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mircea_popescu: yeah i guess. sucks to live in a shitty jurisdiction huh.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform why bother ? not like it's insured, what's the upside.
mircea_popescu: if you find it within yoruself to post forms you were issued that'd be grand.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: Framedragger how much did you end up paying per unit, and under what title was it extracted ?
mircea_popescu: which is why the "exotic" nationalist party, abe & co, keep pushing for army.
mircea_popescu: japan is actually finding itself in a very great conjuncture, reminiscent of early 1900s. both russia and china need it. the usg... who cares.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the japs are trying to insulate it from the loss, it may survive in parts.
mircea_popescu: kinda why i didn't like it. made all these bs lower market tvs.
mircea_popescu: if usg asks for an apple, you bid a dollar, and nobody underbids you, they'll decide they must "inspect" to "investigate" etcetera, and won't you agree to a three dollar fine ?
mircea_popescu: if usg asks for an apple and you bid a dollar and then they decide to define "apple" as a sack of potatoes, you owe two dollars in merchandise.
mircea_popescu: the scam is very fuinny in particular because usg-run toshiba subsidiary westinghouse negotiated "fixed price" contracts with local baronies ; they happen to understate actual cost by at least 60%. unsurprisingly, the "undue enrichment" concepts were temporarily suspended. had it gone the other way, and toshiba managed to make off with 250% what it was owed, it'd be all "Corruption scandal" and whatnot, of course.
mircea_popescu: aha. just making a modest stab at chronicling the process
mircea_popescu: (basically, long story short, usg financed a coupla units in georgia and ncarolina with japan's money, ain't giving it back. loss is whatever you want it to be, 3 to 10 bn)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the problem being that they can't reproduce it.
mircea_popescu: in other news, toshiba seems headed for the ex-bin. after the "we made up 7bn profits over the past 6 years and are really losing 5bn a year atm" 2016 lulz, they've announced a 3.5bn looting by the usg this year.
mircea_popescu: it's somewhat funny, in the side pocket, how paul graham's idle verbiage about "the power of tech entrepreneurs to reinvest and create wealth" ENTIRELY ignores how without exceptrion his chosen field consists of mark cubans, ie dorks who made away with a large pile of corporate loot in a very madoffian manner and then just kept piddling it away.
mircea_popescu: made a bunch of money out of consumer plastication of computing, went on to "be entrepreneur"
mircea_popescu: i thought that guy with the failed lcd restaurant would have been.
mircea_popescu: chiefly because it never fails to come to something like this.
mircea_popescu: i know plenty of 15yos who could recite factoids about fast cars i would nevertheless not permit to drive my fast car.
mircea_popescu: there's a very strict difference between technical competence and trustworthyness.
mircea_popescu: also why the fuck won't bernstein SIGN random text snippers.
mircea_popescu: i'm sorry, twitter is not a platform. anyone can say whatever the fuyck they want 140 chars at a time and i'll ignore it just like i ignore smsn
mircea_popescu: i'm supposed to give a shit what tweets some dood tweeted ?
mircea_popescu: dude who the fuck cares what fare says/does, his head is more broken than anything you'd drag out of a colombian by the hour hotel.
mircea_popescu: any evolution whatsoever means i don't want to touch that item.
mircea_popescu: omfg this is the dumbest thing i read all week! and i read beginner's essays penned by 20yo sluts!!
mircea_popescu: hat tend to not evolve much "above", and not at all "below" their base abstractions).
mircea_popescu: PS: Here are ways that Racket is indeed vastly superior to CL, that make me believe it's the future of Lisp: First and foremost, Racket keeps evolving, and not just "above" the base language, but importantly *below*. This alone makes it vastly superior to CL (that has evolved tremendously "above" its base abstractions, but hasn't evolved "below", except for FFI purpose, in the last 20 years), and superior to most languages (t
mircea_popescu: it doesn't fall in not because hull, like boat, but because mutual reinforcement. which is imo the idea of "maintain world" for us too. clearly tmsr world will be bigger than usg/whatever world. if it is also sufficiently rigid, gravity or seaworthyness are no longer considerations : it can't fall in because of itself not leaving room to.
mircea_popescu: technically speaking all land on earth is more raft than boat.
mircea_popescu: it's not however more to fix one or two of them ; and if this work can be pooled then a complete system becomes quite feasible.
mircea_popescu: it's more than what any sane mind can do, to fix ALL THE ONES HE NEEDS.
mircea_popescu: phf that's kinda how/why we're stuck maintaining the world. gotta do the purges once and share. this "one man against horde of rats" is why people don't have sane tools today.
mircea_popescu: "come see the violence inherent in the glub glub glub!"
mircea_popescu: i don't need five minutes to expose a bad collegiate paper, what's the exposure do ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform essentially, "no one will" holds for as long as there's an imaginary fixed point to hang it of -- actual management in this case. what happens once obama is in charge of hiring ? why, one CAN!! sudden;y get job by pretending to know, and ONLY by pretending. no nsa for oyu!
mircea_popescu: this is trivially true and directly verified with eg irc, or gpg, or any other item we deigned to use.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform technically speaking this is universally guaranteed. as per the ancient "idiot -- can not have idea ; mp saying x and idiot saying x are not the same", the mere fact of your using it enacts it as a ~substantially~ different item than what they use.
mircea_popescu: consider : running a destornillador comes out of the box ; skating - nope.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, the fact that people can not ~naturally~ drive on ice is sufficient case study to illustrate just how poor the human brain is at handling delayed backfeed.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is sadly a form of special pleading. consider the tribe of americans in the nation of africa with the deformed heads / elongated necks / etc.
mircea_popescu: ever fucking tried firing one of those shits indoors ? just for lulz ?
mircea_popescu: holy shit, purported usage of weapons IN EXACT CONTRADICTION TO THEIR UTILITY is a holywood standard today!
mircea_popescu: what, you think black and decker power tools hanging from power cords around the neck could NEVER become a "music industry" standard ?
mircea_popescu: there's no utility involved. suburban ustard wears item because of ~how it makes her feel~ to ~be seen~ as ~being one of the~ rather than any use.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the problem is one of labels not one of contents. you keep thinking in utility terms.
mircea_popescu: the way we do things has no appeal except to serve the way we think. yet, ape-ing is constant. stealing bits of trilema is like chuka raiding rtg in siberia, yet chukas do raid. on it goes.
mircea_popescu: there's absolutely no meaning involved in the affairs of the subhuman.
mircea_popescu: understand, there's dorks on tardstalk TODAY going "oh, mp keeps saying things and they keep not happening."
mircea_popescu: which is why 2012 btc dev team thinks mp is being eccentric and couldn't possibly ever get wiped.
mircea_popescu: and that's just how the code trap works too : it takes a while for the cost of shitty practices to accrue to the point where it exceeds the cost of having used alternative practices.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform quite exactly, these systems with delayed backfeed are generally beyond the ability of the common human brain to administer.
mircea_popescu: also consider how methyl alcohol poisoning works (you ever wondered how the rfuck is it possible this STILL occurs today ?) : there's a sudden transition from dosing which the body absorbs without signal to dose wich renders one blind. the animal, without exception, ends up with a source of methyl alcohol. drinks some, is ok. drinks some more tomorrow, is ok. then goes to wedding/party/is depressed, drinks a lot. is blind.
mircea_popescu: le of preexisting wealth makes it unapparent just how idiotic mark cuban / virgin branson / dan voiculescu / etc actually are.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman this is a problem more fundamental than code. consider : well run us, relying on the wealth amassed by people whose toes today's imbeciles aren't qualified to kiss, the carnegies and rockefellers and etc of the golden age, readily allowed inept management the APPEARANCE of working, at least initially. 1970s us still appeared like it has a future, notwithstanding it had all the future of argentina. why ? because pi