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phillipsjk: since
the 1.25 factor represents
the fist period: 3.23 years,
the first number in
the exponent must represent something like (n -3) years.. But 2009+6+3=2018.
mircea_popescu: bucharest is and always was such a hellhole
the likes of which no one has ever seen.
mircea_popescu: it
then follows
that
the size at any arbitrary point in
time is...
mircea_popescu: phillipsjk if every 170k blocks it increases 35
times, and
there's 365 days
to
the year and 24 hours
to
the day and 6 blocks in a hour
phillipsjk: Not sure how you derived
the exponential function for calculating
the year 2020
mircea_popescu: this is impressive. imagine, men before public smoking was banned, living
to be 96! and able
to articulate
themselves!
mircea_popescu: "What,
then, did I find
to praise in Galbraith? In
the first place, his personal example, which is encouraging for someone like me who has entered
the later stages of his life. Galbraith wrote
The Economics of Innocent Fraud when he was 96.
That was
the last of
the approximately 50 books
that he wrote, and he wrote
them clearly, never giving
the impression of wanting
to be
thought clever because of
the difficulty of wh
mircea_popescu: "can't figure it out when a mater of abstract objects ?
that's fine, do it over but with cunts and fucking
this
time. see if
the carefully evolved mamallian brain isn't more a help
than a hindrance in matters it's actually evolved
to handle!"
assbot: Logged on 05-02-2015 06:31:43; asciilifeform: exercise for student: when you wake up,
think of six entirely factually-correct - but disastrously intellectually-crippling - models for some commonplace
thing or other.
mircea_popescu: this is pretty good, and an excellent display of why
the reconstructive approach is so powerful in
talk psychotherapy, and discourse generally.
mircea_popescu: For example,
they do not say of
the policemen who
they allege (often plausibly) have beaten
them up, “Poor cops!
They were brought up in authoritarian homes and now project
the anger
that is really directed at
their bullying fathers onto me.
They need counseling.
They need
their heads sorted out.” On
the contrary,
they say, with force and explosive emotion, “The bastards!”
They assume
that
the police act out of
assbot: Logged on 30-08-2014 21:53:25; mircea_popescu:
this "'KGB:
the Inside Story' by Christopher Andrew" string reminds me of
the "stop sending niggers
then" joke.
mircea_popescu: kinda what got my attention originally, i could read
the girl's experienced, but it made little sense.
mircea_popescu: the other half, murderers, arsonists, all sorts of
truly pathological
types.
mircea_popescu: i had
this girl... she was a psych grad. weighed about 50 kgs if dressed, and had spent
three years as
the prison shrink.
mircea_popescu: "The aim of untold millions is
to be free
to do exactly as
they choose and for someone else
to pay when
things go wrong."
mircea_popescu: but none of
this "accidental"
talk if it is at all possible.
mircea_popescu: i'd probably make a horrible judge, on
the grounds
that i'm generally inclined
to let off everyone who kills purposefully.
mircea_popescu: it's strange,
this unseemly ability of felons,
to hide
the substance of
their felony. first of all from
themselves, and even should
they be blessed with remarkable observation powers.
mircea_popescu: lol@ filthy orwell, going full
throtle into "the country is weakened by
the war, now is
the
time
to socialism!11"
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, i imagine you see my point. what
truly subtle meta-Agranov would come up with something like
that ?
mircea_popescu: it does sound rather like something you get convicted
to, doesn't it.
mircea_popescu: i've not wondered much, kinda discover
the potentiality and
the actuality in one package as it were.
mircea_popescu: the banal observation
that
three hour's walk is pleasant, but quarter hour's standing unpleasant not exactly with
them ?!
mircea_popescu: do people really have such poor grasp of basic mechanics as
to not understand
that if you're not walking,
there's really noi reason
to be standing ?!
mircea_popescu: this "people standing on magic carpets of
the future" meme is so incomprehensible
to me.
mircea_popescu: much as before.
The State controls industry, but
there are still rich and poor, masters and men."
mircea_popescu: "One ought not
to pay any attention
to Hitler's recent line of
talk about being
the friend of
the poor man,
the enemy of plutocracy, etc etc. Hitler's real self is in MEIN KAMPF, and in his actions. He has never persecuted
the rich, except when
they were Jews or when
they
tried actively
to oppose him. He stands for a centralised economy which robs
the capitalist of most of his power but leaves
the structure of society
decimation: at any rate,
that's all I have for
the evening, good night
decimation: turns out you don't have
to pay
them social security or payroll
tax
mircea_popescu: yeah, you want her
to learn german, get her a german speaking dog/
cazalla: my plan is
to avoid
that stuff with my son for as long as possible
decimation: I'm
trying
to
teach her German, but it goes much better with a native speaker
decimation: eh, kids are gonna have
to learn
to deal with
the electronics one day
cazalla: seems like a sure fire way
to give your kid brain damage
decimation: cazalla: nothing, she plays with
them
too.
they aren't as portable
though
decimation: my daughter loves her 'app'
that forces her
to re-order numbers, letters, and phrases
to receive a cartoon reward
mircea_popescu: that's pretty much
the only non-infantile use of
the
thing.
decimation: that's pretty much
the mental model of
the ipad
mircea_popescu: i don't
think anything ever was as stulfifying as
the ipad game scene. perhaps
the failed nes.
mircea_popescu: i borrowed an ipad for a coupla weeks
to check out
the games and i gave it back without regrets - more with relief.
mircea_popescu: i have half a dozen laptops which i use... maybe a day a season, or something, between
the lot.
mircea_popescu: it went from 16
to 64 bits, sure, but otherwise
the box is exactly
the same size even
mircea_popescu: i guess im a reactionary. i own, substantially,
the exact kind of machine i had as a child.
decimation: I guess
there are many simple solutions.
decimation: asciilifeform: but how do you separate your changes from
the original
text? does emacs do
this?
mircea_popescu: and
the worst
thing a maid could do is drop a wreath of books on
the way
to shelving
decimation: how do you scribble in an ascii
text file?
mircea_popescu: as in, have someone
to (cut, if uncut) and prefill with blank paper.
mircea_popescu: in
the book days i used
to have my books filled with papers.
mircea_popescu: in short, i know of no other process involving
the noggin
than
the full process.