mircea_popescu: you gotta ADD ALL THE PLUSSES.
mircea_popescu: "the cost to buy this $160`000 item [which really can be had at $8`000 with some regularity, if one's not in a hurry] for $7`750 is $7`750 in cash + dropping the ballo on ffa + whatever else it is.
mircea_popescu: and as to b), you never to my fucking knowledge said the "hey honey, ima go see if i can find something to shoot at in the forest" part. it's never "hey, i plan to spend so much dough to realise this much unbooked profit on the basis of this pricetag and through this process"
mircea_popescu: it is still a deffective calculation, in that it only counts ~part~ of the cost, and compares to a ~dubious~ watermark.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's never a q of '10 cent cheaper', it's b/w the sticker price - usually 5-6 figs, prohibitive for asciilifeform entirely - and 'can haz'
mircea_popescu: the cost to own, the cost to use, these fucking figure into the total cost. what good is it you got something 50 or 500 or 5000 bucks cheaper than "the average" if the average wasn't even correctly calculated and as a bonus you lose your horses die in the fire started by the wife's funeral candles ?!
mircea_popescu: the man who drives 10 miles out of his way to buy a tank of gas a cent cheaper does the exact fucking thing, "oh, it was cheaper gas". no it fucking wasn't.
mircea_popescu: but you never bother to calculate the costs of opportunity! neither in time, nor in actual resources, nor in anything else!
mircea_popescu: as to a) : 1. you see an item for sale, for price X. 2. you don't even bother to calculate the expected-average-X, i suspect, but merely "intuit" it, without even a full second's thought. 3. you calculate X-imagined-avg-X thus obtaining a delta, which then motivates you to purchase, and in the process ALSO commits you.
asciilifeform: no mircea_popescu is right, 'the spice must flow'(tm)
mircea_popescu: the issue here is that a) you don't correctly account for costs, and that b) you don't correctly communicate.
asciilifeform: ty mircea_popescu . then conveyor will move again shortly, 17 this coming weekend.
mircea_popescu: the problem here isn't whether m-r is proven or not proven, to standard x or to standard y, now or later.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: thinking about it over the tea : if mircea_popescu dun object, i'ma turn 16b into an appendix, it's stupid that it holds up the flow
BingoBoingo: ^ Marketing roughly in the same league as a razor company telling their customers they need to be more feminine men
mircea_popescu: it's neither artistic nor geniusy nor liberty-ish nor anything else, to not pay rent on fucking time.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i gotta drink the tea before entirely cold, brb
mircea_popescu: nobody is asking you to do impossible, or even difficult things. the problem's not the things. the problem's that you have developed, and evidently through insistent practice ensconced, a very self-defeating style of working.
mircea_popescu: then you can say "hey folks, we're done with the ffa that i know how to do, item is shelved for now, will pick it up if i wise up"
asciilifeform: but the current remnant dun cut well.
asciilifeform: this is not bad pt overall, tho, the reason why was able to keep the conveyor going earlier to satisfaction of audience, is that found cuts.
mircea_popescu: are you aware, you had THIS EXACT PROBLEM a year ago to the week ?
asciilifeform: keccak is currently on chalkboard, diana_coman's aint usable for the purpose (not const. time)
mircea_popescu: that was the target. one item a week.
mircea_popescu: it never was your convincing me of the alt-wisdom of stupidity.
mircea_popescu: this is no waqy to live. the whole fucking POINT of the kindergarten was that you learn how to not be stupid in the way you're stupid.
mircea_popescu: what you do is what every other similar idiot did since the invention of empire : keep balooning your debts, "yes i'm late with instalment 1 but instalment 2 will be 3x as big! [and also, of course, late]"
asciilifeform: what 4 targets, there's 3 ch. remaining, per current cut.
asciilifeform: the only mechanical part missing is keccak.
mircea_popescu: looky here : the man who tells his wife "ima go see if i can find something to shoot at in the forest, we're fucking starving here" and the man who just disappears into the forest one day are readily distinguishable.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is yet another red herring.
mircea_popescu: now how do you expect me to explain to your shareholders that "you know what ? the reason you can't predict in january what you'll read early march is that [???]" ?
asciilifeform: the other half of this is that if weren't for asciilifeform's 'fuck themselves' loose cannon experimentation, half of what presently runs, wouldn't exist.
mircea_popescu: there's a reason management exists, as a profession. that reason is in full display above : left to their own devices, people like you fuck themselves.
mircea_popescu: they're man-made, not environment-imposed.
mircea_popescu: now you're in the position where you complain "no cash for pizarro" and "no time for ffa".
mircea_popescu: but this entire "i work job!!!" thing's also a red herring. looky how your life flows : 1. your company needs some cash on a regular, predictable, and known in advance basis. 2. for convenience's sake i undertake a quarters' worth or so of this. 3. you turn around and buy, exactly like the people of walmart, a piece of hardware. on fucking impulse, there was ~no need for it~ and further, ~no time to use it~. but you wanted th
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: didja even get around to e.g trying the m-r ? still seems to me that i'm baking it faster than anyone's eating.
mircea_popescu: empire does not in any factual sense exist. man who works 70% of the time for idiots is === the remaining 30% of that man.
mircea_popescu: wake up any day, and proceed to set to work on whichever of these seems that morning to be the most promising. then you go to sleep.
mircea_popescu: basically, i think i can authoritatively say, on the basis of having been trying to manage your efforts in the past however many years nsa existed, your approach to work is as follows : 1. there's an indistinct and unspecified ball of things you deduced you want on the basis of them being more or less connected to a core of goodness which, not necessarily very examinedly, seems to yield them as first degree relations. 2. you
mircea_popescu: when you're involved though, no such prediction can be made -- for the transparent enough by now reason that any random item catching your indisciplined fancy is equiprobable.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i buy some gear, and with moneyback warranty, had to test it. this is done. nao back to the regularly-scheduled biz.
mircea_popescu: in a functional system, one can ~predict~ the content of february's report on the basis of january's report.
asciilifeform: do we have to do the 'do you want CORRECT ffa or fast ffa' thrd again.
mircea_popescu: the question is specific enough. you a) failed to publish any ffa matter during the MONTH of february. not during ~each individual week~, as the original notion went, after the last time we reviewed this, more or less around http://ossasepia.com/2018/02/06/its-only-words-and-assumptions-and-priorities-and-ouch/
asciilifeform: loops, function definitions, bounded execution cycle count, several other necessary knobs.
mircea_popescu: the empire of broken people is made of broken people.
asciilifeform continues to marvel at the degree of decerebration needed to swallow 'hey, i'ma go to encryptmyveheheryseekritmessage.com and the receiver will go to decryptmyveheheryseekritmessageanddefinitelynotrelaytousg.com and all is well'
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-03-04#1900360 >> lol!! >> 'A Keybase team is a group of people who can communicate with end-to-end cryptography. This means the team's chats and files cannot be read by anyone outside the team, not even someone who breaks into Keybase's servers.' << didjaknow.
mircea_popescu: gotta love these morons, "here's a penguin, now install windows". empire of visual africanisms.
mircea_popescu: https://img.vim-cn.com/ << check them out. we prolly want something like this actually huh.
mircea_popescu: let's see this #linuxba then
BingoBoingo: Fucking perl all the way down
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo there's no such "rejection by default". either she was rejected by someone specifically, or else she didn't even fucking apply.
BingoBoingo: And a disappointingly large number of boomsticks when viewed alongside their infrequent use
BingoBoingo: The void rejected amy. You know, the people who thought Trump was a clown back before they all died. All that's left there is void.
mircea_popescu: rejected slavemeat's almost sad ; the escapists tho, they're the stupid cunts that "don't even have to".
mircea_popescu: "All the info I see is that this is very old tech and programming. The Symbolics company actually is no longer around." dumb cunt's doing "support" by looking shit up in google.
mircea_popescu: "The Genera Software environment is for using tapes with your Mac, correct?" << keks.
BingoBoingo: "This does look to be nearly 20 year old tech. It was used as a supplement for the process to work on I/O devices. It’s actually not needed at all with your system."
mircea_popescu: moreover, between those two you've got the whole us "culture".
mircea_popescu: the positive conditioning, "buy this" works ~ok, but the negative conditioning, "avoid this" works quite well.
mircea_popescu: seems "license" wank around the gnat would be an ideal spot.
mircea_popescu: eventually they'll have to try and make a stand.
asciilifeform has only the theory that in hitler's throne room, it was decided 'don't draw attention to republic existing', and this explains why mircea_popescu's collection of http://trilema.com/2014/interacting-with-fiat-institutions-a-guide/ is thin, rather than enuff to stoke furnace with
mircea_popescu: this arbitrary "separation" is actually the pillar upon which femstate pretense to sovereignity rests. "he who gets to say what's separate from what wins". hence why things like http://trilema.com/2013/the-sops-or-what-might-you-expect-from-government-clerks/ irritate them so much. "how does this non-us dare use our tools!!! arbitrary separation IS FOR CROWN ONLY!!!"
mircea_popescu: and so in this manner. i'd fully expect they'd try to bring a challenge, "oh, muh preshious licenses"
mircea_popescu: right ? it's ~separate~. fat woman THEREBY gave up her "right" to ride subway ?!?! IT IS SEPARATE!!! she overate in the past, she wants to ride now, there's no relation!!!
mircea_popescu: "Bolton asked about tweets calling Maduro a dictator who violates human rights: CNN: Do you not see US support for other dictators around the world undermines the credibility of your argument. Bolton: No, I dont think it does. I think its separate."
mircea_popescu: if i ran it, they'd be immediatelly struck out, "you've lied before, criminal conspiracy, may not present evidence". if i was cross-examining, i'd bury them under their own history, "your honor, my client has no history of lying in court -- that schmuck over there represents an organisation specifically predicated on exactly that".
mircea_popescu: you don't understand how this idiocy works. there isn't a "they themselves". femstate is built on this dreamy approach to secreted alt-reality where only convenient subsets are dealt with at any time.
asciilifeform: would be moar interesting what-if, imho, if the derps had not themselves killed gplism , in the 'linksys' idjicy and elsewhere
mircea_popescu is kinda missing the historical piratebay femstate mockeries, looking forward to adding to his collection.
mircea_popescu: it seems strategically sound, "oh, i betcha they couldn't fuck gcc/glibc without gnat -- well, what if it can be denied!!!"
asciilifeform: ( 'systemv' was the ancient at&t unix iirc )
mircea_popescu: this entire thing we're doing here is more of a hit on the femstate in computing than the original drepperisms systemv was a hit on the republic. we're turning the tables, i'd expect some reaction.
mircea_popescu: the issue isn't "use of gnat", the issue is, defanging of gcc/glibc/shitgnome ecosystem.
asciilifeform wonders if ave1 got stuck tryin' to scrub out the autoconfolade
asciilifeform: on their end
mircea_popescu: incidentally, i wonder what battle will the usg.gnu tards pick to fight us over. confiscation of gnat ? not yet ?
asciilifeform: rather than vice-versa
mircea_popescu: myeah. "the front -end and runtime are written in ada".
asciilifeform wonders how much of the 100 is autoconf garbage
diana_coman: quite; I suspect it would cleanup the set of scripts too as atm it's a bit hairy to follow everything (or at least so it seemed to me coming at it relatively from the outside)
BingoBoingo: I was wondering what this surgery was, but was suspecting followup to the December abdominal cleanup
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: here they put coupla sq. m. of grass. cuz why bother with the wasted space when tard will pay 1m anyway.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Well, this is the third design where they make the giant stickbuilt things and put some grass between them on recently ruined farmland. Because they have the space for it.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: there are now 2 standard matchstick designs -- 'condo' ( as in mircea_popescu's link ) and 'townhouse' ( same matchstick, same layout, slightly moar space )
asciilifeform regularly goes by what used to be a commercial parking lot, and finds that it was filled up with these.
BingoBoingo: When I left they were still doing the cookie cutter cul-de-sac subdivisions full of stick built
asciilifeform: before that -- another.
BingoBoingo: Not too many of them, but apparently it was a fad at some point "how many walls can we stick without making bigger apartments"
mircea_popescu: NEVERTHELESS, the most remarkable part to my eye was "holy shit those huts they live in"
mircea_popescu watched "old school" yest with the gals because i don't recall why. holy shit that's a transparent piece of femstate agitprop (not coincidentally, with the same crew as http://trilema.com/very-bad-things ) -- who could possibly pass on the "career woman" with a kid in tow and all that nonsense.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, there's some 2 bedroom apartments here with the same square metrage as the habitation module which is close to the same footprint as the asciilifeform/ben_vulpes hotel room.
asciilifeform: they've been building'em errywhere. 100% cardboard, and then mortgaged for half-m to 1m to some idjit, good margin.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-04 13:53 mircea_popescu: what the fuck, Life Tested Home Designs® ?! srsly ? what the everfuck
mircea_popescu: if you added walls to that contortion, only a jackrabbit could fit in there.
BingoBoingo: And not even all of them on that list are that...
BingoBoingo: And holy shit Northern Virginia makes Uruguay look cheap
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> what the fuck, Life Tested Home Designs� ?! srsly ? what the everfuck << Walls and rooms make UStards feel cramped and bad about spending all day in bed and couch
mircea_popescu: "Just outside of Washington, D.C., Northern Virginia features upscale shopping and dining, along with an easy escape to the outdoors. Our high-quality new homes for sale offer Smart Home features and Life Tested Home Designs® in townhome and condo communities."
mircea_popescu: i wonder if you can directly splash water from the faucet on the "modern, dynamic, blabla" "seated" at the workbench over there
mircea_popescu: what THE FUCK is that thing ? it looks like a bad photochop. did they seriously paste a 20sqft "livingroom" to a... what the fuck is it, half a kitchen table welded to half a livingroom table ?
a111: Logged on 2018-02-05 20:11 asciilifeform: relatedly, i recently hung up a 'premium, high end' corkboard, several square metres, and it turns out that 1) maybe half the depth is actual cork, the rest -- cardboard 2) no other kind is available
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in http://btcbase.org/log/2018-02-05#1781635 holy shit, https://www.pulte.com/homes/virginia/northern-virginia
BingoBoingo: Well, ecuador is allegedly running out of the people who can make hats for mircea_popescu. This is a problem in every field.
asciilifeform: ( supposedly even scimitar for beheading, is suffering shortages, the last troo smiths died )
asciilifeform: i still have difficulty swallowing that they can make anyffin moar complicated than camel saddle.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you won't believe what else UAE-made : (if the crate is to be believed) -- that xray film.
asciilifeform: ( Officially , in the hookas, only tobacco + various flavour crud. but possibly on west coast, also ganja )
asciilifeform: folx on cushions, brains liquifying, quite kiplingesque picture aside from the lappies/pnojes
asciilifeform: it is lulzy, in this here shithole they banned 'smoke in restaurant'. but folx still want hooka. so effect was, the hooka dens no longer serve food, nao only smoke
BingoBoingo: Eastern tobacco involves ritual and some trivial amount of work. Most US hookah purchases I've seen end up on a shelf as another piece of kitsch after just a few uses.
mircea_popescu: Tsin-ling wouldnt put bran into the Black Smoke."
mircea_popescu: very far cry from the "only I wish
asciilifeform: rather than 1shot brain blow
mircea_popescu found a one inch cut of vanilla bean in his UAE-made "best shisha tobacco in the world". it tasted as fresh and great as one from here, even joked with the girls, "full circle for this guy"
BingoBoingo: Well, this is the US
mircea_popescu: well, some people like the eastern tobacco.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> it's the evening's entertainment for these folx. plug in the hoses, fire up the coals, turn on tv for background << The hookah/hose thing is a poor delivery device for pot. mircea_popescu's centerpiece that shoots deep into the lungs is the tool for pot. The hookah's more of a high margin impulse purchase trap that doesn't draw the shops aggro like most consumer US stuff is.
asciilifeform: the opium was banned specifically cuz kills the 'dreamer' too quickly. they wanted live konsoomer / mortgage monkey gotta live at least his 30y of mortgage etc
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> problem with pot is that it doesn't kill them nearly fast enough. << True
asciilifeform: it's the evening's entertainment for these folx. plug in the hoses, fire up the coals, turn on tv for background
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: The sixties didn't have contemporary ganja nor the contemporary mass of dreamers, though the baby boomer generation was pretty dreamer fucked
mircea_popescu: problem with pot is that it doesn't kill them nearly fast enough.
asciilifeform: srsly asciilifeform lives in a nowhere uni town, and there are no fewer than 4 shops on 1 street selling hooka, hoses, etc
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> incidentally, now that they've made pot "legal", the chandoo-khanas where the niggers go when ? << They've had theirs. The next step is something similar for the dreamers though the dreamers seem to be breaking towards approximating the same in their own squalor holes.
asciilifeform did depressing tour of duty in 'add a methyl, take a methyl' for the reich, but fortunately on the theoretical end, not the eating end
asciilifeform: and BingoBoingo has a reportage re how double-digit % of usa proles are hooked on various synthetic opium
mircea_popescu: wouldn't it be ironic if that's the future, chinese-sponsored usg-"law"-immune extrateritorial teahouses in every county.
mircea_popescu: evidently best way out for most of extant dreamers, PLUS IT WOULD SUPPORT THE TAX REVENUE!!!1
mircea_popescu: incidentally, now that they've made pot "legal", the chandoo-khanas where the niggers go when ?
asciilifeform: for their part, the dope makers also drop the ball : it's perfectly possible to make a usable dope that does its thing and breaks down into unremarkables; the assassination poisons people had the right idea in the 1920s
BingoBoingo: Ever since Madame Kenesaw Mountain Landis took the business out of baseball, its been downhill everywhere. Olympic fappery is simply toxic.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Replied again, but it isn't the game engines killing anything. It's that every "federation" and "governing body" that's captured competitive pursuits is femstate uterine scar tissue.
mircea_popescu: lotta things chinese did lot more honest. the black lotus retirement plan way the fuck more effectual, secure, reliable AND PLEASANT than https://i.eprci.net/thorazine-ad ; not to mention the chinese didn't give it to children.
asciilifeform: rly the old chinese system was moar honest, where they took their balls off right off the bat, when they signed up to serve the reich, and put in a jar, 'proof of work'
BingoBoingo: He's got balls attached. Their just dormant.
mircea_popescu: (you will indulge me in observing that forcing 13yo girlies one's fixated on to [trilema.com/2011/voi-puneti-fetele-sa-zica-ceva/][read certain things] is not substantially different from forcing them to do certain things ; especially if the fixation has entirely nothing to do with the particular little girl in question, but stems from more general
mircea_popescu: maybe it's moving to be closer to the conference grounds.
BingoBoingo: In local developments the growshop across the street which made a big point of paying and having a booth at the expocannabis appears to either be shuttering or moving. Conference monkeying for the win!
feedbot: http://bimbo.club/2019/03/philosophical-transactions-for-the-months-of-july-august-and-september-1716-part-iii/ << Bimbo.Club -- Philosophical Transactions. For the months of July, August and September, 1716. - Part III.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> in fact -- almost NOTHING is EVER a theoretical process. << I'm going to decorate with this point so it gets through the skull case
mircea_popescu: in fact -- almost NOTHING is EVER a theoretical process.
mircea_popescu: it's an ~empirical~ process ; !!!!NOT!!! a theoretical one.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you're polishing the wrong end of the spear. with 0 experience it's impossible to meaningfully improve this "payload". make two even if they're made throwing darts ; a/b rtest them ; pick one, make a.1 / a.2 in response whichever you picked, test those, and so following.
BingoBoingo: They might even catch up to 2019 by 2034
feedbot: http://qntra.net/2019/03/forbes-catches-the-ripple-scam-six-years-later/ << Qntra -- Forbes Catches The RIPple Scam Six Years Later
mircea_popescu: i think it's one of the better pieces ever penned in the style ; feel free to put up some of your usenet selections, i'm curious.
asciilifeform: just when i thought the genre died with usenet, mircea_popescu resurrects!
mircea_popescu: how the hell sinocommie party manages to have such excellent control is a mystery, but really, brejnev had less smooth a reigh,
asciilifeform: this is much in line with historic asian pov tho. 'there's $maxint of us, what's 1 less'
mircea_popescu: the one important point, to my eyes, is that they don't seem to have much of the "face" problem. somehow. thirty years ago the whole fucking country'd have been up in arms, "give back our cunt!!!"
asciilifeform: entirely other, and much above my paygrade to say what
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i admit, mine is entirely a 'exterminate the brutes' pov
mircea_popescu: to the chinese... meh.
mircea_popescu: to you, showing them their place, putting mommy naked on her knees, carries a very high subjective value.
mircea_popescu: basically, the difference between you asciilifeform and chinese bureaucracy is that you're psychologically very dependent on teh usg.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, for instance -- a clear display of usgistani impotence could perhaps put an end to the paper charade.
BingoBoingo: There's ritual involved. Can't start cutting right away.
asciilifeform: ( the 48-cut variant of ling chi. 1 cut per day of white devil intransigence . )
asciilifeform: imho the correct pill was to take e.g. intel ceo and coupla board members to beijing and publicly ling chi.
BingoBoingo: Well they have the socia credit thing which acknowledges that there are enumerable bipedal units, but... how do you do soft power from such a position? You start enforcing against once tolerated foreign nuissances until the white worms stop being so acutely pestillential
mircea_popescu: also i suspect BingoBoingo has it, the chinese have no notion of individual.
BingoBoingo: Well so far they have been catching a lot more Canadian drug traffickers this year
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform because ~nobody wants to be stuck with the cost of "administering" the shithole.
mircea_popescu: hence the "HOW DO YOU LIKE ME NOW!!!!" meme
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-03-02#1900087 << possibly i'm thick, but i dunget why beijing doesn't catch a coupla dozen usg daughters and send'em to washington 1 finger at a time until the matter's resolved.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform point being, if "the powers that be" burn their powder on little things, what will they do when teh big guns come out.
BingoBoingo: Don't forget the cock socks which they ignored in 2015 when the fork wars were derping up http://trilema.com/2015/prophylaxis/
mircea_popescu will now write moar scandalous things, since the "civil society" choked long ago, and on "socks and cocks!!!" of all things.
mircea_popescu: "i haven't been doing my reading back in 2013-2014. this totally means the shit i don't understand in 2019 is fascinating to everyone else and important, rite guise ?!"
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: We've flirted with that fact in the logs, and the story making the headline isn't earth shattering news, but... Gotta have something to link for that fact
mircea_popescu: diana_coman isn't it how it always goes... most of the "internet population" populating (by its own lights) the place sports a life expectancy insufficient to justify the genetic outlay of the average mouse.
diana_coman: meanwhile the sock fell off the internets and the bike moved or something so almost none of the links in there work anymore
asciilifeform: in other negative results , 'Fuji Super HR-T' film dun budge 1 whit under 'Cinestill DF96' developer. tho in principle oughta.
mircea_popescu: eh, we're still at the http://trilema.com/2010/extemporal-la-venerologie/#comment-33269 moment.
asciilifeform: those, them'd be the top of that particular mmm pyramid, neh. they show up and shown 'yes indeed money for phree, but only if you can get 9000 rubes to show up for erry 1 of you, and deposit penny to play'
mircea_popescu: but "the minister of cyberculture" dood.
asciilifeform: that's how fresh-off-the-plow peasant sees city always, neh -- 'where money for free'. not so much leap from that to this.
mircea_popescu: i retorted to him that if by this age he hasn't yet figured out such a place doesn't exist, there's no helping him.
mircea_popescu: there's this iconic moment at the peak of "caritas" (cluj-based MMM pyramid) where an old man in traditional peasant garb asked me on a bridge "if i know where's this place where they give money for free".
mircea_popescu: romanian bloggers, i swear. showing up years late to a party they can't even describe.
mircea_popescu: iptomonede, opinii" but even manages to write a piece on the celebrated http://trilema.com/2011/romania-cea-de-basm-partea-i/ item (four years later) without somehow managing to at all EVEN MENTION let alone fucking address the whole reason public funds were even misdirected towards printing that (meanwhile melted down) piece of crap.
a111: Logged on 2014-12-08 05:33 mircea_popescu: "Sunt fondatorul uneia din cele mai mari retele de bloguri de nisa din Romania (Stepout Media), cu siteuri precum: www.construimimperii.ro," i am the founder of one of the biggest niche networks in romania, with sites such as webuildempires
a111: Logged on 2019-01-25 17:05 mircea_popescu: in any case, in 2011, as in 2001, as in 2021 i can say "academia romana keks" or http://trilema.com/2011/stimata-academie/ whatever ; but they can't say "trilema.com", because holy shit.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in other http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-25#1889862 slash http://btcbase.org/log/2014-12-08#948046 lulz : the dork i used above for a source for the commie radio pictures (not that he originates them, they actually come from http://www.latrecut.ro/2006/05/ric-stramoshul-ipod-ului/ which is significantlly better contextually, but I was lazy) not only passes himself as a "Ministrul Cyberculturii | Recenzii, cronici, cr
mircea_popescu: but it's the web, you know, instant access to all human knowledge.
mircea_popescu: can't argue with you there.
asciilifeform: i find the howling vacuum when looked 'who tried this' suspicious, tho.
mircea_popescu: no, i'm saying, this is the problem. if you don't have sufficient crystalline surface to provide separation, you end up with the microequivalent of a disco ball.
asciilifeform worked for a while with crystallographers and their output, but in 'traditional' domain, nuffin pertaining to semiconductor
asciilifeform: they do
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform see, the refracted beams also interact.
mircea_popescu: ie you end up with a "there be dopants" haze.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but you don't get to distinguish ~one from another~.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that 'noise' is sorta whole point. distinguish the dopants.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i ~suspect~ without having done the math that the doped nature of the si crystal makes the picture too noisy to be usable.
a111: Logged on 2014-07-27 21:29 asciilifeform: if i recall, last words were 'enemy is at the gates. they've opened fire, oh shi....'
mircea_popescu: and he died exactly as per the manual.
mircea_popescu: the moron that "accidentally got shot" during the bitcoin-somethingawful "debates" of yore was playing eve up to the very moment of taking one up the ass.
asciilifeform at one time did work that put'im in contact with these folx. met a d00d who, convincingly, described playing 'call of duty: iraq' on... lappy, in actual iraq
mircea_popescu: but that's exactly as far as it goes. http://trilema.com/2017/the-day-of-failure-trilemma/#selection-123.521-123.556 and that's all.
mircea_popescu: if you're willing to feed and clothe and billet them to play video games all day and totally not take their smartphone to red zone, they'll do it. you can call them astronauts or soldiers or whatever you want (as long as it's not stupid fucking cunts or anything like that).
mircea_popescu: but they will not fucking die, are you kidding me ?!
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: PnoHes killed the farm boys
mircea_popescu: today they can't summon 50 people to go to venezuela, as soldiers. and back in http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=from%3Amircea+mosul lulz days, they couldn't scare up 500.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: maybe i slept through it, but did a plague kill off the midwestern farm boys who obediently 'die for the motherland'(tm)(r) or wut
mircea_popescu: back in vietnam, they had a fucking DRAFT (and still lost)
mircea_popescu: there's nobody left.
mircea_popescu: if korea decided to invade, and somehow managed to land, korea would just jail the president & congress and that's all.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's no such thing left. i know it's difficult to conceptualize, but it's nevertheless true. there is no such thing as an us army.
asciilifeform: made for some pretty lulzy reading on the airplane
a111: Logged on 2019-02-13 01:27 asciilifeform: it's funny , when asciilifeform went to 'museum of communism' in timis, pawed through buncha ancient lulzlit there, and photo'd 'a la minox' to read through laters and chew on the 'limba de lemn'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i found a buncha these, when http://btcbase.org/log/2019-02-13#1895632
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Not enough age out cannon fodder left. They are filling up the USG tech jobs with their clearances.
asciilifeform: it's the traditional work for aged-out usg cannon fodder tho, for decades nao
BingoBoingo: Well they do ask more of of some demographics compared to others in the name of equalitit
mircea_popescu: atm they hire ~anything with a pulse.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: atm they filter, sorta, by hiring 100% burned-out iraq hands
mircea_popescu: potheads "policing" potheads shall be a comedy goldmine of lulz and tears in the not so distant future.