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mircea_popescu: the ru "90yos get together to decide which 70yos should retire" thing in full swing, but producing much less spew than the ru version did
mircea_popescu: so far they were fortunate to get very liberal minded leadership
mircea_popescu: i'm kinda curious if they're in for another great leap forward actually
mircea_popescu: cn has made a career out of an inability to feel the heat.
mircea_popescu: "i always found it interesting turks can not only not design own greek fire, but can't even produce shit copy!"
mircea_popescu: im actually curious which happens first, trb hardware delivery or cn hardware delivery.
mircea_popescu: much moreso than say saudis are getting out of their oil.
mircea_popescu: they're getting a lot of mileage out of the rare earths.
mircea_popescu: no idea where this mineral idea came from, but if you look on the net china is an importer of minerals. be it canadian oil or euro gold, they mostly buy.
mircea_popescu: which is why the prisons are full of orcs with "booze and women put us here" rather than the other way around
mircea_popescu: and they'll get some bonus from redditard going "oh, this will make chips like 3d printable!11"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it happens to be the correct strat for the table.
mircea_popescu: why not ? will be great. lumbering chinese golem strong enough to fracture nato, force whatever remnants are actually worth saving into #b-a, crush the rest into alabama.
mircea_popescu: im rather curious what their strategic choice will be to unseat intel.
mircea_popescu: After moving to Beijing to study at the university, Mr Zhao made a fortune in electronics, property and natural resources, before becoming chairman and second-largest shareholder (after the university itself) at Tsinghua Unigroup."
mircea_popescu: Most intriguing of all, Tsinghua Unigroup, a company spun out of Tsinghua University in Beijing, has emerged in the past year or so as the chosen champion among champions, a Chinese challenger to the mighty Intel. Zhao Weiguo, the firm’s boss, started out herding goats and pigs in Xinjiang, a remote province in north-western China, to where his parents had been exiled in the 1950s, having been labelled as dissidents.
mircea_popescu: hers). And HiSilicon of Shenzhen (part of Huawei, a maker of telecoms equipment) will be one of a select few champions in chip design.
mircea_popescu: "In the government’s earlier efforts to boost domestic manufacturing of solar panels and LED lamps, it spread its largesse among a lot of local firms, resulting in excess capacity and slumping prices. This time it seems to be concentrating its firepower on a more limited group of national champions. For instance, SMIC of Shanghai is set to be China’s champion “foundry” (bulk manufacturer of chips designed by ot
mircea_popescu: "so as to cease being dependent on foreign supplies." the chinese dream since forever. and they'll get it, too.
mircea_popescu: i had archive.is preserve the dpaste just in case anyone wants it after it expires. assbot has the link.
mircea_popescu: seems the matter of control is squarely resolved in the field. mp can get to anyone in usg, to anything to them he damned well pleases. so it goes.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller idiots actually moved to 100% discussing what i say, STILL can't fucking say my name ?
mircea_popescu: for the other thing, no. it promotes this anti-computing, anti-intellectual, outright evil view of software being something that is given the user, like an item, rather than the correct view of software being a command given to the computer.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: for one thing, the VERY CONCEPT of signed binary no longer exists.
mircea_popescu: "blocks" : 88213, man that first coupla years go fast...
mircea_popescu: certainly gets it one step further to the "one command and it runs" ideal
mircea_popescu: i dunno, just throwing it out there, for ppl to weigh in
mircea_popescu: defaults are defaults, people are free to change them. but it's nice to have when out of the box like this
mircea_popescu: # to make this node public, make sure port 8333 is open, comment out the line above and uncomment the line below
mircea_popescu: and also, could we bundle a pre-created .conf file with the release ? something to include say all the public trb nodes as -connects and stuff, with a comment to explain to people how to turn it into a public node ?
mircea_popescu: i haven't the slightest curiosity to find what rando i couldn't tell from adam thinks the blocks look like.
mircea_popescu: PeterL probably. moreover, it allows the trb network to be built in depth. what the fuck do we even have the fronteer nodes for if not to protect us
mircea_popescu: currently kinda useless to advertise nodes that run in -connect
mircea_popescu: anyway, im only going to announce the new nodes once they're synced and i open them to public i figure.
mircea_popescu: anyway mod6 this is a milestone for teh foundation, got three instances spun up on the same fucking day of the release.