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mircea_popescu: fucking schmucks, listen to them go. "tmsr defeated our derpy attempt to bypass bitcoin so this means we get to regulate it"
mircea_popescu: so really, either iB or outright TRB will have to have an auth layer for nodes.
mircea_popescu: there's really no conceivable reason to have unauthenticating nodes in the first place.
mircea_popescu: it's a pretty dumb solution to a gossipd problem, so only if it's very little work
mircea_popescu: as well as to the fortune teller who importantly prophesizes "things will occur and phenomena will happen"
mircea_popescu: both to the helicopter mom that importantly recommends you "be careful" (bitch - be careful IS ALWAUYS TRANSITIVE. if you don't specify the object i'ma slap you)
mircea_popescu: mno, that's not the right equivalency. the right equivalency is "you could just as well say dangerous day" means nothing.
mircea_popescu: i am familiar with "a dime", which simply means "perfect", which doesn't denote anything but thjat's ok.
mircea_popescu: while the other derps are seriously prepending tags, to alter syntax ? HB 9.5 ?
mircea_popescu: this incidentally is a very interesting, at least to me, comment on the problems of code-in-society. because omfg, you're going to have implicit mark-up, really ? you gotta know what joke index <1k means ?
mircea_popescu: you know that joke about the nuts at the sanitarium saying numbers and laughing ?
mircea_popescu: but no, it turns out that it stands for "Hot Body", as a sort of you know, scoring systems.
mircea_popescu: i BET YOU that it's some sort of derpy "co-op" "al costo".
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber i could have sat there for a week, free. most of them do.
mircea_popescu: but they fucking charge them what rich people pay for the world's best coffee.
mircea_popescu: how THE FUCK do they get away with it. i mean, they still give the bums the sort of stuff bums misrepresenting tghemselves as "students" and "With potential!" get all over the world
☟︎ mircea_popescu: yet it tasted like exactly what it should have tasted, which is to say week old army coffee.
mircea_popescu: they wanted THIRTY EIGHT PESOS for the thing. this is as much as it costs in the poshiest cafe i go to.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, i had a cup of coffee in the food court there. i was the only guy that bought coffee, everyone else was too busy with utterly revolting meat patties in wonderbread (SUCH an insult in argentina, this, that they'd eat the us crap) and fructose syrup drinks.
mircea_popescu: also, most of their proposals are "bla bla with materiales al costo", ie, they want to be supplied cheaper cardboard to fuck around with while sitting on the pavement like the bums that they are.
mircea_popescu: dude gtfo. these kids couldn't thread a wire if it saved them from bilateral amputation.
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber that is the site of the student political groups in the Etsy University of Buenos Aires.
mircea_popescu: the best part, of course "the so-called "careers" of derps with degrees here should somehow matter in society".
mircea_popescu: i regularly see ww2 benz trucks here. and egypt was chock full of ancient cars also.
mircea_popescu: eh, third world can fix diesel engines alright from what i've seen
mircea_popescu: quite the kalash of its own, that thing, as it turns out.
mircea_popescu: no, out of range, likely warning shot. it warned alright.
mircea_popescu: locals shat their pants so bad had the us coast goard sail over from florida to protect them
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber they fired torpedoes off submarine at coast goard while i was there in CR.
mircea_popescu: are you fucking me this thing looks like it was designed by john oliver and a team of harvard educated brits.
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber smugglers have bazooka ever since rambo was on thirld world tv.
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber so it was for fighting what, women from the 1950s household ? with the hairdo and the apron ?
mircea_popescu: "let's build a ship so that if anyone hits it with a rocket, like the smallest possible rocket, like a healthy 4th of july piece of firework, it splits right in half and sinks in five minutes"
mircea_popescu: prior to this encounter i couldn't even conceive of this notion.
mircea_popescu: holy shit on wheels, what fucking "performance enhancing" drugs must one be to design this shit omfg. have you SEEN these things ?
mircea_popescu: in principle nothing ever happened and etc etc, i think we all know the drill by now.
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber it's one of those things, "mp has no proof", nor is he offering any.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the story of ther "littoral combat ship" really should be told. derps wanted a sort of "automated gunship" but on water, to fight drug people. ended up with a ship that's entirely useless.
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber see, the "LCS" officially only cost 80mn per annum. so like... they just fucked up the budget for five of them (iirc they only have 2 anyway) in one short week!
mircea_popescu: ridiculous though. star wars is a rhapsody in papier mache
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber they look like something from star wars, also. fucking ridiculous, how entirely inept, uncultivated and in general intellectually useless usians are.
mircea_popescu: this is a HUGE difference, even a 100/1 split is pure death.
mircea_popescu: the difference being that those scams go into buying harvard yachts ; whereas these losses go into buying isis spiked condoms./
mircea_popescu: they're 3 to 500mn underwater, depending what exact accounting standard you employ, and on other things. this may seem like a joke to you, but it's pretty fucking far from a joke to them. and the fact that they naively authorised more funds to try and buy their way out of it because mp said "rape"... well. it's not even cautered yet, still bleeding.
mircea_popescu: no, it's just that if you write down the historical trade losses of usg agents to date, etherape figures way towards the top. this is more than, say, gaddafi ever managed.
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber that bit of irrelevance is also not germane. possibly ms "stole the 9bn back", via treasury fiat printing. so ?
mircea_popescu: the etherape easily figures in the top 50 most costly mistakes of usg agencies to date.
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber anyway, back to the topic of bleeding the usg : you understand that the largest loss in its history was ~10bn via MS on the subprime crap. this is already percents of that.
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber i'd trust this eval a lot more if it were based on some experience!
mircea_popescu: mno. the difference between domesticated animal and animal domesticator is that the domesticated animal only hangs out with man whereas man hangs out with random animals.