asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: used to also be called 'alt right' or 'neoreaction'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: snore. 'moldosphere' etc. largely dead.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: kings << that one, and $maxint others, are 'moldbuggian' blogs that appeared in imitation, nth generation copies of nth generation copies, etc.
asciilifeform: jurov: the uuencoded blob contained a fairly unremarkable keylogger (meant as a module within one of the gigantic modular mega-turds usg is fond of.)
asciilifeform: jurov: ...regin... << recycled news. from slides from 2 weeks ago; and the material therein does not contain proof of what is contained in the linked article at all...
asciilifeform: thestringpuller: nothing about this in linked article (appears to be about a proposal, somewhere deep in the bureaucracy, to use an altcoin for internal u.s. cental bank movements)
asciilifeform: trinque: and don't ever run closed-source linux proggys
asciilifeform: trinque: hope you don't own anything but the most classical hardware.
asciilifeform: if but all current gentoo devs had but one neck...
asciilifeform: possibly it'll be his driver, who will cut off his head and display it on a pike to a cheering crowd, and not him
asciilifeform: i do not know enough about koch to say whether he is likely to become a post-usg sovereign who might conceivably carry out experiments with artificial fucktopias
asciilifeform: the only kind of animal in a disneyland is - stuffed.
asciilifeform: perhaps after usg implodes he can buy some people to fill it with
asciilifeform: decimation: what is he supposed to do? he already bought 'sleep ad libitum'
asciilifeform: anything i, for instance, might say about the genuinely rich (folks entirely and permanently insulated from economic reality, who can finance wars, etc.) is likely to be laughably wrong - what i know of them is largely like what i know of the wonderful fish that live kilometres below in the sea - that is, stemming largely from inference using physical fact and thirdhand clues
asciilifeform: 'the actual rich' as a monolithic whole is, i dare say, a fictional trope as well
asciilifeform: just like to them 'economics is what happens at the grocery counter' (from mircea_popescu article ?)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my understanding is that most folks in usa get mental picture of 'what the rich do' from film
asciilifeform: if i could live like, e.g., taleb, for 20 years, with the understanding of being impaled after - i would. i don't particularly need being fifty for anything.
asciilifeform: 'it gave itself a lordship it couldn't finance' ?
asciilifeform: it's good for ~30 years. after that - brick.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: think of it this way. space probe has radiotherm battery.
asciilifeform: ask lord kelvin to work for a living, while at it.
asciilifeform: still equations? maybe yes. maybe no.
asciilifeform: ask j.c.maxwell to give up his horse and hunting ground.
asciilifeform: what i meant was, someone whose primary avocation is thinking. and yes, it is possible to do this in a forest, in log cabin, like unabomber.
asciilifeform: neh i ought to have been more specific.
asciilifeform: anywhere, afaik, in usa, but the wildest wolf forest or the meanest urban ash heap
asciilifeform: back to 'cultured man' - i'd say that living 'life of the mind' in usa is not cheap. regardless of what kind of hero you might be. a dwelling without random bozos sharing it, for instance, is $xxxx/mo.
asciilifeform: 'sapper errs twice, once when choosing profession'
