mircea_popescu: not only do idiots converge with other idiots - but their confidence increases as they do so.
assbot: The Last Psychiatrist: The Wisdom Of Crowds Turns Into Madness ... ( http://bit.ly/1PVxlaK )
mircea_popescu: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/08/the_wisdom_of_crowds_turns_int.html << pretty interesting.
asciilifeform regrets that he does not have the time or energy to help
shinohai: I loathe that shit, sorry.
shinohai: I know I'm behind mod6 but I am hoping by mid next week to get the Ubuntu test done I promised.
mod6: was hoping that it would be useful in the way that it could be used by testers to do a final push on functional testing for TEST2
mod6: yeah, bit more stuff is required. hoping to get it wrapped up in the next few weeks here.
mod6: yah, parts of this script are old and need to be changed. it's certainly not finalized. just trying to find out if the rest is doing what it should.
mod6: anyway, all thats really required to ensure it works is that perl is installed, Graph::Easy is installed, and that keys are named as <wot_id>.asc in the hand created ~/.wot dir.
asciilifeform likes all of this with the very definite exception of the 'gpg --keyserver pool.sks-keyservers.net --recv-keys 0x......'
asciilifeform: which also just needs the interpreter
shinohai: @ asciilifeform I have had a tumultuous few weeks with the HD crash, gotta rebuild V
assbot: Logged on 31-10-2015 01:07:30; shinohai: Or at least tell me what that crap was I had to install before the V build
shinohai: Or at least tell me what that crap was I had to install before the V build
v_diddy: just the one
ascii_field: there are women at microshit ?!
mircea_popescu: basicallt they had a woman in tech. anonymous, as we don't know who came up with this "idea", but the cuntcheese stinks through.
mircea_popescu: but this is the opposite of what instrumented means ?
ascii_field: well, as dead as a thing for which there is no replacement can be
mircea_popescu: ascii_field there's really no point left in pretending. gcc is dead.
assbot: Momentary Fascinations: Vista: The World's First User-Hostile Operating System ... ( http://bit.ly/1MxUmA8 )
ascii_field: ( http://www.momentaryfascinations.com/technology/vista.the.worlds.first.user-hostile.operating.system.html )
ascii_field: data to lower quality so you can't see the high-quality data.'
ascii_field: 'Microsoft recommends that drivers be continually suspicious. Is that video decompressor taking longer than you think it should? Did the voltage just drop unexpectedly on the PCI bus? Vista has a concept it calls "tilt bits", as in the "tilt" mechanism on a pinball machine. When a driver sees something suspicious, it bumps the "tilt bits"; if too many suspicious activities happen close to each other, Vista degrades the
gabrielradio: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310923 << tbh, i'm completely oblivious of the indivual players. i don't watch the games i bet on. i often place bets on teams i haven't heard of. i trust the people doing the analyses, our incentives being aligned. i like to view is as an investment and detach myself emotionally from the games
ascii_field: 'We'll try to keep this up to date. Just trying to help the CLANG/LLVM community get onto Windows.'
ascii_field: https://github.com/Microsoft/microsoft-pdb << lulzy. microshit publishes spec of their debug dump format (similar to unix 'dwarf') and,
mircea_popescu: you weren't ready for the facts of life!
mircea_popescu: in other news, "how are babies made ?" "the man gives a baby to the woman from inside his body" aka http://31.media.tumblr.com/1122614d76711992a4c8c8d5d44f81ba/tumblr_nf6yb42fb51tmnngto1_500.gif
jurov: ascii_field: i can restore the database from snapshot instead of restarting from 0
mircea_popescu: not what i said either.
assbot: Logged on 30-10-2015 16:08:03; jurov: soooo... my adventures with stator+cheapest chinese ssd available were stalled... not due to stator nor the ssd, but due to btrfs quotas :/
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-10-2015#1311995 << what is the point of using exotic fs with therealbitcoin ?
assbot: Logged on 30-10-2015 16:02:00; mircea_popescu: a sort of person of whom you personally remind me a lot, by the way.
mircea_popescu: what was written in english that'\s worth reading ? and who teaches them french [other than to read postmodern shit] ? who teaches american kids german ? who beats his 16yo every night between 11:30 and 12:00 until he's finished kritik ?
mircea_popescu: "college trains libertards" simmer down, there isn't anything for kids to read that'd yield any other result!
mircea_popescu: writing style?" He gets an A. The problem is that the first kid is strongly disincentivized from pursuing his idea, from becoming a better thinker, in very specific ways. "
mircea_popescu: Meanwhile, Balboa the el ed major searches carefully in his textbook and discovers the cause was... SLAVERY. He airlifts two sentences each out of five other books, asks for an extension because his grandmother died, adds nine hundred filler words including "for all intensive purposes" and "he could care less", and then waits in the parking lot to threaten you with "but this is a history class. Why are you grading my
mircea_popescu: "Here's an example. Say your essay question is, "describe the causes of the American Civil War." Ok, so far everything the kid knows he learned from Prentice Hall, but something inside him thinks the answer is: LABOR COSTS. Hmmm. Insightful and unexpected, let's see what he does with it. But there's not much he can do with it, there aren't many obvious resources to pursue this "feeling" he has. He does what he can.
mircea_popescu: you prolly should harass them in chan.
jurov: yes, such turdgnomery boggles the mind. any time anyone reported that, they were like "oh just turn off COW"
jurov: i turnd them off and it started flying aka 1 block/10sec
jurov: when they are turned on, btrfs-cleaner is prone to 100% hog cpu for hours
jurov: soooo... my adventures with stator+cheapest chinese ssd available were stalled... not due to stator nor the ssd, but due to btrfs quotas :/
mircea_popescu: they've been fighting with / running away from their reflection ever since then, because lo! idiot knows ONE coping strategy, which is, denial of reality.
mircea_popescu: i beheaded / humiliated some, which is THE BASIS upon which bitcoin took a further step and became bitcoin of 2012.
mircea_popescu: a sort of person of whom you personally remind me a lot, by the way.
mircea_popescu: at THAT time, a community of professional bullshitters, connecting to each other through playing chess and being passive-agressive, resistant and self protecting babies, held "communioty oppinions"
mircea_popescu: you have to realise that back in 2011, the number of people who were calling pirate a scam was equal to the ocunt of me and my agents.
assbot: Logged on 30-10-2015 14:43:43; adlai: (context for the context-seeking: we are acquainted by virtue of meatspace proximity, no 'business' but frequent games of chess and bullshit (of the verbal variety), and i'm a little curious why his name seems on par with nefario/pirateat40 round here)
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: the results are indistinguishable from that.
mircea_popescu: <adlai> so when push comes to shove, meni's conviction is... idiocy? << people wanna be things. and they imagine the way to be things is like in the movies.
adlai must onwards, 'see you round the clogs'
mike_c: maybe i missed the question
mike_c: i've been saving the order book every few minutes for years.
adlai would like to hope ("has come to expect"?) that in an efficient market, such data is public, or at the very least, available to the highest bidder
adlai: mats isn't the one serving a public alphaseeker...
assbot: Logged on 05-03-2015 22:12:49; mike_c: well, I not only have a clue, i have the order book history :)
adlai: (context for the context-seeking: we are acquainted by virtue of meatspace proximity, no 'business' but frequent games of chess and bullshit (of the verbal variety), and i'm a little curious why his name seems on par with nefario/pirateat40 round here)
assbot: Logged on 13-11-2014 22:09:24; mircea_popescu: don't bother with the wot, i'll neg you anyway.
adlai trying to understand the context from which arises the sentiment characterized by http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-11-2014#920317
assbot: The Bitcoin Drama Timeline on Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1HgD0jF )
punkman: asciilifeform: guy wanted to make an arm gadget, people showed up, said "shut up and kickstart our monies". the textbook case of delusionism is that Purism thing.
adlai: no offense, but despite all your babblings about how your sorceror's apprentice must speak russian, the moment when i realized i've got to learn russian only came after finishing that book
assbot: You rated user asciilifeform on 21-Sep-2015, with a rating of 1, and supplied these additional notes: pукописи не горят.
asciilifeform: 'i rode a tank, held a general's rank, while the blitzkrieg raged and the bodies stank...' (tm) (r)
asciilifeform: tanquettes ? (or what do you call'em over there)
asciilifeform: novena represents in my mind everything that is most loathesome re: the so-called 'maker' subculture.
asciilifeform: 'only a terrorist would demand the full docs for the fpga or a full netlist for the arm!'
asciilifeform: i can almost hear the reply of the author and his fans, 'what have you created, useless eater?!', 'this ~is~ what the word open now means!', etc
asciilifeform: 'novena' is almost a textbook case of slimeball delusionist attempts to nudge the definition of 'open'
asciilifeform: not even to mention the fact that calling it a 'laptop' is like calling a sack of potatoes with a fuckhole drilled therein a 'woman'...
assbot: Logged on 30-10-2015 05:09:30; punkman: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-10-2015#1311715 < because other people write stupid articles about novena?
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-10-2015#1311812 << pray tell, what existence does the thing have AT ALL outside of generating the idiot articles ?
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: exact explanation of the thing.
mircea_popescu: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/08/the_nature_of_the_grift.html << this is splendid.
mircea_popescu: from the "things you probably don't want to see" folder, http://41.media.tumblr.com/1a4f5469144f1df96676f054ba5b3ba4/tumblr_n3zpnqzBpG1tqp9cfo1_r1_1280.png
gribble: (ticker [--bid|--ask|--last|--high|--low|--avg|--vol] [--currency XXX] [--market <market>|all]) -- Return pretty-printed ticker. Default market is Bitfinex. If one of the result options is given, returns only that numeric result (useful for nesting in calculations). If '--currency XXX' option is given, returns ticker for that three-letter currency code. It is up to you to make sure (1 more message)
BingoBoingo: "A report of a one-car accident led to charges alleging credit card fraud against two African men, the Lincoln County Sheriff's Office said Thursday."
BingoBoingo: In other news 419 crosses the atlantic http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/car-crash-in-lincoln-county-leads-to-credit-card-fraud/article_f3afd2e3-3f15-504a-9f66-c9eeb7be00ed.html
gribble: The operation succeeded.
assbot: Logged on 30-10-2015 02:14:01; *: asciilifeform used to have some respect for huang BEFORE the whole novena thing
punkman: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-10-2015#1311715 < because other people write stupid articles about novena?
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: The Roosh guy on Dr. Oz. Completely unprepared for the experience, ended up the subject of the Oprah network'd 5 minutes of hate that day.
mircea_popescu: this is exactly the problem of slavery, and how beatings get to be a part of it.
mircea_popescu: not because of anything, but because you know too much of the wrong sorts of things.
asciilifeform: 'You cant encrypt, pack, sign, split, or hash transistors. There are no magic numbers, except for those that you find in the back of a physics textbook.' << the one good part in huang's slide show
assbot: Molecular Expressions: The Silicon Zoo - Caterpillar Bulldozer ... ( http://bit.ly/1P0RLiy )
asciilifeform: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/bulldozer.html << 'This miniature rendition of a bulldozer appears on a NMOS digital chip designed in 1980 for Caterpillar by Synertek for use in their heavy equipment Electronic Monitoring Systems. The integrated circuit is still used in many models of Caterpillar construction equipment, including bulldozers. We suspect that the bulldozer is busy clearing space on the chip for addit
asciilifeform: (hilariously, it was translated to ru on the die - WITH A DICTIONARY - to the point of being nearly incomprehensible)
asciilifeform: hence how su microvax die ended up with 'when you care enough to steal the very best (tm) (r)' slogan right where the original had it.
mircea_popescu: even there.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not so. consider more or less the whole of sov/gdr production
assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 20:22:01; mircea_popescu: all the derps that this'd be interesting to are essentially on the same side of the same market : wanna make money (sex) out of their "skillz" (having a cunt)
asciilifeform suspects that in the vast majority of cases, getting the rom contents via humint is cheaper
assbot: Logged on 30-10-2015 01:23:25; phf: different parts of the silicon do, where the relevant parts are located and what might be strategies for getting to them. unfortunately there was no video, but i found the slides for the curious log readers https://infocon.org/cons/Black%20Hat/Black%20Hat%20DC/Black%20Hat%20DC%202007/Presentations/JoeGrand_HardWare_Hacking/Papers/Die%20Analysis/bunnie-hackingsilicon.pdf
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-10-2015#1311697 << almost forgot to point out: this generally won't read a modern rom, certainly not a 16nm one that was built by folks who didn't want it read. you need an ion beam machine and much sweat, to strip away the layers.
asciilifeform: so what if paycheque is given to the schmuck for ten minutes 'to keep it warm' and then goes right back. at least he wasn't beat up in grade school !
asciilifeform: (it was really engineered to distract the easily-distracted from their entirely genuine serfdom, e.g., rent existing)
asciilifeform: nobody but thoroughbred tards ever bought into the 'end to oppression' claptrap
mircea_popescu: there was no deed.
mircea_popescu: now there's plenty of mobility but no upwards, and plenty of inequality but no understanding thereof.
mircea_popescu: ie, no upwards mobility and a solid understanding of the value and importance of inequality.
mircea_popescu: but the notion of useful is predicated on society.
asciilifeform: but it once was the case that people carried through life a ~useful~ concept of what they were ~doing~ when working those columns
mircea_popescu: so... the expectation that there'd be understanding happening in school is not unlike the expectation that there'd be salvation happening at the brothel.
mircea_popescu: on the other hand, stuff that isn't math, such as whatever, "ecology" don't even HAVE concepts, at all
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in fairness, math is an AWFUL example for this matter. because, well, in honesty a "simple" notion such as the notion of a number is still patently ununderstood by the species altogether. and for that matter minimal effort to even comprehend it starts with what, frege ? a coupla centuries ago ?
assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 20:50:56; mircea_popescu: and so therefore, going from a to b actually increases the market value of item. through a process known as "creating a market".
assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 09:32:26; mircea_popescu: calling a computer "a box" is perhaps the most telling of all freudian seepage ever.
assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 08:32:51; mircea_popescu: this is, incidentally, a fundamental point to be considered for those inclined to interact with the scum (aka, non-qntra reporters), a point which that seduction expert (i don't recall which one but was in the logs - something about how he went on a "live" show where the 5 dollar audience bood him on cue) : you do want to control their codes. because you must project your own ownership of reality, an
assbot: The Last Psychiatrist: Why We Are Terrible At Math (And Reading Comprehension) ... ( http://bit.ly/20eGjUf )
asciilifeform: http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2011/07/why_we_are_terrible_at_math_an.html#comment-17994 << woah, a non-retarded comment on tlp's www...
asciilifeform: 'The problem is that as long as he completed the worksheet, you wouldn't know there was a problem with doing math until it was way too late. If the kid is clever in other ways-- say, fast at finger counting-- he could easily convey the impression that he understands how to add 2 digit numbers, and what that means, and so everyone thinks he's progressing just fine; only to reach a later point when his clever shortcut is too pr
asciilifeform used to have some respect for huang BEFORE the whole novena thing
assbot: Logged on 30-10-2015 01:23:25; phf: i was at bunnie's talk (the guy behind novena) at 2005 toorcon, the subject was hardware r.e. and it covered the end to end process of discovering and extracting something like intel's rootkit from the die. the approach is to remove the outer plastic cover from the chip using some form of etching, image the exposed circuit with increasily higher resolution devices culminating with electron microscope and then f
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=30-10-2015#1311696 << dpa is far more likely the answer, rather than imaging
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: "I'm told that the system of the day is "Everyday Math." I have no idea what that is, but my worry is that every system of teaching is designed not to maximize learning, but to facilitate the teaching."
assbot: The Last Psychiatrist: Why We Are Terrible At Math (And Reading Comprehension) ... ( http://bit.ly/1LFjJwu )
phf: i think back then he was still at MIT so had access to useful hardware and free time, he'd probably reversing intel die for the lulz, but now he's in Singapore with presumably reduced resources, doing "open" hardware.
phf: different parts of the silicon do, where the relevant parts are located and what might be strategies for getting to them. unfortunately there was no video, but i found the slides for the curious log readers https://infocon.org/cons/Black%20Hat/Black%20Hat%20DC/Black%20Hat%20DC%202007/Presentations/JoeGrand_HardWare_Hacking/Papers/Die%20Analysis/bunnie-hackingsilicon.pdf
phf: i was at bunnie's talk (the guy behind novena) at 2005 toorcon, the subject was hardware r.e. and it covered the end to end process of discovering and extracting something like intel's rootkit from the die. the approach is to remove the outer plastic cover from the chip using some form of etching, image the exposed circuit with increasily higher resolution devices culminating with electron microscope and then figure out what the
vulpes_a_hopital: i think i can see the smoke from here
vulpes_a_hopital: and so 'what other eldritch horrors lurk'?
asciilifeform: speaking of what the authors see as sop
asciilifeform: 'A Laptop With No Secrets' << lies even in the title
vulpes_a_hopital: does it actually need the d, asciilifeform?
vulpes_a_hopital: dictopus cocktopus, the octopus with cock tentacles in a toga
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski you took your wife out on the town dressed as a cow ?
asciilifeform: 'Another advantage was Freescales policy of distributing a very detailed reference manual covering most of the chips real estate without requiring a nondisclosure agreement.' >> 'most' ?!
pete_dushenski: speaking of costumes, i've pulled off the most magical trio for the family for this halloween : papa is the beplaided farmer, mama the milky moo-cow, baby the curious calf !
vulpes_a_hopital: fpga aside, we've done the fpga thread to death
vulpes_a_hopital: http://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/portable-devices/novena-a-laptop-with-no-secrets << tell me stan, where's the scam in this one?
mircea_popescu: ie, he has to provide 3% of the wattage, "we'll match your output 30:1!"
mircea_popescu: vulpes_a_hopital do what the usg does : differential leverage.
pete_dushenski: borat over-the-shouler g-string in prison black and white stripes
mircea_popescu: only accept couples, make the dudes work butt off on stationary to power wifey hair dryer.
mircea_popescu: https://web.archive.org/web/20150319183556/http://partialobjects.com/2011/06/staggering-thought-of-the-day/ nb.
vulpes_a_hopital: a but harnessing customers output to reduce the electrical bill has gotta be beyond any argentine
mircea_popescu: ok. there's a gym - and - peluqueria combo.
mircea_popescu: better than anything they got in wash dc!
vulpes_a_hopital: great pickup spot if you like socializing with people who a) do their own laundry and b) have it done somewhere far away from their place
mircea_popescu: there is, in this town, a place where they sell food by the pound. and you can get a pound of cooked shrimp for ~2 dollars.
vulpes_a_hopital: no kid under 19 with a skateboard within twenty blocks of the thing is ever EVER bothered by the cops
mircea_popescu: vulpes_a_hopital there's a bar cum laundromat somewhere in ohio
vulpes_a_hopital: there is a skate park cum day care in my neighborhood
mircea_popescu: kaythen
vulpes_a_hopital: "well okay then."
mircea_popescu: because - obviously - it pays the best. from the perspective of the horde of chimps wishing to be professors of nothing in particular just as long as professors.
mircea_popescu: not unlike the ridiculous view of field grunts that hey, they know better than the chief of staff what's what, antin-intellectual "social scientists" a la dundes would like best an unsystematic AND UNSYSTEMATIZABLE "science"
mircea_popescu: editor Alan Dundes dismisses Campbell's work, characterizing him as a popularizer: "like most universalists, he is content to merely assert universality rather than bother to document it. [
] If Campbell's generalizations about myth are not substantiated, why should students consider his work?"
mircea_popescu: funny, that objection is in the wikipedia verbatim
asciilifeform: pet: 'like many systematicists, campbell overstates the universality of his patterns'
mircea_popescu: there's a "social sciences perspective" now, and i'm supposed to believe it is != granstmanship.
mircea_popescu: "Others have found the categories Campbell works with so vague as to be meaningless, and lacking the support required of scholarly argument: Crespi (1990), writing in response to Campbell's filmed presentation of his model characterized it as "...unsatisfying from a social science perspective."
mircea_popescu: answer : a bunch of ustards will swoop in, pretending the field didn't end and insisting field enders are badmkay and raceys on top of everything
asciilifeform: at any rate, in practice the thing never shows up unless there's a gang of chimps making a public mess.
mircea_popescu: A tendency to think in generic terms of people, races ... is undoubtedly the profoundest flaw in mythological thinking.""
shinohai: In Southern culture they use the term to exclusively refer to vans that haul off truants ....
mircea_popescu: if i had kids there and they wanted money i would go "you can't have a penny until all those atrocities have been burned down"
mircea_popescu: it is inconceivable that they exist.
asciilifeform: how would i know, i don't drive one of these things
asciilifeform: of course, vulpes_a_hopital could paint his son brown and make sure he learns correct sp pronounciation - then he will be left alone.
asciilifeform: where i live, there are even vans, marked 'truancy police'
vulpes_a_hopital: there are seven year olds wandering my neighborhood at all hours of the day. unattended.
asciilifeform: (if anyone notices you have them, and they aren't taking the usg exams, you will have problems)
asciilifeform: and keep the spawn in your cellar
vulpes_a_hopital: otherwise, the kids have a mother, and if she can't outperform the daycare you dun fukked up.
vulpes_a_hopital: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310818 << if you've swallowed the spittoon of east coast usthink, the alternative could only be "private school", which yes—"if you have to ask" is "expensive"
asciilifeform: was kinda the opposite
mircea_popescu: vaguely reminds me of the dude nubbins prosecuted, with the "hand made" laser etched wood clunks
asciilifeform: eventually the thing earned the rare distinction of being a sufficiently outrageous fraud to be... booted off 'kickstarter.'
asciilifeform: and it wasn't beard, but the hair on his arm.
assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 22:59:54; mircea_popescu: iirc there was some guy burning his beard off with "revolutionary laser shaver" in the logs
pete_dushenski: shinohai if you could buy them, sure
shinohai: thx pete_dushenski .... might buy a few hundred, duct tape them together and melt the white house
assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 21:46:21; mircea_popescu: (yes there's a deep reason for the schism, no it has nothing to do with politics. the western church mostly provided laas, the eastern church baas.)
pete_dushenski: ^lazr was on there
mircea_popescu: iirc there was some guy burning his beard off with "revolutionary laser shaver" in the logs
Namworld: [18:46] <+mircea_popescu> next thing you know you're either making your firebolt wands vibrate or go out of the mage business.
mircea_popescu: well, that takes care of that. but otherwise, yeah.
diana_coman: that the name is what things are
diana_coman: and every time they get...a name
mircea_popescu: the name of it thing is correct however.
diana_coman: the name of it
diana_coman: an explanation or experience of what the damned thing IS
diana_coman: well, come to think about it: children ask "what is that?" all the time and guess what do they get mainly as answer
mircea_popescu: next thing you know you're either making your firebolt wands vibrate or go out of the mage business.
diana_coman: so yes, they love learning, of course
diana_coman: because they already have automated patterns ("learnt") on which they can operate in familiar situations
pete_dushenski: even the established ~concept~ of regicide demonstrates the limited nature of 'control'
mircea_popescu: diana_coman but why wouldn't they ? children love it.
assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 17:19:56; ascii_field: pete_dushenski: the subtraction of EVERYTHING that you care about from your life is different from death how?
mircea_popescu: it's often seen as a problem in idiots who imagien they can keep bitcoin at bay by saying (in some magical correct form, i guess) that "i do not agree" or "i am not inviting this devil in my house" or whatever. "that is not how debates work", what have you.
mircea_popescu: but other than this, to continue the prev thread, no, you do not have control, in the sense that there isn't a magical write-protect bit you set or unset at your will and unless you've unset it nothing can ever affect you.
mircea_popescu: it does however understand magic. especially because magic specifically exists as a result of the subconscious' poor grasp of everything.
mircea_popescu: same thing that prevents them anywhere else, obviously. but the subconscious does not really comprehend locks, or rifles, or anything so complex it needs a factory.
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as there's no spanish equivalent, what's to keep some dudes from busting into your house and taking all your holes on the kitchen table ?
mircea_popescu: as far as average person is concerned, their safety from being, eg, raped, is built entirely out of their belief in the magical power of a construct like that. it is not meaningful, but magical, in that it projects will and controls "the universe".
mircea_popescu: answer : you do not. which takes us right to the reason most people do not learn a foreign language, or enjoy interacting with people whose language they do not speak.
mircea_popescu: rther unwated inquiry is, of course, "that;s inappropriate". except... how do you say this in spanish.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310888 << let me explain something to you. slave had some old bitties over for coffee, recounted the story to me. they wanted to know if she's married or has a man. she said no. i suggested she should have said he died in the war. "what war ?" "you know, the war". and then we joked about how it'd play from there, and eventually it came to me the thing to say to prevent fu
pete_dushenski: 'never step into the same river twice' (tm)
assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 17:13:01; pete_dushenski: there can be no stable hierarchy. anywhere.
assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 17:09:03; ascii_field: roman slavery has very little to do with the modern variety.
assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 17:06:26; davout: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310847 <<< because obviously the team will happily be my personal army and not simply take my gf and point at me laughing
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310853 << you don't understand how for great justice works. they have to be supporting cast in his movie because otherwise it's microracist.
mircea_popescu: Namworld well, install it, ima make you an account then.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> ... << more like "state promised us that if we smoke the pipe all will be fine. well... pipe is going out and what is this!11" << I refer to this phenomena as Shrem's Bong
Namworld: I don't mind testing the game whenever I have some free time.
Namworld: Otherwise, relatively well.
assbot: Logged on 29-10-2015 17:05:20; davout: which conveniently boils down to "we need safe spaces to stop these micro-agressions"
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-10-2015#1310848 << more like "state promised us that if we smoke the pipe all will be fine. well... pipe is going out and what is this!11"