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mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> because the morons think they can magic their own spew away when it turns embarrassing. << b-a logs will become the most interesting resource in not many years.
mircea_popescu: because they can't be wrong, or stupid, because they're smart and special.
mircea_popescu: without anyone ever saying they were wrong, or stupid.
mircea_popescu: it is incidentally the model upon which i see the most serene republic coming to an agreement with the obsolete "states" : bitcoiners are outside of lay jurisdiction, and to be judged by bitcoin court.
mircea_popescu: it was quickly limited to a "first offense only" thing
mircea_popescu: and as a side note, that's how probation came to be : originally clerics (ie, university students y compris) could claim eclesiastic jurisdiction before they lay court, and be taken before their rector to be judged there.
mircea_popescu: it exists so as to exclude the scum so people who can think can do so, and young people who could one day think can come there to be away from their idiot families, small towns and government.
mircea_popescu: an university is by definition dedicated to exclusiveness.
mircea_popescu: "hey, that's exactly what should NOT be a value of yours, core or no core"
mircea_popescu: such nonsense tho. "our police department remains comitted to our core values of donuts and shooting the nigger"
mircea_popescu: the university of maryland is a fraud. those can't be the core values of an university.
mircea_popescu: "The University of Maryland remains committed to our core values of respect for human dignity, diversity, and inclusiveness."
mircea_popescu: is this your ploy to make me invent thought typing for you ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, make mesh of two wires, so that on each hole you have at least one spot of wire at - potential and one spot at + potential. then the size of the hole and the intensity of the emission tell you how much potential you need in the cage.
mircea_popescu: hence passive. it is still a radiator in my theoretical view of things, because it COULD
mircea_popescu: chetty i guess so does all your dust plus the cats, huh
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform let's forget optical fibres for a second and consider this : on a standard keyboard, making a spoke portrude from each key so that from a width-long perspective each spoke is separated by any other is trivial mechanically. lighting one width and sticking a camera on the other width then resolves the problem,
mircea_popescu: make a sort of cyclotron in your living room, all electrons end up on the plate.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i was thinking btw, faraday cage is essentially a passive radiator element. what if made active ?
mircea_popescu: yes, but "shield the screen" vs "shield the screen and shield the keyboard"
mircea_popescu: who knew that ipad style on-screen kbds will actually have at least one advantage ?
mircea_popescu: but re-reading, you actually mean the mechanical keyboard pressing is the source
mircea_popescu: i was simply thinking a 2nd kbd with a rng tied to it closing circuits.
mircea_popescu: (conversely, it's usually the case that you do require a trisomy or other polysomy to get the actual worst performance available - kids with such genetic defects are almost universally retarded and sterile)
mircea_popescu: (trisomy is usually a copy of one or the other gene, but it doesn't actually have to be - it could be a mix of them, which ~could~ be a legitimate new gene, if mindbogglingly improbable)
mircea_popescu: which may put it in the billions to one odds of happening, which means that we know enough about genetics since the genome has been sequenced to make judgements about on par with the quality of the pseudoscience that gave us "global warming" and "carbon"
mircea_popescu: and it is unlikely but technically possible that you actually require a TRISOMY to get the topmost performance.
mircea_popescu: if the gene for being a total fucktard has genes A through P and a through w, where upcase ones are dominant, it may be the case that the AD kid is the geniusest of them all and the BG kid is the total fucking retardest of the lot, way behind ww or ft or whatever the fuck other recessive combo
mircea_popescu: there's places with 30+ genes, of which multiple are dominant.
mircea_popescu: the single alele pair model is in the books because fucking peas exhibit it, and because it's easy to teach to biologists, who are people who are bad at basic arithmetics.
mircea_popescu: motherfucker. i am so sick and tired of this cloying tiresome pedestrian understanding of genetics.
mircea_popescu: "The other model Hariezer lays out is that magic lies on a single recessive gene. He reasons squibs have one dominant, non-magical version, and one recessive magical version of the gene. So of kids born to squibs, 1/4 will be wizards. In this version, you either have magic or you don’t, so if wizards married the non-magical, wizards themselves could become more rare, but the power of wizards won’t be diluted. C
mircea_popescu: elitism has its protective advantages, especially for teh youth.
mircea_popescu: the one thing that'll ruin a bright young mind is success among idiots.
mircea_popescu: you familiar with the "there's nothing worse for a good startup than a bad revenue source early on" quip ?
mircea_popescu: there's a reason for the yawning geopoliticomilitary chasm centering around pekin, and that cause is that the top brass of the us centcom failed to guess cca 1980.
mircea_popescu: thus, they're not bankrupt, and will in fact bury the us.
mircea_popescu: instead of making 25 atomic carriers to the us' dozen, they just made small cheap rockets)
mircea_popescu: note that the chinese very smartly did not do what the usians expected them to do in the 70s/80s (an exact rehash of the 60s/70s russian idiocy of trying to copy them and lose at it, Мы вас похороним! and all that,
mircea_popescu: this is scarce consolation to the poor schmucks sent to die in the trenches, of course, but we're here discussing the larger problem
mircea_popescu: if you're fighting over terrain you do not know you've got a whole heap of problems, each much bigger than anything a buzzard flying by could solve.
mircea_popescu: what can be said about the kid who gets into a fight his first day in the new school ?
mircea_popescu: these don't exist not because "it wouldn't be cool", but because it'd be pretty dumb.
mircea_popescu: if what you're doing requires "air superiority" you're essentially trying to construct a nuclear-powered lawnmover