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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform males got
selected for decisive action, females for an ability to withstand brainhacking.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves "how to
select a losing strategy out of an array of moves made by people who opveral made money"
mircea_popescu: HeySteve too much hassle with future chains. if you want them short you buy f.derp, if you want them long you just get to
select d.whatever
mircea_popescu: that's the one profession that most
selects for lemming qualities. more so than military even
mircea_popescu: i'm not a professor because i find fucking and beating a few
selected girls at a time a lot more effectual than merely speaking to an entire gaggle, who also cling to naive misrepresentations as of their "rights" and "freedoms".
mircea_popescu: it's almost as if being a scientist consisted entirely of beating the cheap boarding houses and asylums to
select out of the pox ridden old hags "the paragons of beauty"
mircea_popescu: "They are beyond question the loveliest of all their sex...In the United States, of course, where natural
selection has been going on, as elsewhere, and where, much more than elsewhere, that has been a great variety to choose from. The eventual American woman will be even more beautiful than the woman of to-day. Her claims to that distinction will result from a fine combination of the best points of all those many race
mircea_popescu: pankkake: this is probably the first example of the wot for +v
selection failing << honestly i don't think so.
mircea_popescu: "The earliest types of EDA routers were "manual routers" -- the drafter clicked a mouse on the endpoint of each line segment of each net. Modern PCB design software typically provides "interactive routers" -- the drafter
selects a pad and clicks a few places to give the EDA tool an idea of where to go, and the EDA tool tries to place wires as close to that path as possible without violating DRC." << my naive bias thing
mircea_popescu: Namworld: fluffypony, the real world doesn't care about reality. << more like the reverse. reality doesn't care for whatever set you happen to have mislabeled as "the real world". probably a
selection of terminally unemployable couch surfing webexperts.
mircea_popescu: mike_c, ah, this is actually +ev because it allows them to
select when to mine huh
mircea_popescu: benkay: the people with the money to implement dumb crypto things are never going to
select professional services people for execution who say things like "what you are trying to build is not possible to build". << pretty much exactly.
mircea_popescu: bounce no but see, in order to support research and the free and fair interchange of ideas, as well as the scientific development required by modern society, only one of about five megacorps is allowed to file for a state-enforced monopoly on
select chemical processes.
mircea_popescu: here's an anecdote : back when i was in school tho, we did this "thesis paper" each trimester, which accounted for half the grade, in
select subjects.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: the clever fellows who presently escape surveillance by eschewing mobile phones, will be collared at last << nbot really. just have procurement contract with
select shop, order stuff pay on month's end.
mircea_popescu: he has this "i do not see" device from socialist training in what passes for education these days, and he knows he's supposed to apply it
selectively,
mircea_popescu: eh fuck em, you tell me someone's going to bother
select that gnarl and paste it in browswe window ?
mircea_popescu: "If, instead of treating their BTC like play money and throwing it into this kind of junk, folks just took a portion of their available dollars and invested that capital into random
selections from the S&P 500, they would likely do much, much better."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform only
select trades tho. as he said, it trade mags are a joke
mircea_popescu: decimation no, at the time, it paid people overseas (and
select foreign governments)
mircea_popescu: you essentially couldsn't get married if you didn't do well i nthe military, so italso self-
selected.
mircea_popescu: well no, i
selected the "what to do about idiots". you seemed to say that well... empowering their idiocy through catering to their whims is a net positive.
mircea_popescu: "The fine will be donated to organizations dedicated to anti-discrimination and tolerance efforts that will be jointly
selected by the NBA and the Players Association, Silver said."
mircea_popescu: "i have the special QueefCaptu underwears! only 19'95 at
selected retailers"
mircea_popescu: currently it works like so : if your bet makes it on bitbet after the bet is closed, it goes to dividends. if your bet makes it before it's closed but after an arbitrary time
selected by bitbet mods, you get it back minus 1%
mircea_popescu: carefully
selecting audiences for libertardism does not on the volume of data collected so far seem to produce better businesses.
mircea_popescu: smoking is pretty much the only
selective behaviour left.
mircea_popescu: anyway, that's just
selected derpage, he sent piles more.
mircea_popescu: really, this is true of most of the world outside of some very narrowly
selected places.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform here's the thing : bitcoin finally creates the possibility for natural
selection.
mircea_popescu: as more worthwhile sites implement it eventually you'd prolly have a centralizer site,
select all you want from there
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you did the exact same thing when you made cardano designs :
selected the parts for stupidity.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the fact that the jury is
selected for stupidity does not on the face support the theory that the trial is ineffectual.
mircea_popescu: it takes a real hellhole to really
select the funhavers.
mircea_popescu: mike_c the correct
selection for house bets is to take the first three bets of any wager, and exclude one of them
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 spam is not misspelled because the spammers can't hire editors. spam is misspelled because that
selects for idiots, and they are looking for idiots (false positives are very expensive for them)
mircea_popescu: you can
select any arbitrary pair of yes/no bets and pretend they're made by the same person
mircea_popescu: but i'm just saying, "same address" is an irrelevant
selection here.
mircea_popescu: Duffer1 imagine if i also got to
select the secret valid nonce for each block, too.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves nice pic. did you
select it or did it auto
select ?
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bitcoinpete ah i see it's in the footnote. but yeah, the
select from a page process is very dubious (natural languages don't have equally distributed words, it's actually how zipf curves were discovered in the first palce)
mircea_popescu: should an algorithm exist to resolve the problem of ts on randomly distributed graphs, an application of that algorithm on a
selected set of graphs with a useful application will cost more than the normal by an ammount at least equal to the cost of computing the useful application.
mircea_popescu: In large part, however, we feel that high quality ownership can be attracted and maintained if we consistently communicate our business and ownership philosophy - along with no other conflicting messages - and then let self
selection follow its course. For example, self
selection will draw a far different crowd to a musical event advertised as an opera than one advertised as a rock concert even though anyon
mircea_popescu: Astor could
select her 400, but anyone can buy any stock.
mircea_popescu: then
select the meat, concentrate the juice, add foie gras patee'd and thin black perigord truffle
mircea_popescu: the more women fuck around, the more strongly large penises are
selected for.
mircea_popescu: "Your home will be built to your specs (details available at this website) with utilities stubbed to the interior. You
select the facade for the exterior of your home. You are responsible for completing the interior of your home as you wish. You may choose to do the work yourself, or hire contractors. But every single detail, from paint to tiles to counters, is your choice."
mircea_popescu: because the group that responds to the former well is SELF
SELECTED.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves it probably has good
selectivity but poor specificity.
mircea_popescu: because
selective scamming is in fact sufficient to establish bad faith
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic actually, probably great way to get random data :
select random day from log,
select random portion of text, hash it.
mircea_popescu: i bet you that if you hire any
selection of them you want to tweet some muzak or w/e you will sell less units than dollars spent ?
mircea_popescu: and a whole slew of things such as group
selection, and marginalisation, etc
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder did you obtain the painting by smear
selected bacteria or by smearing uniform bacteria with particular mutagen ?
mircea_popescu: you define actual words in the dictionary as "good stuff", and each player gets a
selection of poems to complete. words themselves are worth points, filled lines are worth more points, filled poems even more.
mircea_popescu: half the time when i
select something a final char is omitted
mircea_popescu: punkman you mean they cook already opened cans or do you mean they offer a
selection of stuff like canned tennis balls etc ?
mircea_popescu: not sure how well known this is, but esp in the larger trials the jury
selection team of a well funded defender may include > 100 people
mircea_popescu: that's the problem here. bitcoin
selects for and promotes some very narrow, specified things.
mircea_popescu: yeah, of which 69`999`923 people do banking with a
select few :)
mircea_popescu: yes, but apparently you won't have classes, and be happy inferiors of some
selected caste of masters.
mircea_popescu: that's how board meetings work, where the board
selects ceos
mircea_popescu: double spending
selectively some confused dork's unheard of casino site
mircea_popescu: "The leadership of the Bitcoin Alliance of Canada consists of 6 board members, each being
selected by an independent election committee of Bitcoin enthusiasts from across Canada."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform perhaps that's a cogent point, as to
selection being mostly lineage.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's in fact very little
selection going on.
mircea_popescu: benkay
selection bias. by now the people that read me tend to have had trhe same ideas for a while,
mircea_popescu: anyway, nzhang/avalon is a thorny subject, because it seems like it's either gypping some customers
selectively in a most fraudulent manner or else is beleaguered with asshats. i can't call it.
mircea_popescu: grilledcat scams are made like that deliberately, so as to pre
select.
mircea_popescu: deadweasel it's notoriously difficult to distinguish insider job from
selective scammer
mircea_popescu: and this means deals
select : idiots there, sane people here.
mircea_popescu: The reason ZIGGAP is not currently up is because my competition has been
selectively scamming me. You see the following organizations are all ran by the same group of organized crime and money launderers:
mircea_popescu: can you prove there exists some manner to
select the better curve ?
mircea_popescu: isn't panama one of the
select few countries of which the us kidnapped the head of state ?
mircea_popescu: someone should write a calculator for the relative frequency of an arbitrary
selection of critical pieces of bitcoin infrastructure bering online at the same time
mircea_popescu: basically from what can be seen from the outside they take each order and do a mysql
select against the entire book
mircea_popescu: doesn't mean that it actually reflects the
selection process