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mircea_popescu: (but yes,
the fact
that
the dos did NOT put into obama's files
the observation
that
the "labour" dispute in silicon valley was chinese driven
test run is exactly
the sort of
thing
that feeds my spite for
the whole of usg as a "state". it's a state like a collection of mahjongg players is a state.)
mircea_popescu: the us already proved it's willing
to do anything for sv lobby, and so
the chinese are drip feeding
the "capitalists" and waiting.
mircea_popescu: the us is weak ; it has already proved its unwillingness
to pursue in
the field ;
their only response ("we'll ban
the faux items at border") is exceptionally inadequate here : you'll get left behind by
tech
train if oyu do.
mircea_popescu: anyway.
the big
thing with
this faux fpga
thing is
that it's very cheap.
the much more important smaller
thing is
that it makes it god damned easy
to steal usian ip.
mircea_popescu: (pro
tip : when management starts
talking about "current market" it's
time
to sell.
they've lost all contact.)
mircea_popescu: the one
thing
that never can exist is
the current market.
mircea_popescu: well, it is possible on
the basis of
the observable data
the chinese are coming
to your view.
mircea_popescu: hence why i say drones. you recall
the
thread ? with "air fence"| for olympics ?
mircea_popescu: for instance, if
the product is nato-free comms drone,
then yes it might well be
mircea_popescu: so
then
the correct statement would have been "it's not clear yet if it'll ever be useful", with which i agree, not "it can't happen".
mircea_popescu: well it's unclear what
the fuck it'll be, but it's pretty evident, at least
to me,
that
the chinese ARE
trying
to erode
the whole xilinx
tower of ip.
mircea_popescu: do you see where
the "oh i know how
these assholes are cheating
their customers" and "oh chinese have no economic incentive" do not communicate in your head ?
mircea_popescu: look, it's not a value judgement on you. i'm interested in
the process.
mircea_popescu: i get it why you
think it's beneficial
to be narrow minded. get it
that
this virtually never works
to any sort of useful or interesting conclusion.
mircea_popescu: which is
the problem with your clue - it is an anticlue, fed by delusional notions of design purism with no practical exposure whatsoever. in meta-world "nobody buys" metallization fpga for miner asic. in real world, it makes a billion dollars in sales over 5 years, ie, more
than ~any "proper" chip class.
mircea_popescu: whether you have or don't have a clue as
to
the economic process involved isn't related
to my having or not having one. you can't simply run around
turning any statement into any random converse, what sort of javascript is
this!
mircea_popescu: this being
the problem :
those aren't valid substitutes.
mircea_popescu: the bar for having a clue is owning and operating foundry, not being one of
the monkeys foundry may at its leisure employ
mircea_popescu: there's no way out which consists of "the world alligning
to alf fantasy".
mircea_popescu: look : we keep "having
these
threads" where you keep sprouting nonsense about how you
think
the world works. we'll have
them until either you give up on
thinking you have a clue on
these
things ; or i get
tired of it.
mircea_popescu: yes. but
the process itself is cheap, and
the chinese will proceed
to pirate. as per above.
mircea_popescu: thing is, given
the
tiny process now used,
this is actually not such a
terrible approach, for many projects.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in principle if you make "generic" silicone you can
then "fpga" it out of metal mask cuts
mircea_popescu: (the astute reader has no doubt long ago figured out
that by jiggling
the last figure before
the _ one can see
the rest of any set)
mircea_popescu: a million or
two votes should be enough for
this entire planet.
mircea_popescu: "resident ; show income of one bitcoin ; or holdings of
twenty bitcoin ; may vote"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "Every male person, being
twenty-one years of age, and resident in any particular
town in
this Commonwealth for
the space of one year next preceding, having a freehold estate within
the same
town, of
the annual income of
three pounds, or any estate of
the value of sixty pounds, shall have a right
to vote in
the choice of a Representative or Representatives for
the said
town."
mircea_popescu: in other words -
the us became an orcland during obama's
tenure. sad but
tru.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes. for instance - i could supply observers, working on
this principle.
mircea_popescu: in any case, it's not reactive
to
this low level "i shall now examine cracks" approach.
mircea_popescu: it's echafaudage. you don't come out with what you want ; you come out with
the principle poorly embodied. op protests, you change it.
mircea_popescu: yes, yes, i get it : life is a contest for life, and you have your favourite horse.
this is fine.
the important point here however isn't so much "what
trump can accomplish" but "mp is as far as
the internet can
tell
trump's campaign strategist. because no one other has better proof."
a111: Logged on 2016-08-14 05:08 ben_vulpes: and if anyone could exclude diebold and friends from
the party it'd be him
a111: Logged on 2016-08-14 05:12 ben_vulpes: phf, shinohai,
trinque, asciilifeform, mircea_popescu: i elected
to nuke
the "stale comments"
thing, i'd be much obliged if any of y'all have a patch for
that. in exchange i've got a patch on wp-comments.php for
the suffix
trick, not
that it's hard or anything
mircea_popescu: it doesn't let randos use your xmlrpc
to spam etc LIKE STOCK WP STILL DOES
mircea_popescu: ah,
that's a pretty stupid idea in
that it kills pingbacks, which are a rather important contextualization
tool.
a111: Logged on 2016-04-07 22:02 BingoBoingo: ;;later
tell davout delete xmlrpc.php from your wordpress install and you will be 95% of
the way
to securing your blawg