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mats: oh wait,
these are fictional huh
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 18:24 phf: asciilifeform: it's a
totally speculative exploration of north african pirate city states during
the age of exploration
http://hermetic.com/bey/pirate-utopias/ it might appeal
to your romantic nature
mats: i v much enjoy reading about
the 'golden age of piracy'
pete_dushenski: next
thing you know an autonomous car will drive a
trunkfull of c4 into
the white house
☟︎ pete_dushenski: "I
typically pay $5
to $10
to charge up. Every single station has been, for years, mediocre
to
terrible.
The stations are often broken due
to software or hardware problems, and remain out of service for weeks. Competition among electric car drivers for
these public charging stations is fierce and intensifying. It’s practically impossible for me
to find an open charging station during
the day."
diana_coman: then again, how far does
this clear
thing go in
the end
diana_coman: truth be
told I did not realise it but it might be better
to add
to
the notes probably,
to make
this clear
mircea_popescu: pity cosbuc didn't write
travestys and librettos for burlesque/revue.
diana_coman: I read it
that
that was precisely
the point, lol
mircea_popescu: diana_coman lol what a mess. a) wasn't built by
teutons ; b) cantemir
the elder was king, not stephen omfg.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno man, i one day visited prechristian syria, went
to bed with woman, appendage fit perfectly.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 18:55 asciilifeform: mats: and
the pigfuckers certainly don't want you and i
turning
the wifi chip into mesh network etc.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 20:57 asciilifeform: phf: re python: in my view, if you EVER end up breaking a language in such a way
that 20 y.o. code cannot run, not only was your lang broken
to begin with, but YOUR HEAD was.
mircea_popescu: things
that dun last WEREN'T
THINGS IN
THE FIRST PLACE!
mircea_popescu: let's restate. "i would be very comfortable in a chair
that was built just like
this collapsing assemblage between seconds 1.3 and 1.45 of
the fall".
mircea_popescu: i'm sorry, you're discussing a slice of
time worth ~two decades ?
mircea_popescu: looky : every
time you find
this imaginary space where
thermodynamics doesn't apply, it's not
that you've found a space where
thermodynamics doesn't apply as much as you've deluded yourself in some manner
to ignore some obvious wrinkle.
mircea_popescu: you have any idea how many white women lived
their days as
the junior slave in indian fambly, after
their husband was dispatched ?
mircea_popescu: you
think every white man going
there became
the master of
the what, indians ? negroes ?
mircea_popescu: mass has ~nothing
to do with it
though. YOU are
the
target, personally. for as long as you're
the sort
that wants
to be a king without a crown,
there's going
to be a preditor chasing you around.
mircea_popescu: if
the sheep found a way
to graze on rafts,
the wolves would ride around in speedboats.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: dynamic equilibrium. wherever you
take your bleeding husk, piranhas follow.
mircea_popescu: they misperceived
the sea, much like you do, much like people who don't sail generally, as a "empty" space.
mircea_popescu: (obviously, king mircarlos
the 5th would have simply ordered one man rowboats be made and sent every man in one
to go
to fucking galapagos and return. but
then again...)
mircea_popescu: symptomatically,
the spanish solution was "make larger ship"
mircea_popescu: but for
the spanish, atlantic was "fly over zone", and as you say,
they'd have loved
to "separate it".
mircea_popescu: spanish did not. portuguese did, and
they built an empire out of it.
mircea_popescu: "british" doesn't exist here. albion was a failed state bought wholesale by
the dutch who
then used it as naval stage base.
mircea_popescu: it's a fundamental mechanism of putting
the inept but uppity in place.
mircea_popescu: the other way
to put it is
that piracy is what happens when people who don't want
to
think about
the sea decide
to
think
themselves cooler
than
their neighbours who do like
to
think about
the sea.
mircea_popescu: they weren't pirate states in
the way florence or venice were.
pete_dushenski: speaking of somali pirates,
the recent 'captain philips' film with
tom hanks was
the most pallid agitprop in
that direction
mircea_popescu: to
take
the matter home, you could say nelson was a pirate rather
than a lord ; or better yet
that kelvin was a scientist rather
than a lord. but
these people principally did
the
thing in question ; whereas
the african states principally did subsistence farming and small manufacture.
mircea_popescu: the original - perhaps.
the one im discussing here, very much a normal pasha. who happened
to have a port in his lands.
mircea_popescu: that is one point ;
the point im making however is
that
they weren't pirates in
the sense you're not a penis. part of what
they did, of fucking course, given
the geography. but
they were otherwise just as much a normal country as say albania.
pete_dushenski: aha. barbs supplanted venetians (and i spanish) on
the mediterranean...
that's right.
mircea_popescu: anyway, point being
they were "pirates" in
the sense erdogan is "embattled". a matter of
the foreign press and no more.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski
this fellow is original'\s younger brother nd no,
they were ottomans.
mircea_popescu: spanish
tried
to attack him on land, etc a whole conundrum
a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 18:24 phf: asciilifeform: it's a
totally speculative exploration of north african pirate city states during
the age of exploration
http://hermetic.com/bey/pirate-utopias/ it might appeal
to your romantic nature
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have never heard of anyone practicing
that solution nor would i
think
too much of
their head
tbh.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 18:12 asciilifeform:
there may be other solution.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-19#1505981 << but
this
thing where "build in environment with large cost" is not a solution, because
the enemy incurs
the cost only when visiting whereas you incur
the cost permanently. so
this is, strategically, a nonstarter, whether
the medium is mars or ocean or w/e.
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 18:11 asciilifeform:
the problem i was futilely stabbing away at is 'how
to be independent of homo homini lupus est'
a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 18:08 phf: i'd live on a sub, if it had
those 1970s stage set rooms with giant windows
through which you can observe underwater marine life, but which you can also close if you're being attacked by
the establishment
mircea_popescu: (yes, i'm pretty much convinced
that IF you actually wanted
to do what is here contemplated, a wooden structure is
the best choice.)