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mircea_popescu: very fucking powerful, if you dont have to maintain them.
mircea_popescu: phf, dun worry about it, gave me the chance to write one liner db implementation. in awk.
mircea_popescu: anyway, im taking the bitches for a beach trip ; mind holding off till i'm back ?
mircea_popescu: authority is the concern, not some sort of really tall tower of chairs of meaning.
mircea_popescu: electoral college is good for the empire / bad for the empire. same people, two weeks apart. what do you want ?
mircea_popescu: but even if you got the entire pantsuit party, from everyone-involved-with-github to everyone-opining-on-the-internet to sign an agreement aforehand, they'll STILL deny after the fact.
mircea_popescu: or do you hope to somehow make a "more undeniable" hole than "this is specifically what we agreed you won't do" ?
mircea_popescu: this is an absolute certainty. the only part up in the air is when, but absolutely, everything the power rangers do will get reverted, as a matter of course.
mircea_popescu: but if he reads the log as indicated, it's all discussed in therew.
mircea_popescu: trinque, i suppose his (intuitive, unexamined) idea is that the item's reversible and will get reversed (as it is, and will) and doesn't know how it'd work in practice.
mircea_popescu: anyway. bitcoin is bitcoin. the various "i can't believe it's not bitcoin" scams the usg has been trying to push are just that, margerine ~nobody cares about (notwithstanding every nigger out there is trying to pretend like they're eating it an' lovin' it)
mircea_popescu: steel, but, to return the favour, who are you (not "to yourself", but to the world) ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, Moduli Waiting for Test: 6976474 << still same figure, meaning it's still churning hasn't yet returned ?
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is the currency of the most serene republic, the world's only sovereign.
mircea_popescu: it's that paredit violates fundamental principle, that it encourages and enforces the work flow of manual formatting on every line. << ftr, i think he has an excellent point.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, stagger anyway, take some out 6 weeks in, whatever.
mircea_popescu: and expensive or not, there's not yuet been nor will there ever be an isp without pile of ssds.
mircea_popescu: eh, ssd disks aren't that expensive. this doubles as an effective ssd tester bed.
mircea_popescu: would have been so fucking sweet if we didn't have to say that about fucking emacs, and tex.
mircea_popescu: for instance -- the us army thinks itself online ; a ridiculous claim.
mircea_popescu: much like whining to mommy works in the middle class "atomic family" not in the orphanage.
mircea_popescu: decentralization is only meaningful in a structure which permits centrality.
mircea_popescu: by the time our automated batteries defend our own mining bots and nobody else can even be online unless they're doing what told, "decentralisation" per se is a rather meaningless concept.
mircea_popescu: but did he know you can put mac and cheese on a pizza and it'd taste assewome!
mircea_popescu: speaking of pictures, hey asciilifeform ! where's your travelog!
mircea_popescu: anyway, re confession, the "I think it essential that I inform the investigation of a series of new facts concerning my moral-personal dissoluteness. I mean my longtime vice of homosexuality." part is, at the very least, truthful as far as anyone knows (and corroborated, histortically)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, "bologna system" because of the name of the cheap salami. seems perfectly adequate.
mircea_popescu: "scholarship" in english, on any topics whatsoever, is a thin calico indeed.
mircea_popescu: turns out the learned distrust and ample spite for "scientists", "researchers", "academics" and other indistinct products of the bologna system is strictly universal.
mircea_popescu: "I term these sources "semi-official" since they are quoted unproblematically by all the anticommunist scholars. These scholars ignore them almost completely, and ignore their implications completely, but they do not consider the documents false."
mircea_popescu: (apparently some guy collected and translated to english the litany of yehzov confessions.)
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding she has 100% of the cv bullet points that recommended HEROINE OF FEMINISM pantsuited hilarity for a run at the presidency.
mircea_popescu: in short -- stalin didn't have it so well, to the degree being purged is not directly nor obviously a worse fate.
mircea_popescu: anyway. would ~you~ want valy golubtsova's bf in the fucking room even ? fucktard was so stupid i have doubts he could even add on his own power.
mircea_popescu: the repository of collective knowledge, right ? uuga-booga.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, i tell you though, the sad situation where all that's left to gather around your piss-soaked body is beria, hruschev, malenkov etcetera...
mircea_popescu: ask god when your time comes, who they were. just as soon he's done with explaining turbulent flow he'll explain history to you, too.
mircea_popescu: and for that matter, what's wrong with you not knowing who they were.
mircea_popescu: the idea is to not get purged by idiots, not to not get purged in general. zhukov thinks he can be a better stalin than stalin, what's stalin's objective incentive to get in the way ? fucking let him.
mircea_popescu: also, though, not being purged isn't the end all be all summum bonum.
mircea_popescu: i can't imagine zhukov purging him, but then again my imagination isn't the arbiter of history.
mircea_popescu: the german -- didn't lack ; and in the upheaval, the political barriers to innovation turned out to be also weak. so they made.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, nah, see, the ~doctrine~ of tank-driven war was theoretically produced, as a necessary logical step, by russian staff, including a young zhukov. but the russian industry lacked the means to make the needed items.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, contention here is the structuring of activity as theoretically summarized, it's not driven by events but by the need to produce the structure trees needed by indefinitely scalalable summaries.
mircea_popescu: this isn't some kind of argument in the line of "russki orcs" ; in point of fact tanks led strategies were invented by russians ; but copied and employed at first by zee germans.
mircea_popescu: now, the soviets did a bunch of butchering, indiscriminate and nonsensical, 1916-1926 or so ; but under italian intellectual pressure the germans realised and structured the effort, and then the soviets copied in a year or two.