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mircea_popescu: aand in yet more lulz : cancer incidence increased in us adolescents by a steady 0.5 - 0.6% per year, each year, since 1975.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: in other lulz : each and everyone politician abscam put in jail (bout 30 or so) were... democrats. the party of corruption survived!
mircea_popescu: exaclty as per the above "ants doing mango pulp powered research"
mircea_popescu: system becomes more complex over time at a steady rate based on temperature / gates' worthless money input.
mircea_popescu: very literally true, too. the act of fermentation as a thermodynamic process is correctly modelled as an increase in entropy ie exactly "that way lies demonology"
mircea_popescu: "do it or else alf won't like it and mp won't defend you and what else is there for you."
mircea_popescu: i suppose this actually enacts a fundamental of "parsimony" in estimation of all ideal objects.
mircea_popescu: so you'll settle on "dirac's delta visibly parsimonious ; string theory not so visibly if at all" ?
mircea_popescu: obscenity laws, banned books, political correctness, antivirus corps etc are all the sorry product of the contrary view.
mircea_popescu: do also there exist "bad data" known by that fact that "if put into computer, break it" ? fix the fucking code.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i put it to you, that if such a thing should exist, the head is at fault not the thing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dirac's delta, aslo crafted with clear political angle : to exclude non-diracians from so-and-so set of benches.
mircea_popescu: "things that i can fuck", "things that i can understand", "things i can talk about". many kinds of things.
mircea_popescu: not concrete in any sense ; and not meaningful either, but still.
mircea_popescu: there is in this sense. if "alcohol" "leads people into sin", then those led into sin are to be hanged ; but alcohol not condemned.
mircea_popescu: (schwartz above is laurent schwartz, provided an elegant translation of the non-functional nature of dirac's delta by using distribution limits to model it)
mircea_popescu: and i suppose the evident similarity between dirac delta and "whichever unnamed abstractions you support your estimation of string theory" is also striking to you ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you are aware "consensus" among the math tribe was that dirac & friends are talking nonsense ?
mircea_popescu: seems to me it's the job of math people to produce all needed schwartzen and their shortcoming when they fail to do so.
mircea_popescu: sooo are we sticking to pre schwartz notions of "physicists are talking nonsense" ?
mircea_popescu: and in other lulz, "United States v. 11 1/4 Dozen Packages of Articles Labeled in Part Mrs. Moffat’s Shoo-Fly Powders for Drunkenness" is a genuine case citation, early in rem litigation in new york.
mircea_popescu: so he'd come out, run 10-20 cm, discover all these eyes on him, turnabout run back in, wait a little, try again...
mircea_popescu: consequently this poor animal has a bunch of people STALKING HIM, watching his house at gecko's 7-8am. just as he's getting ready to try and beat the god damned traffic to work!
mircea_popescu: now, as it happens a wall mounted screen will be watched mostly in the early evening. as it also happens, fna will sleep during day, wake up for business in the early evening.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo speaking of fna, lulz of all time : i have a wall mounted wide screen. as you can imagine, it is THE hottest bit of real estate as far as gecko is concerned (very safe, nice and warm at night, plenty of hidey places, a villa!)
mircea_popescu: (if you're in any way related to "teh industry" of "science" you're aware how much of a fucking problem content generation is / was)
mircea_popescu: anyway, there is some acturial basis for it, well buried under the fanfic. much like there's a thin sliver of actual geological survey buried under the "global warming" wank.
mircea_popescu: for the same money this set of microscopic ant guys processing a drop of mango pulp on my counter are doing research at my behest.
mircea_popescu: i'm not sure it has anything baked in above and beyond, "here's a billion we don't know what to do with, because we won it at the social mobility lottery, can anyone halp ?" resulting in an ad-hoc, informally specified, poorly directed and utterly undesigned effort to produce words and "numbers" in exchange for expense accounts.
mircea_popescu: (the sponsors of this wank are the gates fambly. generally you'll find each wankfest has its own ex-corporate dumbasses behind it)
mircea_popescu: there's an endless ocean of lolcow tears, out there. all sorts of these groups by now, "doing things" orally.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile lower back pain went from 0.06 to 0.37 because HEY!!! all things must be done by for and through the office drone! WHO COULD DISPUTE THIS WORLDVIEW!
mircea_popescu: sical factor of "0.594". the 2010 edition of the "same" list of masturbatory products dropped it to 0.195, because, get this, "we changed our fanfic to be measure of health rather than welfare and blind person is not ill"
mircea_popescu: in other vaguely related lulz : the "disability weight" is a nonsensical scalar measure invented by the kanzure type idiots who deal in "DALY" ie "societal measures of health" and such bullshit. they publish lousy fanfic with some regularity, which can be amusing. for instance, as per the 2004 official truth, blindness was the 2nd most serious problem, (after alzheimer's, ahead of schizophrenia, being the top 3) with a nonsen
mircea_popescu: well unlike 1960s nader, 2010s obama has cheap disposable needles
mircea_popescu: but then the victorious socialism came by, started building a world of the future without such pests. this was to be accomplished through forced injection of wonder drugs, that did not work. the injecting however left egypt the highest hepatitis C place in the world, and by far. it's actually epidemiologically traceable to the victorious socialism campaigns, by geographic area and social groups.)
mircea_popescu: (lulzy thing re that helminth : it was always common in egypt ; because it induces bloody urination it was actually socially-reinterpreted by the same retarded pantsuits who built pyramids as "rite of passage" for boys ie hurray, menstruation too!
mircea_popescu: iirc presence in water was somewhat related to prevalence of the supposed adhd disease
mircea_popescu: he too, the monkey in zoo, "maintains social relations" such as befit a monkey in a zoo, and delouses self and friends, and does other uu-aa things which, importantly, are topologically insulated from the actual world through something known as the cage bars.
mircea_popescu: work hasn't actually existed in 20 years, there's what we do, and redditard can't to anyway, and otherwise redditarding, which is entirely undistinguishable from simply being monkey in zoo.
mircea_popescu: worse than that : living in a world in which work exists.
mircea_popescu: if i ran the bank supervisor would have pulled licenses of anyone engaging in that shit.
mircea_popescu: sure, in the sense burning down house is good for heat.
mircea_popescu: the "living wage" is the necessary result of the bright banking idea of "mail everyone credit cards -- itis good for business!"
mircea_popescu: then the question readily become "how much free shit would it be fair for the $peoplesendingmeenvelopes to send me on a yearly basis"
mircea_popescu: blue collar dude bought a house if he scrounged and saved for one.
mircea_popescu: i dun think it has anything to do with anything other than credit.
mircea_popescu: they went away not because "mafia went away" and other giulaini nonsense -- but because the blue collar adult male went away.
mircea_popescu: the ~only function of those flicks was to provide rage escapism for adult blue collar males who were aware of the mafia through daily interaction, but liked to imagine some kind of separation, "if those scumbags that are totally not my betters ever raped my wife and daughter, why i... i... i'd totally slyvester seagall all over them!"
mircea_popescu: in other news, the "action movie" phenomenon of the 70s/early 80s is a very interesting epiphenomenon of the maga.
mircea_popescu: fucking intolerable shitheads. then he wonders why everything he makes is broken.
mircea_popescu: bonus points for a text full of "I" as FUCKING IF he's me, except of course we don't get to even see the fucktard's fucking name aywhere.
mircea_popescu: "This is precisely what Armory’s implementation breaks, by rolling deterministic and chained coefficients, where the first coefficient is deterministically derived from the secret, and the subsequent ones are derived successively from one another."
mircea_popescu: apparently they are so loath it leaves perfectly willing to pay for hosting even.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, note it's 60kb not 80kb. less than 64!
mircea_popescu: i expect they called in sick and spent the rest of the day in a lavatory.
mircea_popescu: ing from curtain rods, all sorts and manner of paraphenailia which, if regarded by neutral eyes cast a strange shadow on ortdinary items (why is there a pile of xl condom packs RIGHT NEXT TO rubbing alcohol and what is that pointy thing?!?!?).
mircea_popescu: in other such lulz, had a team of professionals (3 sorry looking kids) from super-duper local isp do a bunch of cable laying. leaving aside that the job included climbing a 3 story bare metal outside ladder to get to the roof, which was a first for all of 'em, the place itself... well, the girls were dressed, exceptionally, but i only realised by and by that there's a lot of shit such as ball gags laying about, bullwhips hang
mircea_popescu: how the fuck exactly ? you're telling me there's no 80kb unicode glyph for some (white priviledge!!!) reason ?
mircea_popescu: in other lulz : "gedit" (gnome lulz-nano) SIMPLY CRASHES if fed a 60kb no-spaces textfile.
mircea_popescu: how shall i ever manage to choose among the usgistani offerings of totally-secure-alt-tors for the post-tor era (introduced by the not-trilema theguardian!!!)