asciilifeform: (from my familiarity with the - very few - primary sources, it is accurate.)
asciilifeform: http://drvitelli.typepad.com/providentia/2012/09/the-problem-with-oliver-heaviside.html << fairly good summary of mr h, for n00bz
asciilifeform: oliver heaviside wrote cryptically of the important life-cycle step of 'earning one's worm'
asciilifeform: the kid, that is
phf: i remember having many lulz finding it last time, not sure if same website, but idea is the same "omg!!!worst prof eva!11"
asciilifeform: (the old man, incidentally, no longer teaches here. if he is alive still, he is far away and retired.)
asciilifeform: the latter, can go and pound sand.
asciilifeform: the former, i saw alive
phf: reminds me of michael brin stoping and erasing a proof midway explanation while loudly proclaiming "you idiots wouldn't understand this anyway", but then his son, sergey brin, presumably outfitted umd data centers, etc.
phf: asciilifeform: oh i'm bringing them up in support to what you just said, so no
asciilifeform: trinque: and now you get to enjoy the cardboard set of a software industry, aha
asciilifeform: phf: didja miss the part where he lives in brazil and has to fight off complains from little gurlz who NEED their straight-A marks ?
phf: asciilifeform: they are no good even at basic literacy and opsec. << those andrei toom's articles...
asciilifeform: trinque: there is not a handy answer to 'what should culture man stuck in a dying civilization do'
asciilifeform: trinque: they had ~1500 years to 'shape up'
asciilifeform: yes, every last 'phreedom fighter' in the desert.
asciilifeform: to the point of being cattle for washington.
asciilifeform: they are no good even at basic literacy and opsec.
asciilifeform: since mircea_popescu is asleep, i will have to fill in for him and point out that cockroaches COULD develop civilization after ten million years of inhabiting the burned-out husks of the skyscrapers.
asciilifeform: and if it were to be fought, it will be fought with museum pieces from 1950s (all modern aircraft, for instance, are) and the next war will be fought with bow and arrow.
trinque: just means we need another war
asciilifeform: not the least reason for this is that research PER SE is now a lemon market.
asciilifeform: the dope lord who funds groundbreaking research is an imaginary animal.
trinque: the competition is nonexistent
trinque: but the analogy was that one could sell technological dope to fund research on the other thing
asciilifeform: fact is, dealing dope is rather like, e.g., smelting aluminum, but much more so: attracts eminently practical types with zero imagination. by necessity.
asciilifeform: notice that they exist only in fiction.
asciilifeform: i should look for great cultural product from them ?
asciilifeform: and when the cockroaches own it?
asciilifeform: what great cultural products ought i look for from the sellers of crack ?
trinque: that cartels sell crack and heroin does not preclude them from whatever other activities they might undertake
trinque: they (economically, at least) died
asciilifeform: trinque: aha, get to the moon by stacking chairs. i'll watch.
trinque: I've seen men before that fixated on a desired end result so much that they didn't bother with the intermediate steps at all.
asciilifeform: 'Grow up, graduate, marry, start a family, buy a house, have an accident, get seriously ill for a while, or a number of other very expensive things people actually do all the time, and the value of your work starts to get very real and concrete to you, at which point giving away things to be "nice" to some "community" which turns out not to be "nice" _enough_ in return that you will actually stay alive, is no longer an option.'
trinque: which is why I keep bringing up incremental products along the way to rebuilding computing
asciilifeform: 'All of this "code sharing" is an economic surplus phenomenon. It works only when none of the people involved in it are in any form of need. As soon as the need arises, a lot of people discover that it has cost them real money to work for the community and they reap very little benefit from it, because they are sharing value-less services and getting value out of something that people take for granted is hard to impossible.'
asciilifeform: he more or less gave up on life, after failing to find the answer to this.
phf: asciilifeform: i don't think "having-been-doing-it-since-2000" is true, naggum ran into the main issue when he tried to run his own fork of 19 without the mule braindamage, gave up since merging changesets becomes unproductive. i think somewhere around those emails he talks about how he no longer has stamina to review new changes that are introduced into his system, and that's 2001 or so
trinque: people buy derpy firewall devices all the time
asciilifeform: the market value of sanity, if you haven't yet noticed, is $0.
asciilifeform: because 'the market' demands web2.0 anal rogering simulators
asciilifeform: trinque: the businessman will go broke.
asciilifeform: enough of them as it is.
trinque: a businessman might begin with creating the network device, then later try to build a boy that needs no bubble
trinque: then what?
asciilifeform: trinque: anyone who wants to abandon the net can do it right now.
trinque: could consider your computers "bubble-boy", unfit to interact directly with the outside world
asciilifeform: punkman: it is so wrong to asl for at least the performance of my 2007 desktop in the portable?
asciilifeform: this is why i'm fundamentally in agreement with mircea_popescu's traditional retort 'go back in time and make better life choices'. but it applies just the same to my own sins, just different ones, not involving linux
trinque: when I say desktop, I mean place where I tape together system functionality into functions I use in daily work
asciilifeform: phf: the thing is, it is still possible to run linux as if it were 2005.
trinque: and this tape-job holding emacs and stumpwm (and now conkeror) together is hideous
trinque: so you either spend the inordinate amount of time I have writing your own tools for the "desktop" or pay someone who already handled that for you
phf: but would play videos, do projectors and connect to wifi, or whatever was the pet peeve. battery life
phf: this is also roughly the period when people running various unixes on their thinkpads imho decided that as long as you have to deal with shitty code, might as well use a mac, which let you run same userspace, at the time still had an opensource kernel, etc.
phf: in ~2015~ it's a different story, and i'm not arguing the value of gentoo here
kakobrekla: trinque whats the buttery time on that thing
phf: asciilifeform: it's not theoretical. base set of debian packages was fairly clean in 2005, and the few that you wanted to behave your way, you could ~trivially~ modify
asciilifeform: even if could, theoretically, 'remove' with tweezers.
phf: asciilifeform: these days it is, yes. back then the little amount of crap you had could be manually removed by patching your deb package or whatever
asciilifeform: aha. plus judicious package selection in the first place.
asciilifeform: i don't want anything on my box I DIDN'T PUT THERE.
asciilifeform: phf: the point of gentoo, in my view (i've been on it for more than a decade, freebsd before that) is to BANISH CRAP from machine
phf: funkenstein_: when gentoo came out it had a reputation of being a "ricer" os, like how people put spoilers on cheap cars to make them "racing cars". all you need to know is how to tweak a few flags, and then spend a night watching a compilation log. of course these days ~even that~ is an arcane skill
asciilifeform: trinque: there are two major chemistries, 'tn' ('twist-nematic') and the superior 'ips'
kakobrekla: tn matrix of the lcd screen
trinque: my gentoo install on the x1 is entirely adequate, can suspend
asciilifeform: then you may as well have a crapple.
asciilifeform: funkenstein_: and did you PERSONALLY build the kernel, without closed blobs ?
funkenstein_: qubes on a lenovo box here at the moment
asciilifeform: funkenstein_: since you apparently missed the whole thread, the reason is TO HAVE A PORTABLE UNIX BOX THAT EVEN SORT-OF WORKS
funkenstein_: as I see it the reason to have a crapple is you can pretend to know nothing about computers
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: funny thing is, a number of the other folks where i work got top-of-the-line 'macbooks' - one had spontaneous lcd crack a few weeks later, the other - reboots by itself...
trinque: macbook pro did seem to step into the "professional computer" role
kakobrekla: i have a few x220 (which seem better than x230 which the girl uses)
trinque: I'm about to epoxy the thing
phf: i meant to say there are two thinkpads
asciilifeform: phf: this was the 'heavy industrial' one.
phf: there are two lenovos, which are entirely different products
asciilifeform: they did.
asciilifeform: i shit thee not, a machine that suddenly decided that it won't even get through 'grub' 9 out of 10 times, but runs winblowz just fine. a year into its life.
asciilifeform: and the hardware itself, despite being widely praised, is shit - firm ended up with three of these machines, and one has developed mysterious cancers (runs win7, but if using anything else, hangs - sometimes during GRUB (!!!) or shortly after boot) while another - mine - has flaky wireless
asciilifeform: last year, i was given several $k by the fella i work for, to buy whatever machine i wanted, so long as it was portable. ended up with top-of-the-line (at the time) 'lenovo', and WHEN USING ONLY FREE SOFT despite MONTHS of effort, neither battery, nor 'suspend mode', nor EXTERNDAL DISPAY OF ANY KIND work.
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 10:18:46; phf: ascii_field: mircea_popescu: go give ben_vulpes a unix and laptop co-designed with it, then he can throw away the crapple << there's three apples in my mind, 90s one, the early 2000s one when programmers migrated from linux to a unix that Just Works, and the post iphone explosion apple. the first two are dead (10.10 is the final reason i froze my setup and migrating my entire stack away). but my point is that
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-09-2015#1271180 << this is one of those 'dead' things to which the only serious alternative, for most users, is... its own reanimated, frankensteinian corpse. and little else.
asciilifeform: 'Unlike BitCoin or cash payments, Taler ensures that governments can easily track their citizen's income and thus collect sales, value-added or income taxes. Taler is thus a currency for the mainstream economy, and not the black market.'
asciilifeform: in other news, http://taler.net << the usg-approved, built-in-tax-collector-and-stoolie altcoin is finally rolled out.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
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gribble: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell pete_dushenski https://cryptome.org/2015/09/xiaoxing-xi-files.pdf << the 'chinese spy' case.
asciilifeform: '(2) Significant or Highly Sensitive Matters. A development or circumstance involving an intelligence activity or intelligence personnel that could impugn the reputation or integrity of the DoD Intelligence Community or otherwise call into question the propriety of an intelligence activity. Such matters might be manifested in or by an activity...'
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-09-2015#1271318 << plenty of folks are about go get their introductory course 'orcs 101'
asciilifeform: apparently this works just the same in spain as in usa.
asciilifeform: they exist to maintain an asset fiction.
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 11:08:50; punkman: and some spanish lulz http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/10/barcelona-fines-banks-60000-for-empty-homes
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-09-2015#1271218 << eventually they will cut their losses and demolish. but not yet, because the empties are a kind of bezzle of their own. ftr a good fraction of the town where i live consists of recently built and almost wholly empty dwellings.
williamdunne: Yeah that did the job perfectly
williamdunne: Can someone please give me a signed message to test something with? It can be filled with any old garbage, but has to be a key not on my machine, and saves me the hassle of creating, deleting, importing pubkey to test one message
asciilifeform: i think i have the dead tree somewhere.
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ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: do you have a ware of "the dream machine"?
ben_vulpes: all i have to do is make one misstep with the SJW mob.
ben_vulpes: Using 'if' or the ternary operator as a function is quite common in perl. Using data structures to control flow is common in perl. Trying to learn C# after learning perl was like running head first into a brick wall. I'm really glad this guy is trying to make programming a bit more perl-like."
ben_vulpes: i do dream of having a workstation though, and the lifestyle to support it.
ben_vulpes: but in the same way that java (wrapped in the fucked up functional language clojure) and javascript (wrapped in the fucked up functional language clojurescript) are acceptable tools with which to cut wwwtronic code, the mac is an acceptable tool to drag around an office.
assbot: Logged on 19-08-2015 00:18:24; asciilifeform: cabbie: 'this ford is a piece of shit. stalled again.' mircea_popescu: 'i have a solution!' cabbie: 'oh???111' mircea_popescu: 'here, have this broomstick.' cabbie: 'how do i drive customers on that, feed my family' mircea_popescu: 'you misunderstand, my good man. you stuff it in your arse.' cabbie: 'and... how does this feed by family?' mircea_popescu: 'no, you sit there with it in.'
ben_vulpes: mobility is important to me, basically, and these are the only usable even remotely nixy portables being made.
ben_vulpes: regarding the macintoshes
funkenstein_: numbers like sqrt2, pi, e, are members of the set of computable numbers.. which is countable
funkenstein_: but the trouble is it is also taught wrong in a similar way
shinohai: I still love playing Mario Kart for 64. Had it on an emulator but my current lappy doesn't support the graphics
shinohai: I kind liked the wii, used to play drunken golf and bowling with an ex gf.
nubbins`: there's a Lemmings-esque game out for Wii U and 3DS; purchase one version and get a free download code for the other version
gribble: diametric was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 4 weeks, 4 days, 20 hours, 39 minutes, and 20 seconds ago: <diametric> punkman: the people paying his employer for their ad services were not getting return on those ads.
asciilifeform: shinohai: supposedly 'foreign devil's shill worked for american corp under false pretences, stealing everything and laughing all the way to the bank'
shinohai: I feel better knowing the Federal Bumbling Idiots kept me safe from a college professor.
asciilifeform: the 'pocket heater' in that thread was a gnarly and proprietary (does not exist in public record at all outside of that courtroom) item.
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 06:14:17; mircea_popescu: so : some chemical reactions are strongly exothermic (they give out heat). aluminum salts chief among them.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-09-2015#1271077 << nono! not THAT pocket heater! this one has nothing to do with the common household object (they are sold for about a dollar in public kiosks in usa)
gribble: The operation succeeded.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: (also, the proposed device does not actually work. the female ass is exactly antithetical to the steel ball. negative ricochet factor. fortunately.)
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punkman: and some spanish lulz http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/10/barcelona-fines-banks-60000-for-empty-homes
mircea_popescu: in spite of pretense to the contrary, nobody can tell teh difference.
mircea_popescu: cut the chicken in very long thin strips and butter fry them lightly, can also add sautee'd eggplant
punkman: I have some kilos of artichoke hearts in the freezer
mircea_popescu: the former home made because srsly i have never seen a restaurant that made edible white pizza
mircea_popescu: <phf> you mean like a bell pepper pizza? << absurdly the us figure spicy salami can be propperly called "pepperoni", which is normally a veggie.
mircea_popescu: aok then. F.
cazalla: tbh was more trying to bait you into a maddox is the best/worst discussion
mircea_popescu: phf they can go discover the moscow school of psychology for all i fucking care. idiots.
phf: mircea_popescu: "Fractal -- from Wolfram MathWorld mathworld.wolfram.com/Fractal.html A fractal is an object or quantity that displays " << wolfram's "new kind of science" is all about "this one thing i generated kind of looks like this complicated process, maybe they are related? i feel like they are!"
punkman: I'd rather have bacon than pepperoni
mircea_popescu: depends on the pizza.
mircea_popescu: there's >10k dubious establishments that pretend all sorts of things, up to and including HAVING INVENTED THE DAMNED THING, but otherwise never saw one.
mircea_popescu: well on the other front, i just got taken to the only actual pizzeria in buenos aires
phf: ascii_field: mircea_popescu: go give ben_vulpes a unix and laptop co-designed with it, then he can throw away the crapple << there's three apples in my mind, 90s one, the early 2000s one when programmers migrated from linux to a unix that Just Works, and the post iphone explosion apple. the first two are dead (10.10 is the final reason i froze my setup and migrating my entire stack away). but my point is that maybe you guys are just arguin
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phf: last time i was there, friends lamented that you can't get real parmesan for real pasta and have to make do with inferior russian knockoffs. if i make it to moscow in the next few weeks, will be curious to see where the whole party is at now.
phf: mircea_popescu: iirc that was before ukraine. << that was indeed before ukraine. i saw a few of my well trained, but otherwise bummy friends with "business" go oh well party is over and switch to sberbank financial analyst positions or somesuch.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: ty internets. you might not know wtf fractals are, but you certainly spring the goods when it comes to naming strippers.
mircea_popescu: b is the new c ?
mircea_popescu got through ~4 before going to the internet.
mircea_popescu is naming his heroes in this game, and he decided all the thieves get stripper names (for obvious reasons) that start with the letter c.
mircea_popescu: byzantium when it fell to the turks was 4-5 villages lost among pastures surrounded by ancient walls, and american english is similarly a huge complex architecture maitnained by the remnants of a leper colony
trinque: I believe you've made the point many times in your work that language creation/alteration is *not* for everyone.
trinque: it does seem that the english speaking world's ability to define anything meaningfully is deteriorating, fractals included.
mircea_popescu: as the headcount of romanian kids toiling with gheba during five decades.
mircea_popescu: i don't think as many people lived the bible as a whetstone in their life during the whole history of christianity
mircea_popescu: and of course the lactating mother of all secundary mathematical education in romanian : https://www.scribd.com/doc/178423619/G-Gheba-Exercitii-Si-Probleme-de-Matematica-Pentru-Clasele-v-IX
mircea_popescu: and so all the books were called "exercitii si probleme" or "probleme si exercitii"
mircea_popescu: In fact, even the term word problem is not used in Russia, because the word problem usually means a word problem, while non-word problems are called exercises. << exactly correct ftr. the difference was even enshrined as such, in the ro equiv of "standards" cca 60s.
trinque: so this will keep the guy going until I find time to write a better IRC handling core
trinque: gonna fiddle with it a bit, but yeah, I'm getting a little observer going that'll go kick him in the ass when appropriate
mod6: not even close to done yet, but these ascii graphs look kinda neat: http://dpaste.com/3DBXKQX.txt
mircea_popescu: (and once you've done that you're right over on cantor's doorstep and so forth. this might even be the best way to even introduce numbers altogether.)
mircea_popescu: (and if you're doing that, pretty much every bright 12 yo kid has been playing mentally with the peano curve while taking a shit and following the tiling, but didn't know it's called that. so you could of course tell him.)
mircea_popescu: (ironically, the concept can be correctly introduced - if one's willing to take the geometric route, and in so doing miss out on most understanding available in the topic - by first explaining what a tangent is and then demaning a closed continuous curve be drawn that allows no tangents. good enough for a bright 12yo, plus minus. but otherwise, fractals are of analytical rather than geometrical interest.)
mircea_popescu: and with this observation, the world as observed suddenly makes significantly more sense.
mircea_popescu: see, this is the problem. we go around like we're all people and shit. but then some of us go home to where we know what fractals are, and some of us go to whatever that is, where they don't.
mircea_popescu: From: Doctor Douglas Subject: Re: Fractals Hi Boris. The key idea in the definition of fractal is "self-similarity". What this means is that the object looks the same no matter what power magnifying glass you use to view it.
mircea_popescu: From: Boris Subject: Fractals What is the definition of a fractal?
mircea_popescu: the internet is fucking useless.
mircea_popescu: "An object whose parts, at infinitely many levels of magnification, appear geometrically similar to the whole. Fractals are used in the design of compact antennas and for computer modeling of natural-looking structures like clouds and trees."
mircea_popescu: "A fractal is a figure with repeating patterns containing shapes that are like the whole but of different sizes throughout."
mircea_popescu: in what fucking alternate universe may a definition include the word "or"
mircea_popescu: "A fractal is a natural phenomenon or a mathematical set that exhibits a repeating pattern that displays at every scale." via en.wikipedia. or in fucking definitions, THIS IS ALLOWED NOW!
mircea_popescu: not to mention that the number 1, as well as the number 0 and the number 78 are "self-similar" on all scales, in a technical sense or not.
mircea_popescu: the geometric notion of the point, and the geometric notion of a line, and the geometric notion of a plane, and the geometric notion of wolfram's mother impaled on a triple cheeseburger ALL SATISFY THIS DEFINITION
mircea_popescu: "Fractal -- from Wolfram MathWorld mathworld.wolfram.com/Fractal.html A fractal is an object or quantity that displays self-similarity, in a somewhat technical sense, on all scales. The object need not exhibit exactly the same structure ..."
mircea_popescu: but perhaps the spanish speakers are retarded, right ?
mircea_popescu: but since toom mentioned the fractal problem, let us consult the web. because the web knows shit, right ? all human knowledge, accessible to everyone etc, right ?
mircea_popescu: "The authors of standards want to reform American mathematical education, but actually only aggravate its main shortcoming: vain ambitions and contempt for consistent, systematic and thorough study." << this is a societal problem. Obama is not an accident, but an archetype.
mircea_popescu: (i am not even all that keen on toom's obviously very geometric take on fractals. they're an analytic construct, which yes can be graphed, like any other function. you don't need "dimensions", you need numeric theory.)
mircea_popescu: if you want fractals, first go away and get rich i mean, figure out what a number is, then come back
mircea_popescu: but yes, the man has a point. fractals aren't for everyone. just like bitcoin isn't for everyone.
mircea_popescu: "I asked several school teachers who were enthusiastic about teaching fractals to define a fractal and none of them mentioned the idea of dimension, least defined it. Usually they emphasized repeating patterns. When I asked why they were not satisfied with wall-paper, they took offence." << yes, because who needs to take a breather and think when they could take offence instead and flail!
mircea_popescu: "The idea to teach fractals in school has already found many supporters. (Everything is possible for those who are not competent enough to understand how difficult it is.)" << heh. "But fractals are cool man, like the universe's all connected and everything"
mircea_popescu: the utility of the process in various industrial lines is due to the relative high heat, readily controllable total energy and relatively low latency.
mircea_popescu: the idea to use this as a heat source is older than the aeroplane. i had perfectly functional schematics in books published in the fucking 60s.
mircea_popescu: so : some chemical reactions are strongly exothermic (they give out heat). aluminum salts chief among them.
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 03:24:57; pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: you around ? can you educate me on what the nytimes is referring to here : "The schematics, prosecutors said, revealed the design of a device known as a pocket heater. The equipment is used in semiconductor research, and Dr. Xi had signed an agreement promising to keep its design a secret."
mircea_popescu: under the guard of some old prune too dessicated to fuck them in the first place. Not waste MY fucking time with it.
mircea_popescu: Oh, god. Such pain and suffering. When I took usian slavegirls, attempts to discuss art and philosophy and so forth quickly floundered over a basic inability to remember sentences and build logic trees, which resulted in beatings and many tearful hours spent over grammatical analysis of sentences. Something they should have spend their 12th and 13th year of life on, back before anyone could possibly want to fuck them,
mircea_popescu: "When I came to America, I taught several classes of problem solving and started to appreciate much more the basic education, because my new students dramatically lacked it. They understood advanced ideas but floundered in algebraic transformations, which turned solution of interesting problems into painful struggle with basics."
mircea_popescu: more million man marches plox, clearly they fix problems.
mircea_popescu: blacks are doing worse in 2015 than they did in 1965.
pete_dushenski: http://www.pewresearch.org/quiz/science-knowledge/ << "The median was eight correct answers out of 12 (mean 7.9). The data show that adults with higher education levels are more likely to answer questions about science correctly. Men score an average of 8.6 out of 12 correct answers, compared with women's 7.3 correct answers.Whites score a mean of 8.4 items out of 12 correct, compared with 7.1 among Hispanics an
mircea_popescu: what's the fun in this ?
mircea_popescu: i mean for fucks sake, what's even the point of knowing math like that
mircea_popescu: " E.g., my graduate students in differential geometry could calculate quite hard integrals to know the area or the length of a curve but were not able to answer the question what the geometric sense of the roots of the quadratic equation x^2 − 2Hx + K = 0 is, where H and K are the average and the Gaussian curvature of a surface."
mircea_popescu: lord have mercy... what DO they do ?
mircea_popescu: trinomial. Most American students whom I ever met were not even aware of most of these facts.
mircea_popescu: sum of roots equals −b/a and that their product equals c/a and to use these facts to factorize the
mircea_popescu: children to derive the formula for roots of a quadratic equation ax2 + bx + c = 0 , to prove that the
mircea_popescu: function in a rather complete manner. In particular it was obligatory for all Russian schools to teach
mircea_popescu: anything too advanced. Let me give an example. When I was in high school, we studied the quadratic
mircea_popescu: because TIMSS followed the anti-theoretical bias of American educators. By theory I dont mean
mircea_popescu: I think that the real situation in American mathematical education is even worse than TIMSS shows
punkman: oh the israelis are also on kickstarter
punkman: they did this scam on kickstarter already
punkman: "does not need physical contact with the substance being tested because it uses a beam of light in what is known as Near Infrared Spectroscopy."
mircea_popescu: http://phys.org/news/2015-09-israeli-mini-scanner-food-pills.html on the vaguely interesting fishwrapper front.
mircea_popescu: it's that they do not show up for work, they get the same per hour pay (which on the strength of that alone they should not, for the record, as i'm not paying the same an hour the guy who works 16 hours and the gal that works 6.5) and so logically at the end of the year they get less.
mircea_popescu: it's not that they show up to work and still take home less money.
mircea_popescu: eh the fucking bullshit.
mircea_popescu: "4. You think its pretty unfair that women effectively work from 4 November until the end of the year for free because of the gender pay gap; and that female managers work for free for nearly two hours a day; and that the pay gap is even wider for women of colour and disabled women."
pete_dushenski: Bingo_VACAY: i'm gonna go out on a limb and say that you're away atm and that there's no point in sending you the same piece
gribble: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: note the attached 'civil forfeiture' action on last page.
asciilifeform: the indictment is for fraud
asciilifeform: i can see how they might have tried to nail him for misappropriation of pentagon money
asciilifeform: http://www.phillymag.com/news/2015/05/22/temple-physics-chair-charged-with-passing-tech-to-china << has the indictment.
asciilifeform: http://www.phillymag.com/news/2015/09/11/temple-professor-charges-dropped << has the document
pete_dushenski: ok ima write this up for qntra then
pete_dushenski: "using too much concrete and trying to bankrupt the great state" vs. "using too little concrete and jeopardising the security of the great state"
assbot: Logged on 30-04-2015 22:04:14; mircea_popescu: you know, the "wrecker" who was "trying to make the train tracks run down faster"
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: the overall moral of the story is more interesting - expect a generalized 'spymania' in usa; accusations of 'wrecking' will become a regular thing.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: you around ? can you educate me on what the nytimes is referring to here : "The schematics, prosecutors said, revealed the design of a device known as a pocket heater. The equipment is used in semiconductor research, and Dr. Xi had signed an agreement promising to keep its design a secret."
pete_dushenski: granting that epidemiology is hard to follow (obligatory http://www.contravex.com/2015/06/19/epidemiology-is-hard-to-follow/), the 'let's blockchain the proud nation of africa'-ists can stuff this in their pipes and smoke it.
pete_dushenski: "The evidence suggests the legislation significantly increased the incidence of looting and the incidence of violence against civilians by at least 291 and 143 percent respectively."
pete_dushenski: "Using geo-referenced data, we find the legislation increased looting of civilians, and shifted militia battles towards unregulated gold mining territories. These findings are a cautionary tale about the possible unintended consequences of boycotting natural resources from war-torn regions, and the use of international resource governance interventions."
pete_dushenski: and tantalum from the region."