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mircea_popescu: i'll take over the us fed and run it from right here, and if there's nobody else i'll take over fucking china silicon and run it from right here too. what in the ever loving fuck.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: if i'm not taking it over, who the fuck is, "the state" ? aliens ? chtulhu ?
mircea_popescu: will you take over the writing of your language and write stuff jurov ?
mircea_popescu: "Error : Your videocard is not old enough for you to be here. Get an older videocard and come back". this is what i wish to see.
mircea_popescu: and no, technology doesn't "change everything". technology changes nothing and never did.
mircea_popescu: this "progress" bullshit is dumb and must die. there's nothing in the future but a buggy, half assed, stupid reimplementation of the past.
mircea_popescu: if they were dumb enough to lose the recipes, they'll have to reimplement based on our os.
mircea_popescu: cards from the past were made, and therefore can be made. period and full fucking stop.
mircea_popescu: the "use specified card, spec = p[ast" is sustainable.
mircea_popescu: chetty no. the "use specified card, spec=future" thing is braindamaged. nobody has cards from the future.
mircea_popescu: the criteria for being "ba canonical os" is for it to fucking work, not for it to be fucking unique.
mircea_popescu: well, it can be a signed binary, but only after it is a pile of source.
mircea_popescu: "One campaign unit of fire was sufficient ammunition for one campaign - generally understood to be a three month supply.(21) This called for the following rounds per weapon: 1,000 rounds per field piece, 25,000 rounds per machine gun, and 240 rounds per rifle." << contrary to what one would expect on the basis of "aciton movies", the expected rate of fire of a rifle in war is ~2 shots/day.
mircea_popescu: (and yes, its perspectives for success are broadly why nuclear detonations were perfectly justified)
mircea_popescu: o seek the decisive victory. The principal objective of the land operation was the destruction of the American landing force on the beach."
mircea_popescu: hin range of the homeland airbases, the entire air combat strength would be employed in continual night and day assaults against these ships. In conducting the air operations, the emphasis would be on the disruption of the American landing plans. The principal targets were to be the troop and equipment transports. Those American forces which succeeded in landing would be swiftly attacked by the Imperial Army in order t
mircea_popescu: "The strategy for Ketsu-Go was outlined in an 8 April 1945 Army Directive.(4) It stated that the Imperial Army would endeavor to crush the Americans while the invasion force was still at sea. They planned to deliver a decisive blow against the American naval force by initially destroying as many carriers as possible, utilizing the special attack forces of the Air Force and Navy. When the amphibious force approached wit
mircea_popescu: whereas it sure as shit doesn't want any more of that "printed gun" nonsense.
mircea_popescu: the only difference being that the usg was not either powerful enough or attentive enough to give a shit either way about consoles in the 80s.
mircea_popescu: "let's redo the videogame winter because we're unique special snowflakes and who needs management"
mircea_popescu: on the other hand yesterday i bought ~10mn worth of thorns.
mircea_popescu: what doesn't work is the 'i made a level in five minutes so i'll make 500 levels in 20 hours' linear thing from grinder mmorpgs.
mircea_popescu: the challenge in eulora, much like in business, is to scale up while maintaining profitability.
mircea_popescu: and you can always mine, and low q mined stuff fetches a high % premium relative to their net value
mircea_popescu: yeah, you're needed to overcraft high level items for high level crafters to get them bps
mircea_popescu: it is much easier to get +ev if you play casually than if you play intensively.
mircea_popescu: mike_c btw, am i ever gonna see you in game ? ?!?! ?!? ?!? !???
mircea_popescu: and the recent adition, those which have some untinking people in the userbase and don't carew.
mircea_popescu: there's basically three types of things in this world : those who have nobody thinking in the userbase and don't care ; those who have some thinking people in the userbase and don't care
mircea_popescu: or in any case, has some people whoi can actually think in the userbase.
mircea_popescu: you will perhaps notice wireshark is taking a saner view of btc protocol than the power rangers
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't exactly know how they'd do a better job
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes do not be surprised that cli tools do not put out stuff in a format you don't know
☟︎ mircea_popescu: “Why should I only get this handout only the months that I attend school?” Explaining that he needs money for going out with his friends and buying clothes all year round, the young author concluded: “I don’t have anything against working. But if the government doesn’t make sure that I have a job, it is their responsibility to pay me the handouts all year around”.
mircea_popescu: "Sweden has traditionally relied heavily on the strong protestant work ethic of its citizens. A cornerstone of the country's welfare system has been a population which has been reluctant to misuse the system. Although taxes have been high and government benefits generous, the strong work ethic has stopped people from taking advantage of the welfare state. Alas, this attitude has been largely abandoned. As time has pass
mircea_popescu directs questions as to alf's interpretation of phenomena to alf directly.
mircea_popescu: moreover, it's obviously self-healing. mention -> hearing.
mircea_popescu: yet this same consideration (few foplks heard of) does not prevent you from linking say hasnasj
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know which of these a group noun falls into chiefly depends on how you examine.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes there's no story. i dun trust him, an' now you know i don't.
mircea_popescu: it's almost as if he respects the scholar and despises the whore^H^H^H^H i mean programmer
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