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mircea_popescu: ty months of bloom" << epic. in the same article he complains about someone complaining about roses being bourgeois.
mircea_popescu: "I think it is worth recording what some of them cost, just to show what you can do with a few shillings if you invest them in something that grows.I think it is worth recording what some of them cost, just to show what you can do with a few shillings if you invest them in something that grows. [...] Between them, in nine years, those seven rose bushes will have given what would add up to a hundred or a hundred and fif
mircea_popescu: so : yes, great, for outside. not the chief point of computing in any sense.
mircea_popescu: that munroe character makes the same point with schoolchildren, schoolmasters and condoms, but i have no taste for it.
mircea_popescu: my perception of "secured computing", for what it's worth (perhaps not much) is that it's very much akin to clothing. sure, it "protects the body". yet one generally wishes for the sort of house that allows, and that's populated by the sort of women that don't particularly need that protection.
mircea_popescu: scale wars at the cost of prolonging indefinitely a 'peace that is no peace'.
mircea_popescu: Had the atomic bomb turned out to be something as cheap and easily manufactured as a bicycle or an alarm clock, it might well have plunged us back into barbarism, but it might, on the other hand, have meant the end of national sovereignty and of the highly-centralised police state. If, as seems to be the case, it is a rare and costly object as difficult to produce as a battleship, it is likelier to put an end to large-
mircea_popescu: 1. the consensus of the people ; 2. the internet ; 3. the consensus of people on the internet.
mircea_popescu: i don't think orwell is properly credited with the invention of this term ?
mircea_popescu: James Burnham's theory has been much discussed, but few people have yet considered its ideological implications–that is, the kind of world-view, the kind of beliefs, and the social structure that would probably prevail in a state which was at once UNCONQUERABLE and in a permanent state of 'cold war' with its neighbors.
mircea_popescu: the only places plankton can colonize are the uk, france, etc.
mircea_popescu: better'd be to see who hanged for the fact that prefab production wasn't transitioned to "sandwiched prefab with styofoam". in like, 1992.
mircea_popescu: but let's not talk of "20 years later". not on the internet, of all places.
mircea_popescu: of course... once they age they'll be the best cockroach house any cockroach could dream for.
mircea_popescu: jurov if "gotta trade with somebody" is your premise, go to new york, and be a jew.
mircea_popescu: HERE IS THE RECENT TRICK THAT B-A REALLY HATES. HOW AN UNEMPLOYED TWERP MADE IMPOSSIBLE TO SOFTWARE.
mircea_popescu: how about you go live in china, then, if your plan is to put your life on a foundation of trade with china ?
mircea_popescu: siberia is to be approached sanely, which is to say, dressed in furs you tanned yourself, with trained dogs and women that are provedly able to live like this.
mircea_popescu: see phf, men are deeply afraid of women. especially the men that never killed anyone for the simple aesthetic pleasure of taking a life.
mircea_popescu: "But a boxing audience is always disgusting, and the behaviour of the women, in particular, is such that the army, I believe, does not allow them to attend its contests." lmao orlov and his middle class sentimentalities.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: mats there's certainly a difference between brainfuck and c++ programs that's driven by difference between actual brainfuck and c++. what exactly it is, tho...
mircea_popescu: and omfg the x of y enough already god damned pigdinheads
mircea_popescu: now my question to you, mats, becomes : what's this to you ? does the apparent novelty catch your eye ? or wut ?
mircea_popescu: heck, given the shape they're in, one in a billion may be excessive.
mircea_popescu: atens "bitcoin improvement" prgrammes is way too much.
mircea_popescu: current computer science favours the speed of light over other speeds "much more important to "us"". it is a serious fucking problem for usg/nsa/alphabetsoup that there still exist people who even vaguely understand what this shit even is, because even one in a million that can make actual decisions based on actual facts when that asshole asciilifeform publishes things about pgp keys or that asshole mircea_popescu thre
mircea_popescu: ng, not the emulation gap between modern CPUs and a theoretical Turing machine."
mircea_popescu: "The divergence between the theoretical Turing machines and the machines designed to emulate has grown significantly; most of the "work" modern computers (including mobile devices, etc.) perform is not computation oriented as it was with a Turing machine. Today networking, graphics/audio and interaction with the physical world (SCADA, wearables, etc.) have become the key features that the industry is working on improvi
mircea_popescu: my chair has spent a great deal of time pondering my ass.
mircea_popescu is further unimpressed with "Since joining the cult of LangSec, I've spent a great deal of time pondering" intros.
mircea_popescu is not particularly impressed with this recently discovered pop-crypto celeb. srsly, this is it, people stopped giving a shit about "music" so mpaa may die, but there's going to be a naa creating "crypto popstars" instead ?
mircea_popescu: "A Crypto Trick That Makes Software Nearly Impossible to Reverse"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: yeah, universal literacy totally was a good idea, i see it now.
mircea_popescu: what the fuck is "Everyone" going to do in siberia, upvote the snow ?
mircea_popescu remembers the early hopeful days of the chechen republic whatever it was called and that mustacioed fellow whose name, inescapably, came to "joker"
mircea_popescu: i don't disagree with the point at all, i just don't think that's what happened there.
mircea_popescu: a record made of the incident at the very list! what sort of bureaucracy is this.
mircea_popescu: for one thing, if it were bureaucracy driven, wouldn't you expect the girl be shot ? the woman dismissed ? some sort of "repercussions" ? "consequences" and whatnot ?
mircea_popescu: the real dynamic there is that the dudes are so fucking scared of actual womanhood they desperately seek, and for their sins find, an escape path.
mircea_popescu: (anyway, one girl, the only one that is overtly flirting with the men, is rejected for the obscure reason that she had a bad 1st molar. the procureress protests (in italian) that such a pretty girlie! nobody even noticed!
mircea_popescu: "una si bella fanciula... nessun' ne se h'a accorso..."
mircea_popescu: (the funniest thing about chechens is that they actually use the given name bula.
mircea_popescu: at the very least he'll be henceforth known as abdulbek the schoolteacher or something.
mircea_popescu: i'm not an authority on subcaucasian tribal customs, but my guess would be that such deeds would be a face wound for the poor guy in question incompatible with any sort of continued authority.
mircea_popescu: and the "criminal authority" has a name. also ran a hotel, which also had a name. etc.
mircea_popescu: i think he's mixing the pots, too. this story's from serbia.
mircea_popescu: "Another time, in school, a group of Chechens stormed into a classroom in the middle of a class, selected the three most attractive girls, and dragged them away with them. Later we found out that the girls were presented as birthday presents to a local Chechen criminal authority."
mircea_popescu: but hey, orlov doesn't know about india. he got a hammer an' he's a builder.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the problem is that the us never having been a nation, it can't possibly fail like one.
mircea_popescu: you're not smart to live a long time, you're smart to live well. length don't enter into it.
mircea_popescu: but teaching a boy that he should somehow cleave his intelligence from his activity is just as fucking criminal.
mircea_popescu: you know, teaching a woman that she's supposed to neglect the functioning of her head so she can focus on... the kitchen, i guess, as the puritans can't quite make the cunt point, is criminal.
mircea_popescu: and they didn't hang tyhe "local police" by the lamp posts ?