mircea_popescu: shit, if only the transfer weren't a zipfile, i could be 50k richer

mircea_popescu: this is imo a major contribution to western thought.

mircea_popescu: Mais, dans l'esprit de finesse, les principes sont dans l'usage commun et devant les yeux de tout le monde. On n'a que faire de tourner la tête, ni de se faire violence; il n'est question que d'avoir bonne vue, mais il faut l'avoir bonne; car les principes sont si déliés et en si grand nombre, qu'il est presque impossible qu'il n'en échappe. Or, l'omission d'un principe mène à l'erreur; ainsi, il faut avoir la vu

mircea_popescu: Différence entre l'esprit de géométrie et l'esprit de finesse. - En l'un, les principes sont palpables, mais éloignés de l'usage commun ; de sorte qu'on a peine à tourner la tête de ce côté-là, manque d'habitude : mais, pour peu qu'on l'y tourne, on voit les principes à plein; et il faudrait avoir tout à fait l'esprit faux pour mal raisonner sur des principes si gros qu'il est presque impossible qu'ils éch

mircea_popescu: finesse is the ability to make mayonaise by hand. a practice, anyone can be taught it.

mircea_popescu: i dunno. shooting a deer with a single bullet is finesse. taming it is a different thing.

mircea_popescu: which is, for lack of a different term, feminine guile.

mircea_popescu: there are of course a bunch of iterative solutions to this problem, but that's "with computer" not ruler&compass.

mircea_popescu: cazalla i get the idea, but i dun see that it's such a good idea, either for us or for them

mircea_popescu: if people want links let them go the original route, do something newsworthy. have a designated pr liaison and there you go.

mircea_popescu: cazalla tis fine. flashing gif mebbe a little distraction

mircea_popescu: "you don't have to make yourself magic pork and beans just because you have a magic wand you ninny"

mircea_popescu: well anyway : two trains moving on the same track leave simultaneously 29 miles apart, one doing 5mph the other 7mp. a fly caugh between them flies straight until it reaches a train then turns back and recurses, doing 9mph. ☟︎☟︎

mircea_popescu is a fundamentals man.

mircea_popescu: there's a limit to the smallest energy density that can fly, period, no matter any other considerations

mircea_popescu: i'm not arguing something like "o, you know, there's no way around it". more like, "why the fuck should finding ways around it even be a consideration at all"

mircea_popescu: 1% of avail memory, since when is that a problem

mircea_popescu: so here's a simple computing test for your platform. 1) open a 100mb text file. if your editor croaks, you're running windows. 2) go to the end and depress the pageup key. count to sixty / wait a full minute. depress the key. if the scroll stops immediately you are running good unix. if it keeps going... well...

mircea_popescu: -a

mircea_popescu: show, don't tell. when you tell a) everyone knows you're lying, whethetr you are not not and b) nobody can be bothered to go look anymore. fucking show. always.

mircea_popescu: this shit needs actual work. with the head. make a point, and make it interesting.

mircea_popescu: ;;later tell pete_dushenski i hate your articlke, fwiw. broadly because it's a very lazy stitching together of unexplained quotes, narrowly because wtf, qntra now links to wikipedia ? splendid, we're building a total alternative over here.

mircea_popescu: the fact that a bunch of scams are a bunch of scams, from icbit onwards does not mean that pointing out one particular scam as a scam is "supporting the others".

mircea_popescu: 185.34.216.71 resolves to "ddos-server.intyl.biz". who the fuck came up with this idea i wish to know, and i further wish to know how many people reading logs got a start from it.

mircea_popescu: little old me going through his logs, runs into a line

mircea_popescu: no, because a spitting copy of that other kim is coming by to visit us in a little, and ima have my hands full

mircea_popescu: Companies 10 and 11 promised monthly returns of 50% and 100% (later 40% and 70%) respectively. At the same time, share prices could plummet 50% for company 10 and 100% (e.g. all the way down to 0) for company 11. That caveat (known as Rule 18) was another way for StockGeneration to justify their claims that this was a gambling website, rather than an investment vehicle.

mircea_popescu: Company 9 was the "privileged" company, with its shares "guaranteed" never to decrease in value. Promised return was originally 10% a month (215% annually,) but was later reduced to 7% a month or 125% annually. In early April 2000, Stock Generation, despite all previous guarantees, devalued its privileged company shares to 5% of their previous value.

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Wow, there's a city actually named Moroni << iirc some prophet in john smith's braindamaged copy of yurp under his own "brand"

mircea_popescu: decimation: Google: "Q: who owns the internet? A: nobody" << fuck you << i imagine they're talking of the whole enchillada, as opposed to the parts thereof.

mircea_popescu: none oif them went "fuck this shit, i'm moving to galia narbo and building a castle."

mircea_popescu: i can find three new wives and learn a language before the month is out. your average "rich guy" is petrified of changing his colenostomy bag brand.

mircea_popescu: this is not a game of mosts.

mircea_popescu: see, if your boat got a leak, and you plug it with 1 sq inch of wood,

mircea_popescu: well, no. i happen to think the us would be in a better shape if the whole thing sunk but those 10k were saved