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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have no idea why the thing would disconnect for any reason other than what we discussed through the pool weighing
mircea_popescu: im seriously not concerned. the thing designed, if implemented, will be fine.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: network in terms of nodecount, function in terms of maximal packet loss you admit and load in terms of saturation.
mircea_popescu: but i reckon the whole shebang "here, do this this this" list is getting closer.
mircea_popescu: of course, the people trying to get that to work (davout, jurov, etc) aren't getting that much support yet.
mircea_popescu: but in any case : it's not clear we can't stick it in pogo. so... there is that.
mircea_popescu also wants to introduce by reference the discussion of "for honor" and slavegirks
mircea_popescu: you run that in your teenage hoisiery shop because that's what the teenage hussies want.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform atm node seems more akin to soda fountain
mircea_popescu: pretty much the only nato maker of heavy helicopters that actuallyfly
mircea_popescu: anyway, to be fair actual cuban havana club is very good. but so often counterfeit...
mircea_popescu: they gotta import fucking what's that shit called, captain wedgepants
mircea_popescu: they got badly faked mumm, they don't got the local stuff. and god fucking forbid i ask for the best rum in the world (centenario anejo especial) because they don't import it from nearby costa rica
mircea_popescu: they carry all the fucktarded imported us shit i wouldn't pour in my drain. beefeather ? srsly ? to what, kill lice with ?
mircea_popescu: which makes it "cheap" so no fucking bar ever carries it
mircea_popescu: argentina is weird #89546 : the best cognac thing they have here (reserva san juan) retails (IN THE STORE!) for like 80 pesos a bottle.
mircea_popescu: kinda degenerated into the french bacalaureat, which meanwhile became a "right" dontchaknow
mircea_popescu: no i mean like, "here is this worm that came out of my wife. turns out it actually is a person!"
mircea_popescu: i guess there's the texas dip for girls "of society" which means ~jack anymore, and i suppose they still do bar mitzvah in some households but srsly...
mircea_popescu: it's really unfortunate they don't do presentation anymore.
mircea_popescu: in a generous reading, students and other tramps are somehow in a liberal profession.
mircea_popescu: such a thing is not for sale past what you get publicly anyway, the bar has a list.
mircea_popescu: and a deeply ignorant population which imagines its vague notions of ethics and fairness are worth two shits, mostly through being so useless and inept that they never get to check said in any sort of practice.
mircea_popescu: overdrawn but unenforceable "rights" of the common man, endless trials, complete disjunction between law and commerce, the works.
mircea_popescu: and i don't think i've not gotten scammed for any item i bought or service i hired since at least 1875.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes well i have nobody with an axe to ship there rightnao
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the nsa approach to software issues is not "how can we fix this" but "how can we pretend this is fixed while really we can just keep it in sleeve for later because you never know". fnargl through and through.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i<asciilifeform> only swept under carpet << of course.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform also im pretty sure power didn't actually fail. derpy kids doing things to fix things etc.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but in no small part (to answer punkman's q) this experiment is interesting to me specifically to see how well things do in cramped spaces.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "how much cpu does it have available while floating 50 blocks behind"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i read it b4. iirc we had it in chan even
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform can you measure exactly how much it is impacted ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: yet, to stay in the same anecdotal universe, whatever the шарашка proves about the fundamental worthlessness of "intellectuals", the vory/suka dispute prove that man is still not chimp.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, horse medicine works to some degree on some people.
mircea_popescu: it works great to distinguish chimpalikes aka ciumpalaci.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, go, write "a lisp such that any other man would see the wisdom in it and b e able to use it to whatever purpoise without bothering to learn it, or even read his own code"
mircea_popescu: except in places (like shown by this experiment) where he does.
mircea_popescu: for all you know he picked from the wrong chimp country.
mircea_popescu: so no : i am not rawl's "any other man" and so very much less am i some derp's three dozen chimps.
mircea_popescu: and it is not about "the effects". it is abour social organisation, which is supposed to be a culturally normated activity.
mircea_popescu: how do you figure chimps are representative ? why not go ask the ruminants of the fucking plains.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i can conduct an experiment where i get together six poor africans, who then proceed to get drunk and be stupid, and say "lo! this is man" and you'll say "gtfo these niggers out of hewre, they're unrepresentative".