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mircea_popescu: do not sign in the manner of v stuff you don't intend to be in v
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform how would that be in "random signed crud" ?
mircea_popescu: how do you know when you've tried it ? what shape was it ? etc.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, THIS is where good math would show before biotech
mircea_popescu: but one thing people DO NOT appreciate is that if i had to find the "lost meta-engineers" alf wants to have been in software\
mircea_popescu: they actually have a liquefaction process (in the civilised world, not in the us) that significantly reduces the intellectual relevancy of this
mircea_popescu: that's all there is. now you gotta know an infinity about the fluid.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it is on account of refineries being pipes, with turns.
mircea_popescu: the only marketable xx item in the us is, "15 yo runaway".
mircea_popescu: and notice that it was interestinfg to them PRECISELY because a) he did what they don't do (go for a woman) and b) it blew up in a way threy like.
mircea_popescu: jurov the only example i can think of is bingoboingo's fake story
mircea_popescu: if homo redditicus would pay as much as five borrowed dollars for "a woman" the us would look like argentina.
mircea_popescu: "woman" as in, overweight, with college debt, with bad habits, with the entire baggage of having watched as much as 5 mionutes of for-women tv is worth less than a pig.
mircea_popescu: but the woman is an unwelcome addition to the resources.
mircea_popescu: are you kidding ? "chix" in the sense of "out of the street human female" were replaced cca 2005.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes so it's not really half ton unmovable cabinets.
mircea_popescu: it is written in unmovable half ton steel cabinets, which makes it ok.
mircea_popescu: re. When it decides otherwise, look out. The US will go Lehman Brothers faster than you can say Bear Stearns."
mircea_popescu: "There is a terrible, terrible, ugly truth underlying all of this, and that is that taxes don't matter to a government that can print money. The government collected $2.4T and spent $3.6T. They'll take what they get, of course, but if they had collected $2T or $3T you/they would not have noticed. The country isn't a household, it is a bank, and as long as the rest of the world believes "we're good for it," then we a
mircea_popescu: it is certainly a valid, heavy duty phd. "1915-2015, a century of "oil quality"". THAT is something i'd respect.
mircea_popescu: for sure more male time / money went into the former to date.
mircea_popescu: oil quality is, i daresay, something like beauty in adolescent human females.
mircea_popescu: guaranteed entertainment for a year's time in smart go-getter types.
mircea_popescu: did you get to the entire crazy that is "oil quality", how it relates to its density, and what "a barrle" ACTUALLY means ?
mircea_popescu: Why oh why would they do this?! It's so wrong! It's so stupid!"
mircea_popescu: "I still can't believe this! All this hype for something so ridiculous! Who cares about an MP3 player? I want something new! I want them to think differently!
mircea_popescu: or are you really aiming to become a glorified consumer gimmicks firm?"
mircea_popescu: "|hey - heres an idea Apple - rather than enter the world of gimmicks and toys, why dont you spend a little more time sorting out your pathetically expensive and crap server line up?
mircea_popescu: no. the irony is, they think "there was nothing [else] i could do."
mircea_popescu: so asciilifeform : a) the iron because they're broken (ie, not equal to the design) ; the bc is, TECHNICALLY, part of the car. aftermarket shocks.
mircea_popescu: i will now attempt to mout a defense with my disembodied, bloody remains!
mircea_popescu: "grsec has had much lower burn rate than the other packages because there has been less independent research put into it"
mircea_popescu: i mean, your data is your data, ok, but what does it say ?
mircea_popescu: they're not models. and once they try to become models they quit promising.
mircea_popescu: no. they are promising for the same reason 15yo hos "are" promising.
mircea_popescu: or should i say "unmodelable" ? obscurantist perhaps ? :D
mircea_popescu: aha. the effect is not exactly unknown, in all its batshit crazy splendour.
mircea_popescu: kinda the point of that entire thing with trinque yest. "oh, 100% placebo works for me when i tihnk it's 75% drug". good for you, continue.
mircea_popescu: all myths have a kernel of truth in em. the idea is to select a set that works.
mircea_popescu: well tlp in this case. but the mechanism of pissing on X myth is parenting.
mircea_popescu: your parents aren't supposed to understand YOU. they're supposed to understand the world.