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mircea_popescu: i also count all SORTS of
things, including 3% corp
tax in romania, for instance. wasn't
there in 86
Framedragger: sounds like amusing examples
too, will check later ($dayjob)
Framedragger: yeah i see what you mean. also nice
to keep idiots in single basket
mircea_popescu: but should one be able
to answer "use
this
thing"... well
then. different matter altogether.
mircea_popescu: can't quite answer "get fucked"
to something like
that, not unless you're prepared
to follow
through and holocaust
them all.
mircea_popescu: for instance, i'm deliberately keeping my ongoing "war on
the web" as far as attacking forums goes on a very low roar. not
that i couldn't scale it up and end ~any web-based forum, owing
to
the incredible incompetence of
the scammers involved. but
then, millions of derps would in a voice go "ok so
these are bad, what should we do ?"
mircea_popescu: this is where one writes code as a young man
that
then makes
them famous for rest of life,
the c and whatnot of our
time. you see what i mean ?
mircea_popescu: plenty of other good ones ( asciilifeform you recall reporting on
that group pushing 20 year old schweizer as "wai of footure" at some conference ? ), but
the more important point is,
that
this is a fine field for innovation as it stands. it's very far from "settled science", where
the logical move is
to simply import
the universally accepted library and move on.
mircea_popescu: it's not very much clear
there's anything much
there besides
the usual marketing crapolade. i dunno how familiar you are with
this phenomena, but let me dig a fine example out of
the log.
mircea_popescu: that aside,
the IDEA of ipfs, as far as can be distinguished, is not necessarily bad.
mircea_popescu: anyway, Framedragger golang is not liked here because we don't own it, and we don't like usg.google more
than we like usg.anything, and because it seems quite well engineered
to work as a baited hook for
the usg chump works.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: finance is a different story from chumpatronics, why
teh haet.
mircea_popescu: back
to
the arts : no, not really. finance, believe it or not. and other
things. few of which are "palpable" in
the sense
that farm derp could put hand on
mircea_popescu: turns out also
that
this has
to be a personal conclusion.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform right. which is my point - if you don't like golang pretend
there isn't one. you can't invalidate design by "bad implementation" wtf.
mircea_popescu: you can implement shit in whatever
the hell you want.
the reference implementation for cramer-shoup is in malbolge.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dude i'm going
to make
the REFERENCE IMPLEMENTATION of your next girlfriend in golang and what'll you do
then.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger doesn't mean much more
than, "the correct path is
to
take a decent crypto lib, a distributed-hashtable-storage
thing from one of
the p2p
torrent
tools, and make a real social media app"
☟︎ Framedragger: mircea_popescu: yeah ok i'm afraid i've
to agree
Framedragger: >
There's just no life in
this idea as originally
thought out, a browser
thing.
mircea_popescu: however
they may ebb or wane individually, of interest
to man is
the sum
total.
mircea_popescu: you wish
to
think in
terms of your chosen art, which is meaningless. it's not always
the same art
that provides
the additional leverage.
mircea_popescu: the amount of work you CAN replace has been monotonously increasing since about
then, mind.
mircea_popescu: then in 1660... one's either a noble or not worth
the mention, and
this reduces
to a few percent again.
mircea_popescu: by 1160, which catches us in paris, we're up
to a leverage of maybe as high as
twenty, and so "most men" is good enough an approximation. about 60-70% really.
mircea_popescu: the year is now 660, and we're in londinum. a man can replace
the work of maybe
two, give or
take.
the mean is one-something, and "everyone" is someone.
mircea_popescu: so, year is 160 ad, we're in rome. maximally, a man can replace
the work of about fifty or so men, give or
take.
the mean of
this is say 25. about 10% of
the population can reach
this, and lo and behold - about 10% of
the empire's population is citizens!
mircea_popescu: as
the bar
to
the individuation is fixed ~the mean of
the leverage, so obviously as
that increases
the sigma-ness associated increases also (by about
the square root ?)
mircea_popescu: as
the maximal leverage avaialble
to
the individual increases,
the % of
things crawling out of cunts (which, recall, run perl)
that may ever individuate decreases.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: this is also not creation. it is
the result of expanding complexity.
mircea_popescu: the soviets had ~the same percentage, but simply killed
them./
mircea_popescu: the
truth of demographics is
that underage males are mostly defective by mass.
this is unfixable.
mircea_popescu: nah. i disagree. usa was first
to pretend like underage male fuckwards are "worker bees", which only can be meaningfully attempted for ~a certain kind~ of software. what we reference here as
the web.
mircea_popescu: the very deeply ignorant approach is rather notable,
to my eyes. derps seriously
think
that's how genetics works, much like a baby perceiving his environment as a photographic still rather
than a dynamic equilibrium and so faceplanting self once an hour
mircea_popescu: in another view, what's nailing monsanto is called "so you
thought you were smart, eh ?". heck, plants've been here a while. odds are whatever random unwashed derp in our colonies comes up with,
they've seen before.
mircea_popescu: apparently phf gotta handcrank
them, and when he sleeps...
mircea_popescu: possibly
the most 12 dollars has bought
this year anywhere in
the world.
mircea_popescu: spoeaking of which, found a SPLENDID leather collar with metal spikes in local pet shop.
top notch stuff, 12 bux.
BingoBoingo: You know, I bet
the local farm supply store would have had a better ball gag
than all
those porno stores...
mircea_popescu: if i had any sort of local confirmation or somesuch actual meat. but i've not been investing in connecting
to
the local agros who
the shit cares, and obv el presidente'd rather die
than give up
this one, and i'm noit about
to start
torturing elected presidents just yet.
BingoBoingo: I will in a couple hours, gotta get a string
trimmer and re-piece. Or you know you could do
the
tie ins from Argentina bsns perspective.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo maybe even worth updating
the article for all
these
tie-ins ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i guess we retrospectively discovered what a major point of discussion in
the recent bahamas-macri meeting was. and
the local socialist fucktards
thought
they ran off and hid in
the countryside because of
them. lelz. "reddit we diddit!!1"
BingoBoingo: Still,
the point remains Argentina's only strategy is
to void
the monsanto glyphosate resistance patents locally
mircea_popescu: anyway, looking at
their stock
the news was first heard by sophisticated investors q3 2015, ie recently.
BingoBoingo: Right, kinda
the pharma model where having a pipeline of
things
to pattent matters more
than anything else.
mircea_popescu: except you know, with much better pr
than
the usual pinksheet.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo yeah, monsanto is very much apple'd.
the original idea seemed promising, in
the 90s. sometime years ago, dunno exactly when cuz
they've been keeping it secret and i never cared
that much,
they found out it's a doomed entreprise. ever since
then... MON's been pretty much a stock scam.
BingoBoingo still wonders why Monsanto hasn't been digging for Diquat decomposing bacteria
to make a wunderwaffen
mircea_popescu: this is why it's fucking hard & expensive
to do genetic research ffs.
mircea_popescu: med. 3. keep doing
this, depending on life form, MANY
times. at least a dozen for plants, for instance,
they express fast. mammals, 100s.
mircea_popescu: but yes, for any republican bioscientists in
the making :
the scientific way
to study something like plant resistance
to X is
to : 1. create
the first generation
test environment.
this means a witness, and a number of exposures (maybe dosed variously, with other substances
too, etc). 2. create next generation environment.
this means, your experiment now subdivides into as many experiments equal
to 1 as
there were
tests perfor
BingoBoingo: Dicamba's bundled into a bunch of other commercial off
the shelf consumer herbicide products already.
BingoBoingo: Anyways what I found especially lulzy was putting glyphosate and dicamba in
the same bottle and calling it innovation.
BingoBoingo: Well, and some of
them like fucking horseweed seemed
to have never really cared much about glyphosate.
Then
there's Japanese knotweed which glyphosate will kill, but only if sprayed during
the first new moon after
the autumn equinox.
mircea_popescu: shows
teh sort of "scientific research"
that happens in
the us based labs for
the lulzy sham it is. "oh, we
treated a crop of grass with
this vial and
the grass died. ERGO IT WORKS!!! we studied genetics under lamarck et all, don't understand much of anything. what do you mean, cultivate
the survivors and see, what do you mean need a chain of witness blocks going down many generations ?!?!?!"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i suppose
that must be
the explanation, "carried resistance". ie,
they had it, genetically, but not normally expressed. until environment changed and so genetic expression changed
to fit.