asciilifeform: whatever happened to the name, tho, i dun recall seeing it in print for , idk, 20y nao
asciilifeform: 'But you can also choose to pay. And every time a reader like you does business with me and chooses to pay even though they have an alternative, we see the real worth...' << shareware's been around since '80s, nuffin new here
asciilifeform: i have this vague memory of 'raganwald' appearing in-chan, but apparently not
asciilifeform: ( 1-deep archivator suffers from , for instance, the misery of 'paged' texts. you get snapshot of page 9001, and... oops , the rest evaporated. etc )
asciilifeform: lessee what the veteran www-wranglers ( trinque ? ben_vulpes ? ) say about this.
asciilifeform: you'll want linkable passages, trilema-style, at all depths
asciilifeform: and get at the unadorned text easily.
asciilifeform: where it is possible to e.g. cleanly parse N-deep linkage.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: on 'conventional' www this reduces to 'munge the shitstack' problem, afaik still not satisfactorily solved ( and i dun expect a solution ). gotta have remake of www.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i thought whole point of the elaborate electrical echafaudage were , to try an' get around these headaches
asciilifeform: troo hyper-document oughta contain snapshots of all linkage. ( sure if external entity updates, viewer can be offered later ver, at ~his~ discretion. but oughta preserve linked material at time of linkage, the era of 'disk costs too much to store human text' went long ago)☟︎
asciilifeform: this item , with '9000' others, is well illustrative of the idiocy of the whole idea of the purely external link
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu this thing is ~100% molded.
asciilifeform: i think i misparsed 'half molded' lol
asciilifeform: it was built not even for actual work but to play similar role to the church in old europistan, as a sinkhole for noninheriting sons of the brahmins
asciilifeform: the whole lure proposition of cia etc is the seekrit masonic wankage, the legend of cocaine trays and screams in the cork-padded cellar etc
asciilifeform: extra lulzy, e.g., how usg mil brass sees vietnam: 'almost-victory'+dolchstoss
asciilifeform: stinks to high heaven, 'i won lottery, hear me roar'
asciilifeform: one possibly 'why', i suppose, is '1940s, critical mass of italian undermenschen, impossible to carry on functioning country', say
asciilifeform: ( very parallel legend, lucifer also , could say, 'thought he had choice' )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if we were having thread 300 y ago, could just as easily link to the fall of lucifer. it's a how, not a why
asciilifeform: i'll admit to being still somewhat puzzled re ~why~ precisely argentina went 'from hero to zero' ( mircea_popescu described in some detail , the ~how~, but the 'why' remains puzzler )
asciilifeform: i've yet to see one that could top recoleta ( buenos aires ) and i dun expect to
asciilifeform: elsewhere in heathendom, https://archive.is/owcBE >> '10 users were responsible for 85 per cent of the links that the Coinhive service uses to mine' shitcoins etc
asciilifeform: brazilian embassy in BingoBoingostan, miniature gulag, three rolls of concertina wire, turrets, whole hog
