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mircea_popescu: lol even today., well yes even today, what's changed ?
mircea_popescu: "theoretical physicists calculate the imaginary part of schroedinger function collapses for various items in their room and then convert it all to matrix form to go to sleep"
mircea_popescu: what's he going to do if say a bn chicks actually decide to go for it ?
mircea_popescu: they taught the greeks magic and romans to write don;'t you know./
mircea_popescu: yeah i know. we had a bunch of crypto natl-socialist idiots in romania too.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform why's the reporter so fucking excited lol
mircea_popescu: or, if you prefer, de retz has some mentions in his memoirs, to the same principle.
mircea_popescu: the owner of one figuring it's better to keep the other in the hands of its current inept owner than let him lose it.
mircea_popescu: i think balzac is the first to describe it. some small sleepy country town somewhere, with two printing licenses
mircea_popescu: millions of country boys had to be assembled in the choir invisible to rectify the mistakes of two inept diplomats.
mircea_popescu: if they worked together we'd be sitting here speaking german threatening doom to the third reich.
mircea_popescu: who's to blame ? inept ribentropp, inept molotov, chiefly.
mircea_popescu: think of it : two major powers, with very close ideologies, the absolute leader of one in love with the absolute leader of the other, managed to go to war!
mircea_popescu: you know ? putting some idiot's wife in the gulag doesn't make him suddenly smart.
mircea_popescu: cazalla no biggy. this is the fungible sort of work, it'll wait.
mircea_popescu: but yes, it's been for many decades now the established mo of the great "nation" of the united states : to grow an inch, cut an inch off the measuring tape.
mircea_popescu: "why do you hang out with these bums ?" "because they're the only people that call me a beauty queen", said the ambitious teenaged slut.
mircea_popescu: obviously. but the convenience does not resolve the other angle. it's a ruinous association.
mircea_popescu: gets to run a piece of shit "resource" that everyone pushes as if it were useful.
mircea_popescu: ironically, the very guy the entire clampdown on the internets exist to protect the internets for
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform to be perfectly fair, the guy wasn't keeping his finances in the best of orders (according to you know, the criteria required so you don't get called "a cult leader" by teh cult leadership). nevertheless, nothing nearly as bad as what the childfucker jimbo wales did in his day
mircea_popescu: cazalla you're not supposed to sit, but that's a splendid idea : pole dancing.
mircea_popescu: go work out. none of that high performance gym shit tho, this isn't to perform, this is to relax. ride a horse. swim. something sane.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's not a matter of the machines per se tho.
mircea_popescu: even at the risk of driving down legitimate promises and capable people, the theory goes, this is still a worthwhile endeavour.
mircea_popescu: and the fiat state is predicated on the theory that productive work may be extracted out of assemblages of a trillion shitheads that by and of themselves are wholly incapable.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform exactly. the fiat economy is predicated on the theory that value may be constructed out of a trillion promises that each on and of itself is worthless
mircea_popescu: on one hand because it is actually very limited on th edirect, on the other hand because it is very affraid to use even the little it has lest a hb rehash.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's all social engineering. the nsa does not have any technical capbility worth the mention.
mircea_popescu: you know, just like freenode, except with a helluva lot more moneyz.
mircea_popescu: that's immaterial. the threat defense, however, will be an array of geographically distributed servers which someone will have to shepherd the ircd on.
mircea_popescu: this thing seems to hold true in the most perverse and unexpected of applications.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know there's this pesky rule of nature that the more one speaks the less one knows.
mircea_popescu: i guess the catholics also did pretty well on the score.
mircea_popescu: someone should start a church of confusing form with function.
mircea_popescu: so end the glorious sunday pronouncements, join us next sunday for nude frolicking in the grass and fire spitting.
mircea_popescu: and therefore! whosoever knoweth well the workings of the irc demon and how to set it up let me know, for we shall have a plan b, and our plan b shall take over the earth!
mircea_popescu: knoweth ye, that while it is unlikely for freenode to buckle, more than anything because its brains are so scattered it's unlikely to manage to gather enough management to do anything, nevertheless this isn't a reason to not build parachute
mircea_popescu: pronouncement #b : and then he spake thus : ye knoweth the evil people of the world know no rest, for the very fire of hell scorches their gullets on the inside so they may never sit quietly in a room. and therefore it will come to pass that they will put pressure on freenode, starting for instance last thursday.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: pronouncement #1 : and he said unto them lo! that bitbet now allows searching by weight of bets!
mircea_popescu: hi all, and welcome to mp's string of sunday pronnouncements!