trinque: danielpbarron: this game with the dominoes looks fun
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nubbins`: http://cointelegraph.com/news/115266/bitcoin-will-be-the-technology-that-unifies-a-united-states-of-africa
cazalla: trinque, parents who would rather be doing something else than parenting
trinque: what parent would let cops and bureaucrats educate their children at all?
cazalla: apparently there are better carts than the sky3ds but at the time, that is all that was available for the firmware my 3ds has
nubbins`: oh, there's an R4 3DS now.
cazalla: nubbins`, the sky3ds is pretty sweet, but will only load 3ds games, not backward compatible
cazalla: danielpbarron, copper asked me multiple time if i actually had guns heh, this was shortly after the columbine shootings mind you
nubbins`: the game's only $20usd, but they give you the wii u AND 3ds versions with purchase, and i don't have a 3ds
nubbins`: so you can grab cool new levels that others have created, etc
nubbins`: danielpbarron seems so. and there's a level creation/sharing thing
nubbins`: luckily for me, all the text in korean mario kart was just transliterated english
trinque: nubbins`: not at all; the western christian church has gotten equally boring.
nubbins`: i think they look pretty similar
nubbins`: trinque only the socialist state?
trinque: let the cattle have their safe public school where they memorize a few useful facts, and let the miscreants join some academy where their mistakes blow their hands off
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 22:49:42; cazalla: trinque, i threatened to shoot a bunch of kids at my school via icq.. made front page of local rag and blurred out face on local tv, no name though :\ probably get 10 years like that isis kid these days
nubbins`: o look, one of the local prostitutes seems to be pregnant
nubbins`: just tired of boots on their throats
nubbins`: mp can probably relate tales of .ro folk going apeshit in streets in late 80s, early 90s, and they weren't muslim
nubbins`: going apeshit in the streets is generally a direct result of treatment, either by other citizens or government
nubbins`: trinque, if you'd asked the british whether the irish were rather culturally similar, they'd have said no
trinque: muslims seem to be a few degrees more willing to go apeshit in the streets, or worse
trinque: the distinction I see is that those were still rather culturally similar to the folks already there, no?
nubbins`: this whole part of the country i live in was mainly settled by irish escaping the potato famine
trinque: really, no one says there has to be any sane solution
nubbins`: might as well suggest the refugees head to usa.
nubbins`: as if anyone in the fucking world wants to live in saudi arabia
trinque: europe cannot maintain the political myth that people are equal, fungible, interchangable without accepting these refugees.
trinque: whether it's intended, it surely will head that direction.
shinohai: I'll bet Islamic extremists are foaming at the mouth hoping to recruit a few.
nubbins`: the cynic in me wonders if the whole "refugee quotas" thing is germany's push to cripple other EU economies
trinque: to say the very least
trinque: the idea that a million or more people are going to peacefully integrate with a country of roughly 80 million is questionable
shinohai: Just ignore the problem and play refugee Mario.
nubbins`: as if somehow it makes more sense to bring a goddamn mattress on a train instead of your only link to the outside world
trinque: and the socialist state loves those
nubbins`: this whole refugee thing is really bringing the complete fucking idiots out of the woodwork
trinque: didn't these people see Children of Men?
nubbins`: most of the cost is in components; a frame is a frame (to some extent), but having your brake discs machined vs stamped from sheet makes a big difference for longevity as well as maintenance
nubbins`: asciilifeform: re: the cost of bicycles -- i'm reminded of your rant about how in computing, there's no "professional grade equipment", i.e. people who code for a living are using the same hw as people who check facebook all day long
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BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> ... << it has a keyboard. and this was before the age of 'must use a toothpick for this qwerty' idiocy. << It is truly a more impressive machine than I was anticipating. The screen is actually usefully large.
thestringpuller: “The C.E.O. has to be the virus,” Mr. Huang said. “To build a great company, you have to kill it a bit every day.”
thestringpuller: the CEO is so dope tho
asciilifeform: 'Pick your favorite expression that is zero but not easily simplified to zero by the CAS. Then divide by this zero and deduce all kinds of absurdities.'
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: that could easily be the last remaining such machine, the nvidia ball grid plague killed them all, i thought.
ben_vulpes: myriad other office devices in various stages of decrepitude.
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assbot: Computer Algebra: How does the TI-89 do it? - Mathematics Stack Exchange ... ( http://bit.ly/1MkIH79 )
asciilifeform: (re: 'derive' & friends. from http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/348809/computer-algebra-how-does-the-ti-89-do-it )
asciilifeform: e to attempting to match the TI-89's level of automation. The fact that Mathematica, Sage, etc. also will not perform these simplifications without a 'hint' makes me feel a little better, but the question remains: How on earth did the TI engineers manage to do this with literally a tiny, tiny fraction of the computing power a desktop has?'
asciilifeform: 'In my own CAS development experience, I've found it nearly impossible to do what the TI-89 does, that is, automatically perform these simplifications without wrapping them in a 'hint' function. I've found that both in terms of computational cost, and in pure software engineering difficulty, this is basically impossible to do. Every CAS I've ever built has involved horrendous debugging of infinite recursion and similar bugs du
chetty: << it has a keyboard. and this was before the age of 'must use a toothpick for this qwerty' idiocy.// is there a thumb equivalent of carpal tunnel yet?
thestringpuller: hahahaha. i'm excited for 'creative' user-agents in the future
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 08:28:00; BingoBoingo: Much larger than I expected. About 1/2 the desk footprint of laptop
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-09-2015#1272528 << it has a keyboard. and this was before the age of 'must use a toothpick for this qwerty' idiocy.
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 07:35:35; mircea_popescu: What the reformers promote, that is open-ended problems, real-world problems with clouds of answers, activities instead of problems, create a fuzzy world, ~~~in which students always have to guess the teachers mind and can not learn to discriminate between right and wrong by their own means. ~~~
assbot: Logged on 03-01-2015 20:01:05; ascii_modem: for the record, 'clos' is, as of today, the only non-retarded incarnation of that concept yet built
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 09:38:51; mircea_popescu: i don't really see oo bullshit as anything more than wank, but then again that's me.
thestringpuller: So glad I went to Georgia Tech over MIT these days.
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mircea_popescu: i don't really see oo bullshit as anything more than wank, but then again that's me.
mircea_popescu: but that aside : 500k in cash is still a better deal than what present day usians get. they still have no education, but -500k in cash to go with it too.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the moral therein being : it's much better to spend stormy weather in a lake than in an ocean. which is why people figuring on doing the whole "survivalist" schtick in the us are basically retarded.
phf: i suspect that mp made profit on the decade since he's a bit older then myself, i started at the tail end, and when king yeltsin abdicated that was pretty much the end of it
phf: ben_vulpes: also it was 90s russia, lots of people did "revenue numbers are none of your goddamn concern", and it mostly looked like playing lottery. shipping european clothing from turkey, or driving bmw's from germany for resale, all the while hoping that your criminal "roof" was stronger then the neighbor's
phf: i know there's some tension between yaron minsky's (of jane street capital) extensions to core library and inria's core, but someone with better knowledge of language can chime if inria is in the wrong
cazalla: i wonder if there is a tanzanian bitcoin embassy
phf: asciilifeform: btw i take back 'inria was once useful' << inria is behind caml and presently maintains ocaml, they also do Cog, but i think that's pushing the limit of "useful"
punkman: "According to the 2012 census, the total population was 44,928,923. The under 15 age group represented 44.1% of the population." << tanzania's pretty young eh
BingoBoingo: Much larger than I expected. About 1/2 the desk footprint of laptop
cazalla: you know, a few years ago i put an advertisement in gumtree (aussie craigslist) for free psychic readings and you would not believe the barrage of phone calls
cazalla: no, the speaking with dead people one
mircea_popescu: cazalla the ex-senator ?!
cazalla: Naphex, not even worth your time, they want to be scammed - my mother is/was into John Edwards as is an aunty, and they rave about him, went to a live show and all
Naphex: and spending the night in his guest room at his hq
Naphex: anyway my whole experence was 3 weeks trying to prove my rich friend and his mother that his aa scammer; this culminated in dinner with him in budapest
mircea_popescu: http://desiredubounet.com/files/2012/05/Vargas-Pin-Up-Girl-Pic-to-stop-her-they-had-to-slur-her-663x1024.jpg
Naphex: they are in a rush also to give him money so..
mircea_popescu: at least he's lulzy. these idiots are just stolidly boring.
mircea_popescu: well honestly... i'd much rather a deranged tranny get all the moneys, than a bunch of retards getting to keep it.
Naphex: mircea_popescu: it's a full blown cult, and the programs are extended with training and all other social bullshit that will cost everyone
assbot: How one man’s invention is part of a growing worldwide scam that snares the desperately ill | The Seattle Times ... ( http://bit.ly/1XYTZ4E )
Naphex: http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/how-one-mans-invention-is-part-of-a-growing-worldwide-scam-that-snares-the-desperately-ill/
mircea_popescu: "Upon studying the software I also found pornographic images embedded in it, for what reason I was unable to determine."
mircea_popescu: Records from the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia indicate that Nelson was indicted for mail fraud in June 1996 and was placed on the fugitive list several months later
mircea_popescu: QX Ltd. has stated that more than 3,000 Xrroid devices have been sold worldwide. The 2002 price for the interface device, software, user manual, and basic training was $13,000.
Naphex: the responses i got back 'well if you're so smart, why don't you have 100mn"
Naphex: i was trying to explain my retarded rich friends that he was a scammer and gave them resources
Naphex: has a 8 story block in budapest that houses everything from the programmers and device developers, to makeshift porn studios
Naphex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ChyxfWuYAs he tried getting his scam to run in Canada, but got owned by the mainstream press
Naphex: and bribe doctors to present/have the device or call it interesting
assbot: Professor Bill Nelson, inventor of the amazing QXCI diagnost - YouTube ... ( http://bit.ly/1i7NdIM )
Naphex: he assumed the life of Bill Nelson (some us senator that worked for nasa) since their name is so similar
Naphex: one of the most insane experiences in my life lol
Naphex: actually met this guy in Budapest when a friend of mine got sent by his rich mother to help solve his cluster headaches
Naphex: punkman: this guy scammed ~100mil $ USD from dumb americans and then moved to budapest and went insane :)
Naphex: punkman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQOTbv5jTSA homeopathy by one if the biggest med-scammers; enjoy :))
mircea_popescu: what the us is producing is slaves, not people.
mircea_popescu: aaaand the truth emerges.
mircea_popescu: What the reformers promote, that is open-ended problems, real-world problems with clouds of answers, activities instead of problems, create a fuzzy world, ~~~in which students always have to guess the teachers mind and can not learn to discriminate between right and wrong by their own means. ~~~
mircea_popescu: students mental discipline - get away from them also. Traditional word problems allow to determine the right answer - get away from them also.
mircea_popescu: Regretfully, all the aspirations of reformers of American mathematical education go in the opposite direction. Mastery of algorithms makes students self-sufficient - get away from it, make them dependent on Texas Instruments. Logical proofs develop
mircea_popescu: actualy, drones that broadcast the cries of injured children / burn unit victims / rape victims etc would make a pretty decent terrorism application.
mircea_popescu: assbot> Want to make a big cash withdrawal? Dont bank on being allowed | << the advantage of the internet. what "bank run" ? sit at the computer and cry like the little bitch that you are.
assbot: Homeopathy conference ends in chaos after delegates take hallucinogenic drug - Health News - Health & Families - The Independent ... ( http://bit.ly/1i7Guig )
pete_dushenski: for apps, yes. i guess they're moving that philosophy over to safari or w/e
cazalla: at least you have the option to use ublock with ff now.. doesn't apple have it's own ad network though, iads if memory serves
pete_dushenski: more like another revenue stream for apple.
cazalla: http://venturebeat.com/2015/09/04/ad-blocking-in-apples-ios-9-highlights-rift-over-ads-with-app-publishers/ <<< what's in it for apple to support this? just a measure to get people to buy the next iphone or what
assbot: Want to make a big cash withdrawal? Don’t bank on being allowed | Money | The Guardian ... ( http://bit.ly/1Kj0bi3 )
pete_dushenski: http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/sep/12/big-cash-withdrawals-bank-barclays-denied-access
pete_dushenski: "Nationwide The building society says its customers can withdraw up to £2,000 per account a day. “However, if they want to withdraw more than £500, it is best to pre-book the amount with the branch to ensure that it has the cash available." << derp/
pete_dushenski: "The old Celtic practice today known as chasse au brame, troat-hunting, involved placing a rutting stag in a U-shaped trap of trees and nets; when the stag began to troat, does and other stags would approach and be caught."
pete_dushenski: ^ shame that images are missing. the artwork collected therein is really quite lovely
pete_dushenski: i have it right in front of me and i see neither 'troat' nor 'hunting' in the index. hmm
asciilifeform: i tried at one time to find some info re: 'troat hunting' where a deer is coralled and its screams attract others - mentioned therein
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: aha. this is the only one i've yet cracked
pete_dushenski: actually, probably more like ~4kg for the set
asciilifeform: (old bank cards make the best spudgers imho)
asciilifeform: 'air' is a dream to open compared to the old g4 'powerbooks' where you needed a spudger
asciilifeform: it comes out if you lift the mb.
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asciilifeform: i have an 'air' that i've replaced virtually all of at one time or another...
asciilifeform: otherwise i can't fathom why anyone would live with dead keys
asciilifeform: somewhere there is also a set of his correspondence, a good chunk of it in fr, that i don't yet have.
asciilifeform just popped a crate with ~2kg of orwell. before anyone asks, no, nothing like even 20% of his output is on the net. in the 1968 four-volume set, there is perhaps 90% of it.
pete_dushenski: and '13 'air' with two keys that have their bad days (delete, a) and a weird screen deformity that makes everything a bit washed out but isn't worth $1k to fix
pete_dushenski: i have '08 aluminum that's a bit bogged down with cruft but otherwise excellent
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: i'm similarly skeptical but there's been nary a hiccup in the first season at least. it'll take another few before i can say much more than that.
ben_vulpes: i also suspect that they won't hold up to the kind of thrashing i put my machines through
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: i am suspicious of these internally geared thingers
pete_dushenski: the cheap ones being 'local' brands i'd never heard of and can't recall now
pete_dushenski: there were smokes that were actually ~less than a penny per~. i was tempted to pick up the habit then and there
pete_dushenski: and that was the premium brand!
pete_dushenski: i remember being impressed that pack of 20 (?) marlboros was <$1 when they'd have been >$10 here
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-09-2015#1272278 << ukr also has the cheapest smokes and absynthe (and probably liquor in general) that i can recall seeing. anywhere.
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 00:56:30; asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: update me, what are they worth today
pete_dushenski: currently reading montaigne's essays and the aeneid on gutenberg. the latter's translation is exceptional, far better than the 2 bit fucking audiobook i'm reading in parallel with it.
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 00:44:50; mircea_popescu: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/34181/34181-h/34181-h.htm << must read, by the way.
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 00:39:19; mircea_popescu: clearly the internet has so much helped
pete_dushenski: and now with no rust on front fenders thanks to a fortuitous shop accident that resulted in denting the hood, which needed to be painted after being replaced, and allowed me to piggyback on paint shop time and repair a cosmetic deficiency i may never have bothered with!
assbot: Logged on 13-09-2015 00:19:29; mircea_popescu: i guess they couldn't properly have called it "estic system" and be done with it
asciilifeform: 'airplane in which an american, czech, scotsman, and russian, begins to fall. scotsman suggests, 'let's swear that he who remains alive, will give the dead men 200 pounds sterling for the road to heaven, and to thank god.' they all agreed. airplane falls, everybody but the scotsman lived. at his burial, the american and the russian put 200 pounds each, like they promised. the czech comes, writes a cheque for 600 pounds, puts i
asciilifeform: ^ my grandpa is not in there. but almost was.
asciilifeform: (vlasov's army was parked there)
mircea_popescu: iirc patton liberated them
mircea_popescu would like them to go back to bohemia. czech is too hard to spell.
asciilifeform: beside the point.
mircea_popescu: what'd you have them do ?
asciilifeform: i was in the czech embassy recently
trinque: from the (relatively mediocre) metal song he wrote in response, "Still Echoes"
trinque: "A thousand years of failure, a thousand years they bled. To the bear, the blitzkrieg, and the holy father, they just bowed their heads." << I don't know how accurate an assessment of the Czechs that is, but it makes me lol
assbot: Rocker Randy Blythe talks about time in Czech prison | WTVR.com ... ( http://bit.ly/1LqJcH1 )
asciilifeform: trinque: interesting... http://wtvr.com/2012/08/06/randy-blythe-lamb-of-god-czech-republic-interview << has some detail
trinque: heh, Randy Blythe of Lamb of God was locked up with that guillotine for supposedly killing a kid by shoving him off the stage
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-09-2015#1271883 << unless of course you say "no, and also fuck you, and the revenue numbers are none of your goddamn concern."
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 21:33:51; mircea_popescu: no, they aren't. theyt're exactly the grade of orc ukrainians are. except here they have good steak and there they have good whore.
kakobrekla: > best source is the back pages of old (period) american magazines < here the currency on the mags changed so frequently i couldnt keep track, from din to sit to euro, prolly some dem in between.
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 20:57:45; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-09-2015#1271285 << i hear emplacing a workstation is the first step to building a Dark Spire of Darnkess, from which as we all know all atomic dirigibles must proceed.
ben_vulpes: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-09-2015#1271672 << but what about the spire of /dankness/?
ben_vulpes: as the twelve-steppers say
asciilifeform: pick up a 1950s 'popular xyz' and the thing is full of'em
ben_vulpes: the actual workouts seem to have won out finally
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: speaking of these, one type of potion that appears to have vanished is the 'strength increaser'
ben_vulpes: it has to target the same grade of moron at all times, after all
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: used to be, the 'back pages' were a kind of bazaar, that had pyramid schemes, cock machines, and legit things alike, all in one gigantic pile.
ben_vulpes: i'm sure those prices had a great deal to do with the market value of the things, advertising to chumps alongside the cock lengtheners and pheromone emitters
asciilifeform: so need other source after that.
hanbot imagines mircea_popescu absolutely slaughtering 'the price is right'
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: best source is the back pages of old (period) american magazines
mircea_popescu: well, within reason. they had revolvers in 1815 even
ben_vulpes: cost the same? what, inflation-adjusted?
asciilifeform: and for the same reason.
asciilifeform: from rough study of historical trends, i have noticed that bicycles and revolvers have cost roughly the same thing for 100 years +.
ben_vulpes: what, something that creaks around or something that someone who enjoys the sport would ride?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: update me, what are they worth today
ben_vulpes: so then stick to your chipsets.
asciilifeform: i think mine was made in the 1960s.
asciilifeform quite out of date, has never bought one of these things new
ben_vulpes: one can in fact have a bicycle just for the asking there. no purchase or transport needed!
ben_vulpes: a hundred dollar bicycle is barely worth trucking to the playa.
asciilifeform: they are worth, what, 100 usd new?
ben_vulpes: just because *you* don't believe in the cascadian paradise by no means you get to ignore it.
ben_vulpes: http://bikeportland.org/2015/09/08/police-shut-notorious-slabtown-stolen-bike-chop-shop-158221 << asciilifeform note that the place had to get busted with an active theft ring to get kicked out
mircea_popescu now wonders if theres any online
mircea_popescu: or better yet, if you feel like having some fun with the system, you go and recite moscow urchin begging poem
asciilifeform: default judgement then.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the court thing happens if there is dispute (normally there is) about payment
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: It certainly does, just yesterday I heard a girl maybe a few years older myself bragging (in a thick western accent) about her mother doing Cocaine and Ecstasy while heavily pregnant, and how "she turned out alright"
asciilifeform: but disobeying a written order is one of the few simple ways.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it does not. now, granted, in some states (e.g. maryland) it is very difficult for the employer to prove 'fired for cause'
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: if there exists such a jurisdiction in usa, it is a well-hushed-up fact.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i can picture some schmuck continuing to show up, but the salary cheque will not continue to get mailed out.
ben_vulpes: in the year of 'nobody paying mortgate', sherriff has better things to do with his time.
mircea_popescu: it's HOW THE WORLD WORX!11
assbot: Sex workers at risk of violence as the internet cuts demand for their services ... ( http://bit.ly/1Q9M6DF )
cazalla: http://www.theage.com.au/national/sex-workers-at-risk-of-violence-as-the-internet-cuts-demand-for-their-services-20150909-gjj54s.html "They say violence is a daily part of their life. The most common forms are biting, slapping, pinching, hair pulling, verbal abuse and rough sex, which they say is present in almost every interaction." sounds like sex to me
mircea_popescu: woman may not agree to fucking and usian may not tell the politruk to get lost.
mircea_popescu: they're like retarded women, these people. fucking is bad, and may only be done if "overcome".