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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's a job if you gotta do xxxxx to keep'em coming
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what, he buys bazooka ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the u.s. military technical term for this is 'self-licking icecream cone'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: these are the only folks for whom there isn't already $maxint in handouts
asciilifeform: i can picture that if mircea_popescu ever opens a jail, all of the cages will open from the inside with a 32-bit combination lock. nobody will 'have to' sit in this jail
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is true in that, technically, i could cough up tomorrow's lottery number and play and then 'not have to' and no physical law prevents it
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: wai wat ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: to keep the lights on
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: perianne.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'his place' - thinking man who found, by accident or otherwise, an escape hatch from arbeit macht frei
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's a perfectly good epidemiological work.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: no, but it does go into the subject of stupidity
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: as i gather, intelligence is only slightly heritable, but stupidity - is very
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: can work without being any more than 'dismal science'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu has it
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: preferably with closed filtration cycle
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you need a full body containment suit just to survive as a thinking man here.
decimation: mircea_popescu: modern us politics is a sandpile built upon equivocation
decimation: mircea_popescu: roughly, 'conservative' in america today means 'republican', which also means 'pro-state'
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Murray_(political_scientist)
asciilifeform: that is, to exhaust the resources of folks tasked with arranging mircea_popescu losing it
asciilifeform: unless i catastrophically misunderstand, ^ the bears inevitably get the coin unless a fully bitcoinized supply chain materializes for mircea_popescu and others to use
asciilifeform: this is more along the lines of the mircea_popescu article where 'buffett is not actually rich because his dollars can't be sent to isis'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'll add a third
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel, mircea_popescu: simply pointing out that most fiat 'barons' are more like herr buffett than mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i did try to convince the fella.
assbot: Logged on 28-02-2015 04:19:51; mircea_popescu: if you ask the slut, often enough it's because "he's the only one that asked, and i was getting bored"
asciilifeform: any who are inclined, as mircea_popescu seems to be, to think that 'any idea can be tested and developed in your cellar' should study the history of semiconductor
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=tLsXBtS9 << passable 'pro' translation
decimation: mircea_popescu: I assume you saw this article http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/feb/21/a-feast-of-engineering-whats-really-in-your-food
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'Что такое эта ваша разруха? Старуха с клюкой? Ведьма, которая выбила все стекла, потушила все лампы? Да ее вовсе и не существует. Что вы подразумеваете под этим словом? […] Это вот что: если я, вместо того, чтобы оперировать каждый
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the observation that usa tends to 'follow' the expats wherever they happen to congregate en masse, is an old one
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: he operates under constraints quite similar to mine
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: well, I was asking Stan specifically becuase he could supply detailed information as to costs and political constraints
asciilifeform: or mircea_popescu's
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: I don't know the cost associated with calibrating these instruments and can't speak to the truth of that
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: http://www.mazepath.com/uncleal/qz4.htm#a5
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the conclusive test requires the torsion rotor
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for some reason i thought you had a handle on the 'provenance' thing - that is, that al doesn't win unless his opponents actually lose by their own rules and surrender by their own free hand
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: let's gedankenexperiment. say we build the thing and it runs as predicted (see the last chemistry.stackexchange link for what we'd be doing, roughly)
assbot: Logged on 27-11-2014 15:36:04; mircea_popescu: no wonder everyone in the us needs a college degree. there's no way native intelligence could deal with a tenth of the cognitive dissonance dished out on a daily basis.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: but this is not germane to the issue. << Oh, but it is. These people are prepared to lie at every turn. See the stack overflow post, or the output of the Eot-wash group. If Al or Stan were make a mistake in the run, they'd never be able to test it again.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: he thought (as of our last at-length exchange, ~3 yrs or so) that he still had a chance to make the torsion balance owners see the light
asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: the interesting thing, and important to explain mircea_popescu's puzzlement, is that the enemy has been studiously arranging experiments to avoid actually testing the effect in question and declaring it 'settled'
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: I thought you know storks and stuff...
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: did you read the stackoverflow post linked above?
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: the opposition lie through their teeth at every given moment, you don't want to give them anything to work with
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: how would i learn to play footsie if not via a wikihow article?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i confess, i almost decided to
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it made sense to me. 'the lysenkoists refuse to even try' is bad enough, but 'see, somebody tried, it failed, shuddup' is quite possibly worse
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu stoner paratrooper << fighters have a lot of relaxing to do!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: al ended up having to explain to me... well, the concept i outlined in the first thread re: this subject here in #b-a
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i devised a test costing approximately 50k usd.
cazalla: mircea_popescu, yeah but at least it is clueless to each site equally on the list
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the merging of those two ideas yields a pretty powerful metaphor. << let's have the ps0t, yes. looking forward to reading it
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you will notice the imperial mooks got utterly owned in that play << afaik usg accomplished their one non-negotiable thing in iraq - break the orcs into eternally-warring bantustans, 'vaccinate' against any possible emergence of a real sovereign
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/why-dogecoin-is-a-scam-why-the-people-pushing-it-are-assholes-why-business-insider-is-a-contemptible-piece-of-shit-why-anyone-who-ever-worked-for-it-will-be-dancing-in-the-street-for-nickels-and-wh/
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: with the difference (see earlier in this thread) being that spears does not operate a multilevel mmmatron for cranking out copies of self
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ar has ru-style 'meetings' ? i.e. crowds of folks with prefab picket signs, paid chump change to wave around ?
assbot: Logged on 20-01-2015 23:17:04; mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes well, it's clarified some things for me. i live within blocks of the center of all "manifestations" "public meetings" and so forth. there's on average two a week of these. they're not all political, but the political ones seemed quite suspect to me
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: local political situation (are the orcs known as such?), number of useful nuclear engineers to take care of the two reactors you've got etc.
gabriel_laddel: perhaps mircea_popescu will expound on the situation there?
asciilifeform: what if, as in mircea_popescu's gedankenexperiment, usg were unable to resupply its men on schedule ?
asciilifeform: see also mircea_popescu's 'tin woman' article.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: translators... armenian << actually usg translator racket is - traditionally - ultra-lucrative. complete with own boom'n'bust cycles
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'll do that one next, quite possibly
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://poetrylibrary.ru/stixiya/korzhavin-1.html#osvobodite-zhenschinu-ot << almost like he wrote this one just for you
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD,_%D0%9D%D0%B0%D1%83%D0%BC_%D0%9C%D0%BE%D0%B8%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87 << he's alive!
asciilifeform: and mircea_popescu has a prettified one on his site
mod6: mircea_popescu: yeah, not too bad. lot of trades tho!
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=1UGC9WT4 << translation
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: say later if were able to digest it. otherwise i might have to attempt a transl.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://libverse.ru/korzhavin/trybachi.html << relevant to thread
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu remarked, iirc, that i'm living in berlin circa '44, but it looks rather more like '38 here.
asciilifeform: from mircea_popescu's earlier article
trinque: mircea_popescu: certainly
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: now -that's- interesting. got a link to the treaty ?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Aren't they liquidating on craigslist?
assbot: Logged on 20-11-2014 17:06:13; mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo the correct angle there is to compare to MMM
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: eighty yo guy, mr spock. << kirk is old af too
BingoBoingo: lol mircea_popescu http://qntra.net/2015/02/gpg-criticism-reaches-new-low-as-use-cases-expand/#comment-11779
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: le jour de gloire est arrivé ?
assbot: Logged on 09-02-2015 20:57:01; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform again, wanting for the sake of wanting is no gooid. you gotta want something.
asciilifeform: as described in mircea_popescu's 'nobody could have foreseen' essay;
asciilifeform: every time i read a document like this (and they're all quite the same, as mircea_popescu observed all clinical material re: the criminally insane being much alike - or was that tlp?)
cazalla: mircea_popescu, on second thought.. wikipedia suggests they hit their first armoured car back in 93 so perhaps it is heat which copied them
cazalla: mircea_popescu, heat came out in 95', hollywood shootout was two years later
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: but diss records work all the time. that's why biggie and tupac iz ded.
assbot: Logged on 26-02-2015 21:07:24; nubbins`: mircea_popescu, maybe a poster campaign with a bit of cheekiness this time
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: qntra is the news. We maintain credibility by putting that shit in the log now to link later. 5 months old... still toddling
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> nubbins` in public ? << Plenty of people in a bar have been slipped mickeys
nubbins`: mircea_popescu i'm not saying he says "fuck it, 20th shot in a row", i'm saying he wakes up dead with a mouth fulla foam instead of a bullet in his head or w/e
nubbins`: mircea_popescu nope but everybody encourages you to
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform> nubbins`: mircea_popescu takes a 'sapper errs once' attitude to bitcoin compatibility, for reasons which should need no explanation << Kinda why my -qt OpenBSD experiment is vaguely described in blog post. If I hit a grendade do not want others suffering same one
asciilifeform: nubbins`: mircea_popescu takes a 'sapper errs once' attitude to bitcoin compatibility, for reasons which should need no explanation
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is actually the reason why my first suggestion was to merely rip out the relevant parts of openssl (pick a version) so as the build ends up - 1) self-contained 2) bitwise identical binary
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: ecdsa << this is gonna go just like the christian scriptural translations thing, isnnit << Yes, and no curves can have identifiers which are too stand out, especially if they are useful at all
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ecdsa << this is gonna go just like the christian scriptural translations thing, isnnit
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, was local enough news that I knew local source