asciilifeform: i have deeply nfi. for all i know motl lives in luxury.
asciilifeform: for so long as the cheques come in the mail, d00d can imagine whatever he likes, neh
asciilifeform: i suspect that most of these folx are.. physiologically incapable of touching a subj that hasn't been tonywashed.
asciilifeform: linked strictly for the flavour of crackpottery afaik not seen elsewhere, 'imaginary 1950s Greatest Generation anticommie usa' vs 'bolshevik bitcoin'
asciilifeform: the economy while Ripple or the Bitcoin doesn't.'
asciilifeform: from his commentreplies, also gold, e.g. '...People who despise Western national fiat currencies are dirty fucked-up commies of the same kind that has plundered my country. I just won't ever support their goal, they're scum for me. Do you get it? Relatively to these important things, whether the replacement is called Ripple or Rouble is just a technicality. It's the same shit except that rouble actually works as a viable currency for
asciilifeform: his apparent conflict between the regular banks and meaningless cryptocurrency exchanges; in the conflict between the system with regular banks that has worked for centuries and an ideologically driven replacement that isn't used in the real legal economy because it obviously cannot work well...' etc
asciilifeform: 'The ISPs and commercial banks are parts of the capitalist economy and a systemic attack against them is obviously a systemic attack against capitalism – real-world capitalism – as such. Maybe it's because my position in the formative years – I considered myself a builder of the new capitalist economy including the old-fashioned brick-and-mortar commercial banks – but I just wouldn't hesitate for a second whom I root for in t
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: possibly moar under the table
asciilifeform: but easily can believe that in walmartfuckistan -- not inspected.
asciilifeform: muchly depends where. literally few blox from asciilifeform , bridge is being recemented. and not far from there, a brand new one built.
asciilifeform: the 1 item that still ~worx to spec in usa : roads. sorta like bread in ye olde su. it is a symbol of imperial 'mandate of heaven'
asciilifeform: possibly because asciilifeform drives on asphalt, and not jungle ? nfi
asciilifeform: ( and yes i have a manometer , and one of those small pumps )
asciilifeform: somehow asciilifeform's tyres hold pressure for yr+
asciilifeform: ( and motorcycle , tractor, bus , tire -- still tubed afaik errywhere )
asciilifeform: lotta vintage car aficionado folx here.
asciilifeform: pretty sure you can get tubed tires in usa.
asciilifeform: 'Full rubber tyres, no inflation at all. Yes, exactly like in the toy items we had as children. Progress, you see,' << this is coming. possibly already deployed on 'upscale' americars.
asciilifeform: oh hey in the new mircea_popescu article : the item re 'cruise ship'. asciilifeform confesses, he never understood what is the appeal
asciilifeform: ( incidentally there is -- imho wholly without merit -- a school of physical-crackpotteristic thought that holds that he botched the job. )
asciilifeform: i respect folx who do honest work, even on particle zoos. just as i respect that cataloguers of rare birds in the jungle ; it is not a wholly pointless thing. but it is not comparable to heaviside, who walked into a room with 22 equations and came out with 4.
asciilifeform: the troo wothy, is the man who SHRINKS the textbook.
asciilifeform: not so much even that 'hate', but observed that current-day practitioners are proliferators of factolade, and not unifiers.
asciilifeform: ( preferably if you have such a machine -- throw it out!! now! )
asciilifeform: only egyptological mul can be used on such machines.
asciilifeform: the use of comba , and in fact of ANY multiplier that compiles into having a x86 MUL instruction anywhere in it, is unsafe on intel celeron. and ppc32. and possibly ppc64.
asciilifeform: program is not meaningfully separable from ~all~ of the necessary parts to make it go.
asciilifeform: upstack re the impossibility of translating the safety of an ada program's nearby-modifications-phasespace to c -- i suspect that mircea_popescu's thesis re 'files are not separate units' not only is troo, but does not go far enuff :
asciilifeform: because they not only do it, but exaggeratedly, cartoon-coloured, do it.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: because it was reimplementation, rather than translation.
asciilifeform: from certain pov it is 'same', but if you were to change ANYTHING -- you can now get segfault. whereas in original, it was not physically possible.
