asciilifeform: http://labs.online.net/try-it << doesn't appear to work

asciilifeform: 'mips' is superior, imho, in virtually every way - and they would crank out mips-en, but where then to crib code wholesale and piecemeal ?

asciilifeform: and for the same reason

asciilifeform: just like ussr stamped out single-crystal pdp-11 clones by the millions.

asciilifeform: china is cranking out arm clones by the billion, and certainly not all of these roll in the royalty? how does it square with my hypothesis? answer - perfectly.

asciilifeform: while being a heavily patent-encumbered, baroquely-architectured turd.

asciilifeform: ' quietly cornered the market in applications where 1) no winblows legacy 2) computation/watt ratio actually matters

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-12-2014#960128 << you may enjoy this thread ☝︎

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: and where are they ordinarily found ?

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: interesting - who makes these ?

asciilifeform just today finished a ~3 week, all-waking-hours death marathon of 'arm' reversing. 'jailbroke' a [censored] (rare laboratory instrument)

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: it worked, but that particular chip/board had uncommonly slow i/o, it was nearly unusable

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: i actually did this at one point.

asciilifeform: the latter isn't simply a non-reprogrammable fpga; it has the LUTs of fpga, but with 'wiring' baked into the metallization layers, rather than fpga-style switching fabric

asciilifeform: and, to return to that old thread, i still think that mircea is mistaken about the current crop of miners being something other than 'structured asic'

asciilifeform: brings to mind an old saw re: certain places, 'Вход – рубль, выход – два' (entry - one coin, exit - costs two)

asciilifeform: how 'exceptional' of a programmer does one need to become, to leave usa ?

asciilifeform: now i'd like to learn,

asciilifeform: of course, if you read pg's piece correctly (i.e. substitute 'exceptionally obedient coolie' for 'exceptional programmer', the contradictions are instamagically resolved.

asciilifeform: 'Question: why doesn’t this hypothetical guy, if he’s so ‘great’ and ‘exceptional’, just do his own thing? What’s he need Initrode for? Why should he move to a 2 BR/2 BA in Sunnyvale, CA to get a biweekly paycheck?'

asciilifeform: why the fuck one needs cloudflare or whatever, if blockchain telegraph ?

asciilifeform: should accept commands via blockchain telegraph.

asciilifeform: why does this need a www site ?

asciilifeform: decimation: the relevant boojums are to be produced either in underground workshops, like grenades during warsaw ghetto uprising, or in a foreign land and smuggled in

asciilifeform: decimation: this is why the usual concepts of 'product' and 'market' are to be avoided there.

asciilifeform: TomServo: 'hangout' is the traditional english term for disinfo

asciilifeform: how did you read either one and not realize this ?

asciilifeform: (leaving aside the question of whether mr s is a hangout)

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the Spiegel wasn't writing about the official Christmas dump

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: just read the bloody things, there isn't all that much to read.

asciilifeform: 'pseudoliberal/pseudoconservative indoctrination and university- and church-based brainwashing that put it in place, cost them a pretty penny... ...How about leveraging it to organize some sort of rabidly homophobic racist fundamentalist separatist enclave somewhere down south? Or perhaps one somewhere in the north, where zoophilia is de rigeur while heterosexual intercourse requires a special permit from a committee stocked w

asciilifeform: 'The bonus question is, what sort of anti-America will these parasites set up inside America before they abandon their host and scatter to their fortified compounds in undisclosed locations around the world? Or will they not even bother, and just provoke a war of all against all?'

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: current king probably weighed his chances of ending up as an example, like hussein, milosevich, others who dared to stand up to anglo.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: a surrender that may or may not be accepted.

asciilifeform: other than 'surrender'

asciilifeform: everyone who laughs at nk should sit down for five minutes and imagine what they'd do as king there

asciilifeform: to borrow mircea's analogy re: french empire, 'at this point atmosphere there is quite like that in hitler's bunker'

asciilifeform: it took decades of 'international komyoonity' blockading, conniving, sabotage, favourite-son dealing, to change this.

asciilifeform: until approx. 1980, nk was the industrial power, and the south was a pisshole.

asciilifeform: sk is the anti.