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mircea_popescu is looking forward
to
the "mp raped me and wrote messages
to aliens on my
tits" campaigns
to come, once
the present generation of herders
that earned a clue in battle retire and a new generation of socialmedia
tards / paul biggars
takes over
the "full spectrum dominance" idiotmobile.
mircea_popescu: compare an' contrast
the whole "oh, mp really really needs bitbet funds so he'll retract de facto" "oh wait, shit omg" campaign
this spring.
mircea_popescu: the willingness of
the idiots
to be used as condoms is nothing short of staggering, even if it comes up in logs periodically.
mircea_popescu: "tor project", aka a bunch of nobodies posturing loudly,
tolerated as
temporary willing astroturf cover for a nsa project.
mircea_popescu: rotten shitstack collapsed like a rotten shitstack
the moment as much as a mild breeze of lolrape blew its way.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-01 00:44 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-01#1511937 << oh, "color revolutions" dun work ?
tell you what, we'll steal your country's exports and with
the proceeds finance an alt-country we'll pretend is realy your country. ha-ha!
mircea_popescu: in other lulz : russia and japan still
technically in ww2, never agreed on kuriles partition
mircea_popescu: for all you know it could be parochial "i've heard of
thieves but not
the plague, hence should build
thief wall not plague wall"
a111: Logged on 2015-11-15 01:11 mircea_popescu: maybe
there's something juicy in
there like you know, plagiarism (for sure
there is), and like mathematica stealing of stuff from people (almost willing
to bet)
a111: Logged on 2015-11-15 01:17 mircea_popescu: i have
this pile of very secret derpage here including
the very expert "profile" of some random derp explaining how an elderly, principled gentleman is perhaps going
to react crazily
to
the crass injustice of
this entire scheme.
mircea_popescu: i can't be arsed
to follow. i
trust we're satisfied with
that quote for
the entire
thing ?
mircea_popescu: however, plagiarism is hardly a
thing in
the first place. so no.
mircea_popescu: almost anything is more serious
than "using
the
tools in
the manner
they were designed without
the alleged owner's permission".
mircea_popescu: for
that matter, halting problem is an excellent model for
this, because it can always be phrased as "well, am i done
thinking and ready
to act or will
think some more ?"
mircea_popescu: i did not ask. i pointed out
to you
that "my algo solves
this problem" is no solution
to
the halting problem in
the general.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
this is myopic, because
the nato isn't long of
this world. what do you do once
they;re gone ?
mircea_popescu: that you don't share a specific one does not mean you're incapable of having
them. moreover, from experience, everyone gets his own, custom-tailored.
mircea_popescu: the pressure is always
the ethical dilemma. "what do i do now".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and
then mp pops about 5500 "agents" and 7500 irate women are looking for you, not
to mention
there's 10k+ sons who swear vendetta.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the $standard_strategy = "it won't happen
to me"."oh shit"."it didn't happen
to me"
mircea_popescu: you
think stalin or anyone
there is PROUD about
the whole michurin affair ? no
they aren't.
mircea_popescu: then
the russians had
to revolutionize, an utterly modernist phenomenon, suddenly country bumpkins found
themselves "minister of agriculture"
mircea_popescu: what'd be country boy of 1700 called
to do ? maaaybe sit on a jury ? defend a meter of
trench ?
mircea_popescu: it's unclear whether, say,
tmsr would currently be able
to withstand
the sort of pressure. i am however hopeful
that by
the
time it has
to, it will.
mircea_popescu: consequently,
the only possible avenue, is
the creation of STRONG small organisations.
mircea_popescu: leaving aside
the specifics, here's
the core issues of
the matter : want it or not,
the world will come
to rest randomly on
the shoulders of
tiny organisations.
the fact
that something like an obscure newspaper (50 or so people, on a good day) is made of
the human equivalent of pressed shitboard will not, and does not, prevent
the whole damned 5bn
ton globe from landing on
them.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform lulzy, especially given
the denial of
teh beoble.
PeterL: these are
the bird lord, enemies of
the lizard lords?
PeterL: guilty until proven innocent, and
then still guilty
mircea_popescu: as far as fictions go, i'm also not going
to do alice's wonderland or what have you.
PeterL: are you going
to do all
the countries or just
TMSR? (or is
that
the only country?)
mircea_popescu: and in other "mp's handwritten cia factbook will definitely be saner
than
the original" news, check out
the ru entry : "A combination of falling oil prices, international sanctions, and structural limitations pushed Russia into a deep recession in 2015, with
the GDP falling by close
to 4%. Most economists expect
this downturn will continue
through 2016."
davout: i guess
the republican french
touch is hard
to value
mircea_popescu: specifically pinging
trinque phf bingoboingo mod6 asciilifeform davout jurov ben_vulpes mike_c
mircea_popescu: so on other news, i am writing
teh republic's "cia factbook", and on
the matter of gdp i would like
to have an estimate of
the "fair market value of
the
total
time donated
to republic during 2015" in
the estimation of everyone involved. detailed is better, but nothing over a page omg.
☟︎☟︎ a111: Logged on 2016-08-18 15:32
thestringpuller: i'm doing it for refining "essential Oils", i'm going
to buy a short path fractional distillation set
mircea_popescu: PeterL he's just being difficult, not like boron doesn't have well known absorbtion/emission lines. you can either heat it and see ; or else shine a
tuned laser on it and see.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-18 16:43 asciilifeform:
the pyrex switcheroo was enabled by
the fact of
the
two glasses being visually indistinguishable.
PeterL:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-18#1524504 << in lab we had
two flavors of glass, I
think it was borosilicate and non-borosilicate (useful based on whether or not you are
trying
to measure certain metal ions), and we distinguished between
them by looking at
the edge, one was clear and
the other was kinda blue-green
☝︎ mircea_popescu: i suspect
this is
the main reason people moved off it, not so much cost or anything.
mircea_popescu: PeterL
the problem with build-yourself, at least in my brief experience [of managing other people
trying
to do it] is
that you end up with nonstandard parts, which is an utter pain because a) you may get results you can't later reproduce, which is
the bane of all
time and eternal sadness and b) it becomes very difficult
to correctly model your
thing for prototyping/scaling/whatnot. because
that little unintended glass lip/lit