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mircea_popescu: i just don't see any cause to suspect this is what they;'re talking about
mircea_popescu: and as the chief procurer pointed out "if you break the guidance at any point, we're still gonna call it stealth"
mircea_popescu: turns out the stealth airplane is not stealth in any sense.
mircea_popescu: then again i also didn't know telegram is some sort of chatroom, so.
mircea_popescu: there is no basis that i can perceive on which one could propose that the term "quantum" as used by usg in any context has any meaning.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if you add two and substract two and it comes out as what it was it's quantum resistant right ?
mircea_popescu: ridiculous. anyway, let teh usg keep on with the curves, wut.
mircea_popescu: we aren't recommending you do what we just recommended you do.
mircea_popescu: this is directly contradicting the last phrase in the previous snippet.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform wait wtf, don't move to suite b wait for suite qt ?!
mircea_popescu: anwyay, back to the issue. buck will maintain a perimeter of forest edge and brush. with his life.
mircea_popescu: so, no. the soviets will be obsessed with units of account.
mircea_popescu: there's a reason argentines are worried about "insecuridad" and mexicans abotu the fucking rain. they published a study here recently - the most worried about global warming is... south fucking america. they're still in the 1850s re sun here, even have their ozone.
mircea_popescu: the biological approach is, "all i need are three meals a day. half a meal a day is less than what i need, five meals a day is more. i prefer the latter"
mircea_popescu: it's not hard to explain tho. there's a political and a biological approach to life. the political approach is the thought of the alpha, the thing that results in half decade of trench warfare and a ruined europe : "either you sit lower than me or we fight."
mircea_popescu: there's no way to get rich while you sleep that doens't include everyone else getting richer.
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as at the time romanians declared they wish the latter, it was irrational.
mircea_popescu: in any case it makes the desires of post-capitalism, the welfare state and the consumerist society, impossible.
mircea_popescu: "teh shield of teh usg was strong in the 50s car industree"
mircea_popescu: do you know how many us car makers were all over japan in the 50s ?
mircea_popescu: like, say, at the time they were butchering around the don. how many hungarian dudes came over to ask questions ? dja know ?
mircea_popescu: do you know how many inquiries the mongols got from hungarians ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> or, if all else fails, the original gavinalert key. << not acceptable, been shared.
mircea_popescu: let me know if it actually makes any sense or i summarized to omuch
mircea_popescu: i was curious about dishes too, but i didn't expect to find them in the gutter.
mircea_popescu: more of the "lowest common denominator is representatives for groups" ideology crashing on the jagged shores of reality.
mircea_popescu: shorting instrument my foot. it can't be shorted for the same reason you can't short random idiot's imaginary girlfriend.
mircea_popescu: it will be absolutely great if they scam any exchange into accepting their shit as bitcoin, or otherwise if any retards pay money for xtc.
mircea_popescu: even if they have to be beaten with a nailed plank first
mircea_popescu: or any other place where the bar to entry is not as high as to exclude the urban poor.
mircea_popescu: and the kids coming after that just built on the habit.
mircea_popescu: no, in orwells - that he is insufficient, and he is a representative memberf of an inssuficient generation.
mircea_popescu: it's just buying into this "being civilised means inhabiting the world of dreams"
mircea_popescu: being a vegetable is unrelated to any other measurable quality.
mircea_popescu: they're all vegetal. the smart and the dumb, the tall and the short, the ones with tits and the ones without
mircea_popescu: but it may be that lisp is not actually useful in practice!11111!!1
mircea_popescu: how any lisper can keep away from it is anyone's guess by this point.
mircea_popescu contemplates the strange notion that every time he included hashes in stream he was actually doing the wrong thing.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: fear the power of the cult. the deepest errors can survive all of five minutes in the charged atmosphere.
mircea_popescu: which also happens to be the right thing, incidentally.
mircea_popescu: whereas i for a very long time have held the firm "fuck you, the text i write, i write with no consideration as to what you might misunderstand of it"
mircea_popescu: but it is apparent, from the apoplectic reactions, and glaring when you look at the shards together, that the same jerking around is both behind the openbsd story and the pgp story.