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a111: Logged on 2019-03-15 13:20 diana
_coman:
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-03-15#1902744 -> I never understood why can't the new ones be *trained* ; esp since it's not like they are sososo busy that they can't use the time and learn something at work.
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_ diana_coman: mircea
_popescu, I'm quite sure it's clearly visible in today's western socialism too.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-14 09:56 spyked: diana
_coman, I suspect this was mostly a case of "revision is well-received, but don't change anything"; which is why iliescu/fsn had so much support and average derp saw the taranisti as "way too mean" (no idea precisely what "mean" means, that's what I've been told)
diana_coman: mircea
_popescu, note that I worded it precisely in *that* order, starting with "noi ne" . I don't know what/who you are arguing there, lol.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-15 02:31 mircea
_popescu: i have doubts it'll survive the passing of the current generation, the girlies in the shop are utterly confused at proceedings that seem only natural to her and me, but what can you do.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-15 02:14 mircea
_popescu: chicks wanted jeans, what. because miner garb is SO COOL OMG.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-15 02:00 mircea
_popescu: yes, romanians thought "theyt're working". they were playing, 9 cases out of 10.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-14 23:42 mircea
_popescu: ault. this is what the mass-romanian is and does, nobody is needed to "do it to him", much like nobody's needed to drag shit into lelea saveta's cunt. she does it, by herself, every time she wipes.
BingoBoingo: Well, how long did it take mircea
_popescu to go from "Imma get citizenship here someday" to "Only coming back with spears" re: Argentina
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> yes, romanians thought "theyt're working". they were playing, 9 cases out of 10. << One of the bigger cleaning product consortiums recently pulled production out of Uruguay. Easier to ship packaged retail ready from Mexico than water down and bottle in the labor environment here.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-14 23:20 mircea
_popescu: so no "tranzitie" bullshit whatsoever : we're gonna have to cut all the spurious "industry" in name only, and cut all the fucktards who depend of it. and IT WAS DONE. and it was done as hard and fast as it ~could~ be done, witness the whole "miners invading capital" lulz during radu vasile.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-14 09:56 spyked: diana
_coman, I suspect this was mostly a case of "revision is well-received, but don't change anything"; which is why iliescu/fsn had so much support and average derp saw the taranisti as "way too mean" (no idea precisely what "mean" means, that's what I've been told)
a111: Logged on 2019-03-01 23:04 mircea
_popescu: iptomonede, opinii" but even manages to write
a piece on the celebrated
http://trilema.com/2011/romania-cea-de-basm-partea-i/ item (four years later) without somehow managing to at all EVEN MENTION let alone fucking address the whole reason public funds were even misdirected towards printing that (meanwhile melted down) piece of crap.
mircea_popescu: by which i mean, that negotiating with the miners was the absolute worst fucking decision possible. the policy is either correct, in which case it gets defended, or incorrect, in which case it gets corrected. there can't possibly be this "oh, we should x but let's y instead", factual-abdication-without-formal-abdication. in which sense diana
_coman has a solid point, "dood should have had his referendum ipso facto in 77, not b
a111: Logged on 2019-03-14 09:36 diana
_coman: presumably there again, there was one chance and it was rejected because ratiu hadn't eaten salam cu soia; but that's what if, no idea if again iliescu was presumably "the best available"
a111: Logged on 2019-03-14 15:22 mircea
_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-03-14#1902438 << just like the other idiots. consider : if usg dissolved itself in 2001 instead of pretending to a "war" of imagination, people would have ~regretted~ it. but as it stubbornly carried on for another 20 years, it's just as heavily hated at the top as conceivable, and in another decade they'll be shot in the street retributively, for having been part of it at all.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-14 15:30 mircea
_popescu: what's he gonna do, kneel a country ?
a111: Logged on 2019-03-14 15:09 mircea
_popescu: amusingly enough, this thing runs right into the institution of the harem (guess what alfie -- institution that DIDNT have all individuals leave!) because master's opting for idiocy is ~required~ on occasion. you can very much fail through being too reliably thinking, counterintuitively enough. or perhaps
not so counterintuitively.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-14 14:14 mircea
_popescu: the proofs for this are many and plurious, but consider the simple fact that there's no censorship or repression of ideas in roosevelt's socialism.
a111: Logged on 2018-10-18 18:57 mircea
_popescu: which i stand behind, ftr ; and it is also what informs the "if they had any sense -- they'd be here" stance. the fact that rando can't cut through fetlife to find the meat / can't cut through internet to find trilema / can't cut through femstate to find bitcoin / can't cut through pantsuitism to find republic etc specifically means that rando is dull, ie, not smart.
a111: Logged on 2014-08-01 03:17 mircea
_popescu: then various twerps derp about "upholding contracts" in mises.org, and when i call them too smart by half they nervously BUT ANONYMOUSLY address it
mircea_popescu: diana
_coman quite. "viermi neadormiti", da' si nevorbitori.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-14 09:32 diana
_coman: further digesting the conclusion such as it is, it seems to me that the issue might be that it kept pretending it was working way beyond the point were it had clearly and obviously failed; and given the timings, this does quite rest entirely with ceausescu as far as I can tell - he couldn't let fail faster what had failed already, hence
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-03-13#1902038 a111: Logged on 2019-03-14 07:40 diana
_coman: it's still back to the measuring by the bottom part as far as I can see.
mircea_popescu: diana
_coman hey, i was fortunate! two generations working hard at the "think just enough --- NOT MORE!!!" so as to make it into "red bourgeoisie" (to use the polish term), which yeah i'd have totally fucked up when it came to be my turn except the regime fell before me like one of those magic cases of lion dieing of apoplexy just as five year old boy lifts his wooden sword at it. so now i can be distasted at their impossible
mircea_popescu: diana
_coman well, it IS preferable to the alternative. certainly not swell, no, but who the hell can carry a conversation on communism in terms of swellness.
mircea_popescu: as it's unclear from the logs whether phf actually has done this and not published it yet or not done it at all, diana
_coman will release a third keccak, that should resolve both the above problem and the "everything is 8x because NIST idiots" thing blowing up vdiff's stack, hopefully later this week.
spyked: diana
_coman, I suspect this was mostly a case of "revision is well-received, but don't change anything"; which is why iliescu/fsn had so much support and average derp saw the taranisti as "way too mean" (no idea precisely what "mean" means, that's what I've been told)
☟︎☟︎ a111: Logged on 2019-03-13 21:22 diana
_coman: I meant it lost its options really; and having an uppity peasant "rule" is not going to change that, only make it likely worse and longer
a111: Logged on 2019-03-13 23:59 mircea
_popescu: as it happens, in warsaw pact function #1 failed ~mid 70s, and function #2 failed
~mid 80s.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-13 23:57 mircea
_popescu: even though economy had ~died, the 70s east cultural clock still synchronized a lot closer to reality than the 70s west cultural clock.
mircea_popescu: in other news, these diana
_coman compilation notes are just sad. wtf is wrong with people, "portable" and "support" seem to only support fucking nonsense, and quite selectively at that.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> ( mircea
_popescu , observe, does not have to buy bulldozer. not even in argentina are people fucked enuff in the head to ask MOAR for lease of bulldozer, genset, etc than to BUY ) << And the caterpillar store here neither sells nor rents earthmoving equipment, instead sells girls outdoor fashions
a111: Logged on 2019-03-13 23:32 mircea
_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-03-13#1902010 << fucking precisely. watching #trilema from a distance, with imbecile "skepticism" is not a free option. should it fail, there goes computing, and generally speaking this is the one chance this century.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-13 23:28 mircea
_popescu: eg, s.nsa is more of a factory, in objective terms, than tractorul brasov ever was or could have been. it's what it is, these days "factory" is complex item.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-13 22:59 diana
_coman: quite; there was a bit of an anger moment when I realised that in school they never even *mentioned* those writings of Caragiale, let alone study them
a111: Logged on 2019-03-13 22:27 mircea
_popescu: or a hruscheba, or w/e the fuck they call it. makes entirely no difference, for the vast majority of the population of romania at the time had never lived in paved dwellings.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-14 00:07 mircea
_popescu: so could briefly pretend like every sheffield weaver's a sorta miniprince, on well hidden coolie labour with serials filed off.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-13 23:27 mircea
_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-03-13#1902001 << the problematic things here are miniaturization and technologization. there's relatively little need or use for the sort of "factory" as displayed in 1950s italian films. and besides, india can have those.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-13 21:22 diana
_coman: I meant it lost its options really; and having an uppity peasant "rule" is not going to change that, only make it likely worse and longer
a111: Logged on 2019-03-13 22:46 mircea
_popescu: incidentally alf, ludwig 2 of bavaria is a fine example re this wot. one day decided to ditch his cabinet -- the cabinet decided it'd better ditch him first!!!
a111: Logged on 2019-03-13 22:44 mircea
_popescu: (i also fail to hear these "cultured" fucktards explain how ~exactly the same~ was said of what now makes the glory of austria, that insane dood's palaces)
a111: Logged on 2018-05-22 05:18 mircea
_popescu: long story short, soviet kids integrated into youth culture faster than soviet state integrated "soviet world" ; the result was the failure of the soviet state.
a111: Logged on 2018-12-12 18:21 mircea
_popescu: aanyway. labour allocation is broken and nobody has any better.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-13 22:35 diana
_coman: not to mention how many were full of mould to the point that you'd get children with asthma and what not
a111: Logged on 2019-03-13 21:17 diana
_coman: i.e. "state property aka nobody's property" and so on
mircea_popescu: diana
_coman newton -> einstein is precisely changing a set of lies for a better set of lies. world dun work as physics says, nor ever did. however -- better lies work better.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-13 17:02 mircea
_popescu: consider the traditional antisemitism -- a cluster of lumphocytes around a very real problem, yes, but SUBJECTIVE PROBLEM OF THE JEWS. not irritating "the organism" as such in any sense, beyond the very obvious an' deeply human "you folk can't be this fucking stupid!"
thing a111: Logged on 2019-03-13 20:56 diana
_coman: to my mind that's precisely the thing: it's not (or not only) that "screaming meat" but the fact that at the end of it, it's only a replacement with what is in fact an inferior, not a superior thing
mircea_popescu: diana
_coman sure, why not. for the same money could just blame god tho.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-13 20:40 diana
_coman: with the added bonus that Ibraileanu in 1909 cites from the same piece of Caragiale (Politica si cultura) with the comment that Caragiale was the most acerbic critic of... "liberalism" (the quotations marks are Ibraileanu's) that is further explained as "partidul <<ros>>" aka the red party.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-13 22:40 mircea
_popescu: but there's two lines of pedestrian ceausescu-hate that carry no water. one is, "he is responsible for drought". dood is not a 12yo girl dancing naked in the street, has no peculiar relationship to rain. the other is that he was particularly stupid. was not -- way the fuck smarter than period writers, or generally "intellectuals". less aware of the ample thesaurus of borrowed knowledge they used to drop in conversation as a s
a111: Logged on 2019-03-13 21:15 asciilifeform: diana
_coman: 'didn't get to the part where it gets better' << this is the distinct impression i get . and i suspect on acct of the shoemaker being soft.
a111: Logged on 2019-03-13 20:12 diana
_coman: ftr funnily enough precisely fish was very much missing from ro diet to such extent that yes, there were slogans "nici o masa fara peste"
mircea_popescu: diana
_coman there were two major earthquakes in romania : nov 1940, and march 1977.
mircea_popescu: diana
_coman yes, useful and durable. romania got a hidro power structure, for instance. the reason it even has power today.