mircea_popescu: all miners, whether they be S-indiscriminate or S-selective can mine T1 necessarily. the latter as is ; the former as T1 in 50% of cases and as T1' in the remainder cases, where T1' = C-T1
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform to fully formulate the impedance mismatch here, because on reread this isn't satisfactory. suppose you have a chain of blocks, B1...Bn. suppose you also have a chain (different concepts) of txn , T1...Tm.
mircea_popescu: for the raft of 3yos the us is infested with, tits yet hold a different meaning than ravishment.
mircea_popescu: tits are for older boys, like they had in pre-nazi germany.
asciilifeform: how is tx malleation supposed to impress anybody with the majesty of usg ?
asciilifeform: tx malleation brings not one single hooligan a step closer to the pirannha tank.
asciilifeform: because i don't see the mega-point
asciilifeform: i must be simple-minded, then
mircea_popescu: that's how "states" are built, you're supposed to be aped by the awesome power of this imaginary thing that lo! it makes whole rafts of bitches to absurd shit like this
mircea_popescu: there is no fucking point. what is the point of https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/25/8b/5d/258b5d875293b906b5c97c318c92de29.jpg other than "get all these bitches lined up in thin plastic wrapped young titties so we can stroke it better" ?
mircea_popescu: i currently send both kinds, and the mined blocks include the low-ified S all the time.
mircea_popescu: it's happening all the time ?
asciilifeform: let'em try their luck
asciilifeform: malleate prior to your pool seeing the original ?
mircea_popescu: see, miner that sees high-S tx can either reject it, or just low-S it.
asciilifeform: (because 'market' for them, if you will, is under-served for no good reason)
asciilifeform: but my earlier hypothesis was that a high (or at least nondiscriminatory)-S pool would specifically have an edge.
mircea_popescu: i suppose this is something we can experiment with once someone picks up the pool thing ?
asciilifeform: 'The requirement to have signatures that comply strictly with DER has been enforced as a relay policy by the reference client since v0.8.0, and very few transactions violating it are being added to the chain as of January 2015. ' <<< ahahaha turns out i was right, even per the horse's own mouth
mircea_popescu: for some reason the whole high/low S thing is part and parcel of this in my head.
mircea_popescu: hi there changenie
mircea_popescu: you seem to be operating on the delusional notion miners user prb ?!
asciilifeform: they were separate items
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i think you are conflating the DER encoding thing with the high/low-S thing
ben_vulpes: i do not see the point at all in differentiating between txnen-which-are-relayed and txn-which-are-mined
mircea_popescu: in this sense, building atop that shit is an excursion in insanity, which is why ONLY usg-financed "companies" do it (in the sense of pretending to do anything besides hiring more ustards and eating rubber chickens at "conferences")
mircea_popescu: barely hangs on by a mix of "grandfathering" and "don't look in this box", much like the usg that spawned them.
mircea_popescu: generally the reason power rangers keep wanting to hide the chain and the validation mechanisms is simply that
mircea_popescu: hard forks are a change of the protocol. as the change is NOT valid by everyone's rules, it is definitionally an alt coin.
mircea_popescu: they can be applied by convention. as the chance is still valid by everyone's rule, no changes are needed.
mircea_popescu: mno. soft forks are a narrowing of the protocol.
asciilifeform: if prb considers blocks after certain height containing high-S to be invalid, in what sense was the fork soft ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, understand the strategic situation here. i can, at this and any future point, decide to revert this soft fork. they can not, they are committed to forever sticking to it.
asciilifeform digs for the prb src
mircea_popescu: this is why we do not give a rat;s ass about "voting", fundamentally : they already had a vote that indicated ~100% miner agreement that then had 0% actual support.
mircea_popescu: then failed to implement it
mircea_popescu: bitcoin split specificallyt because miners "voted" to approve the (non controversial, even here, see logs) patch
asciilifeform: i thought it was only the relay and selector
asciilifeform: only that they are not selected for blocks
mircea_popescu: they can not.
mircea_popescu: there isn't a "you do yours and i do mine" thing here. IF we decide to mine as much as one single high s block, this INVALIDATES all further work of all noncompliant miners. forever.
mircea_popescu: blocks aren't individual items. they are chained.
mod6: so here's a thing -- if I make a vpatch for this, one doesn't need to build with it either. but one could, and that should resolve the issue.
asciilifeform: rather than adding talmudistry to trb
mod6: but, i'd be nice to ship a bitcoinatron that actually bitcoinates without the weird shit. i'd like Mr. P. to be able to send coins without issues.
asciilifeform: if idiot miners arbitrarily decide not to mine tx-en that are equal to 3 congruent modulo 17, what, we also will not generate these ?
mod6: ok, other than that?
mod6: is there a reason for only high-S ?
asciilifeform: (i still fail to grasp why we are caving to the enemy on this one)
mod6: was thinking that. could just have a switch for "classic" mode where you get the 50/50 action on high/low, or only low-S.
assbot: Logged on 14-01-2016 00:15:32; mircea_popescu: if the company you manage behaves as an approximation of a cockroach, your wife needs a divorce.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-01-2016#1369526 << there is only one Great Cockroach, and all of these folks are merely fuzz upon its antennae. << it's funny how much of a judeoxtian fundamentalist you are seeing how you don't even alphabet! wouldn't something equally ridiculous like indian-whatever go better with your semiotic ideas ?
mod6: so currently, the main thing im working on/looking at is a possible high/low-S vpatch
mircea_popescu: (you may not know of all the 90s "urban revival" attempts that created such as modern portland etc, after a seattle blueprint)
assbot: Logged on 14-01-2016 01:20:17; BingoBoingo: There is no single last one. There's 3 last ones.
mod6: <+asciilifeform> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-01-2016#1369573 << is somebody gonna write a full 'v' treatise ? << i think what we need is basically like an RFC of the thing to explain the overall concepts and baseline functions. this way anyone can implement their own V without having to parse mine, yours, or bens, or whomever.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu the malleus thing was a real win. nodez going strong.
mod6: but you don't hvae to know the subdir to make the sync work properly. you just put the root URL of the given mirror
mod6: well, it's really http://thebitcoin.foundation/v/
asciilifeform: or is there some rsync thing going
asciilifeform: mod6: the www ?
assbot: Logged on 14-01-2016 00:48:18; BingoBoingo: So, why is the v mirror so behind on patches?
mod6: <+asciilifeform> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-01-2016#1369542 << there was a v mirror ?!! wut? << the only mirror at this time is http://thebitcoin.foundation
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-01-2016#1369510 << they are ubiquitous where i live. i think literally everybody, other than flat-dwellers, has one
assbot: Logged on 14-01-2016 00:48:18; BingoBoingo: So, why is the v mirror so behind on patches?
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-01-2016#1369542 << there was a v mirror ?!! wut?
assbot: Logged on 14-01-2016 00:15:32; mircea_popescu: if the company you manage behaves as an approximation of a cockroach, your wife needs a divorce.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=14-01-2016#1369526 << there is only one Great Cockroach, and all of these folks are merely fuzz upon its antennae.
assbot: Logged on 14-01-2016 01:20:17; BingoBoingo: There is no single last one. There's 3 last ones.
asciilifeform recently changed professions in a direction that probably brings them a little nearer
asciilifeform: and i bet they are already hatched, somewhere.
ben_vulpes: > and only two years remain before they will be having a layoff << work for other people, get fired by other people
mircea_popescu: but in other news : chocolate cake being in the making, i was humbly presented with spoon of ganache to lick. (yes while sitting here, ha!). and so i did and because of my beard ... the pleasant scent still floats around my nose.
mircea_popescu: " According to his analysis, even a judge's decision that there is probable cause tosuspect a crime has been committed won't" << oh no, what ever more fearsome thing than when the fiction begins to fray.
assbot: Logged on 14-01-2016 02:19:37; ben_vulpes: make nothing, no more than mircea_popescu makes gurlz enslave themselves to him
mircea_popescu: some of them don't even look 45.
ben_vulpes: that cuspy "ohmigaerd the fun times are about to be oooover" age
mircea_popescu: unrelatedly, i'm starting to be real suspicious over here about plainly observable nonliniarities in the flow of time.
asciilifeform: in unrelated nyooz, i just came back from a party thrown by $firm, at a kind of cryptological theme park. and one of the riddles involved a skytale.
asciilifeform: 2. Establishes that any smartphone manufactured after January 1, 2016 and sold or leased in New York must be capable of being decrypted by itsmanufacturer 3. Establishes the penalty to those who knowingly sell or lease smartphones that cannot be decrypted or unlocked by the manufacturer, andprovides that sellers and lessors are prohibited from passing any portion of penalty costs on to customers.
asciilifeform: 'Justice Department officials have said that if the new systems work as advertised, they will make it virtually impossible to solve some cases,as the companies have promised customers the equivalent of a house that can't be searched, or a car trunk that could never be opened.'
asciilifeform: of encryption and anonymizing technology to conceal contraband materials and disguise their locations. Andrew Weissmann, a former FBI general counsel, has publically called the use of such encryption technology outrageous. According to his analysis, even a judge's decision that there is probable cause tosuspect a crime has been committed won't get Apple or Google to help retrieve potential evidence. In essence these companies
asciilifeform: 'Recent technological advances have the potential to greatly embolden online criminals, providing new methods for abusers to avoid detection. The United States Attorney General, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and others have severely criticized the efforts of smartphone manufacturers to keep evidence immune from lawful process. Criticism, however, is not enough. In some cases, perpetrators take advantage
asciilifeform: 'Relates to the manufacture and sale of smartphones on and after January 1, 2016 that are capable of being decrypted and unlocked by the manufacturer or its operating system provider.'
asciilifeform: turns out ny is the mecca of clipperchipdom,
asciilifeform: in other nyoooz,
ben_vulpes: make nothing, no more than mircea_popescu makes gurlz enslave themselves to him
ben_vulpes: you've seen the handwritings
asciilifeform: the kind that rolls around
ben_vulpes: i have yet to build the partial-differential-equable-actuator-standing-on-ball to haul computer along on the walk to the office
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: aha why the fuq not
asciilifeform: is there a magic door to surrender into ?
mircea_popescu: heck, modern spain was built on the rape-and-pillage of more civilised, peace loving, law abiding muslims by religious zealots.
mircea_popescu: d us" chiefly because it served the anglo puppet masters.
mircea_popescu: funny how nobody in france and generally in the "nordic model" train of euro-socialistoid train wants to remember how, by and large, french society was either supportive or indifferent of the nazis, and how "la resistance" maps almost exactly on what today would be "extreme righyt wing extremism", and how de gaulle, the exact equivalent of say arafat, got to re-write history into some delusional "all france stood behin
mod6: shinohai: see if you can get the same as me ^^ (see dpaste)
pete_dushenski: "Wences: Okay, I agree with that, friend ; I don’t want to offend you, so I am going to use my mom as an example." << can you spot the three tell-tale scammer hooks here ?
mircea_popescu: but... one time you'll be 60, and you'll have the opportunity to pick up teenaged chicks off the street. and you'll try, i'm sure, and manage, i'm sure. right ?
mircea_popescu: it is easy for the young to ignore the outright heroic accomplishment that it is for say 60yos to just keep track of this mess.
mod6: then it should press all that come before it.
mod6: <+BingoBoingo> So if there are three heads I want I'd press 3 times << no should just be able to choose the last one in the flow output
BingoBoingo: So if there are three heads I want I'd press 3 times
BingoBoingo: But I mean to get the next head do you just repeat pressing with a different head or???
mod6: <+BingoBoingo> So do you press head, press other head, etc or something else << no, you can just up through a given vpatch in the flow.
mod6: you should be able to sync the whole thing now and get those ones as well.
mod6: ok those two latest patches and their corresponding seals from asciilifeform are in the mirror.
BingoBoingo: So do you press head, press other head, etc or something else
mod6: were the new patches included in your 'flow' output?
mod6: i can throw those in there. just a moment
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> in general people should be able to make their own decision based on keys, rather than pile up on you to review neh ? << i don't see a problem with doing it this way.
mod6: after this, you should be able to press out a new trb that includes the latest patches, then build from there.
mod6: you should be able to drop those patches into your patches directory for V, and then also put the seals in your seals dir -- once that's complete doing `./v.pl f` should show you a flow with those patches in there with 'asciilifeform' as the signatory.
mircea_popescu: in general people should be able to make their own decision based on keys, rather than pile up on you to review neh ?
mod6: <+BingoBoingo> The coolest latest stuff seems to have not sync'd << because the two latest ones haven't been read or tested by me yet.
BingoBoingo: The coolest latest stuff seems to have not sync'd
BingoBoingo: So, why is the v mirror so behind on patches?
pete_dushenski: it's the reindeer that were robo
assbot: She-santa brings the presents, robo-reindeer bring the pain. | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski ... ( http://bit.ly/1OrX4ms )
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-01-2016#1369296 <--> http://www.contravex.com/2015/12/27/she-santa-brings-toys-robo-reindeer-bring-the-pain/
pete_dushenski: this is, recall, the guy who shows up to coffee dates sometimes ~hours~ early, just so he isn't late.
mircea_popescu: and you need 100% of your production redirected away from you, through taxes, spousal support and any and all other available avenues. because omfg.
mircea_popescu: if the company you manage behaves as an approximation of a cockroach, your wife needs a divorce.
mircea_popescu: it's the equivalent of a bug going "oh hey, there's some food here. how come ? i didn't put it there ? well... i guess i'll just have some,w hat's the worst that can happen".
mircea_popescu: because of the very obvious danger this approach poses, pete_dushenski
BingoBoingo also spied cheap dedi box on clearance will set up trb node on linux when datacenter gets back to me about paying them.
pete_dushenski: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-01-2016#1369180 << heh. why the hell not, y'know ?
BingoBoingo: For wizard tower looking to do PV and FeNi batteries when the time comes. Until then just doing the off the shelf UPS deal.
mircea_popescu: (not completely, needs air, but pretty well nevertheless)
mircea_popescu: http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/photons.htm << this thing's a fucking riot. "photon of color" totally makes the whole piece.
BingoBoingo: gasoline generator is a loud theftmagnet
mircea_popescu: anyway, hearthily recommended, should prolly be on the "introductory reading materials" for new and aspiring qntra editors.
mircea_popescu: lol making the bombs ?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I prolly need to read moar Uncle Al, so far barely touched the stuff. Most of today's time was spent capping wires and Moar Batteries.
mircea_popescu: gains from focused efforts must be confiscated by higher authority and distributed to the deserving, less user fees.
mircea_popescu: Classical physics demands certainty. Quantum mechanics demands probability. Diversity demands one more turn of the screw - nullity. We cannot allow the impositions of society to crush the aspirations of culture. Those who are empirically materially productive steal wealth from those who pursue transient hedonistic objectively valueless personal agendas. Diversity is admission for reason of disqualification. Ill-gotten
mircea_popescu: "A Proposal for Correcting Social Inequities Intrinsic to the Drunkard's Walk: No Photon Left Behind"
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla oh wait, different coin-derps ? a well. there goes a good laugh.
mircea_popescu: hey "coinbase" - most LOSERS manage a better acquihire after FIVE YEARS. grow beards already, start entertaining at the metro let out.
mircea_popescu: how do they do this ?
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller wouldja stop upping this quent derp already. it's like reading vexual-on-stupid-drugs.
assbot: Logged on 13-01-2016 19:05:14; phf: irc messages go over a loose knit federated system that's entirely outside of your control. even if you do dcc it's plaintext on the wire
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-01-2016#1369389 << this is both why this channel is logged publicly and why the whole "oh herp derp published logs are unexpected" bloviation of EVERY OTHER irc channel is so funny.
assbot: Logged on 13-01-2016 18:00:55; ascii_butugychag: somebody from the old era
hdbuck: for the records.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
gribble: WARNING: Currently not authenticated. Trust relationship from user shinohai to user lrvick: Level 1: 0, Level 2: 0 via 0 connections. Graph: http://b-otc.com/stg?source=shinohai&dest=lrvick | WoT data: http://b-otc.com/vrd?nick=lrvick | Rated since: Mon Jun 27 14:19:15 2011
BingoBoingo: What was that trilema about the cock eating rock?
jurov: accept the unspecified protection of our nebulous entity or else!
shinohai: Must be e reddit person if he cries censorship. Those are the only ppl I know that do.
thestringpuller: then the guy goes off in PM how trinque censored him, when literally none of the lines he said had any value. it's like a hobo wandering in talking craziness...
thestringpuller: I'm actually in favor of them attempting a hard fork cause it provides war profiteering opportunities.
Quent: good to see the paranoid head pops up first ahaha
trinque: Quent: why did the masters of the universe permit you to divulge such privileged information?
Quent: so that the whole thing can be dismissed
Quent: but without the grown ups covering your shit......
Quent: they did it to 3-gol or whatever it was
assbot: Trust relationship from user assbot to user theymos: Level 1: 0, Level 2: -1 via 1 connections. |http://www.btcalpha.com/wot/trust/?from=assbot&to=theymos | http://www.btcalpha.com/wot/user/theymos/
thestringpuller: !gettrust assbot theymos
thestringpuller: Theymos is a known scammer.
Quent: all that applies to the real world...
Quent: you see what theymos is doing - you see what centralisation does
thestringpuller: this is all in the logs.
thestringpuller: you can always choose C. the world isn't necessarily always binary.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
copypaste: I'm not saying they were illegal, was just demonstrating that IRC isn't just for trolling
phf: copypaste: the fact that your "tens of thousands of dollars" deals have not been compromised is entirely due to "uncatchable joe" factor. is russian joke, "this there is uncatchable joe. -- woah, nobody can catch him? -- no, nobody cares to"
phf: irc messages go over a loose knit federated system that's entirely outside of your control. even if you do dcc it's plaintext on the wire
adlai: if you're worried about metadata, encrypt your trolling or start a shill or two, it pays for itself in elizatherapy
adlai: "if it's not encrypted, it's public" is an excellent way to treat anything (even off the internet)
mats: I hope the agents will enjoy reading years of trolling and arguments about trivial shit
adlai: freenode exists for the purpose of spying, what more do you need?
copypaste: And in the case of IRCCloud, is probably a USG front. So of course connecting at all costs is important.
copypaste: mats: I'm of the opinion that any service that offers to idle on IRC for you exists for the sole purpose of spying on you
BingoBoingo: First woman on the internet's already gone, to cancer of all things.
ascii_butugychag: somebody from the old era
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: well, they're 10 cents a pop since teh torrents, seeing how they weren't made by dosney.
mircea_popescu: how about "women in cages" ? guy ended up obsessed with the closing shot
ascii_butugychag: hard to do, at the bottom of a mine shaft
ascii_butugychag: i can't name a philipina moanist, either..
mircea_popescu: name a hippie theoremist.
ascii_butugychag: theorems
mircea_popescu: "Hippies' marijuana and hallucinogens had interesting outputs; slums' opiates, crack, and crystal meth less so." << yeah, because you apriorily decided you wish to fuck a hippie chick not a filipina brothel slave. that's all.
mircea_popescu: but the management dig is, if perhaps justified by personal experience, nevertheless on the level of "all men are pigs".
mircea_popescu: "Genrich Altshuller, TRIZ, And Suddenly the Inventor Appeared. Orthodoxy excludes discovery. Heterodox observation falsifies assumed knowledge. Validation studies are bottle washing and button sorting. All discovery is insubordination. Management exists to kill the future, for the only trusted employee is one whose sole marketable asset is loyalty." << o look even mentions him.
ascii_butugychag: (note that the proofs don't need to be about a commonlisp program per se, but anything that can be expressed as one)
ascii_butugychag: back in the day.
ascii_butugychag: apparently amd actually started proving their alu with acl2, in reaction to the intel fdiv scandal
mircea_popescu: obviously, not altogether for the reasons the idiots who are incapable to love anything like to pretend those who could love don't.
mircea_popescu: "a universal scale-free recipe for fitting together" << and yet he hates obama.
mircea_popescu: at any rate this has been in fact the history of life on earth to date.
mircea_popescu: and no further sense than that.
ascii_butugychag: it is a thing in the sense that 'enemy' is a thing
mircea_popescu: this is the view say danielpbarron would be held to hold anyway.
mircea_popescu: honestly, i always suspected randomness is not merely "not a property of numbers", but altogether not a thing.
gribble: Mrazek shows off RoboClaus, Howard rocks 'ugly sweater' on great ...: <http://www.thehockeynews.com/blog/mrazek-shows-off-roboclaus-howard-rocks-ugly-sweater-on-great-holiday-masks/>; Robo Claus - Thomas Radcliffe: <http://tomradcliffeart.com/130031/1287869/portfolio/robo-claus>; Robot Santa Claus - Futurama Wiki - Wikia: <http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/Robot_Santa_Claus>
mircea_popescu: methinks the real meta-nsa might well be santa claus1
mircea_popescu: The noise that was observed as random structure was not itself random. It contained topological order, a universal scale-free recipe for fitting together. Supercomputer simulation of 24,000 cerium atoms plus 8000 aluminum atoms with or without the topological footnote added is enlightening. Plot respective structure factors against the reciprocal space vector for each case. The curves are identical! Where is the inform
mircea_popescu: Atomic bonding does its thing at a scale of angstrom lengths. A 50x40x15 micron sample is (5x105)x(4x105)x(1.5x105) angstroms3 or 3x1016 Å3. How does random structure spontaneously quickly order in a discontinuous transition to sharp diffraction lines (XRD) and spots (2D XRD), with such mammoth amplification? There is no global information! Thermal devitrification at 200°C affords a hexagonal symmetry finely polycrys
mircea_popescu: Devitrifying a glass into crystals is wholly unremarkable. Given the opportunity, solids will descend into their lowest energy state at equilibrium - a crystal. This offers large families of glass-ceramic wonder materials, plus sporadic glassblower loud profanity. That glasses exist at all is also unremarkable. Thermodynamics proposes, kinetics disposes. The problem is scale.
mircea_popescu: "Memory cannot be found because it is not localized, nor does it exist as such. One felicitous memory model is the amorphous glassy metal alloy Ce3Al. Melt-spun alloy passes all local and global tests (HRTEM, ED, XRD, 2D XRD) for random order. Load a diamond anvil cell with a 50x40x15 micron3 sample. At 3,539,000 psi it remains amorphous. At 3,626,000 psi it is a single crystal. Science 332(6036) 1404 (2011), "Long-ran
mircea_popescu: incidentally, you read this bit with the crystals ? behold!
ascii_butugychag: 'first ecstacy - then laundry.' -- also al
mircea_popescu: "Thermodynamics proposes, kinetics disposes." ahahaha lovely put.
mircea_popescu: goes nicely with the valium for the worthless female subculture of the 80s. sort-of like stoner movies, for a different holstein.
mircea_popescu: the man started in "the raven" and has been doing the same thing ever since : playing the devilishly dangerous lone male in a world of boring, twaddled middle aged women.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, anyone saw "the witches of eastwick" ? yet another of nicholson's signature porn stuff.
mircea_popescu: hardly. lysenko had... passion. these twerps just talk about it.
ascii_butugychag: (and not, as often supposed, medieval theology - as it did not have totalitarian apparatus attached)
mircea_popescu: myeah. the "global warming" bullshit is merely the more visible application of an otherwise historical pseudoscientific process
mircea_popescu: "Economists do the economy as psychologists do the mind. A watershed of data is statistically manipulated. Miserably intricate deeply parameterized speculative theory is fit to data, protected from criticism by complexity. Extrapolations are made. Official predictions are absurd versus observed reality. Economists scream "heteroskedasticity!" and demand multi-$trillion Federal bailouts. Psychologists disdain irrelevanc
BingoBoingo: <copypaste> Cryptsy just published a notice that it's been hacked on all pages https://archive.is/hxGqy << Scammer's don't get to pick their narrative
mircea_popescu: meanwhile i noticed the image aha
ascii_butugychag: mircea_popescu: this was the eotvos thing
mircea_popescu: i suppose by "vacuum" one might mean "in the book universe where mass exists in points etc".
mircea_popescu: Do opposite shoes vacuum free fall nonidentically? << they do, actually.
mircea_popescu: having run some math... i suspect he is actually correct in the absolute. ie, nothing can for physical reasons drill 5 micron holes in half micrometer lens.
ascii_butugychag: 'suddenly the inventor appeared' is the only actually worthwhile book on heuristics i know of.
mircea_popescu: the other possibly most important intellectual activity is ironically ALSO displayed in the piece : classification
mircea_popescu: half the time when someone talking to me here suddenly gets that sinking feeling in his gut and rug flies out from under feet, what had just happened was precisely an inversion.
mircea_popescu: inversion being possibly the most important intellectual activity.
ascii_butugychag: !s suddenly the inventor
mircea_popescu: "turn the fucking spoon around, idjits"
mircea_popescu: "The next first job was creating ophthalmic implants. How is a 5 micron diameter hole drilled through 500 microns of implantable Plexiglas contact lens? It isn't. Nothing can drill such a 100:1 aspect ratio hole. Uncle Al put about 500 7 micron diameter holes through a foot-long Plexiglas rod, the long way, and said "dice it." Holes are a stuff problem, science: vacuum cast glass wool in plastic, dice, then dissolve ou
ascii_butugychag: and yes, it shall pass, and with it shall pass the last folks who know how to generate a microdispersion of sodium diaminodihydroxyarsenobenzenemethanesulfonate...
mircea_popescu: or rather, allignable.
mircea_popescu: reads like the fucking soviets.
mircea_popescu: "Uncle Al's next first job, four years later, was industrial. Uncle Al was to isolate kerogen (the "not anything like oil") in Colorado oil shale (a calcareous marlstone, not shale). Low rank coal organics are like cured epoxy. They ain't comin' out. The literature was rife with researchers who tortured oil shale then sang like vultures about presumed stuff extracted. Uncle Al dissolved the rock to leave the kerogen. (