mircea_popescu: "October 24, 2013 will bring with it something that has not been heard of since 1921. The entire House and Senate, all of Capitol Hill will close for the funeral of a Representative. However unlike the 1921 Congress Closing, all members are being flown to Florida for the funeral by the United States Air Force."

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if you toss a coin you'll get something like 1% over the machine in 1000 tries

mircea_popescu: anyway, this warrants a write-up

mircea_popescu: basically if you can't score > 50% on 100 rolls you'll never be a card counter in blackjack

mircea_popescu: KRS1 beat it with a score > 100

mircea_popescu: KRS1 you realise it's a joke, mostly.

mircea_popescu: KRS1 i dunno about LorenzoMoney, he's been maligning my good name calling me a fascist science writer and stuff

mircea_popescu: it does have a sort of air doesn't it

mircea_popescu: anyway, curious if we're in for a rehash of july 2010. (vertical degree of magnitude wall, i think there were two consecutive 400% increases there)

mircea_popescu: KRS1 have BingoBoingo over for a bbq

mircea_popescu: here, i'll trade you : "the writer here has something interesting to say and a few useful ways to explain it, but jesus if trilema hasn't completely fucking spoiled me for elegance and conciseness."

mircea_popescu: why a turtle specifically ?

mircea_popescu: mod6 i'll tell you later, in the shape of a future nsa product :D

mircea_popescu: so yeah, if they pay less than 1.75 dollars / kwh and the gear was free they're making a profit.

mircea_popescu: "Altima Yachts, Inc was founded out of a desire by our founder, Frank Sciortino, to produce the finest cruising yacht possible at a reasonable investment level."

mircea_popescu: a no.

mircea_popescu: part of a larger obama responsibility reform package, that also includes a rule that if your computer is hacked and sends spam, you're fined

mircea_popescu: not quite as good a living as it was in 1993, but anyway.

mircea_popescu: yes yes. if you have a good opportunity they'll provide you goods. learn chinese, go hang out there fgor a year. it's a living.

mircea_popescu: but otherwise, china buys 100-150 tons a month. thanks to the jpm&co keeping the price low with their derivative trades,

mircea_popescu: b0n1 no. china is a net importer, and because of govt pressure consumer gold is even more expensive

mircea_popescu: basically you put a diode into backwards mode and count the electrons that make it past the barrier

mircea_popescu: understandably a little miffed

mircea_popescu: dude wrote an article a decade ago, which saw 100bn page loads and 34 comments.

mircea_popescu: "Hey, Reddit, Ycombinator, and Metafilter readers! You know what, I'm proud that this article has become a benchmark, but I've written a lot of others I like too, some of them more recently than 2004. It would sure be nice if my other articles got some love instead of just this one being linked from a discussion every week."

mircea_popescu: if you make it a webservice this'll be a great group activity at april conference.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you sghould make that a webservice.

mircea_popescu: takes a while, but nevertheless.

mircea_popescu: what you do is you put up a mic and sample it at 0.00000001 hz.

mircea_popescu: it's one of those rare bits written by a competent translator, ie, one who has solid familiarity in two different fields.

mircea_popescu: well, actually, randomness is not a property of numbers. it's a property of processes.

mircea_popescu: it's a sad state of affairs when a man can't really find a friend past his creditors.

mircea_popescu: that impression is a great asset im sure.

mircea_popescu: tied to a pole with a bunch of dudes

mircea_popescu: the yurpeans are romantics, they've not killed a spy since forever.

mircea_popescu: im telling you, a lot has changed in the past ~6 months, and a lot in tjhe past 6 days.

mircea_popescu: a lot has changed in those couple of years.