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decimation: asciilifeform: here's another one:
http://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/uavs-drive-satcom-modernization/ "The reality, however, is
the role of
the lion’s share of UAVs is
to provide data
to soldiers within 50 miles of
the aircraft using line-of-sight air-to-ground links,” Gardner wrote. “Today
these links are predominantly analog FM links for standard definition video, but a change
to sophisticated digital links is under
decimation: but I am assuming a world where e-m spectrum could be otherwise be allocated
to other-than-friends-of-the-bezzle
decimation: asciilifeform: who knows how
the us military hardens
their links against interference
decimation: well,
the point isn't really
the interfering signal from
the satellite as much as
the fact
that no one on
the ground can use
the same frequencies without potentially interfering with satellite receivers
decimation: true, not
the entire earth all at once
decimation: re: satellites << plus
they occupy electromagnetic spectrum
that could be put
to otherwise productive use
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, unplunders
there are. called craftsmen and artisans.
decimation: I guess
the simpler alternative is
to
take
the mob and invade moscow with it
mircea_popescu: so you get
to still be king, people will refer
to you as Roi Acier
decimation: right,
the problem is
that it's hopeless
mircea_popescu: decimation suppose you were king, and ordered
the leningrad of paris. what
then ?
☟︎ decimation: asciilifeform: I guess if
the king isn't a derp, he
turns grapeshot upon
the mob
mircea_popescu: even more conveniently forgetting
to mention
the 100x more
tons of metal, fuel and whatnot needed
to make satellites.
mircea_popescu: conveniently forgetting
to mention
that
the cable is resilient, whereas
the satellites not so much, and moreover,
mircea_popescu: "Thanks
to
technological change, over
the past few decades
the capital-intensiveness of emerging successor infrastructures has been collapsing faster
than
the existing infrastructure itself.
The classic example, from Buckminster Fuller, is replacing a
transoceanic cable system emdodying God only knows how many
thousand
tons of metal with a few dozen communications satellites weighing a few
tons each."
cazalla: anyone else unable
to access?
mircea_popescu: the guy
that wrote
the os romania still runs on, for almost
two centuries now ? had a working model
decimation: I suppose
that's
the result of
the mob seizing power: awesome party,
terrible hangover
mircea_popescu: the
thing
they
tried was in all ways french : lots of fun, and it nearly got
to moscow.
mircea_popescu: once france was going
to fail, louis settled into a comfortable "apres moi, le deluge" and
the people felt right about
the same way germans felt around hitler's bunker.
mircea_popescu: this ensured
the failure of france as a going concern, because it couldn't keep up with
the new megastate.
mircea_popescu: the weakness of
the crown allowed
the personal union of
the dutch and england, which created a shipping superpower
mircea_popescu: here's a reduced version of
the problem : england had a shitty king,
that led
to
the empowering of a a bizarre sect.
this is what happens when monarchy falters - secret societies.
decimation: I suppose it was
the ultimate outworking of enlightenment philosophy
mircea_popescu: uh. i dunno, but i suspect
the revolution was a historical necessity.
decimation: my limited understanding is
that much blame falls on Louis for being a dufus
decimation: mircea_popescu: as a student of french history, how do you
think
the revolution could have been reversed?
decimation: Voltaire attacks Leibniz for
thinking
too optimistically about human possibility, and
then supports
the elevation of
the unwashed masses
mircea_popescu: no wonder
the conservative "you're not in
the wot, noob" approach conflicts.
mircea_popescu: how great it is
tho, just
think!
to be
the best person
that ever was merely for having been born later !
mircea_popescu: they also buy into
the
theory of women, black people and so forth being a bunch of simpletons in need of special olympics
mircea_popescu: oh if only
they could be spared
the humiliation of failing in an irc chatroom, how great life'd be.
mircea_popescu: not different in any sense, but
the past does offer
the dubious benefit of unverifiability
mircea_popescu: for one
thing, you need
to be conversant in
their ideas.
mircea_popescu: takes a whole of a lot more
than "i cursorily looked
through my
textbook on sciences"
to meaningfully impact
the past.
decimation: "By contrast, in Poul Anderson’s
The Man Who Came Early, an American MP with an engineering degree finds
that he can’t apply any of his high-tech knowledge in low-tech Viking Iceland. He destroys
the blacksmith’s shop when he
tries
to use modern high-temperature methods, he suggests impractical ideas, like deep-keeled sailing ships, which you can’t pull ashore, and so on."
assbot: imgur:
the simple image sharer
mircea_popescu: "Robin Williams' suicide was
triggered by a horrible disease called Lewy Body Dementia ... sources connected with his family
tell
TMZ."
decimation: it overlooks
the statue erected
to
the memory of sun yet san
mircea_popescu: kinda unfair
that he mentions oprah winfrey but not martha stewart lol.
mircea_popescu: because
the ancient chinese didn't know women can you know,
tablestuffs.
mircea_popescu: get a load of
this...
the qin envoy guy is using
the example of a chinese
table
tennis player as highly achievementful women.
decimation: I found a chocolate bush one day but it
turned out
to be rabbit
turds
mircea_popescu: and
then
they died by falling out of
the strawberry
tree.
dub: its hilarious listening
to it
mircea_popescu: the "body of human science" understood as "the government employees paid
to derp on a
topic" enacted "slow moving schizophrenia" as a
thing.
mircea_popescu: decimation coelenterata.
they just float around in
the sea. not
their fault some happened upon a vent, not
their fault
the vent will go out.
dub: teh body of human science says global warming is a
thing
mircea_popescu: the body of human science isn't derp derping about "relativity" by name anymore
than
the body of bitcoin is derp derping about "bitcoin" by name.
decimation: do
they lack
the ability
to perceive
the obvious or are
they acting out despite
themselves?
dub: they represent
the body of human science
tho
mircea_popescu: all
these people whose survival strictly depends on a extreheheeemely unlikely arrangement imagine
themselves like... you know, representatives of HUMANITY outright
mircea_popescu: basically "i am a worthless sack of dung.
the proof of
this is
that if i got sent
to any other circumstance i'd make a
total fool of myself"
mircea_popescu: srsly,
this faux chosenpeopleism is hard
to get out of huh
decimation: as if anyone could state
that with authority
mircea_popescu: "since
the early 20th century, Earth’s mean surface
temperature has increased by about 0.8°C." lmap
decimation: most of what is accepted as common knowledge in
the us would have been rank retardation
to
the ancients
mircea_popescu: basically, dude imagines
that a) he currently lives in a world where people actually give a shit what usians
thing and b)
this will survive
time
travel.
mircea_popescu: actually midden is pretty much
the best approximation of culture in physical
terms.
assbot: Ron Maimon, Luboš Motl and other Internet
things I hear of
today for
the very first
time pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
Vexual: people on
the river are happy
to give
assbot: Emerald Mound and Village Site - Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia
BingoBoingo: Well, no. Kansas had
those fucking barbarian nomads with
their dogs