142900+ entries in 0.054s
mircea_popescu: phf so then the odds of it being under 99.9% are < 10^-6
mircea_popescu: what the fuck further damage can be caused to matonis or andresen. gaping-asshole.jpg already anyway
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the estimate from the little crawling i did (looking at convergence of deduped/duped sets) places it at about 40k. previous, extant intel from business perspective said "under 50k". so all items point the same way
mircea_popescu: the site is eminently crawleable, page contains a reference to people who interacted with a key AND a selection of random keys.
mircea_popescu is curious if this new quality feed will result in a flood.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, it's a good idea. will ease the move to proper key format as discussed yest at any rate.
mircea_popescu: apparently there's going to be another 40kish or so from phf hopefully before then, which should bridge us over into next week, by which point hopefully either the ssh or the gwen archives start yielding
mircea_popescu: in other internet rot news : apparently google knows of no definition for the english world "unfrequentable"
mircea_popescu: and in short order... cows are expert farmers. because they recognize a farmhouse.
mircea_popescu: at some point in the 70s the latter became the schoolhouse standard for knowledge,
mircea_popescu: rather mirroring the difference between understanding and mere recognition.
mircea_popescu: expertise means something very different from itself, these days.
mircea_popescu: but the point remains, there's a difference between unemployable and unemployed.
mircea_popescu: awww. all the effort i put into being polite! gone in an instant!
mircea_popescu: you know, sourdough miners, naggum, redditards, that sorta thing
mircea_popescu: and unfrequentable types are quite frequented. what's that do ?
mircea_popescu: no. he's an unemployed (and now unemployable) copywriter.
mircea_popescu: seeing how most of the affected users happen to be in germany ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, is it a mere coincidence that some derp posing as a "free journalist" in berlin is the usg point man for the rsa diddling efforts ?
mircea_popescu: plox s/\n/ / if oyu're gonna do email formatted pastes.
mircea_popescu: "stay out of collapse path" is pretty much equal victory.
mircea_popescu: the principal property of the usg.misc is that it collapses under own weight, so.
mircea_popescu: but sure, watching the derp implode is decent comedy. "oh lines match" "well you have 273 lines here and 259 lines there" "oh this is the list" "except here's 11 you don't have". etc etc.
mircea_popescu: in fact, the difference between pothead and esl-scammer is about of the size and substance of the difference between "poor woman" and "whore" in 1700. o, really , you're a good girl ?
mircea_popescu: the difference between pothead and "scammer" as this works in english is slight.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform is it more or less summarized by pirateat40 harping in chan about how he's going to move the exchange rate and then getting his ass handed to him, publicly, in real time ?
mircea_popescu: punkman odds are you'll end up with the various mtgoxen wallet list
mircea_popescu: some [more] hard data to go with all the rest of the hard data making fools of them can't hurt.
mircea_popescu: there's this loose group of fucktards who keep spewing nonsense a la "cryptoanarchists===us dope fiends set the foundations for bitcoin" and "silk road mattered economically" and so on and so forth.
mircea_popescu: punkman well, chiefly why you're looking, to find out how many.
mircea_popescu: (no, not on a sane sort of system, but on random and mostly braindamaged implementations. nevertheless.)
mircea_popescu: i suppose you could also look for titpix, but... you know, who cares.
mircea_popescu: punkman pgp keys and key ratings, ie the wot, most valuable thing in there imo.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's not MY observation ; but the girl's. i personally neither agree nor approve.
mircea_popescu: and speaking of neurotransmitters : the most reliable sign of opioid intoxication is decreased respiratory rate. a rate less than 12 where intoxication is a possibility (ie, not outright impossible) practically guarantees it's the case.
mircea_popescu: it has been the observation throughout the ages that intelligent people are only happy as slaves ; which is how that whole "behind great man - great woman" thing got started ; or why samuel clemens had to get his daily spankings in wife's bedroom.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: again : the problem of reacting instead of acting is that you'll necessarily be a muppet.
mircea_popescu: how do you know the moon isn't actually made of petrified ejaculate ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform your strategy may not be driven by your perceived decision space.
mircea_popescu: and as to the bear and his honey, the moment before is called the endorphin shock.
mircea_popescu: but there's something wrong when the brain parasite takes over the brain, and you start pursuing nonsense at the expense of your wealth, your health, your sanity and eventually your life.
mircea_popescu: now, there is nothing wrong with this if engaged in for sport
mircea_popescu: except there's a price! so you pay the price... except... it's ransomed en route... so you... etc
mircea_popescu: for instance : the seclist has a hottie (you think, for absolutely no reason - have you seen her tits ? there are rules for being a hottie, you know ?)
mircea_popescu: the sad fact here is that you personally fall for this scam ALL THE FUCKING TIME.
mircea_popescu: so then - C wants the hottie ; but the hottie has a blood price. so C pays. except the price is kidnapped on route, so C pays ransom, except hottie falls ill etc etc