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mircea_popescu: on the positive side however : this is the closest you can get to china commercially without getting close to them in a political sense.
mircea_popescu: if china (and to some degree russia an' italy) stop propping them, argentina goes to meet cuba on its way to chad.
mircea_popescu: they don't have a drydock. or a car factory. or a truck factory. or a plane factory.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile romania is exporting nuclear technology, weaponry, high tech mechanics etc.
mircea_popescu: they used to export carne vacuna, but then failed to meet their quotas and lost the contracts.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you don't understand. argentina is trying to support a romania-level living standard on the basis of... soy exports.
mircea_popescu: Fartse - The World's Premiere Gravity Well Degravitizer.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, is the article of faith that jesus is coming on a great atomic dirigible from the sky to take us to the other planet and smite the unbelievers ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform writing a book of actual economy in moscow 1960 was equally titanical and demoralizing. or to get back to earth : a book on actual psychopathology in leningrad, bout same time.
mircea_popescu: he was actually, in comparative terms, more of a noted expert in the field of safe cracking than in the field of physics
mircea_popescu: for that matter, not that many economists in soviet russia.
mircea_popescu: now /that/ is very dark ages. not that many practical moralists in 1200
mircea_popescu: hegel was the same way, in the cluj universitarian library. supposedly the european expert in hegel resided there.
mircea_popescu: they're, contrary to what the "consumers have come to expect" like to pretend, very easy to find
mircea_popescu: i generally manage to identify the actual experts in fields.
mircea_popescu: so he did. i recall reading it and not understanding what he meant at the time
mircea_popescu: in the manner people write fucking books. or at least did, before the great usian likbez pogrom
mircea_popescu: really, find me a piece of code written with a clear contrite consideration of "people will read this tomorrow"
mircea_popescu: this is no argument in this discussion, tho. historically there has been great profit in all sorts of dumb shit.
mircea_popescu: i don't code. principally because i can't be arsed to do a good job of it.
mircea_popescu: the idea that you ~must~ code, whether it works or not, no matter what, is scandalous.
mircea_popescu: this is like "originbally, the bridge standing at all was impressive"
mircea_popescu: the casual perusal of openssl that earlier article triggered has crystallized this point in my head.
mircea_popescu: i don't think there's many fields outside of perhaps psychology where "practitioners" have for so long acted with such intense disregard for posterity.
mircea_popescu: anyway, just to add : the people who have come before us have embedded into the very history of computing such burning, enraged contempt for us, that really damnatio is too good a fate.
mircea_popescu: as far as i'm concerned, breaking any ansi standard is a net gain.
mircea_popescu: i want, in this order a) a fully b-a computing stack for bitcoin ; b) utter disrespect for antecessors made manifest.
mircea_popescu: throw out its own blob, put in ours, make blockchain hdd.
mircea_popescu: right. in which line : since all hdds come reflashable anyway, how hard would it be to rape a ssd like we're raping the pogo, i wonder ?
mircea_popescu: as in, trivially : make the sectors the size of a block
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what i had in mind tho, was more specficially "for blockchain only".
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> 'danger, 1,000,000 ohms!' << i forget, what's the resistence of 1mm of air ? like 1mn was it ?
mircea_popescu: mod6 if you write a spec or something ima read it, for whatever good that's gonna do
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform seriously, send them the things, gotta help em. they're new.
mircea_popescu: NewLiberty what ever happened to that guy ? still around ?
mircea_popescu makes mental note : if alf spends time anticipating a nice itam and then doesn't get it, alf gets very pissy!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they sound very nice you know ? i'd send them the boards an' detail.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes im not informed enough to guess, but maybe a "best of both words" hybrid could thrive.
mircea_popescu: and as they become obsolete in the future, ppl not wanting to upgrade their bitcoin archives will provide hdds with one of those ada or lisp-esque eternal lives.
mircea_popescu: there's absolutely no doubt this will be the largest usecase for harddrives going forward
mircea_popescu: incidentally, i wonder if one could make a filesystem specifically for blockchain storage.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes ibidem actually means "in the same place". if you mean idem (ie, the same) say idem!
mircea_popescu: decimation what's an ungrounded faraday cage supposed to do again ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well... the cutout of the two boards sounds like a great blogpost.
mircea_popescu: it stands with the finest italian handmade gelateria in the same relation as this later beast stands with budweiser
mircea_popescu: btw... the icecream in this country... it can not be described.