asciilifeform: but if mircea_popescu was speaking of 'making up hilarious horseshit about north kr', yes, was american sport stating in '50s.
asciilifeform: actual 1man nukes were a '70s item iirc.
asciilifeform: said to weigh between 10 and 30 kilograms and be able to “spray radioactive material”, possibly uranium, on the enemy. It was impossible to verify the account given to Radio Free Asia, which is funded by the US government.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if u.s. lost 400 mn heads, you will have a gaping black hole in which ~80 mn. randos will get immediately sucked in. or the like.
asciilifeform: ( incidentally : for some reason nobody mentions the basic reason why savages drop like flies even from relatively mild epidemic: no slack in the gears! i.e. if no one gets out of bed for 2 weeks, EVERYONE starves )
asciilifeform: herdimmunity is kindergarten material aha
asciilifeform: if the indians were clever and looked as if they were at risk for discovering vaccination , quarantine, etc. and laughing off smallpox blankets, how might equally clever englishmen have countered ?
asciilifeform: there is a fundamental (and solidly boecktronically-supported and propagated) misconception about what cryptography even IS
asciilifeform: behind it hide many of the other pathologies in the cluster.
asciilifeform: i find this particular mental block quite interesting
asciilifeform: i know of ZERO exceptions to 'hey dudebroz, i built rng!111 and here's how i whitened, because MUST...'
asciilifeform: iirc he turned the knob to 'spit 1 line'
asciilifeform: at least their opponents spoke HUMAN SPEECH
asciilifeform: in retrospect, the folks lysenko was shooting, had it good.
asciilifeform: i cannot parse this document. it is output of a shannonizer.
asciilifeform: 'Third, develop a capability to eliminate unwanted engineered genes from environments and restore systems to their genetic baseline state.' << wat.
asciilifeform: which is the source of ~100% of '5 reasons north kr is CRAYYYYZEEE you MUST know'
asciilifeform: Framedragger: believe 0 of what comes out of south kr press
asciilifeform: alternative is 'cut the thing or die trying'
asciilifeform: funnily enough usg spent decades in search of actual 'depression gas'
asciilifeform: i can already picture mircea_popescu as ww1 officer. green cloud rolls over trench, grunts coughing out their lungs, 'stop being obnoxious bitchez!111'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: every time some dude goes 'i could try and spend 20yr and maybe come up with a sane basis for crypto --- or there's that bottle of whisky. and it looks moar like a deal' hitler wins.
asciilifeform: the objective of enemy is to keep'em 'in the dark & eatin' shit'
asciilifeform: the way i understand it, there is a population of folks susceptible to sanity. who, were they to show up here, by same happenstance, e.g., asciilifeform , did, would stand constructively on tmsr side.
asciilifeform: this leads into the sacramental question of why 'control the vertical and the horizontal! gott mit uns!111' is a thing at all.
