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mircea_popescu: the man started in "the raven" and has been doing
the same
thing ever since : playing
the devilishly dangerous lone male in a world of boring,
twaddled middle aged women.
ascii_butugychag: the 1960s enviro-whiners who started
the current wave, also had 'passion'
mircea_popescu: hardly. lysenko had... passion.
these
twerps just
talk about it.
ascii_butugychag: (and not, as often supposed, medieval
theology - as it did not have
totalitarian apparatus attached)
mircea_popescu: myeah.
the "global warming" bullshit is merely
the more visible application of an otherwise historical pseudoscientific process
mircea_popescu: "Economists do
the economy as psychologists do
the mind. A watershed of data is statistically manipulated. Miserably intricate deeply parameterized speculative
theory is fit
to data, protected from criticism by complexity. Extrapolations are made. Official predictions are absurd versus observed reality. Economists scream "heteroskedasticity!" and demand multi-$trillion Federal bailouts. Psychologists disdain irrelevanc
mircea_popescu: i suppose by "vacuum" one might mean "in
the book universe where mass exists in points etc".
mircea_popescu: Do opposite shoes vacuum free fall nonidentically? <<
they do, actually.
mircea_popescu: having run some math... i suspect he is actually correct in
the absolute. ie, nothing can for physical reasons drill 5 micron holes in half micrometer lens.
ascii_butugychag: 'suddenly
the inventor appeared' is
the only actually worthwhile book on heuristics i know of.
mircea_popescu: "this is a
that.
that is a
this. stop mixing
this and
that idjits!"
mircea_popescu: the other possibly most important intellectual activity is ironically ALSO displayed in
the piece : classification
mircea_popescu: half
the
time when someone
talking
to me here suddenly gets
that sinking feeling in his gut and rug flies out from under feet, what had just happened was precisely an inversion.
mircea_popescu: inversion being possibly
the most important intellectual activity.
mircea_popescu: t with aqueous NH4HF2. Engineering diddles
things: computers, excimer lasers, and business lunches. It was a Pink solution."
mircea_popescu: "The next first job was creating ophthalmic implants. How is a 5 micron diameter hole drilled
through 500 microns of implantable Plexiglas contact lens? It isn't. Nothing can drill such a 100:1 aspect ratio hole. Uncle Al put about 500 7 micron diameter holes
through a foot-long Plexiglas rod,
the long way, and said "dice it." Holes are a stuff problem, science: vacuum cast glass wool in plastic, dice,
then dissolve ou
ascii_butugychag: and yes, it shall pass, and with it shall pass
the last folks who know how
to generate a microdispersion of sodium diaminodihydroxyarsenobenzenemethanesulfonate...
mircea_popescu: this isn't really real-time.
this is "alligned apperture
time".
mircea_popescu: "Orthogonal reactivity"
to folks in lab coats, "idiot idea"
to idiots in suits.) It was his first Personnel file Pink sheet! He wasn't supposed
to succeed."
mircea_popescu: "Uncle Al's next first job, four years later, was industrial. Uncle Al was
to isolate kerogen (the "not anything like oil") in Colorado oil shale (a calcareous marlstone, not shale). Low rank coal organics are like cured epoxy.
They ain't comin' out.
The literature was rife with researchers who
tortured oil shale
then sang like vultures about presumed stuff extracted. Uncle Al dissolved
the rock
to leave
the kerogen. (
ascii_butugychag: i
think he
took a look at
the logs and was not able
to readily distinguish us from
the chirp of
the frogs.
assbot: Logged on 13-01-2016 14:02:14; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ! why is
this guy not here!
mircea_popescu: what's with all
these confused broads posing for dating site profile pics WITH
THEIR MOTHER.
mircea_popescu: you'll have
to decide if you want
those salesmen networking or not.
assbot: Logged on 13-01-2016 16:09:36; mircea_popescu: "The scientist who receives a percentage of
the profits - a percentage of
the gross! - generated by his own work has yet
to be born, hired, or envisioned (ecept as
the punchline of a joke)." << heh, alf's been making 70% of
the gross for years now.
mircea_popescu: "The scientist who receives a percentage of
the profits - a percentage of
the gross! - generated by his own work has yet
to be born, hired, or envisioned (ecept as
the punchline of a joke)." << heh, alf's been making 70% of
the gross for years now.
☟︎ gribble: Bitfinex BTCUSD
ticker | Best bid: 428.76, Best ask: 428.95, Bid-ask spread: 0.19000, Last
trade: 428.95, 24 hour volume: 40576.26464751, 24 hour low: 416.0, 24 hour high: 448.1, 24 hour vwap: None
thestringpuller: asciilifeform off
to spend every waking hour away from anything he cares about
to make
things he wouldn't use on a broken platform... << i'm going
to use
this
to define "uranium mines"
to people
mircea_popescu: the difference between
the kids of
today and
the kids of back when it was worth meeting new kids... s/lfkdjgkjlewrhgkerhklgj/diaminodihydroxyarsenobenzenemethanesulfonate/
mircea_popescu: "Why Mr. Schwartz,
that is brilliant! We have no staff positions open at
this
time, but we will certainly
try your idea."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "That should not be difficult. Use attrition
technology developed for cobalt-cemented
tungsten carbide and substitute about 10 mole-% of high molecular weight PVK
to adsorb upon
the micaceous platelet crystal surfaces.
Thus when you add
the dispersed phase
to a pre-polymer syrup of about 50,000 centistokes viscosity, non-Fickian
Type II diffusion will volumetrically plasticize
the adsorbate preventing particle agglomer
mircea_popescu: "This is Dr. Frutex. Yes, I heard about you!
Tell me, how would you generate a microdispersion of sodium diaminodihydroxyarsenobenzenemethanesulfonate in a linear hydrophobic matrix synthesized below its glass
transition
temperature?"
mircea_popescu: "Al, you simply must call Althea Frutex at Glanders, Associates. I FAXed her your resume and she practically jumped
through
the phone with enthusiasm."
mircea_popescu: "I was fired. Sometimes you find it hard just not
to cry. (Said employer purged its 20% insubordinate, belligerent, ingenious, and flat-out insane employees. What remained was loyal
to a fault, perfect in execution, possessed of fine silk neckties, and unemployed 18 months later when
the whole company folded.)"
jurov: um,
that is possible
jurov: because i'm sure i have missed eulora demo (again due
to later arrival)
mircea_popescu: jurov im pretty sure she showed up at least for some of
the stuff.
jurov: mircea_popescu: chetty was on second
timisoara meeting,
too?
jurov: "However, sources indicate future Decondtioned releases remain in doubt after Packard’s father upgraded
the garage air conditioner
to a brand new Amana “Whisper Quiet” unit."
assbot: Logged on 13-01-2016 11:35:57; jurov: when i will derive my price from paymium, is it possible
to check
that yesterday vwap was such and such?
gribble: chetty was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 17 weeks, 1 day, 18 hours, 55 minutes, and 18 seconds ago: <chetty> perhaps
this will backlash into getting more people off windows ...nah, I dream
mircea_popescu: and it extends almost
twice as far away from
the port in
the south -west
than i nthe north. a
town
the size of a respectable country.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally,
that wasn't even
the outskirts. kinda midtown,
the park is
two blocks down from chacarrita,
the cemetery. she lived nearby. i have a place a good 6 miles further north, right on
the province border.
the
town extends past
that, arguably.
gribble: ninjashogun was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 year, 9 weeks, 5 days, 6 hours, 31 minutes, and 12 seconds ago: <ninjashogun> I am only interested in building real-world businesses with real income streams, not
taking bitcoin investments for something and running off iwth it. (Not referencing anyone here,
this was a recent case with Moolah, for example. Or at least accusation.)
gribble: artifexd was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 37 weeks, 6 days, 14 hours, 48 minutes, and 7 seconds ago: <artifexd> I'm comfortable calling it a review. Not just of what it is but what it was and how it got
to where it is.
ben_vulpes: heh
the lightly-salted bootstrap on bitcoinclassic is highly amuse
assbot: Logged on 13-01-2016 09:04:03; copypaste: In fact, I just added it up ( $('#leftbtclist>li').size() ) - you can
trade 266 shitcoins on Cryptsy.
ben_vulpes: furthermore, it is
the only cashflow positive short against
the startup market.
assbot: Logged on 13-01-2016 12:30:08; mircea_popescu: but you should both document
that lost decade and provide pointers
to check what others did against it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im pretty sure jurov and chet met, i have
this memory of hanging out and smoking.
ben_vulpes: it was
the most direct short on
the startup market id found pre btc
assbot: Logged on 13-01-2016 10:02:08; jurov: and a lesson for me - i missed my best chance
to meet chetty by being a wussie and not going a day sooner
mircea_popescu: not
to get facile over here or anything, but let me point out
to you from bitter experience
that
there is generally less
time
than one'd reasonably have
thought.
mircea_popescu: do
they have any words for insanity in your language ?
mircea_popescu: so you're spending your youth, or at least every waking hour away from your child and his mother,
to do
things you wouldn't use on a platform you hate ?
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 13:49:39; mircea_popescu: why even bother with
the phone after
that ?
assbot: Logged on 13-01-2016 07:15:01; pete_dushenski: "
The United States of America is
the most powerful nation on Earth. Period. It’s not even close. We spend more on our military
than
the next eight nations combined."
davout: and sometimes it's my hard wares
that use
the back doors