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BingoBoingo: ;;later
tell RagnarDanneskjol looks beautiful
davout: ;;later
tell mircea_popescu "<davout> yes, continuous
trading seems so much simpler, not sure if
there's a blocker i'm missing
tho << it's nonsense, what exactly is a future
that has no future date ?" <<< didn't say
there shouldn't be a maturity date, i said
trading should be continuous
BingoBoingo: ^If notary were here would be entered into
the record.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: You'll live long enough for
that.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: What are
the rought loper-os dreams after Chicom memresistors?
BingoBoingo: Lizard hitler has nothing on hawk hitler... dunno I want
to disclose how I ended in
that scenario...
BingoBoingo had a dream... Where
the avaians crashed a ship while
trying
to depose
the reptilians and I managed
to kit out a fishing boat with
their sweet alien gear...
mircea_popescu: i mean it's not a bad way
to waste money, who knows what
the reaearching kids come up with
assbot: Logged on 08-02-2014 00:14:28; asciilifeform: imagine you possess a death ray
that magically zaps a rocket, from any distance.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: One was already made,
torrent "Birth of a Nation" Next step has yet
to be made.
decimation: asciilifeform: yes,
this seems like a more likely attack method honestly
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Which lonely place was
that video about?
mircea_popescu: decimation nah,
the implication is
that you plot its
trajectory and wait for it
there
decimation: also,
the implication is
that you either have an anti-missile
that
travels much faster (therefore less mass on
target)
BingoBoingo always imagined a perfect "nuclear power" untouchable datacenter would
target DC, Beijing, Moscow, and Mecca for its dead hand protocol
mircea_popescu: at some point,
the rocket, low on fuel,
turns back
towards
the earth. at
that point it's damned slow.
mircea_popescu: so your "i'll
trust
them when
they use one" is kinda an unfairly distant bridge.
mircea_popescu: anyway, long story short, i dun
think anyone's doing anything with any rockets. bulava or otherwise.
decimation: right, and death rays are also
terribly common
decimation: yeah as far as I know, except for extremely expensive bezzlar rockets usg owns,
there is very little
that can be done
to intercept ballistic missile once it is past its initial acceleration phase
mircea_popescu: afaik
the classical approach mostly intercepts
them at perihelion
mircea_popescu: it's roughly like firing a
tank in slow motion at someone.
mircea_popescu: i dunno
that
the bulava pose any sort of
threat
to anyone
these days
tho.
decimation: they still generally expect
to repair own heavy equipment
mircea_popescu: decimation
the best way for you
to access
that spirit is, read up on koschei.
mircea_popescu: decimation
this is a very specific
thing,
tho. rural russian kid cca 1920.
decimation: actually
the few farm folks I knew generally loved
the farm, hated
the city
mircea_popescu: it worked because it echoed what
the idiots in question were
thinking anyway.
mircea_popescu: the propaganda said
this specifically, but it worked not because it said it
mircea_popescu: genuinely loved it.
the fucking adventure of it all, fuck dude,
think of it, he's like a hero of legend.
mircea_popescu: that
the sheer entertainment value of it al is what motivated 99% of
the movement.
mircea_popescu: the other construction is
that peasant 20 yo kid FUCKING LOVED getting
to
travel, getting
to work on a construction yard and whistle at anon girls in skirts passing by
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
take
the earlier point re "stalin made an experiment of making peasant life suck more". it's a construction.
☟︎ decimation: note
that no one is actually employed plowing anymore, except by usg, and
those plows are automated machines
mircea_popescu: "need" doesn't work in
this ethereal, abstract way you use it.
mircea_popescu: if
this patent nonsense had any sort of irl merit, you'll be stuck explaining
the crowd at my door.
mircea_popescu: dude
this is like saying guy has
to "subjugate" woman, as she needs nothing etc.
decimation: asciilifeform: except historically
the city man own's
the country man's plows & fields
decimation: no far more important
than food were reliable 'rivers of meat'
to
turn up at
the voting-box
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform rural anything doesn't need keeping down. << I embrace it. If
the gasenwagen need
to burn moar wood
to collect me...
decimation: there are loads of major and minor cities
that were hollowed out as part of
the dekulakization program
decimation: yeah but
the us between
the coasts (especially east of
the mississippi) isn't exactly rural
BingoBoingo still amazed white StL people don't realize
that bosnians are what keep south city habitable
mircea_popescu: decimation chechens are a fan of whatever empire
they happen
to have clung
to
the skirts of.
mircea_popescu: turns out
the solution is adding &ncr=1
to whatever string you use for autosearch
mircea_popescu: so google decided spontaneously
to redirect me
to argentina google.
decimation: yeah,
this is pretty much why blacks live in eastern urban cores by
the way