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mircea_popescu: yeah, well, at some point someone thought "hey, i know, we'll wear shit on our heads and go break people's doors". the obvious "then people will wear shit on their heads break your door" however got handwaved, because there's nothing specialer than a special snowflake.
mircea_popescu: and in other news, some dude apparently goes and pours aluminum into fire anthills, sells the resulting casts.
mircea_popescu: this activity would be the v-equivalent of "stable release"
mircea_popescu: let the job of merging be done later, that's the idea. eventually as the chains get long and review has progressed significantly, people can rebase multiple patches into one.
mircea_popescu: davout even if the whole bundle is released in one go, it is probably best practice to do the snips one at a time in that many patches.
mircea_popescu: anyway, there's a whole pile of stuff. but no, i didn't think you wrote the book you reviewed.
mircea_popescu: this is the forum of the most serene republic. and who might you be ?
mircea_popescu: there's bonus points for the "right kind" of jobs - for instance hiring black people detracts from the fundamental racism of the entire scheme (really, why should schmuck be deemed entitled to "fair wage" because his mother dropped him on his head in new jersey rather than golania ?) and so it's + points etcetera.
mircea_popescu: seattle is microsoft, but texas is roughly speaking all of new england
mircea_popescu: "big whoop, could have reconstructed in half a summer"
mircea_popescu: the burning of ub is significant culturally. they won't rebuild it because TO THEM those aren't just some shitty yurts.
mircea_popescu: cunt, inviting and self-lubricating, concentrated in cramped boring spaces is easier to fuck than anything
mircea_popescu: civilisation isn't when the blind can drive and the deaf can hear.
mircea_popescu: nor has it anything to do with civilisation in any sense.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform absolutely not. it's immensely morep roductive to produce than to raid.
mircea_popescu: they'll just use the opportunity to shoot some of their own idiots and clamp down.
mircea_popescu: if the negotiations can't proceed, the thing fell apart.
mircea_popescu: there isn't going to be a "us mil" if things fall apart. there wasn't a soviet one either.
mircea_popescu: if they shoot clinton now it'd not be in time either. in time for what.
mircea_popescu: and the alternative here, ie, "federation", as in weimar republic exacrtly is strictly non workable because endothermic. and there's no heat to be had. not no mo.
mircea_popescu: this is what a nation is. laugh if you will, but it won't do anything.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform all nation building starts with killing the croat males and taking the females to the breeding pits.
mircea_popescu: i guarantee you eg mod6 would stand with me / bring rifle from home. he's not alone i nthe us. you are.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i think you deeply misrepresent the rural folk.
mircea_popescu: trinque should be interesting, esp seeing how the canabis state laws thing made it quite precedented.
mircea_popescu: moreover california losing about 10mn pop would be great for the planet
mircea_popescu: the ideology is still there, just as recoverable today as it was in lincoln's day.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dude, the idiot kids over at github aren't either civilisation or america
mircea_popescu: evidently not everyone in there is good time sally-ing it throughout.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes it's not clear. maybe it finds itself a nation at the bottom of it.
mircea_popescu: they don't know it yet, but they're as dead as polish jews.
mircea_popescu: the louder if useless city kids don't have it, but what they have or don't have is irrelevant - anyone with a social media profile is dead as of last week
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform don't worry about it -- they had it two generations ago, and will get it again
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the us itself opted for it ; in preference of 4/8 years of increasingly tenous pretense to the contrary by some pantsuited clown.
mircea_popescu: the dollar is never again going to be anywhere near 1k / btc. that's cut and dried.
mircea_popescu: strong currency is counterproductive before the folks even have what to save.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes you don't want a strong currency while industrializing.
mircea_popescu: similarily, left state, purged the apparatus, came back out right ?
mircea_popescu: recall, the case of "comeback" that happened in your lifetime ?
mircea_popescu: this wouldn't be a civilisation comeback. on the contrary, it would be controlled civilisation demolishing. in preference of the inevitable alternative.
mircea_popescu: i think you deeply misrepresent just how easy sanity is.