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mircea_popescu realises that probably no one else's light went off when alf was getting all excited about vmath that what he was seeing really was "omfg, usable molecular chem."
☟︎ mircea_popescu has never been involved in the field, some minor amateur interest, and the math.
mircea_popescu: oh right, cuz you used to work at the mice farm, it's starting to come back to me
mircea_popescu: anyway, leach, great book. i dun think i understood most of it, but nevertheless.
mircea_popescu: you think linux is in bad shape, that just means you don't know enough math.
mircea_popescu: the models are shit because math is broken because idiots do strings theory and social fucking "sciences"
mircea_popescu: contrary to what you might think, these are basically human pick-and-place machines.
mircea_popescu: just... god help the army led by an argentine general ; or the country led by an argentine president etc. it'd do about as bad as the usarmy/usa.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'd trust a ba mechanic. cook. dentist. plastic surgeon.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile the street has yet to be invented in romaniawhere all the cars are parked within the same two inches from the sidewalk.
mircea_popescu: it gets WINDY. parking on a 30% incline with 50mph winds.
mircea_popescu: no, i know the thing, and ftr a number like that has been thrown around pretty much ever since the major synth advances of the 80s
mircea_popescu: you realise i can declare a compound of arbitrary complexity right ?
mircea_popescu: so can i have polymerizable water ? or is this "anything" limited by other criteria than "what you can describe" ?
mircea_popescu: ie, the better industry won that time. obviously you can throw some away because "variance'
mircea_popescu: so much so high street jewelers were taking full page ads lambasting the hoarding.
mircea_popescu: moreover... i seem to recall some bigshot names trying and miserably failing to corner the silver market.
mircea_popescu: if it was the lesser industry, it had the lesser bankroll.
mircea_popescu: funkenstein_ the problem you face is explaining why the guys with the lesser bankroll won.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo yeah, the soy because estrogens thing has a much better conspiraci score than the dupont hemp thing.
mircea_popescu: trinque the notion that devil ~= altered mental state is older than africa really. it's an universally recognised human truth.
mircea_popescu: rope factory, first factory, harbringer of industry. so it was.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, ropemaking was THE FIRST industrial process. everywhere.
mircea_popescu: sure pays off happens. but why did the inferior side prevail ? didn't the better industry have more money ?
mircea_popescu: seems, from a purely theoretical perspective, that if the orcs beat the humans, it's likely the humans sucked in some respect.
mircea_popescu: how come the hemp industry didn't band together to destroy rayon ?
mircea_popescu: it does serve the role of honest signal exceedingly well.
mircea_popescu: secondarily for the shoes and etc. people who can afford a bowl can usually afford whatever else teen might think she wants.
mircea_popescu: all the "cocaine addicted" chicks i ever knew were in it principally for the cock.
mircea_popescu: which it does, and which romania is still in a position to very acutely measure.
mircea_popescu: no, banned because it negatively affects school performance.
mircea_popescu: <funkenstein_> was this before the dupont campaign? << specific sino-soviet relations point. 70s.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: who smoked pot when ro was 'unaligned' ? << literally nobody. cops had no fucking idea what it smelled like, even. i don't mean "some". i mean you couldn't find a beat cop that did.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform srsly, dope conventionslong predate usg.
mircea_popescu: funkenstein_ fwiw, pot was A LOT more illegal in romania back when it was an "unalligned nation"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform iirc you wanted ppl to check and confirm.
mircea_popescu: cocaine is supposed to be this rite of passage for the more fit teenaged girl,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i wouldn't sell cocaine either, at any rate not differently freom how it's done now, at which point you'd saysomething liek "mp is nao usg" and i'd hit you in the head with a six kg single crystal metaphetamine hammer.
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> thestringpuller: He was/is a white hamplanet with an enabling family. <<< what the fuck, hamplanet robbery ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo that's the importance of massmarket for you. he did something that's mainstream
mircea_popescu: in fact, romania disbars das if shown they tried to taint the trial, which is what plea bargain would be in sane places.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, first offense, so he serves no jail time. has to show up monthly to probation officer.
mircea_popescu: guy was trading pot, had 5 grams + ~1k$ confiscated, 2 years in prison for trading, 6 months for possession, suspended sentence.
mircea_popescu: and in general, two types of problems. 1. "build me a bridge" ; 2. "find me the leak". 1 is blocking, but 2 isn't - if a baby goat finds the leak the leak's just as found as if jesus had found it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: phf this is a non-competence blocking issue. it doesn't matter how competent or credentialed you are,code in question will be reviewed anyway.
mircea_popescu: Information publicly disclosed on the Scottrade breech << lulzy, but breach.