168400+ entries in 0.053s
mircea_popescu: but it mostly provides street vendors, and i'd be surprised if it makes up that many ppm.
mircea_popescu: some limited immigration was permitted of ex spanish african colonies
mircea_popescu: i suspect that as the century-old (and probably more grounded) view of black people as naturally cowardly and militarily worthless gives way to this purely symbolic "black is the new manhood", extermination approaches.
mircea_popescu: older folk explained it to me. back when they had their various wars, they confronted paraguayans at some point, and managed to sell the slaves on the theory that black men make the best warrirors for which reason they must take the first lines.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, i finally got to the bottom of the shocking absence of anyone but caucasians from argentina (it is, literally, the whitest place on earth, up there with romania and i guess montana)
mircea_popescu: Ironically, the Sovereign movement is made up of highly paranoid people who tend to believe that every violent act in recent history is a “false flag” operation set in motion by the evil government, so the odds of such an event triggering a Revolution are quite slim."
mircea_popescu: "A few take it one step further by initiating violence in hopes of acting as a catalyst for this war. Timothy McVeigh’s goals, for example, weren’t just to murder 168 people, bring down a symbolic building, and punish the government for its role in the standoffs at Waco and Ruby Ridge. He wanted to make his mark in history by providing the Patriot movement with the spark that would light the fires of revolution.
mircea_popescu: "Million Mask March: Many younger sovereigns are fascinated with ideas of a youth revolution, anarchy, and hacktivism (a portmanteau of hack and activism,) even though the majority of them are not particularly computer savvy. They often call themselves Anonymous and wear the mask and costume of the central character in the movie V for Vendetta."
mircea_popescu: iirc i even said - what that guy complains of, we'd also do.
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag and there's no argument considered or offered that it's not statal. the discussion is that under some circumstances it is advantageous.
mircea_popescu: it'd also guarantee you wouldn't recognize it, but hey.)
mircea_popescu: (incidentally - if anyone here remembers the ancient discussion re naming services, which is how qntra ended up with that name at least in part - this system would be a necessarily optimal solution to that problem. it'd guarantee you need the minimum possible stroke count to get your desired destination.
mircea_popescu: sure. but i do notice he never registered 6F12EC72A82ABCA35235063A10DDC983901AA183.co
mircea_popescu: if i had to bruteforce sha256 to come up with the signature for "trilema.com" i probably wouldn't bother.
mircea_popescu: the reference was to explain to copypaste why he can't have both worlds / what the use of current dns arrangement is.
mircea_popescu: how does v currently know where to connect to build the rotor ?
mircea_popescu: either cron the updater or run it whenever you please.
mircea_popescu: the advantage of prototyping is that most major issues you will spend time working on, you encounter AFTER you're done designing.
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag it oughta, but it can run without it too, and it's seemingly easy enough to get started.
mircea_popescu: but he has a point, mod6 and ascii_butugychag : we should prolly document v.
mircea_popescu: but because of the metagame this doesn't actually hold here. much to my satisfaction.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller the thing is, the meta-game is incredibly rich and very rewarding. usually the problem with making a game, as an enthusiast, is that fucking hell you know it so it's at best half as fun.
mircea_popescu: jurov im thinking more like a rotor script to build a local hosts out of, maybe, deedbotted things ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but yeah, i did notice it tends to suck people in. not everyone, but some people.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the first accounts are from early june, so "nigh on a year" ain'\t really fair. half year.
mircea_popescu: eulora record is actually a guy with 13919282 connecterd time.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, usual graphics intensive "AAA" title has what, 50 hours in it ? if not 30.
mircea_popescu: not so far. ironically... if you go by a timeplay metric, december saw 64722 player-hours, which is seriously more than what MOST games see.
mircea_popescu: of course, no major player quit yet. that's usually a principal source of excess goods
mircea_popescu: considering it's been played for nigh on a year and people don't even know wtf those rules even are...
mircea_popescu: i honestly believe it's the best done game, as far as the underlying "rules" go. owner delusion or not.
mircea_popescu: and in fact from the micro perspective i dun recall anything being offered for sale and not selling, yet.
mircea_popescu: one of the most encouraging things about eulora's economy that i see myself is - i keep a running total of player cash and of player assets. and the latter has been a monotonously increasing function ever since forever. the appetite for materials seems outright insatiable.
mircea_popescu: if you do you prolly get some game goodies at any rate.
mircea_popescu: at least if we have some names we can bitch at arch ppl specifically.
mircea_popescu: aha. there's a buncha people that can prolly halp if you get a specific error.
mircea_popescu: i tend to do this "X's item" because that's how the republic works. obviously, not how the fiatosphere does.
mircea_popescu: lettuce see what trinque ben_vulpes mod6 asciilifeform davout jurov kakobrekla & co say when they wakeup
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it also introduces a kinda dubious but possibly useful ddos protector, in the sense that one can run different ips for the meatriver and for the wotdns.
mircea_popescu: it can even run as an antispam service in parallel. if i go 127.0.0.1 doubleclick.net in my file, you won't be seeing any ads from them in your browser, no matter what they do.
mircea_popescu: hey panzers... we actually game to doing this ? it really dun cost much and it does resolve an actual problem, provide a serious incentive to participate, makes nice media headlines... low hanging fruit.
mircea_popescu: and incidentally, how the dns was actually designed to be used. the current centralist windowstardian webstupidity only works the way it works because of the userbase. the design is fine, but "everyone"| and "has come to expect" and bullshit like that make people pretend like a suboptimal local maximum is relevant to the graph. well... it ain't.
mircea_popescu: "i want to use the dns for back-up, whenever what ~these~ people use doesn't contain an answer". seems pretty cool.
mircea_popescu: in fact, v-powered /etc/hosts may even be a serious improvement over the current situation.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, a bitcoin vanity address with five specified letters (out of the whole set) takes a day.
mircea_popescu: yes, naming can work like that, if 8chan.co and 94875984375983.jksldak are the same to you.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: who the fuck do you think you are that they'd bother to "bid it off" ? they won't bid it off in front of you, they'll just ignore your delusion.
mircea_popescu: naming is by its nature this : that there will be a group in power, allocating the names, and everyone else can go suck it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: this goes all the way down to actual working of language. do we power the ns that calls me racist and evil ? do we power the ns that calls tess d'urberville or w/e her name is fat and obama an idiot ?
mircea_popescu: if they change that behaviour, the world will re-arrange and so on.
mircea_popescu: and every derp out there in indonesia or peru or wherever saving in dollars in preference of my currency, or his president's currency, has given usg such power.