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mircea_popescu reread his own version of dudley. are you aware fermat
theorem proofs is in his list ?
mircea_popescu: people pretending otherwise are pretending otherwise, like
the girlies
trying
to get a husband by staring.\
mircea_popescu: there is no such
thing as central authority, nor ever was. nor could ever be.
mircea_popescu: moreover,
the "central authority" bullshit is LITERALLY and quite exactly "time
telling oracle"
mircea_popescu: (clock
towers -- notoriously innacurate, closer
to billboards
than
to quartz watches)
a111: Logged on 2017-07-07 00:50 mircea_popescu: 'Perhaps
the best example of claiming credit for a problem
that did not exist before is
the marine chronometer.
The marine chronometer enthusiasts claim it solved
the “timing at sea” problem.
Two men attempting
to meat in front of Saint Paul's need
to agree on a
time of day, so how do you provide
time for a ship at sea ? Very simple, you do not send out ships without a
timetelling oracle onboard.'
erlehmann: i guess
trisectorball cannot into hilbert space
erlehmann: >
the author has never made a study of
these branches of learning
erlehmann: i remember reading an article about
the
trisectors
erlehmann: i wonder what “simple” in
that sentence would mean. short? or “i have a beautiful solution but it does not fit into
the margin of
this input field”?
mircea_popescu: do
they serve
the
two pump hurr durr mocha latte yet or still working on it ?
mircea_popescu: cuz you know, dollars don't lack a central authority. somehow. because if we lalalala really hard pantsuit hilarity losing
the elections didn't happen and
totally
the fed is in control of shit.
mircea_popescu: this is by no means singular derapage of one stray goat, either. "how do you check
the correctness of a program ?" "very simple -- first, you build an universal corectness checker.
then, you feed it your problem. done!"
mircea_popescu: "very simple -- you reach backwards
through
time and jack your dad off!"
a111: Logged on 2017-07-06 01:49 asciilifeform: 'Perhaps
the best example of claiming credit for a problem
that did not exist before is Bitcoin. Bitcoin enthusiasts claim it solved
the “double spend” problem. A music MP3 can be copied multiple
times so how do you stop digital money being spent multiple
times? Very simple, you do not create a form of money
that lacks a central authority.' << ahahhahaha
mircea_popescu: babbage sleeps happily in his grave, serene in
the empirical knowledge
that
the anglotards of
today are just as fucked in
the head as
the anglotards of his day.
mircea_popescu: 'Perhaps
the best example of claiming credit for a problem
that did not exist before is
the marine chronometer.
The marine chronometer enthusiasts claim it solved
the “timing at sea” problem.
Two men attempting
to meat in front of Saint Paul's need
to agree on a
time of day, so how do you provide
time for a ship at sea ? Very simple, you do not send out ships without a
timetelling oracle onboard.'
☟︎ shinohai: I was in
there like maybe a year ago, it's definitely as dead as #b-a
shinohai: While Limnoria is stable bot platform,
the way it handles plugins does a lot of crazy shit I've never been able
to fix. :/
phf: actually, not sure what's going on,
that youtube url has slashes escaped for some reason
shinohai: Yeah phf ....it's
the heathen google plugin
that came with gribble. I haven't bothered
to fix, sorry, since I have a rewrite in
the worx
mircea_popescu: much lower "perceived spoiliage value", however. and
this because indians aren't worth jack shit in a fight ; whreas rosas kinda scared
them
mircea_popescu: had
the south managed
to produce a de rosas, it'd have been a very different place. substantially, not just superficially.
mircea_popescu: in sicily he is known as
the honorable man, ie mobster.
mircea_popescu: he is
the continuator of
the ancient military
traditions of aristocracy, and he yielded
the caudillo in south america. he yielded nothing in
the southern us, principally because, agian,
the germans are congenitally retarded.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the ~only morally or intellectually respectable character in italy, ie
the 1800s
thing, was
to be founbd not in italy but in sicily, which is altogether a different place.
mircea_popescu: THAT is what i mean by "ye olde "live and let live" whereby
the conservative is always in
the end hung.".
mircea_popescu: ye olde "live and let live" whereby
the conservative is always in
the end hung.
mircea_popescu: that it wasn't is principally due
to
the germans being congenitally retarded, and no moar.
mircea_popescu: not really. could have been more romiche reich
than empire francais, at
the very most.
mircea_popescu: i was not. i was stating
the gypos
then befouling
the peninsula are not worthy of inclusion in
the species.
mircea_popescu: somehow in your mind
these
two
things, one on mars,
the other on alpha centauri, kinda meld into a single item
mircea_popescu: i
tihnk you have no appreciation of
the fact
that a
thousand years is much MUCH wider
than
the piddly 5k kms making up
the us sideways.
mircea_popescu: by
the
time garibaldi was even a
thing,
the lido had long been sanded.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
there's entirely no relation between garibaldi and say venice. you wanna
talk d'este, sforza, zee germanz etc.
mircea_popescu: italy was used as a
topographic name in
the late empire (ie, 300s, italia) and else in
the late 1800s
mircea_popescu: if you had venice in mind, it'd be more proper
to say original pre-unified european union.
mircea_popescu: you can't fucking reference
the original, 1200
tmsr as "disunified italy" wtf is
this.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-05 22:28 asciilifeform: re mircea_popescu's hash, another observation : it is not ever necessary
to actually invert S. ( i will leave
the reason for
this, again, as an exercise
to readers )
mircea_popescu: for
that matter, you can drink in
tardstalk/reddit/what have you, have your fill.
mircea_popescu: ^ very much recommend. better history of italy
than any italian ever could write.
mircea_popescu: you can go
to
the acropolis right now, see
the useless fucktarded greeks sitting around. ~same bs.
mircea_popescu: buncha uppity "students" sitting around coffee
tables and being idea men. fuck
them with
the boot shaped peninsula.
mircea_popescu: the disunified italies contained
the original argentina and no more.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-06 20:46 mircea_popescu: leaving aside
that "an italy" would have been utterly horrible,
there's no significant difference between
these in respects
that interest us. neither wanted "a holy roman empire", and so...
mircea_popescu: ie, historically more yous was
the only
thing
they actually knew how
to make. so
they did. so... not much of a problem.
mircea_popescu: none of
this, "i have
these
toys in my shop, which i play with
today".
mircea_popescu: anyway, PeterL has a solid point : you may
think of whatever split between capital goods and labour, but fact is, at
the
time we are discussing
the shovel owned oyu, not
the other wayu around. if you owned a shovel you were god damned out
there shoveling every day.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the + is coming oiut of
the fed imaginary account, which is cvurrently still credited by china.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform look into small business papers sometime ? waht can i
tell yoiu,
the bezzle's
the bezzle, it's what it does.
mircea_popescu: medieval
time, you built, out of stone, a
tiny shop, cost about a hundred million in
today's fiats, and got custom worth... you kjnow, 200 bux a day.
mircea_popescu: well, look at modern business. you
throw up a bunch of vynil fresh off
the boat, worth 40k if you're drunk
that day, and call it a restaurant.
then you expect revenue in
the mn+ ayear.
mircea_popescu: very carefully weighed and so on, since before 1k ad,
too.
mircea_popescu: and yes
they had re
tax :
to own a plot of land you produced knights.
mircea_popescu: if your 100 btc capital good produces 1k btc a year, and you pay 1 bitcent in real estate
tax and 50% income
tax, you're paying... half your income each year, plus a bitcent.
mircea_popescu: here's
thje
thing. if your capital good worth 100 btc produces 1 btc a year and you pay real estate
tax of 0.5% and no income
tax, you're payinfg half your income each year.
mircea_popescu: and "shoulda been in
the forum a while back" will not parse
to anything, either.
mircea_popescu: for
the schmucks getting
the sharp end of
that stick,
the difference will be negligible.