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mircea_popescu: "oh i like the fact that no one man decides what is in the lawbook"
mircea_popescu: a reflection of my i don't like or trust raid controllers earlier stance
mircea_popescu: no, when magic worker in the saving data lab gets to carefully reconstruct hdds under inert gas.\
mircea_popescu: so realistically, if you've two or more failures, your odds of recovering from data loss are still well in the 80%+ range.
mircea_popescu: it is practically impossible to get 3 dead, say "fix these so that you can reconstruct one out of these two" and not get it done.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the arrangement is seriously boosted by the historical accident of spinning hdds.
mircea_popescu: i don't think i've ever used anything other than 1+0 combos.
mircea_popescu: yeah but this is easy to check, better controllers say
mircea_popescu: iirc fail to write just allocates from the spare cells
mircea_popescu: some actually bricked, some had bizarro but recoverable issues, etc.
mircea_popescu: i suppose in pre-postindustrial world, only the heros would havge been shipped, but what can you do.
mircea_popescu: there's a one that leads the pack, then the bulk of failures, then a coupla heros left behind, fwis.
mircea_popescu: then during the next week you'll be sweeping out the other bank too
mircea_popescu: what happens is that one dies, at which point you swap out not IT, but the whole bank.
mircea_popescu: oh, it was empirically obtained, i didn't theoretically determine it.
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag if you use at least 8, you get one that always dies first.
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag this is true. i suppose the matter is open to your evaluation, if he was actually driving the matchbox aroundf or not.
mircea_popescu: of course... suppose a man plays with a model car. is he insane now ?
mircea_popescu: i meant of the specific "i'll wait for a better deal" process.
mircea_popescu: then there's a funeral, and a rehash of the process in younger derps.
mircea_popescu: and yes, i get it, everyone everywhere is holding their precious self in dear esteem and waiting for a better deal.
mircea_popescu: hope as they might that they'll get a certification to substitute absence of actual skill, the world still runs on physics rather than metaphysics.
mircea_popescu: you applied ~3 years ago. we're still waiting on delivery of the first item, aka the cardano.
mircea_popescu: more like "if you want a billet to help - the application desk is over there ; if not, isn't there some welfare line you sohuld be in ?"
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla re email : yes there are contingency plans. no they will not be discussed, with anyone. not until after we've salted the earth where the last "parliament" / "presidential residence" etc stood.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: hm, i can't find the one where i said that the only way to have "justice" is to oppress some derps, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: gotta define white man! through the exclusion of someone, somewhere.
mircea_popescu: well that, yes. what do you think is always and forever at the fundament of " you could [] still live like a white man" ?
mircea_popescu: soviets had a russian > cecen thing going, as a matter of course if not as a matter of law.
mircea_popescu: you have that much in common with 1980s inteligentsia in the other usg.
mircea_popescu: it's not a la mode because i didn't want to trigger you.
mircea_popescu: start beating the shit out of derps pretending to things, see the wunderbar world that emerges next week.
mircea_popescu: let them in, tie them to a steel girder, beat the shit out of them for six hours then call the cops and press charges.
mircea_popescu: hey, i'm not the one living there. tell it to each other.
mircea_popescu: cuz you know, "what if da police comes to inquire where your windows licenses are"
mircea_popescu occasionally runs into midrange business derps who emit things such as "unlicensed computer"
mircea_popescu: i think there's fewer people paying their own bloomberg terminal than there's people with a legitimate research interest in ai.
mircea_popescu: " Asking Price: $18,500" da fuck alfie, i had no idea you hold musical instruments in quite such low esteem.
mircea_popescu: hey, i regularly order the slavegirls draped when friends visit
mircea_popescu: i can tell this by constructing a humorous equivalent ot his "mpex should", except mine is both actually funny and to a much larger degree defensible.
mircea_popescu: the subtext is that random derp with no skin in the game is running his mouth.
mircea_popescu: PeterL well familty members were named through the same process, so...