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mircea_popescu: it's a fundamental function of language,
this symbolism.
BingoBoingo: decimation:
That seems
to be a common lesson.
BingoBoingo: I
think I'm going
to
try sealwithclubs, been about 9 months since I've been
there. Maybe I can make a profit or
two.
decimation: heh. I doubled my money with btct and asicminer, but
then I heeded
the warnings of mpoe-pr and bailed
decimation: yeah,
the emperor or whoever has
the mandate of heaven which is universal, why bother escape?
chetty: comfortable people stay home,
the miserable go adventuring
decimation: I wonder if
there is
the same itch in China
to
try
to gain alludial rights, like
the English moving
to New England
mircea_popescu: "you'll find
the east indies, you just don't know where".
decimation: but it was
the Euros dreaming of sailing
to China, not
the other way
mircea_popescu: and in general, we could have been a subcategory of
their culture much like
they ended up a subcategory of ours.
mircea_popescu: and
their ships could have easily arbitered
the 100 years' war
BingoBoingo: When aircraft carriers are a
tenth of a BTC, I might pick one up and start an ocean voyaging farm
mircea_popescu: chinese merchants shopwing up in europe would have disrupted
the hansa
mircea_popescu: may i remind you
that at all points of human history
the chinese hel;d
the upper hand.
decimation: the Romans managed
to
trade with China
too
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform because
they could never sail, because
they were fucktarded in
the roman sense
mircea_popescu: decimation perhaps, but
that may well be misleading. hard
to see
decimation: why didn't
the 1000 BC Chinese sail
to
the new world and scap some Indians?
decimation: somehow
this
ties into all voice and no exit
mircea_popescu: who knew
that sort of ossified, concrete stability is
the enemy of long
term survival.
mircea_popescu: it all begun when
they decided it'd be more stable if
they stopped making fun of
their captives.
decimation: rather
than
the slaves accepting
the mandate of heaven
mircea_popescu: this is perhaps usable as an explanation of why
the us and generallythe english world collapses
today
mircea_popescu: but
the western chimps
tend
to lol at
the slave
troop while doing it.
mircea_popescu: both sets of chimps will readily ensalve
the
troop for
their benefit
mircea_popescu: decimation something in
that sense. i dunno
that it could be readily reducible
to any other form.
BingoBoingo: If only
the Chinese had enough inate malice,
they could have been
the ones
to hook
the English on opium
decimation: every man for himself vs. veneration for
the entire family/community?
BingoBoingo: Well, I guess
this makes a case for chemistry as being a somewhat acceptable surrogate for food.
decimation: There is something about
the West
that breeds a certain creativity
that is absent in
the far East
mircea_popescu: the head whore cixi rejected
trains because
they were
TOO NOISY
BingoBoingo: I'm still lol'ing at decades of nutrition made soldier outgrow
the chinese army's
tanks
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
tell you what.
they had alchemy inception cca 2nd century BC.
mircea_popescu: decimation it's not even
the bureaucracy. i despise
their 5000 years of dumbass comme-il-faut-confucianism
mircea_popescu: i've not learned chinese yet mostly because i know of no noteworthy intellectual achievement in
their classics.
mircea_popescu: but yes,
this is
the major criterion i employ
to guide me linguistically.
decimation: this guy is a hero
to
the amateur radio guys - he's making is own open-source codec for low bitrate speech
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform:
That author is from what I understand an expatriate Californian
ozbot: Shall be Delivered |
The Whet
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I'm juggling 8
tasks, but is
there a bounty on
the post key apocolypse novel?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually
the novel of "how will SE look in a post-key apocalypse" could be an interesting novel.
mircea_popescu tries
to remember who decimation is. who are you decimation ?
mircea_popescu: social engineering as
the venetians knew it "mostly went away"
too.
decimation: on
the other hand, you could argue
that "IS-95" is a "format" and Qualcomm camps out on
that with
their custom crapware
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I imagine Breaking Bad
takes place in an Alternate universe where Erdos had
to cook his own amphetamines.
decimation: ugh,
the worst offenders for hardware codecs are
the DVSI guys
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I might lean
towards
thinking
the proof is valid, but could come in at hundreds of KB if only enough Aspies were locked in an attic with some meth.
mircea_popescu: proofines =
the quality of something which isn't proven but you'd like it
to be.
ozbot: A Mathematical Proof
Too Long
To Check - Slashdot
decimation: like idiots using stateless protocols like
http to "log in"
decimation: I
think guys like him and Vint Cerf see what
the Internet has become and are sad
BingoBoingo: I remember when half of
the failed grocers and restauranteurs
tried
to set up competing dial up ISPs
decimation: I always wondered how
they would deal with constrained nodes