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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you imagine the same would stay true once every usg item had to use ipad 6 for lack of alternative, and in ALL applications ? phones, servers, metal detectors, everything, ipad 6 ?
mircea_popescu: phf well he's attributing some agency to "the enemy", except imo the wrong sort.
mircea_popescu: nor do they have the optionalities you imagine for them, it's not a case of "republic, on imperial steroidal vitamins".
mircea_popescu: it's no accident people in the empire behave like people in the empire.
mircea_popescu: people in the empire are dumb enough to buy, TO BUY, for MONEY, "copy protection" that i can take out with a magic marker. you grok this ?
mircea_popescu: phf that's still not the level of discussion here. yes i'm not entirely blockheaded, i understand THAT angle of it. the point is the other angle however. take all the drm adventures : in spite of all the effort AND proprietary hardware, i can still get any film i want
mircea_popescu: as i say : games horridru example for this closed markets thing.
mircea_popescu: yes, will say to you. and i'm thankful for it, less crud to compete with. it'll be either buy microsoft fly sim or eulora. hurrr.
mircea_popescu: which is why people in 1800 could live well "writing for the newspaper" and ditzy sluts today can't.
mircea_popescu: eulora is a particularly miserable example, in general games by shrewd companies benefit rather than suffer from locked down markets.
mircea_popescu: phf it's not an equivalent of anything. the important point here is that from experience, this rubber band is very slippery. there is no such thing as "tight"
mircea_popescu: and you'll have to "forgive" her, because she does your laundry. fuck you.
mircea_popescu: she cooks you a meal like she does every day, i happen to be in town, come by and eat it, you come home and oops, she forgot this time
mircea_popescu: not take in that sense necessarily. that is take of the sort of people who read trilema and "take" some part to put on their own blog.
mircea_popescu: much like any young hussy theoretically owned by her father is really really desperate to give the show away ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what if i, unlike you, that enjoys people, knows for a fact that any item the government nominally owns is mine for the taking ?
mircea_popescu: it is them, after all, throwing abundant resources in the chase of a pipe dream.
mircea_popescu: and by we in this case i mean to include any and all enemies, too.
mircea_popescu: phf i insist on this point to impress upon the more decisive elements exactly how weak a basis for discernment we actually have.
mircea_popescu: and the problems with "roughly, means 'machine where you can implement new crypto', for mircea_popescu's purposes" should be obvious to someone who astutely points out that there's no math proof for crypto. the same thinking that works there works here, it does not follow i need computers redditard can buy to exist in order for to have crypto.
mircea_popescu: as a matter of fact it may appear, but a negative lacks the definition capacity.
mircea_popescu: understand : just because you don't get to have "general purpose hole", it is not automatically thereby proven "enemy gets black hole"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this stand would be a lot more defensible if general purpose computing made a sense!
mircea_popescu: i tell you honestly if i were to go on a mountaintop now, IF i considered taking a computer AT ALL
mircea_popescu: it's not even clear we even want half the shit we have.
mircea_popescu: if this is true then any handwringing of any sort is an exercise in insanity.
mircea_popescu: this is just one of many possible ideological colors that may be retrospectively applied.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and i was too dumb to do much with the machine. such is life.
mircea_popescu: there were 20+ kids who had a driver drive them to school.
mircea_popescu: understand - at some point in my life, "owning a computer" as opposed to a speccy, or a video game console, was a social selection bar SO HIGH that out of my entire preppiest-school-in-town it selected for TWO PEOPLE.
mircea_popescu: adding more engineers to a late project makes it later ; adding more bipedal mouthbreathers to anything makes it resemble shit closer.
mircea_popescu: wikipedia is not better for pretending every imbecile is "an editor", it's way the fuck worse. the internet did not gain from the "collected intelligence and experience of the whole world", it turned into a cesspool instead.
mircea_popescu: but if i were somehow persuaded to care - frankly i'm inclined to believe making computers cow-accessible was a horrible fucking idea.
mircea_popescu: i can see why it's in the geek ethos. i can't see why i should care.
mircea_popescu: this notion that "every squishi wizard" must have access to the light bolt spell is lulzy, to me.
mircea_popescu: appreciate, i had a computer EVEN WHEN it was ~5k DM and the going rate was half-and-half for 5. and i'm sure that at some point between then and now, some poor black kid in the sticks somewhere wanted a computer only to hear "da fuck ya want dat witey shit fo boe!" from his momma and get to play casino gems on her knockoff smartphone instead.
mircea_popescu: phf i don't see how that is different from, "you buy fruit juicer, you can't play dos games on it". yes ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes. let it be, ~nobody cares about ddos. it is expensive enough to engage in and we really don't gas.
mircea_popescu: phf i meant something specific : how can a "mode" be "replaced". sounds to me (prolly proof of my ignorance) like "blue colors have been deprecated in irssi". dude... what ? it's my fucking config file.
mircea_popescu: punkman> could have various proxies, mpex-style <<< yeah, the republic will start printing bitcoin to finance an inept war with the idiot us, because the us is caught in dreams of its war with the soviet union and its delusional relevancy therein.
mircea_popescu: to go to Heaven yet at the same time are likelier to make a Hell of earth."
mircea_popescu: "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims will be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely
mircea_popescu: yes i reckon if they manage this, pulling themselves into orbit can't be far behind
mircea_popescu: " if the large number N is the product of two primes, p and q, and someone obtains two other numbers, p' and q' which while prime or not nevertheless multiply to the same N, are not they now able to do anything"
mircea_popescu: and yet inexplicably i'm sure this will son be was already found-ed and documented by research that nevertheless fails to exist etc.
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mircea_popescu: Public Exponent 170141183460469231731687303715884105731 is NOT PRIME ! <<< check out this shit.
mircea_popescu: just like high-performance designer chemistry jumped fro mbeing a well funded uni lab only thing back in 1996 to being accessible to random spammer with a desire to sell temporarily "legal" psychoactives.
mircea_popescu: and there's no great american novel ; nor a french dictionary. what of it.
mircea_popescu: on the contrary, the more dictatorially insane the society, the absolutely better the private life.
mircea_popescu: i also do not credit the "dictatorial education -> no diaries" argument from experience. there are NO BETTER jokes than the ro/ru/etc jokes from that time.
mircea_popescu: he is discussing and i quote " Philosophers, writers, artists, even scientists"
mircea_popescu: so blair would like an audience. fine. good. i didn't wet my bed as a child.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't credit his "man needs the herd" nonsense worth halfpence.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform he clearly didn't like physics in school.