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mircea_popescu: i mean it's not a bad way to waste money, who knows what the reaearching kids come up with
mircea_popescu: decimation nah, the implication is that you plot its trajectory and wait for it there
mircea_popescu: at some point, the rocket, low on fuel, turns back towards the earth. at that point it's damned slow.
mircea_popescu: so your "i'll trust them when they use one" is kinda an unfairly distant bridge.
mircea_popescu: anyway, long story short, i dun think anyone's doing anything with any rockets. bulava or otherwise.
mircea_popescu: afaik the classical approach mostly intercepts them at perihelion
mircea_popescu: it's roughly like firing a tank in slow motion at someone.
mircea_popescu: i dunno that the bulava pose any sort of threat to anyone these days tho.
mircea_popescu: decimation the best way for you to access that spirit is, read up on koschei.
mircea_popescu: decimation this is a very specific thing, tho. rural russian kid cca 1920.
mircea_popescu: it worked because it echoed what the idiots in question were thinking anyway.
mircea_popescu: the propaganda said this specifically, but it worked not because it said it
mircea_popescu: genuinely loved it. the fucking adventure of it all, fuck dude, think of it, he's like a hero of legend.
mircea_popescu: that the sheer entertainment value of it al is what motivated 99% of the movement.
mircea_popescu: the other construction is that peasant 20 yo kid FUCKING LOVED getting to travel, getting to work on a construction yard and whistle at anon girls in skirts passing by
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform take the earlier point re "stalin made an experiment of making peasant life suck more". it's a construction.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: plowman desperately needs city man because well, his village is so boring watching flies fuck is a release.
mircea_popescu: "need" doesn't work in this ethereal, abstract way you use it.
mircea_popescu: if this patent nonsense had any sort of irl merit, you'll be stuck explaining the crowd at my door.
mircea_popescu: dude this is like saying guy has to "subjugate" woman, as she needs nothing etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform food hasn't been a serious geopolitical issue since about 1600.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform rural anything doesn't need keeping down.
mircea_popescu: decimation chechens are a fan of whatever empire they happen to have clung to the skirts of.
mircea_popescu: turns out the solution is adding &ncr=1 to whatever string you use for autosearch
mircea_popescu: so google decided spontaneously to redirect me to argentina google.
mircea_popescu: im sure they picked on them over disagreements as to how to treat bitchez.
mircea_popescu: nah, bosnian dude was kinda off-white but not dark enough.
mircea_popescu: this is the original spark of mob turf wars, too. it's basically free money.
mircea_popescu: decimation listen, the market in security is such that various groups always tend to posture as you know
mircea_popescu: while it's not much a matter of perception. pure thermodynamics.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the problem here is that you're thinking this in terms of perception,
mircea_popescu: decimation like one did when patriot didn't sunset, right ?
mircea_popescu: take the 2-3year average lifespan to 16 monts, what of it.
mircea_popescu: just on a general "well, vote for the underdog" thing.
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i'd personally hold on to acquitting anyone accused of shooting a swat derp, if in his home.
mircea_popescu: generally speaking, considering the line of work, a 2-3 year average lifespan for anyone involved would be reasonable.
mircea_popescu: nothing worse than an aparatchick with a delusion of invulnerability.
mircea_popescu: truth be told, a lot more swat derps need to be kiled on a daily basis, to balance that shit out.
mircea_popescu: "In 2009 Mayor Cheye Calvo proposed a measure that would require every Maryland police department that operates a SWAT team to submit biannual reports on its activities, including where and when it was deployed and whether an operation resulted in arrests, evidence seizures, or injuries."
mircea_popescu: <decimation> like, you leave package on the postman's door? << pay homeless dude 10 bux ?
mircea_popescu: because if one can joejob people this way ima put nuland in prison on federal drug charges ?
mircea_popescu: "Yes, I2P or Tor would work for such a website. Freenet is probably more secure because there are no entry/exit nodes to monitor, but Freesites can only serve static content, and anonymous Bitcoin payments don't have a way to include a message with them."
mircea_popescu: "we know you must convict this guy and won't tell you why or how we found out. sign here."
mircea_popescu: there's no way to build a case out of that if rigurously observed outside of fed-fiat.
mircea_popescu: yeah, some base of prepared articles for sopme stuff is not a bad idea.
mircea_popescu: that's what trilema's for. eldritch horrors for everyone.
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> Effect will probably be to make BTC to USD transactions a bigger pain in the ass on their platform the next runup << yup.
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> this is what you get for complaining around here. work! << real do-ocracy over here.
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> qntra is not #b-a news, it is 'better than coindesk' news. i doubt they use otc. << this is a point, but srsly, write it.
mircea_popescu: just like you know, pissing on an anthil is "ant deluvionation" if you're looking at the world from an ant.