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mircea_popescu: (laugh but this happened - TWICE. both national socialism and leninist socialism did this.)
mircea_popescu: he already has a house there. most of these are appointments of convenience, like making serial rapist head of rape dept.
asciilifeform: is, e.g., mircea_popescu , burning with desire to work as american ambassador ?
asciilifeform: the one thing i don't quite grasp is why a heavy calibre d00d like the one described, would take the job of ambassador
mircea_popescu: best way to handle bureaucracy is to force it to spend its time handling itself.
mircea_popescu: phf pretty reasonable approach at that.
asciilifeform: 'Intelligence agencies and politicians in Germany are hoping to prevent a similar scenario next fall for the Bundestag elections. Some politicians in Germany have also proposed laws against the production and distribution of fake news.'
phf: seems like the pattern with all the appointments. "competent. has strong animosity towards whatever bureaucratic apparatus he's going to be head of."
phf: i'd make a "my lawyer's jewish, i know, i'll make im speak to all other jews" joke, but so far trump's appointments that i heard have been very competent :o
mircea_popescu: it's not just that the guy's ~not~ part of embassy usg. it's that he's a) pissed publicly on the very faces of the kids of the helicopter moms that make up embassy usg and b) is independently wealthy / intelligent enough to not give the slightest shit about them and their wine parties.
asciilifeform: 'In light of the rise of fake news on social media, the German Interior Ministry has proposed the creation of a "Center of Defense Against Disinformation," according to a report on Friday from the German news magazine "Der Spiegel."'
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: In Attacking David Friedman , J Street Condemns Itself - Breitbart: <http://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2016/12/20/attacking-david-friedman-j-street-condemns/>; J Street Tries to Raise Money off David Friedman Nomination: <http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/12/16/david-friedman-j-street-tries-raise-money/>; J Street Vehemently Opposes Nomination of David Friedman as US ...: (1 more message)
asciilifeform: 'Friedman, who specializes in litigation and bankruptcy law, was a key adviser to the incoming Republican president on US-Israel affairs during the presidential campaign.'
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform trumps bankruptcy laywer.
mircea_popescu: o look, trump wants dm friedman as israel ambassador.
asciilifeform: iirc only thing out of mr p publicly thus far is 'was provocation'
a111: Logged on 2016-12-19 18:48 mircea_popescu: anyway, to be fair here : the russians have no interest in waiting ; putin might be uncharacteristically meek, but in general a half dozen us ambassadors starting with the resident in manilla within the next week-10days is perfectly possible. at which point obama actually having the gall to call natl emergency and set aside the transfer of power is not entirely inconceivable. after which the russians WILL sink all the us carr
asciilifeform: iirc turks giving helping hand to the kurd-control exterminator crews is old noose..?
asciilifeform: (alternatively, of the 'wrong' wavelength, soften the ceramic a bit, then shoot with ordinary lahti)
asciilifeform: btw i wonder what a 100kw laser, of the right wavelength naturally, would feel like to the occupant of the windowed tank.
asciilifeform: but if you gotta 'ride a tank, hold a general's rank, while blitzkrig raged and the bodies stank'
mircea_popescu: use the subway like normal people.
mircea_popescu: fucking death trap.
mircea_popescu: well the cheapest thing is to not use one in the first place
asciilifeform: (why does tank need side windows anyway)
asciilifeform: sounds expensive. probably cheaper to put steel armour, and camera on one side, plasma tv on other !
mircea_popescu: good for up to 10-15kJ
asciilifeform: (afaik american vendors of lexan armour only warranty up to 12.7mm)
asciilifeform: i'd seriously like to see what happens with, say, the lexan window, vs 'lahti' antitank round from ww2
mircea_popescu: in fact the most dangeroius rounds aren't the outer (ie, very fast) but the inner (ie, just slow enough to spall the shit out of you)
phf: hence knife and bullet vests are two different beasts
mircea_popescu: you can jump into a pool ; but if you go fast enough it's concrete not water. same thing with shooting - adding speed does not actually help. even if you can drill it.
asciilifeform: just takes moar v.
asciilifeform: if you can pound a tungsten carbide nail through something, you can also shoot it.
mircea_popescu: so no, sabot or no sabot you're not shooting through the (tiny ass btw) windows.
asciilifeform: any good armour uses this effect, yes
mircea_popescu: the thing with it is it's layered, no matter the impact energy you get refraction because of the medium variance.
asciilifeform: i'll pitch in to cover cost.
asciilifeform: let's ask BingoBoingo to try it in his back yard and post photo, how about.
asciilifeform: but mircea_popescu probably knew this.
asciilifeform: also there is bullet and then there is bullet. you can get sabot rounds for ordinary '12' shotgun.
mircea_popescu: nah, bulletproof glass is a thing.
asciilifeform: dun matter what you make them from.
asciilifeform: ever see tank with windows ?
asciilifeform: (obummer's obummermobile was so laden with armour that the british could not fix it, this was a scandal a few yrs back)
mircea_popescu: the reason is that same old mc^2 ; there's no better heat dampener than water nor better energy dampener than mass.
mircea_popescu: in bulletproofing there's really no substitute for mass.
asciilifeform: you hoist it on the same hoist used for bus, garbage truck.
mircea_popescu: you can't even hoist it, it's like 7.5 tons
asciilifeform: cheaper to get 10 spare sysops.
asciilifeform: (unlike the iraq folx he wasn't getting tax-free double pay afaik)
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski hey, they're on the path of recreating a post-enlightenment history in which females actually matter, what's a movie compared.
asciilifeform: the sysadmin d00d in benghazi, i am told , was also quite surprised in his last 5min of life.
phf: that's sort of part of the deal
asciilifeform: i did meet a d00d who ~did~ get the job, turns out those containers ain't bulletproof, whod'vethunkit.
phf: you get to work from those Sun shipping containers, it was all very gibson bigend trilogy
asciilifeform: (rejected, 'position requires prior military experience, sorry we forgot to state in ad')
asciilifeform: phf: tax-free, too.
phf: back during iraq war the salaries for ~sysadmins~ were way above what you could get on the market (i remember looking at listings and vaguely contemplating doing it because it ~looked~ like fun), i.e. 100-150k for 6 month of deployment. i think now because of vc money it has switched.
mats: where do i sign up for this sysadmin job in pasadena than pays more than 200k usd
pete_dushenski: http://archive.is/Q0e9f << and another example of reddit delusions not being confined to ethereum and shillary. apparently these poor kids are making up their own non-existent 90s movies now.
asciilifeform: just about every literate young d00d in usa has at one point or another turned down (or accepted, and lived to regret) 200+k usd in sv
mircea_popescu: sure, as in any socialist totalitarian state, it is better to not even care about the worthless money ; and try and achieve positions of power in the necessary feudal structure.
asciilifeform: (incidentally a general who steps anywhere near the battlefield, gets hazard bonus, tax-free-enablement, and several other additions to pay)
a111: Logged on 2016-12-23 13:08 mircea_popescu just checked, o-9 pay grade is from 14.5k to 18k A MONTH. it is literally a better deal to be an entry level sysadmin working in pasadena than a lieutenant-general working in baghdad.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-23#1589102 << it is, perhaps surprisingly, still better to be the general. he does not have to live in a 1room sv flat that costs 95% of that 18k. ☝︎
asciilifeform: that someone found a method of converting into (at the time, rare) barcode reader. and was sued for his trouble
asciilifeform: it was a toy given out as advertising gimmick
mircea_popescu: the modern democracy gotta make items that can not be useful ; and ONLY items that can not be useful.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-23#1589092 << most likely is that they followed the contours of the existing auto ☝︎
mircea_popescu: pretty sure it's carefully constructed to be poisonous if burned.
asciilifeform: even in piddling civilian postbox i get aaaaalmost enough crapolade to stoke a furnace with.
mircea_popescu: nobody could possibly resist the power of modern democracy embeded in its ultimate representation, the unsolicited mailing.
asciilifeform: (quite likely a pious fraud of 'let's bring back the church' idiot '90s)
a111: Logged on 2016-12-23 12:50 mircea_popescu: in further news nobody cares about, "4 million letters of 'empathy, support' dropped on Mosul". this thing, which was a) going to be a war that b) was going to take two weeks twelve weeks ago (and then a month, and then two, and here we are) has now degenerated in a fucking spam offensive.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-23#1589086 << reminds me of the (legendary) airplane that flew orthodox icon around moscow N times to ward off german encirclement ☝︎
asciilifeform: one possible theory is that crapple drummed up the hysteria, their headphonejackless marvel was due for release that week iirc.
asciilifeform: i went on airplane in october and there were signs hanging of 'if you have this-here, put it in this fireproof rubbish bin before boarding, or go home'
asciilifeform: iirc battery thermistor.
mircea_popescu: i don;'t get it, wtf is the problem with the string "Galaxy note" whatever.
mircea_popescu: it's also not clear whence this idea of "recursive signing" comes from but anyway.
mircea_popescu: so then the same thing here as there ; this attribution issue is not useful to distinguish between the two methods.
asciilifeform: or term paper.
asciilifeform: well yes. mircea_popescu used to teach, right ? how did he determine which idiot cribbed off which other idiot on exam
mircea_popescu: and just move the whole tree over there, and claim i made it. what stops me ?
asciilifeform: you can, but it will be readily apparent to be a later work than the earlier that you will presumably be 'filing the serial numbers off'
asciilifeform: the fact that we have ordering.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in general this "make new path and claim the work of others" is always available. i can make new path and claim the work of everyone right now, what's to stop me.
asciilifeform: '“This isn’t a joke,” said the captain, according to passenger Lucas Wojciechowski. “We’re going to turn on the lights and search everyone’s bag until we find it” ... “Ladies and gentlemen, we found the device,” said the captain. “Luckily only the name of the device was changed to ‘Galaxy Note 7'. It was not a GN7.”'
asciilifeform: great idea, from one pov, terrible from just about every other.
asciilifeform: the proposal imho belongs with thomas edison's concrete furniture.
asciilifeform: if i had any reason to think that turning v tree into a forest of vertical stakes , exponentially crowded with IDENTICAL payloads that cannot be machine-compared , would make it easier to tell friend from foe and wisdom from folly -- i would agree with mircea_popescu's algo. but i do not. ☟︎
asciilifeform: if mircea_popescu signs 'τῶν γὰρ φύσει συνεστώτων τὰ μέν ἐστι ...', he does not also sign his copy of aristotle, and after that, the publisher's original manuscript, and with it, the medieval copy, and with that, the arab copy, and with that, .... plus the book from which he learned greek, and its manuscript...
asciilifeform: exponential growth of bitwise-identical entities is making my bowel churn just to think of it.
asciilifeform: orthogonally, but also quite painfully, not having 'a == a' also means that 'power rangers' can make new paths and claim credit for the works of others, and there will be NO mechanical means for a n00b to determine that this was done, other than to explore the exploding phase space.
asciilifeform: it is the devil from earlier thread, it can only happen if we are all retarded to begin with.
asciilifeform: i do not see this hypothetical world, where it is unclear who is who.
mircea_popescu: conflicts aren't liable to be resolvable in general other than through the above described avenue
asciilifeform: and we take out flamethrower
mircea_popescu: but in practice, should prb decide to come to sanity, the only avenue open to them is to... try and get their patches on the v tree.