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mircea_popescu: got out in the night, put the boer flag on the local fort, filled a cannon with a blank shot and a long fuse and well...
mircea_popescu: lightoller, back during his time in the navy, was on a ship visiting south africa during the boer war
mircea_popescu: maybe they knew better, hard to know what individuals knew or thought. but imo, they honestl ybelieved ice is now butter, because forward britannia!
mircea_popescu: that means either i don't have kids or my kids don't do so well.
mircea_popescu: let me model why : if i'm in that situation and you ask me that, i'ma in typical style go "wel lfrankly, i didn't believe that ice can crush steel. sue me."
mircea_popescu: i don't think they understood ice will crush the ship, tbh.
mircea_popescu: when a ship is sinking, the officer is to do EXACTLY what's done.
mircea_popescu: the fundamntal understanding of this is illustrated by the case made for giving people tenure and shit. research is an activity of the safe, which is why prisons and other emperor of the flies situations aren't conducive to proving the fermat conjecture.
mircea_popescu: a ship is sinking is undisputably the worst time to be going out doing "research".
mircea_popescu: i can't imagine anyone'd manage to supress it if it could work.
mircea_popescu: it's the one card out that could save teh current usg / societal structure.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, seriously, cold fusion would actually make the "local production" stuff that link earlier was harping about a reality.
mircea_popescu: ifsomeone wanted to manage a portofolio of ws shortness for btc, it'd prolly rock.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, maybe im unbecomingly naive, but to my eyes cold fusion working is an event of such magnitude, it'd trigger an Auld Lang Syne moment.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i diun get it, who would be opposed to cold fusion and why ?
mircea_popescu: i suppose this also wraps right back up into wavelets lol.
mircea_popescu: being a physicist doesn't make one immune, only diffusion makes one immune.
mircea_popescu: this is something a politician is keenly aware of, but since the expert's brain actually functions, he's no politician.
mircea_popescu: the #2 reason it is idiotic is that discussion has remanence, poker hands do not. expert 30 years in has a fucking string of noted down examples of having done this, people with an ideologic interest can use to strangle him with
mircea_popescu: the #1 reason it is idiotic is that the inept player may actually and usually does notice the loosening, and takes this as a honest signal that the expert is bluffing
mircea_popescu: when confronted with an inept player they loosen up their game
mircea_popescu: the most significant error of judgement made by experts as far as i've seen yet is
mircea_popescu: persuasion, however, is exactly that, poker reskinned.
mircea_popescu: do you know what meta coincepts are, like "playing loose" or "tight" ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is true tho. you familiar witrh playing pokler at all ?
mircea_popescu: once people crash their system trying to load 1mn cells for the 1kth time
mircea_popescu: as far as i can see, it's the common step away from excel
mircea_popescu: you think coders are bad, just wait till you see mathematicians apply automated processes to statistical samples.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform just between you and me and nobody else : i very much doubt the average j user actually has the mental acumen to correctly understand the actual effects of recursive transforms available to them, wavelets or no wavelets.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform just about, as one gets tired stuff starts to mutate.
mircea_popescu: most mobile platforms have spent more money on making their thing work on unstyled websites than we ever will on qntra.
mircea_popescu: davout: disabling all CSS would be fine << he has a point there, just de-css-ify it for mobile, will be fine.
mircea_popescu: i've not commonly seen it outside of ro hack-kiddies speaking english
mircea_popescu: Bitcoin software does not appear to be vetted to such an extend. << the english-t to d migration is soooo indicative of a native romanian speaker you can't imagine.
mircea_popescu: jurov: what does he want from aussies? <<< russia needs military bases overseas like kim kardashian needs horsecock.
mircea_popescu: cazalla: so.. is qntra down for others? << uh i just looked at it.
mircea_popescu: much better than europe's highest per capita gold reserve country o.O
mircea_popescu: yeah, see, you should have had "real brick and mortar stores" in cyprus.
mircea_popescu: they tend to read and understand, it's what they do. not like "why should i even bother with the wot" an' stuff.
mircea_popescu: Naphex im sure "customers" and "experts" will both listen to your #1 and #2 above, yeah.
mircea_popescu: i wrote a little about the nuttery of it, back in romanian days. lemme see if i can find it.