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mircea_popescu: here's a thought : incorporate in moscow, hire a coupla call girls, pay their salary and send them to find you pieces.
mircea_popescu: and champion seeds that are plowed under every night won't ever champion anything, next field will raise an economically relevant crop of tubers if left undisturbed.
mircea_popescu: a woman that'd make a great wife STILL HAS TO spend more than a few weeks on one man to achieve that potential.
mircea_popescu: here's the thing : the reason you do not see results commensurate with your perceived (and for all anyone knows, correctly perceived) subjective capacity is that you do not provide yourself with proper basis and sufficient time to make it happen.
mircea_popescu: right. is the subtext that if only you were somehow involved this'd have been averted ?
mircea_popescu: yes, but why is the happenstance that some dood with the right robes made $mistake relevant ?
mircea_popescu: is it related to the "ven" bs nefario was pushing at his stallman-attended scamference ?
mircea_popescu: is there an english equivalent to the ancient romanian "an idiot throws a stone overboard and ten philosophers can't fish it back out" ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform when you're done with that you can cycle through the realtek until you document it and reverse the blob, we'll be good.
mircea_popescu: "eight." "eight what ?" "eight million. when i was a kid i figured you had to get eight million together to be considered a legitimate rich guy. so i got busy".
mircea_popescu: that'll become alf's own "500." fast and furious dood moment.
mircea_popescu: can't lay out silk for an umbrella without the spikes or how it went.
mircea_popescu: it might provide fine support for alf to transition from the phase of "i can't write a trilema" to the phase of "there it is, read it
mircea_popescu: miught make a fine offering for the eventual tmsr isp, just as soon as anyone gets off their intellectual arse and actually starts living life instead of dreaming it.
mircea_popescu: anyway, as far as "headless whatever" item is concerned trinque it seems to me something you can rack is a better choice than something you gotta keep around the house / out of dog's mouth etc.
mircea_popescu: for me personally, the "young soviet" personified by cptn breznev was rather instructive.
mircea_popescu: trinque i don't think they'll ever do something useful though, for the reason that it's useful. somehow the drones intuit and avoid any non-drony un-pointless meaningful activity.
mircea_popescu: nic will say whatever ip it fuckinfg feels like saying that day
mircea_popescu: hardly. what exactly do you even want to "ban ips for" on your realtek nic asciilifeform ?
mircea_popescu: no, have motherboard design where the "dma" is a specified bank, and the cpu ram is a different bank ; and let it call whichever it specifically wants.
mircea_popescu: so tmsr computing wishlist goes a) ram insulating motherboard ; b) fully open nic to fuckgoats standards.
mircea_popescu: honestly i'd feel happier with random hp box behind proper nic than with special-gentoo-special-raspberypi with rotm realtek/whatever
mircea_popescu: if the idea is "this stove is not intended to work as a gun" then you can't justify buying lens clearing fluid for the stove's scope.
mircea_popescu: so then, main weakness of apu is that it is useless for networking.
mircea_popescu: soldered a raspi inside a pizza carton, sold as "nofucks" or somesuch
mircea_popescu: worked ok for those dorks, recall, the guy didn't wanna talk to us ?
mircea_popescu: maybe we should give trinque shares, box the apu1, sell TMSR router/webserver/mailserver
mircea_popescu: still, apu1 with pre-checked gentoo install as a commodity router/webserver is sound approach.
mircea_popescu: trinque> iirc the main challenge with gentoo for folks has been getting to that first boot << nah, getting it to correctly use video without taking more in babysitting timevalue than the box cost in the first place. which means < 1 hr.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> i see box where i can't ban ip as ~useless << why the heck.
mircea_popescu: seems to me he's ~ a modernist reflection of the pre ww2 court system. blaming him for having a postwar reinterpretation of a rabbiniucal court seems rather strange.
mircea_popescu: can you see ancient rabbi fucking german 12 yo even were she willing ?
mircea_popescu: i mean, consider -- the nazis did not think so much of the various romanian/ukrainian/polish courts. and their agitprop did say they you know, lure german girls there to fuck!!11
mircea_popescu: well, what's the alternative, "of a good man - i am fond twice, of a bad man - not even once" ?
mircea_popescu: (the two aren't even distinct. to belong to the lower classes aesthetically or intellectually, what the fuck's the difference.)
mircea_popescu: the equivalent'd be to propose i'm vulgar because hey, i do the whole "damn... well, basically they fuck, but it was absolutely splendid in verse" schtick so therefore. except the intelligent can't actually be vulgar ; or for that matter socialist.
mircea_popescu: it is not directly evident that chomski is in any meaningful sense socialist. ideologically, intellectually, how'd you like it.
mircea_popescu: now, to sum this up -- it's not that i'm a huge chomski fan or anything ; but it is that if the scaffolding were build up in stanford square and the guillotine ready, i'd have serious problem signing off on chomski ; and some obscure dudes in the sciences depts.
mircea_popescu: to the outrage of the old bitties. "oh noe, susanna! he beat her! but she's so smart and cultivated and independent and o noes"
mircea_popescu: any "good family" girl in her 20s knows so much, to preciously pretend like "oh, uncle joe, he's always ~so~ controversial". which makes me take the cane in hand and leave her some memories.
mircea_popescu: now, obviously any bureaucracy aka club of the intellectually lazy will secrete insulating cocoon around such a fellow, in the shape of "oh, he's the delegated weirdsayer".
mircea_popescu: phf` this is true ; but the way he got there was through saying all sorts of weird/taboo things over 30 or so years.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, chomski is getting out of usa about as much as gromyko
mircea_popescu: well apparently by your theory not anyone with half a mil.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes but usually on work visas / no visas / 6 months tourist visas etc.
mircea_popescu: in fact, my interest in computers at the time was comparable with your interest in machine guns today. a little bit of history and occasionally maybe have one in the house.
mircea_popescu: i was still mp before bitcoin, just a) you had no way to summon the interest and b) i had no interest to you know, maintain an irc connection like the link with the chest of the covenant.
mircea_popescu: dude, bitcoin is a life changing event for everyone else.
mircea_popescu: let me point out that a) i visited, when i felt like ; b) they gave me a 10 year visa back in 2000. i was one of the i dunno, maybe dozen romanians with one, at the time ? c) they fucking held the embassy open while my driver was going 100 on the wrong way in bucharest because i met some friends and got to drinking and we lost track of time and we were late. eventually got a police escort to do it under color of law at least,
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it wasn't "usa won't take me without an army", asciilifeform .
mircea_popescu: and if i felt like doing a phd with whoevere the fuck, i'd have that, also.
mircea_popescu: if i felt like buying in flordia, i'd have mansions in florida.
mircea_popescu: this matter may be examined, like any matter, but the examination is neither substantiated nor concluded by the one sentence "coach sandusky had nothing on him". where are the fucking examples, notes, etcetera ?
mircea_popescu: yes, maybe he speaks half truths because reasons. maybe he's just not bright enough to go further ?
mircea_popescu: your stance is that this can be just assumed about anyone any time ?
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, you're now stuck reconciling this item where this lefty darling sees the right perspective.