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daniel-cussen

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Algorithm designer since 2010.

My username, with a period instead of a dash, at gmail dot com.

Perhaps you'll think my comments are unthinkable. My only response to that is that they were legibly written, not by a machine, but by a writer with a soul.

And I intend to notarize my account.

Also: on the internet, you never want to have the last word.

http://fgemm.com

https://twitter.com/dan_cussen

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daniel-cussen··on Shortest URLs on the Internet
> It seems that the service now redirects to a site called Freenom where you can still get .tk names, but they appear to be priced based on the length and whether or not the domain contains known words or phrases (though some free ones are apparently still available if you don't mind having a gibberish name)

I consider that virtuous, and smart. Short domains must cost more than long domains. They're more valuable. Words must cost more than gibberish. But there were domains available, right? Didn't have to bang out twenty minutes finding something you liked that wasn't taken?

daniel-cussen··on Argentina's currency exchange black markets
Yeah so there, and Brazil, there are for sure businesses that can handle the level of racket--but they're locals, and connected. Speaking the language is fairly critical. Being chill. Immigrants starting a business never get a toehold, the price doubles every time they pay it pretty much. Unless...unless you're magical or some shit, like unbelievable, next level. Oh you know who? Truecrypt author, Paul Le Roux, him.
daniel-cussen··on How does the land use of different electricity sources compare?
You can take the fuel out before the conflict. Much less dangerous then.
daniel-cussen··on As the Planet Warms, Canada Faces an Influx of Climate Refugees
I am one. I skipped back and forth avoiding winter during Covid, getting through travel bans due to dual citizenship USA Chile. I just had my first winter in years.

Unique level of Covid avoidance, and besides my doctor said "if you can do it yes it's a good thing for you psychiatrically". Just not usually advertised because it's difficult to carry out for practically if not literally all patients.

Endless summer.

daniel-cussen··on Cognitive ability is related to supporting freedom of speech (2020)
Flyover Country Revolution. Flyover no more. Charge toll for overflying it. Why shouldn't private jets pay you up directly?
daniel-cussen··on How A Bedouin Tracker Sees the Desert
It has not.

Go no further than the fastest typist, the fastest typist achieved a higher typing rate on dvorak than qwerty, by a huge amount. Barbara Blackburn. That's the maximum, that's statistically significant. And I am statistically significant in my own right, I type about 10,000 words worth of essays a day, like nothing, need to delete 90% of it because it's too radioactive. Too much hot shit. You see, if you go to http://fgemm.com, the tip of the iceberg.

Dvorak vs qwerty has been named by eg Peter Thiel in Zero to One as an example of when superior technology (don't argue with me there) cannot displace an incumbent. But that was before! I have used the incompatibility to my favor, I switch the plastic keycaps on my computers and people look at it and don't touch. It's awesome! So we end up saying, I tell you what to do on your computer, you do it.

Because now it's pure software (almost, not when restarting the computer), so the limitation (by all means present on physical typewriters) is gone. I love dvorak, I can type endlessly without RSI, emacs and most apps work better now, because the best letters have the best position, so the keys are easier.

May I inquire who you are? ycombinete is not a real popular baby name according to the US Census. Like Yvonne? Are you trying to claim authority by using a fake name? You know that is a felony in Chile and America.

daniel-cussen··on How A Bedouin Tracker Sees the Desert
Yes that is exactly what it is. Qwerty threads your thought with pain. Like fucking obvious the vowels should be on the home row, right? Well no because then people's typed words wouldn't be filtered through pain. Coercion and pain.

I actually owned the domain name qwertqwert.com pointing at a qwerty to dvorak translator, so any dvorak user could use dvorak on any computer without painful typing. I wanted it for myself. Got it to work, in fact...I think. So many successful projects not sure how high a fraction of them were successful.

daniel-cussen··on Is early-onset cancer an emerging global epidemic?
No it's not that much, it's water in the atmosphere, hypergolic fuels were before. Steam. It's fine. Although yes when metal vaporizes up in reentry that is pollution.
daniel-cussen··on Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-engine dominance, DOJ says
They could say "cutting off approximately 10B results after 400 hits.".
daniel-cussen··on On my resignation as regulator of the Dutch intelligence and security services
Dude would love that for http://fgemm.com. Not raking in those revenues yet, yes I have the speedup and yes that's considered the hard part, but to me that's the easy part and translating that into human currency is the hard part.

Like I'd have to think for just a fucking second, stop and think it's a big ask...but yeah.

Idealism.

Yeah.

daniel-cussen··on Some things I realized about AI while contemplating slide rule prices on eBay
(Note the "couple hours" to get one number.)

Perfectly suitable. But they did have a couple of hours to come up with the right numbers, and they did have slide rules and graphical methods as backup. That is what allows evolution, you can't believe a computer right from the start and instantly abandon older methods. Those methods have a place.

In fact if an African student wanted to be a mathematician, a slide rule--due to its analog nature would--set him ahead and allow him faster results than his peers. Whereas a calculator you don't know where you've got it wrong.

daniel-cussen··on Is early-onset cancer an emerging global epidemic?
That's funny because Elon Musk in his capacity as a vehicle entrepreneur has not only advanced the expansion to Mars, by leaps and bounds, hey if before we could get a million people there now we can get 100 million, or if we could get 100 million now we can get everybody out. Leaps and bounds. Costs the same as a college degree to get a rocket into orbit, in fuel terms. Yeah like $200000, well that's only if you get a scholarship and the price of fuel doesn't skyrocket, but similar. Similar.

So what's contradictory is he also yes made good advances with batteries for cars (fixed everything honestly) but really got every other carmaker feeling real threatened right in the business model. A sensitive delicate place, you understand. He got everybody else putting eg 20 billion like Ford into researching electric cars, and partering up, making...making their thing, good cars too, but I would buy no other than a Tesla for a simple reason. Accidents. Fewer accidents is less pollution, yes Tesla allegedly pushes it as self-driving and sometimes it is (Elon gets lied to I saw it once), but really the really cool thing is an incredibly bad driver like me can drive a car while doing his best to pay attention together with the car's safety system. Not instead of. In tandem. Then you don't get all those cadavers filling up the graveyard which takes up land, no joke very expensive South SF...yes the human tragedy yes. But the media overlooks it like nothing so for purely the sake of argument I can focus on the pollution. Well maybe not, pollutes those people with something toxic, there's a debate in medicine eg punches are toxic, blunt force trauma is toxic. Think about that. Well then they're in the hospital for weeks, then the doctors pollute them perhaps [1]. Then, pollution, in the junkyard. Then, you need another car, pollution in the mines to purify the metal...lithium in Chile. So what's the ecological alternative?

Basically horses, the original self-driving car, and very ecological.

Ford said if he asked people they'd say they wanted faster horses, that is what Tesla makes.

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[1] Change of subject: they did this to me twice, to figure out how to do poison you with no excuses, no loopholes, no fucking consent. Shut you up before you open your mouth. Wait wasn't it going to be just two vaccines and that'd be it? Shut up. Can I assay this vaccine? Shut up. Can I object on religious grounds? Ten years ago yes. Shut the fuck up. Like turns out I haven't met a single Covid death, not personally obviously, you neither, through an acquaintance only one, and he died because he went to a hospital, caught Covid in a hospital with an existing condition.

Yes I do know how to bitch down to social expectations under the threat of being labeled as a stereotype, or like I used to, sorry, I knew too much it was lobotomized.

Dude no excuses nothing don't take no for an answer (violers's slogan), oh there was an exception but you didn't qualify, learn to poison people on the schizos first, then the rest. Nazi playbook, literally. First they came for me man, they're coming for you now. Well didn't poison me twice, hundreds of times meaning two different pills, but second time, mostly dodged it. They provided no benefit and had serious side effects, second one required signatures for consent that were extorted out of 100% of the patients (Clozapine at Clínica Rayencura, full court press, tiered rewards in the Caribbean 10% you get a plane ticket 20% you get a hotel room 30% you get a boat ride to the secret island, shooting for that 100% consent, they got caught in fact biggest suit of its kind, not big enough did it again), doctors say first do no harm. No benefit just harm, poison.

Dude just read the consent form (consent is code for rape), then recognized the name, said Oh that Abbott wants me to take this pill? Fuck that. So second time around I was wise and dodged, only guy in the rehab to dodge obesity and immune compromise, it gives you AIDS ["Te da SIDA" -- Juan Luis Lorca Tobar, like July 2018], Abbott--which I'm dying to take to court. Dying to take that Abbott to court. This close to giving me AIDS? What an Abbott. But due to torture that is their fault in part as well, I by design can't properly communicate with any lawyer within the hour I get for free, who'll take the case and ride to victory fucking them in the Federal Circuit...dude my dream. Someday I will get my day in court, evidently not within 13 years, maybe not even 20 years, someday. Dude combination of the 6th and 13th amendment. I can justify with exact mathematics the shrink industry is treating me like a slave. And you know my code compiles.

Let that be known. That Abbott owes me money.

Hey, Abbott, abbot, cleric right there in the name. Like there's no hot guys studying sixty years to get their degree as a cleric. They get work, or, in the club, get worked, women jumping them nonstop, me too but I think my libido is very damaged again lobotomy. Cleric is a pervy career path basically, come on no partying til 35 and then crazy?

Women don't like doctors anymore, just like...eeegh. Yeah money yeah, literally blood money. And even then always beta. Alpha on the secret island? Yeah. Gray's Anatomy, yeah. Patrick Dempsey is handsome and an actor, as counterfactual as it gets, exact opposite career path, bleached his hair to look gray in fact. American Medicine subsidizes those shows for you to trust them.

There's good doctors too, that's why they call them good doctors, like dumb blondes, why not just say doctors, why not just say blondes? I was blond, still considered blond in the modeling industry I would say dirty blond. But when I was small? Blond. Smart as fuck. [And in general blondes are only dumb insofar as jealousy first, secondly loss of innocence ie sex diminishes their fairness depending on whom it's with chimeric DNA goes everywhere, yellow felt-tip pen. Finally it's a trait indicating youth, apart from that I] Proved it hardcore, under a psychiatric handicap, beat the secretly nationally-ranked shrink at chess. They had to let me out at that point, but it was a bullshit thing it was an illusion to torture their patients, all I have to do is win this game (which is impossible) and I'm free. Even if you win they won't let you out any sooner. Not a good doctor, not a dumb blond. You can see the before and after on http://fgemm.com, my whole history before during and after the torture ward, which had HN access isn't that a nice perk? Another patient who was a lifer said, "cuatro estrellas.". Four star hotel. Lindsay Lohan that's five stars, Hollywood rehab, there's one in Chile nobody said a word about, a rumor among my favorite people. Great food for one, not niggardly with the calories, number one, you'd think if they pretended to understand milligrams they would need to understand calories, nope. Should lose their degrees just for that. Cept for the anorexics.

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This where it gets interesting.

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So one killer strategy--you really want the shrinktalk I got for you? First off you will remain inside until either your sponsor runs out of money or you stop insisting you're sane. Dude you want to get out (not always better on the outside though), dude shut the fuck up if you want to get released. Just shut the fuck up. Stop saying you're not insane, never accuse more than one person, play dumb because they won't stop til you are dumb. Amnestic drug lobotomy.

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I read advice on reddit, Epic Shrinktalk, dude said 1) take shit and 2) ask if you're making progress. Dude playbook for May 12, 2012, right there! That was literally it! I owe him royalties...let me pay them by divulging the following. I took some shit (better than taking on a whole gang) and I asked if I was making progress. And I had signed in myself, that's when they roll out the red carpet if it's legit. Now I know if you're eg a psychiatrist considering treating me reading this you'll be like...the fuck? But bear in mind, lobotomized into divulging compulsively, lost my shit after the final third time of abduction, and second, come on doc you watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. You're a doctor, or a good doctor? White horses are not horses, as the Ancient Chinese, School of Names, said. Genius.

I've had much more than my share of good doctors, I'm a lifer. I didn't look under a rock, I did a rock census. I know there's 950-998 psychs in Chile. I know what they can do and what they can't. I know the system. I bought the Law Book and read as far as I could, well like any book if there's five words you don't understand on the first page it's beyond your level. Fifteen laws broken in my gainst. OK, so here is something I did understand:

If you like the medication (depends on the medication, Risperidone you don't have to) but if it's controlled pretend you hate it. Opioid? Say you're constipated. Oh stimulants uh, can I get something for my stomach ache with that? Do I have to take this pill every day, I'm getting sick in my throat...How do I swallow that down, like what yoghurt to mix it with? Research and complain about the side effects...dude literally swapping pills in the rehab, one man's trash is another man's treasure--outside the rehab, because inside there's no private property. Inside? One man's poison is another man's cure. We hated our shit. We were both flushing it. We wanted the other guy's. So trade. But like better than a trade, absolute gift in both directions. No yuck from saliva dude fuck it, did not care. This is coercion, this is Hell, get fat if you're uninformed because you didn't read this post. Dude your gut wis sticking out like a horse.

And this is the right forum to talk about this.

Look it all up, it's on http://fgemm.com

daniel-cussen··on Is early-onset cancer an emerging global epidemic?
Free radicals in the water table. Pollution in general. Plastic in the rainwater. Doesn't just affect nature. Backs up up the water table, from ocean to river from the slums to the hills.

Good that we're doing it less and less, in some respects. Pollution is poison.

Although there is always some. Even very primitive societies eg in the Amazon Basin pollute a bit and after like ten years they move to a new place, and the go in circles in the long run, sustainable.

daniel-cussen··on How A Bedouin Tracker Sees the Desert
Oh. I said, you're accusing me of x, and of y. That is because he said "you are either an x" that's the first accusation, "or a y." the second accusation. So there can be no confusion then, I can present the fact he considered accusing me of being an x, to disprove I'm a y, and the fact he accused me of being a y, as evidence I'm not an x.

Two accusations in this case.

daniel-cussen··on Building a house in California is not a housing development project [pdf]
Landlords you'd figure. Less competition. Less supply.
daniel-cussen··on Bitcoin and Gold Both Fail Miserably as Hedges, Investments
Spesh single dollar cotton documents, man that's stuff hot, everybody takes them the blind take them, the beggars take any bill but best that they be small they can spend them, same cotton document basically, same number of autopen signatures similar weight 1g I think, everything the same as the uh...hundred-dollar bill, which is just...like I can't accept $100 bills. A friend showed me one asked me was it real I said let's see..."Printed 1996, O-Kay, uh less believable but it looks pretty fresh so it looks newer"...I hemmed and hawed. Then a few minutes later he said "look the corner of the paper split into two sheets"

"aw aw...man you got robbed of a hundred dollars."

"Yeah..."

"Well you know it's not just United States that controls the printing press, not printing that much first off second, North Korea has just as good a printing press of its own. Panama close..."

"mmm"

"Yeah $100 I would flat out never accept as payment."

daniel-cussen··on Steve Jobs emails himself (2010)
Stalin was therefore a sick fuck at the age of 6, so young, so young!

EDIT: That's how a woman I know got her husband to stop beating her, was ready with the knives, said some Shrinktalk quotes (the book may come soon), and the guy...didn't...didn't...have that much of a beating for her in him any longer.

daniel-cussen··on Steve Jobs emails himself (2010)
I read SJ's biography...and know a bit about Wozniak...through his father, my grandfather's peer in Lockheed Martin. So yeah Jobs cheated Woz, the one time--and Jobs admits it--but come on, I know guys who cheat like that every uh time period thing according to the uh Gregorian Calendar. Week month something. But only Stephen Jobs started Apple, they didn't. And Steve gave Steve the money he promised, it was just less than half what he was offered. Still a good deal for Wozniak, just Wozniak had access to military CMOS for much longer than Steve J.

Steve Jobs gotta say does an amazing job of looking bad at tech while knowing everything, just everything. Like yes he couldn't do Breakout but he actually tried, trial and error for a while. Master at steps 1 and 3, ignorant but not completely and could have gotten a bad Breakout for his step 2 for he himself to pull it off. So that's why he teamed up.

daniel-cussen··on How A Bedouin Tracker Sees the Desert
No like if you're accusing me of either being the tallest man in basketball and the shortest loser on the street, both your accusations disprove the other.
daniel-cussen··on Rolls Royce Ends Boom Supersonic Partnership
For now. 2022. Yeah no in the future too.
daniel-cussen··on Rolls Royce Ends Boom Supersonic Partnership
Yeah everyone these days is saying

"OK, first we have very nice policies generous no-questions refunds, get a good word going. Then traction, then investment. Then, revenues, it's revenues all the way, growth man. And then you get a good multiplier on revenues because we can say we're tech for some fucked up reason. Like coupla degrees here n there some PhD's (this is why there's big-name university focus, there's better PhD's in Georgia Tech, but it's marketing) maybe then we can say it. Then...liquidity event. Then just juggle forever."

daniel-cussen··on Rolls Royce Ends Boom Supersonic Partnership
Dude when the sanctions end the sanctions will really really end.
daniel-cussen··on How A Bedouin Tracker Sees the Desert
Those accusations contradict each other.
daniel-cussen··on “Download More RAM” joke, but for crypto era
Dude order RAM on the internet, it shows up where you live, you manually put it in place. What's the difference between that and downloading RAM? Like it's not literally the matrix with your spine plugged in, not yet at least. Everybody wants that matrix, like everybody is trying to essentially return to the womb.

That's the thing about the matrix, it's a womb. Like the thing is the idea humans can be used as batteries is backwards, totally energy inefficient. Forget about the batteries. Think of the robot war, very overlooked. Get them not to fight, and then? Your services are no longer necessary.

daniel-cussen··on Why Does This Horrifying Woman Keep Appearing in AI-Generated Images?
A wicked witch!
daniel-cussen··on How A Bedouin Tracker Sees the Desert
They see that they just laugh. Dude, oh this is going to be easy, I'm going to have to charge extra, too boring.

Like think of all that you do with a computer, all that magic. Dude Stanford CS department in CS106A Mehran Sahami says it's the closest thing to magic. And witchcraft also...eh. Like typing on Dvorak is magic, like the raw speed, the comfort, the freedom of thought stedda the sad fad qwerty.

daniel-cussen··on Nine million people in city 170km long; is world ready for a linear metropolis?
Hey as a social experiment at least it wasn't brutal. Experiment means it doesn't have to work perfectly right away. That would be a leap.

Chile is a linear country. The most linear country on earth, in fact. In fact there was a map on reddit, (from memory) where each country was replaced in its geographic boundary by its name. It worked great for every country except Chile, where they succumbed to writing vertically "CHILE CHILE CHILE CHILE CHILE" totally exceptional killed the game.

I bet I would love Volgograd. More than the locals.

The other place that is like that is SF, the Peninsula, and South Bay. They always talk about going North or South, like in Chile, never East and West.

daniel-cussen··on Steve Jobs emails himself (2010)
There's no gray in chess. It's all blackwhite.
daniel-cussen··on Show HN: TattoosAI – AI-powered tattoo artist, using Stable Diffusion
Yeah those tattoos will have a very stable ink diffusion.
daniel-cussen··on Handwritten thank you notes increase sales
No but this is legitimate. You're supposed to do this and it is known to increase sales because it is virtuous--if it's virtuous, people will judge by the calligraphy.
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