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mircea_popescu: i wonder how many internet urchins are being "the attacker" rightnao
mircea_popescu: in other news, trilema servers can apparently take 100k surges without even hiccuping. nb.
mircea_popescu: and once you do it, be a darling and put a page on the wiki, for the next guy.
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder btw, there's no ident. we got rid of state. all you do is decrypt a message.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'd read your first work of anthropology, re mains.
mircea_popescu: and when i finally croak ima go to saint peter an' say loudly an' clearly "what are you droning on about, old man, i didn't do nuttin'. ASK ANYONE!"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: pretty lulzy though. i certainly had a nice saturday morning
mircea_popescu: slutty wife prays "god, let me be pregnant or not, but in either case please don't let my husband figure out HOW". socialist prays "god, let the etherape happen or not, but in either case please don't let THE BAD GUY have done things!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it is rather notable though that the largest threat perceived by muppets and their drivers alike is "mp doing things". far, FAR above you know, their shitpile collapsing in a loud mess, the ONE thing that's worth expending the unhappeningium is, mp!
mircea_popescu: the only thing worse than having something to talk about being not having something to talk about.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the advantage of crypto - it allows one to make absolute statements, but people dunno how to use it, so it at least gives them something to talk about.
mircea_popescu: you're welcome, now drop your xkcd or 9gag or whatever an' move on.
mircea_popescu: let 'em pump it to an imaginary billion fiats and get all politically invested in it first, naimean.
mircea_popescu gloats over how his lines read better retrospectively than prospectively. THIS is true literature, and i doubt very much one in a hundred "genius writers" and other revered authors of yore qualify.
mircea_popescu: nothing ever truly dies, just falls to the bottommost layer of the dumb ocean.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform has it though. bdb keeps a rather dubious index structure.
mircea_popescu: o check it out, lost a whole dollar since trilema article. one more and it's under 10.
mircea_popescu: you telling me the whole entire field of usgtronic plans collapsed suddenly and irretrievably one fine morning ?
mircea_popescu: awww, no longer 2 bitcent to the ether ? whay socialist miracles never last!!!11
mircea_popescu: expecting a 100s of GB datastore produced through the fragile stack known as bitcoin to survive for years intact is a bit much.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: thestringpuller make a habit of keeping a backup of the blockchain.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo basically republican niggers want to represent, but nobody in particular.
mircea_popescu: these brave weeklings, all tough and impressive as they've read on the inside of the eggshell.
mircea_popescu: with any luck, by 2017 they're entirely spent. that'd be such a perfect outcome of the whole ethereum idiocy i can't begin to tell you.
mircea_popescu: ethereum has officially cost 1% of the total mit endowment.
mircea_popescu: but anywya, it should be very instructive that the whole pretense of "1bn market cap" etc is based on a negligible sum of cash, that's not even truthfully exposed.
mircea_popescu: "poloniex" for instance (about 3/4 of the eth fakery) claims ~6k btc on the buy side. bullcrap.
mircea_popescu: ~what i'm expecting is that in typical inept overwhelmed imperial bureaucracy fashion, some "ceiling"'s going to get hit and before the red tape can be cut through, the true buyer side'll be actually exposed and visible. a visage so grotesque and horrific as to forever mark itself in the hindbrains of all involved.