asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: as i understand, the rioters have no truck with lizard hitler; they protest against an imagined comfortable white suburbanite
asciilifeform: 'He retorts the all too common accusation thrown at rioters: “People wanna say we destroying our own neighborhoods. We don’t own nothing out here!”' << what does white man own in usa ?
asciilifeform: at least intel no longer collects royalties for x86. and does not directly supply the circuit to every producer
asciilifeform: incidentally, i bring up 'arm' to remind folks that we are quickly approaching (or perhaps past) the point of being stuck with a turd every bit as odious as x86
asciilifeform: because that is who ultimately decides what is used in the great slave mines of usa
asciilifeform: decimation: this means 'be the darling of the usg crown'
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: thx, but i don't need these for anything
asciilifeform: 'we use arm because everyone uses arm'
asciilifeform: 'mips' is superior, imho, in virtually every way - and they would crank out mips-en, but where then to crib code wholesale and piecemeal ?
asciilifeform: the confucian kingdoms breathe plagiarism like air.
asciilifeform: or, more commonly, plagiarized subroutines
asciilifeform: just like ussr stamped out single-crystal pdp-11 clones by the millions.
asciilifeform: china is cranking out arm clones by the billion, and certainly not all of these roll in the royalty? how does it square with my hypothesis? answer - perfectly.
asciilifeform: while being a heavily patent-encumbered, baroquely-architectured turd.
asciilifeform: ' quietly cornered the market in applications where 1) no winblows legacy 2) computation/watt ratio actually matters
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: it worked, but that particular chip/board had uncommonly slow i/o, it was nearly unusable
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: on, if i recall, a 'raspberry'
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: i actually did this at one point.
asciilifeform: but 'structured asic' is still not a real asic.
asciilifeform: the latter isn't simply a non-reprogrammable fpga; it has the LUTs of fpga, but with 'wiring' baked into the metallization layers, rather than fpga-style switching fabric
asciilifeform: and, to return to that old thread, i still think that mircea is mistaken about the current crop of miners being something other than 'structured asic'
asciilifeform: of course, if you read pg's piece correctly (i.e. substitute 'exceptionally obedient coolie' for 'exceptional programmer', the contradictions are instamagically resolved.
asciilifeform: 'Question: why doesn’t this hypothetical guy, if he’s so ‘great’ and ‘exceptional’, just do his own thing? What’s he need Initrode for? Why should he move to a 2 BR/2 BA in Sunnyvale, CA to get a biweekly paycheck?'
asciilifeform: decimation: the relevant boojums are to be produced either in underground workshops, like grenades during warsaw ghetto uprising, or in a foreign land and smuggled in
asciilifeform: decimation: this is why the usual concepts of 'product' and 'market' are to be avoided there.
asciilifeform: TomServo: 'hangout' is the traditional english term for disinfo
asciilifeform: how did you read either one and not realize this ?
asciilifeform: (leaving aside the question of whether mr s is a hangout)
asciilifeform: 'pseudoliberal/pseudoconservative indoctrination and university- and church-based brainwashing that put it in place, cost them a pretty penny... ...How about leveraging it to organize some sort of rabidly homophobic racist fundamentalist separatist enclave somewhere down south? Or perhaps one somewhere in the north, where zoophilia is de rigeur while heterosexual intercourse requires a special permit from a committee stocked w
asciilifeform: 'The bonus question is, what sort of anti-America will these parasites set up inside America before they abandon their host and scatter to their fortified compounds in undisclosed locations around the world? Or will they not even bother, and just provoke a war of all against all?'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: current king probably weighed his chances of ending up as an example, like hussein, milosevich, others who dared to stand up to anglo.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: a surrender that may or may not be accepted.
asciilifeform: basic rules include: 1) don't be a loud, solitary point source. anywhere. ever. 2) spread spectrum, frequency hop, cryptographically driven 3) steganographically mix into existing spectrum garbage.☟︎
asciilifeform: this, notably, is not high science. it's decades-old sop in electronic warfare field (yes, there are textbooks. in english, even. i have one right here.)
asciilifeform: (how? see the old thread re: saddam hussein's gps jammers. for example.)
asciilifeform: 16 kHz is probably the max that you will get allocated politically << and the rest of that thread << Teh Phyootoore lies in discovery of undetectable (or at least unprosecutable) methods of breaking any and all laws which pertain to 'property rights' in radio spectrum.
asciilifeform: spiegel << discussion of 'tor' as not yet having spread its legs - suggests psychop; but on the other hand, the material (claims) circa 2010-2012.
