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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform let me put it another way, maybe it washes better.
mircea_popescu: "i live in a shit country, borrowing directly from bezzle is way better than going through local banks"
mircea_popescu: this, mind, isn't jus comptuer. computer is the adjunct.
mircea_popescu: and yes experiment is entirely unworkable without it. there's no nazi genome sequence variant. know why ?
mircea_popescu: you don't need rocks for anything either, can just throw your own shit
mircea_popescu: recall that article about the new antibiotic found in soil sample ?
mircea_popescu: shit, state of the art 1930 plastics was linoleum and ebonite.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform has moved way far, you kidding ?! organic is more advanced as to what it was in 1930 than computing.
mircea_popescu: your statement was, and i quote, ' we're still cribbing off their tech notebook and can never hope to match'
mircea_popescu: look at the stupid rocket-planor thing. etc. derpy as it gets.
mircea_popescu: just look at enigma machine to get out of that infatuation.
mircea_popescu: sure it works, if you want the suckiest thing that'll still do the job.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform listen, "works" in this context is you saying "so there we go, c works"
mircea_popescu: mostly because early form of what was later copied by russians.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform only the unsuccessful ones that yet survive.
mircea_popescu: the notion that one shouldn't chat up the passing twelve year old, destroys.
mircea_popescu: no, that's not it. theknowledge that there's going to be food at the supermarket destroys.
mircea_popescu: the delusion of "stability' and cultural insularity destroy the mind.
mircea_popescu: archimedes was well over 40 when he proofed that crown/
mircea_popescu: felipelalli bare url wouldn't conceivably work. gotta deedbot- ur;
mircea_popescu: felipelalli are you using the raw or the html version ?
mircea_popescu: ah. the spec doesn't change by the implementation yo. the other way around.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes at some point a roman army was defeated, a total of three aquillae (legion header) were lost. the romans spent a century trying to get them back, at one point famously excavating a few square miles o land
mircea_popescu: and some guys went to sit. and well... who sits where /
mircea_popescu: if you look at it, the entire history of rome, from kingdom to empire, was basically this : they had a set of benches under some trees somewhere
mircea_popescu: let them rebel over it, and be mowed down periodically.
mircea_popescu: like army. take the children women weep for. or men, in this case.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes if you mean, as in latium, then note octavianus didn't adopt random orphans a la dick tracy.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform just making the point that if you're going for your reagent, make the relative situation obvious : the outside world is despised.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this modesty... fuck that. collect the most desirable children from outside : teenaged women with big tits.
mircea_popescu: took a while, but i suspect more due to slow comms at the time.
mircea_popescu: as discussed in the pseudoscience bit : unless you folks start quoting it to me, it's just another bit of anglowank, couldn't care less.