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BingoBoingo: ascii_field: Lol, counseling upon
the student's return
ascii_field: 'The Pentagon didn't notice
the moment when blowing up defenseless, demoralized adversaries using cruise missiles stopped being
the only method for waging war. And now it is very difficult
to appraise
the real capabilities of
the huge bulk of
the US Army or Marine Corps, should
they ever encounter an enemy
that is approximately equal
to
them in
technical capabilities.'
ascii_field: 'Generally speaking, any authentic-looking
towelhead who is able
to intelligibly pronounce
the word "democracy" has a chance
to receive financing and weapons. But nobody has any control over where he will
then go with
these weapons. By
the way, Soviet intelligence services of
the Brezhnev era had
the same problem, latching onto any
tribal chieftain who knew how
to pronounce words like "Marx" and "Lenin."'
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> problem is
the stockpile keeps getting drunk. << I believe
the concept is "inventory buffer"
assbot: Logged on 28-09-2015 08:50:25; mircea_popescu: (and random discussion YET AGAIN undercovers
the well lied about ustardian poverty. hey random schmuck, did you know your DAD could afford 5x
the water
that may be wasted on your stupid head ? forged granpa.)
mircea_popescu: if you're curious as
to where
the endless scams draw
their vigour from... you need look no further
than government.
mircea_popescu: yeah i guess qntra ddoser got his monthly allowance or w/e
that is.
thestringpuller: ascii_field: Been looking for your "rules" on
trustworthy computing on your blog...
funkenstein_: it is said
that in chaotic systems power goes from low frequencies
to high frequencies
mircea_popescu: in fact
the smoothness comparison is a decent indication of
the entropy involved.
funkenstein_: kinda like a bandpass filter of sorts
to get rid of high frequency stuff
funkenstein_: yeah? one way
to describe
time averaged is smoothed, so as
to not show
the variations
that happen over short
times
funkenstein_: "Just like every moral-panic flavoured intellectual fashion of a mostly idle and broadly useless population,
this nonsense is not here
to stay." <-- nice :)
mircea_popescu: hint : a world without complex systems IS a realistic goal. in point of fact, it is
the baseline in realism.
mircea_popescu: "Global
terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of
the vulnerability of complex systems."
mircea_popescu: what would you say
the "intuitive meaning" of A'j is ?
mircea_popescu: let
there be a monotonous measurable system S. let Mi be measurements made at moments-in-time
Ti. let average-per-unit-time delta values be reported for each
Ti as Ai = (Mi - Mi-1) / (Ti -
Ti-1). let an arbitrary "reporting unit" R be defined so
that a finite count of
Ti fit in each such unit Rj. Let Ais be plainly averaged so
that A' = (Ak +...+ Am) / (m-k) where k, m are
the first and last i's for
Tis fitting in Rj.
mircea_popescu: a question for
the mathematically inclined practical minds in
the audience :
mircea_popescu: i would suspect
there's more random common law criminals being shielded by
the usg from various jurisdictions
than
there are successful prosecutions in any given year.
mircea_popescu: hey, romania still has an unsatisfied arrest warrant for some us derp
that got drunk and ran over some relatively popular singer guy.
mircea_popescu: "The intelligence official, identified as William George Basil, was accused of espionage and eavesdropping. But by
then he had already left
the country, and
the U.S. government, as it has done for
the past 10 years, continues
to stonewall Greek authorities on
the agency’s involvement."
assbot: Logged on 29-09-2015 04:25:15; punkman: mircea_popescu: Since Ether went live he has disappeared and refused
to discuss
the issue anymore, and it is unlikely anyone could've collected from him at any point. << and
they didn't even have
the anton story?
assbot: Logged on 29-09-2015 02:15:33;
trinque:
the nerve of
trying
to make
the argument
that what we're seeing in
the world
today is *russian* military adventurism
mircea_popescu: just another offshot branch off
the same nonsense
tree.
HeySteve: hmm. well it's looking like you called another one. what do you
think about BitShares? it looks like it can do what I want but seems a little
too good
to be
true
mircea_popescu: they've mostly (80% or so) burned
through
the ~10k actual dollars
they had available for
this highschool play, which is about what you'd exp[ect for six months' entertainment
mircea_popescu: altogether a marginally better showing
than garza's "buyout at $20" plan.
mircea_popescu: rket value, right ? notwithstanding
that mp has nixed ripple back when it was still called colored coins, and notwithstanding
that
this ripple reimplementation is even failful-er
than
the previous one).
mircea_popescu: the whole "ethereum" story is, mr alienface and some junior profs at umaryland scammed
that university for a little space and morning coffees ; he lied about
the few hundred BTC available as being
tens of
thousands, and did some fraudulent moves
to "prove"
this ; he lied about "expenses"
to explain why
the capital he claimed
to have doesn't in fact exist (but hey, he "spent it" for ethereum, which is good and builds ma
HeySteve: seemed confusing and unfocused, got
the impression
they have no businesspeople involved
HeySteve: I was looking for a way
to do multi-sig with coins pegged
to fiat or PM, so investigated Ethereum
mircea_popescu: this would be mostly because "people" didn't put 37k in
that.
HeySteve: I can't believe people put 37k BTC in
that
assbot: Vitalik Buttering, author of Ethereum, cannot even figure out how
to give out beta
test rewards with his own smart contracts, so opts for manual copypasting of Reddit comments with random hex digits in
them instead. : Buttcoin ... (
http://bit.ly/1h6pg3Y )
mircea_popescu: who knows.
the venetians spent all
their
time
training
the girls
to be whores, lost
to charles on
the field
then won in
the bedroom.
☟︎ HeySteve: in a nasty war situation for eg. all
that education and child-rearing effort is likely
to come
to nothing on
the battlefield
mircea_popescu: woman has 12 kids and feeds
them off 2k income ? good for her.
mircea_popescu: which is perhaps why it's a big idea
to stop pestering people.
HeySteve: well, it's hard
to say how
the world will go and which reproductive strategies will be selected for
HeySteve: of course, state has gotten into
the parenting and schooling game in a big way, so
things are distorted
there
mircea_popescu: those differences drastically favour
the jews, india and china. perhaps in
that order.
HeySteve: also cultural differences in
the emphasis placed on parenting and education
mircea_popescu: yeah. but even
the western yurpeans favour narrow waists and wide butts.
HeySteve: and also developmental differences in
the offspring
HeySteve: well,
there are physiological factors relating
to ease of childbirth
mircea_popescu: that given, gotta figure something out
to survive, and hey, education may be it.
mircea_popescu: it's not clear
that "they're more about education" , or
that
their cunts just don't work worth a crap.
mircea_popescu: there's even a line delineating
the "poorly productive females" half of europe, and it was drawn in
the 1800s
HeySteve: true,
they're more about education
mircea_popescu: some races compete on spawn. western european folk (not
to be confused with white folk, or for
that matter with caucasians) do not.
HeySteve: well low birth rate is ok imo, it's when it falls below replacement level
that ponzis like social security start going bust
HeySteve: I
think
they only hit demographic problems around 2030 or so whereas EU, USA and Japan are already
there
mircea_popescu: well
then i dunno what you mean.
the us has had low birth rate since before it was "developed", ie a century ago. england has had low birth rate
throughout it's four centuries of being developed. china had lower birth rate in its undeveloped 80s
than it does
today.
HeySteve: mircea_popescu, ok well what I mean is
that birth rates are low or negative in developed countries
mircea_popescu: roughly equivalent
to "naturalized illegal alien" or somesuch
today.
HeySteve: hmm roxanna, I've heard
that story somewhere. I
think in an old Sean Connery movie...
mircea_popescu: lowest caste women could perfectly finely spawn highest caste men.
there's absolutely no relation between class and reproduction.
mircea_popescu: exactly. with
the exception of roxy
the kidnapped ukrainian,
two centuries of high class progeny was carried on
the bosoms and
thigs of SLAVES.
HeySteve: no idea, weren't
they more about harems?
HeySteve: but
the ultimate result is Idiocracy world
mircea_popescu: reproduction and class are strictly unrelated considerations. in fact,
they do not even share any common space at all -
there isn't a way
to define "class" so
that reproduction can be made meaningful or vice-versa.
HeySteve: I guess you can bring in waves of immigrants
too and hope
they
take out a load of home and car loans
HeySteve: but
this debases
the "population supply" eventually
HeySteve: so if middle-class aren't reproducing like
they used
to, subsidise reproduction of lower class
mircea_popescu: in a world of a billion, you will never ever reach
the end of breathtaking.
HeySteve: well, dominant ideology says
there fungible
mircea_popescu: to put
that objection in more practically comprehensible
terms : if you live in a village of 100,
the prettiest girl you ever see in your life will be ugly.
mircea_popescu: those women on welfare, with a dozen kids, ARE doing
their job, right ? and splendidly at
that, natality ain't easy.
HeySteve: it's related
to what you said about gender roles, with no father
to do quality control you get bad outcomes
HeySteve: then
the state got involved and illegitimacy rates (which are strongly correlated with criminality) skyrocketed
HeySteve: "what you subsidise you get more of, what you
tax you get less of"
HeySteve: perhaps
the concept of earned has been destroyed by handouts
mircea_popescu: "we're poor, hungry and
tired" "so what do you want ?" "more work."