but am also unsure of the "if there were a bomb, there definitely would be nothing to be done" part. i mean, i guess so, hm.
16:55 mircea_popescu it took however the dumbest generation of narcissists in history to make this astral point personal.
16:55 mircea_popescu "the sun was walking down shithead avenue in maryland, and as it sat down at the starbucks it felt a ..."
16:55 mircea_popescu wtf already.
16:55 trinque I asked because what occurred to me is that "AGW" is a fine excuse for the sniveling neuroses of the present generation.
16:55 mircea_popescu quite so.
16:56 trinque tlp came to mind also, ofc.
16:56 Framedragger oh yeah, such a great channel, occupy the oceans!
16:56 Framedragger channel for anxiety, i mean
16:57 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: as if the greeks were alone in 'the party will end'
16:57 asciilifeform just about everybody, from aztec to viking
16:57 mircea_popescu this is what i said. or tried to.
16:58 Framedragger yeah, i guess it's a about the general point anyway. with not much particular matter left
16:59 mircea_popescu whatever, they're too fucking smart and in charge of things and matters to be catholics like "those beasts" of "the dark ages". too busy getting "just the facts" and "drawing their own conclusions" so as to be polytheistic dorks like the aztecs, the harappan, and whatever other tribes forgotten through disuse.
17:00 mircea_popescu they're gonna sacrifice preet bharara's arsehole to maintain the sun's power levels.
17:04 mircea_popescu (speaking of which, the harappan steatites remain undeciphered -- not that people've not tried.)
17:04 mircea_popescu all hail diagrams!
17:04 asciilifeform hieroglyphs
17:04 mircea_popescu no, quite actual diagrams.
17:04 asciilifeform dirty thinking dun do the argument any good.
17:05 asciilifeform if i can't tell wtf it is by looking at it, it ain't a diagram.
17:05 mircea_popescu https://classconnection.s3.amazonaws.com/187/flashcards/100187/png/screen_shot_2011-10-16_at_9.32.46_pm1318825984850.png << example of 2nd millenia bc slide.
17:05 mircea_popescu you can say "Wtf it is" but not what it's supposed to mean.
17:06 asciilifeform i was half-convinced it'd be the infamous 'egyptian light bulb'
17:06 mircea_popescu no, these lived in india.
17:06 mircea_popescu fair to say no contact with egypt whatsoever.
17:06 asciilifeform but mircea_popescu has a point -- it's exactly a powerpoint slide
17:07 mircea_popescu right.
17:08 mircea_popescu anyway, there's a whole pile, google image search for "harappan steatite" returns more than i knew / ever saw, so.
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17:30 mircea_popescu come rto think of it, the strange love story between engineers and "diagrams - magical notation that works by itself!!! pity this never occured to anyone before!!!" produced lulzy shit like https://ieet.org/archive/similarpictoralmessage1402784506732038571.gif
17:30 asciilifeform that ain't a diagram
17:30 mircea_popescu orly ?
17:30 asciilifeform it's a hieroglyph.
17:30 mircea_popescu how can you tell ?
17:32 asciilifeform because it's indecipherable liquishit.
17:32 trinque *to you*
17:32 trinque because of what's already in your head, or not
17:32 asciilifeform well yes.
17:32 mircea_popescu lol. the poor aliens, you know.
17:33 trinque oh look, I think they talk through those hoses in front, and only the hose-bearing ones talk.
17:33 mircea_popescu anyway, the dorks ("scientists! scientific method! just the data! own determination!!1") involved had a whole story of how it's supposed to be universally meaningful.
17:33 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: there was nothing whatsoever scientific in the process that produced that idiocy.
17:34 mircea_popescu even more entertaining in context than the finishbed product
17:34 mircea_popescu which observation IS A SAD COMMENT on the whole problem, recursively!
17:34 asciilifeform or , for that matter, the one that posed the question which led to its production.
17:34 mircea_popescu asciilifeform but i was discussing claims.
17:34 asciilifeform it's a plainly religious artifact.
17:34 asciilifeform ( and unsurprisingly resembles much earlier artifacts )
17:34 mircea_popescu well yes, in being a diagram, it's meaningless and therefore "a religious artefact"
17:35 mircea_popescu you know this is what we say, about all the diagrams of extinguished authorities ?
17:35 mircea_popescu every queen in the valley of queens was buried with a shelf full of religious artefacts
17:35 mircea_popescu lemme find some such for you.
17:35 asciilifeform we also say it re the alphabets of extinguished authorities.
17:35 asciilifeform (linear-a etc)
17:35 asciilifeform you don't finesse the extinguished-decoder problem by using different encoding.
17:38 mircea_popescu well apparently i never published the dildos in question. anyway.
17:39 mircea_popescu asciilifeform but no, greek alphabet and most of greek text extant is understandable. and understood. that dutch can't be arsed is neither here nor there.
17:39 asciilifeform wasn't whole mega-shocker of the thread, that it was NOT translateable to any language that dutch knows ?
17:40 asciilifeform ( unrelatedly : https://archive.is/fPdDV << ideal soldier ! )
17:40 mircea_popescu nope. similarly pint of oil can't be fit in any prepuce any man carries. what's one to do ?
17:41 mircea_popescu get bigger foreskins ? or stop trying to store oil in foreskin ?
17:41 mircea_popescu for the same money you might complain tail recursion can't be explained in any language hn speaks. hurr durr, let them fucking learn languages first.
17:42 asciilifeform but on the contrary , it can be -- i can write scheme interp in , e.g., basic, and it gets explained.
17:43 mircea_popescu i think your notion of "to explain" may have a lot in common with your notion of "diagram".
17:45 mircea_popescu and, while at it, let us also point out that i not being the living authority on explaining aristotle to people, my failure to explain to any specified group is not the mother of all proofs.
17:46 asciilifeform one of the painful parts of explanation is that failure proves nothing, beyond that particular failure.
17:46 mircea_popescu i also tried to explain shakespeare and bit a steel girder.
17:48 mircea_popescu (for the record, since apparently dictionaries are as shitty as always - no, prepuce is not "technical term for foreskin". it is technical term for the space between foreskin and the glans ; similarily, it is not the skin surrouinding the clitoris, ie clitoral hood, but the fold between the two.)
17:49 asciilifeform and iirc mikado is not the emperor but the space between his doors.
17:50 mircea_popescu wait, wut!
17:50 asciilifeform aha!
17:51 mircea_popescu it's a meaningful distinction, if i say "in the prepuce" i dun mean injected into the foreskin ffs.
17:51 asciilifeform it made sense.
17:51 mircea_popescu aite.
17:52 asciilifeform ( unrelatedly, heathen pit aficionados : is https://archive.is/IO9SI an accurate description of the demise of 'voat' ? )
17:54 ben_vulpes in other grade a plagiarisms: https://github.com/kamranahmedse/developer-roadmap
17:55 ben_vulpes i like the subtle satire. really makes it.
17:55 ben_vulpes vim or nano! your choice!
17:56 mircea_popescu voat demised ?
17:56 mircea_popescu asciilifeform can't possibly be, item is from 2015.
17:57 asciilifeform it's technically alive
17:57 asciilifeform but failed to nuke reddit et al.
17:57 mircea_popescu in what sense ?
17:57 trinque ben_vulpes: I dunno man; I think he's serious. just look at his shithub activity graph
17:57 asciilifeform which was (iirc) its purpose.
17:57 mircea_popescu cuz you personally keep clicking reddit bookmark or ?
17:59 mircea_popescu anywya, im not reading this pile of garbage ; but from the skimming -- the whole argument is born of ignorance. reddit got its start as a heaven for child porn peddlers who got banned on digg.
17:59 asciilifeform decss peddlers
17:59 mircea_popescu other than that, the whole thing is "ra ra, america!!"
17:59 mircea_popescu as if anyone gives a flying fuck what difficulties middle eastern dorks have in going naked down the street.
18:00 asciilifeform asciilifeform in particular has ~nfi, but noticed continued pulsation of reddit crapola in the #t l0gz, whereas voat eventually was forgotten.
18:00 asciilifeform hence the q.
18:00 mircea_popescu !#s "voat.com"
18:00 a111 3 results for "\"voat.com\"", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=%22voat.com%22
18:00 mircea_popescu !#s "reddit.com"
18:00 a111 1788 results for "\"reddit.com\"", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=%22reddit.com%22
18:00 mircea_popescu heh
18:01 mircea_popescu http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-27#1491056 i guess.
18:01 a111 Logged on 2016-06-27 04:35 naughtygirl: https://www.reddit.com/r/gonewild/comments/4pr8gn/f_bend_me_over_and_use_me_like_a_slut/
18:02 mircea_popescu anwyay, there's a half dozen ppl keep linking reddit. if they switched to linking 8chan or whatever, it'd be that.
18:02 mircea_popescu dunno how relevant this is, but anywayz.
18:02 BingoBoingo !#s "voat.co"
18:02 a111 56 results for "\"voat.co\"", http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=%22voat.co%22
18:03 mircea_popescu oh
18:03 mircea_popescu my bad.
18:03 BingoBoingo One of those sorta near terminal marketing problems
18:04 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes trinque i do think the dude is actually serious.
18:05 mircea_popescu wtf is "balsamiq" omfg it never ends with these idiots trying to make money by doing each other's laundry.
18:06 mircea_popescu https://media.balsamiq.com/img/mockupsMakesYouAwesome.png
18:06 trinque this kid is "no am civilize" dubai edition, apparently.
18:09 trinque https://angel.co/dubai << oh man, these people really dealt with the devil selling us oil, didn't they.
18:10 mircea_popescu lol
18:12 mircea_popescu should i be concerned that the pure brilliance factory failed to allign the script with the math symbols ?
18:12 mircea_popescu also, what's the asciilifeform 's meter say ? hyeroglyphs ? diagrams ?
18:13 mircea_popescu "you + hot soup + 1980s walkman headset + zoloft = pure brilliance" ?
18:13 ben_vulpes trinque: oh he hasta be serious, i'm making a joke.
18:14 mircea_popescu "Mockups is zenware, meaning that it will help you get "in the zone", and stay there. Our aim is for you to forget our software is there at all."
18:15 mircea_popescu "Your whole team can come together around the right design using Mockups. It's so easy to learn, both clients and customers can use it (for free even), to describe their needs more clearly." [because they are illiterate, and even if they aren't -- can rely on the requisite critical mass of literacy never being reached]
18:15 ben_vulpes mircea_popescu: when did it become acceptable for camhos to show panty lines?
18:15 mircea_popescu i have nfi.
18:15 mircea_popescu i thought camhoes = anything goes \
18:16 ben_vulpes "there are no rules! anything goes! there's no logical explanation for this...discombooberation..."
18:16 mircea_popescu https://media.balsamiq.com/img/process_bad.png <<< first item. "no one [knows how to] read [anymore]"
18:17 ben_vulpes "her him! has! got to be you!"
18:17 mircea_popescu anyway, this item is a fine fucking example of very, very sad slavegirls wasting their time "making a product" instead of dedicating those years to worship.
18:19 mircea_popescu "Letting you specify behaviors and click-actions would inevitably turn Mockups into a much more complex tool, which is a terrible thing for us: if we want to continue to be the in-between tool, Mockups needs to be extremely quick to learn so that every stakeholder can have their say with an equal playing field." << check it out, they even got the "level playing field" thing. what was the sf thing with the dumbing devices ?
18:21 mircea_popescu "I have a man-crush on whoever built it. So freaking good. — Jeremy Toeman, President & Founder, Dijit Media" the cool thing is they link. ima now examine a whole pile of these.
18:22 mircea_popescu © 2008-2017 Balsamiq Studios, LLC holy hell. 2008 ?! nfw ?!
18:23 mircea_popescu o guess what! http://dijit.com/ is for sale. the domain i mean. in case anyone feels like filling in some forms. perhaps with balsamic.
18:24 mircea_popescu connectsolutions got aquihired by aaski (usg front, recently got 1bn in pork for unspecified services. primo target for some data liberation, as it happens.)
18:25 mircea_popescu "Tinton Falls, NJ April 21, 2017 — AASKI Technology, Inc. is pleased to announce that we are one of three Defense companies to win a prime contractor position on a potential five-year, $900 million contract for field support and technical services to the U.S. Army‘s Project Management Office, Unmanned Aircraft Systems (PM UAS)." etc.
18:25 mircea_popescu “We are very excited about this win,” said Bharat Parikh, CEO, AASKI Technology.
18:28 ben_vulpes i have seen this before, the continentals holding posts in usg bezzletrons, and i don't quite get how it makes sense. "we all went to hahvahd biz skool for credential washing to operate scammatronz", maybe?
18:28 Framedragger filled out a form. my proposed mega charitable $25 bid will probably go unnoticed, tho :(
18:28 Framedragger maybe if we all bid in $1 increments they will see real value$$$
18:29 mircea_popescu maybe.
18:29 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes recall the pharma wiz kid ? the one they dekulakized for "how dare you buy things and then raise price on them"
18:30 ben_vulpes yeah?
18:30 mircea_popescu https://logmatic.io/blog/balsamiq-founder-on-building-a-lifestyle-federation-as-a-business/ << irresistible title.
18:30 mircea_popescu ben_vulpes seems there's a lot of pressure to succeed at scamming in the us for indian boys.
18:30 Framedragger http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20170515/#558 << ah shit, bad encoding problems on my loggotron end again. fwiw first attempt is utf-8, then latin-1. hmz.
18:30 scriba Logged on 2017-05-15: [22:25:40] <mircea_popescu> “We are very excited about this win,” said Bharat Parikh, CEO, AASKI Technology.
18:30 mircea_popescu Framedragger try diagrams.
18:31 Framedragger ah shit, i thought i forgot something. just need to reconstruct unicode from hydrogen atom first principles
18:32 ben_vulpes mircea_popescu: hm
18:36 Framedragger this will produce barf reactions, but re. that pioneer plate, hmm... yeah it's horribru, but the pulsar period lines (iirc?) - it's completely hogwash, right? the human figures are, sure
18:36 mircea_popescu "Somewhat fortunately Balsamiq was too successful for that, and Giacomo was forced to hire more and more people. Balsamiq is now being built by 25 members, who service around 0.5M customers and manage 10,000 new transactions a month. All of it generating about $7M a year." << this is actually a model-run business. had nfi mp-style even exists in fiat world, but lo and behold. took 10 years to get to 7mn a year, sustainably.
18:36 Framedragger *NOT completely hogwash, i meant, sorry
18:36 mircea_popescu in what sense, Framedragger ?
18:37 mircea_popescu sure, for life forms that intuitively understand length to stand for energy, period, whatever. is this universally true ? maybe it is, sure. for that matter, maybe http://trilema.com/2011/limba-latina-versiunea-87/
18:37 Framedragger pulsars are kinda loud on teh spectrum. the visual representations (marks on the lines) can be mapped to relative pulsar periods in a straightforward fashion.
18:37 mircea_popescu (tl;dr -- alien i ran into knew what latin is, they had it too. latin language universal invariant. hurr.)
18:38 mircea_popescu Framedragger the meaning of "straightforward" being ?
18:38 Framedragger yeahyeah, circular notion, i know.
18:38 mircea_popescu ie, suppose aliens are crabs.
18:38 Framedragger it is qualitatively less stupid than printing a fucking human figure on the plate.
18:39 Framedragger pulsars are more visible than latin, is what i meant
18:40 mircea_popescu maybe they are.
18:40 Framedragger sure, if you argue for (if that's the term) ultimate epistemological relativism, crabs in water, then whatever. but we don't intend crabs to intercept a space vessel anyway
18:40 Framedragger but yeah, not much to it i guess
18:40 mircea_popescu the whole amusement was re "diagrams"
18:41 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-15#1656648 << shkrelli
18:41 a111 Logged on 2017-05-15 22:29 mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes recall the pharma wiz kid ? the one they dekulakized for "how dare you buy things and then raise price on them"
18:41 asciilifeform and 0 sympathy -- lived by usg intellectualproperty racket, died by it.
18:41 Framedragger the pulsar part i think would count as asciilifeformic diagram, maybe. but just that, and only just
18:42 Framedragger s/would/could/
18:42 mircea_popescu sure, not matter of sympathy. matter of -- just like the egyptian kids sit in luxor center for businessmen trying to find old dizzy cow with social security payments to build them a tourist trap, just so perhaps indian kids sit in indian cafe, trying to get usg tendrils trapped.
18:42 asciilifeform Framedragger: feynman, iirc it was, had a piece re the trickiness of using stellar bodies as 'talk to martians' reference, when you have nfi even which way the martian's display scans
18:42 mircea_popescu ^
18:42 mircea_popescu "everyone understands the number 4"
18:43 Framedragger yeah quite a few assumptions re triangulation, hm
18:43 Framedragger sure
18:43 mircea_popescu "sure, and as anything they want to! there's a fortran for that."
18:43 ben_vulpes asciilifeform: do you even have a sympathy gland?
18:43 mircea_popescu Framedragger so basically what you did was, you moved the discussion from where it was obviously stupid, to where it was not obviously stupid (to you), and needs feynman to explain what and werefore.
18:43 Framedragger well!
18:44 mircea_popescu this is ~identical to person who reads article in nature, in his field, pukes, then goes on to take next story seriously.
18:44 mircea_popescu well... how about drop of stupid invalidates item ?
18:44 Framedragger *i* got a reference to a nice piece by feynman. it was also mentioned on the forum logs. booyah!
18:44 Framedragger no yeah i'm quite terrible here
18:44 trinque !~bash 2
18:44 jhvh1 Last 2 lines bashed and pending publication
18:46 Framedragger ty ty
18:46 trinque all the more terrible and uninviting a universe if there aren't elsewhere salt water sacks whose symbols we could hope to grok?
18:47 trinque appears yet another psychological defense
18:47 Framedragger everything is a defense mechanism eh... maybe it is
18:48 trinque not at all. but anything that renders the other familiar too easily.. sure smells like one
18:48 * Framedragger recommends egan's "wang's carpets", to contribute, in all seriousness. (later incorporated as a chapter in his "diaspora", asciilifeform will know)
18:49 Framedragger re. "not salt sacks! cellular automata in large sugar molecules!" (pretty neat, truly)
18:49 trinque he's done several sorts of weirdo incomrehensible aliens
18:50 Framedragger yeah i need to read his short story collections in full, he tends to be better at short stories anyway
18:52 * Framedragger checks the java filled homepage, damn moar books to read. that is nice
~ 25 minutes ~
19:17 mircea_popescu the more i read about this balsamiq guy, the more i like him.
19:23 mircea_popescu and in other street fare, https://68.media.tumblr.com/e276e974493d006963244e787e586257/tumblr_nlffqvQiNB1upqo7jo1_500.gif
19:29 mircea_popescu oh, and in other "inseguridad en argentina" news, https://news.co.cr/breaking-730-am-shootout-in-front-of-escazu-costa-rica-private-school-leaves-2-dead/60770/
~ 18 minutes ~
19:47 BingoBoingo In other shitware, oil filters reviewed with hacksaw http://www.tobycreek.org/oil_filters/fram.shtml
19:53 shinohai seriously? I haz removed oil filters w/ screwdriver but that's just ....
19:53 shinohai Oh sorry *reviewed
19:53 shinohai Bonus points for Honeywell mfg
~ 1 hours 20 minutes ~
21:13 mod6 evenin'
21:14 asciilifeform hiya mod6
21:14 mod6 how goes?
21:14 asciilifeform slowly and painfully
21:14 mod6 i hear ya.
21:14 mod6 workin on ada stuff?
21:14 asciilifeform 0 useful docs anywhere on division in constant time
21:14 asciilifeform grunting it out from scratch
21:15 mod6 ahh. ok. yah, i suppose it requires a bunch of on-paper - try it yourself until blue in face.
21:15 asciilifeform worse than that, because it has to be proven to actually work
21:15 asciilifeform as opposed to 'worked on the 1,001 cases i came up with'
21:16 mod6 ah
21:20 asciilifeform it boggles my mind that i gotta do this, rather than there being where to crib.
21:20 asciilifeform because this is screamingly elementary piece.
21:32 mircea_popescu hey, at least you don't have to scroll horizontally.
21:33 mod6 haha
21:33 mircea_popescu >D
21:33 * mod6 falls over
21:33 asciilifeform and hey, dun have to hang upside-down, like odin!111
21:33 mircea_popescu as the one, the only, the forever carlin said, "the man himself was philosophical about it : it's that much less skin to wash."
21:34 asciilifeform http://btcbase.org/log/2014-09-18#834203 << see also.
21:34 a111 Logged on 2014-09-18 19:37 asciilifeform: 'happy is the man who has one leg, one sock doesn't tear, one boot isn't needed.'
21:34 mircea_popescu meanwhile in officeware, https://68.media.tumblr.com/82344367d161785313c37088511fc97a/tumblr_myj5e3Pc6z1qkpun8o1_1280.jpg
21:36 asciilifeform in other near-term lulz, a 'pbot' is in the worx, so that folx can play with various input->output pairs in-chan
21:36 mod6 ah, neat
21:37 shinohai implying asciilifeform actually codes in perl
21:37 mircea_popescu nice.
21:37 asciilifeform given line length limit, it will be of limited practical use; strictly educational.
21:37 mircea_popescu i imagine he's gonna use trinque's tree
21:37 mircea_popescu asciilifeform can have it return pastes.
21:37 asciilifeform that'd defeat entire purpose
21:38 asciilifeform which is to have the ins AND outs in-conversation.
21:38 asciilifeform in clickless dialogue.
21:41 mod6 are you looking at some variant of mult reduction?
21:41 asciilifeform mod6: not even yet
21:41 mod6 or something like SRT with a lookup table?
21:41 asciilifeform only constant-time shift-and-subtract division
21:42 asciilifeform no tables.
21:42 asciilifeform period. anywhere. they are banned.
21:42 mod6 aha.
21:42 asciilifeform no if-statements, either.
21:42 asciilifeform basic principle of constant-time proggy
21:42 mod6 cool. that's good anyway, we don't need revenge of the floating-point bug.
21:42 asciilifeform same instructions gotta execute no matter what bits are set or not set in the operands. every time.
21:42 asciilifeform sorta elementary.
21:43 asciilifeform ideally we would also be doing all arithmetic ops on a cpu that executes both the op and its exact register-wise bitcomplement
21:43 asciilifeform but sadly i don't have one.
21:44 asciilifeform ( and so, conceivably adding 0 + 0 radiates something different from ff + ff . )
21:44 mircea_popescu asciilifeform yes well, 250 digit numbers then
21:45 asciilifeform all numbers have W digits.
21:45 mircea_popescu asciilifeform in principle you could just do mirror ops of all things anywya neh ?
21:45 asciilifeform not same thing
21:45 asciilifeform they gotta happen ~simultaneously~
21:46 mircea_popescu use two cores.
21:46 asciilifeform pc (even multi-processor pc) doesn't give it to you
21:46 asciilifeform because pipelines.
21:46 mircea_popescu myeah.
21:47 asciilifeform ( and you certainly could not do it under any such thing as an os, even if there were no pipeline. )
21:48 asciilifeform on chip level, a non-radiating ALU is quite trivial to make, however
21:48 mircea_popescu obviously, you just build a mirror.
21:48 asciilifeform in each place where you would otherwise have 1 bit register, you instead have 2
21:48 asciilifeform aha
21:48 asciilifeform so 1 is now 10, 0 is 01.
21:49 asciilifeform ( or opposite, dun matter. )
21:49 asciilifeform you also now get carryless adders, for phree.
21:49 mircea_popescu aha. principal advantage.
21:51 asciilifeform if i were drawing up such a thing, i'd even have the sram work in such a way that 10 is a 1 on odd clock cycles, 0 on even
21:51 asciilifeform this'd annihilate such a thing as ram remanance
21:52 asciilifeform (iirc discussed in ancient thread, this method. afaik no one has ever used it, publicly.)
21:52 mircea_popescu aha.
21:53 asciilifeform pretty easy to implement, also. just make the flip-flop that forms sram cell, connected to clock.
21:53 asciilifeform now you store bit as ~phase~ of the square wave, rather than absolute steady state of the flipflop.
21:54 asciilifeform theoretically power draw of this device will be exactly the same , at all times, as if it were resistive load
21:54 asciilifeform because same number of transitions on every clock cycle, regardless of what it is doing.
21:55 asciilifeform for bonus 'ourdemocracy' decapitation, bake it out of ECL logic
21:55 asciilifeform where transistor is run on razor's edge of saturation at all times
21:56 mircea_popescu certainly worth prototyping at the least.
21:57 asciilifeform sadly not prototype-able at reasonable cost afaik.
21:57 asciilifeform ( you can't do it on fpga. )
21:57 mod6 do i follow if i store 10 on rising-edge for odd, and 01 at the same time for falling edge even?
21:57 mircea_popescu every piece of shit intel crapware was prototyped. reasonable cost is an entirely conventional notion. malia obama gets to keep her head for another month, how's that for reasonable.
21:58 asciilifeform mod6: it simply means that you store a bit as ~phase~
21:59 mod6 yeah, just was trying to grasp that concept.
21:59 asciilifeform so, e.g., 010101010101.... is a 0, and on this same machine, in parallel time, 10101010101... is a 1
21:59 asciilifeform for the purpose of arithmetic
21:59 mod6 ah. gotcha.
22:00 mod6 <+asciilifeform> ( you can't do it on fpga. ) << needs actual crystal?
22:00 asciilifeform mod6: needs transistor-level layout.
22:00 mircea_popescu mod6 basically, a digital machine has no real reason to store a 1 as a 1 rather than any other arbitrary time-pattern
22:01 mircea_popescu historical convention no more.
22:02 mircea_popescu storing data xor bus cycle in particular is ~free.
22:02 mircea_popescu and talking of nigger spawn, http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/03/party-girl-malia-obama-freaks-accosts-white-house-correspondent-lucian-wintrich-exclusive-ny-club/
22:02 asciilifeform mircea_popescu: 'reasonable cost' in this context is ' asciilifeform's experimentation budget.' which presently does not stretch to ic fab.
22:03 mod6 ah. thanks for the input. this is interesting.
22:03 mircea_popescu there is that.
22:03 mircea_popescu it wasn't done originally because it'd have made core dumps much less readable.
22:03 mod6 asciilifeform: someday.
22:03 mircea_popescu but ~nobody reads them anyway.
22:04 asciilifeform ( we had, some time last year, a thread, where asciilifeform learns that a number of 'crackpot' fabs will make you a few dozen dies for the cost of a toyota, rather than aston-martin. but various problems remain -- it typically takes 5 or 6 rounds; and they want nda, and the use of winblowz liquishitware tools, etc, and extensive hand-holding )
22:04 asciilifeform it isn't really much like getting, e.g., circuit boards, made.
22:05 mod6 maybe someday nsa makes it's own mgft plant/process, etc.
22:06 asciilifeform market of idiots is not exactly busting down the door to buy sane hardware.
22:06 asciilifeform at this time.
22:06 mod6 for now.
22:06 mircea_popescu eh, young lenin was also poor.
22:06 mod6 later, they come.
22:07 mod6 speaking of which, i have new results to post.
22:07 * asciilifeform brb
22:11 mircea_popescu meanwhile at the whipping post, http://68.media.tumblr.com/f0d4eb2dbb99fe6d9ddc018774b6b73f/tumblr_n3ubtmX66P1sc3xtso1_500.gif
22:13 mod6 Here's the results from the first entropy collection of FG #5: http://www.mod6.net/fg/fg-test/fg5.ent_run1.txt http://www.mod6.net/fg/fg-test/fg5.dieharder_run1.txt
22:13 mod6 interesting this time. collected ~1.5Gb. All tests passed the dieharder.
22:14 mod6 I'm pretty sure that's the first time. But will do follow up analysis after 3rd run against this 5th FG>
22:14 mircea_popescu ha! nice.
22:15 mod6 yah,thanks! this is awesome ftr. having fun doing it.
22:15 mircea_popescu yeah lol
~ 1 hours 2 minutes ~
23:18 asciilifeform neato mod6
23:18 asciilifeform mod6: incidentally didja ever get a chance to read fg.v ?
23:18 asciilifeform did it make sense to you, how and why the thing worx.
23:33 mod6 i've read through it ~twice. so far, it makes sense to me, but I need a more careful going-through. part of why I'm learning verilog.
23:41 mod6 stuff is impressive
23:42 mircea_popescu by the time you're done with logs, you'll have like 5 diff careers mod6
23:43 mircea_popescu in other lulz, qualcomm-apple battle heats up. iphone 8 might be banned from us market &c
23:44 mod6 mircea_popescu: aha, im getting an education. trying to relentlessly get better/learthese disciplines
23:44 mod6 *learn these
23:45 mircea_popescu on the upside, really can't be fired anymore.
23:45 trinque http://www.houstonpress.com/news/houston-homeless-brace-themselves-as-anti-encampment-ordinance-goes-into-effect-9436174 << h-town heard the republic, is making poverty illegal inch by inch.
23:45 mod6 altogether, i'm trying to stay focused on trb too. and learn these other topics as I go.
23:46 mircea_popescu o.O
23:46 mod6 some of the topics reach far and wide. gotta stay on task. but always will try to pick up what I can, where I can.
23:46 mircea_popescu sounds like the plan!
23:49 mod6 <+mircea_popescu> on the upside, really can't be fired anymore. << probably not. i don't worry about it. if one door closes, another opens. besides, someday not too far off, this will be the thing.
23:49 mircea_popescu trinque teens also can't take gf into woods to fuck her intensively no mo ?
23:52 mod6 i've always wanted to do my best, or be as good as I can be at something that interested me. im not as smart or as clever as many, but I put in the work. i find that putting in the work pays dividends later.
23:52 trinque no woods to speak of inside city limits
23:52 trinque plenty of woods with camping outside, which is where anybody camping does.
23:53 mircea_popescu apple story being apple got ftc to sue the chinos, ftc got lapdogs (intel, samsung) to join in. the chinos might actually slap an ic export ban on us.
23:53 trinque this is highway barnacle removal
23:53 mircea_popescu ah ah
23:53 mod6 heh 'highway barnacle'
23:55 mircea_popescu should be interesting to see if china permits qualcomm be http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-29#1633992 ie japan'd.
23:55 a111 Logged on 2017-03-29 16:10 mircea_popescu: (basically, long story short, usg financed a coupla units in georgia and ncarolina with japan's money, ain't giving it back. loss is whatever you want it to be, 3 to 10 bn)
23:58 mircea_popescu mod6 i find that the people putting in the work end up actually being the smarter among the many.
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