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mircea_popescu: the way this is accomplished in practice is with "moderators", which are rods of particle absorbers. these soak up the particles, reducing the rate of reaction. in practice, large barium rods go in and out of the core
mircea_popescu: in order for the nuclear reaction to be a nuclear explosion, the average nucleons hit / nucleons broken must be >1. in order for it to be a nuclear reactor (the civillian kind) it must be exactly 1. but exactly. if it goes below 1 the reaction extinguishes, so most reactors are run as a 0.999 - 1 oscillation, practically.
mircea_popescu: so, nuclear reactions happen a lot like dating : whenever a nucleon breaks up, it spits out some accelerated particles. either these hit another nucleon and start another reaction or they don't.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski well then pull a chair and let old man me tell you a story!
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard yes man, in theory this is true. in practice you know what it is.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski you familiar with the "poisoned reactor" phenomenon ?
mircea_popescu: the conflict here being that you like accountancy and imagine that "being an accountant" is a part of one's identity, and i used to like being a cfo back when i was still available to hire, and i had a very strict "accountant ne ultra crepidam" then, too.
mircea_popescu: depends for whom. yes, for middle aged fatty married to middle aged fatty they aren't. which is why he calling her a "porn star" is dubious in the first place.
mircea_popescu: competent people are not "characters out of hollywood movies". this is like... guy wanting to break up with his wife because she's... whatever, middleaged fatty, and she breaking out the "supermodels aren't available!!1"
mircea_popescu: in no case can random corp that's NOT a private bank actually afford a cfo. (who no, is not an accountant, and who yes costs more than a good ceo - which again isn't "i'm the boss")
mircea_popescu: if oversight were the definition of management, all parents of autistic children should be in jail.
mircea_popescu: having a cfo is like having an afterburner. for your car.
mircea_popescu: unless you're out and out making tax avoidance and marginal financial scams a part of your business model (hence my "are you a private bank" question), in which case yes the cfo is in fact a chief of a department and needs to come up with planning for the board etc,
mircea_popescu: i get it, everyone wants to pretend and pretense is expensive so everyone agrees to pretend in a cheaper, mutually recognised way
mircea_popescu: governance is the job of the fucking board not the job of the officers
mircea_popescu: then they do and it turns out... that's still not where it's at.
mircea_popescu: these fiat derps really imagine they're going to be such hot shit once "they get regulatory approval"
mircea_popescu: i'm having a lol at "greyscale" having made essentially the same tired out bitcoin scam.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski lol. doesn't even... price outside of week range etc ? p.lulzy.
mircea_popescu: a business couldn't conceivably operate for long without the cleanning lady, either, but that doesn't mean she's not staff.
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard yeah, but what they did was glorify their accountant into "officer"hood.
mircea_popescu: but ==4466== ERROR SUMMARY: 303360 errors from 25 contexts is not bad.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform (Fragging; or dynamic crud somehow not covered by valgrind, etc.) << i toldja it doesn't only leak in that place.
mircea_popescu: "you and sara aren't nearly as much a thing as me and sara, because I even draw weird pictures of her in my fictional dungeon doing really slave-y shit!!1"
mircea_popescu: "The Liberlanden goverment seems to have a lot of plans for the future. Paraduin appears to have no plans. Why clutch the control of a nation which you have no intrest in?" << wtf is with these retarded children. they're comparing their reality on the grounds of the extension of their hopes and dreams now ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway. so some senator wants the bitches in decolletage. big whoop.
mircea_popescu: <jurov> wow,$42 for 0.1 pseudobtc? << i don't see anything on that page ?
mircea_popescu: same Katie Courics/Elie Wiesels/Alicia Koplowitzes that madoff took to the cleaners too.
mircea_popescu: well yahoo in the golden age (1999-2002ish) also swindled the same market.
mircea_popescu: thinking about it, i'm not even sure what ycombinator's business model is supposed to be past the old yahoo scam (trick old ladies into thinking X is big so they pour their money into it, pocketing most of it, etc)
mircea_popescu pokes asciilifeform the conquering hero as to THE STATE OF THE DAMNED GPG KEYS!111
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: << that part's got to go << that's the part which provides "usability".
mircea_popescu imagines very sad repair shop operated by the surviving children of dead mechanic, through throwing wrenches and whatnot at engines.
mircea_popescu: cargo cultism at its most base. "well we don't have a mechanic, but all the toolboxes are here and open just like he would have had them, were he here"
mircea_popescu: if you don't have providential management, da fuck you gonna do. trust in the tools.
mircea_popescu: accountant's a tool. can only shine in the hands of providential management.
mircea_popescu: which makes them ever so slightly better than blindfold darts
mircea_popescu: he means the accountant will shrug at their projections and go "i guess"
mircea_popescu: decimation : to quote the original variety speak, "the budget goes crunch, but the names pack punch, so they called over the accountants and they're gonna do lunch"
mircea_popescu: principally because the female viewpoint is retardedly infantile.
mircea_popescu: because human culture is an exercise in opressing the female viewpoint
mircea_popescu: women plan like thus : i would like for X to happen. men plan like thus : X is probably going to happen want it or not.
mircea_popescu: the thought of your average joe when confronted with a vacuum is never "holy shit ima make SUCH A fucking earthquake here..."
mircea_popescu: the problem with people, generally, is that they never aim to destroy.
mircea_popescu: heck, at some point graham was a very respectable lisp hacker, and buffett a supremely wise capital allocator.
mircea_popescu: (but i do recall a kid who, whenever asked what he aims to become in lyf, would answer "pensioneer")
mircea_popescu: "everyone can drive a car" results sooner or later in the "nobody could have foreseen that curve" soccer mom and old person automotive club
mircea_popescu: there's an entire subculture of these asinine imbeciles, from altman to fetlife to automattic to you name it.
mircea_popescu: because gravatar, which is a subsidiary of automattic, which exists in order to shit on the internet.
mircea_popescu: im going through ~100/s, fished out a few dozen already.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah. this is going the other way tho : make emails, hash, test.
mircea_popescu: oh i recall this identi.fi thing being discussed at some point cuz anduck was in it. maybe a year ago ?
mircea_popescu: i'm "hacking" gravtar, been exposing gmail emails all day.
mircea_popescu: there was a great pic of a loaded train yest, where was it
mircea_popescu: and i suspect (the math on this is fuzzy and still bneing worked out) that the critical mass for wot is exponentially more expensive than the critical mass for bitocin.
mircea_popescu: kind-of what i'm trying to build too, kind-of what's utterly required : until critical mass, danger will robinson!
mircea_popescu: yeah. but even if construed favorably, the point remains : you will have some hierarchies of trust.