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mircea_popescu: ecided he wasn't going to tell anyone that this was an error, because he's a dick, and now all your snowflakes are urine and you can't even find the cat."
mircea_popescu: "You discover that one day, some idiot decided that since another idiot decided that 1/0 should equal infinity, they could just use that as a shorthand for "Infinity" when simplifying their code. Then a non-idiot rightly decided that this was idiotic, which is what the original idiot should have decided, but since he didn't, the non-idiot decided to be a dick and make this a failing error in his new compiler. Then he d
mircea_popescu: but with the countless neon moons distributed all over, this ceases to work
mircea_popescu: they're tuned to seek the moon in the dark, you see, because while they can't go that far, all of them seeking it ensures they meet
mircea_popescu: btw, i don't know if you realise this, but we're fucking up most insects something fierce.
mircea_popescu: then make another one, and with the profitos from the first one, buy a a banner ?
mircea_popescu: "what premises would we need for intelligent frogs to make perfect sense ?"
mircea_popescu: sometimes i entertain this vague notion where we're somehow all wrong and the nonsense somehow actually makes sense
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i bet you that if you asked indian teens today, the millionaire speaker ee guy is more interesting a worship idol than the physicist.
mircea_popescu: maybe when you're old and dying you pick a guy to bequeath your yurt line toi
mircea_popescu: by the time they're falling apart i was just about leaving
mircea_popescu: it matches my lifestyle perfectly, i get to a new place, buy a set of the plastic shits
mircea_popescu: decimation that's a major point of socialism : it uses technology to degrade quality of life
mircea_popescu: nobody'd come to put up the show and shake the bottled fars for them
mircea_popescu: w/o the welfare cheques, the "vc" bunch would be alone in a room.
mircea_popescu: the ill effects of moral hazard produced through giving idiots free money are far reaching.
mircea_popescu: something like that. as they say, a fart stinks up the entire room.
mircea_popescu: the engineer would NOT think there are more important things in life,
mircea_popescu: of course, a large part of hte problem is that if the derps running around on welfare checks debasing the cultural impoirtance of money,
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo panacea's almost a year old, jd is almost two. these aren't histories, berkshire is like 50 years old.
mircea_popescu: yes, like 1mn and a little sold, and i have almost 1mn which is sitting in the book
mircea_popescu: hehe we don't even have enough history yet to really evaluate risk
mircea_popescu: this is a little over ideal weight imo, will trim it over time as other venues become able to absorb moar capital
mircea_popescu: so there we go. 213.15567101 btc added to f.mpif in exchange for 1mn extra shares, invested 100 into panacea and 113.15567101 into jd.
mircea_popescu: some guy who simply blindly and slavishly followed da vinci's orders has overall better chances to make his own masterpieces in 30 years than some kid sitting on his ass on reddit all day.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller it depends to a huge degree whose orders tho.
mircea_popescu: it;'s not enough they aren';t fucking soldiers anymore. for their sins, they also cant have generals now.
mircea_popescu: but it also makes it impossible for them to be helped.
mircea_popescu: so there we have it : the cleaving between substance and essence makes it impossible for people to live,
mircea_popescu: and get out the cane and start caning them liberally per mistake.
mircea_popescu: suppose i walk into a 3rd year computer science class at mit, and proceed to make the kids do one arithmetic problem, and then once they fuck it up make them do one hundred, by hand,
mircea_popescu: would he likely be loved ? or on the contrary, despised as a total fucking moron of aggregated pointless idiocy ?
mircea_popescu: because you see... suppose someone inssited they do everything old style.
mircea_popescu: by now, the soldiers are sort-of carrying 30ish lbs of crap, and it's more like "you gotta be a suycker to carry all that".
mircea_popescu: now, fast forward to caracalla. one of the least bearable emperors in history.
mircea_popescu: see ? but the greatest general the romans ever had, arguably, was loved for this very important fucking point, to the soldiers of the time :
mircea_popescu: he was popular with the troops because he carried his fucking gear.
mircea_popescu: you essentially couldsn't get married if you didn't do well i nthe military, so italso self-selected.
mircea_popescu: this was military life, at the time, and them folks were... pretty healthy.
mircea_popescu: which they carried, on foot, for about 30 miles a day, for weeks on end.
mircea_popescu: meh. read some classical source sometime, well worth the effort. anyway.
mircea_popescu: cca 300 bc, the roman military consisted of citizens. they went on campaign as the field work was done, raped and pillaged, then lay down their arms and did the fields.
mircea_popescu: ok, let me work the latin military example, i think it's the best way in.
mircea_popescu: i;m arguing against trying to implement attempts at eating-and-keeping cake.