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mircea_popescu: if you want fractals, first go away and get rich i mean, figure out what
a number is, then come back
mircea_popescu: but yes, the man has
a point. fractals aren't for everyone. just like bitcoin isn't for everyone.
mircea_popescu: "I asked several school teachers who were enthusiastic about teaching fractals to define
a fractal and none of them mentioned the idea of dimension, least defined it. Usually they emphasized “repeating patterns”. When I asked why they were not satisfied with wall-paper, they took offence." << yes, because who needs to take
a breather and think when they could take offence instead and flail!
mircea_popescu: it is, however, very inefficient (ie, costs
a lot more per joule than pretty much any alternative)
mircea_popescu: the idea to use this as
a heat source is older than the aeroplane. i had perfectly functional schematics in books published in the fucking 60s.
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 03:24:57; pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: you around ? can you educate me on what the nytimes is referring to here : "The schematics, prosecutors said, revealed the design of
a device known as
a pocket heater. The equipment is used in semiconductor research, and Dr. Xi had signed an agreement promising to keep its design
a secret."
mircea_popescu: Oh, god. Such pain and suffering. When I took usian slavegirls, attempts to discuss art and philosophy and so forth quickly floundered over
a basic inability to remember sentences and build logic trees, which resulted in beatings and many tearful hours spent over grammatical analysis of sentences. Something they should have spend their 12th and 13th year of life on, back before anyone could possibly want to fuck them,
pete_dushenski:
http://www.pewresearch.org/quiz/science-knowledge/ << "The median was eight correct answers out of 12 (mean 7.9). The data show that adults with higher education levels are more likely to answer questions about science correctly. Men score an average of 8.6 out of 12 correct answers, compared with women's 7.3 correct answers.Whites score
a mean of 8.4 items out of 12 correct, compared with 7.1 among Hispanics an
mircea_popescu: " E.g., my graduate students in differential geometry could calculate quite hard integrals to know the area or the length of
a curve but were not able to answer the question what the geometric sense of the roots of the quadratic equation x^2 − 2Hx + K = 0 is, where H and K are the average and the Gaussian curvature of
a surface."
mircea_popescu: sum of roots equals −b/
a and that their product equals c/
a and to use these facts to factorize the
mircea_popescu: children to derive the formula for roots of
a quadratic equation ax2 + bx + c = 0 , to prove that the
mircea_popescu: function in
a rather complete manner. In particular it was obligatory for all Russian schools to teach
punkman: "does not need physical contact with the substance being tested because it uses
a beam of light in what is known as Near Infrared Spectroscopy."
mircea_popescu: "i used to be an entrepreneur but then i took
a fatter to the knee"
mircea_popescu: "4. You think it’s pretty unfair that women effectively work from 4 November until the end of the year for free because of the gender pay gap; and that female managers “work for free” for nearly two hours
a day; and that the pay gap is even wider for women of colour and disabled women."
pete_dushenski: Bingo_VACAY: i'm gonna go out on
a limb and say that you're away atm and that there's no point in sending you the same piece
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: you around ? can you educate me on what the nytimes is referring to here : "The schematics, prosecutors said, revealed the design of
a device known as
a pocket heater. The equipment is used in semiconductor research, and Dr. Xi had signed an agreement promising to keep its design
a secret."
☟︎ pete_dushenski: "Using geo-referenced data, we find the legislation increased looting of civilians, and shifted militia battles towards unregulated gold mining territories. These findings are
a cautionary tale about the possible unintended consequences of boycotting natural resources from war-torn regions, and the use of international resource governance interventions."
pete_dushenski: ^ what
a cool million buys in the used car market these days.
trinque shoves the barge that once was
a mailserver seaward, fires
a flaming arrow, salutes
assbot: No, dropping lowest-priority tx (in the event of
a spam attack) is not better than dropping random transactions - in fact, it's
a lot worse. Peter Todd is full of shit on this one. Here's why. : bitcoinxt ... (
http://bit.ly/1Q7Af95 )
pete_dushenski: tumlrinas also need
a lot of 'food', doesn't seem to be an issue
shinohai: That's
a lot of cloth, pete_dushenski
mircea_popescu: not their fault you persist in living in
a counbtry whichg has decided "coding will work like art works!!1"
mircea_popescu: how exactly did the russky govt manage to steal
a .org ?
pete_dushenski: from
a meatwoter : "Also on
a completely unrelated note, TD now prevents me from visiting contravex at work."
shinohai: All they got was
a cruddy old laptop worth abt $200, wasn't insured.
ascii_field: shinohai: some insurance companies will not officially recognize the fact of theft, vandalism, etc. without
a police case #
mircea_popescu: they did
a good job actually copying the principles not merelyt the objects, turn out perfectly passible items now.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: go give ben_vulpes
a unix and laptop co-designed with it, then he can throw away the crapple
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the "apparently care" you propose has
a name.
mircea_popescu: derplet's got these feelings almost like he's
a thing, "i am
a tractor, it makes no sense i can't pull odwn this wall, please explain mechanics to it!"
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 17:28:23; ascii_field: 'Please inform Mr. Toom about the grading system and instruction methods of THIS country.:.. I earned
a grade of
A in my college algebra and trigonometry courses so it makes no sense for me to be doing so poorly in this course. Please straighten this man out.'
mircea_popescu: it does "something" and for as long etc, i'll fail to understand why it remains
a thing.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: for so long as you think this, you will catastrophically misunderstand why apple remains
a thing
mircea_popescu: spiral of defeat.
a) woman goes out, meets
a buncha schmucks ; b) woman starts charging ~100 per dinner date, ensuring that... she will now ONLY meet the schmucks.
ascii_field: the thing about apple is that it can live for
a very, very long time even with all internal organs removed
shinohai: Which would you rather have, $700 or
a device that you charge $50 for and people keep inserting coins in to use?
ascii_field: folks pay
a few hundy and telco covers the rest in exchange for binding contract for n years
mircea_popescu: in any consumer driven market, the price is the only signal of everything. and you do not give as much as
a faint whiff of selling the 1k item for ~20 bux. not ever.
assbot: Logged on 21-08-2015 03:58:42; mircea_popescu: fun fact, since for some reason i'm doing history now. romania's head rabi (niemirower) died in 1940. he was succeded by one alex safran, who was 29 at that time. and by virtue of being head rabi, the young man also had an ex officio seat in the romanian senate. but for not being yet 40 years of age as the senate required, he asked for, and obtained,
a special derrogation from the high chamber of cas
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 14:20:34; phf: i was in moscow few weeks after iphone 5 release and saw status games golden youth would play with it, polished girls coyly extracting iphones to pretense that bought it in new york just last week, iphones on tables at expensive cafes, etc. i've seen more iphones over
a weekend out then in moscow then i've ever in the states. nothing like that was happening after 6 came out, of course it's my impressions, but i
trinque: want to send
a real message, send it through
a better tube
ascii_field: overall this is
a kind of inevitable entropic heat death and applies to everything.
mircea_popescu: because that introduces
a border and borders must be policed which costs EVEN MORE money
ascii_field: learn cn, might take us
a little while to catch up
mircea_popescu: PinkPosixPXE i'm fine now! weren't you going to do
a dc at some point ? :D
shinohai: I need
a drink, what
a stressful day.
shinohai: Have been for
a few months I think.
trinque: they taught us the quadratic formula in middle school using
a goddamn nursery song tune
trinque: doesn't make sense to me to add special logic for
a single RSS feed
ascii_field: 'Please inform Mr. Toom about the grading system and instruction methods of THIS country.:.. I earned
a grade of
A in my college algebra and trigonometry courses so it makes no sense for me to be doing so poorly in this course. Please straighten this man out.'
☟︎ ascii_field: vast exaggeration - no one would buy pork of this quality, not for
a penny
a pound
assbot: Crystal meth: 'Walk
a little way in any direction and buy it for
a trifle' | World news | The Guardian ... (
http://bit.ly/1ULZorm )
ascii_field: 'Yes, opium was
a murderous agent in our blood streams. Yes, we were addicted. But we gained
a gravelly tone that made friends’ poetry recitations bearable. If we expired bit by bit, we were comfortable in our growing numbness. Opium eased away frustrations and failings. This was
a traditional addiction respectful of our history, of traditions that allowed us to go with the flow as we socialised around glowing charcoa
pete_dushenski: looks to be ~$1/lb as
a going rate, shockingly, exactly like in that trilema article
shinohai: I wonder if the author of that article would be mad if I made
a masturbation pun on her name.
pete_dushenski: "James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, is said to talk nearly every day with the head of US Central Command’s intelligence wing, Army Brigadier General Steven Grove – “which is highly, highly unusual”, according to
a former intelligence official." << it brings
a tear to mine eye to see these bureaucrats breaking down barriers like this. *sniff*
assbot: Successfully added
a rating of 1 for cazalla with note: respecable journalist
phf: punkman: yes, not for purchase though, to smoke. he ran to
a different location, packed it there, brought here, and then proceeded to refresh coals by repeating the process
pete_dushenski: "The definition of “food insecure” includes anyone who frets about not being able to purchase food at any point. If someone states that they feared running out of food for
a single day (but didn’t run out), that is an indicator of being “food insecure” for the entire year — regardless of whether they ever missed
a single meal. If someone wants organic kale but can afford only conventional kale, that
pete_dushenski: "“Food insecurity” is
a statistic designed to mislead. USDA defines food insecurity as being “uncertain of having, or unable to acquire, enough food to meet the needs of all their members because they had insufficient money or other resources for food.”"
pete_dushenski: about seven hundred thousand Jews who were citizens of Germany’s allies were killed. Yet
a higher number survived. This is
a dramatic contrast to the lands where the state was destroyed, where almost all Jews were killed."
pete_dushenski: and this is certainly the way i'm billed whenever i have
a contractor fix something on
a property. travel time is always included.
pete_dushenski: for salaried employees who work 9-5 in
a cubicle, obviously not.
phf: "hookah is coming -- you pack it here? -- he go elsewhere, we don't like say no" what
a nice country