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mircea_popescu: leaking rng quality is more of a concern for debian/prngs.
mircea_popescu: i don't see what the problem is, practically. so you leak ... how many times you had to try to get a prime ?
mircea_popescu: i was going to say, the calculated %s rarely match. but theoretically, it should be less than 0.1
mircea_popescu: look at that, and before the archival bot kicked in, even.
mircea_popescu: i don't think such a thing as randfomly polarized female wave ever existed or ever could exist.
mircea_popescu: and of course, "Alan Green, named ambassador to Romania by President George Bush [who called him "a good friend", "intransigent", "well introduced to my take on freedom and democracy"], died Friday in his home in Palm Springs, Calif. He was 75. Mr. Bush selected Mr. Green in 1989, and he moved into the American Embassy in Bucharest just two weeks before the dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu, was executed."
mircea_popescu: before that, romania exported oil. after that, imported about 50% of consumption.
mircea_popescu: kinda the model since comunists came to their senses post ww2.
mircea_popescu: overgrown industrial base, romania imported a lot of energy exported a lot of high tech stuff.
mircea_popescu: the important point for romania was that gorby wasn't going to deliver all the oil romania had contracted (and paid for). so ceausescu went to iran ; where he got ~40mn barrels with a further option, to be paid in romanian agricultural machinery.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the whole meeting went in that vein, ceausescu pointed out to soviet troops still at praga, gorby was liek "oh, that is a bilateral matter" "da, stiu, este un acord bilateral incheiat dupa ocuparea cehoslovaciei" (yea, i know... post-occupation bilateral). then gorby says they can't agree in this matter and ceausescu agrees with him.
mircea_popescu: the conclave of cardinals picked the least competent of themselves to sit on throne.
mircea_popescu: (this isn't even false, classical case of "sickly old pope")
mircea_popescu: "nu-i adevarat (that's not true), romania nu a iesti din aceasta problema (romania didn't exit the matter), romania nu a intrat in cehoslovacia (it never entered) asa ca nu avea de unde sa iasa (had not what to exit)"
mircea_popescu: guy replied "romania exited nothing, romania didn't go in, so it had not what to exit."
mircea_popescu: something. consider actual live events : gorbachev says at the meeting, once they move on past his insistence on having visited the pope as if anyone gave a shit about that "we are all here, who were implicated in the czech affair, except romania, that had exited then".
mircea_popescu: guy never saw himself as much more of a su ally than saudis see themselves us allies i dun suspect.
mircea_popescu: but you have to also compare and contrast with romania's declared, and tirelessly promoted official philosophy of pace and "unmingling in internal affairs of sovereign states".
mircea_popescu: and he also wasn't impressed with gorbachev;s verbiage as to "disarmament", seeing how romania was spending about 3% of pib on arms in the 85-90 5year plan, whereas ussr had never went under 30% yet.
mircea_popescu: in point of fact, ceausescu refused to sign off on some paper establishing 20 years after the fact that the invasion of czechoslovakia was a mistake. for the fucking obvious reason that he condemned the russians at the time, and according to readily forgotten "consensus" at the time, at no small personal risk.
mircea_popescu: this was reported (via the entirely irrelevant "sources" of talbot, beshloss & co) as "the agitation of stalinist tirant" at warsaw, "unhappy with the us-euro offensive to liquidate communism".
mircea_popescu: he wrote bucharest a general letter about it, proposing to explain what happened on the 4th. ceausescu responded that unless they have a private meeting he's not coming altogether.
mircea_popescu: anyway, there's a pile of disinfo and general crap surrounding the events. as an example : on 2-3 dec gorbachev hung out with bush on a soviet ship. on 4th, there was the wasaw pact meeting. gorbachev was well excited of whatever, the new bulgarian (mladenov, his college pal) and generally the western press coverage.
mircea_popescu: (because of reasons discussed in
http://trilema.com/2014/the-problem-of-ideal-social-systems-reprint/ socialisms can't have categorical terms, defined in the normal manner, but must always include the ethical color of all words in the words. so "movement" becomes either provocation (bad) or progres (good) and so following for everything, stalin's cup is named by a different cupword than hitler's self-same identical cup)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ("provocation", in ourdemocracy lingo of the time, is what you called enemy maneuvers.)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, it's a great postmodern moment you know, failed mangod and his broken phoneline to reality. "hello ? hello ? *mutters under breath* this is a provocation"
mircea_popescu: still, how man faces death is a hard to paper over factor.
mircea_popescu: he was, however, fundamentally brave, in that what he told teh us style "judges" at his "trial" was that he'd much rather be dead.
mircea_popescu: ceausescu was not a gallant sort of brave fellow. during a 1977 miners' revolt (they beat up the commie locals etc) he went there and very much shat it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform because furher was a chickenshit ? like any other 90yo ?
mircea_popescu: anyway. classical ceausescu regime "demonstrations" were organised very much on the ddr bank model, where you could eventually find the address of every single byte.
mircea_popescu: ating in most homes) a list of easements, the chief buttress of which being an extra 100 lei allowed to pregnant mothers (about 1 dollar in black market rates of the time). then the people were dismissed, and they started to leave, but for some entirely to this day unknown reason they were called back. except, they DIDNT go back in order, which means the politruks didn't know who's who.
mircea_popescu: also fellow misrepresents the failure of the 1989 bucharest meeting. the events flew more or less thus : timisoara rebelled, ceausescu verbally ordered armed repression, on the basis of some discussion, but (most likely deliberately) omitted to actually issue the proper paperwork. the war minister killed himself. ceausescu ordered a meeting organised in bucharest, to announce (in the dead of a bitter winter, without proper he
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ftr it was in plenum of the parliament thingee.
mircea_popescu: (cac in romanian being, obviously, off the caco cacare latin root)
mircea_popescu: why the hell not, the girls are worth the trouble. brb.
mircea_popescu: if you can read the list so it sounds like a poem, your romanian pronounciation is probably acceptable.
mircea_popescu: phf hand mollifies in solitude. to toughen must expose.
mircea_popescu: " “The Saudi’s will not be able to link the S-400 with Saudi’s current (US and Europe-sourced) infrastructure, nor will they be able to connect the S-400 with US systems." << says who the everloving fuck.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: phf if you had a blog and time you could sit down to do the whole discussion of that so as to inform future policymaking above and beyond simple amoebic continuation.
mircea_popescu: no it's not a fucking bit. even if i sometimes sound just like a character, it's purely fucking accident!
mircea_popescu: assistence went "you don't remember esr ?" and i went "what would i remember him for ?" and they went "is this a bit ?"
mircea_popescu: and for that matter rife, as in "rife with fleas" is how english says "full of low hanging fruit".
mircea_popescu: oh, to try and parasitize google-reality ? just like any other zynga facebookism ? awww..
mircea_popescu sits here trying to remember the name of the irrelevant dork with the guns. after a while the best lead i have is "hacker lexicon" was it ? google produces nothing but wired crap ; if treated with a -wired sprinking, suddenly catb.org "jargon file" is top result.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: phf i dun think they got off cloudflare tbh, this looks like exactly the sort of crap.
mircea_popescu: well, in other lulz, apparently it's 91.228.152.189 in india.