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mircea_popescu: the thng with allergies, and especiaslly in young people, is that they do go away.
mircea_popescu: right, just because prayer worked in the past is no reason to pray.
mircea_popescu: veblen goods are goods which exhibit reverse price relation (demand increases as price increases, as opposed to how it normally goes).
mircea_popescu: that it explains it does NOT reduce the insanity of it however.
mircea_popescu: because that's what #5 does, practically : it offers a model to explain and understand the otherwise insane, and otherwise never explain, luxury behaviour.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "This, mystical domination, is easily the prettiest girl in school. She’s the most unattainable, the most lust-worthy, the most drool-inducing" << you know what veblen goods are ?
mircea_popescu: "rsa. use for text. rsa/aes. use for anything that's not text."
mircea_popescu: anyway, optimal thing would be user specified, and full rsa option.
mircea_popescu: iirc blackberry was positioning itself as "text only. for important folk".
mircea_popescu: but obama and the rest of the blackberry users type... 500k wpm ?
mircea_popescu: naggum, through the magic of shoving lisp up his ass, types 180wpm
mircea_popescu: funny how moore law is always there to justify doing something stupid, never to justify doing things like "rsa all the way - we can afford it now"
mircea_popescu: jurov gpg does the same thing, yeah, but then again that was the 80s.
mircea_popescu: do they do the "rsa encryption of an aes symmetric key" thing ?
mircea_popescu: "to maintain correspondence between numbers and persons and tenses and such, and since this is mostly redundant, it can be also automated. this is stuff that takes just a bit of time to do, but when a whole paragraph of text " << such nonsense.
mircea_popescu: "I have typed an average of 21.3 keystrokes per second" eh gtfo.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: a shannonizer is a formalisation, but not of natural language.
mircea_popescu: i would agree that the counting horse is a remarkable horse,
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel natural languages are not formalizable.
mircea_popescu: hey various folks whose pgp keys i've signed at teh conference key signing party... you're supposed to also sign mine!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: or you mean popular as in, sought after. not as in, where commoners gather
mircea_popescu: i mean it in the bluntest "make sense of reality" sense.
mircea_popescu: and i don't even mean it in the made-for-tv "tax dodge11!1!" sense.
mircea_popescu: applies to accounting just as well, except even fewer people know.
mircea_popescu: hidden from human view and admiration, sometimes forever,
mircea_popescu: if they have ~fundamental~ understanding as a result of interacting with your thing, you scored major points.
mircea_popescu: and even if the resulting "accountants" won't be very good by the way this is measured today (a "stickler" approach - great emphasis on detail)
mircea_popescu: myeah. it WILL help if it leverages the power of html to literally funel people into sense.
mircea_popescu: but the good sort of work, the sort that creates a barrier to entry.
mircea_popescu: sorta funel the process of selection towards gaap/sanity
mircea_popescu: so giving them stuff like - well documented drop lists ? huge win.
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard a large chunk of the utility here is education, seeing how a bunch of people are going to get involved in a sort of you know, de novo, revolutionary economic process.
mircea_popescu: what sort of an example are you setting for business people such as myself!@
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mircea_popescu: should be lots of fun now that silly-valley's come up with the police bot.
mircea_popescu: dude that police looks just like lego characters foretold.
mircea_popescu: well, there's no point in it having 2 items in queue while load is under 4 ish
mircea_popescu: listen, seeing how it's using about 10% of what it could... throtle it ?