mircea_popescu: meanwhile a la granja, http://68.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2abz9XtEC1qmvi83o1_1280.png

mircea_popescu: 1k hours... that's a long, expensive time.

mircea_popescu: shinohai is that pizza slice a reference to the 4chan child pron thing ?

mircea_popescu: that was one of the very few administrative rules that got actually obeyed. ~nobody wanted to see a rehash of the white horror.

mircea_popescu: ie, slides AS YOU DESCRIBE THEM (here's a shot of a whiteboard from another room, comment) work ; but the idiocy normally deployed by the empire tards does not.

mircea_popescu: slides make for a very poor replacement.

mircea_popescu: the more a man knows, the better a man he is. i wouldn't worry about it.

mircea_popescu: consider eg a * b > a + b. this is basically cauchy pared down. that there's no direct path from one to the other is the only last nail of hope (but mp, just because we've not found yet why it's fundamental doesn't prove it isn't. sure.)

mircea_popescu: nothing wrong with a little bit of aesthetics. but you certainly noticed the very strongly monotonous abstractization function of actual knowledge. what starts life as banal observatrion of natural numbers ends up linked to ever more complex manifestations in who knows what algebra / space / etc.

mircea_popescu: there may be fundamental problems with the very concept. (for instance : give an example of self-organizing heat exchange defect. "oh, life itself" what else ? "the tornado that happens in the drain". mmkay. the problem with not being able to give examples of a theory besides the item that prompted the theory is generally known as begging the question.

mircea_popescu: the brighest dogs have iqs in the 30-40 range, and yet they can beat the average human in ~average human~ contexts. what could be more humiliating of a "culture" i can not imagine.

mircea_popescu: though it's true the dogs seem to love the idea. "finally! a sane human! ima go right there and lick hi to her!"

mircea_popescu: fucking stupid. wtf is a park for if not naked dogs and naked women.

mircea_popescu: perhaps in time that becomes a social game. "where-in-the-world-is-mircea_popescu ?" now from tabletop, inc.

mircea_popescu: giving people a chance to guess neh

mircea_popescu: and i can't tell you how fucking great it is to not find oneself in a country as despicably idiotic, either. people shouldn't live with people they hate.

mircea_popescu: also any kind of anything would stick out as a fucking sore thumb out here. unless of course evil imperial agents learn how to drive donkey uphill just like the locals.

mircea_popescu: dude how the fuck are 100ms roundtrips possible to mp's interface in the middle of fucking goatland i have nfi. there's a half mile 20% average climb to get to his crow's nest.

mircea_popescu: it was a pretty lulzy thread, something with a sauna. 2014ish or such.

mircea_popescu: didn't the guy end up with a few week's enforced relaxation because he attempted to reorganize some hotel/resort he didn't own or somesuch feats of confusion ?

mircea_popescu: i was born of a woman in the usual way ; perhaps fit for friendship but certainly not fit for public worship. it may work in private with my own sluts, but that is an insanely narrow and controlled environment.

mircea_popescu: not a matter of photoshop. besides i have a whole [unpublished] fucking set with them. and for that matter while she may be smarter than him, she's certainly braver seeing how she DID talk to mp eh.

mircea_popescu: o lol, you still got a tardstalk account ?

mircea_popescu: leaviong aside the lulz of windows titles for a moment.

mircea_popescu: perhaps appealing to their vanity will work where appealing to their absent intelligence failed ; after all everyone's got a vanity.

mircea_popescu: on a 100mbit link should take no more than half an hour!

mircea_popescu: a chemistry is performed indeed.

mircea_popescu: “a chemistry is performed so that a chemical reaction occurs and generates a signal from the chemical interaction with the sample, which is translated into a result, which is then reviewed by certified laboratory personnel.”

mircea_popescu: of course there's a soap opera coming out the other end. what the fuck else ? people who can't think "starting" "companies" hurr.

mircea_popescu: be maintained in the mid-60s, which facilitated her preferred daily uniform of a black turtleneck with a puffy black vest—a homogeneity that she had borrowed from her idol, the late Steve Jobs."

mircea_popescu: ng, the company’s general counsel; lawyers from Boies, Schiller & Flexner, the intrepid law firm; and crisis-management consultants. Most of the people in the war room had been there for two days and nights straight, according to an insider, leaving mainly to shower or make a feeble attempt at a couple of hours of shut-eye. There was also an uncomfortable chill in the room. At Theranos, Holmes preferred that the temperature

mircea_popescu: "For two days, according to insiders, Holmes, who is now 32, had refused to address these concerns. Instead, she remained largely holed up in a conference room, surrounded by her inner circle. Half-empty food containers and cups of stale coffee and green juice were strewn on the table as she strategized with a phalanx of trusted advisers, including Ramesh “Sunny” Balwani, then Theranos’s president and C.O.O.; Heather Ki

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-28#1632948 << technically there is a reindex, for node that shut down clean (ie, didn't trash the bdb temp stores) ☝︎

mircea_popescu: it's a sweet dream this, that leftard boy has a chance in the world. nothing more than a dream, though. in reality, leftard boy is dogmeat.

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-28#1632906 << lightning just struck again. truth is, the world of actual competence / unsuck is truly tiny. there's a marked difference between type A "i saw a chick, do you know her ?" "no" and type A' "i saw this chick driving a red porsche, and she was without a doubt the most aggressive driver i ever saw. and incredibly fucking hot too!" "ah, that's jane," ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-28#1632901 << yes, goes by spyked on trilema ; bright undergrad and then grad at the bucharest politechnic (which still is a fine technical school, though it was better pre-democracy). ☝︎☟︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-27#1632890 << there's a reason mp opts not to live in the us, however. that shit works if there's a happy meeting of one's network with the general prevalence of sane people. if your network is 1k deep and sane people are 10k ppm, it works fine. if your network is 10 deep and sane people are 10 ppm, you're about five degrees of magnitude short meaning roughly speaking it'll work once every 10k t ☝︎

mircea_popescu: takes a jack warner to build a company and a carly fiorina to burn it down.