asciilifeform: iirc that was small fraction of one particular dig, in rough vicinity of $subj
asciilifeform: much more valuable 'in the wrapper', this candy.
asciilifeform: ( world's largest pyramids -- not in egypt, but in cn. discovered by accident during ww2, from a bomber camera. to this day barbed wire around'em, no-go zone, 0 publication. )
asciilifeform: but in real life likely bored intern.
asciilifeform: in asciilifeform's 'intelligent nsa' cosmography, it'd have to be 'and the white van pulled up and now we gotta get this d00d to unsheath his keysword..'
asciilifeform: as for meat memory, it is conceivable that it could be improved in exchange for some steel ( from genetic pov ) price -- risk of fatal seizures, say.
asciilifeform: the basic 'improve memory' device was the clay tablet, papyrus, etc -- everything after that, is variation on theme
asciilifeform: rather why the particular shape, size, physically and otherwise, of people, changes very slowly ( geologically )☟︎
asciilifeform: sorta how d00d who is 3 metres tall, and chix with tits that require wheelbarrow, live in p.t. barnum's circus, and not 'winners'
asciilifeform: 'what's a winner' depends much on who's around.
asciilifeform: model where the 'intelligence' costs 0, is immediately a wtf
asciilifeform: gotta point out, they 'are not here' in person, no. but their exhaust products are, and asciilifeform for instance spends substantial time and effort scraping'em off every surface
asciilifeform: this'd work only if the aggregate stats dun matter, because 'the losers are gassed at 0 cost'
asciilifeform cannot comment on supposed 'hugeness of genetic reservoir', all of the public data has approx same relation to authentic physical reality as 'warmism' rawdata
asciilifeform: didn't mircea_popescu have an article where 'EVERY gurl despises 'her stupid mother', but then she lives another 30y and becomes exactly that mother'
asciilifeform: ain't that how we get untermenschen to begin with
asciilifeform: dunno why this foray into castrations.
asciilifeform: physical extinguishment of losers worked just as well for chingis khan et al
asciilifeform: this is how it worked ever since edison got Official monopoly on the right to dig up nyc streets
asciilifeform: afaik in all of industrial world ALL telecoms are 'public-private partnerships', i.e. crown concessions, because randos dun get to dig up streets
asciilifeform: i dun need a telecom service to connect my shed to my living room. but if i want to connect to neighbour -- suddenly, do
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i thought ~all~ telecoms 'parlayed edge into value' -- if it weren't for the captive audiences, they'd be in the position of someone selling air ( and not on mars. on earth. not compressed, but stp. etc )
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i recommend to learn ro, it'll cure you of this notion
asciilifeform: my criticism is that BingoBoingo's request, at least as summarized earlier, looks precisely like the '1000 car'
asciilifeform: incidentally this might explain BingoBoingo's pinoys : it is typical for folx who use massive bandwidth, to have own fiber laid through the dc's closet, rather than leasing it from the same people as the rack space
asciilifeform: how is a thing not yet built, leased ??
asciilifeform: because we're doing arbitrary tcp to whole planet, presumably ? vs derping around inside one physical house
asciilifeform: the fact that netflix-watching gurl in karachi gets to pretend she has 1G/s because the films are hosted in same cabinet as the other end from her gsm modem, does not help ~us~ get 1G/s from same dc in karachi
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they run boxes ~in isp~ . connectivity is not a scalar
asciilifeform: ( i have a very similar problem in meatspace -- i live in rented houses. the market for this is extremely thin ( discussed in old threads, i won't repeat ) because the expectation in gringolandia is 'if you have that kind of money, why wouldntcha BUY!111' etc )
asciilifeform: there are entire orcistans that don't add up to 30G/s sustained.☟︎
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: do you have any idea what multi-G/s ~sustained~ typically costs ?
asciilifeform: ( leaving entirely aside subj of ddos etc )
asciilifeform: incidentally, 'bandwidth is cheap' is a misconception. the only folx who think 'cheap' are the ones who do not saturate their pipe. try saturating, 24/7/365, and you will find that not so cheap.☟︎
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the miners-on-2cycle-petrol-modem was not sufficient hint ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: oblig thematic classic: 'Из пасти у зверя / Торчит голова./ До берега / Ветер доносит слова: / - Непра... / Я не ве... - / Аллигатор вздохнул / И, сытый,/ В зеленую воду нырнул.'
asciilifeform: next i suppose is to visit forest where jaguar ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: wat's in that pic -- 2ndhand bukkake ?
asciilifeform: can rewrite this equation if you will, that we only know newton because he lived in system where his servant, for various reasons, did not eat him
asciilifeform: 'On 26 June 2016, a grenade explosion killed two people and injured at least 50 others during celebrations to mark Independence Day in Antananarivo.' << pretty great
asciilifeform: i'm not aware that 'everythings' ever did work there
