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mircea_popescu: nah, ro consisted of theft. you should see the inane lyrics they stuffed on ~most everything making the pop charts in the 70s.
mircea_popescu: "in lumea plina de urmari, eu sunt un om pe niste scari. in sus ce e ? in jos, nimic. in jos ce e ? in sus... nimic. vorbesc cu ceilalti care-au fost, si-n sus si-n jos si nu-i dezic. eu insumi spun de locurile pe unde-am fost : nu e nimic."
mircea_popescu: but otherwise sure, what that great k. ushinsky "povestind copiilor" etc
mircea_popescu: diana_coman if he finds the old greuceanu etc series for a buck a piece and buys a few buckets he'll have perfectly legitimate us house's worth of collectibles.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what you want is an "anticariat", buy old "electrecord" vinyls. he did a series of kids stories, excellent.
mircea_popescu: in languages as well as fucking, there's no disadvantage in starting directly with the master class.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: blowing this distinction is a major general failure in romanian.
mircea_popescu: will skip from the first syllable of first involved word as far as possibly the first sentence stop.
mircea_popescu: 100% chances of native speaking not having any fucking clue what you're saying
☟︎ mircea_popescu: language is full of it, it's like a fundamental mechanism of romanian. ii da / ɨi də/ (he gives [it] to him) vs dai-i /dəii/ (give them to him)
mircea_popescu: i^i ( ɨi ), short form of to be present indicative ; i-i (ii), article-pronoun manuple.
mircea_popescu: tho generally the russian "academics" or w/e pretend there's no close central.
mircea_popescu: ie, close central unrounded not close front unrounded.
mircea_popescu: there;s usually no ɨ explicitly in russian, but if you contrast say твёрдый and мягкий it's evident
mircea_popescu: i expect there can be peri-linguistic tests of language mastery consisting entirely of synthetic constructions.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but in bonus lulz : hanbot, who is not a native speaker, confronted earlier with it guessed it's some sort of spoke or knob like off a door.
mircea_popescu: this'd require a large study and the largeness will implicitly make it fail through publicity.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have no idea what the heuristcs actually are ; self-reported they vary.
mircea_popescu: by the book "we are poor and hopeless but communism rules!!!!" argentinianism.
mircea_popescu: "oh, wanna-be mps over at ycombinator can't compete with mp though they really really want to ? I KNOW!!! we'll make all the bars suck and then suddenly the shit-ass parties ycombinator throws won't look quite as shitty anymore!!1"
mircea_popescu: of course this is never actually ~said~ as such, but i suspect for the same reason priest omits to specify manner and size of wife beating implement.
mircea_popescu: stalin may well be russian, or whatever, georgiussian. but puskin much like petofi very much romanian.
mircea_popescu: translation more a work of "this very talented youngster can't grammar properly, but here's a normal transcription" than anything.
mircea_popescu: and no, ro hates all things russian in the sense of politically. otherwise romanian view is all other things were written by alt-romanians in bad romanian.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what;s to disasm ? just a succession of letters.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: there is such a thing as a phonetic meaning encoding, this item proves.
mircea_popescu: actually it is a fine example for linguistics, because, get this, native speaker presented with it would generally GUESS, based on PURE PHONETICS, that it has something to do with "being in the way" or "standing up inconveniently" or somesuch,.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (this is a synthetic romanian word, uses each of the special letters exactly once. it didn't exist naturally, but it SOUNDS like it'd be a thing, like "chioara" (one eyed female) or such ; so was defined by contest cca 2008)
mircea_popescu: (tl;dr french speaking hooker hitting on attached males in public, french spoken ho drama ensues)
mircea_popescu: let it be stated i'll buy "stolen" art at any time ; possession is 100% of the law.
mircea_popescu: whole of usg has like a developer and a half to carry the whole load of endless "agencies", mastercard sees five minutes of developer every full moon.
mircea_popescu: and lulz at mastercard, pretending as if they've not just one, but a whole fucking NETWORK of developers.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i very much doubt there can be two items called "museum of communist consumer" under a bar called lejer in the tiny temeswar.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: there's an ambiguity here, gotta distinguish between installed capacity and sustained consumption.
mircea_popescu: iirc davout lives on island ; tiny enough if you piss while running you can run around it.
mircea_popescu: he's so amusing lol, "and now... I CAN EAT ONCE MOAR!!11"
mircea_popescu: i am broadly surprised using my algos does anything!!11!!1!1!
mircea_popescu just woke up, yelled out "pizdo! hai sa sugi pula!" but nobody came. got up, perambulated about, discovered is all alone.
mircea_popescu: so we're stuck, me dealing with individuals only, they dealing with names only. until this is resolved, ie, probably by force of arms, the lulz will continue.
mircea_popescu: lobbes there's some very deliberate "we in communism also have coca-cola". because there's no way i'll take them in without their crossing under the yoke, and they dun wanna cross under the yoke (chiefly because they broadly understand that there being no further substance to them, they'll dissolve into nothingness, which is obviously true and also why i won't budge).
mircea_popescu: An error occurred during a connection to developer.mastercard.com. Cannot communicate securely with peer: no common encryption algorithm(s). << aww, check out all the offline noninternet websites! do they do things and utilities ?
mircea_popescu: you're not an experimental machine building station. if the item exists commercially you use it ; if not whoever aims to whine is more than welcome to produce it himself.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo one doesn't help. you gotta mount eight as per alf's magics, i wouldn't bother.
mircea_popescu: ie when 800 + n * 12 > 1400 + n * 11 and so following.
mircea_popescu: anyway, prolly get their lowest thing and expand it when you see enough traffic to justify it.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo depends on the node, but a non-magistral item maybe 10-50 kbps.
mircea_popescu: ~340 GB = 1 Mbps sustained for a month. ignoring the 95% thing.
mircea_popescu: right. i don't recall off hand the phuctor traffic figures, but pretty sure it's not 1mbps sustained over a month ; iirc not even a tenth that. eulora similarily eats in the kbps sustained, and so...
mircea_popescu: the devil is in the details. "busiest 36 hours ARE SERVED and not billed", or "we will simply cut you from internet 36 hours each month and bill for th erest" ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo so they wanna eat a 3 per mbps at the lowest setting, looks like, and otherwise willing to let you have it for 50 cents if you commit.