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mircea_popescu: this example happens to get at the core of my misgivings about the model (which yes, is
as seductive and great and promise-y
as ben intuits, sure) : while the theoretical machine may have all the nice properties,
BingoBoingo: "Not any more. It seems the manufacturer,
as a result of its actions, has decided to effectively kill the use of their drug. At $35 a dose, nobody is going to use it in the ED and hospital pharmacy committees are going to sharply restrict the use of the IV version of the drug to the point of extinction.
As well they should." << Note economics is only possible when there are alternatived like dilaudid.
BingoBoingo: "Patients are to be treated with 5 g of intravenous idarucizumab, which should be administered
as two 50-ml bolus infusions, each containing 2.5 g of idarucizumab, no more than 15 minutes apart" << Damn. Whole entire fucking GRAMS of monoclonal antibody.
pete_dushenski: "just three months after so much hype and so much love went into Mr. Colbert’s debut
as the new host of Late Night, the former Comedy Central star has somehow fallen into 4th place where it matters most. In the all-important demo, he’s now being doubled up (and then some) by NBC’s Jimmy Fallon (outscored by 137 percent) and hasn’t beaten ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel in over a month. But here’s where CBS brass
BingoBoingo: Well I'm prolly repainting the plastic wheel covers black this spring
as a solution to the dilema of "just roll steelies" or find a set of used aluminium rims.
mircea_popescu: pre hearn&fail-bip, the standard was pretty high. by now it's a lot easier to argue "hey, at least it's not
as bad
as THAT dumb shit"
danielpbarron: i'm a little surprised i didn't get suspended
as well, for retwatting the offending .. uh..
ascii_field: the fella who wouldn't rest until he infected
as many
as he could
mircea_popescu: life is the foremost value, yo! notwithstanding that the delusion of "freedom from consequence" is the fundamental corner stone of "creativity"
as understood on the internets.
mircea_popescu: try screaming "YOU MAKE EXCELLENT PIE" at the top of your lungs @woman, see if she takes it
as a compliment.
mircea_popescu: consider this blog post (
http://blog.kissmetrics.com/how-to-calculate-lifetime-value/) from KISS metrics, a company whose aim is to “help you make smarter business decisions.” Not only do they include a version of the model that specifically ignores future costs, but also they recommend taking an average of three different results, two of which are clearly flawed. This voodoo-math has no place
as part of a multi-mi
mircea_popescu: “purchased.” If you have organic customers, they shouldn’t be included in the spend calculus. They would have arrived regardless of spend. Also, many people discount “revenues” rather than marginal cash contribution. It is critical to bundle all future variable costs of supporting the customer in order to fairly estimate the future contribution.
As an example of the sloppiness that exists around the formula,
mircea_popescu: "The Model is Confused and Misused. Frequently the same group that is arguing for more spending is the same one that “owns” the LTV calculation. (This is a mistake – finance should monitor LTV).
As a result, it is not uncommon for one to see shortcuts taken that allow for greater freedom.
As an example, marketers often divide spend by total customers to calculate SAC rather than just those customers that were
ascii_field: thestringpuller: in the same sense
as i'm afraid to thermonuke davos
mircea_popescu: myeah. i had a mp sitting on my shoulder going "Doh"
as i hit enter
assbot: Logged on 23-10-2015 14:24:36; HeySteve:
as for the rest, mircea_popescu, you may dismiss everything that isn't Bitcoin 0.5
as a scam but I do not take this view without evidence
mircea_popescu: "oh, we discovered the real-real-real one, it's this derp, and
as vox said, this now makes him the most important rite ?"
assbot: Logged on 09-12-2015 11:13:57; mircea_popescu: anyway, so the point of the "is random derp X ?" (no) article was so that reuters could run a piece saying "Australian police raided the Sydney home and office on Wednesday of a man named by Wired magazine
as the probable creator of bitcoin and holder of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of the cryptocurrency, Reuters witnesses said."
assbot: Logged on 10-12-2015 15:17:55; mircea_popescu: why would you need to purge anything, i thought usgavin had consensused with a bunch of experts
as to how there's plenty of room for everything.
mircea_popescu: why would you need to purge anything, i thought usgavin had consensused with a bunch of experts
as to how there's plenty of room for everything.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "You would mark the signature data
as special. You are indicated by green color on this slide. Everything but the green part goes into the hash of a transaction. The signature doesn't. It's just a piece of data that's still there, but we don't consider it part of the transaction.
mircea_popescu: In particular, we are going to be talking about signatures. It's important to realize here that signatures are really only needed for fully-validating nodes.
As a light-weight client, you are not validating signatures, even though they are part of the transactions you still have to download them. If you are using a full-node that is syncing historical data, you don't actually validate all of the signatures in there. Cu
punkman: "disposable structure known
as a "witness" that does not get committed to the blockchain" << sigs still stored in blockchain last time I looked
BingoBoingo: Now in other news... It's the right thing to refer to segregated witness
as "Jim Crow" for signatures?
pete_dushenski: "“I’m just not impressed by the fact that the University of Texas may have fewer [black students if the admissions policy changes]. Maybe it ought to have fewer. And maybe, when you take more, the number of blacks, really competent blacks, admitted to lesser schools, turns out to be less,” he added. “I don’t think it stands to reason that it’s a good thing for the University of Texas to admit
as many
pete_dushenski: "“There are those who contend that it does not benefit African Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well,
as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school, a slower-track school, where they do well,” he said."
pete_dushenski: "The comments by Antonin Scalia came
as conservatives on the court gave a sympathetic hearing to a white student who claims she was deprived of a place at the University of Texas due to her race."
pete_dushenski: "Saudi Arabia stood accused on Tuesday of trying to wreck the Paris climate summit in order to protect its future
as one of the world’s largest oil producers." << wow. 'wreck' is so apt they had to use it twice. 1st su, 2nd us. now the only thing missing is a shiny red star in bahamas' (faux) fur hat and you'd swear you had deja vu.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> "OPERATORS: No precedence, executed left to right, parenthesize
as desired. 2+3*10 yields 50." <<< imo this is the symptom of a badly written assembler or w/e the thing is.
nubbins`: "OPERATORS: No precedence, executed left to right, parenthesize
as desired. 2+3*10 yields 50."
nubbins`: this is almost
as impressive
as my genesis-block copy of the times
ascii_field has never even been there
as a tourist. oughta go some day.
mircea_popescu: of course that shit exists. it's about
as lulzy an affair
as "romanian press" or whatever, "romanian secret services caught romanian isis agent"
mircea_popescu: i'm sure "building his brand
as an investor" is going to do exactly what "building her brand
as an relationship expert" did for tlp's fave gori lottlieb. or whatever it was.
mircea_popescu: When I found Airbnb I was a nobody in the investing world, but I spent the next year afterward traveling around the US meeting founders and investors. I attended and hosted several dozen events and I talked to just about everybody in tech I could. I read voraciously and learned
as much
as possible from one-on-one conversations. I put in a full year of hard work before I did my next deal."
mircea_popescu: "Losing a deal like Airbnb can be painful. Great lessons came from the rejection at the very end, however. After getting the cold shoulder, I realized I needed to go out and build some valuable knowledge, needed a more robust network, and needed to craft my own brand
as an investor.
ascii_field: minsky wrote an entertaining b00k re: brain-
as-multiorgan-system
assbot: You rated user adlai on 08-Nov-2015, with a rating of -1, and supplied these additional notes:
As best
as I can tell, the individual is either mentally retarded, or else expends significant mental power to emulate mental retardation..
assbot: Logged on 09-12-2015 09:44:52; adlai: moderator: "Oh so it can then be taxed
as a currency and a commodity, and [Dr CSW] said, 'neither'" << clearly has not signed the pledge of allegiance yet
BingoBoingo: Satoshi's speshul because
as alf says "has to move coins" to inspire faith in identity correspondence
mircea_popescu: this is actually indicative of the very fucking problem : ethics means, how to live. such
as for instance, how to drive a fucking airplane i nthe tax office if you live in the us. that's ethics. meanwhile the carefully-debilitated ustards actually think ethics means the exact opposite of what ethics means. to them ethics is "the ways to inconvenience your life".
mircea_popescu: the crayfish, frog and pike story counts in romanian
as "wholly original content by al donici", notwithstanding it's a plain
as day translation of previous generation ru material.
mircea_popescu: all romanian literature, +- 2 or 3 people in the entire history, consists of translations and imports passed off
as original.
mircea_popescu: anyway, so the point of the "is random derp X ?" (no) article was so that reuters could run a piece saying "Australian police raided the Sydney home and office on Wednesday of a man named by Wired magazine
as the probable creator of bitcoin and holder of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of the cryptocurrency, Reuters witnesses said."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: <adlai> just phrase it
as pinpointing the nature and inception of the anthropocene era, their eyes will glaze over and they'll back out of your territory instead of pretending to understand the issues <<< this is an exceptionally retarded approach to keeping idiots in check. it has a lengthy history of being deployed by "white" people ever before white people were invented, and it always failed. nevertheless, it's stil
adlai: "
as a recovering government bureaucrat, i'll refrain from commenting things i know nothing about" ed moy wins the panel
adlai: moderator: "Oh so it can then be taxed
as a currency and a commodity, and [Dr CSW] said, 'neither'" << clearly has not signed the pledge of allegiance yet
☟︎ assbot: Now doctors give boy, 12, gastric band: Youngest ever British patient of extreme weight-loss surgery
as experts declare child obesity IS parents' fault in new TV exposé | Daily Mail Online ... (
http://bit.ly/1OSQRCh )
adlai: just phrase it
as pinpointing the nature and inception of the anthropocene era, their eyes will glaze over and they'll back out of your territory instead of pretending to understand the issues
adlai: huh, so tradeblock.com (dynamic web2.0++ horrorshow, be warned) flags bitfinex
as "operating unreliably", butt has no problem giving okcasino over 50% weighing in their price index
ben_vulpes: also "software" should be depreciated on a goddamn 2 year schedule it rots so quickly. especially these single-page angular things; they're exceptionally more expensive to maintain
as time goes on.
ben_vulpes: and why is that reported
as an asset value increase
mircea_popescu: the one problem i see in there is that if there's 73 deposited and 35 withdrawn, the difference is unearned income, and improperly reported
as shareholder equity.
mircea_popescu: just
as long
as they're paid fairly (ie, by share ownership proportion) they can be any arbitrary value between 0 and entreprise value
kakobrekla: >
as fees are calculated on withdrawal >Dividend to shareholders9.6487 > Withdrawals*35.7354 >
ben_vulpes: shareholder equity implies a previous investment round
as well.
kakobrekla: what are these private investments? do those investors get same shares
as (will be) on mpex?
mircea_popescu: this is the first time i actually read something by trump. i guess that shows about how much of a shit i give. nevertheless, it's almost
as if they start with the same paste and then name it trump or stevens or whatever
pete_dushenski: "A day after setting a new 11-year low, the Canadian dollar sheds another half-cent and the TSX slides to a two-year low,
as oil fails to rebound" << aaaand traveling just got a little more expensive.
pete_dushenski: it starts out
as 'a theory', spends a while being 'debated' in the press, and then is inevitably implemented, because how not ? have to DO something, neh ?
nubbins`: post a couple pix when you get a chance,
as long
as it hasn't been chewed by a dog i'll give you 1.5 for it
nubbins`: honestly baffled
as to why nobody thought pedigree was important for something that's so easy to counterfeit
mircea_popescu: yes, the behaviour has that effect. but the buck stotts because it can, not "so
as to".
assbot: Logged on 08-12-2015 15:43:29; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah but the problem is that the fiction in question only exists
as a sales ploy.
mircea_popescu: ot thinking of the nation? What unity of thought is possible between us? Unity of thought presupposes firmness of belief from two directions. If we accept that my firmness of belief is proven by my past, then your firmness of belief perished forever in your activity
as a provocateur. You already can never believe yourself. What conspiracy is possible in the absence of unity of thought and firmness of belief? Really onl
mircea_popescu: "1) Why did you choose me for communicating your secret? Am I really your unconditional fellow-thinker who can be entrusted with a secret? To be your fellow-thinker, I should have known all your intimate plans against the emigration, plans you are professionally obligated to have. How and by what means will you prove to me that you are speaking with me now not
as a professional provocateur from the NKVD, but
as a patri
mircea_popescu: anyway, that ilyia piece is not half bad. (i always liked the guy,
as he passes the silences test). let's take the first paragraph :
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah but the problem is that the fiction in question only exists
as a sales ploy.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "Mr. Bridges stands before this Court
as a man of exceptional professional accomplishment. Prior to his national disgrace, he was widely respected and well-liked by his professional colleagues and in the community. This proceeding marks the final chapter of a profound tragedy, for Mr. Bridges, his family, and his friends and community – and for the United States Secret Service, to which he devoted a large part of his