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mircea_popescu: is it worse to fail in your attempt to unify all germany around you rather than "die Kais’rin hat sich mit dem Franzosen alliiert" austrian schmucks ? or to succed only to fail a few short decades later, twice, and over the fucking failure of your admiral to BRAVERY ?
asciilifeform: and succeeded, too
asciilifeform: sorta why 1st order of biz was to get the fuck off the island and eat china
asciilifeform: ( and today is approx as sad as today's prussia )
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: near as i can tell, they ~were~ the prussia
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> personally asciilifeform is fascinated by modern cn and wtf makes it tick << The Japs next door grew up faster than the Chinese language could protect them for a few decades. Eventually homeostatis returned because it turned out Japan was not a Prussia of Asia.
a111: Logged on 2015-06-12 14:54 mircea_popescu: Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safe
a111: Logged on 2018-04-16 14:46 mircea_popescu: buildings, however, are a very opposite attempt : the dismal resistance of air (and see also un prophete discussion of winds here) and the minimal and well understood constraint of gravity allow enough free space for design to be a thing.
mircea_popescu: (which, incidentally, is the scientific name for http://btcbase.org/log/2018-04-16#1799837 and http://btcbase.org/log/2015-06-12#1161937 indistinctly ) ☝︎☝︎
asciilifeform: it's evidently very diff animal than the zimbabwe that got its arse handed to it in '30s ☟︎
asciilifeform: personally asciilifeform is fascinated by modern cn and wtf makes it tick
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform right, point being "if the baby fails to grow up the house it lived in will be taken over by rats". ie, K selection failure leads to r overwhelming it.
lobbesbot: mircea_popescu: The operation succeeded.
a111: Logged on 2018-04-18 20:08 spyked: LordMPofTMSR, I had no idea. and looking for mihaita dragomirescu, all I found was news items a la http://archive.is/ojKnE and other cancans. if ye know for a fact this is not made-up scandal, then I believe, but otherwise... eh.
mircea_popescu: !Qlater tell spyked to continue the thing that never ends : http://trilema.com/2012/generatia-fara/#footnote_0_34776 <<->> http://btcbase.org/log/2018-04-18#1802173 ☝︎
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> chicago is a sort of indiana. there is no other market. << It grew as a sorta suburb of Texas/Kansas/etcetera as they place they sent their standing cattle to get canned for sale and consumption out east.
a111: Logged on 2018-11-13 17:10 mircea_popescu: more retarded. non-anglo women still need traditional "patriarchy" dissolved out of their stupid heads, as per http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-06#1869904
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i dunno whether the shoe fits tho, afaik china is very much a http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-13#1871815 kind of affair ☝︎
mircea_popescu: ah that's possible, yeah
mircea_popescu: goes with that whole http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-27#1729826 ☝︎
asciilifeform: it was in trilema
mircea_popescu: well, apparently i can't find it anymore. is line in log somewhere, "if you understand, like ro girls understood in the 90s, that your cunt does not belong to you, the place will stay cool for slightly longer" or somesuch.
asciilifeform if could pick dead empire to fight for, quite fond of hirohito's
asciilifeform: i suppose it began with the untimely death of their apex predator, jp
mircea_popescu: how. i'll tell you fucking how.
asciilifeform: i haven't the faintest idea re just how the yellow hieroglyph folx pulled it off. but apparently they did.
mircea_popescu: the item i present would be improvement, and the costs for the improvement are externalised (ie, not borne by they benefitting)
mircea_popescu: sadly, this is quite so.
asciilifeform: it's already to the point where 'white devil' knows automagically where not to walk so as to not step on chinese foot, if he wants to keep both feet
asciilifeform: they junkyardwars'd together a working ottoman-style org system ought of sumthing like '80s su -- sorta like we trb from prb etc
asciilifeform: they do ~whatever they like, have ~99% of modern industry inside border, and look at 'west' like we look at chimp in zoo
asciilifeform: in so far as i can tell with naked eye, 'the war' 1) already happened 2) china won 3) at ~0 cost, in the trad chinese style
mircea_popescu: should have taken the fucking buildings.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if history's any guide, chinese dun like white devils enuff to actually leave'em alive and use for cotton-pick. i see straight glassing as moar likely
mircea_popescu: leaving the "french" ie algerians literally the bare ground.
mircea_popescu: respectively, russians going over to paris, taking all the huysmans building and movingthem in voronetz reservation/park.
mircea_popescu: and i don't mean, "stop feeding", i mean chinese troops marching in new york, tearing down statue of liberty to replace with huge penis, and forcing everyone to do by-hand electronics picking for the rest of their miserable woirtheless lives.
asciilifeform: ( i think of chicago as a kind of massive open air бомжатник , from own experiences there )
mircea_popescu: chicago is a sort of indiana. there is no other market.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the advertised market ? not particularly surprised
asciilifeform: ( not mega-seekrit, nuffing in usgdom that sails, flies, or drives, moves so much as centimetre without steady supply of chinesium )
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you don't understand how useless the anglos are. do you know that in ALL OF CHICAGO 100% of the "bitcoin market" consists of this one inept fed ? ☟︎
asciilifeform: shortest ever war, all they gotta do is stop feeding
asciilifeform: even if only 1 in 10 btc supposedly 'selling at marshals auction' factually exists, that's still ridiculously many coinz that fell into enemy hands when absolutely oughta have gone to /dev/null
asciilifeform: what i can't wrap my head around is why nobody's mass-produced a http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-11#1871212 and put an end to the whole 'digital evidence' 'rule of law' pretense circus ☝︎
mircea_popescu: i fucking hope there's a war already.
mircea_popescu: "our commitment to protect our citizens from child predators, terrorists, violent extremists and other illicit actors." << o look, it expanded.
asciilifeform: 'spread disinformation and discord to undermine our democratic institutions'
asciilifeform: 'Building upon successful hash sharing efforts to further assist in proactive removal of illicit content. ... Setting ambitious industry standards, and increasing assistance to smaller companies in developing and deploying illicit content counter-measures. Building and enhancing capabilities to counter foreign interference and disinformation. ... Artificial Intelligence-driven solutions.' << lol
asciilifeform: 'Likewise, the moment Macron finished his speech, up popped a Microsoft blog post heralding the speech as a "an important step toward peace and security in the digital world."'
deedbot: http://qntra.net/2018/11/numerous-western-fiat-governments-pushing-for-new-wave-of-internet-totalitarianism/ << Qntra - Numerous Western Fiat "Governments" Pushing For New Wave of Internet Totalitarianism
asciilifeform: this of course in barrett reduction variant. ( otherwise most time spend in fz_div )
asciilifeform: ( cuz that's where most time spent when rsa )
asciilifeform: and i'll add that the name 'intel format' for the SANE asm syntax, is misnomer -- i had an assembler for e.g. c64, that ate an' shat sane form, and no intel was involved in any shape
asciilifeform: ( gcc, objdump, as, etc ALL default to it, ugly as sin as pointlessly verbose )
asciilifeform: and defo belongs on the list of what the gnu people will be held to answer for
asciilifeform: btw ave1 i'm pretty sure i recall that gnat knows how to eat godly asm syntax instead of %%%%%%%%%'gas'liquishit
a111: Logged on 2018-11-13 14:09 ave1: then in the inline assembly code, you do something like: mov %0, %%x0
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-13#1871739 << jesus fuck this is what people don't like about emulators. ☝︎
asciilifeform: ( in sane langs afaik this distinction is quite clear right off the page )
mircea_popescu: (art here is used in the classical, and only proper sense. same cognate as "artificial", not "artistic". there is no such fucking thing as "artistic" not anymore than there's "tech industry" or "nation of africa" -- broken abstractions borne of "perceived need" of the ignorant)
mircea_popescu: everything requires maintenance. that's the difference of art : man made, requires maintenance.
asciilifeform: but i see the point
asciilifeform: slightly diff item, aqueduct requires maintenance to some degree
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and aqueduct also exciting for medieval town ?
asciilifeform: i'd naively think that the iron drill would be quite exciting find for current-day carpenter
mircea_popescu: the reason "roman art treasure lie forgotten" was specifically that what the fuck is german peasant to do with it lmao.
asciilifeform: i recall thread with BingoBoingo re old iron electric drill. i see'em at flea markets routinely, nobody buys, and then the idjits go to 'home despot' shop and load up on chinesium that breaks in half after 17 uses
mircea_popescu: or at any rate the only available approximation thereof.
asciilifeform: folx cling to the old, working gear for dear life
asciilifeform: asciilifeform worked in places where 1980s e.g. mass spectrometer, and not because no budget for 1+$mil to replace it, but because nobody wants the 'upgrade' with win vista
mircea_popescu: cuz you can fucking tell, a little lantern with mirrors in a case.
mircea_popescu: i visited this jewish doctor here, and he looked at my retinas, with this old set he had. i asked him how old it is, and he said "maybe thirty years". "yeah, thirty years counting from the 90s ?"
asciilifeform: felt just about like you could get on the thing and fly.
asciilifeform: damn thing certainly had 'line'. like mig9.
mircea_popescu: and, amusingly, everyone's now a "designer", that design's so fucking dead... do you ever look at classical soviet oh of courese you do, the buran discussion right ? that item had a line to it, and you can tell from a glance it was made by humans.
mircea_popescu: lots of that. but really it comes down to http://trilema.com/2015/what-was-the-lomax-any-why-was-it-there-and-who-could-have-lifted-it-to-take-it-somewhere/#selection-67.0-67.13 versus https://www.amore.ng/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Leonardo-Da-Vinci-Jesus-YouTube.jpg and guess what the fuck wins.
asciilifeform: they come with pedigree papers, too, like picasso ( with the diff that typically if you buy mispedigreed picasso, you dun get jailed for 20y )
asciilifeform: rusty 'tommy', apparently also better than brand-new ???.
asciilifeform: all this in re 'crashed bmw better than new toyota' files.
asciilifeform: ( to be fair, not only zamac in this story, but peculiarity of gringostani politics where 'pre-ban' xyz is a thing )
asciilifeform: asciilifeform ~decade ago went to a traditional american festivity, gigantic flea market where small arms bought and sold in open air. found it interesting that the most valuable wares were not even antiques in the usual sense, of century+, but 1970s-80s : apparently the 'peak' of the tech, modern calibers and 0 zamac.
mircea_popescu: wheel -- turns -- ALWAYS THE SAME WAY. exept sameness visible only retrospectively.
mircea_popescu: funnily enough, a) he thought he had found "the west indies" and b) he landed on some skirting islands, never found mainland.
asciilifeform: wheel -- turns.
mircea_popescu: an obscure man named something or the other sorta-landed on the shore of crypto a few years ago.
mircea_popescu: either that or 1492 and cinquecento about to turn in
asciilifeform: seems that we're already in 'late rome' in re 'best tech lives at antique shop', just about across the board
mircea_popescu: some guys draw correct lines, that's all there is to it.
mircea_popescu: there is such a thing as an incorrect line -- proven by the fact that the overwhelmingly vast majority of them are.
mircea_popescu: "fuck you, i'll burn your fambly in da vinci's oven to heat him while he draws another"
mircea_popescu: "but mp, why do you think these squigglies are worth millions, there's not even color on them"
mircea_popescu: the problem of art is that the freehand line is the hardest thing i nthe world. put pen to paper, and draw it, and see.
mircea_popescu: nfi, but i'm not even discussing that. i am discussing THE LINE
mircea_popescu: i'd rather have bayernische body hammered back into an approximation of its original, genotypic shape, than mexican body as its mom made it.
asciilifeform: do 'new toyota' come with win10 nao, or notyet
mircea_popescu: because i get it, toyota "new from factory", but it's a stupid fucking factory i want little do to with.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes. this is the fucking problem, if faced with the choice of the crashed bmw or the new toyota i'd still buy and fix the crashed bmw.
asciilifeform: so evidently not too ahead
mircea_popescu: (and this, for the record, is also why i think very little of eg pete_dushenski's private committments : http://trilema.com/2015/very-bad-things/#selection-37.0-37.32 female misbehaviour exists ~specifically~ and strictly and only because they're covering up for this fundamental "between boys and walls daddy chose walls, don't upset him".