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mircea_popescu: in particular, it's why calorimetric theory was unverifiable. and so on.
mircea_popescu: this was the exact description of a "bad math" situation htroughout the history of science.
mircea_popescu: i don't need it to answer absolutely. i just need it to reduce by a factor of 10^20 rather than by a factor of maybe 10^3
mircea_popescu: but not provable that a good heuristic intermediate between "closed form" and "fuck you" is absent for fundamental reasons.
mircea_popescu: yes but that because bad math more than anything else.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes no, i get it, you want maximum skim for minimum upfront work.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the general lack of personal integrity in the angloworld is quite the sad spectacle, huh.
mircea_popescu: hey check that out, zimmerman makes nsa-phone and david chaum makes nsa-gossipd.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the dns derps keep going on about how important and bla bla they are - but by comparison they're 13yo's at the beach, making sandcastles.
mircea_popescu: it's complicated and multi-layered and so on because ddos.
mircea_popescu: it should also not be the case that there isn't a trb path between you and miners.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it shouldn't be the case that you're connected exclusively to prb nodes.
mircea_popescu: "Writer and Maker. Editor for TechCrunch." heh. ever novel ways to say "nobody doing nothing, ignore me please"
mircea_popescu: it'll take you forever to find out it doesn't work, sorta thing.
mircea_popescu: "since 100% of all bitcoin businesses are in b-a and b-a doesn't like it, you know what ? it is useless!11 nothing ever happened!111 blablabl~!111"
mircea_popescu: some places got better connectivity than others, but overall...
mircea_popescu: well, just like africa, so is the us a big... "country".
mircea_popescu: truth be told the connectivity situation of the us is really on par with its stature in the world : african.
mircea_popescu: trinque yeah, but they were going to bitchslap cox cable & co on the providing side.
mircea_popescu: trinque their bid to take over internet infrastructure altogether is apparently a little stalled.
mircea_popescu: well... im gonna tell the investors you're working on it nevertheless.
mircea_popescu: and the world will say "omfg apple is finished. what a crater."
mircea_popescu: you'll say "nothing happened, as predicted, because monopoly"
mircea_popescu: if it sheds 99.4% oif its market cap and preserves the tiny thing you're interested in,
mircea_popescu: nobody gives a flying fuck about making desktops when discussing the apple failure.
mircea_popescu: you were talking about some obscure desktop thing apple perhaps still makes ?!
mircea_popescu: apple is a monopoly in the sense qq.com is a monopoly. you... never heard of it.
mircea_popescu: getting back to sanity, selenium is an essential micronutrient and not that hard to get. eat moar beats.
mircea_popescu: no bro he got mad skills from watching the nature channel. just like all the other tardstalk ceobusinessmen
mircea_popescu: you're not about to tell me that you want random derp to be competing for heart transplant customers on the basis of marketing
mircea_popescu: eh that's rank nonsense. "they" have to spend twenty fucking years training to be doing this, and "they" aren't joe blow from the gun fair.
mircea_popescu: anyway, im in full agreement with the fellow on the "listen to body" angle. if one can shut up the stupid going on in his head long enough, absolutely amazing feats can be accomplished, such as knowing when to eat and what.
mircea_popescu: it is bad management not to do a large number of various things that appear counter-intuitive to "intelligent" people. especially to the "civilised" metastasis thereof.
mircea_popescu: and of course, alf's favourite part, "Popular until the very end, Digital Group failed in August of 1979 due to management and parts supplier troubles, not a lack of customer interest or product orders. Co-founder Dr. Robert Suding recalled that at the time of the bankruptcy, DG had thousands of product information requests and orders waiting to be filled."
mircea_popescu: ing systems on display at computer shows. Besting the closest competitor by weeks if not months. Contrast that with the common practice of the day, of running ads for a concept product, then using the money from the customer orders to develop the advertised hardware."
mircea_popescu: "Digital Group also offered a very wide range of hardware accessories. If it was available to computer users at the time, it was available to DG system owners, and usually first. A users group of the time reported (and I confirmed in conversation with Dr. Suding) that within two weeks of the release of the Zilog Z80 chip samples, Dr. Suding had finalized the design for the Digital Group Z80 processor card, and had work
mircea_popescu: " As the tape was read, the screen would fill with the HEX or OCTAL page high address of the byte being loaded, testing the memory content for correctly loaded data as each byte was saved."
mircea_popescu: that lisp company isn't the only thing to have sunk irrespective of immense tech advantages in the history of computing.
mircea_popescu: and a keyboard as standard equipment with all of their systems."
mircea_popescu: our times the speed possible with any other manufacturers tape systems, and ten times faster than paper tape -- the only method available at the time for loading Micro Soft BASIC onto the Altair system. Of course, to even do that on an Altair, you had to buy a paper tape reader and an interface. Usually an ASR-33 Teletype and an SIO card. ($$$) By contrast, Digital Group systems included a video and cassette interface
mircea_popescu: This was the "Cadillac of computers". In 1975, when this system was introduced, Altair system owners were flipping switches for hours just to watch lights blink on the front panel of their systems. Digital Group system owners were throwing a power switch and loading an operating system in less than 20 seconds. The cassette interface, standard with DG systems, loaded programs at 1100 baud. At the time, this was nearly f
mircea_popescu: i dunno why the muricans don't recognize b's merits. he did the integral expansion which is the actual reason it's even useful.
mircea_popescu: it's a basic tool for resolving certain problems in analysis.
mircea_popescu: heck, it's actually one of the oldest ideas in western thought.
mircea_popescu: i dun think the part about how limiting excessive medical procedurizing is the core of sane medicine was at all controversial.
mircea_popescu: there is something fundamentally wrong with people, intelligent or otherwise, who can't simply come out and say "mp said no, so it can't be done". just like there's something fundamentally wrong with people who can't simply come out and say "i tried pissing upwind and staying dry - it doesn't work".
mircea_popescu: pretending that a) didn't happen and then latter that b) if it happened it didn't matter and then even later that c) they did it anyway by themselves!!1
mircea_popescu: i dunno if you were around for / recall this, but after i singlehandedly nixed the original "block expansion" almost a year ago to the day, they spent A FUCKING YEAR
mircea_popescu: and then they get hits called on their stupid heads and "nobody" understands why.