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mircea_popescu: no such thing ; the dead mechanism either rots and stinks ; or else exactly immitates life - so much so as to be actually alive ; and if actually alive - it heals.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform sanity is homeostasis. what is this "functioning liver by itself" ?
mircea_popescu: how does one sit atop the pile of chicks and still derp ineptly ?
mircea_popescu: da fuck, how dares he not humbly suck cock when the world condescends to slap him silly.
mircea_popescu: why ? twerp is writing fiction "didactically" and "challenges" the world.
mircea_popescu: rather too like the inept romanian wanna-bes for my taste.
mircea_popescu: rather low ever since i taught him how to write and he... failed to engage.
mircea_popescu: that's a new one, i didn't know any other cause is even possibru. wha happened ?
mircea_popescu: for as long as that article stands "less wrong" seriously can't exist intellectually.
mircea_popescu: nor for that matter fucking fractals and/or positibe feedback
mircea_popescu: uh i don't recall where specifically. tardstalk prolly. or reddit/twitter/whatever.
mircea_popescu: buncha fuctards, can't speak in public, opine as to consummate public speaker's performance ; never as much as owned a suit of clothes, comment the suits of dude that's been wearing one since highschool. on it goes.
mircea_popescu: AS FUCKING IF there exists the webtard that can emulate my rhetoric ability.
mircea_popescu: ima buy him for making salami eventually. "who crushes who, bitch ?"
mircea_popescu: mod6 he has a point you know, simply setting an index as "autoincrement" in your sql should supply this.
mircea_popescu: because one size fits all ; and easier to have it work this way universally.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's just how the bot is written to work.
mircea_popescu: what appears to you as sluggish is simply thing doing sluggish for someone else meanwhile.
mircea_popescu: there's big money in this, of course, and has for decades. "advertising industry" "fraud detection". it never worked.
mircea_popescu: the notion one can distinguish a supervised bot from a slightly less supervised bot is wishful thinking ; no matter the effort expended.
mircea_popescu: this entire "web numbers map to people" theory is just about as ridiculous as the whole "bitcoin addresses map to people" theory.
mircea_popescu: romania does have a happy tradition of ending up caught in conflicts between various idiots, i'd be much surprised if this changed.
mircea_popescu: i suppose "power standards for tmsr home" is yet another item we should eventually write up huh.
mircea_popescu: nothing's nicer in this world than a russian with his balls in vice.
mircea_popescu: the ru know that ro have plenty of their own ; also tech leader. no motivation to pester them whatsoever.
mircea_popescu: also ro-ru gas relations and energetics altogether have always been cordial.
mircea_popescu: also, romania has plenty of gas ; was running out of coal at the time.
mircea_popescu: rather than rely on machinery in state owned building.
mircea_popescu: that they rely on a machinery in their own hands with a commodity input
mircea_popescu: for instance, romanians in the 90s moved off the "central heating" paradigm on to individual gas units.
mircea_popescu: but in any case : serenity starts with autonomy ; and autonomy has some very practical underpinnings.
mircea_popescu: yeah the large lights were very vulnerable, and expensive as fuck.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hey, it's a profession, he gets it properly instaslled.
mircea_popescu: all this, incidentally, was pioneered by filming crews.
mircea_popescu: so yes, it filters power throughout ; it supplants short timed blackouts electronically ; and longer course ones while the fuel lasts.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform normally it's a unit consisting of generator, inverter, batteries.
mircea_popescu: oh look at that, south african race relations are a paragon for the entire world :D
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski if you own rather than rent, buying a large unit is a good home improvement move. for one thing, all electronics benefit from power filtering etc, tv sets, whatever has chips in it. for another thing, redundant power is great and brownouts a thing everywhere. not the worst 5-10k you ever spent, can just sit in the basement and make your day for a week each decade or w/e.
mircea_popescu: "woman in vietnam sells airline - check out the bikinis". schmucks.
mircea_popescu: dude... how can anglotards be this dumb, seriously now.
mircea_popescu: "Hi team at Trilema How are you? I came across your excellent gaming site:
http://trilema.com " << one of the pleasures of keeping a personal blog is that well... what is it ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: when you publish a report with the wrong month's title ';/
mircea_popescu: i wonder if anyone remembers early 2015, "billion dollar market cap" ripple, millions "traded" a day and other flights of fancy.
mircea_popescu: so looking at the shitcoins, "ethereum" switched with "ripple" YoY. hurr durr.
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