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mircea_popescu: whatch five fucking minutes from the beginning "Band wagon" with fred astaire to get a fucking idea of what life in america still was, in the 50s.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i imagine those people will put more into advertising it than davout ever did, and so will take over.
mircea_popescu: then the whole echafaudage collapses ion a cloud of wtf and wchp
mircea_popescu: it's kinda funny how things are set up. the faitful always mistake the butresses of their chosen as mere weakness of the flesh that they, true templars, will find the courage and rectitude to straighten out
mircea_popescu: right, it was the buterins of the world that are permanent.
mircea_popescu: "WoW !!! Mircea Popescu is back. Not only on Trilema, but also on Twitter"
mircea_popescu: somehow this is supposed to not be gallingly obvious or what ?
mircea_popescu: i find it comedic that for all the "well documented" flaws of rsa, all these "take over the world" computing schemes fail to use ECC.
mircea_popescu: so basically apple is the sony corp of america sorta thing mkay.
mircea_popescu: it's a fucking processor on a board with a disk and a ram stick innit ?
mircea_popescu: i thought the trend was towards rooted iphones not the other way around
mircea_popescu: sure it is, doesn't mean perambulating cocks will score that many dates.
mircea_popescu: this is not unlike observing that the penis is the major bedroom inseminator.
mircea_popescu: anyway, attempts to win wars by artillery have been ongoing ever since someone observed cca 1600 that cannon is the major batterfield KILLER.
mircea_popescu: the us army and south vietnamese were at first inept but then regrouped and turned it into a disaster for the northeners
mircea_popescu: no it wasn't, and no it didn't nor was it even treied or contempalted in ww2.
mircea_popescu: at no point was the pentagon idea that war is won by anything other than fucking guts.
mircea_popescu: no it wasn't. dude, srsly... they had a fucking draft for vietnam.
mircea_popescu: the day they decided to fret over "transgenderism" instead of beating kids for sport is the day performance went away
mircea_popescu: and the reaso nit is "very difficulty" to appraise the "capabilites" of us army/navy/etc is because they are nil. anmd the reason they are nil is exactly the same reason the intellectual abilities of college grads are nil.
mircea_popescu: 'The Pentagon didn't notice the moment when blowing up defenseless, demoralized adversaries using cruise missiles stopped being the only method for waging war.' << this was never the fucking case wtf narrative bs is this.
mircea_popescu: soviets also stole from "the property of the whole people"
mircea_popescu: if you're curious as to where the endless scams draw their vigour from... you need look no further than government.
mircea_popescu: yeah i guess qntra ddoser got his monthly allowance or w/e that is.
mircea_popescu: in fact the smoothness comparison is a decent indication of the entropy involved.
mircea_popescu: hint : a world without complex systems IS a realistic goal. in point of fact, it is the baseline in realism.
mircea_popescu: bwahahaha habermas is not quite as smart as previously believed.
mircea_popescu: "Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems."
mircea_popescu: check it out, ethereum needed moneyz so it sold its s.mpoe participation.
mircea_popescu: what would you say the "intuitive meaning" of A'j is ?
mircea_popescu: let there be a monotonous measurable system S. let Mi be measurements made at moments-in-time Ti. let average-per-unit-time delta values be reported for each Ti as Ai = (Mi - Mi-1) / (Ti - Ti-1). let an arbitrary "reporting unit" R be defined so that a finite count of Ti fit in each such unit Rj. Let Ais be plainly averaged so that A' = (Ak +...+ Am) / (m-k) where k, m are the first and last i's for Tis fitting in Rj.
mircea_popescu: a question for the mathematically inclined practical minds in the audience :
mircea_popescu: i would suspect there's more random common law criminals being shielded by the usg from various jurisdictions than there are successful prosecutions in any given year.
mircea_popescu: hey, romania still has an unsatisfied arrest warrant for some us derp that got drunk and ran over some relatively popular singer guy.
mircea_popescu: "The intelligence official, identified as William George Basil, was accused of espionage and eavesdropping. But by then he had already left the country, and the U.S. government, as it has done for the past 10 years, continues to stonewall Greek authorities on the agencys involvement."