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mircea_popescu: isaackl wait. the stupid "X Y Z" themed slot machines in ipad store ?
mircea_popescu: davout hey, the first math class that pays for itself.
mircea_popescu: what's next, if you could make a bomber plane that could get through china's defenses then that'd increase demand for planes ?
mircea_popescu: isaackl you really think i depend on you to make me the tools that the universe requires for my survival ?
mircea_popescu: the monopoly on violence problem makes everyone unable to actually hold gold.
mircea_popescu: unrelatedly, for the journos and other news fiends watching the log : i came to a resolution of a major sticking point re the rsa factorisation thing, large article coming in a few hours.
mircea_popescu: anyway, all this given here to underscore the fact that this shit is really fucking complex, to the point of excluding most specialists, let alone amateurs.
mircea_popescu: obviously before bitcoin nobody even understood that there is ANOTHER kind of real inflation, and thus therefore the real inflation from before is actually yet another kind of nominal inflation
mircea_popescu: bitcoin nominal inflation may be whatever it may be, but its REAL inflation is always zero.
mircea_popescu: Estimated Percent Change: -2.76227 << that thing is the last term.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin inflation over an interval equals the mined coins over that interval divided by the average monetary mass during that interval plus the percent change over that interval.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes yup. cultural archeology is the superset, antrhopology being the application. it's what the wise do with their time.
mircea_popescu: isaackl come up with the formula for bitcoin inflation, i'm curious.
mircea_popescu: isaackl the idea being that your representation of this thing is manufactured for the needs of representation. it's what they call a didacticism, with no actual connection to reality. bad way to think.
mircea_popescu: very smart chicks develop the same, because of the same, only different but in the end the same.
mircea_popescu: it's the blessing of suck, you know ? very beautiful (and i mean, VERY, stunner beautiful) chicks develop early adolescence dementia because of all the insane sexual attention they get and don't really want, need, or know what to do with.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes intel has her photo, at 16 and current. looks a little tranny.
mircea_popescu: isaackl what's this, like an exam of sorts ? the heavenly throne is holding a vote to replace the old usd with a spiffy young fellow ?
mircea_popescu: 1) find some group you respect ; 2) work on their ideas ; 3) there is no 3. you will have ideas, yes, but you'll never have to try and sell them like noobs with "my film idea" in hollywood.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: leaving alone how "concrete idea" is a contradiction in terms.
mircea_popescu: trick question, wasn't one per se. but the idea is why the fuck do you think you're having ideas ?
mircea_popescu: if you can do something useful, do it. if not, relax and watch the show.
mircea_popescu: so why are you derping about various obscure purposes ? let it be.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this particular usage is the reason tilde even exists on computer keyboards.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes they might have decided not to teach kids anymore, but it was in use back in the day
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes old library convention, so the list doesn't consist of half the items filed under TH
mircea_popescu: look at the cute idiots, they're going to call no philosophies. because that's how it works, for keepsies! they called it!
mircea_popescu: the age old problem with being clueless - it impairs metacognition too.
mircea_popescu: one wonders what'd be the bar for non-fictional politics.
mircea_popescu: if you are gonna do it, then what happened to "yeah bitch, exactly."
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