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mircea_popescu: that's such an epic dead cat to hold over the libertards lmao
mircea_popescu: btw, trump actually gave state to petraeus, at least on the declarative front.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: yes but this is supposed to be done prior not ex post facto.
mircea_popescu: experiment = 1. statement of phenomena being observed ; 2. description of experimental set-up and measuring tools ; 3. explanation of working theory and 4. statements of fact that stand to be falsified. all 4.
mircea_popescu: "this is an experiment to establish the density of water. we will be using a densometer to measure it, expect to see values in so and so range, for so and so reasons" etc.
mircea_popescu: you know, they usually do some statement of what's being experimented when they do an experiment.
mircea_popescu: that's the moral here : just how resilient the shit is. amorphous therefore eternal.
mircea_popescu: not without it being complete (ie, also stop pinging).
mircea_popescu: specifically because it was contrived. the gcc shit is a conceit, not real shit.
mircea_popescu: hey, i'm not trying to persuade, i am merely stating the possibility.
mircea_popescu: moreover, it was historically trivial to predict their predicaments and ambush.
mircea_popescu: specifically because the llvm heads discussed earlier apparently don't get very far.
mircea_popescu: we got more than its weight in gold, to date, from the happenstance that bitcoin is made of ~pure shit.
mircea_popescu: the jungle is a shitty forest no civilised man would wish to live in
mircea_popescu: which is what i meant re contemplation. not the sort of problem you usually enjoy, ergo not the sort of system you'd of your own choice make.
mircea_popescu: perhaps. but the CORRECT cut in there is a very high paygrade item.
mircea_popescu: "wtf anti-civilised non-engineered process is this then!" "words are given man to hide his thoughts, bro"
mircea_popescu: take this "send tx" "well bro... there's no guarantees" item.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it may be worth the contemplation to consider that bitcoin is the specific sort of thing you'd never have actually made specifically because its strengths are the sort of things you personally hate.
mircea_popescu: it's a p2p network, which means it's lossy, shitty and etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform consider it one of the many benefits of single-node "man and his fortress" outlook.
mircea_popescu: i dunno why you're doing this skidding thing anyway, not like there's some sort of emergency.
mircea_popescu: i'm sure about half the locker rooms in all highschools in history contained picture of most accomplished slut/jock in the class with words scribbled on it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform people have a little longer pipelines than THREE HOURS you.
mircea_popescu: the impale thing happens when you aim to educate, which is what the display of violence without possibility of recourse is all about.
mircea_popescu: because the education of imbeciles is not on my budget.
mircea_popescu: the only item in power in the us today is trump. this should be abundantly clear, as a minimal qualifying bar for "op is not batshit insane". on the level of perceiving the sunset.
mircea_popescu: mno. by the time you have to resort to "in my village it rains apples, SO THERE!" you can "win", but it'll be all by yourself.
mircea_popescu: lol. well, by now your position has degraded enough so ima call this good.
mircea_popescu: none of your business in which jail are they. suffice it to be said that they aren't ever coming out. and whoever feels uppity in usg "deep state" is very much next.
mircea_popescu: most of those schmucks are never going to see the outside of a jail cell.
mircea_popescu: no, don't slide. you were discussing "the 'counter to ru jet' is called '~100% of ru brass own walmart stock and have children at harvacambridgetonyale'".
mircea_popescu: which is why there's no glory in it, and why the more civilised ancients refrained.
mircea_popescu: this is a permanence of politics. the FUCKING POINT of an ambassador is that the barbarians can kill him.
mircea_popescu: as far as these assemblages go, there isn't a substantial difference between the black pimp's hussle&flow and the white cuckold's hussle&flow. neither of them can act substantially and deliberately. gotta pick one.
mircea_popescu: much like locusts eventually get too many and swarm, man got too abundant and is now making shambling horrors out of himself.
mircea_popescu: whether it'll be enough or not, for what it aims to do or for something else, is an entirely different discussion. but the important point is that man has raeched that sad level of overpopulation where it assembles into meta-creatures.
mircea_popescu: on the balance of an endless field of failures with one (relatively minor) bright spot, the theory that "the face thing is also a step to
http://www.loper-os.org/?p=752" is a little less supported than the theory that " monkey throwing shit against a wall"
mircea_popescu: ctronics on a cruiser whose only raison d'etre is an imaginary electronics war.
mircea_popescu: so -- yes, "someone" had the cognitive capability to
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-31#1594887 ; but that same someone failed to produce a workable counterpart to the russian jet ; or any kind of response to the chinese missilization ; or any sort of coherent narrative for the middle east ; or even anything past "never happened - if it happened it doesn't matter - if it matters we did it anyway" re russkis turning off the ele
☝︎ mircea_popescu: we were talking about cognitive capability ; not about "the dutch invented the tulip tradegood and everyone was stuck being immitator -- for a while anyway"
mircea_popescu: this is an entirely spurious novel item in our discussion.
mircea_popescu: are you talking about llvm or about the imaginary market for "Tablets" ?
mircea_popescu: back at reality once, they managed it ONCE. they can't do it at-will ; they can't even do it again. it's rather a crapshot than a thing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform sure, but this is not unlike saying cow can fly because gut produces methane.
mircea_popescu: not airfoil manufacture ; not electronic countermeasures ; not special ops ; not diplomacy, nothing.
mircea_popescu: the ~only thing that is even vaguely similar to that is the sort of deep-in-the-bowels systems engineering as to my mind best exemplified by the llvm thing and ~nothing else.
mircea_popescu: but ars vita, longa brevis or how that went. very little space for actual agency in the wailing crowd.
mircea_popescu: i'm on the record not conflating them, take the recent c/llvm discussion.
mircea_popescu: same thing that the gyneceum always produces, and i don't give a shit you call it "human resources" or "engineers" or "the stupid bitches in ditch A"
mircea_popescu: same thing that produced the above microsoft networking paradigm.
mircea_popescu: the face thing is a step in the direction of argentina : it doesn't work, nobody knows how to fix it and it's not anybody;s fault anyway so let's adapt.
mircea_popescu: you keep seeing method to the madness. there's no method.
mircea_popescu: that part is certainly coming. dreamers moving towards their vats as foretold.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well america totally is built on that, no argument there.
mircea_popescu: how many mathematician-surgeons did you meet in 1987 moscow ?
mircea_popescu: if it were actual science, the honest to god sort, kvant-science, "you're not smart enough to ride" science, yes it would be at the basis of a country (would it call itself "america" ? why not ?), but it wouldn't be possible for him to pretend what he's pretending.
mircea_popescu: because why, they teach nonsense ? how can he fail to see this ?
mircea_popescu: and he fails to see the fundamental connection between him supporting "science" and at the same time being postgrad at BOTH of these ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it is typical of amateur programmers esp of the windows variety to sorely misrepresent the immense bojum networtking is.
mircea_popescu: but such is the pain that comes with "lalala can't hear you unless you have a prototype", which is the swamp satoshi had the misfortune of being born into.