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mircea_popescu: or stuck improvising for lack of viable strategy through events unfolding no one
could have predicted, or or or.
mircea_popescu: i dunno wtf they were thinking putting it in the chip rather than the ram. i guess nobody
could have predicted mp kills moore together with gavin.
mircea_popescu: "obviously, pretend like nobody
could have predicted" "a totally, solid plan mate!"
mircea_popescu: this is utterly what the dawn of civilisaiton looks like. next, nobody
could have predicted pissing on the electric fence.
mircea_popescu: cancer taking the first bite off the lordship list, more fodder for the list of things no one
could have predicted.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the diocletian edict is a fine example. the problem isn't even economic there, it's purely political. "oh, we
have a problem we don't know how to solve, here's some red tape" "tell you what - it's not worth the risk of dealing with your red tape AT ALL. see ya". "oh noes! who
could have predicted!"
pete_dushenski: I
have only seen conspicuous consumers and Apple fanboys wearing the things. << i've seen exactly two young men wearing the apple watch. exactly two. "no one
could've
predicted!"
mircea_popescu: what, ustards are amazed that they applied the principles of 1950s soviet feminism, got the results of 1970s soviet society and WHOA WHO
COULD HAVE PREDICTED ?!?!?!
assbot: Logged on 09-09-2015 05:17:33; gabriel_laddel: "On the historical evidence I shall be short. Carl Friedrich Gauss, the Prince of Mathematicians but also somewhat of a coward, was certainly aware of the fate of Galileo —and
could probably
have predicted the calumniation of Einstein— when he decided to suppress his discovery of non-Euclidean geometry, thus leaving it to Bolyai and Lobatchewsky to receive the flak. It is probably more illuminati
gabriel_laddel: "On the historical evidence I shall be short. Carl Friedrich Gauss, the Prince of Mathematicians but also somewhat of a coward, was certainly aware of the fate of Galileo —and
could probably
have predicted the calumniation of Einstein— when he decided to suppress his discovery of non-Euclidean geometry, thus leaving it to Bolyai and Lobatchewsky to receive the flak. It is probably more illuminating to go a littl
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the end of social media will come exactly like how nobody
could have predicted it by reading a 2014 trilema article.
mircea_popescu never
could have predicted the "should be enough for anyone" magic number really discusses "how manby people may be alive"
mircea_popescu chuckles at the thought of some [not so ?] distant time in the future when various derps will discover that "nobody
could have predicted" they had a lengthy record of shit to answer for in the logs.
ben_vulpes: but this is bitcoin, where since time immemorial people
have been shipping code that can only ever be tested in production and then standing by in amazement claiming that "nobody
could have predicted!"
decimation: and all that. Except Fat Tony. ... All he knew is that suckers exist. ... If you asked any intelligent ?analyst? or journalist at the time, he would
have predicted a rise in the price of oil in the event of war. But that causal link was precisely what Tony
could not take for granted. So he bet against it: they are all prepared for a rise in oil from war, so the price must
have adjusted to it. "
mircea_popescu: kinda why bitcoin is so important. kinda why the gavincoin disarray was so "nobody
could have predicted" for the usg side.
decimation: it's not like noone
could have predicted racial freak-out in baltimore
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard what i've seen in practice is a lot of "industry standards" and "nobody
could have predicted", neither of which do a cfo make.
mircea_popescu: impossibru. who outside of cazalla and anyone thinking
could have predicted this!
mircea_popescu: anyway, i suppose it comes as one of those "nobody
could have predicted" things to these people that the entire pile of crap they've been amassing over the years can and for that matter likely will simply be thrown out and forgotten.
mircea_popescu: "i
have never seen it do anything else before" and "who
could have predicted"
davout: who
could have predicted?
mircea_popescu: at which point, suddenly, yes. "who
could have predicted".
mircea_popescu: and nobody
could have predicted that nobody wants crap in the middle of nowhere.
mircea_popescu: davout because to this day about half of the us bureaucracy is shielded by only the flimsy "nobody
could have predicted"
mircea_popescu: * RICE CLAIM: "I don't think anybody
could have predicted that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile." National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, 5/16/02
mjr_: every record setting earthquake
could not
have been
predicted using the past