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mircea_popescu: in principle you should be able to define an object whose malleability allows enough functions to work so as to be turing-complete.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes. ie, that you can cryptographically verify that no other user can read your space, ever, at all.
mircea_popescu: how to make an os that behaves "provalby fair", for that matter, ios still very much an open question
mircea_popescu: the problem is unresolvable : without cryptographically verified multi-user ability, there is no way to run crypto on shared system.
mircea_popescu: "decided to sanitize his stack by zeroing until he triggered a page fault" this in particular does nothing.
mircea_popescu: i came back to say "wait, that's only part of the story"
mircea_popescu: clearly you're tuned for machinery and she's tuned to babies.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform thus doctor - doctorita. literally, little-she doctor.
mircea_popescu: in romanian comedienne is formed as the diminutive. comediette.
mircea_popescu: tractoritza lol. that's exactly how you'd say it in romanian.
mircea_popescu: something of which mice are malignantly made the figurehead of. they are not.
mircea_popescu: no, dope doesn't enter into it. all that's required is the proposition that surviving today is more important than living well.
mircea_popescu: except the romanian "intellectuals" and for that matter the zeks got no dope.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you will notice that he could have just resisted the glass jar through culture.
mircea_popescu: you know, this was the first mice i've seen in a decade.
mircea_popescu: usg makes mechanical spy rat, person catches it because well, it doesn't properly batallion
mircea_popescu: lol this here is the premise of a decent speculative spy fiction story
mircea_popescu: when they start with the "we're not animals" bits, i tend to glaze over and think "no, you're not, are you".
mircea_popescu: it's also why i tend to be suspicious of people that despise animals. generally it's the sign they're not as intellectually respectable as the average field mouse.
mircea_popescu: so : let them fucking die trying. you can't live where you are ? walk to where you can live.
mircea_popescu: now - the point here being that a correct set of priorities will in fact move mountains, and my work at my computer as compared in any perspective to a mouse's activities is mountaineous.
mircea_popescu: which is why i eventually stood up from my fucking work, took it to a vacant field further down and let it be.
mircea_popescu: the animal's desire of freedom properly surpassed any consideration of self preservation.
mircea_popescu: instead, it kept trying to chew sheet metal with it's truely tiny, half mm in width teeth.
mircea_popescu: eventually i was oh enough of this shit, and so put the vessel on its side.
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding that the lid was you know, on a thread for crying out loud. and since i punched the holes from outside, notwithstanding that there were jagged shards of metal pointing his way, which he could i guess sorta- avoid. tho he mostly looked to be jumping blindly.
mircea_popescu: what did he do ? he kept jumping. trying to push the lid off with his tiny nose. ding-ding-ding-ding
mircea_popescu: and i get a good look at the guy, you know ? after all, this had been his land for a long long time, generations of his forefathers had hunted for hayseeds and whatnot on complicated , traditional walk patters all over the field of my garden
mircea_popescu: a little later, the guy is caught, of course. so i put him in a large glass jar with a metal lid, after punching some holes with a screwdriverr in that lid.
mircea_popescu: so i know it's a mouse, right ? and so i get a large bowl, and tape some floss to a pack of ciggs. put some cheese under the propper bowl and get back to chatting.
mircea_popescu: something like that. so one night while in here, i see movement in the corner of my eye
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: for centuries prior, that land had been - how do you call fields cultrivated with hay ?
mircea_popescu: so last autumn i was living in a recently developped residential area - i guess what would be a gated community in the us, except romanians don't gate.
mircea_popescu: want me to tell you the story of my recent adventure with a cute little fuzzball ?
mircea_popescu: much like cellars create the possibility of very uncomfortable sleep in the dank darkness.
mircea_popescu: it creates the POSSIBILITY of it asciilifeform. not the actuiality and not really the obligaiton.
mircea_popescu: if they can't have had so agreed, they in fact didn't so agree.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this convention, like all things man made, is attendant on it being possible.
mircea_popescu: just because it's practically inconvenient doesn't make it less the correct solution.
mircea_popescu: jurov look, if you let poor people drive, there's no way to not have mandatory insurance.
mircea_popescu: well not that many. maybe guatemala and assimilated shitholes.
mircea_popescu: but they had a towncar service that would basically go anywhere.
mircea_popescu: you know i lived there just fine w/o driving or owning a car.
mircea_popescu: i don't see much in that. so some asshole kid thinks himself special, got roughed up in the slightest.
mircea_popescu: ias, Vittorio Emanuele punched Amedeo twice in the face."
mircea_popescu: "Currently the leadership of the House of Savoy is contested by two cousins: Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, who used to claim the title of King of Italy, and Prince Amedeo, Duke of Aosta, who still claims the title of the Duke of Savoy. Their rivalry has not always been peaceful — on May 21, 2004, following a dinner held by King Juan Carlos I of Spain on the eve of the wedding of his son Felipe, Prince of Astur
mircea_popescu: it works splendidly here. i guess depends on the cab quality
mircea_popescu: i can't stand sucking cock either doesn't mean i hate blowjobs. what's driving to do with it.
mircea_popescu: you think i write complicatedly, try morley for a spin
mircea_popescu: anyway, re the original copy-paste point : i feel like i could practically translate my romanian articles mocking the romanian "press" and its associated "blogosphere" word for word, just substitute names.
mircea_popescu: i dun think much of the concept of everyone being able to have their "own" car