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decimation: especially if it is
a 'commercial' satellite
BingoBoingo: So marginally more directional than
a satellite TV reciever.
mircea_popescu: dude look at that, you can't find
a pic of John McCain online that's not from like 1979
decimation: asciilifeform: here's another one:
http://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/uavs-drive-satcom-modernization/ "The reality, however, is the role of the lion’s share of UAVs is to provide data to soldiers within 50 miles of the aircraft using line-of-sight air-to-ground links,” Gardner wrote. “Today these links are predominantly analog FM links for standard definition video, but
a change to sophisticated digital links is under
decimation: but I am assuming
a world where e-m spectrum could be otherwise be allocated to other-than-friends-of-the-bezzle
decimation: asciilifeform: I guess if the king isn't
a derp, he turns grapeshot upon the mob
mircea_popescu: "Thanks to technological change, over the past few decades the capital-intensiveness of emerging successor infrastructures has been collapsing faster than the existing infrastructure itself. The classic example, from Buckminster Fuller, is replacing
a transoceanic cable system emdodying God only knows how many thousand tons of metal with
a few dozen communications satellites weighing
a few tons each."
mircea_popescu: the guy that wrote the os romania still runs on, for almost two centuries now ? had
a working model
mircea_popescu: once france was going to fail, louis settled into
a comfortable "apres moi, le deluge" and the people felt right about the same way germans felt around hitler's bunker.
mircea_popescu: this ensured the failure of france as
a going concern, because it couldn't keep up with the new megastate.
mircea_popescu: the weakness of the crown allowed the personal union of the dutch and england, which created
a shipping superpower
mircea_popescu: here's
a reduced version of the problem : england had
a shitty king, that led to the empowering of
a a bizarre sect. this is what happens when monarchy falters - secret societies.
mircea_popescu: uh. i dunno, but i suspect the revolution was
a historical necessity.
decimation: my limited understanding is that much blame falls on Louis for being
a dufus
decimation: mircea_popescu: as
a student of french history, how do you think the revolution could have been reversed?
mircea_popescu: they also buy into the theory of women, black people and so forth being
a bunch of simpletons in need of special olympics
mircea_popescu: takes
a whole of
a lot more than "i cursorily looked through my textbook on sciences" to meaningfully impact the past.
mircea_popescu: "Robin Williams' suicide was triggered by
a horrible disease called Lewy Body Dementia ... sources connected with his family tell TMZ."
mircea_popescu: get
a load of this... the qin envoy guy is using the example of
a chinese table tennis player as highly achievementful women.
decimation: I found
a chocolate bush one day but it turned out to be rabbit turds
mircea_popescu: the "body of human science" understood as "the government employees paid to derp on
a topic" enacted "slow moving schizophrenia" as
a thing.
mircea_popescu: decimation coelenterata. they just float around in the sea. not their fault some happened upon
a vent, not their fault the vent will go out.
dub: teh body of human science says global warming is
a thing
mircea_popescu: all these people whose survival strictly depends on
a extreheheeemely unlikely arrangement imagine themselves like... you know, representatives of HUMANITY outright
mircea_popescu: basically "i am
a worthless sack of dung. the proof of this is that if i got sent to any other circumstance i'd make
a total fool of myself"
mircea_popescu: basically, dude imagines that
a) he currently lives in
a world where people actually give
a shit what usians thing and b) this will survive time travel.
BingoBoingo: The geographic area occupied by present day Collinsville, Illinois had
a population of ~35,000 600 years ago, and has
a similar population today.
decimation: mircea_popescu: yeah that formula 'fits' - culture is derived in
a convergence of circumstances + time
Vexual: Might give it
a look, The tourist was watchable
mircea_popescu: decimation> so your point is that the lack of egalitarianism did not foster
a culture? << my point being that culture is strictly
a matter of time. how people organise is irrelevant. which also means there's no shortcuts.
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: the great fork war is inevitable. and we know what is on their side of the line. but what is on the other? the miners' mystery forks? our gadget, that doesn't even load the blockchain? << consider the gadget
a piece of art. as always, the miners determine everything.
PeterL: no, not yet, I'm gonna swith it to
a different chan for
a minute while I derp with it
a bit
ben_vulpes: are you still running it in
a screen session or whatever?
decimation: so your point is that the lack of egalitarianism did not foster
a culture?
ben_vulpes: PeterL: do you need
a hand with stabilizing that thing?
ben_vulpes: nah just polishing off
a bottle of champagne in the office
decimation: they actually do have
a culture, it is just roundly rejected by every elite with
a printing press
mircea_popescu: kansas culture = "move to ny, for
a better life" + "check out the corn!!1"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's hardly noteworthy. for as long as navigation was
a thing, navigating without
a banner meant being an outlaw.
mircea_popescu: maybe the author could be come
a girl by selling lipstick.
mircea_popescu: " If we could even get ourselves down to
a Western European level of car dependence, we would cut road fatalities to
a third of their present value and improve our quality of life in innumerable ways."
mircea_popescu: for most of its history, the us knew better, an saw itself as
a minor player.
mircea_popescu: ahem. yeah it's
a likely source of major fucking reform.
mircea_popescu: he 114th Congress may seem like an unlikely source of major reform. With the Republicans in control of both houses and
a second-term Democratic president wielding the veto pen"
The20YearIRCloud: Money, cash, cashier's checks, checks, ect, no one so far has ever heard of BTC, along with most not having access to
a computer
The20YearIRCloud: I wanted to run
a contest and give
a few away to non-tenants, as they'd likely have much more of
a desire for em
mircea_popescu: would be
a sore loss to win without
a war. instead of
a solid enjoyment of rape and plunder, do not pass go, directly to the trudge of administration ?
mircea_popescu remembers
a time "the line" was, you gotta raise
a woman's kids to get laid and you gotta pay
a hooker to get your cock sucked.
mircea_popescu: that leaves
a 16 btc worth of volume, which was exactly half making
a gain while exactly the other half made
a loss.
dub: i think its worth noting that for eveyone other than mp and mike it was
a 50-80% loss
BingoBoingo: On it's own it's
a naive thing, but the conversation around it will lead to bad things as it will probably lead to hard fork talk to set the stage for the blocksize increase discussion.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Of course all of those agents were found because after seeing folate's role in cell synthesis, feeding
a bunch of leukemias high dose folate was assumed to be the way. It helped the cancer so much!
mircea_popescu: anyway, my takeaway is that firmness is
a quality, but rigidity
a sin. the boob rule : good if made out of young woman, bad if made out of bone.
mircea_popescu: plenty of people manage to juggle
a wife and
a job and an insane government and still be here. i'm not one of them, as it happens, but that's neither here nor there : to condone jeffidiocy would be more of an insult to their otherwise unguilty face than i can stomach.
mircea_popescu: this is
a major blindspot of the conservative mindset : rigidity.
mircea_popescu: so in
a sense, i'm the one thing supporting this here bitcoin economy.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller actually, here's
a fun notion : outside of trilema credits, pretty much everything is really just facelifted paypal.