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mircea_popescu: Tous les géomètres seraient donc fins s'ils avaient la vue bonne, car ils ne raisonnent pas faux sur les principes qu'ils connaissent; et les esprits fins seraient géomètres s'ils pouvaient plier leur vue vers les principes inaccoutumés de géométrie.
mircea_popescu: e bien nette pour voir tous les principes, et ensuite l'esprit juste pour ne pas raisonner faussement sur des principes connus.
mircea_popescu: Mais, dans l'esprit de finesse, les principes sont dans l'usage commun et devant les yeux de tout le monde. On n'a que faire de tourner la tête, ni de se faire violence; il n'est question que d'avoir bonne vue, mais il faut l'avoir bonne; car les principes sont si déliés et en si grand nombre, qu'il est presque impossible qu'il n'en échappe. Or, l'omission d'un principe mène à l'erreur; ainsi, il faut avoir la vu
mircea_popescu: Différence entre l'esprit de géométrie et l'esprit de finesse. - En l'un, les principes sont palpables, mais éloignés de l'usage commun ; de sorte qu'on a peine à tourner la tête de ce côté-là, manque d'habitude : mais, pour peu qu'on l'y tourne, on voit les principes à plein; et il faudrait avoir tout à fait l'esprit faux pour mal raisonner sur des principes si gros qu'il est presque impossible qu'ils éch
mircea_popescu: but anyway, granted, the classical terminology is geometry & finesse.
mircea_popescu: finesse is the ability to make mayonaise by hand. a practice, anyone can be taught it.
mircea_popescu: how can you argue with that ? it's *exactly* what it is.
mircea_popescu: i dunno. shooting a deer with a single bullet is finesse. taming it is a different thing.
mircea_popescu: which is, for lack of a different term, feminine guile.
mircea_popescu: of course they do select for the best quality in mathematicians
mircea_popescu: there are of course a bunch of iterative solutions to this problem, but that's "with computer" not ruler&compass.
mircea_popescu: cazalla i get the idea, but i dun see that it's such a good idea, either for us or for them
mircea_popescu: if people want links let them go the original route, do something newsworthy. have a designated pr liaison and there you go.
mircea_popescu: anyway, VERY flashy is, in my humble and unexpert experience, counterproductive. so is very large.
mircea_popescu: cazalla tis fine. flashing gif mebbe a little distraction
mircea_popescu: "you don't have to make yourself magic pork and beans just because you have a magic wand you ninny"
mircea_popescu: so teachers can laugh at dumb fucking kids entrhalled with their new magic
mircea_popescu: anyway, where i'm from it's traditionally given to 15-16yos taking their first year of analysis
mircea_popescu: well anyway : two trains moving on the same track leave simultaneously 29 miles apart, one doing 5mph the other 7mp. a fly caugh between them flies straight until it reaches a train then turns back and recurses, doing 9mph.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but in the same vein of "hard problems, if you're new here", you know the two trains and fly one im sure
☟︎ mircea_popescu: if you can fuck her with the cock, why use your finger ?
mircea_popescu: (people that object readily to "oh but comets can fly and no engine there" be confused as to what "energy density" means. calculate v**2 for comet)
mircea_popescu: well, what is this if not the intellectual rape channel ? that's what we do, we spoil noobs.
mircea_popescu: there's a limit to the smallest energy density that can fly, period, no matter any other considerations
mircea_popescu: i'm not arguing something like "o, you know, there's no way around it". more like, "why the fuck should finding ways around it even be a consideration at all"
mircea_popescu: so here's a simple computing test for your platform. 1) open a 100mb text file. if your editor croaks, you're running windows. 2) go to the end and depress the pageup key. count to sixty / wait a full minute. depress the key. if the scroll stops immediately you are running good unix. if it keeps going... well...
mircea_popescu: physicist turned metaphysician under the guise of psychiatry.
mircea_popescu: show, don't tell. when you tell a) everyone knows you're lying, whethetr you are not not and b) nobody can be bothered to go look anymore. fucking show. always.
mircea_popescu: "The similarities between Huobi and Stock Generation are striking." << orly ?
mircea_popescu: this shit needs actual work. with the head. make a point, and make it interesting.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell pete_dushenski i hate your articlke, fwiw. broadly because it's a very lazy stitching together of unexplained quotes, narrowly because wtf, qntra now links to wikipedia ? splendid, we're building a total alternative over here.
mircea_popescu: the fact that a bunch of scams are a bunch of scams, from icbit onwards does not mean that pointing out one particular scam as a scam is "supporting the others".
mircea_popescu: <trixisowned> because thats how it comes off << are you silly ?!
mircea_popescu: <assbot> New York banker, 42, slashed throat during bender: sources << lmao getting moar and moar believable.
mircea_popescu: mthreat anyway, not bad article. nothing incendiary, but hey.
mircea_popescu: i predict we will see the day when that's what it's gonna say.