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mircea_popescu: compare an' contrast the whole "oh, mp really really needs bitbet funds so he'll retract de facto" "oh wait, shit omg" campaign this spring.
mircea_popescu: the willingness of the idiots to be used as condoms is nothing short of staggering, even if it comes up in logs periodically.
mircea_popescu: "tor project", aka a bunch of nobodies posturing loudly, tolerated as temporary willing astroturf cover for a nsa project.
mircea_popescu: rotten shitstack collapsed like a rotten shitstack the moment as much as a mild breeze of lolrape blew its way.
mircea_popescu: oh also asciilifeform , you were asking what "pressure" is.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz : russia and japan still technically in ww2, never agreed on kuriles partition
mircea_popescu: for all you know it could be parochial "i've heard of thieves but not the plague, hence should build thief wall not plague wall"
mircea_popescu: i can't be arsed to follow. i trust we're satisfied with that quote for the entire thing ?
mircea_popescu: however, plagiarism is hardly a thing in the first place. so no.
mircea_popescu: almost anything is more serious than "using the tools in the manner they were designed without the alleged owner's permission".
mircea_popescu: for that matter, halting problem is an excellent model for this, because it can always be phrased as "well, am i done thinking and ready to act or will think some more ?"
mircea_popescu: i did not ask. i pointed out to you that "my algo solves this problem" is no solution to the halting problem in the general.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is myopic, because the nato isn't long of this world. what do you do once they;re gone ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, as per ancient aristotle observation, anything is sufficient algo, even blank string.
mircea_popescu: that you don't share a specific one does not mean you're incapable of having them. moreover, from experience, everyone gets his own, custom-tailored.
mircea_popescu: the pressure is always the ethical dilemma. "what do i do now".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and then mp pops about 5500 "agents" and 7500 irate women are looking for you, not to mention there's 10k+ sons who swear vendetta.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the $standard_strategy = "it won't happen to me"."oh shit"."it didn't happen to me"
mircea_popescu: you think stalin or anyone there is PROUD about the whole michurin affair ? no they aren't.
mircea_popescu: then the russians had to revolutionize, an utterly modernist phenomenon, suddenly country bumpkins found themselves "minister of agriculture"
mircea_popescu: what'd be country boy of 1700 called to do ? maaaybe sit on a jury ? defend a meter of trench ?
mircea_popescu: life, you know ? "the call of life" has become extremely sharp and disproportionately large.
mircea_popescu: it's unclear whether, say, tmsr would currently be able to withstand the sort of pressure. i am however hopeful that by the time it has to, it will.
mircea_popescu: consequently, the only possible avenue, is the creation of STRONG small organisations.
mircea_popescu: leaving aside the specifics, here's the core issues of the matter : want it or not, the world will come to rest randomly on the shoulders of tiny organisations. the fact that something like an obscure newspaper (50 or so people, on a good day) is made of the human equivalent of pressed shitboard will not, and does not, prevent the whole damned 5bn ton globe from landing on them.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform lulzy, especially given the denial of teh beoble.
mircea_popescu: as far as fictions go, i'm also not going to do alice's wonderland or what have you.
mircea_popescu: and in other "mp's handwritten cia factbook will definitely be saner than the original" news, check out the ru entry : "A combination of falling oil prices, international sanctions, and structural limitations pushed Russia into a deep recession in 2015, with the GDP falling by close to 4%. Most economists expect this downturn will continue through 2016."
mircea_popescu: you're still good for at least 13.37 because hey, gdp is gdp :D
mircea_popescu: specifically pinging trinque phf bingoboingo mod6 asciilifeform davout jurov ben_vulpes mike_c
mircea_popescu: so on other news, i am writing teh republic's "cia factbook", and on the matter of gdp i would like to have an estimate of the "fair market value of the total time donated to republic during 2015" in the estimation of everyone involved. detailed is better, but nothing over a page omg.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: PeterL he's just being difficult, not like boron doesn't have well known absorbtion/emission lines. you can either heat it and see ; or else shine a tuned laser on it and see.
mircea_popescu: i suspect this is the main reason people moved off it, not so much cost or anything.
mircea_popescu: tle condensation cranny/whatnot was integral and we didn't know.
mircea_popescu: PeterL the problem with build-yourself, at least in my brief experience [of managing other people trying to do it] is that you end up with nonstandard parts, which is an utter pain because a) you may get results you can't later reproduce, which is the bane of all time and eternal sadness and b) it becomes very difficult to correctly model your thing for prototyping/scaling/whatnot. because that little unintended glass lip/lit
mircea_popescu: Framedragger moments of clarity are definitionally momentary ; anyway, tell him it's a terrorist organisation.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes> it is the *perfect* make-work machine. << seems an exact description.
mircea_popescu: but the whole fucking shebang is "feeling like a trader". hence what they want is "google infrastructure for the rest of us". because totally, google first built the infrastructure and THEN was google. not the other fucking way around, first came up with page rank and then had to burn the cash in some accountant-permissible way
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes quite exactly. a sort of "when soviet army provisions jets, it provisions tupolevs!" what the fuck difference does this make to wage slave trying to get from point a to point b ?
mircea_popescu: right. obviously something that will render hello world can be written ad hoc right here ; a standards-compliant renderer is perhaps a decent season project at a middle college (if they still exist)
mircea_popescu: wasn't a matter of choice ; much like "we'll fart our way to mars" isn't a matter of choice.
mircea_popescu: the big dark secret nobody in the "we, the web community" wants to mention is that html5 essentially failed under cognitive load. they just couldn't do it.
mircea_popescu: the task of getting html rendering to work on sanely instrumented platform is ...
mircea_popescu: as any whore will tell you, a blowjob doesn't count if you don't make cocksucker eye contact.
mircea_popescu: (an interesting pattern this - most us made artefacts feverishly defend themselves against being used in the one way they might make economic sense. starting with the citizenry, which somehow doesn't service arab cock all day.)
mircea_popescu: i'm entirely at a loss as to what'd it be useful, outside of what Framedragger tried to use it for - which it apparently fervently defends itself against using for
mircea_popescu: i know of nothing in nature more resilient than the idiot in his idiocy.
mircea_popescu: and the sort of solution they contemplate is, of course, wait for it, drumroll.. MORE OF THE SAME.
mircea_popescu: then once the transition was complete and ensconced in culture, it suddenly... wasn't cheaper anymore
mircea_popescu: basically the "problem" idiots like paul whatshisface are imagining docker solves is entirely a business construct : idiots gave their neck away to "cloud" companies because "it will be cheaper", exactly on the model that produced "export jobs to china"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i suppose it makes more sense than the dudes who chip in so that a model version of themselves bangs some chick on camera...
mircea_popescu: so this guy ran a kickstarter campaign to pay for his trip to antarctica.
mircea_popescu: be this as it may ; if it becomes a standard it'll either continue until we figure it out or mysteriously stop.
mircea_popescu: your tool failed to break it up into files, just dumped everything into one.
mircea_popescu: i mean... it won't work for alf, but maybe if he needs it a kind soul will unzip the files for him in the magic way
mircea_popescu: baring you actually being exciting from writing.. a... browser, i guess, the solution was to just archive.is all links and save the resulting zips
mircea_popescu: nothing specific about paste or otherwise. if i click on a link in an old article by that marciej dude, it comes out 404. which sucks.