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mircea_popescu: he created a partition over the statal space, and choose some bits.
mircea_popescu: what he did was IN SPITE of the politruk, not for the politruk.
mircea_popescu: think : kurchatov eminently supported a primitive republic AGAINST "everyone".
mircea_popescu: ie, the illiterate 20something reader will read something else.
mircea_popescu: (note that i ~can~ both follow and support the reading of the man's words that'd permit you to say "Yes" ; however it'd be very much a sopirla, and well distant from what "plain reading" delivers.)
mircea_popescu: does this meet your criteria for " he did not know how to do things that would be of use to him personally, or some particular group" ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what does "it seems to me, that he did not know how to do things that would be of use to him personally, or some particular group. everyone. or nobody." mean here in your reading ?
mircea_popescu: phf by the time you write obituaries "istos plausus, cum popularibus civibus tribuerentur", you have already done the deed, and now work for forbes.
mircea_popescu: the point of an obituary is to satisfy the spirit of the departed.
mircea_popescu: i guess i should read less russian and more clintonian.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the ideal of the soviet man of science is that until such a time as every last soviet citizen can follow brin the elder, no brin the elder should speak ?
mircea_popescu: it's what we expect to see, isn't it ? usg is specifically the empire of "there's a difference between what is and what you want to see, and we live out of selling that"
mircea_popescu: phf which is why this dude is trying to help forbes sell.
mircea_popescu: man at shop where they don't hjave meat said, "well, if there's not enough meat for the whole queue, i take no meat" ?
mircea_popescu: like, let's have an example of any item, mechanism, anything recognizably soviet that worked as described.
mircea_popescu: the point is really, "soviet man didn't know how to support a group" ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i seem to think parts of dead frog behave more convincingly than other parts.
mircea_popescu: and the piece is OF a respectable man, but not by a respectable man, though the quality of the masquerade is indeed high.
mircea_popescu: and the dollar is "quoted" in rubles to propose that anyone would ever want to buy some.
mircea_popescu: forbes ru exists to lend credence to the empty notion that forbes is a thing, which is no different from the proposition best-bitcoin-mining-trading-info-near-you-australia.s3.amazonaws.com is a thing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform how do you read "it seems to me, that he did not know how to do things that would be of use to him personally, or some particular group. everyone. or nobody. we all once were like this. us. people from a destroyed country" other than a) a retcon of history (soviet man EMINENTLY was never like this,. but like the opposite of this) and b) "please please please let there be no republc please" rendered in prolix sty
mircea_popescu: these are the spirits of the dead, unsatiated, restless, unburied.
mircea_popescu: kinda why lemures/spectra/etc were scary to teh romans.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the fate of the lost is that they continue at their level of skill.
mircea_popescu is also happy at how diana_coman 's code veers towards literate style. you've seen this phf ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "daniel is a bot" "how can you tell it's a bot ?" "because i don;t like what it says, but let's veil this into some numerology considerations". hurr.
mircea_popescu: as if there's fucking options at their level. "oh, i am destitute but have options!!1"
mircea_popescu: lol all the self important "i'll read something else". really bitch ? what will you read, trilema ?
mircea_popescu: "the computing centers, tired of routine, seized the novelty" holy crap. moscow station last functional usg item, defo.
mircea_popescu: especially fabuous as the "you may also be interested in" bullshit is liek "virtualnoe bezdele rabotodateli rasplachivayutsya za internet SERFING" under "karera i svoy biznes". AS FUCKING IF!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: im going to make this the permanent reference endpoint to that entire story of how sane language protects the speaker from idiocy as a passive aura.
mircea_popescu: "Или думаешь, что вырвешься. Потому что эти несколько лет вдруг прервутся сообщением — «Бардин умер». Вас также может заинтересовать..."
mircea_popescu: putting the usd and euro "values" as if they existed or mattered up top is one thing. but this, thbis is liek moar skill and ability than seen from usg in 20 years.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron idiots gotta idiot, they're not fucking dedicated to ANYTHING like they';re dedicated to the maintenance and perpetuation of the empire of idiocy.
mircea_popescu: i am personally insulted by all the useless fuckwits with patreon profiles because unlike the useless fuckwits a la say rms, they MOVED THERE AFTER THE REPUBLIC.
mircea_popescu: works ok for eg torrents, where all data is needed once in no particular order, but blockchain is not torrent.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: lol the pantsuit spamsites just recycle the same "content" ? who couldve...
mircea_popescu: "tense" being nonsense in the first place. time + aspect, learn grammar properly if at all.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, da ne tot in romanian means "give us everything"
mircea_popescu: you know how many alt-mps the empire has summoned up as if it does something ?
mircea_popescu: there is no difference between a patch unsigned and another patch unsigned, much like there's no difference between a nobody "gerald davis" and the exact same nobody "gerard david"
mircea_popescu: im not sure this is a problem. people use crapple os, an unsupported chain off the main v trunk as it is.
mircea_popescu: nature comes with a key shaped like that hole, it is called "apostasy is its own punishment".
mircea_popescu: software'd better not be immutable either, lest we're stuck with c.
mircea_popescu: it mearly meant this much, that it'd be a chain of patches.
mircea_popescu: but the discussion here is merely "how to enforce a correct chain of patches"
mircea_popescu: i advised her to be careful what she dreams of in the future.
mircea_popescu savagely fucked sleeping girl ; after which, taking advantage of well known property of dreams to be recountable if dreamer suddenly awakened, asked what she had been dreaming of.
mircea_popescu: so in the same sense the french/swiss folk could almost-read unpublished newton on the basis of their own understanding of calculus...
mircea_popescu: the poets/philosophers/civil servants tripartite discussion of divinity most indicative.
mircea_popescu: anyway, a lot of it is guessable on the basis of, mostly stoic re-write.
mircea_popescu: perfectly respectable anthropologist to this very day, in preference of most anyone ever born in an english speaking household, and certainly anyone born in the colonies.
mircea_popescu: anyway, for they clamoring for references -- the complete works of varro (such as they remain) are most instructive here.
mircea_popescu: (reason earth is fulla iron is that gold needs a discretely different star to produce ; yes there's a continuous mass consideration involoved, but the results -- discretized)