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mircea_popescu: but i know why, now. there IS such
a thing as
a failed state.
mircea_popescu: your observation re
a failed state
a few days ago has bothered me hence.
ascii_field: the canonical 'two wolves and
a sheep voting on dinner'
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (which is why democracy is always born and only ever seems to work in states built atop homogenuous nations. if you have multiple distinct social groups, it is strictly impossible to actually represent them while at the same time having
a working democracy. which is why mass murder and ethnic cleansing always appears reasonable to the people doing it : they have to choose between democracy and multiculturalism, and the
mircea_popescu: somehow no political "scientist" of the anglosphere figured out yet that democracy and representativity are sides of
a field, and when you increase "participation" you generally degrade representativity.
jurov: why weird. coinbr had
a ddos, so I just fired beefier instance to filter the crud that made through load balancer
punkman: " Cross-VM RSA Key Recovery in
a Public Cloud"
mircea_popescu: assbot is on
a different wot. they got forked last year.
assbot: Successfully added
a rating of 1 for mike_c with note: For btcalpha, thanks for the useful site.
mike_c: "Congress approved $500m (£323m) to train and equip around 5,000 rebels as
a key plank of US strategy against IS... Asked how many US trained rebels were fighting he said: 'It's
a small number... we're talking four or five.'"
assbot: Logged on 17-09-2015 03:58:56; mircea_popescu: THAT is
a debate ?
mircea_popescu: In
a recent speech, Travis Kalanick, chief executive of the ride-hailing company Uber, said that progress brought by his company had to be “in harmony with stability,” words often used by Chinese officials to signal the dangers of social and political unrest. IBM’s China marketing materials use phrases like “building
a harmonious society” and “the Chinese dream,” the latter
a phrase coined by Xi to signif
mircea_popescu: heh. there's not been
a jew in nazi germany like the american in china.
assbot: Patent US20150124107 - Associating cameras with users and objects in
a social networking system - Google Patents ... (
http://bit.ly/1LizomN )
mircea_popescu: "if you think that
a standard for wooden cheeses is
a bad idea please restrain yourself, herpitty derp"
mircea_popescu: "But if all you have to say is that you think TOFU is
a bad idea, please restrain yourself." << all i have to say is not that "i think tofu is
a bad idea". all i have to say is that tofu isn't even
a bad idea, and Neal H. Walfield is too stupid to even be wrong.
punkman: there's also
a slight problem when you have identical files with different filepaths, I was thinking of doing path+sha512 in my mappings
assbot: Logged on 17-09-2015 03:00:27; asciilifeform: this will happen, for example, when we finally... add
a file
BingoBoingo: But who am I to know if BitPay sent 100,000 BTC to
a 1BitcoinEater address back in 2012?
BingoBoingo: There's too many bowl games, only way to win the bowl game naming game is pony up for
a January 1st game or have the cash reserves
BingoBoingo: As opaque as BitPay is if we are at this moment ascribing its failures to anything I am still leaning towards its deal with ESPN, Bowl game naming right have slaughtered many
a small business
BingoBoingo: The Disney empire is viscious, but no arm is
a viscious as ESPN
BingoBoingo: Unless
a court gets involved for bankruptcy or some shit, but that would come out too.
BingoBoingo: everythign BitPay is
a mess, nothing BitPay makes sense, and the worst damage inflicted upon BitPay still seems explicitly self inflicted
BingoBoingo: Still less of
a thing than their Bowl game loss
BingoBoingo: I have yet to find
a number that puts him under 9 minutes
BingoBoingo remembers first coming to #b-
a early 2013 then returning late 2013 and butting heads with benkay
BingoBoingo is
a very visual person, hates hamplanets and bright colors
BingoBoingo: trinque: If I actually followed through with that in 2010 when I first started following Derpency I'd be much richer, but Tardenssenenene was
a huge turnoff.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Everything has
a www, too inclusive
mircea_popescu: eh not even,
a whole snakepit of scammers/fraudsters/vcs
mircea_popescu: This is
a wake up call to every Bitcoin CEO reading this thread. WE are ALL at risk and we could be next. Use BitGo, Xapo, or Coinbase to lock up large balances of corporate funds
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> na the arse of sa is prolly venezuela << Venezuela is more of
a fistula
mircea_popescu: it has
a penis, currently more or less erect towards south africa
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> basically alf wants to live in the asshole of
a continent << He already does
mircea_popescu: basically alf wants to live in the asshole of
a continent
BingoBoingo: I'm kinda starting to think the more I read that Tanzania might not be joke for too long. Seriously looking like hardware #b-
a candidate
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Tis
a question, because beople are bopple are coters
assbot: Let's address some of the more common pseudo-arguments raised by the very stupid people that like the Gavin scamcoin proposal on Trilema -
A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1KrjJ3C )
mircea_popescu: no wonder he looks like he sucked down
a pickle through
a garden hose.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> or merely stupid. <<< it's
a product. best results (area) for equal sides. but astounding performance can be obtained even with only one of the two
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> Each and every time someone in the Computer Science field has
a Bright Idea, the world had better be prepared to adapt, because Here Comes Genius and everything everybody has done needs to be done differently from now on, because This Genius Knows Best. Gratuitous re-invention is very appealing to some people. << cstropes done by naggum. now that'd be
a sight.
assbot: Logged on 17-09-2015 01:42:46; asciilifeform: he broke apart
a perfectly good clock.
BingoBoingo has tiny wheel of cheddar set out to achieve room temperature last night ready for
a celebration. Fuck it V... will wait to see officialish clock on Rand time
pete_dushenski: not that anna karenina lived in
a time of soviet flats...
BingoBoingo humbly requests
a knowledgeable party write
a qntra on the recent v-gasm
mod6: that part of the code is gnarly. gotta re-work
a bunch of this.
mircea_popescu: i wanna send this guy
a cookie or something i like him so much
assbot: You rated user mod6 on 27-Nov-2014, with
a rating of 4, and supplied these additional notes: The cave, age, tace school of thought. Nice work with the Bitcoin Foundation..
assbot: Logged on 15-08-2015 00:12:27; asciilifeform:
a versioning system that is merely
a few kb of script
assbot: Logged on 17-09-2015 01:42:58; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's nothing wrong with kid breaking up the shit in the house to make
a shitty lesser something
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's
a product. 50% stupid 50% fat is more stupidfat than 150% fat 5% stupid.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Lemme dig for
a medical photograph
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> i bet the author is this stupid fat kid that's "
a feminist" and also "really supports" womenz. << You forget the FUDA: Fat Usurped Dick Area... Basically when the pubic fat is too much for the dick to be externally visible
mircea_popescu: and you know, once they get their bad boy issues sorted, he'll be the only one ready, lubed up and with
a (6 inch!) erection going!
mircea_popescu: i bet the author is this stupid fat kid that's "
a feminist" and also "really supports" womenz.
mircea_popescu: "We have plenty of time to see how this debate plays out. There is overwhelming support from the community, the merchant ecosystem and miners for
a blocksize increase. If Core fails to sort out its governance issues, then by the time this problem really comes to the fore, XT will be the only solution implemented and readily available,"
mircea_popescu: The rest of us are busy working, and also
a lot of people starting school and stuff so this is
a slow period in general."
mircea_popescu: it's
a full time job. of the nature and substance of learning to secure windows installations.
mircea_popescu: it's more complicated than that.
a very complex balancing act of multiple separate agencies and the overriding consideration of "is the image hit worth it" all evaluated through multiple layers.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: why does it need to have identical appearance? << Apparently Mac Mini in particular is
a colocation niche
mircea_popescu: the land of fictitious persons is mostly notable in
a dire absence of death.