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mircea_popescu: one day all the trolage is going to come back to bite us.
mircea_popescu: s'the problem phf, your alf-made interpreter barfs on unterminated data ? :D
mircea_popescu: phf meanwhile dead cluj ethnologist had a superb "wood technology" class.
mircea_popescu: that's not going to "count" as a cost because... well, corruption, racism, etcetera.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no i mean from 17yo to 18yo when dudes want car and bitches need prom dress + abortion.
mircea_popescu: what can i tell you. i dun think it's sensible, but seen with own eyes hard to go away.
mircea_popescu: alcatel building in timisoara, had the exact problem when power went out.
mircea_popescu: Joshua-I think about it, it's either fail deadly or fail safe. if there's no power it can either lock or unlock. which do you pick ?
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski it can be many things. chet made some pretty epic gravy. you're right in that it's rendered fat as the fat base ; with a starch. this is how all sauces are made.
mircea_popescu: possibly the most usg-tronic item in existence today. i'd rather have doberman patrols.
mircea_popescu: god i hate those things. from an institutional perspective - all anyone has to do to open all your doors is cut the power. from an individual perspective fuck me i'm not going in the rat maze.
mircea_popescu: Joshua-I you mean wgat, like access control cards sorta application ?
mircea_popescu: "o look, the cookie model is bullshit, so they fixed it by making a dongle. cuz we all know dongles work, atari proved it!"
mircea_popescu: that's the whole principle - you can not do things by yourself! this is swedish socialism and "we" gotta be!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the "restrict mining market" thing, as experimented by crown jool debeers, is a major schtick because of its implications for oil, russia and in general. remember how just about when independent countries gathered enough technological mommentum to build exportable lightbulbs, the item "had to be upgraded" ?
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski this entire "post quantum" thing reminds one sorely of the "post-ozone-layer" and "post-year-2k-bug" lolpocalypses.
mircea_popescu: well... technically speaking word magicians, but the difference's negligible.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-07#1498935 << more like a case of "ustards telling you something enmasse, they're DEFINITELY lying. much better odds they are saying it for some meta reason (such as, they read it in the latest cookbook, is the way to make friends out of plywood and influenza people) than for the direct.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: shinohai well, while the fiats last, they get to play.
mircea_popescu: in the general sense, bitcoin taking over everything mainstream is unavoidable ; in the same general sense, various fiat pretenders etc doing most of the work involved for entirely no benefit is also how things work.
mircea_popescu: and now in the lulz of all time, argentine government pays youtube to advertise to argentinians about how 200 years ago they gained their independence "y lo es muy bueno"
mircea_popescu: lol, they cautiously avoided noticing this while mpex was publicly traded, NOW it's a point of discussion ? color me flattered, what.
mircea_popescu: it's quite in-fucking-credible, to compare newsprint of 1970 to 2016.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, it's just gonna be typical "democratic" drivel.
mircea_popescu: twenty years and 10% or more civillian casualties. THEN you'll see the difference
mircea_popescu: whereas all these shitty attempts - not a decade in greece, not a decade in argentina etc. bullcrap.
mircea_popescu: here's the thing : bronco riding is a time-dependent event. do it for too short intervals, the bronco gets the idea it's tough.
mircea_popescu: catering to the common man is the capital fucking crime.
mircea_popescu: yeah, but at least the "common man" got beaten regularly.
mircea_popescu: ironically - democratic greece is a fucking eyesore when compared to "tyrannyzed" greece.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, ended ~exactly same way the argentinian right wing military experiment ended : with the loss of an island
mircea_popescu: spoken by greek military junta man to political prisoners.
mircea_popescu: here's something for the historian in alf! there's ancient statement of the principle, recorded in 1970 milwaukee journal : "You make yourself ridiculous by thinking you can do anything. The word is divided in two. The Russians and the Americans, no one else. What are we? Americans. Behind me there is the government, behind the government is NATO, behind NATO is the US. You can't fight us, we are Americans."
☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: god damned thing was created centuries ago. by the fucking maramures people, the rough equivalent of being the darian colony, founded by the scots.
mircea_popescu: moldavia is no transilvania much like the philippines are no japan.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno, really. it's a pot calling kettle black situation, neither side of this debate is in much position to claim cultural ancientitude.
mircea_popescu: not that a) i can even for a second imagine it wasn't entirely merited nor b) reached at any point the level of my disdain for argentinians.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the moldavians are apparently pissed because he said the boo boo about chisinau.
mircea_popescu: talented fellow, this, managed to get everyone pissed off.
mircea_popescu: ~ darker than the gypsies (slaves, at the time), you spent years begging around here, you, well received yet failed to profer as much as thanks. we fed you bread and salt (i dunno, it's a romanian thing) and wine from our ample cave, but when the morn came you took a shit in the flowerbed, laughing. then through thousand year old forests walked to no apparent benefit (literally, for love of the ho), and so there you see : no
mircea_popescu: "Fiind mai negru ca ţiganii ce-ai tot cerşit la noi cu anii, tu, cel primit cu dor de sus nici bogdaproste nu ne-ai spus. Cu dar de pâine şi de sare, cu vin din beciul nostru mare te-am ospătat. Iar tu în zori râzând, te-ai scîrnăvit în flori. Apoi prin codri de milenii ai tot umblat de dragul lelii. Ei, vezi atunci? Pun mâna-n foc: tu n-ai fost cal arab, ci porc!"
mircea_popescu: apparently there's a lot of bad blood there. i had nfi.