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mircea_popescu: cunts make kids not vegetables, and
things don't scale like
this.
mircea_popescu: "my wife couldn't even give birth
to an eggplant, what hope is
there she could make me an heir"
mircea_popescu: moreover,
this is entirely not related.
things don't scale like
this.
mircea_popescu: for
that matter, she was saved from ending up in
the street by someone here iirc.
mircea_popescu: this is not actually
true. we could, she didn't want
to.
mircea_popescu: "looky, just because we're
temporarily
tolerating
the kulaks means nothing.
this is like saying
the soviets had no factories
to its name, 1915."
mircea_popescu: and moreover, once la serenissima expands - A LITTLE (in comparative
tersm) - what's
to say it won't be able
to afford
this ?
mircea_popescu: does it mean
they could ? no, it does not.
the proposition is of
the kind of "apple shares could buy all of russia". no,
they COULD NOT.
mircea_popescu: does
this
then mean
that
the us generates 10 more fabs each month ? no.
mircea_popescu: so, what's a fab cost ? like 10bn or so, say ? less, but anyway. what's
the current print rate ? 10x
that A MONTH or so ? at least as far as documented (most monetary expansion happens in
the dark anyway, it was recently rechristened as "big bank fraud"
temporarily, but it is not nor ever was
that - most monetary expansion is regulated by
the banks)
assbot: Logged on 10-05-2015 17:35:26; asciilifeform: just
the 'palace economy' you inherently get, from a chip fab costing what it costs
mircea_popescu: i cope with it solipsistically, which is
to say, "until it gets in my way it doesn't exist. once it does, ima burn it"
assbot: Logged on 10-05-2015 18:59:40; mircea_popescu: i'm not about
to give anything stupid
the
time of day in any sense, except perhaps
to point and laugh at it if it's stupid enough.
mircea_popescu: it's very funny
this,
they would rather want "sovereignity on windows"
than "independence from windows".
assbot: Logged on 10-05-2015 17:28:51; asciilifeform: hence why ru missile controllers are built using ancient soviet arch, yes, but
the fab is winblows-controlled and
the design
turns from circuit
to mask also in winblows
mircea_popescu: the pretend-sovereigns are really not
that good.
that's all.
assbot: Logged on 10-05-2015 17:27:12; asciilifeform:
they do
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-05-2015#1127054 << no
they don't. nobody, including
the chinese, including putin, has any fucking idea what
this even is, because
they lack both
the intellectual sophistication
to comprehend what matters in
the world and go seek
the signs, and
the power
to actually have good advisors
that do.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: looky, just because we're
temporarily
tolerating
the kulaks means nothing.
this is like saying
the soviets had no factories
to its name, 1915.
assbot: Logged on 10-05-2015 17:22:40; asciilifeform: as for
the free world, it has -not one chip fab-
to its name
davout: ben_vulpes: yeah i guess i should, it just doesn't fail often enough for me
to care
ben_vulpes: or is
this people
trying
to imitate
the lispy "jack into running proc"
thing with
tmux/screen/mosh etc
jurov: yea, i use
tmux likewise
Azelphur: mircea_popescu: yea, I'm not
that active in
this channel any more since I don't really hold any assets beyond bitcoin itself
Azelphur: Actually working on electrum atm
that said, it hates me because I'm British so I'm having
to patch it
jurov: wow. you're running mpex bot directly on
the iron?
davout: jurov: blergh, my bot is apparently stuck, doesn't feel like starting up, i'll need
to access
the physical machine, which will happen in
the next 24h
assbot: Logged on 10-05-2015 17:10:50; asciilifeform: several years ago, i bought
the arm chipset chromebook and
tried in vain, for ages,
to install gentoo on it
assbot: Logged on 10-05-2015 17:09:03; asciilifeform: decimation: i'd consider doing
this, but doubt
there is any serious demand
davout: ah, i'll need
to check on
that
mircea_popescu: like a sort of nonviolence proponent
that
takes it up
the pooper.
mircea_popescu: "It’s hard
to
think of another movie since
then
that’s been so quotable, so memorable, so widely watched, and has even aged as well as it has." << except star wars, star
trek, most of manga...
hanbot: mircea_popescu is
that
the philosophy you apply
to rewriting poems etc?
mircea_popescu: i'm not about
to give anything stupid
the
time of day in any sense, except perhaps
to point and laugh at it if it's stupid enough.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 10-05-2015 17:03:44; asciilifeform:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-05-2015#1126936 << one of
the nice
things about having
the source, regardless of how idiotic
the dev process which produced it, is cutting away
the crud. which you can do with coreboot, just as with bitcoind etc.
trinque: the idea was you pack
the state with enough gun-toting libertarians and
things get better-ish
ben_vulpes: i need an emoji for when i want
to raise an eyebrow at you mircea_popescu
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: you're familiar with
the supreme vermin?
ben_vulpes: i
think earth rape sciences are great!
they're expensive and produce absolutely nothing.
mircea_popescu: it progressed slightly from
that,
to word redefinitions in
the 90s, and so on.
mircea_popescu: even before-r
than
that, in
the 80s, all
the left had was "accuse
the other of bad
things loudly and repeatedly. just
that".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: if you care about anthropology, it's a great
thing
to watch, how
the beast acquires skills.
that was
the major breakthrough
there.
mircea_popescu: you know, where
the usg actually gained
the ability
to make bad graphs
davout: not sure i follow
the "rape earth sciences"
mircea_popescu: rather
than because
those people actually need
their money.
mircea_popescu: maybe
they imagine
that
their "rape earth sciences" program worked, and maybe
they imagine it worked because it was persuasive,
mircea_popescu: course, it's how
that country is run, it's how
the derps "in charge" got into office, it's
the only
thing
they're
tooled
to do, and so
to
the man carrying a bad graph and some banal word
tricks...
mircea_popescu: why
the fuck do
they
think addressing
themselves
to a mathematically illiterate crowd is a valid avenue is entirely beyond my comprehension.
mircea_popescu: davout
the amount of herd-herding
that
the usg has been putting into
this is so incredibly useful because a) it really can't do anything but! b) it really does expose
the
tools.
davout: sure,
there are going
to be problems for you if
the
transactions keep growing linearly like
that, oh wait, it's a log scale, straight lines are actually exponentials
mircea_popescu: williamdunne nigeria was originally a booming oil economy, attracted a lot of people.
then it went stale, and for a while
throughout
the 90s
there was a large community of desperate, socially marginal young men, who
took
to playing internet con games. eventually
there was some reaction in
the shape of, "con
the nigerians".
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: I'm really curious as
to what decisions led
to
that photo
ben_vulpes: "my name is vermin/my name is vermin/vermin supreme supreme supreme/and you can vote/for me (if you want
to)"...
jurov: yea, i was implying
the image was so big cuz you have hidden sth
there
assbot: Logged on 10-05-2015 18:44:48; ben_vulpes: at a certain point it'll
turn into a game "hey williamdunne
this is great but it's not going
to fly without a photo of you with a shoe on your head"
fluffypony: and
they were like "SORRY SIR,
THE HOBBY STORE IS DOWN
THE ROAD"
mircea_popescu: steganography is hiding messages inside images. and a crush is when a guy wants
to put his wee wee in your... well...
jurov: did you get
the steg joke at last?
jurov: yeah williamdunne is lost caouse,like, i have
to explain
to him i'm
trolling him.
ben_vulpes: at a certain point it'll
turn into a game "hey williamdunne
this is great but it's not going
to fly without a photo of you with a shoe on your head"
☟︎