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mircea_popescu: in retrospect, his going to war with the dealers sunk his car business.
mircea_popescu: that's exactly detroit electric volume touched up for the intervening century.
mircea_popescu: anyway, yes they produce cars, and the model s sold a whopping... 75k units
mircea_popescu: never actually supported anyone worth a squat and is now ~broke
mircea_popescu: romania has a bunch of these "intreprinzatori de carton", ie, cardboard entrepreneurs. one notable case (currently in jail) got to keep ~2bn worth of romanian govt money in 1989, on condition of supporting his friends.
mircea_popescu: some earthworms find incredible caches of forgotten artefacts. doth not qualify them as archeologists.
mircea_popescu: the substantial difference between the subset here named and the rest of the set consisting of various reddit experts and your spamming friend has nothing to do with them
mircea_popescu: he's the business world equivalent of a russian prison whore.
mircea_popescu: a man batting < 1% is certainly not possessed of a clue in the field.
mircea_popescu: made 100 different decisions since, 100 of which were wrong.
mircea_popescu: this is the case of all us "entrepreneurs" active today.
mircea_popescu: (exactly the hipster car of today, incdentally. marketed to women and doctors, had curved glass panes, etc)
mircea_popescu: there is good reason to build a universal engine into a tank intended for 1950s style attreition war.
mircea_popescu: soo... imo musk's electric car has failed to reach the sort of growth patterns and penetration goals it needed to survive. it therefore peaked sometime last year, and it will go the same way all the numerous attempts at an electric car since the 20s have went.
mircea_popescu: in any case the generality comes at an efficiency cost.
mircea_popescu: because who the fuck else would not know what fuel he wants to burn
mircea_popescu: there are some "universal fuel" power generators, mostly marketed to end user derps
☟︎ mircea_popescu: putting gasoline in a diesel engine is not unlike putting crude oil in a tar or coal plant.
mircea_popescu: none of them run on crude, not since 1880 at any rate.
mircea_popescu: plenty of models made to run onm the heavy stuff left after gas distillation
mircea_popescu: nah. gotta appreciate, power plants are products of industry like anything else
mircea_popescu: crude oil is not realy useful to power an electric plant.
mircea_popescu: moreover : the solution to the challenge is plainly there.
mircea_popescu: there is no structural way to scoure a message outside of it.
mircea_popescu: but as things stand today, after two years of idiocy from the stooge camp, your doubts would be a weak minority even without it.
mircea_popescu: the very notable reserve power behind it all is not the hoard.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field nevertheless, the strategic considerations involved are what they are.
mircea_popescu: (formally, once it no longer can be used to make predictions)
mircea_popescu: you never can know whether you have or have not considered "the history", for the plain reason that history is something you only know once it no longer matters
mircea_popescu: "orthodoxy" is such a laughingstock people'd just switch with a sigh of relief.
mircea_popescu: but in actual fact the usg idiots have done such a good job at burying themselves, that it likely wouldn't even be needed, today.
mircea_popescu: normally the switchover from prototype to actual product might have needed a little prodding, so reserve funds make sense, yes.
mircea_popescu: the satoshi hoard poses very little threat to bitcoin as is. the real threat is, an ~ACTUAL~ bitcoin client emerging, that's thje actual son of the original, not a bastardized clump of nonsense.
mircea_popescu: doesn't this prove without a doubt that half the bugs were left behind ?
mircea_popescu: "During the following 24 hour period, our CRS was able to identify vulnerabilities in 65 of those programs and rewrite 94 of them to eliminate bugs built in their code. This proves, without a doubt, that it is not only possible but achievable to automate the actions of a talented software auditor."
mircea_popescu: because a ship sinking is stil lthe worst time to do research
☟︎ mircea_popescu: at the one time when buying ibm was actually the rigfht move.
mircea_popescu: he just got stuck trying to make it work afterwards, and got his ears nailed to the headboard when he couldn't.
mircea_popescu: but yes, it does not follow that the heads ought to stay on.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field beheading the popist priests will not banish gluttony from your lands, kind sire.
mircea_popescu: i think actually curtis yarvin is a very fine example of what's the problem with derps "reviewing the whole history"
mircea_popescu: yet most of everything that works was built by people doing the incremental bs.
mircea_popescu: in short, unpalatable as this is, im afraid it'd be a field where no formal examination is possible.
mircea_popescu: the only problem is that you can't have people mechanically NOT follow their betters just to maintain the shattered scabbard of an "intellectual independence" they do not actually possess.
mircea_popescu: this is universally a bad habit anyway. heck, not doing THAT is even in the rules, such as they are.
mircea_popescu: the proportion of actual humans coming out, about the same throughout.
mircea_popescu: 't ya ?!), the result is a lot of obnoxious, self-centered, lazy twerps.
mircea_popescu: anyway. historically there's no impact. for many years teachers soundly and loudly despised their pupils. this resulted in a large mass of insecure, neurotic schmucks, freud fodder. for some years now teachers loudly and perhaps soundly love their pupils. outside of a few cases of coabitation which are apparently a criminal offense for some contorted reason (what sense does it make, you asked them to love the kids didn
mircea_popescu: and i do mean this no. prolly met more mothers than you met reverse engineers, too.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, the reverse case can also be made. no mother i ever met was actually aware how shitty her offspring was.
mircea_popescu: do you suppose torquemada was the worst anatomist of his age, because unlike the other jews, he was contempt-powered ?
mircea_popescu: things like how trilema shapes the future irrespective of how many derps deem themselves to be "offended" by it and attempt in their meagre way to resist are obviously not well explained by that theory.
mircea_popescu: a rare enough trait, which is why periods of abundance do not increase the population.
mircea_popescu: so the doctor example is particularly cogent. the doctor, and more generally the scholar (called scientist these days) is the person whose curiosity is inflamed by what makes others puke.