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Shuffle is the SIMD's killer app. It's apparently an interesting but expensive circuit, but it's smart to prioritize it. Absolute best instruction, hands down. So double-pumping yes isn't full speed meaning single cycle, but that increases the compatibility with AVX512 code. I guess if a program executed itself as a function of its runtime from CPUID it might not, and of course there's all kinds of...but for pedestrian purposes, meaning everything on github, it's a step. Hey 40% speedup on Cinebench, that's buen.

Borges is perfect at format.

And should have gotten a Nobel prize, but didn't get it strictly because he stood by the military dictatorship in Argentina. Not the only Latin American writer who likes the military, Diego Maquieira, my godfather, who I featured on this site when he let me put one of his poems online, wrote an epic poem called Los sea harrier, based on military technology of the 80's in the Falklands War, particularly its namesake airplane the Sea Harrier and mothership aircraft carriers. The military, which believe it or not wasn't completely devoted to persecution, and further which did produce culture at the time, I've seen many military men playing in orchestras, even saw a Dongelspiel at the very end of one. They wanted to take him to Antartica, the Chilean military has a strong presence and is very dominant in Antartica. There's other right-wing intellectuals, not so much into the money as into the military aspect, like there's a 90-year-old Mussolinist who will not apologize for his fascism even in his epitaph--but check this out, he didn't buy into the racial laws, and once he saw what War was when losing saw it wasn't all that glamorous. Roman. Black-shirt youth.

But great artist, so Borges was a great writer, and in fact I would say nowadays the internet is increasingly a Borgesian library. All the way, you follow links, follow links, follow links, read some shit, decide what link is next, follow links, boom you see a list of social security numbers, and you're on it, and it has codes--who can explain the 3 digit numbers next to them? Who printed this, where does it come from? Like how can you interpret it to continue believing you're not being persecuted, it's not happening? That's when I talk my medicine from when I was considered schizophrenic, which I still get, it's a loophole. Instantly turns down the temperature. But you? What would you do, in a Borgesian library?

The Borgesian library is a reflection of yourself, there's no objectivity to it, en este mundo en que nada es verdad y nada es mentira, todo depende del color del cristal por el que uno lo mira.

OK I'm open to that side of things.

If Adobe pulls all the stops and produces value corresponding to what it charges, which is crazy--then, I might reconsider my views, maybe their business incentives have aligned very well now and they can become a virtuous monopoly.

You wouldn't know it from the comments on this site, though, my GOD, all negative yours is the first positive.

Further, Figma did a good thing for the end user by selling out to Adobe--at a very steep price. Their holding out for a huge price is virtuous, yes of course more money for them, but if you're selling out, charging a lot is virtuous, taking as big a bite as you can out of the giant.

Why not?

Nah you know what, all these claims we have hard AI? You don't see people claim it explicitly but you see incredible artifacts. What is the deal? They are incredible! They cannot be believed! So just today I was reading an article on the China Times, in English, and it said all the elements recoverable from a salt flat, something something lithium strontium and strontium. 0 comments. So I post a comment, respectfully, I do respect China don't want to question them going against the grain, so I said "Strontium and strontium? Different isotopes?" So that's a machine mistake--which is fine, I don't discriminate against machines--or perhaps...just careless? Or different isotopes, so different subscripts that got lost in the medium. Many possibilities. At any rate, I sent the comment, took responsibility for it, and it's a typo so it's what you're supposed to do. It can happen to anybody.

Regardless the article had otherwise perfect spelling and grammar, along with www.rt.com the writing is very very polished, way better than American newspapers. And I like them more because they, like me, learned English overseas. Going to America fucks up your American English. It's best to learn English overseas, don't learn it by living in America. Just become lazy, stop actually printing a page out and taking an actual red pen at it, then updating, repeatedly. There's no substitute. And the articles make more sense, all written by bilinguals. Same way I prefer watching a movie in English language, with the subtitles in Spanish, redundant information, otherwise it kind of sucks.

The more sophisticated the machine learning heuristics--not algorithms, never algorithms--the more embarrassing the error. Less frequent, but more embarrassing. Can't say it applies to China Times, but it's always ambiguous, man or machine error? In the end it's the same, man communicates through machines, like computers, made by man.

Only exception is face-to-face communication.

Right so a few years's previous it was more about expanding market-share with lower prices. Then they saw employee's not getting their lives ruined when they got fired, like not getting the phone calls from that employee begging for his job back at half the wage, meaning they got told "I quit" way more, in great part because of Trump's unique $1500 check. That was what did it. Allowed a cascade of savings that freed many people. So then they could buy bulk their needs, then they could buy the toy their child truly desired as an iconic gift of their childhood and that wasn't that expensive but made them much more pleasant and resilient (this happened to me with Magic The Gathering), or like a much-needed fix for the car that was always breaking down. That shit. Bosses hate that shit. Fucking hate it, why else would they tell you it's good and not pay any raises ever if they actually wanted you to buy it? Tell you to drink tap water instead of water from bottles, when for every quart of tap water you need to drink a gallon of bottled water. Need. Not an "impulse", not a "craving", need, drinking brine makes you thirsty, it's brine, salty peanuts at the bar so you buy a "refreshing" drink. That's a confession. Advertisements say "Coca-Cola is refreshing". Confession of guilt right on the fucking billboard. Nothing can be more refreshing than pure water, or I'm sorry purified water, like Coca-Cola uses, "purified". Tap water could be purified. It never is. Bottled water is always purified, all of it, 100%. Or nobody will buy it twice! Even the bottled water that is said to come from tap water is in fact--it's true--tap water, but literally always gets filtered for fluorine, that they don't tell you. And it makes sense, refreshing, fresh, tap water, not fresh. Bottles and cans, fresh. Fresh water. Salt water. Brine. It's not relevant the percentage nobody cares, it's different all the time and if you measure it and try to tell anybody they accuse you of accusing them of conspiracy. Question is, is it salty yes or no? Yes. Is Coca-Cola refreshing? How could it be? What could you add to water to make it more refreshing than mountain streams? Literally nothing (well dextrose like I just served up, most refreshing drink bar none, but nobody sells that anywhere). You can't add anything to water to make it refreshing, you must remove something, and if there is nothing to remove, you have no business. That means you're fired. So you gotta eliminate the competition, the ultimate competition for like 20% of America's spending, some crazy amount, so put something salty in the tap water.

Saving up for the future, smart spending, man. Bosses hate that fucking shit. Prefer employees in terrible debt, behind on rent, rape extortion literally. That's the engine of the American economy, the ultimate power. Fedex's president complained about this, said when the checks went out suddenly people couldn't do backbreaking labor. Literally backbreaking now and then--Amazon was accused of this too, the reason for unionization was despite the money being good they broke backs in a week, they were squandering crazy amounts of wealth, $5000000 in treatment that doesn't even work, all to save $5 of labor costs. Bezos, the negative quadrillionaire.

So when they saw employee's not bending their backbone satisfyingly (and there's bosses who actually look out for you, not the previous two but there are, there are) they realized they would get asked for a raise. So as soon as inflation (raises) was predicted, they wanted to outdo and preempt it with higher prices. Like it was an opportunity. And in addition, as collusion, to cause the Fed to raise interest rates meaning debt becomes crazily more expensive, and really also the raising interest rates means "you can get away with anything in the workplace", it's a signal to the whole system.

Demand can't exceed supply, they're both functions of price and quantity. They always meet, but nobody ever says "demand meets supply." They meet through black markets if need be, with prison labor if need be, with crime torture murder lobotomy (heh) you name it but they meet.

Yeah there are airplanes, and maybe the adversary makes better airplanes sometimes. So supposedly that never happens, but with rockets it totally did, Soviets had way better rockets for decades. Until like 2010 or something, Spacex, apart from that.

Like if you want to talk about the unknown designation, whatever unidentified, whatever, you're supposed to start by apologizing for talking about it. Come on. The Manhattan Project was big into aliens and talked about it a lot, we landed on the Moon and intend to land on Mars, so we're already attempting to be aliens for other cultures. Really the aliens were Francisco Pizarro, Hernán Cortés and Hernando de Magallanes. That's alien contact, that's space travel, that's time travel, travel to the past, past meeting the future. I have yet to see an alien movie not informed by the Spanish Conquest of America. The line "take me to your leader?" Vasco da Gama upon arrival in India, killed the leader and ate his heart, "now I'm your leader.". You can't make this stuff up. So they don't, they just paint the Hispanics green, they glow and shit, yeah. Water the story down. Never outdo them. Never get even close to the amount of gold Pizarro tortured out of Atahualpa (not that the Kechwa were even 1% better, they played the Game of Empires, as the Xauxas and Aymaras say, for those tribes the Kechwa were aliens too). To a much lesser extent Alexander of Macedon, nobody cares about his saying that Europeans and Asians should intermarry and blend, as he did with Roxanne.

Like do they screen for Americans that have seen alien movies for those jobs? Know the definition? It used to be aliens were from a different country, then a different continent, then a different planet in the Solar System (eg Martians or Venusians) then when that was ruled out Europa (the moon of Jupiter), microbes on Mars with systems tested in the Southern part of the Kechwa empire (the Atacama, big NASA presence because of its sterility), and finally, looking out to other star systems. Finding inhabitable planets, that does get a budget in NASA, SETI, presidents of America have seen alien movies and read science fiction, Strategic Defense Initiative had Robert Heinlein on its board, science fiction writers are hired by DoD, there's a market for science fiction per se, science fiction is restricted in torture wards along with religious texts, all because they're worth something. And some science fiction technologies have come about, like telescreens, and "new drugs" (Huey Lewis and the News) "New Drug", not all of them but that is how it must be. So really science fiction is what someone does when she has a good idea but doesn't have all the money and all the theory needed to develop it, so instead of taking it to the grave, what does she do? Write science fiction.

Yeah it's political. Greens have to get their money from somewhere, plus...plus sometimes people fuck up 200%. Not only not be in favor of something, and be neutral, that would be 100%. 200%, being doggedly against the only solution.

I consider evangelical Christians to have fucked up 200% with their response to gay marriage, instead of fighting it they should have made it mandatory, much better for the current spread of untold sexual diseases, not only the ones you've heard of, but thousands of new ones. All because they couldn't form the only bubble (group of sex partners) that actually works, a bubble of two. Marriage.

Yeah I don't actually value happiness but insofar as I do it simply means headphones. Good headphones. Audio quality yeah, but also unique way it plays songs, listen to everything all over again. And convenience, so for instance Airpods are the best headphone right now because it works well with masks, you don't have to put one over the other, meaning removing one requires removing the other. The convenience, the battery life, all that. Audio isn't just what you hear when everything's set up, it's also hearing sound when other systems would play nothing.

There's stupid shit and it involves scams, like going to a record store and they say "hey maybe you're the chosen one" play a track then switch gear and say "listen to it again" and play a different track pretending to be the first, and bam, audiophile.

Then there's the blind. One of my ancestors was a blind Spanish classical guitarist, played in concerts often. So for them? They can tell you the brand of headphones you're listening to from the other side of the room. And that's nothing. They also think faster, listen to sound at a much much faster rate than ordinary speech. Like 4x? Something. Sky's the limit. And when they speak to each other they speak much faster more like the speech synthesizer.

I want them to get good wages to the point I paid additional taxes, half to the Federal Government and half to the State of California. 45% of income, while in the lowest tax bracket, blowing literally every billionaire out of the water. Why? Gratitude, first off, because they prescribed me stimulants knowing I had been treated for addiction, which was risky, and which I couldn't have done in the private sector. Took a risk. Made a bet. Helped me. Went very very well for everybody. And consequently I made sure it went well for the government, sure it's not that much money but it does pay for eg a tank of gas on a police cruiser, send in the cavalry. And I would argue I look great on their balance sheet, obviously better than Jeff Bezos.

And I did the math and noted, first, to get a dollar out of State of California, you have to pay them a million in taxes. In aggregate. Like if you pay a million dollars in taxes and it's equally distributed, maybe not a million to one quite but around there. Very close, ballpark, at least for the purposes of the following estimate:

I got a 1000000000x speedup (actually a bit more but I frequently round down to a more impressive number) on an algorithm thanks to those stimulants, and then it made sense: I still got 1000x ROI from paying taxes. Purely mathematical about it. Best money I ever spent! If you get a big enough speedup, taxes are a great investment. And they're the only thing that get people out of the absolute deepest holes.

Haha, you know I know a lawyer tell me the monthly payments to victims of torture was 10x what another human rights lawyer said, $2000 / mo vs $200 / mo. Yeah play the system. You know who else plays the system? Bosses insisting above 7 objections and ways out to perform repetitive strain injury with my back in order for me to have an injury that can't or won't ever be corroborated "by a medical professional". And get me to spend the rest of my life with backpain over $3 of labor, begging dogshit after dogshit to please believe me and diagnose my injury.

That's playing the system.

Those calls were theft. That drain was because you were being robbed. Or it would be like other industries, say like a Laundromat, where a call from them could just as well be because of you leaving something behind or a $10 issue, which is organic and real, instead of "a $10 issue" on a script because it causes guilt in 97% of people on the phone. That call you want, the hospital's call you don't. Literally no matter how rich you are, not even a billionaire, can go to a hospital and not be coerced to sign blank checks. Nobody. And you get treated like shit nonstop. American hospitals have terrible hospitality, treat everybody like shit.

Yeah they can tap every axon in your brain all the time.

Really, it's not about capability. It's about cost. 1984 was a huge win for the tortured on the balance sheet. They didn't produce anything and they cost millions! I guess then they had to write a book about why it's better to be a good little bitch if you get tortured. I should know, I have read it at least 3 times outside of false imprisonment, and who knows how many times it was read out loud to me under amnestic drugs. Like twice. Yeah twice. To delete it. LARP-ing 1984, basically, O'Brien says he's treating an insane man's sickness, it's psychiatry, in the book, and since it was read out loud--which is a confession--it was psychiatry in nonfiction.

This is meaningless. It sucks, first off, and second, it's expensive--machine learning requires constant tuning by people, in practice the same as flying a helicopter, always falling off to the side needing to be held upright. I have tried machine learning models in practice--literally just the example to see if I installed correctly--supposed to take 30 minutes I had to shut it off after 3 hours. Timeout, sorry.

And does this headline include absolutely anything actionable? It is a direct, material implication of torture. That is the desired message. Too long-didn't read? Torture.

Dude what the fuck do they want to understand the human brain for? The human brain? Is there only one? Whose human brain? Any psichiatrists experimenting on other psychiatrists? Your brain or my brain? Mark Zuckerberg's brain? OK maybe he did undergo experimentation, who knows. Maybe my objections are premature. But gross.

Further, the purpose of headlines like these is to get people to give up. You don't have to. There can be a miracle. I stood up to torture under amnestic drugs for 29 days, and then false imprisonment ongoing, out of very misplaced loyalty but they had all kinds of shit you don't know about, 2009, not that long ago, electrodes cameras injections, uh, I think morphine? Nah, you know what? No point in talking about this here. No point it telling no matter what pornographic shit they threaten you with you can always stand up to it. It's nothing that isn't in the Bible, why bother reading this? That's the manual, it's all there, well sort of they tell you you could break free any time if only you did this thing that is secretly impossible but they make look trivial, it's not magic, you can't let your food be stolen, you can't let your growth be stunted, you can't let your school lynch you, you need resources. Telling you you need none of these things is a ruse to steal them from you so you can't resist torture. They also erase all the on-ramps to different points of view.

Eh. No fucking respect for torture, absolutely none.

That can't be right. I mean maybe, if they are going to shit, like didn't they leak all their Iranian and Chinese sources meaning they disappeared? The old-time folks using One-Time-Pads, I only remember that but come on it's American, Cowboy Cryptography, and it's the best bar none, only strong cryptography. Well there were other technologies that were really much older, just classics, and those sticking to them and suggesting they continue to be used were labeled "troglodytes" and basically called paranoid. Dude if I were a spy and my handler used the word paranoid pejoratively, flip right then and there. Instantly. Not even ask "do you mean that pejoratively?" That's a giveaway, she'll know you'll flip. The usage will be distinct and if it's unclear it's pejorative. This isn't binary search. That means this guy ifs sucking up to movies of Hollywood actors who are not the real deal like Audie Murphie who made autobiographical movies, and especially special effects visualizations, and a romantic interpretation of the job that doesn't really respect the integrity of the Iranian or Chinese traitor. I do not meant pejoratively, it's not always pejorative, for instance a hero means traitor to traitors, traitors call me traitor all the time, double negative, and by all means he is wrongly trusted by his country, which generally gave him privileges and access because it thought the beneficiary would not betray them, in place of a more loyal nationalist who gets shafted for that traitor's benefit. Maybe in a country of 10 people this isn't so, guess it only applies to continents north of the Antarctic Circle. But whatever, that traitor is in principle preferring American values. And of course payouts, in the Cold War some say spies never made any money, yeah spies on America that's all it mentions, CIA paid great then, for instance the Eastern Germany spymaster got a $8-million-dollar offer plus a house in California (meaning also protection from retal in California) that's like half of what the Communist spies made in total. One guy.

Yeah and that's why people are losing their shit, just can't can't CAN'T dude super small country.

In any case blonde girl Sweden and human rights Sweden are not the same place.

Dude he helps kids who are getting lynched in college drop out! He has bad investments in idealistic companies! What more do you want! He had a bunch of home runs and got rich, he actually talks, like here, dude!

It's generally still not buttoned up. Looks buttoned up. Doesn't make one fuck of sense. What is going on?

IRS has limited staff for those cases, can only really nail 200 a year.

Yeah myself as well, I want number 3. And it won't always be tracked...or will it? Cat and mouse. Honor system, a little bit.

Yes there's many different cultures in different fields.

Not really. There's a lot up there, the demand is just now scraping the top of the barrel, in Chile for one, there's many many salt flats and huge lithium deposits. Lithium deposits, despite intense interest in exploitation overseas, is met with the 1981 law prohibiting lithium mining because it's a nuclear munition. As though you can't get more than enough from batteries by this point, that's a law that is pure corruption, like totally. Yes lithium is part of the Hydrogen Bomb and increases the yield enormously, and yes it comes from the Altiplano (Chile Bolivia and Perú, and to a lesser extent Argentina) but that never stopped anybody from getting it. Metals are all present everywhere, the only question is that of concentration. For iron and copper and others, concentration determines economic returns almost single-handedly, and it's a huge problem for copper right now in Chile, Chuquicamata gets .73% concentration. So North Korea and Israel didn't seek good concentrations internationally, they didn't go to Olympic Dam in Australia for their uranium--this part I'm divining--rather they mined it at a lower concentration within the country. You don't want to ship this, and in fact there are Geiger counters and suchlike in docks, in New York for one, placed to stop nuclear munitions from being shipped. It's pretty easy to detect. In that case secrecy means local deposits are viable and international deposits are not. So at any rate there is some lithium available for countries locally, now there's lithium mining in Australia like rock mining, which is worse than salt flats by far. Very doubtful America could ever impede other nuclear powers from obtaining lithium in quantities for a bomb. Perhaps once, not now that lithium is in every device and that lithium can not only travel on planes--despite putting airplanes at risk--but it can reach every country. Every country has smartphones, every country has lithium. Every country can improve the yield of a hydrogen bomb.

So really the minute smartphones became commonplace, Chile should have repealed the 1981 lithium law. It did not. It did not because of corruption, in fact Soquimich was investigated as a company listed in the NYSE for corruption, and frankly they were guilty as fuck. For ages they monopolized lithium, only now that there is rock mining and Bolivia and Perú are determined to produce it themselves, Chilean bribes be damned, is there real competition. And the market is rapidly expanding, the monopoly made sense when demand was small, like when lubricants and medication were important uses[1], but now that it's a huge percentage of every modern car's weight, what the hell! So Soquimich "asked" the Nuclear Commission of Chile (whatever it's called in English, there's no ambiguity there is one and that's it) if it could expand production dramatically. Well that's what they said. Soquimich owns not only that office thoroughly (very prolific campaign contributors with bribes underneath, as determined by I think DOJ, in a way that being brought to light won't change because there's pitiful campaign contributions otherwise, there is loyalty, they have power beyond just influence due to the owner being Pinochet's son-in-law), but many many others, but now there is that magical thing that capitalism brings, which makes it actually work, which is competition! Particularly from rock mining. Lithium has gone so far up that rock mining is no longer expensive in such a way that it can be ruined by a retaliatory and temporary increase in production by Soquimich, which was the game plan, basically Saudi Arabia of lithium. Saudi Arabia did do that. Although the also allowed all kinds of countries into OPEC, basically allowing a quota based on proven reserves and that was all there was to it. Not strictly, but pretty much. It used to be predatory pricing essentially. Well I by this point forgive them somewhat because they are producing much more, they are competing, they are no longer a tight monopoly doing pretty harmful things, they are in principle interested in ecology (it's in their best interest to be). And further there is one thing worse than a monopoly, which is nothingness. Not a single producer. That exists, the market for selling algorithms is that, no buyers and no sellers, so no market. Nothingness. One seller is much better than no seller, and lithium prices didn't hinder laptops and smartphones all that much, they did produce more many times, and they never owned a total monopoly, I think the majority or maybe 40%--very dominant--but not that much. And plus it used to be worth dick, nobody used lithium for anything, nothing, it was a terrible business to be in for decades, like lubricant and medication and nuclear ordnance, and none of them used lithium in real volume (the hydrogen bomb yes, I don't know I would say hundreds of kilograms per bomb since I can't realistically know exactly not declassified, not a whole lot of Museums of the History of Nuclear Weapons). So really it was a pretty tough racket for even a monopoly, they didn't make real money for many decades, they in practice needed to monopolize supply--no matter who extracted it in the Andes, they had to monopolize it, no choice. Or they would compete to terribly low prices, and one or both would have to drop out of the market. Reserves were a bit greater than now, market was tiny, totally marginal element with no applications. Even today it's all just the single application of batteries, little else.

So ecology. Lithium buyers want ecology. Whether Soquimich likes it or not (and they're not pure evil they did some shit they got caught they're paying for it a bit, they lost their monopoly, now they compete), but part of the job is selling lithium and for that being ecological is mandatory. Wouldn't want to get a "conflict lithium" designation, that harms business. And it costs little, not a big polluter. I went to the biggest Chilean salt flat, I saw the lithium extraction like pumping down deep into the salt flat, but I saw all this in a tourist destination meant to look at the pink flamingos feeding on shrimp in the salt flat. That is pretty much all the life there is there, shrimp and flamingos. The flamingos were chilling, not afraid of the pump truck, and they were there to eat shrimp, so the shrimp clearly weren't being very prejudiced. That was it, there's no flora of any kind there, not right there nearby there's like dots in the ground some seasons, like nothing. There might be other birds sometimes. I would remember the tourist destination talking about other species, it was really just two...I suppose there was phytoplankton for the shrimp to eat. The tourist destination was really just about the flamingos, which are incredible, and they become pink from eating shrimp, but again if the lithium extraction fucked their life up they would not go within miles of a pump truck like that one. So ecological, and really, lithium extraction opens doors in every government office near a salt flat. Want to get permission to extract lithium, it's easy, "knock knock" "who's there" "lithium" "lithium who" "lithium who pays taxes" boom you're in. Municipal governments want money not to be such a problem, they want a budget, they want to get the wealth in their environment, and by this point it's basically a gold rush, even in Chile. And there is lots. That part of the Andes is the low-cost producer of lithium by a very wide margin, can't even mention a single salt flat worth anything outside that region. These days, lithium is green energy, it's the new oil.

[1] Interesting fact, lithium commodity exports and bipolar medication are the same molecule: lithium carbonate. If you're bipolar in the traditional sense and run out of lithium carbonate pills while near lithium extraction, you can either end up streaking naked through the salt flat--which happens--or ask the extractor for a sample of their commodity, which being a sample will be pretty pure, and deal with bipolarity like that. It's the only example of a commodity that is at the same time medication that I know of. I joke about Chilean lithium, that before like 2020 you shouldn't touch lithium carbonate eve if you were diagnosed bipolar, it's even crazier. It did badly for a very long time, the monopoly and 1981 law were very strong.

I like this. This is competition. Apple is drawing Facebook out. I like both companies but the incentives of any trillion-dollar company are very fucked and it helps Facebook internally when they get sued for breaking the rules. Let he without sin cast the first stone, everybody breaks some rule at some point, it's original sin and inescapable. Even saints sin, they just also atone. This helps Facebook's angels on its shoulder speak up with bigger numbers--which is the name of the game--and drown out the devil on the left. Like wouldn't it be good for--extreme example--Judas if he put a price of thirty pieces of silver against betraying Jesus? That mitigates temptation.

Slaps on the wrist are harmful especially for those receiving slaps on the wrist. No moral development.

How does this apply to a FAANG company? Nobody knows--better than another FAANG company. Yes they know each other yes they hire each other's employees yes cross-polination yes yes yes--but they also compete. And when they hold back on competition, they at least do the public the favor of doing so at a very high cost--like Apple taking $20,000,000,000 from Google in exchange for not entering the search engine market. So there the higher the price extolled, the better for the public. The higher the price, the harder for Google to pay it to avoid competition, and the more likely it will not be paid which leads to competition.

In practice every FAANG company competes against all the others on everything. This is a success! Google can't beat Apple on smartphones, and Apple can't beat Google on search (even if they wanted to), so both companies have money, so they duke it out in every battleground beyond their moat. If they don't have a moat, however, they go to shit and can't carry out that competition in every other field.

There's some stuff with merit. Generally headlines on this forum are way off the money generally, in psychology sociology psychiatry.

Like there's that one finding that came up while researching how scientists in the hard sciences achieved recognition. The soft science researcher discovered that every single one of the scientists insisted questions are more important than answers. But there was no margin of error, so they couldn't write a paper about that. It's not a statistic, it's just absolute. They should have by all means written a paper about it, no shame in being absolutely right.

And there's sociologists like Andrés Pascal Allende, on whom the Mandalorian is based, who was considered a counter-terrorist by the rightful president, and also a terrorist by the usurper, like the Mandalorian. I should clarify he mostly carried out sociology with machine guns and grenades, killed many carabineros, hard target, came in and out of Chile as he pleased, highly persecuted, outraced the persecutors every time, was Minister of Tourism in Cuba--that's a really good job, incredibly good, dude that's like that's a huge reward for standing up to death and torture, oh man, that's recognition, on top of the other recognition, medals and all the rest. That is all second only to being the hero of the absolute most oppressed and repressed (both) worthy victims, meaning those who wish to do what he did for them if they could like watching the Mandalorian wishing they could do that and then going back into the grind and struggle day after day of exploitation and dealing with the betrayal contest set up by the dictatorship. Nothing compares to that recognition, the recognition of the worthy victim. That is heroism definitionally. Really his heroism and those he led determined were the only thing holding up the dignity and living conditions of like 80% of Chileans, fear of the hero.

He studied sociology before becoming the Mandalorian. Must have learned something if he was determined to graduate.

Yeah I would say so. South Asian immigrants are very welcome, huge respect (fear even) for IIT graduates. Like yes the H1B visa system sucks, but it's indentured servitude essentially (not slavery, I ate at a restaurant with literal slaves like they stole their passports human trafficking, it was a rip-off too, that owner was shit to everybody in sight). H1B is akin to actual indentured servitude where whites paid for travel to America (like traveling to the Moon) and then committed to working for 7 years for the privilege. And there were rules on both sides, there were obligations for both, subordination for one but liability for the other, not very different from apprenticeship (it could be an apprenticeship), huge opportunity, and frankly not that many complaints overall, given the circumstances. Never heard horror stories, though obviously there are some. H1B is that. There are H1B horror stories, but come on they're more sought after than American citizens generally. Well in the military-industrial complex, there is a priority on citizenship, but somehow I never applied for a job there. Just didn't occur to me...well one time, they shunned because my resume got destroyed in a lynching and subsequent torture. In particular standing up to torture, employers sense that like veteran discrimination basically. But I applied to very few jobs, because of being like conditioned or something not to. Not capable, guess I should have spammed. Despite applying to many universities (not crazy for the time, but 7, on the high end, more work), and having good game in the dating market. I still can't transfer good game into actual money like eg sales, or networking, no idea why...can't make the necessary adjustments, at least not yet.

I'm looking back on any discrimination against South Asians...I don't know. Well for one thing, one interesting loophole in discrimination, is that there is white guilt about discrimination, as a group they know it to be wrong and they don't like carrying it out in abstract. When there is a stereotype-breaker, they go for it completely. So Asia lies north of the equator, meaning South Asians lie closest to the equator, more light but also more heat meaning less clothing more exposure to light, so what do you get? Darker skin, particularly in Sri Lanka. Born under an equatorial sun, as Harriet Beecher Stowe put it in Uncle Tom's Cabin. So the deal is they are dermatologically dark, like Fitsch type 5 (a scale from 1 to 6 measuring skin darkness and tanning in response to sunlight, not truly synonymous but close enough to be useful), but they're Indoeuropean, always known to be the same language group as eg the English and Norse. Known kinship, and the intent was to accept them, and they invented 0 come on, super smart great at chess invented that too.

So by now the desire in principle to accept them in combination with them working like crazy--the most basic way to hack discrimination--and in addition, outpacing other minorities in certain fields--like there was a blogger on Wall Street who talked about being East Asian on Wall Street, and compared it to being South Asian saying it was rough because there were I think no managing directors (MD's as they're called) on Wall Street that were breakaway successes. Whereas there were South Asians there were. (I think Indians, the article said BSD Big Swinging Desi, meaning Indian, vulgar yes Wall Street can be vulgar, dude it's all about alpha), and it maps out to what I saw when I was picking which tournament I would enter (another option was chess, I chose algorithms instead). It's a way for whites to not judge based on the color of people's skins. And further in Freakonomics an Indian sociologist did some polls in housing projects, ended up not getting killed because while not African he was dark too, not black, like in a gray area. OK they considered him gray. So that's how he was privy to the economics of the street drug market, and the tournament aspect of it.

You know what I got the education I got, I memorized that, there was little new information making it a non-planet. You know those same guys call carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen metals? It's a description. In astronomy, metal means anything greater than hydrogen and helium. Every element but the first two. Change of nomenclature, really, and I guess motivated because of seeing other planetary systems.

The entire Solar System is highly aberrant. Single star, instead of binary star. Then, a moon around earth, very large moon, besides, it is the same size in the sky (varying over time) as the sun, leading to different eclipses (like anular eclipses, which accurately measured a biblical event 4000 years ago, to the day, I think it was a Tuesday). Like everything is very unique, apparently.

This is why I suggested I think on this forum for Jessica Livingston to make a follow-up to Founders at Work called Fuckups at Fail. Well not that because you can't stock it. But basically. A catalog of failures. Give me an intimate idea of what success is like, yes by all means, but also what failure is like. And the volume. In detail, so like tell me the blow-by-blow tragedy, like when the founder shits his pants in a meeting with VC's, at that point I'm fine with an abridged version. Nobody talks about that, tell me.

Like also all this self-faith is generally misplaced. They always tell you to believe in yourself, come on. Before I embarked on the algorithms and AI research in 2009 as the only hope for my future, put all my eggs in that basket out of desperation, I analyzed NBA player salaries, heights, and income in-depth. So my hypothesis is only people who can get into the NBA should go all-out training for basketball. Everybody else should treat it as a pass-time, and not dream about it, like set their alarm for when they're dreaming about it, anything. Muggsy Bogues can't get a rebound unconditionally. I played against an superior basketball, better ball-handling better shooting better everything "just better" as my brother described the people who made the basketball team in Berkeley High. Just better. Didn't matter a fuck, I was 6'2", which in practice in Chile means gigantic, blocked his shots got every rebound, won 10-0. Infinite mulligans. Height. Basically comes down to how tall you are.

So the NBA, which is tied to the sports industry, is essentially a tournament where everybody buys in, and the winner gets all the buy in. So the shitty thing is telling you you can make it, for example by putting Muggsy Bogues up as an example of a great player, always bragging the short players, cut the shit. It's all a ruse to get suckers, meaning short players who think they can win, to buy in to a tournament. Stealing basically. Dude Muggsy Bogues I think can't dunk. 5'5"? I couldn't even dunk at 6'2" and I was the tallest player on the best basketball team. I could reach the rim and then a tiny bit. Muggsy Bogues had to clear 9 more inches of vertical to reach the rim, not even dunk. I could squat like 300 pounds, and I also had the same height jump for both legs, because I did track and competed nationally. Man, get real. Fucking trampoline. They had special effects in the 1920's, you think they can't bullshit in the 1980's? Like falsify that shit? Who would accuse you? Only Daniel Cussen, in 2022.

People put dogshit on the news 60 minutes per hour, it doesn't stop. Counterfactual shit nonstop. Like the best is to read headlines and nothing else. Thomas Jefferson said that, the American Federal Government has that available publicly, if you read through the millions of pages of crap before it. Peer through the window at the newspapers in the newspaper dispenser, never buy in. Window-shopping and that's it. Like the kid saying "Extra! Extra! Napoleon invading Spain!" That's the news. Town crier. That's it. Layman doesn't know shit, no access, why would he ever get an inside scoop on anything? He wouldn't! Nobody would tell him!

Like I by this point stopped reading the articles on this forum, like I just can't, it's just rape, everrybody wants me to share a needle with them I just can't, I know I'll get asked for cookie "consent" (which means incoming rape), sorry I just can't. I just base my posts on reactions to the articles, and divine what I can, and if I fuck up die tragically without complaint. There's traps, like startups (not YC) getting the article points (people milk points, it's a points system points systems either get promoted into being hacked, or demoted into not being worthwhile to track, very hard to stay in between). So like articles on this site, know people hate hearing the word "consent" just seeing it anywhere then you have to read a contract that is dry sterile and abusive, whereas you were invited to read something juicy, actionable and beneficial.

Like you know what would be fun? Swap company's advertising and consent forms. Put the consent forms on the billboards, and the advertising only when you are convinced you want to buy the product...like that ad can come last to rematar like bring in the kill that has read those long consent forms and said "yeah this product makes sense it's not complete shit with no rights and endless responsibilities for me, and infinite rights and no responsibilities for the contract writer". That's a marketing experiment, why don't companies try it? Yeh.

Like OK know a tiny bit about Napoleon, that's worth your time. But don't read jack shit. Nothing. It sucks. No news. History, on the other hand, once heads have cooled conquest accepted, like that is worthwhile. Russian leaders actually do that, they draw parallels (Joseph Dugashvili aka Stalin) between Bolshevik Commissars and the Chaplains in Oliver Cromwell's army. Actually read. Even the tsar, that guy actually played chess. Was painted drawing chess against his best friend, whom he kept in poverty, and I guess both were losing, and then there was a heart attack, of the best friend of course, not the Tsar. That would lead to a state emergency. Best friend instead gets a lavish funeral, finally. Yeah then yeah, then the Tsar coughs up the money or gets assassinated. Ivan the Terrible, I think, from memory? The autocrator, as he's called internally. Meaning a ruler who cannot be corrupted or manipulated, and yes he fucks like crazy, and yes he spends crazy money on crazy things, but that fucking and that spending have a bottleneck of one man. That's the upside. The thing is what about his sons and his sons's sons? That's where shit breaks down, in a large country. Privilege. Nobility. And inbreeding. Ends up with failures, inescapably, people thinking they can do what they just can't. Like I don't try riding at the races, too tall too heavy. Played basketball a bit but never invested because obviously it was not a good investment. Actually determined the cut-off--it's all about the cut-off.

For basketball, the cut-off is six feet ten inches of height for whites, six feet nine inches of height for blacks. There's some forms of racism in the NBA, it happens, you have to judge a book by its cover, it's just not anti-Black racism. Like there's friction for Asian players (Lin-sanity) but that's just because they have to start somewhere, pretty hard to tell people . If a doctor tells a kid that will be his adult height, invest all the way. Hence my bet, I will bet all-out in the tournament, but only if I will win. Not a question of luck. A question of adult height (in basketball). Strict. Gotta know the cut-off.

Brings me back to the bigger picture of failure. Like what happens if you fail, what happens in eg prison (which I should visit) and wards (which I should visit) and on the street (there I do talk to everybody, especially people nobody talks to like cops and beggars).

I bought Founders at Work. I asked for it to be shipped to a friend in America, and then got it brought down to Chile. That's work. That's demand.

I want Fuckups at Fail.

Like the whole privacy ship has sailed. The mark of the beast has been deeply imprinted. Tattooed on the forehead, like slaves in Ancient Rome. It doesn't mean we're all fucked. On the contrary. Game has changed. Poker into chess.

And you know why they hold that much power? Nobody else made a search engine worth a fuck. That's it. Secondly, integrity. Google actually debugs. Meaning until there's no bugs left. I've seen bugs in everything except Google's software, mostly, don't accuse bugs but can't vouch they have none, either. Makes perfect sense their use of Yubikey led to no account compromises among like 100000 accounts, that and the bug-free software are the fruits of integrity. I mean I'm sure I've seen bugs in Google's software but I don't remember them off the top of my head, unlike Apple since like 2021, whom else, well the whole Solarwinds bitch story, American second-tier tech getting fucked wholesale. What happened to "don't share needles"? Everybody is sharing one needle. That needle is the internet. Like if you must share it like burn the tip very carefully with a lighter and pump drano through it. So that's what Google did. And they're doing it as a public service basically, like not exactly but pretty much, today at least I do buy their argument that it's free so it's not harmful to the consumer. But other days I know it hurts businesses, and everybody gets their money from businesses or taxes on businesses, so harm to business is harm to the consumers who earn their money from that business ultimately.

Yeah that was Microsoft.

Also Edison, General Electric early on (like lightbulb era), had (according to one source, but it makes sense) like a prototype of an IQ test, tested memory and general knowledge. Basically how much you had read. By that point America had ample libraries thanks to Carnegie, so it was fair, before that there was no way.

Makes sense since Edison and Gates dropped out. And back then college dropouts were too educated, so for instance JP Morgan did a year in college, traveled a bit and that completed his education. I dropped out recently (technically an impasse, glitch meant I couldn't enroll again) and with that my education is complete. But back then? Dude nobody finished high school, Ford didn't, Wright Brothers said eh, like back then if you went to college you were badly overeducated.

So the "how many piano tuners are there in Chicago" question is a sanitized version of "how many kilotons of TNT did this nuclear bomb yield?". Fermi problem, I think it's called, and Fermi was great at it, got it to within a factor of 2. Wright Brothers also nailed it very well, like got 1% margins on admittedly easier math than the bomb, but with their other invention, the wind tunnel, and very very low resources initially. So the piano tuners sounds like a stupid question, otherwise it would require that special nuke clearance, get real. And it's the same thought process.

How can that be if companies don't get a good ROI from online advertising? So that means you need to get Google Adwords in order not to waste practically all your ad spend?