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mircea_popescu: to you, showing them their place, putting mommy naked on her knees, carries a very high subjective value.
mircea_popescu: basically, the difference between you asciilifeform and chinese bureaucracy is that you're psychologically very dependent on teh usg.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, for instance -- a clear display of usgistani impotence could perhaps put an end to the paper charade.
mircea_popescu: also i suspect BingoBoingo has it, the chinese have no notion of individual.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform because ~nobody wants to be stuck with the cost of "administering" the shithole.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform point being, if "the powers that be" burn their powder on little things, what will they do when teh big guns come out.
mircea_popescu will now write moar scandalous things, since the "civil society" choked long ago, and on "socks and cocks!!!" of all things.
mircea_popescu: "i haven't been doing my reading back in 2013-2014. this totally means the shit i don't understand in 2019 is fascinating to everyone else and important, rite guise ?!"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo o ya, empire lost monetary control decade+ ago.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman isn't it how it always goes... most of the "internet population" populating (by its own lights) the place sports a life expectancy insufficient to justify the genetic outlay of the average mouse.
mircea_popescu: and yet, i keep encountering this apparently archetipical romanian -- coming up late to a party he can't even describe.
mircea_popescu: i retorted to him that if by this age he hasn't yet figured out such a place doesn't exist, there's no helping him.
mircea_popescu: there's this iconic moment at the peak of "caritas" (cluj-based MMM pyramid) where an old man in traditional peasant garb asked me on a bridge "if i know where's this place where they give money for free".
mircea_popescu: romanian bloggers, i swear. showing up years late to a party they can't even describe.
mircea_popescu: but it's the web, you know, instant access to all human knowledge.
mircea_popescu: no, i'm saying, this is the problem. if you don't have sufficient crystalline surface to provide separation, you end up with the microequivalent of a disco ball.
mircea_popescu: but again, i've not sat down with maths for this, just first pass "you got any suspicions ?" thing.
mircea_popescu: crystallography generally works poorly on microfractured crystals, which is what this'd be.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but you don't get to distinguish ~one from another~.
mircea_popescu: but afaik this hasn't been seriously tried since diana_coman did it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i ~suspect~ without having done the math that the doped nature of the si crystal makes the picture too noisy to be usable.
mircea_popescu: the moron that "accidentally got shot" during the bitcoin-somethingawful "debates" of yore was playing eve up to the very moment of taking one up the ass.
mircea_popescu: if you're willing to feed and clothe and billet them to play video games all day and totally not take their smartphone to red zone, they'll do it. you can call them astronauts or soldiers or whatever you want (as long as it's not stupid fucking cunts or anything like that).
mircea_popescu: their real value hasn't come up yet! they can't fucking die!
mircea_popescu: die nothing. they'll sit in ac containers and "train" or w/e blather.
mircea_popescu: back in vietnam, they had a fucking DRAFT (and still lost)
mircea_popescu: if korea decided to invade, and somehow managed to land, korea would just jail the president & congress and that's all.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's no such thing left. i know it's difficult to conceptualize, but it's nevertheless true. there is no such thing as an us army.
mircea_popescu: potheads "policing" potheads shall be a comedy goldmine of lulz and tears in the not so distant future.
mircea_popescu: "Durkan proposed the incentive program last month, saying Seattle needs to jump into the nationwide competition for experienced police officers. Her plan came at a time when historically low unemployment and retirements of baby boomer officers, combined with high housing costs and a negative image of policing nationwide, are said to be driving competition for recruits regionally and nationally."
mircea_popescu: the deeply "big zone bipedals ain't more human than any other cattle" feel of the pice is indicative. not of "police brutality", tho.
mircea_popescu: i actually expect this will be a thing, did you see the very good walking robots they have now ?
mircea_popescu: only way to get ac in body armor is to go full hydraulic walking suit.
mircea_popescu: the cable of that earbud doing that rounded corners thing ? totally.
mircea_popescu: notice if you would the very star wars - esque look of the imagological artefact associated.
mircea_popescu: and yes, back when mp was 12, that thing was the coolest of pubescent sex paraphenalia. YOU COULD OFFER A GIRL THE OTHER EARBUD!!11
mircea_popescu: which is my point here : ipod is not a thing to be, much like "american cuisine" is not a thing to be.
mircea_popescu: ipod was a thing like ipad was a thing, or like groupon was a thing : no sort of thing
mircea_popescu: "Tucker mentioned possible Oscar nomination for the script, more than $200M at the box office and revolutionizing Hollywood." sorta thing.
mircea_popescu: because it never fucking did. it was temporarily "a thing", in the sense of, hyped up ~name~ for a category, about as inconsequential as whatever other name.
mircea_popescu: "o holy shit, THIS is why ipod no longer exists -- it never fucking did."
mircea_popescu: mp was very confused. then mp was de-confused, by seller in stall in mall : here, this tiny little thing, it's an mp3 player.
mircea_popescu: speaking of a minor point above : mp tried to find slut an ipod, so she can listen to music while woprking out. mp discovered ~ipod item no longer exists~, not at used electronic shops, NOT AT POND SHOPS.
mircea_popescu: ie, yes stillborn from birth, from an engineering pov. but these can and actually are fixed, if there's ideological substance.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it was, from a technologically perspective, about on par with the canvas-wing biplane.
mircea_popescu: much like the much earlier version libertard's notion of "god" or the classical libertard's notion of "freedom"
mircea_popescu: the whole wikileaks debacle demonstrated however not just that the web is not a thing, but rather that the libertard concept of "civil society" is actually ~a myth~ rather than an object
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, airplane, or radio, unlike "the web" or "the ipod" or "the smartphone" have definite utility.
mircea_popescu: obviously wikipedia did not live up to any of those promises. but then again, the airplane, or the radio also did not live up to the hallucinant "promises" as perceived by early "idea men" "working" on the topics.
mircea_popescu: at its origin, it was envisaged as this cvasi-magical "perfect systematic solution to a large set of previously ununderstood problems". part and parcel of this, the (in retrospect) ridiculous blather of the wikitard as to the "human knowledge" and other
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-17#1850928 slash huxleyan nonsense, "transhumanism" blablabla.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: ftr, cuz this is interesting from a cultural history perspective : the "web", as an item in the socio-conceptual space, died ~with assange~, and not with wikipedia.
mircea_popescu: tcp, prospect of "wtf, mysql, postgres", prospect of wtf we do with xml, prospect of cl-php-replacement, prospects galore.
mircea_popescu: not that i don't admire efforts of people trying to make better web proxies ; but i think those efforts are slightly misdirected and grossly premature.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform can you believe you've lived to be doing the xraying to the bolix ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: nevertheless, certain streaking (like say 4230 1324 or 4554 1606) seems incompatible with actual circuit layout