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mircea_popescu: lobbes people assume this is the case but i have not observed it to be true.
mircea_popescu: but i'd note that if there was a #derive-assets where i could get a half hour's window, this would be a non problem.
mircea_popescu: "oh but mp, if we make all messages 140 characters your advantages over us won't be so obvious"
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i suppose this is what the obese have ruined in the world. scarcity.
mircea_popescu: to get the enemy base. did research for them too, gathered resources,
mircea_popescu: in a distopian future with a very gritty burnished steel look and feel about it, you built all sorts of tanks, helicopters etc,
mircea_popescu: 3dmax or something. initialism like that. ace. something.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field hey, i dunno if you ever played this, but there was a GREAT, an absoluterly fucking fantastic game in the pre-windows days
mircea_popescu: that'd kick ass btw. "our fleet consists of this flagship that is a tank factory. it outputs tanks in continuous motion (60mph) 4 thick."
mircea_popescu: if you just have it hover on water, you should be able to move a fucking tank plant.
mircea_popescu: the hercules moves like a dozen planes, and actually flies.
mircea_popescu: and MIT was adverttiosing "learn how to light lightbulbs and other wonders of 1800 science! TODAY!"
mircea_popescu: "why learn how to shoot ? fire our ICBM Pea at your enemies!"
mircea_popescu: not many folks remember today where their asshole is located. wut of it.
mircea_popescu: (/me vaguely suspects that much like the french get the trophy for "last and therefore best supersonic air transport", the ru may get the trophy for "last and therefore best" fighter jet. i somehow doubt a better one's ever getting made, by anyone)
mircea_popescu: trinque anyway, the su's got that superb su, they gotta use it before the window closes in 5 -10years.
mircea_popescu: lmao if the romanians manage the performance of leasing some land to the russians right next to the land their leased the americans to make their military bases
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller your article ever end up onb twitter ?
mircea_popescu: the cannonical rejection of misplaced familiarity being "nu suntem deopotriva" ie, we're not of the same social level.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway in ro it has an entire migrated family : deopotriva (of the same ilk), impotriva (against) etc
mircea_popescu: the czechs consonants wandered because they munch too much cunmt
mircea_popescu: is this a latin influence in russian, is тивник anything ?
mircea_popescu: nuts. romanian has the word, same meaning, but the r migrated.
mircea_popescu: sad that the anglos have no languages, or linguistics whatsoever.
mircea_popescu: what the word describes is a purely intellectual situation, today.
mircea_popescu: pointedly no judgement as to likeliness or future course of events is made
mircea_popescu: "an undismissable argument may be brought that this will be so"
mircea_popescu: but anyway : "racism" is exactly the derp word for sexual preference. the reason some people don't like other people is purely sexual.
mircea_popescu: and we probably won't bother to answer, and they'll derp more, in their children, and so it goes.
mircea_popescu: and we'll kill them, and they'll want to know why, "Que tes ennemis expirants"
mircea_popescu: obviously if people weren't schmucks we could have nice things.
mircea_popescu: i didn't boither measuring early, who the fuck cares, but i would guess it did 10k an hour or some shit
mircea_popescu: ascii_field btw, i started a measuring, my node pulls ~600 blocks/hour
mircea_popescu: different tools for different jobs as it were. the corrosive substance of usg-ness makes anyth9ng on the public net vulnerable, and zerging the only possible approach to survival.
mircea_popescu: and have a airgapped system with the full history etc that's not exposed to the internet.
mircea_popescu: jurov yeah but the idea being that you run many nodes with smaller disks for day to day ops
mircea_popescu: ascii_field you know how the code nos supports "developer mandated" checkpoints ?
mircea_popescu: there are some fine examples from chinese era of overabundance when they used supertiny nails.
mircea_popescu: speaking of "will be obsolete soon" : we need that aribtrary checkpoint thing. if provided, node owner could store old chain apart.