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BingoBoingo does not plan to take little miss trainwreck to Montevideo
mircea_popescu: i guess there's that.
BingoBoingo: Well, mentally when you account for the years lost to dopeism
mircea_popescu: from experience women that failed to make friends by the age of about 13 or so will never manage.
BingoBoingo: Lol, her sponsor is a a lady who is trying to guide miss trainwreck through 12 steps and figured "Hey, she needs to learn how to make friends. BingoBoingo, here's a chance to practice some patience and let her try to be your friend"
ben_vulpes: quit drivin on the sidewalls girl
BingoBoingo: <ben_vulpes> is she buying really really really used tires? spares only? << Today she figured out rim was cracked and that's why hey were going flat.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, "sponsor" is how you say "dude paying for the rent" in slang of romanian student/whore (pitipoanca).
ben_vulpes: bb has a mentee i think?
mircea_popescu: is this code for "bb got laid"
ben_vulpes: is she buying really really really used tires? spares only?
BingoBoingo: In further developments, little miss trainwreck has just had a tire swapped on her motor carriage for the 7th time in 2 weeks
ben_vulpes: BingoBoingo: transracialism is a thing!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have utterly no patience to listen to this kalman thing. i made it 13 minutes, but a) terrible snr and b) his voice is insufferable.
doppler: I wasn't saying nice going to you guys :)
doppler: what's confusing? ascii is talking about an upconverter he bought.
BingoBoingo: From the fake oped mines: "Hey, Tech Companies: Knock It Off With the Apps That Let People Change Their Skin Color"
doppler: on designing that PCB
asciilifeform: in other lulz, asciilifeform buys a chinesium hf-to-120mhz upconverter thing for rtlsdr , and discovers that he has to take the thing apart and trace pcb traces, and crosscheck with chipset data sheet, to learn which hose is 'in' and which is 'out' ! they did not bother to label ! ( not even in chinese . )
mircea_popescu: i know, that's why i linked. dood has all sorts of weird.
asciilifeform: i've seen draisines on the railroad many times. but repair trucks, not limo.
asciilifeform: and what even was the reason for such an odd vehicle
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that car looks like it were shot ?
asciilifeform: ( in further continuation of the microscopy q : what the everliving fuck happened to the beta ray microscope ? theoretically can do ~same thing as sem, but no need for massive electron gun, million volt power supply, or the vacuum pumps. where is it ?? )
mircea_popescu: http://www.qsl.ro/yo3ccc/Cum%20arata%20drezina%20blindata%20folosita%20de%20Ana%20Pauker/slides/AP01.html#picttop << dood has various interestingobilia, incl ana pauker's traintrack-armoredcar.
mircea_popescu: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/Dls7o/?raw=true << interview. possibly dude still answers to callsign
mircea_popescu: woman, 3rd on top line.
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mircea_popescu: (this is 99% of what they did, even the z80 clones were intended for production line control, which it was hard to get one at home0
mircea_popescu: then they made automated coil makers, and various production line automatics
mircea_popescu: 1964 export diodes to france, 1966 first ic.
asciilifeform: pretty neato tho
mircea_popescu: so, in 1962 they had germanium doped transistors. under ~license~ you get this, thomson csf.
BingoBoingo: In other lessons learned today, Montevideo free trade zone offers tax savings... Which at ISP scale would swiftly be consumed by "user fees" to the operator of the zona franca
mircea_popescu: well i had the catalogs by year somewhere
asciilifeform: afaik in '62 su made strictly diode and transistor
asciilifeform: what did they make in '62 ?
asciilifeform: rather than burning the 1000 manyears to bake from 1st principles
asciilifeform: was able to make because good tech intel work, neh.
asciilifeform: semiconductor -- was the item about which gave a shit.
mircea_popescu: the pacepa nutteries with assassinations etc -- footnote, if present. then, as now, ~nobody gave a shit.
mircea_popescu: anyway. between this, "tech spying" and a whole lot of coutnerintel and military wankery, you've 99% of ro activity in the cold war. the former half minor in the early part and growing monotonously to come to overshadow latter part by 70s.
asciilifeform: before i fughet, here's asciilifeform's microscopy crackpottery of the day : contact print. consider, 370,000 transistors, on item roughly 1cm x 1cm. attach to standard ccd, say the 25 megapixel sort, and image with e.g. soft xray.
asciilifeform: ( by some accounts ru strategic telecom ~to this day~ runs on gdr iron )
mircea_popescu: but the czechs -- even fewer.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform romania was moar industrialized than the soviets, in this sense. had fine alloys. had fine mechanics, everything.
mircea_popescu: think -- the whole romanian section of ms/google etc was... in romania. that previous generation.
asciilifeform: better expert does not necessarily make the necessary spring available in qty.
mircea_popescu: for one thing, 60s and 70s tech was not really advanced enough in this sense ; for the other, ro actually had better experts than the us had. just -- not enough of them.
asciilifeform: it was a problem even for asciilifeform's father, cloning film projectors and discovering that the necessary spring steel could not be had
asciilifeform: i.e. 'where do you plug in the electron microscope in goatfuckistan' problem
asciilifeform: as illustrated by kurt tank in argentina
asciilifeform: well there was also a (c)
mircea_popescu: it was that a) it didn't know what to steal (as per above re lisp) and b) it couldn't steal fast enough.
mircea_popescu: that was the level. the problem with the romanians wasn't that they couldn't steal -- of course they could ; nor that it was in any way immoral or dubious to steal -- holy hell, country-in-development trying to catch up with technology, a good half of the techs involved were sympathetic anyway.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, to put things in readily meaningful perspective : you going "oh shit, we can use this bit i dug up out of bernstein to improve phuctor speed" is 100% what a PRIME example of such "sourced tech" would have been. that the soviets'd have paid for and the whole project involved would be decorated and congratulated after taking however long, 18 months to do it.
BingoBoingo: So do we contact Fort Meade or jolo to get an RMA number for this one
asciilifeform: this is something yet else, gotta be saturnism or the like
mircea_popescu: they're fucked in the head, it's a cultural disease.
asciilifeform: this has got to be a new record.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: they dun make pinoys like they usedta. 'each user would have their own mini blockcahin of txs and not others'
asciilifeform: lol this fromloper was the saddest one to date iirc
asciilifeform: he describes the usa trips as specifically for the purpose of building cred, to get access to semiconductor goodies
mircea_popescu: and yes soviets paid occasionally for ro sourced tech. it was without known exception (to me) sourced in eg france.
fromloper: Blockchain could be redesign to hold the data and each address and balance over 1 sat. each user would have their own mini blockcahin of txs and not others.
mircea_popescu: i'm telling you. romania mostly did europe.
mircea_popescu: and he went to the hot spot of the whole shebang, which was teh germanies.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he was the nominal chief of the whole shebang.
fromloper: Banks curently keep a records of all txs and each account holder gets a personal statement
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: again not having been there, cannot say. but presumably more watched by politruk, say, in nyc, than in bonn
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform consider : pacepa defected in bonn. why not in new york ? except if there was 0 reason for the spy chief to ever go to new york. and his period item (letter to dana) is knee deep in eurocentric issues. noel bernard, srsly ? who the fuck cares about noel bernard.
asciilifeform: fromloper: what is the problem to which you wish to see 'a solution' ?
fromloper: I have been looking into it and maybe there is a solution. However i am no expert computer programmer
fromloper: mp read that.
mircea_popescu: things don't change just because new generation of lambs came out of pregnant ewes this spring like each othe rspring before it.
asciilifeform: fromloper: how would you propose to make a bitcoin without monotonically increasing data set ?
fromloper: MP The ever increasing amount of data
mircea_popescu: fromloper what problem is that ?
mircea_popescu: defected as a 50yo. a 50yo ready to claim oswald worked for kgb.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes but by the 70s his active duty time was over.
mircea_popescu: me either, nor could he have. anyway, to recap -- dood was chief of ro belin residency. once retired (from field work), about simultaneous with ceausescu ascension, was promoted to strategy role in bucharest.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform early 70s was too late for pacepa lol.
asciilifeform: z80 was pre-vlsi item. think early '70s.
BingoBoingo: <fromloper> What happened to qntra site << The isp quite on us. Hopefully Qntra returns ~December 15th.
asciilifeform: according to pacepa -- su paid hard cash for what ro was able to lift from, e.g., texas instruments, hewlett-packard, the other giants.
mircea_popescu: but eg, the pdp the romanians cloned was obtaind via soviets. the z80s were all swiss sourced.
mircea_popescu: well what can i tell you.
asciilifeform: not according to pacepa
mircea_popescu: romanians got them from the soviets as a general rule.
mircea_popescu: people wanted to see italian films with antonelli, and french stuff, not hollywood nonsense.
asciilifeform: it was the first and last thing to properly speaking happen in usa.
asciilifeform: pacepa describes the afaik factual reason why his master gave a shit : semiconductor
asciilifeform: possibly they kept him in whitehouse basement for 20yrs, whynot.
mircea_popescu: this notion that ra-ra-ra usa-america is very much post 2000 nytimes construction. people in the 60s gave almost no shits about the us, unless like the italians they cxould directly leach.
asciilifeform: i've no clue why survived ( and it is by far not the only puzzle re the d00d )
mircea_popescu: right, and he survived because he scared them off. laissez.
asciilifeform: and later was given cia medal ( afaik the only runaway to be awarded )
mircea_popescu: ro did europe, mostly, kgb did us, mostly. they interoped.
mircea_popescu: ro didn't really have agents in the us.
asciilifeform: did moar counterintel 'bang for buck' in 5min than whole usg in 50yrs