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mircea_popescu: anyway, garden hose not even a bad idea for the intended junkyard flatbottom. exactly for reason of "people throw out a mile of punctured once garden hose"
mircea_popescu: well, comparisons are comparisons. take today's internet, gendankenexperiment as mesh, measure.
mircea_popescu: it is not directly obvious, nor a foregone conclusion, if a reimplementation of today's telecom as mesh network would be less expensive in terms of used bw.
mircea_popescu: sure, and your neighbour sends them to china. aaanyway.
mircea_popescu: on average distance is, iirc, to the tune of 1k miles.
mircea_popescu: "probably stupid, possibly not, and we're dealing with highly selected folks. fuck."
mircea_popescu: figuring out which was the case was not something i wanted to get involved in.
mircea_popescu recalls reading a twenty five line of ret once, throwing hands up, leaving the matter to others.
mircea_popescu: also , yes. gaming console really very much like science.
mircea_popescu: at this point, project either delivers and is done or takes on life of own. if takes on life, then 3. more wizards are added, they slowly asm-ify the loops, inside out.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: ations etc" c is the right tool. strangely, the matter is always considered properly and in context, yet the result always the same.
mircea_popescu: but the coupla projects of scientific computing i observed, the phases were readily distinguishable : 1. people are excited, they loudly choose "best" hot new stuff, pass along napkin sketches ; 2. the super-duper shit runs into more wrinkles than it's worth, kids are all depresed. at this point the project either dies or management intervenes, gets wizard, wizard takes a weeklong look at it, decides "on the basis of consider
mircea_popescu: for all the effort so far wasted into creating said antennae in bitcoin ; it'd be lulzy if they just lose the extant ones in telecom
☟︎ mircea_popescu: diana_coman most likely plaesi, other side of mountain from piatra neamt.
mircea_popescu: pity cosbuc didn't write travestys and librettos for burlesque/revue.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman lol what a mess. a) wasn't built by teutons ; b) cantemir the elder was king, not stephen omfg.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno man, i one day visited prechristian syria, went to bed with woman, appendage fit perfectly.
mircea_popescu: fucking definition of "figment of your imagination" : "that shit ain't gonna last"
mircea_popescu: things that dun last WEREN'T THINGS IN THE FIRST PLACE!
mircea_popescu: jackson was president 30-38, civil war started 60. you gotta be shitting me.
mircea_popescu: let's restate. "i would be very comfortable in a chair that was built just like this collapsing assemblage between seconds 1.3 and 1.45 of the fall".
mircea_popescu: i'm sorry, you're discussing a slice of time worth ~two decades ?
mircea_popescu: looky : every time you find this imaginary space where thermodynamics doesn't apply, it's not that you've found a space where thermodynamics doesn't apply as much as you've deluded yourself in some manner to ignore some obvious wrinkle.
mircea_popescu: you have any idea how many white women lived their days as the junior slave in indian fambly, after their husband was dispatched ?
mircea_popescu: you think every white man going there became the master of the what, indians ? negroes ?
mircea_popescu: mass has ~nothing to do with it though. YOU are the target, personally. for as long as you're the sort that wants to be a king without a crown, there's going to be a preditor chasing you around.
mircea_popescu: if the sheep found a way to graze on rafts, the wolves would ride around in speedboats.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: dynamic equilibrium. wherever you take your bleeding husk, piranhas follow.
mircea_popescu: they misperceived the sea, much like you do, much like people who don't sail generally, as a "empty" space.
mircea_popescu: (obviously, king mircarlos the 5th would have simply ordered one man rowboats be made and sent every man in one to go to fucking galapagos and return. but then again...)
mircea_popescu: symptomatically, the spanish solution was "make larger ship"
mircea_popescu: but for the spanish, atlantic was "fly over zone", and as you say, they'd have loved to "separate it".
mircea_popescu: spanish did not. portuguese did, and they built an empire out of it.
mircea_popescu: "british" doesn't exist here. albion was a failed state bought wholesale by the dutch who then used it as naval stage base.
mircea_popescu: it's a fundamental mechanism of putting the inept but uppity in place.
mircea_popescu: the other way to put it is that piracy is what happens when people who don't want to think about the sea decide to think themselves cooler than their neighbours who do like to think about the sea.
mircea_popescu: they weren't pirate states in the way florence or venice were.
mircea_popescu: to take the matter home, you could say nelson was a pirate rather than a lord ; or better yet that kelvin was a scientist rather than a lord. but these people principally did the thing in question ; whereas the african states principally did subsistence farming and small manufacture.
mircea_popescu: the original - perhaps. the one im discussing here, very much a normal pasha. who happened to have a port in his lands.
mircea_popescu: that is one point ; the point im making however is that they weren't pirates in the sense you're not a penis. part of what they did, of fucking course, given the geography. but they were otherwise just as much a normal country as say albania.
mircea_popescu: anyway, point being they were "pirates" in the sense erdogan is "embattled". a matter of the foreign press and no more.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski this fellow is original'\s younger brother nd no, they were ottomans.
mircea_popescu: spanish tried to attack him on land, etc a whole conundrum
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have never heard of anyone practicing that solution nor would i think too much of their head tbh.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-19#1505981 << but this thing where "build in environment with large cost" is not a solution, because the enemy incurs the cost only when visiting whereas you incur the cost permanently. so this is, strategically, a nonstarter, whether the medium is mars or ocean or w/e.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: (yes, i'm pretty much convinced that IF you actually wanted to do what is here contemplated, a wooden structure is the best choice.)
mircea_popescu: if your idea of winter is "no ice floating", then most ships will survive such.