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williamdunne: Ah okay, not what I was hearing about. Still interested tho so give me
a sec to read-up again on it
assbot: Why "representative democracy" doesn't work and doesn't make sense on Trilema -
A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1H8EopW )
mircea_popescu: essentially the position of the Catholic church, hoping that it may teach people to read and write in such
a way that they'll actually continue to take the "Holy Scripture" seriously. Why would they ? They won't, they don't, it's just not how that works.
mircea_popescu: This would also be why I don't think so very much of the libertards, and why I find myself so often in contradiction with people who view them as either powerful or in any sense
a threat (usually both) : they aren't, either, nor could they really be, either, because the only tool they know actually works for them only
a short distance of its run, and for us the entire length of that same run. The libertard's gambit is
☟︎ assbot: Why "representative democracy" doesn't work and doesn't make sense on Trilema -
A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1H8EjCO )
mircea_popescu: consider the following math : uranium reserves, about 6*10^9 kgs. about 0.1% of this is usable for the purpose. uranium molar mass is ~250 [grams/mol] which means ~ 6*10^9 * 1000/250 * 6*10^23 atoms in total. meanwhile energy output is ~200 MeV per event. your total ideal available energy is thus ~1.44 * 10^32 eV. meanwhile land surface is ~1.50 * 10 ^ 14 sqm. So you get
a total of ~10*17 eV per square meter, or
a litt
mircea_popescu: contrary to what is generally propagandized, there isn't
a way to use them effectually on the field. the only effectual use for them is in mass media.
mircea_popescu: just make
a power and internet hook=up so that each tile can in principle power/be powered by and connect/be connected by each of its 4 neighbours.
mircea_popescu: you cant just print scrip because you got
a scrip printer. that's not how it works.
mircea_popescu: be it conquer the south or the moon, but
a mission, see. something interesting to do.
mircea_popescu: just like the us was
a thing back when that guy they shot had
a mission
mircea_popescu: just like you can be the life of the party and command everyone's attention for as long as you're being riveting ; just as long as you can tell women to suck your cock for just as long as it's
a juicy cock to suck.
danielpbarron: there's
a guy from seals that brings his own custom made table
trinque: danielpbarron: heh! that's
a much better reason
chetty: good idea, we have changed the version so you will be needing
a new cs
mircea_popescu: and there WILL be
a juicy event to reward the patience and help people set up themselves. so.
mircea_popescu: by now it's mostly "shit, another bug. no, wait
a minute, this is the right thing."
jurov: "Moving to
a situation in which Windows is
a constantly updated service will break out of this cycle, and let Microsoft tinker more with the software to test new features and see how customers like them"
mircea_popescu: in other news, i just laid
a claim on
a SIZABLE deposit of wooly mushroom in eulora.
decimation: jurov: yes, that article is related. hopefully someone will figure out
a model
decimation: does this mean that pure capitalism tends to fragile oligarchy while government direction of the economy leads to
a greater diversity of economic practices?
decimation: yeah, there is something to that. it does seem like pure market competition will lead to monopoly, and it takes
a sovereign to say 'do it this way or hang'
decimation: jurov: do you run the standard aws linux distro or do you have
a fully custom image?
decimation: apparently they are too poor to pay that, and nobody else gave
a fuck
jurov: decimation: but you see money is not
a problem here?
decimation: asciilifeform: perhaps part of your problem (re: make ur own fab) is that you are attempting to 'speak with
a sword'
jurov: there was
a fab "tesla piestany" in czechoslovakia able to make 8080 or uart clones
mircea_popescu: nukes are, in this discussion, theatrical props. we need them like i need
a prince albert.
mircea_popescu: and moreover, once la serenissima expands -
A LITTLE (in comparative tersm) - what's to say it won't be able to afford this ?
mircea_popescu: so, what's
a fab cost ? like 10bn or so, say ? less, but anyway. what's the current print rate ? 10x that
A MONTH or so ? at least as far as documented (most monetary expansion happens in the dark anyway, it was recently rechristened as "big bank fraud" temporarily, but it is not nor ever was that - most monetary expansion is regulated by the banks)
assbot: Logged on 10-05-2015 17:35:26; asciilifeform: just the 'palace economy' you inherently get, from
a chip fab costing what it costs
davout: jurov: actually, for some reason it doesn't like being run in
a screen session
Azelphur: (07:31:47) mircea_popescu: !rate azelphur 1 Not seen for
a while now.
mircea_popescu: like
a sort of nonviolence proponent that takes it up the pooper.
hanbot: danielpbarron: wtf is
a "porcupine freedom festival"?!
mircea_popescu: if you care about anthropology, it's
a great thing to watch, how the beast acquires skills. that was the major breakthrough there.
mircea_popescu: course, it's how that country is run, it's how the derps "in charge" got into office, it's the only thing they're tooled to do, and so to the man carrying
a bad graph and some banal word tricks...
mircea_popescu: why the fuck do they think addressing themselves to
a mathematically illiterate crowd is
a valid avenue is entirely beyond my comprehension.
mircea_popescu: davout the amount of herd-herding that the usg has been putting into this is so incredibly useful because
a) it really can't do anything but! b) it really does expose the tools.
davout: sure, there are going to be problems for you if the transactions keep growing linearly like that, oh wait, it's
a log scale, straight lines are actually exponentials
mircea_popescu: williamdunne nigeria was originally
a booming oil economy, attracted
a lot of people. then it went stale, and for
a while throughout the 90s there was
a large community of desperate, socially marginal young men, who took to playing internet con games. eventually there was some reaction in the shape of, "con the nigerians".
assbot: Logged on 10-05-2015 18:44:48; ben_vulpes: at
a certain point it'll turn into
a game "hey williamdunne this is great but it's not going to fly without
a photo of you with
a shoe on your head"
mircea_popescu: steganography is hiding messages inside images. and
a crush is when
a guy wants to put his wee wee in your... well...
fluffypony: I was like "bro it's
a herb, it's rocket. come now."
ben_vulpes: at
a certain point it'll turn into
a game "hey williamdunne this is great but it's not going to fly without
a photo of you with
a shoe on your head"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: davout hey, not my fault they know how to make
a salmon and parmezan sammich.
mircea_popescu: (italian fashion, somehow teh usians got crazy over it at some point. like
a self-flagellation tiramisu)
fluffypony: davout: when I was in the USA I wanted to buy some for
a pasta sauce I was making, took me 25 minutes at Whole Foods to figure out that they call it "arugula"
assbot: Logged on 10-05-2015 10:11:00; davout: oh and ben_vulpes, by 'real computer' I mean any non-Apple machine, that'll always be
a good improvememnt :D
assbot: Logged on 10-05-2015 00:00:19; pete_dushenski: Fast fwd to yesterday. I wasn't home yet from work, but my wife tells me local LE showed up and wanted to have
a "chat". Asked if I or anone had ever ordered anything illicit in the mail. Said "nobody's in trouble, we're just following up on something that might be nothing"."
mircea_popescu: davec originally thought it was libnss meanwhile found
a "retarded languages should be supported too" thing
davout: and i was confused because i didn't remember that danielpbarron's pogo runs
a debian thing, hence able to run bitcoind
funkenstein_: thanks, perhaps like the saturn rocket, there will come
a day when nobody knows how to build one
decimation: no, it always looks like
a loser on
a purely accounting basis
decimation: but I agree, it would be impossible to make clock-exact version of
a silicon cpu without heavy support from the manufacturer
decimation: well, run software and perform
a timing analysis
decimation: if one had
a working implementation of
a silicon cpu (like msp430), wouldn't you be able to test the silicon version against an fpga simulator?
decimation: still, merely making an 'open fpga' would be
a big improvement