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mircea_popescu: very succint, always quick, rarely find the global solution.
mircea_popescu: which shows us the problem in all its nude glory : ad hoc systems are unrepresentable.
mircea_popescu: but that's because you happened to take refuge from the rain there, has little to do with the roof.
mircea_popescu: housing roofs also play the role of attracting (or repelling) hot sexy soaking wet babes to your perch for the purpose of you getting a blowjob.
mircea_popescu: and if as far as we know it might as well not, that makes 84% or w/e comparisons untenable. irrespective of what may or may not be the case.
mircea_popescu: yeah, but now you're arguing with a straw man. i never said it doesn't, i just said as far as we know, it might as well not.
mircea_popescu: still not very valid a comparison, because no thiamine ever links to.. acell wall.
mircea_popescu: in any case, claiming a z80 and a pentium 6 are "99.84% identical" on the grounds of mass spectrometry is about as apt.
mircea_popescu: Adlai not a good example, it's directly obviouswhat that does.
mircea_popescu: mats admittedly i'm clueless, but how does this optimize anything
mircea_popescu: why ? you want to steal people's bank credentials and nude pics,
mircea_popescu: anyway, this is the true risk of stopping trains : all this long tail of shit that was supposed to be "never" catches up with you
mircea_popescu: think about it this way : if you reverse 5, out of thousands, but not randomly picked, you can now install on what, 1% of the base ? 10% ?
mircea_popescu: the sucvess of the past is no guarantee fore the failure of the future or how did that sec-mandated thing go
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a) you can install it. b) it might become common in futuree.
mircea_popescu: if the byzantine problem had a systematic solution, we wouldn't be here.
mircea_popescu: because really, trying to rewrite it without dma ... might as well start over.
mircea_popescu: dma is actually one of the principal reasons i agree with alf's "current computing stack must die"
mircea_popescu: what this is saying is, "Scarf up cpu data, crack it on video card, good to go"
mircea_popescu: "Gpu can be used for fast/swift mathematical calculations like xor'ing or parsing"
mircea_popescu: otherwise, how much do you pay a man to go die in palestina or w/e.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, the golden age of fedualism worked EXACTLY the same : while a king indisputably expended out of his purse, and amounts that were not trivial in terms of individual households, nevertheless the entire machine worked on the wilful donations of ten thousand knights, that actually lived their life in accordance with this particular model deliberately.
mircea_popescu: there's prolly going to be decades ellapsed before the immensity of just this one shift is even noticed, let alone fully discussed.
mircea_popescu: but the superiority of la serenissima over the fiat pretend-sovereigns is resplendent in all parts and throughout. here for instance : at least we don't even attempt the impossible,
mircea_popescu: 15/the-definitive-sovereign/ which are currently financed principally through voluntary donations of the citizenry, in the shape of time, know-how, expertise etc.
mircea_popescu: (and by no one can, i mean systematically. obviously one can, but only as an individual act. only ever as an individual act)
mircea_popescu: all fucking science exists as maybes, that's what it is. piles of hypotheses. just like no one can ever turn an ethic should into an engineering is, just so no one can turn a scientific maybe into an auctorial do it.
mircea_popescu: but the idea that scientists are not authorities doesn't really need much explanation, to anyone outside of the libertard coolaid club.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform for the record, osama bin laden took it upon himself to deliver a dozen jingos with shards in them right @ 1, Police Plaza
mircea_popescu: (to the more broad general point : an authority, perceived or actual, that faces absolutely no danger in case his pronouncements turn out to be wrong, CAN NOT BE USED AS AN AUTHORITY)
mircea_popescu: wtf happened to those economists, have they lost their echonomy jobs because of it ?
mircea_popescu: when we were discussiong this in january, he had talked to economists that said it's not true...
mircea_popescu: this is LITERALLY how it goes, tho they're broadly unaware of it.
mircea_popescu: you can't prove he's not a ninja, goes the broken mental process, because maybe you just didn't see iot.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform plenty. the ninja is the warrior closestly approximable by sitting on ass at computer.
mircea_popescu: davout would not work, if he still had any face to lose. but as it is, will necessarily work : has nothing left, therefore nothing to be lost.
mircea_popescu: with the victims, or as michael jackson's hologram would say, "ALLEGED!!1"
mircea_popescu: that's the entire fucking insistution of the settlement.
mircea_popescu: "LabMD wasn't the first time Tiversa's false hacks made national news," so how is it false ?
mircea_popescu: "We were a small company," he said. "It's not like we had millions of dollars to fight this and tons of employees." << yeah, the fetlife style. "we suck, but that's ok because we are small". herpy-derp, stick to twitter.
mircea_popescu: "In 2010, Tiversa scammed LabMD, a cancer testing center in Atlanta, Wallace testified. Wallace said he tapped into LabMD's computers and pulled the medical records."