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phf: this must be a puton, his
twitter says "Described by @wireheadlance as
the Anthony Bourdain of InfoSec"
mircea_popescu: now my question
to you, mats, becomes : what's
this
to you ? does
the apparent novelty catch your eye ? or wut ?
mircea_popescu: heck, given
the shape
they're in, one in a billion may be excessive.
mircea_popescu: atens "bitcoin improvement" prgrammes is way
too much.
mircea_popescu: current computer science favours
the speed of light over other speeds "much more important
to "us"". it is a serious fucking problem for usg/nsa/alphabetsoup
that
there still exist people who even vaguely understand what
this shit even is, because even one in a million
that can make actual decisions based on actual facts when
that asshole asciilifeform publishes
things about pgp keys or
that asshole mircea_popescu
thre
mircea_popescu: ng, not
the emulation gap between modern CPUs and a
theoretical
Turing machine."
mircea_popescu: "The divergence between
the
theoretical
Turing machines and
the machines designed
to emulate has grown significantly; most of
the "work" modern computers (including mobile devices, etc.) perform is not computation oriented as it was with a
Turing machine.
Today networking, graphics/audio and interaction with
the physical world (SCADA, wearables, etc.) have become
the key features
that
the industry is working on improvi
phf: s setting up base somewhere in
that location)
phf: (there's a 90s russian commedy, дмб, about a bunch of hapless army conscripts. at some point
they are supposed
to provide entertainment for generals, in some
total buttfuck nowhere location. one of
the activities is pig hunting,
they release a pig, and
the general goes after it. so of course
the pig gets eaten by one of
the hungry conscripts, and he has
to pretend
to be a pig running
through fields. i can't help but
think about orlov's boomer
mircea_popescu: my chair has spent a great deal of
time pondering my ass.
mircea_popescu is further unimpressed with "Since joining
the cult of LangSec, I've spent a great deal of
time pondering" intros.
mircea_popescu is not particularly impressed with
this recently discovered pop-crypto celeb. srsly,
this is it, people stopped giving a shit about "music" so mpaa may die, but
there's going
to be a naa creating "crypto popstars" instead ?
mircea_popescu: "A Crypto
Trick
That Makes Software Nearly Impossible
to Reverse"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: yeah, universal literacy
totally was a good idea, i see it now.
phf: well, by
then,
there's not going
to be snow, because moderate climate areas are going
to be mad max hell holes, where's your siberian mcmansion is only going
to appreciate in value
mircea_popescu: what
the fuck is "Everyone" going
to do in siberia, upvote
the snow ?
phf: for fun. later i did some research and realized
that he's some kind of u.s. aparatchik who spent his 90s in russia
phf: i started reading orlov with his piece about "everyone should get russian passport and move syberia
to survive orks and global warming", i
thought
that maybe he was one of
those slightly misguided older russian expats, so i sent him an email in russian with
the general idea of, what about existing power structures
there, it's not like moving
to alaska,
there's not going
to be a shortage of local generals interested in hunting out of shape expats
phf: duda is a form of bagpipes,
though not used in russian much,
there's still "dudet'", which is
to make a bagpipe sound. someone could work
that into him being a blowhard somehow
mircea_popescu remembers
the early hopeful days of
the chechen republic whatever it was called and
that mustacioed fellow whose name, inescapably, came
to "joker"
mircea_popescu: i don't disagree with
the point at all, i just don't
think
that's what happened
there.
phf: well,
the fantasy is a from
the perspective of
the bureaucrat himself, so he doesn't necessarily sees
the bigger picture like a monarch would, he just does
the inspection. record would be required
though
mircea_popescu: a record made of
the incident at
the very list! what sort of bureaucracy is
this.
mircea_popescu: for one
thing, if it were bureaucracy driven, wouldn't you expect
the girl be shot ?
the woman dismissed ? some sort of "repercussions" ? "consequences" and whatnot ?
phf: oh i
thought it's a control fantasy, a bureaucrat who imagines himself a sultan will necessarily act a bureaucrat in
that role
mircea_popescu: the real dynamic
there is
that
the dudes are so fucking scared of actual womanhood
they desperately seek, and for
their sins find, an escape path.
mircea_popescu: (anyway, one girl,
the only one
that is overtly flirting with
the men, is rejected for
the obscure reason
that she had a bad 1st molar.
the procureress protests (in italian)
that such a pretty girlie! nobody even noticed!
phf: oh, lined
them up, checked
teeth and vulvas
phf: why classroom
though? how was selection process working with everyone running all over
the place? did
they had
to dump one or
two, because upon closer examination
they were kind of meh?
mircea_popescu: (the funniest
thing about chechens is
that
they actually use
the given name bula.
mircea_popescu: at
the very least he'll be henceforth known as abdulbek
the schoolteacher or something.
mircea_popescu: i'm not an authority on subcaucasian
tribal customs, but my guess would be
that such deeds would be a face wound for
the poor guy in question incompatible with any sort of continued authority.
phf: my interpretation of
the piece.
phf: "my brother's brother heard it from
the guy WHO WAS
THERE" "man, i wish i could just steal girls from classrooms like a brave chechen, because i sure as hell can't
talk
to
them"
mircea_popescu: and
the "criminal authority" has a name. also ran a hotel, which also had a name. etc.
mircea_popescu: i
think he's mixing
the pots,
too.
this story's from serbia.
mircea_popescu: "Another
time, in school, a group of Chechens stormed into a classroom in
the middle of a class, selected
the
three most attractive girls, and dragged
them away with
them. Later we found out
that
the girls were presented as birthday presents
to a local Chechen criminal authority."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the problem is
that
the us never having been a nation, it can't possibly fail like one.
phf: mircea_popescu: oh
that's
the idea about him, i guess
that makes sense
phf: that orlov quote is questionable, with
the same message as his other writing, i.e. "orks are cooler
then you" where you is a u.s. office worker. i grew up in intelligentsia family and when i started getting into fights i was sent
to sambo. i also saw fights involving chechen boys, including "деревня на деревню" kind, and in none of
those were russian boys holding back. what is
this
mircea_popescu: you're not smart
to live a long
time, you're smart
to live well. length don't enter into it.
mircea_popescu: but
teaching a boy
that he should somehow cleave his intelligence from his activity is just as fucking criminal.
mircea_popescu: you know,
teaching a woman
that she's supposed
to neglect
the functioning of her head so she can focus on...
the kitchen, i guess, as
the puritans can't quite make
the cunt point, is criminal.
mircea_popescu: and
they didn't hang
tyhe "local police" by
the lamp posts ?
mircea_popescu: so, yeah. do
that, last fucking
time you ever have
to "fight"
the "terrorists".
assbot: Logged on 16-07-2014 23:42:34; mircea_popescu: if
teh muricans really just wanted "something
that shoots and a bus
ticker
there", i'd have been really worried about
the afghanistani.
mircea_popescu: the mistake is
that
the standing guy sought
to protect himself.
mircea_popescu: you wanna win one of
these wars, simply ship your guys over. by fucking bus.
mircea_popescu: problem is, armies don't actually work for
this purpose.
mircea_popescu: "When I showed up,
there were fifteen of
them waiting for me, all grown men. I
thought
that
they would simply kill me."
mircea_popescu: there's no way i can explain
to williamdunne what he asks and
there's nothing i have
to ~say~
to chechens.
mircea_popescu: looky, verbal-ness is drastically overrated
this morning.
mircea_popescu: how do you call
that little barrel in which you keep sour cream ? putinica in romanian.
mircea_popescu: On
the Russian side, it was invariably
the mommy who came, and nagged her son: “You shouldn't fight! Fighting is bad!” On
the Chechen side it was invariably
the father who came. He slapped his son upside
the head and
told him: “How dare you lose a fight
to a stinking Russian—the son of an alcoholic and a prostitute?
Tomorrow you
thrash him so hard
that he pisses himself from fear any
time he sees you!”
mircea_popescu: i moreover envision a situation where whatever steel's left, if
there is, bands
together and
the shit gets buried.
mircea_popescu: and
the steel particles are gonna stick with
the shit ? lol, kay.
mircea_popescu: why did rome succeed "holding
the barbarians at bay" for a millenium and
then collapsed in
two centuries ? look at what was going on in china during.
mircea_popescu: when it strengthens back,
the barbarians run off west, and yo uhave "end of empires".
mircea_popescu: it just is so fucking big it causes gravity waves. when it weakens,
the northern barbarians move east and you have european "peace".
mircea_popescu: btw, northern barbarians =
the pakis. china's been pushing populations west since forever, and is continuing
to do so. not intentionally, mind you.
mircea_popescu: actually rotherham is not
that badly off. kinda why i used it
to derail our amiable friend.
mircea_popescu: so if you want
to have a superpower, use china.
the us is neither a superpower not really invovled.
mircea_popescu: and yes, china would be
the main beneficiary of getting rid of all
these northern barbarians.