mircea_popescu: asciilifeform chick wanted to live by the park or whatever homemaker achievement. a girlscout captive in a 25yo woman's body, still trying to get the right badges in her sophisticated culturedness.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-26 06:57 mircea_popescu: do you understand why computers and software are extempt from the general consumer protections ?
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-26#1717444 << because microshit, and really ~no other reason
a111: Logged on 2017-09-26 06:58 mircea_popescu: if on the other hand you elaine ou do terrible software work, that is EVERY SINGLE CUSTOMER. there is no way a company can pay up.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-26#1717447 << courts have no problem handing out verdicts loser 'could not possibly pay' in other circumstances. as in recent thread re janitor who burned down submarine
a111: Logged on 2017-09-26 05:10 mircea_popescu: check out the dumb broad, she imagines moneymaking scales, rich dude is going to get into the same arrangements with her as rando highschool boyfriend would.
asciilifeform: ( but then worked as civilian hired help, at civilian pay, for academics, but then quit even this )
diana_coman: cruciform, for one thing man at till is not producer - while I don't give "man at till" extra for the product itself (I might give him for the service if warranted, what), I might even want to give producer more if I consider what he does to be a great thing; payment is support at the end of the day; anyway keeping with your example the thing would be: man at till says it'll be $10, do you ask around in the shop if anyone sells
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-26#1717379 << asciilifeform was even luckier, was vomited forth forever from the belly of the beast before even could set foot in grad school
asciilifeform: otherwise nobody'd raise a brow, healthy market in used FG is not a badthing
diana_coman: cruciform, if you don't mind for my curiosity: does the difference actually matter or above what threshold does it matter?
diana_coman: cruciform, worx then
jhvh1: danielpbarron: The operation succeeded.
diana_coman: asciilifeform, by now I suspect it's more a thing on the lines of "gotta have cheapest price possible or else sucker"
cruciform: for the record, it took ~30minutes to procure 2 units @10% below spot from a member of WoT
asciilifeform: cruciform: i must inform you that we recently dropped the price, on account of rising btc/usd , and most of the folx who presently own FG, paid ~more~ than is today being charged
diana_coman: cruciform, ah, so this is about "maybe there is somewhere a deal and I pay 1 dime less?
asciilifeform: ( granted there may be such a person, i have nfi )
asciilifeform: cruciform: the real advantage is that you can actually get it, reliably, from vendor. whereas right now you're stuck looking for somebody with too many, that he itches to get rid of at a loss, to sell you cheaply.
diana_coman: what puzzles is a. why would someone buy it from nsa to then sell it cheaper (admittedly it is possible though, anything is possible) b. if it's underpriced how is it worth it to spend *time* in order to get somehow possibly (not even surely) a slightly cheaper price
cruciform: diana_coman: that would be the only advantage in paying more when buying directly from vendor
asciilifeform: i even described how you can substitute mercury switches for the analogue boards, if you only need a byte/minute or so , as in dice
diana_coman: asciilifeform, there is that
cruciform: diana_coman: the whole point is that it's auditable, so why does it matter where you get it from?
diana_coman: I don't have anything against others doing whatever, obv, just sort of ...not making sense to me
asciilifeform: diana_coman: i will add, for extra pedantism, that there are always TWO potential sources for FG : s.nsa, and OWN HANDS ( schematics and soft are published, go, make )
diana_coman: well, it's not whatever really; as far as I know there is only one maker of FG; and moreover, if I think the "widget" is underpriced then no, I don't waste time running around to ask maybe it's even more underpriced sort of thing
asciilifeform: cruciform: if you 'just want' 'an rng, dun matter what kind' -- the cost is 0, your cpu maker already supplied you with a liquishit rng
diana_coman: which "the widget"?
cruciform: diana_coman: do you check multiple vendors before you buy the widget?
diana_coman is genuinely rather puzzled on this one
diana_coman: cruciform, I don't get it either: if you think NSA price is low anyway, then why are you looking for some other place to buy it for even less?
cruciform: but very grateful for your work in making the device
asciilifeform: but then also 'would somebody pleez sell for <x'
asciilifeform: then even moar puzzling
jhvh1: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: !~later tell cruciform i've nothing against folx buyin', sellin', secondhand FG, but i'm very curious re the psychology of 'would anyone... less than listed price' -- do you see it as overpriced ? or chasing after the abstract pleasure of pinching a penny ? or which is it.
jhvh1: danielpbarron: The operation succeeded.
jhvh1: shinohai: The operation succeeded.
shinohai: Hey *IS* Today is the International Day of Remembering How Mircea Popescu Is Better Than Me day after all.
mircea_popescu: everything's gone to crap, and the imbeciles responsible dare run around pretending the stupid-ass handhelds were "a great thing".
RagnarDanneskjol: I spent a lot of time there years ago
RagnarDanneskjol: http://trilema.com/2014/today-is-the-international-day-of-remembering-how-mircea-popescu-is-better-than-me-and-related-observances/
elaineo: i guess in the current form it's a ponzi scheme like social security
mircea_popescu: this means one of two things -- either they're run as state offices on the federal budget (which means they will turn from profitable to shit over a generation or two) or else they are run by rando scammers, trying to do the whole aluminum siding bit.
mircea_popescu: anyway -- there's no way for a life insurance company to obtain an economic advantage over the competition. everyone has the same acturial tables.
mircea_popescu: the problem with life insurance is more subtle, which is why it's not usually noticed
mircea_popescu: if on the other hand you elaine ou do terrible software work, that is EVERY SINGLE CUSTOMER. there is no way a company can pay up.
mircea_popescu: consider the risk profile. if you elaine ou do terrible sex work, that is one pissed off customer who's going to get a free cocktail and a voucher for a chance to win an hour with kardashian.
mircea_popescu: do you understand why computers and software are extempt from the general consumer protections ?
elaineo: what do you mean it's not an economic activity? you mean it's not profitable for the insurance company?
mircea_popescu: if they didn't obamacare-equivalent it, it wouldn't exist.
mircea_popescu: ~same would happen with life insurance, this isn't the 1890s anymore and yidish is not spoken in the home.
mircea_popescu: you familiar with the situation of flood insurance ?
elaineo: i've always felt that life insurance companies should be the ones paying for people's medical bills to keep them on life support.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform https://elaineou.com/2014/12/18/how-radioshack-became-too-big-to-fail/ << check it out she (correctly) explains the radioshack mystery. fucking default swaps, hurr.
mircea_popescu: there's also the http://wot.deedbot.org/ visualiser ; but you can also make your own.
mircea_popescu: deedbot also keeps a deeding service (think notarization for the new generation), backed by the full faith and credit of the bitcoin network.
mircea_popescu: (if you put links in channel they're automatically archived, as for instance https://archive.is/btkJN for the above)
elaineo: there was a dating service called coffee-meets-bagel that had a primitive version, not sure if they're still around
mircea_popescu: i've never encountered one that worked, outside of this one. but then again i lead a sheltered existence.
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/what-the-wot-is-for-how-it-works-and-how-to-use-it/ << you tell me.
elaineo: @mircea_popescu I understand how wots work in general, is there anything particular about the one for #trilema?
mircea_popescu: elaineo dja understand how the wot works ?
mircea_popescu: check out the dumb broad, she imagines moneymaking scales, rich dude is going to get into the same arrangements with her as rando highschool boyfriend would.
mircea_popescu: and in other ancient lulz: https://elaineou.com/2009/04/03/advice-for-woman-seeking-500k-earning-man/
mircea_popescu: to voice self say !!up to deedbot in pm, then decrypt the thing he gives tyou and say !!v to him with the otp
mircea_popescu: hm, lessee what other common loci you might have missed.
mircea_popescu: sadly he meanwhile retreated into the bottle.
mircea_popescu: christos ballas, author of the indeed very good tlp blog
elaineo: the "Marry Him" author is correct
BingoBoingo: elaineo: Are they props? http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2010/02/dont_settle_for_the_man_you_wa.html
mircea_popescu: i'd ask you if it sucks but then again...
elaineo: @mircea_popescu working at a run-of-the mill cash-burning silicon valley tech company? yes.
mircea_popescu: there;s this feedback loop for writers. it's great to write->publish->read. think of it as a special sort of ooda loop.
BingoBoingo: * mircea_popescu would propose writing for qntra, but sadly qntra encountered an arrow to the knee << This is no obstacle to writing for qntra. Merely an obstacle to getting puslished on Qntra. While disaster awaits a resolution one can still write to target qntra and settle for publishing elsewhere.
mircea_popescu: anyway, so what do you do now, something in the vein of http://trilema.com/2015/you-know-what-gets-no-airplay-unflattering-truth/ ?
elaineo: it's not just the career success, it also comes with pretend-asceticism. like a greek philosopher-king
mircea_popescu: elaineo the sort of people to whom it is socially respectable would respect you a lot more for i dunno, a gucci bag.
elaineo: i don't think academia is as retarded as it's portrayed in MSM. they amplify the worst parts
mircea_popescu: anyway. i spent one semester teaching myself. it helped a lot that i was one year junior to the people i was teaching and had great relationship with provost.
mircea_popescu: if they knew how to sell it, they'd be wondering why no men in academia rather than the current nonsense.
mircea_popescu: rather good news.
elaineo: well, i feel better about myself if i say that i was the one who left
deedbot: mircea_popescu rated elaineo 2 << somehow manages to write unirritatingly while also academia. i have yet no theory as to how this is possible.
mircea_popescu: !!rate elaineo 2 somehow manages to write unirritatingly while also academia. i have yet no theory as to how this is possible.
mircea_popescu would propose writing for qntra, but sadly qntra encountered an arrow to the knee
mircea_popescu: the logic is sound : hominid sufficiently advanced to understand trickery of hidden button should also be sufficiently advanced to not crash it.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: These are more typically. Hold button, trivial test of "familiar with idea of heavy equipment or not"
mod6: lot of the bobcats i've seen recently have a 10-key pad to enter a code before it can be started.
asciilifeform: to this day i have nfi wtf was the point
ben_vulpes: not like it would be hard to wire keypads into them if they still don't have meaningful locks.
BingoBoingo: While scooters produce delicious 2-stroke exhaust and help the pobre commute within their substantial means
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Few have meaningful locks on them. Only docile because passerby have anxiety about starting up unattented equipment.
ben_vulpes: existential threats, yes, but in their docile state!
BingoBoingo: Nah, the customers there are demanding and suspicious. Not to mention keeps existential threats to datacenter too close.
BingoBoingo: for the moment
BingoBoingo: https://gensteel.com/steel-building-kits/strip-malls << Anyone know a place to plop one of these outside NATO near transit cable to make datacenter?
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: The operation succeeded.
jhvh1: danielpbarron: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: meanwhile, vex writes in, in au, with https://archive.is/Pyln1 : 'One of the country's top universities has warned maths students not to use the term 'marriage' when referring to a well-known theorem because the word may cause 'offence.''
mircea_popescu: weird, we dun generally find much fault with yours, notwitstanding in theory we should!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform chick came by in march and then a few days ago, my records show, none of you hardasses thought to up her.
mircea_popescu: then ill rate you and you'll be able to self-voice.
mircea_popescu: and in other epic pix : http://files.cinemacenter.ir/images/0b1m007w1zswc6qjspdg.jpg check out the lt checking out the ukr slut while she's going "omfg, are there more coming still ? this will be a long night."
asciilifeform: unlike literally every other instrument i have
asciilifeform: it chronically bothers asciilifeform , that there is actually nothing to compare fg to
mircea_popescu: counterintuitvely, the 4th decimal of pi should be within a 100th of a 100th
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: technically the idjit util is right tho, it's below 0.01% err
mod6: that's in the 'suspect' range no?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in the torture room , i get a pretty flat distrib of chisqr values
mircea_popescu: "Chi square distribution for 1048576000 samples is 217.95, and randomly would exceed this value 95.52 percent of the times."
asciilifeform: i'd be surprised if anybody's, at this early point, isn't... but this is by far the cheapest and easiest method for enemy to tamper, and leaves 0 physical trace
mod6: asciilifeform: so far, i've only gone to the extent of unplugging both RNG-TWs and ensuring that the SAD lamp does what it should.
asciilifeform: ANOTHER useful advice to every fg owner is to verify that the cpld shitstream in yer unit, is in fact == to the one asciilifeform signed.
asciilifeform: ( back to yoke test -- it is somewhat tricky, you need ~very~ good cabling, and very short, for the clocks to sync properly )
asciilifeform: ^ incidentally : if you can get hall-effect switches, these will work even better ( the important thing is for whatever switch to be 'bounce-less', contact-bouncing creates predictable, in theory, temporal patterns )
a111: Logged on 2017-08-24 17:16 asciilifeform: btw you can make this right now by attaching 2 hg tilt switches to a fg , 1 on each end ( b/w the middle and the +v pins )
asciilifeform: another suggested experiment for FG owners is http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-24#1703042 .
asciilifeform: because -- unsurprise, i hope -- if yer FUCKGOATS were replaced with an identical-looking ftmeadegoats en route, it would pass (perhaps even 'prettier') the dh, ent, etc tests, as the original
asciilifeform: i and iirc a few other folx -- wrote
asciilifeform: btw ain't it riotously scandalous that the dieharder d00d never showed up here ?
mod6: i like the mpex shirt too hehe. but aha, tits would be sweet.
mircea_popescu: kek what is that in the background, rocket launchers ?
asciilifeform: pretty sure they've by nao stolen every single word in anglodictionary, up to 5 letters an' counting
mircea_popescu: they're never going to run out of other people's words to try and steal and sell, are they.
asciilifeform: in other lulz, "GET /faq HTTP/1.1" 200 8124 "http://milrev-rannub.urbit.org/~~/talk/"
mircea_popescu: (for the curious, teeny slut above is from http://trilema.com/2010/masa-monetara/ which is part of a larger likbez on economics that i'm rather proud of)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform twas nonsense then as now.
jhvh1: BingoBoingo: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: iirc in '15 the 'hosters are all shit for the same reason as miners, they are -ev to operate without scammitude, so change'em like condoms' school of thought was still strong.
mircea_popescu: except, of course, this is more like a levy. "oh i know, i'll argue with mp about building levies in 2015, as if that's fucking permissible now, arguing with mp ; and then in 2016 and then whoops, the obvious natural occurence took us by total suprise!!11"
asciilifeform: that there's enemy fire
mircea_popescu: let him move over to #hplusplus or wherever the fucktards gather to do nothing self-importantly.
mircea_popescu: how exactly am i going to go "hey, he did nothing during state of necessity, but still should be in l1". because why the fuck ?
a111: Logged on 2017-09-14 21:30 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-14#1714333 << much chance of survival, seeing how a state of necessity was just declared, and absent servers there's no digital.
mircea_popescu: but in other lulz : i idly considered checking out jamaica for a week or so. a) THERE IS NO BOAT SERVICE. fucking period. can you believe this inept shit ?! and b) idjits wanna connect through... miami. atlanta. FUCKING NEW YORK, someone actyually said this to me with a straight face, "sure, flight is 10 hours, sjo to la guardia and la guardia to kin".
mircea_popescu: i imagine the day is not far removed in the future where idiostani residence is absolute bar to l1.
asciilifeform: https://archive.is/0TMj5 << meanwhile in brittardia >> 'As part of their enquiries, detectives seized Rabbani’s mobile phone and laptop for the purpose of examining it, but Rabbani repeatedly refused to provide passwords for the devices to officers. ... Subsequently, the officers arrested him on suspicion of wilfully obstructing or seeking to frustrate an examination or search under Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000 ... He was t
mircea_popescu: goes great with http://trilema.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/diana3.jpg ; tho i expect you need an expert to spot the dialated pupils.
BingoBoingo: Prolly the Trilema movie review which most comprehensively summarizes the context of the film
mircea_popescu: (daniel, lumet movie, about these "isaacson" couple and their spawn, a sort of rosenberg lite)
mircea_popescu: movie about inept us revolutionaries of the 40s optional.
deedbot: http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2017/09/25/american-football-is-over/ << Bingo Blog - (American) Football Is Over
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: aha, in the l0gz somewhere.
mircea_popescu: i rtecall the whiole convo
mircea_popescu: ah. month off huh. well then
asciilifeform: i'm rather curious re why it was not snarfed
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: post the sks link plox
a111: Logged on 2017-06-17 17:35 asciilifeform: elsewhere in uncleal, 'The FDA screamed "felonious fortification" when makers of cheap fortified wines wanted to add thiamine to prevent alcoholic neuropathy caused by thiamine malabsorption.'
asciilifeform: ftr, 'No, they don't have ads in the subway going "fat women are an insult to society", no they don't have steel bars at the entryways to make it impossible for the overweight to get in and bother people. Instead, they derp about "manspreading". Why this and not that ? Because while they are both intentional actions of responsible agents, the decision of the man to stretch is right there, whereas the decision of the woman to overeat
asciilifeform: ( recall also mircea_popescu's article re the fat train riders . )
asciilifeform: the 'gotta prosecute for impairment, regardless of whether from drink or not sleeping, rather than litmus' was evidently too much to puritanswallow
mircea_popescu: the whole "can't prosecute me for drunk driving, i popped a magic pill" angle was just too much to swallow
asciilifeform: 'Roche never commercialized this drug due to ethical & liability concerns. It would be useful in emergency room settings where physicians neede to communicate with intoxicated accident victims. But there was too much concern about it getting diverted to become a 'party drug.''
a111: Logged on 2015-04-06 01:34 asciilifeform: 'palcohol' << anyone remember when they banned the etoh antidote ?
mircea_popescu: after all, what other basis in fact is there for all the "one weird trick they don't want you to know" / "the gubmint is supressing the water car" etc
mircea_popescu: hm. i thought surely we did the "Secret alcohol antidote" thing.
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: That's all of them
ben_vulpes: i'm still waiting for the case where the sting agent claims to be 18 but then the dood gets locked up because he never checked her id or some shit and the agent was really playing a fifteen year old who was just pretending to be an eighteen year old
BingoBoingo: "Cote acknowledged those efforts in her sentencing remarks. Still, she said, it was important to use his case as a deterrent to other would-be child abusers."
shinohai: Looks like the Weiner gets 21 months in a chastity cage.
asciilifeform: we have one of those. from it, the 'weeds' grow.
asciilifeform: there is some sort of moral here.
mircea_popescu: eh actually, why bother.
mircea_popescu: i imagine the idea with browser stuff is you just save the javascript. as close to "compile locally, fucktard" as the redditard generation can possibly get -- guaranteed success through a browser-compiler of approximately-integer language.
cruciform: http://www.contravex.com/2014/03/14/on-making-high-entropy-bitcoin-paper-wallets/ is this still the way to go?
cruciform: but I'm not qualified to audit the code of that site
mircea_popescu: every step of the way huh.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-01 21:41 Barbarossa_: I'm a professsional poker player from the UK
asciilifeform: London and LA << you wouldn't by any chance know the fella in old thread, http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-01#1709226 ?
ben_vulpes: cruciform: didja catch the armory fail?
cruciform: but I've been busy up until recently with the whole BCH nonsense
shinohai: Yes mircea_popescu .... when one finishes the bottle lovely Guatemalan maidens tie it to your dick and ride .... xD
cruciform: I look at cards and hope they're good
cruciform: I've been reading the logs+your guys' blogs
mircea_popescu: at any rate, if anyone cares : centenario anejo 25 yo (costa rica) > diplomatico r. exclusiva (venezuela) > colonial artesanal (guatemala) > centenario run of the bar > flor de cana (nicaragua).
cruciform: long time Windows derper - getting there!
asciilifeform: likely some idiocy in the interrupt handlers
asciilifeform: iron serial ports apparently count towards the total
asciilifeform: regardless of where you put the ports
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform pretty sure you could sit down a multi-usb hub unit in the card slot
asciilifeform: the part i find interesting is that it is -- apparently -- impossible to use a current pc in the way, e.g., pdp11 was used - as box with two dozen + serial ttys hanging off
mircea_popescu: tis exactly as i recall it from the mid 2000s.
mircea_popescu: i expect more people complain of the chip color than of this.
asciilifeform: mod6: the interesting bit is the -- afaik -- total absence of public discussion. because -- evidently -- Only A Terrorist (tm)(r) would use 8+ serial devices on pc.
mod6: <+asciilifeform> one of the items i am currently working on is a fully-automatic FG tester << ahh cool.
asciilifeform: ( where the buffered bits go -- devil only knows )
asciilifeform: linux kernel ( all the varieties i've tried ) seems to have a serious ( and wholly undocumented ) problem with > 7 serial devices .
asciilifeform: one of the items i am currently working on is a fully-automatic FG tester
asciilifeform: btw did i ever print the rated power consumption of a FUCKGOATS ?
a111: Logged on 2017-09-24 22:51 trinque: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-22#1716721 << tests so far look great http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/e6fuo/?raw=true ; awaiting the full 1gb and then I'll publish results.
trinque: but the chicoms banned bitcoin?
mircea_popescu: yes if the local zone is deleted.
asciilifeform: re qntra, i get a ERR_NAME_RESOLUTION_FAILED -- which is not consistent with the 'box finally thrown out' picture
mircea_popescu: and in other lulz from elaine ou : "ripple", which apparently is an entity that scammed wall street "investors" out of 55mn "investment" managed to write "R3" which is a sort of nothing in particular an XRP option worth supposedly a billion (admitting ripple the fake coin is worth anything) and while they can't back out of it, there's legal wrangling lulz : https://elaineou.com/2017/09/20/r3-should-just-buy-ripple/
mircea_popescu: in the sense that apparently there's less black chix coding at google now than before.
mircea_popescu: and in other lulz : google spent a quarter billion dollars worth of its govt's printouts on "corporate diversity". the results are not exactly zero
a111: Logged on 2017-09-24 16:41 mircea_popescu: in other lulz, CAN YOU FUCKING BELIEVE phuctor is still on ?
mircea_popescu: as they say back at teh idle ranch, "it's only been ten days, what, that's not even two weeks (tm)!!!"
a111: Logged on 2017-09-14 21:30 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-14#1714333 << much chance of survival, seeing how a state of necessity was just declared, and absent servers there's no digital.
shinohai: I can't reach qntra either, get SERVFAIL reply
mircea_popescu: GOOD THING THEY STOPPED 2ND HAND SMOKING!!!
mircea_popescu: in other lulz : each and everyone politician abscam put in jail (bout 30 or so) were... democrats. the party of corruption survived!
asciilifeform: they're crankin' out LPUs, wat
mircea_popescu: exaclty as per the above "ants doing mango pulp powered research"
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: so you'll settle on "dirac's delta visibly parsimonious ; string theory not so visibly if at all" ?
asciilifeform: the basic sin in strings is same as in microshit and elsewhere: rejection of parsimony
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.
asciilifeform: there is also 'things that, if loaded into a head, make it stupider'
mircea_popescu: not concrete in any sense ; and not meaningful either, but still.
mircea_popescu: they're abstract things
asciilifeform: i am not convinced of there being involvement of 'things' : strings have not even the reality anchor of phlogiston.
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.
asciilifeform: ( the string orchestra not only dun give a flying fuck re parsimony, but quite the opposite , complexity cancer deliberately cultured, breeds grantolade for mediocrities )
asciilifeform: the difference is also imho obvious
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.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-25 01:50 mircea_popescu: incidentally, speaking of the whole http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-22#1588696 http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-07#1711102 etc : did anyone ever come up with a formal functional expression of Dirac's delta ?
BingoBoingo: But that depends on the State's continued demonstrations of bad faith in discovery continuing to generate tort fuel