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mircea_popescu: "what's he to do" only counts for lords of the republic - not of usg peons.
mircea_popescu: your ability to use computers may come to depend on obeying the above.
mircea_popescu: which i suppose warrants a general warning : DO NOT UPGRADE YOUR GCC TO 5.0! SAVE YOUR COPIES OF 4.X AND PRIOR!
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: they're forcing the latest in static linking deliberate breakage (+ no doubt other goodies) into the "ecosystem"
mircea_popescu: if your criteria becomes "i won't do that because too hard ; and i won't do this because too easy" then yes you've just about described present day academia.
mircea_popescu: stuff currently in the eulora hackathon could have been done ~two years ago.
mircea_popescu: academics and republic are mutually exclusive constructions.
mircea_popescu: this is judicious - there's 0 inclination on our part to feed them so they do what they want to do.
mircea_popescu: the alternative explanation being that people are seriously disabled in the sense of coming up with motivation on their own.
mircea_popescu: well yes, but you said "between usgola and dangerous homebrew crypto"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah i'm sure i don't exist because schneier didn't invite me to the latest round of rubber chicken.
mircea_popescu: the solutions for all these "stop" are given and trivial, now time to apply.
mircea_popescu: anyway, to create the up-node : "stop doing stupid shit" is the universal pill to de-usg the world. stop doing stupid shit with crypto, as contemplarted here, there's no nsa nor any possibility of nsa. stop "plea bargain"ing, there's no us justice system. stop using us banks, there's no us finance. stop chasing the web-revolutionary-app-nonsense, there's no "us technical lead". stop trying to marry women there's no "5th wave
mircea_popescu: because nobody made it, because everyone spent all their time fucking with xcode and unity.
mircea_popescu: which is why the republican strategy in sociopolitical cryptography is to isolate the nsa assets - the kochs and dreppers and schneiers + a bevy of small fry boecks etc. let them sit on hacker news and upvote each other to death, but otherwise, outside of the usg reservation, they may not opine and they may not be used as reference.
mircea_popescu: also about 2/3 of the nsa strength in practice, because outside of getting idiots to do idiotic things - they ain't got nuttin.
mircea_popescu: aha. "experts" and "open source" and "opinion leaders" and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: ~that~ deployed, as in, i'd be surprised if 50k exist altogerher
mircea_popescu: 10k in a 20mn sample makes 100s of k's unlikely dunnit ?
mircea_popescu: and now i shall proceed to put to electronic paper my definitive solution for global warming - both the current hallucinated kind as well as any other.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, "¿Sabes algo sobre Bitcoin?" "es una pagina web"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform masamune;d better be. ben_vulpes hey, find the hole, get a prize.
mircea_popescu: the original proposition was "hooker-ready laptop". i can see the "value add".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform suspicion is unwarranted for the following reason : if he was aware he's packaging crap, he'd not be courting you ; or him. because unlike him you do have wwws. so either he's patently insane or else got something. in either case, a few hundy, not the end of the world. a decent escort is ~same.
mircea_popescu: dude he sold 4 boxes, if he makes enough for a decent meal out of that he's ahead of the game.
mircea_popescu: oh speaking of which, gabriel_laddel_p why not packaging fuckgoats with the masamunes ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu chuckles privately at all teh folk imparting phonetic content through frowning peculiarly at everyday alphabetic notation. oh mu-ne is it!
mircea_popescu: it does have volcanic activity, so it's not that. it DOES spin, though perhaps too slow.
mircea_popescu: btw, what's the latest in crackpottery re venus lack of magnetosphere ?
mircea_popescu: we got all these global warming experts, they'll capture the co2 or something
mircea_popescu: point is, there are expensive things and cheap things. compensating for a lack of atmosphere is fucking expensive. properly cooling is nothing compared.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i am not responsible for bad engineering.
mircea_popescu: other than well chosen jupiter satellites, venus is the ticket.
mircea_popescu: why's everyone always skip over venus ? mars is too hot ; the moon is too small. neither make any fucking sense.
mircea_popescu: "To whomever it may concern - I strongly advise against hiring the bearer of this letter, as she is not sufficiently qualified to take a piss."
mircea_popescu: what the fuck happened to "can her in front of the whole staff, in the terms that she may seek employment once she conquers the requirements for preschool ; and if she wants a recomendation letter this is going in the first paragraph."
mircea_popescu: "Obesity can be a disability in the EU. That makes it a sticky legal issue and given that she is the lone female, that makes it doubly so. If she's transgendered (which is possible given that she stands up apparently) then it's triply so. This is so intertwined in legal ramifications I can't imagine anything you can say or do (other than what you are already) that doesn't need a lawyer to make sure you don't end up in a suit.
mircea_popescu: ^ recommended not just because of the 85 bitcents in prizes