asciilifeform: the other, with the more ordinary smooth insulation does no such thing.
asciilifeform: and it scratched on shirt, chair, etc. and vibration - propagates
asciilifeform: one set had cloth fiber, to 'look retro' presumably
asciilifeform observed an interesting effect. have two very similar pairs of cheapo headphones, but one emits strange scratchy sounds, other does not. then realized that it is the ~insulation on the cord~ that was at fault
asciilifeform: i don't see this argument going anywhere.
asciilifeform: anyway, i need not-having-knuth (or table of motherfucking permeattivity constants, or landau, or,or,or,x10,000) like i need to have my arms and legs and cock chopped.
asciilifeform: unless i catastrophically misread this thread, it is almost as if mircea_popescu thought that stupidity were a ~technology~ that we'd be happily without if only some malefactor had not carefully developed it, and dropped on us, like a nuke
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu mazdak, quite possibly, was 'rousseau' long before rousseau. what bookz do we blame him on ?
asciilifeform: idiots are perfectly able to propagate their cults without the verbatim text
asciilifeform: the other thing is that, at least from my perch, nowhere are there symptoms that the folks pushing rousseauism actually read the bloody book
asciilifeform: but mircea_popescu for some reason is not moving to afghan, has not sold his computer, bought moar horse ?
asciilifeform: i mean, this ~is~ a self-consistent thing. pashtun needs galois like a dog needs beets.
asciilifeform: no but only because 'i'm ok to ride a horse'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: talisman of the parachute. it's old, rat-eaten, and has ДОСААФ 1966 printed on it, but ~it's the one you're wearing~ while falling. and you can try to make a new one out of your underwear before you splat, or use that one.
asciilifeform: not having to rederive, e.g., motherfucking group theory, is ~how we actually advance~. not because better classes of human were dropped down from the sky each generation, no. (quite opposite, afaik)
asciilifeform: but none of it can happen without the scanz!
asciilifeform: the translation, reading, GROKKING, etc. are very time consuming. i expect to spend most of my life on it.
asciilifeform: so this is all batshit. if i need islam i know where to find it
asciilifeform: and could have otherwise spent my whole life rediscovering it
asciilifeform: i dug balanced ternary system out of FUCKING BOOKZ
asciilifeform: i personally picked up too many of these to list. and they will live for at least as long as i do.
asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> it can't survive this. << this is demonstrably false.
