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mircea_popescu: not from the hero's pov, obviously, that can't be. but from my (the other's) pov.
mircea_popescu: my great-grandfather, aged 85 or so, died by taking to bed and refusing to eat anymore.
mircea_popescu: still cms is what people do with people's time ? in 2015 ?
mircea_popescu: had you aimed at her paratnthesis and made her late instead...
mircea_popescu: well... the thing ius, crickets and frogs and whatnot, which do EXACTLY this, do it to reproduce, and succeed in reproducing.
mircea_popescu: "Remember, bitcoin works through consensus by code. Not consensus by CODERS."
mircea_popescu: "this program takes as much memory torun at all as it totally employs". "this program takes as much time to run every time as it takes the longest time" etc.
mircea_popescu: specifically - the cheapest and most effective approach to security still is and remains "giving people an easier task". chief on the list of ways to achieve this,
mircea_popescu: that said, static allocation goes a long way. this connects to the "fixed time" discussion re rsa yest.
mircea_popescu: 1 is readily surmountable by abstraction. i know how to do this. (you may think you are the first to meet the problem - you are not. scripts are sold in show biz all the time etc). 2. is readily solved, whether you like to or not, and 3 yes.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in other news - they've made a new extra dark chocolate icecream. i can't explain it.
mircea_popescu: take the useful part out of the enemy's tendency to sit in front of things. there is actual value in the "do X, do Y, do Z, you're now done" list.
mircea_popescu: or well... at least in times when the imperial administration was any good.
mircea_popescu: in the sense that yes they could come out of ANYWHERe, and make a hole anywhere, but then had to spend time to loot, and then had to come back AT THE HOLE, ie not anywhere. so either take time to make a new hole or go back to where the old one was. in either case, giving the imperial army enough time to plug their ass.
mircea_popescu: if you can't have clean water, not only is it that you can't take a hot bath - it's that you couldn't conceivably want to.
mircea_popescu: there's a reason people who only have sewer water don't take hot baths in it.
mircea_popescu: think about it mats : if great wall "can't be had", if the statement is correct, there's something fundamentally wrong not merely with your fences, but with the idea of making one and more importantly with the process that results in this perceived need.
mircea_popescu: wanli changcheng omfg so THIS is how it feels when people use languages you don't know.
mircea_popescu: there's all sorts of ways to make you feel better about it, tho.
mircea_popescu: just like the upside of picking sane girls to fuck isn't "that hot blondie" but "i fucked over a thousand women in my life, most of whose names i don't remember, and yet i never had a venereal disease". that's the upside.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-08-2015#1237221 << upside is massive but hard to quantify. upside is that we HAVE FOUND THE HOLES IN GCC! upside is that we know what to say about linux, and why we're saying it. upside is that we have rotor, and that we know why nobody without a rotor has a chance. upside of a sane approach is never "where it gets you", but always "where it didn't take you".
☝︎ mircea_popescu: we can even have a "usg affiliated entities pay 4x, people not in wot pay 2x."
mircea_popescu: why is the usg so insistent in pushing its "private" agencies into forcing slavery on random people ?
mircea_popescu: there's an elided [just] in there, which the illiterately-literate have no idea about.
mircea_popescu: obviously once rigurous education is abandoned, the whole of society reverts to a "tribe of monkeys" levels.
mircea_popescu: if you draw hearts or explosions or w/e around it, even better/
mircea_popescu: overheard in #eulora : <diana_coman> the middle road is shit
mircea_popescu: 'malignant twerp will level more houses with bulldozer than with spade'
mircea_popescu: roast a fuckjing rabbit take it over or something sane.
mircea_popescu: poor old guy, gets isolated because people are getting incredibly weirder, and then when he tries to break out that's grounds for further isolation ?
mircea_popescu: this was a major thought cleavage, which i noticed at the time, and i noticed that people were actually visibly... peculiar about other things.
mircea_popescu: the societal consensus being at the time that "to the best worker belong the best tools"
mircea_popescu: well, specifically what triggered me was the proposition that "this man that is doing a bad job would do a better job weith better tools"
mircea_popescu: one of the fringes of "intellectual" throughout the period.
mircea_popescu: right after the 90s these "englightened" folks started to pop up, usually looking just like steve jobs
mircea_popescu: but re the languages thing : both ru and cn have ~their own~ idiot matrices.
mircea_popescu: it's rank nonsense, they love it (perhaps for good reason) like you love washington.
mircea_popescu: the notion that people in china dislike their government to any degree is not unlike claiming that there's going to be a peasant revolt that'll shoot stalin', where stalin' = stalin - 99.9% of the killings.
mircea_popescu: ag3nt_zer0 you have to understand that this entire "market" thing is more of a DoS thing than a local thing. there isn't a substantial similarity between ukraina and china that makes both appear in the press you read as "so and so square".