feedbot: http://trilema.com/2020/the-magics-of-cereal-boxes/ << Trilema -- The magics of cereal boxes
mircea_popescu: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2020-01-04#1956606 << oh, you mean like in http://trilema.com/2015/argentina-for-business/?b=The%20administration&e=shit#select ? mmyeah.
ossabot: Logged on 2020-01-04 11:11:58 BingoBoingo: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2020-01-04#1956595 << I encounter this all the time here, asking questions the locals never consider they'd be asked.
mircea_popescu: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2020-01-04#1956611 << menalones tryna wannabe-republic with tools made out of cowpies & hay.
ossabot: Logged on 2020-01-04 12:54:22 billymg: lol re: reddit wank, looks like they nuked the only sane comment in the thread https://old.reddit.com/user/Hanna_Rosin -- 2nd comment (archived) --> https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/eiskr6/i_was_reading_saifedeans_book_and_saw_mircea/fd2697f/
mircea_popescu: "what can you do", right ? the fact they're in the mud d oesn't mean they should get out, wash up, move to town (if it'll take 'em). the fact they're in the mud simply means all them high falootin' town things will have LOCAL EQUIVALENTS!!!!
mircea_popescu: JUST AS GOOD!!!!
mircea_popescu: wanna see their local clean room ? 100% built out of straw and mudpies ? clean to 10 ppk standard! it's just like ppb only with a k.
hanbot: i don't think it's just as good in-universe; it's better. keeping it real, you know, not like those jaded monied assholes who aren't Feeding the World with their inexplicable windfalls like they would. besides, their bower's stacked with comfortable consumer plastics, the best mudpies that could be --mudpies necessary, in fact, for existence. the town folk can't even tap screens to digest dinner, they sit around and TALK, like, to real faces, who
hanbot: wants to handle that?!
mircea_popescu: holy SHIT
mircea_popescu: so apparently in php, != is a legitimate op in if expressions. = however, IS NOT. == MUST be used.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck comes up with this shit
mircea_popescu: hanbot, i suppose frances mcdormand is the consummate icon of this outlook. not just in fargo, remember that scene when she is unhappy with the level of service the soviet embassy is providing ? "I AM AN AMERICAN CITIZEN!!! GIB MONYZ!!!"
mircea_popescu: if it weren't for all their self-loathing, she'd be a lot more popular i guess.
hanbot doesn't remember this scene, but the theme's recognizable generally.
mircea_popescu: brad pitt had found some documents lol. "burn after reading".
diana_coman: mircea_popescu: the = vs == is because of the confusion assignment vs comparison
diana_coman: sure, inconsistent and annoying, there's no argument there.
mircea_popescu: assignment in if clauses is probably the dumbest c-ism ever
mircea_popescu: just denotes this utterly incorrect pile of mental processes, kids who cram before exams tend to think this way.
mircea_popescu: but irl, the time to fatten the pig and the time to cut open the pig never overlap.
diana_coman: sure, no argument there either; it is how the whole pile ends up that big and stinky and intricate, after all.
diana_coman: http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2020-01-05#1956629 - this is very much so as far as I have seen/heard it/even had it explained to me in as much detail as I could listen to, over and over again.
ossabot: Logged on 2020-01-05 07:20:03 hanbot: i don't think it's just as good in-universe; it's better. keeping it real, you know, not like those jaded monied assholes who aren't Feeding the World with their inexplicable windfalls like they would. besides, their bower's stacked with comfortable consumer plastics, the best mudpies that could be --mudpies necessary, in fact, for existence. the town folk can't even tap screens to digest dinner, they sit around and TA
mircea_popescu: uppity idiocy, the necessary result of welfarism.
feedbot: http://trilema.com/2020/fixing-the-trilema-reference-base/ << Trilema -- Fixing the Trilema reference base.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Yes, but they can derplock on the more mundane concepts like "How much time is this going to take?" and other frictions of the Sal Inglesa variety
mircea_popescu: aha
feedbot: http://qntra.net/2020/01/iraqs-parliament-votes-for-removal-of-us-troops/ << Qntra -- Iraq's Parliament Votes For Removal Of US Troops
feedbot: http://bingology.net/2020/week-1-2020-review-wrestling-with-nsd-after-standing-up-trb-nodes/ << Bingology - BingoBoingo's Blog -- Week 1 2020 Review - Wrestling With NSD After Standing Up TRB Nodes