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mircea_popescu: understand, the problem hre is not of "available technology". the technology stays avaiolable throughout.
mircea_popescu: tbh, i had originally written pentium i and then cancelled it out.
mircea_popescu: the middle died long ago. my idea is that one of the horns is headed for a major splat, and well... it likes to think there's not another horn. fortunately this is not so.
mircea_popescu: does this actually coallesce into a point or not yet ?
mircea_popescu: i suspect they won't wish to live in the alternate world.
mircea_popescu: they won't be able to keep on supplying themselves with computers capable to make "fair" unicode.
mircea_popescu: so, to come to terms : the sv circus is already bordering on unable to maintain its presence. which is why "the cloud" and so forth.
mircea_popescu: their shitty plastic thing will be worn through on the 3rd pass.
mircea_popescu: the other fact of the matter however is that most if not all of those 16 women don't even own a scarf that could be used as described. because they don't buy by THAT criteria.
mircea_popescu: now... fact of the matter is that most women to date have lived and thrived and been happy in the "horrible" situation described.
mircea_popescu: and c) no, the electricity's not coming back. and no, i don't mean tonight.
mircea_popescu: so sixteen husbands come back home one evening and explain to sixteen wives that honey : a) eating out is out of the question from now on. and b) you're going to wash your scarf by hand. and use it to make a diaper. and then wash it by hand.
mircea_popescu: five years later, the "water table" so to speak changes. like you know, it changed in the ukraine recently, or in moscow in 1988.
mircea_popescu: so : i am a rich land developer, i buy some land, develop housing. it's 16 lots, which are bought the same year by 16 couples.
mircea_popescu: indulge me with an example that's domestic for a moment.
mircea_popescu: you have to appreciate tho : to them, it is not a waste. it's a raison d'etre and so fundamental its unwind would make life worth living.
mircea_popescu: soon enough they won't be able to afford to pay for computers.
mircea_popescu: but the point remains that what I use computers for and what they use computers for are very much disjunct, and relevantly so : they require about two or maybe three degrees of magnitude more materiel.
mircea_popescu: well this discussion is too far removed from tactics to be readily wrappable into something that'd make any sort of sense at that level.
mircea_popescu: as such, it is conceivable that z-80 powered trb can actually drive into the ground 12nm process powered united-prbs.
mircea_popescu: in economic terms, approach B is A LOT more resource thirsty. from a planning perspective, the world is undeniably going into a resource-scarce phase.
mircea_popescu: the idea being that there are two discrete and identifiable uses of computing power. one is as above : leverage for already present intelligence. the other is as in the webstack : compensation for absent intelligence.
mircea_popescu: to make an alternate but related point : i just ran grep -Fxv -f on two files, about a million records together. the ~quarter mn result took all of two seconds.
mircea_popescu: "oh we need more steel mills!111 machine factories!!11"
mircea_popescu: not anymore than the soviets actually wanted to marry to the hitler-era notions of economic activity and growth
mircea_popescu: but no. the more i think about it, the more etched silicone is not something you wish to marry to.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, i've been thinking lots about your famous silicone whine. (ie, "trb can't exist until etching plant"). from a twu wuv perspective, what we actually need is an alternate technology. i am guessing that a) it will exist and b) whoever deploys it will be trb anyway.
mircea_popescu: "preserve state of the shitstack so our software works"
mircea_popescu: davout well since it contains fats, you can't just let it be.
mircea_popescu: it is porous yes. through use it acquires a working glaze tho.
mircea_popescu: anyway. it's cleanned by rubbing well with very coarse salt, then adding water and heating it like that for a while.
mircea_popescu: davout anyway, its usually a 5 liter-ish, unglazed clay pot with a lid (that can be made airtight by applying a butter seal). i usually cook potatoes with meat in them (potatoes on the outside, make a house for hte meat). also great for mousaka, lasagna etc
mircea_popescu: seriously, send them oxen back to the farm, there's no need for freeing THESE particular slaves.
mircea_popescu: where a sequence of eleven Unicode characters would be intended to be rendered as a single colourized glyph showing a multiracial family." << these people fundamentally misunderstand what an alphabet is.
mircea_popescu: * Tomiii (~Tommiii@garza.riseup.net) has joined #bitcoin-assets << lolwut.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: davout the sort of dutch oven i use is also made of clay.
mircea_popescu: lmao. browsers top 10 : HTTrack 33.4 % Unknown 32.1 % Google Chrome 11.4 % etc.
mircea_popescu: <jurov> i had nfi dylsexia can be fixed with a mirror <<< not fixed, but apparently it's mostly a training deficit. people working with mirrors been doing seemingly miraculous shit.
mircea_popescu: actually, the experience of "being eaten alive"'d probably be the best education girl's ever going to get.
mircea_popescu: "It was an eighteen year old girl—nice and innocent looking. Big eyes. You'd like her. They'd eat her alive down here—and her grandfather from York Pennsylvania who used her GPS to get to the nearest mall that carries the brand of purse she was looking for."
mircea_popescu: somehow i suspect some poor misfortunate IAC intern is going to show up to work monday and be buried under a pile of rage & froth accumulated over days.
mircea_popescu: "this person looks too damn good and makes us feel inadequate PLEASE DO SOMETHING"
mircea_popescu: haha, from the social media brigading : apparently if butthurt derps complain, okcupid invisibilises your picture. oh noes, THAT WAS THE ONLY PICTURE I HAD!!11
mircea_popescu: you have been, actually. just now and again manages to slink through anymore.
mircea_popescu: you do this thing where you contrive things you deem important. this is not only self-defeating but contrary. if anything should be crisp and simple, it;s what's important.
mircea_popescu: ", it is likely that USG agents will use lethal force in the form of burning the entire forest down" << this needs hammering out, it doesn't bite.
mircea_popescu: romanians are fucking insane with the peeling. they'll peel apples.
mircea_popescu: and in other news, fuck upbringing. i lived up twenty fucking years thinking you absolutely gotta peel potatoes. god damned, peels' the best part of the fucking potato.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo for the record, i like the hammonds a SHITTON of a lot more than i like all the pansy-ass beta bois with their "survival" bullshit and commune bullshit and thinking karl marx is some sort of novel or engaging item bullshit.
mircea_popescu: also for bonus lols, suge is the iiird person singular present tense of "to suck" in romanian.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller quite probably he was trolling and the whole thing's 100% made up.
mircea_popescu: sure. and bill de blasio could do whatever and go away with it.
mircea_popescu: what they do and don't do, shit-for-brians is not there to decide.
mircea_popescu: 10k coins with 10k difficulty = 0.001 coins with 10bn difficulty.
mircea_popescu: there were people sending TENS of thousands of coins to pirate.
mircea_popescu: that asymptote is sharply below anything that'd count as "significant coin"
mircea_popescu: sum up whatever metric you will. a group of derps has an asymptotically limited total value, which is the big secret "consumer internet" shitups do not wish to ever admit.
mircea_popescu: look at how much websites trying to sell the average derp music make.