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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.
mircea_popescu: try telling that to as-saffah tho, "i've lost baghdad once a week"
mircea_popescu: for austin, "taking baghdad" once a week for three years straight would have been an excellent outcome : over one hundred allied victories!!11
mircea_popescu: also note that medieval commander answered for permanence. whereas modern commander answers for "accomplishment". very different end goals drive very different behaviours.
mircea_popescu: there are NUMEROUS contests where people in modern bases lose to partisans.
mircea_popescu: not so. there is no contest where people armed with rifles lose to people armed with bows.
mircea_popescu: modern military still suffers of the problem of the panzer 80 years ago : can take any position and hold absolutely none.
mircea_popescu: and it has proven this point in medieval places, such as iraq.
mircea_popescu: so wait. carrying water not being difficult (when one is not obese) is somehow a detraction from plumbing ?
mircea_popescu: maybe this is retarded, but, wouldn't you be better off adding a slight delay, converting to something like gifv on the fly and relying on html5 ?
mircea_popescu: (in the year 72015 in the sense that it can be mathematially proven it won't happen before. but who knows, maybe after. patience little wanobi!)
mircea_popescu: it will converge to sense. eventually. in the year 72015.
mircea_popescu: they never will. the browser process as it exists is almost an exact mirror of the us "democracy" electroal process.
mircea_popescu: making a SECURE browser would kick so much ass... and it is not actually THAT hard. not in the sense that it's not hard, but in the sense that we have an IMMENSE advantage over everyone else, from mozilla to who have you, in the "piss on the world and light it on fire" doctrine.
☟︎ mircea_popescu is kind-of nonplussed nobody called him on the misattribution of proust's work. but anyway, twas "Bouvard et Pécuchet", and the dilemma was 30 or 34, and he settled on 30. you people need to read more literature.
mircea_popescu: flaubert is famous for having declaredly spent weeks trying to decide on a temperature value in cote de chez swann
mircea_popescu: i would estimate less than 1% of trilema words were ever rewritten. it's pretty much first pass.
mircea_popescu: note that im not saying this is a good idea. i'm entirely unconvinced at the moment. but still, fwiw, iwii.
mircea_popescu: i still manage to distribute trilema to people who don't program
mircea_popescu: the only way such a thing will be published will be under a tmsr license. for obvious reasons.
mircea_popescu: punkman generally you need a decent video driver, something that does the equivalent of "print to file"