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mircea_popescu: kids who were perfectly fine leisure companions when you were 6 became intolerable drags when you were 10.
mircea_popescu: consider how the republic works, it's the same thing : at some point in tmsr history, nubbins could qualify to participate. at some later point, adlai couldn't manage to pass the bar.
mircea_popescu: as things go on, the quality ratchets, and lo and behold : bioscum that was still functional by yest's criteria is no longer apt today.
mircea_popescu: at stage n, when bitcoin exists, curtis yarvin is too stupid to understand why it's much bigger than him ; and the mental efforts of marginal retard are just about comensurate with the sub dollar value of a coin.
mircea_popescu: which grokking, admittedly, doesn't happen in 90% of the population.
mircea_popescu: anyway, there's a lot of work that went into this "program needs list of prime for initialization" thing back when people still actually put thought and work into computers. see wheel factorization etc if curious.
mircea_popescu: (euler actually came up with that doing the riemann zeta function product)
mircea_popescu: (the ancient original, cut out nth number, everfy 2nd from 2 every 3rd from 3 etc. euler's sieve is "take out a number, multiply the remainder of the list by that number, take out all the items in first list found also in second". which is faster yes, a generalisation of the 6k+-1 thing.)
mircea_popescu: but in any case, e's sieve was erathostenes' in my line.
mircea_popescu: PeterL the reason she stated primes as 6k+-1 is because 80% of numbers are divisible by 2 or 3, and it makes no sense to check them.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo the point is interesting. plants do indeed get cancers ; but because plant cells do not travel in the anima's body at all, plant cancers aren't terribly agressive (so wouldn't normally kill the plant). nevertheless, very valid point, can readily study impact of background radiation on cell division by inspecting the monoclonal grooves.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-18#1700026 << in teh morning mp wishes to state that while the harem arrangement, however understood, is not to be discarded out of hand, nevertheless it can't possibly be the correct solution for everyone everywhere all the time. specificity of, you've guessed it, diddling!
☝︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno man, electric powered balloon not so expensive :D
mircea_popescu: and they're looking into bubberand-powered trains, too!
mircea_popescu: (fun fact -- lead poisoning is mostly an african reality these days. nigerians lead the pack in topical research)
mircea_popescu: i'm not aware of such disparity (we're not talking km ocean depths here.). possibly died, but i expect through chemical rather than radio toxicity.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform on occasion they do, there's now and again an ancient fish or mollusc turned up. they don't really die in the usual sense.
mircea_popescu: "just about everybody gets cancer" is the american way, nothing else. "improved quality of life" ie higher density sardine packages at the cost of quality.
mircea_popescu: people and clams alike survive background radiation without ill effect.
mircea_popescu: it's lead not strontium. anyway, lead is not found in diet outside of civilisation, and microgram does are experimentally safe. so : the first microgram of lead is free.
mircea_popescu: there's certainly merit in helping the smallholders stay in business.
mircea_popescu: there's no way to make a dead hooker bounce as pleasantly as a live one. that said, vacuum pack away.
mircea_popescu: only time i bought cows in that manner was when making them thief style for immediate consumption\
mircea_popescu: if you must age it, better age deliberately than letting freezer burn do its worst.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes look into steak aging i guess if you're decided to buy cow timeshares.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes you're more than welcome to find out on own, but freezer meat is for fridjof nansen's fram, not for people living at homr.
mircea_popescu: it's perfectly fine if half children's and if still poledancin' hos then girls' too calories come from meat. but this comes to what, 20-30k a week for a young woman with three children, ie about 6kgs ? that's a goat not a cow.
mircea_popescu: don't be silly. whoile cattle is for when your dozen women have their thirtieth child or such.
mircea_popescu: anywya. the proper name for what i mean is bistecca fiorentina.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes brewing up the first white football mvp in like a decade eh ?
mircea_popescu: dog is perfect for up to 10 or so. then can take it riding.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes anyway, dun let hosptial visit dissuade. kid is made to be thrown around up to the limit of physical resistance / crying. it's good for it.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes if you're going to throw kid around , grab above elbow.
mircea_popescu: like most common pediatric presentation in functional family units, or something like that.
mircea_popescu: o nm, it's the elbow luxation in children. i misinterpreted teh words!
mircea_popescu: (i could have sworn ~~~I~~~!!! used that story first. alf stealing all my good old country folk stuff!)
mircea_popescu: (fun fact : nobody has a working model of how america's most commonly prescribed drug (tylenol) actually works. it's been around since nazis invented it. but...)
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes it's never been explained. you know, like paracetamol.
mircea_popescu: and the fact remains, official usg.medicine has no TREATMENT for sprains, outside of imobilizatiopn and tramadol. which is not treatment.
mircea_popescu: anyway : mustard has nothing to do wirth all this, still very effective.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes that's reallly forcing a point. pipes were lead throughout pipe history, all the romans ever used.
mircea_popescu: they're not good cures for them. they used to be, good cures, for other peoples, which they are not. that's it.
mircea_popescu: so no, i'm not advocating anyone put lead acetate on his sprain. nro am i implying some sort of evil conspiracy is keeping the good people from the good cures.
mircea_popescu: and no, obama didn't do this. the problem was already manifest two centuries ago, in the sense that it's entirely possible beethoven went deaf (a major early symptom of saturnism) due to drinking wines sweetened with the stuff. which was already illegal back then, but then he was a miser.
mircea_popescu: this doesn't mean the benefits aren't present ; nor does it mean their costs are universal costs. it's just what it is.
mircea_popescu: for them, any bit of lead is toxic, because thye are already overwhelmend by lead-rich environment. and so for them, it doesn't make sense to use lead acetate for sprains, because the costs exceed the benefits.
mircea_popescu: now, the fact is that lead is also legally unavailable today. this is not necessarily sorosconspiraci : orcs with very low passive environmental exposure may very well afford a little bit of lead sugar now and again for a sprain. nevertheles, "civilised" ie overexposed pantsuits can nor afford such a thing.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: there are two classes of indisputable facts. one is that yes, lead acetate is effectual against sprains. the other is that yes, lead in any form is toxic.
mircea_popescu: anyway, to make this matter plain as i suspect it has ample potential for misunderstanding :
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in point of fact you could buy lead acetate pills ("apa de plumb") in ro as of 1980s.
mircea_popescu: it's either that or lead acetate. which of course you can't buy (anymore)