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mircea_popescu: but
there's going
to be a corner somehwere
the retarded kids gather
decimation: well, in
the specific case of high-end
test equipment, most buyers are not going
to be easily swayed by bs
mircea_popescu: you familiar with
the concept of invincible ignorance ?
decimation: It's always going
to be more expensive
to pay lawyers
than
to develop a patent-evading version of a device
decimation: well, in
this specific case, I
think it will be impossible
to create a ring of patents
that will stop
the mongol hordes
decimation: yeah, but making lame patents isn't going
to win in
the end
decimation: yeah I have noticed a
trend here with a variety of electronic products
decimation: Except,
that's exactly what happened with
the boston
tea party
decimation: so, in
the land of
the free,
the USG has granted a monopoly on yellow DMM's and
then began enforcing
the monopoly using
taxpayer funds.
decimation: did you ever wonder how many
TSA agents could identify diddled electronics with
their xray machines?
decimation: or,
to be more precise, hiring and paying competent inspectors is a bridge
too far for USG
decimation: Because actually inspecting
things would violate
the rights of
the grey-market importers
decimation: " According
to a press release from
the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), until 2008,
the CBP would snap pictures of
the
trademarks and other info on suspected counterfeit chips and send
the images
to semiconductor firms for verification.
That stopped with when
the Department of Homeland Security implemented a new security policy."
bounce: "hairs of its own"... well,
that sort-of works. my understanding was more along
the lines of bad RNGs have higher risk of getting stuck in local minima, but anyway. nothing like having and obscure joke get dissected
to death.
mircea_popescu: decimation asciilifeform also point out
that even a broom shoots once.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform freer people would make home candy in
the pattern and distribute it
to neighbourhood kids.
ozbot: The Rise and Fall of
Thinking Machines, Bankruptcy Article | Inc.com
ozbot: Thinking Machines -
The Daily WTF
decimation: just not against problems of
the "I don't know what I want" variety
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nn, "expert systems" and other prime snake oil has long been
the substance used
to maks government graft.
mircea_popescu: bounce
the
thing is, evolution algo looks for fine little hairs on
things. bad rng adds hairs of its own. it's as if you'd be having
two species fighting it out. often enough
the one you're interested in gets overwhelmed
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the guys are retards of prime order, which is why i quoted it.
benkay: "Those concerned about e-waste may (or may not) be pleased
to know
that it’s also common for vendors
to use recycled flash chips salvaged from discarded parts."
decimation: thus making most of
the cost of
the development for
these
things go
to firmware
decimation: I was speaking
to a greybeard EE last night. He lamented
that most compE kids coming out of school want
to put a high-end media CPU on embedded projects so
they can run java or something stupid
decimation: but now
that you mention it,
they would be a good place
to find cheap flash chips
decimation: I wish
there were an ssd available
that let you examine its innards
decimation: I like your idea of underprovisioning
the drive
to leave room for bad flash cells
decimation: how did you adapt
to
the ancient ide connectors?
decimation: asciilifeform you mentioned in
the past
that you did not care for mechanical hard drives. Does
this mean you put a flash drive in your Libretto?
bounce: so god's grace is in
the quality of your RNG?
chetty: benkay, it sure looks like an economic war is a brewing. It will crash
the whole world economy if
they keep it up
benkay: re chetty's zerohedge sanction link "Carney...said. 'I wouldn't, if I were you, invest in Russian equities right now, unless you're going short.'". << is
this
the great mechanisms of war ratcheting one step further? is
the US seriously biting off an economic war with Russia?
mircea_popescu: Mircea Popescu @Mircea_Popescu RT @ArdenEliz
The Future of Self-Satisfaction, Part I: Girth Is More Important
Than
ta Length (link)
mircea_popescu: Arden Elizabeth @ArdenEliz
The Future of Self-Improvement, Part I: Grit Is More Important
Than
Talent (link)
ozbot: How Deep Learning Analytics Mimic
the Mind
mircea_popescu: (for
the rap fans among us :
this is some friend of p. diddy's)
mircea_popescu: Gilliams lives an extravagant lifestyle, much of which is depicted in videos filmed by videographers he hired
to follow him around.
The videos appear on “TLG
TV,” which purports
to be some sort of reality
TV show starring him. A host of such videos still remain on YouTube, although some were deleted from Vimeo. One such video apparently depicted Gillaims “posing with stacks of money on his lap.”
mircea_popescu: " He also “generated a document, which he supplied
to a representative of
the investors, in which he purported
to show a series of $5 million
trades, as well as over $100,000 in purported profits on
trades during September and October 2010, [but]
this document was false.” Anyone can generate a professional looking document on
their computer."
mircea_popescu: screen shot is not a confirmation. And nobody investing foundation funds should
think it is."
mircea_popescu: "Gilliams received $4 million from Morfopoulous and $1 million from another investor for investment in
the STRIPS program. As evidence
that
the funds were so invested, Gilliams created “a screenshot from Bloomberg Finance showing $1 million worth of U.S.
Treasury STRIPS, which Gilliams represented was proof
that he had purchased
Treasury STRIPS.” A screenshot? He must have been in
the virtual office
that day. A
Ghaleon: i have a feeling
that carl jung's archetypal mode.. a consdesnded version will give
the right person a keen edge going forward
Ghaleon: and get an answer
thanks
to
the blockchain
Ghaleon: as
things move forward we will be able
to ask "how do people use money really?"
Ghaleon: henry Ford's vision is coming
to pass
Ghaleon: bit coins greatest value is
that it is getting people
to ask "what is money really" ?