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mircea_popescu: i can guarantee the schmuck in question had no "batallion", on the plain grounds that there isn't such
a thing.
pete_dushenski: and being rich is most definitely not waking up at 7am every day to fill out paperwork and have coffee with
a gaggle of geese
mircea_popescu: to quote the pawnbroker, "more like
a stench, if i remember"
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-06-2015#1159096 << you personally misrepresent your income, for whatever reasons, but you actually are mostly working for warrants these past coupla years. the others - probably
a combination of incompetence (note that high functioning autism is still mental incompetence) and similar misrepresentation, similarly for whatever reasons.
☝︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: more interestingly, facebook has had it's "turner buys myspace" moment,
a while back. the only way it's going now is to that same 99.999% "value" drop. so did twitter. recently, so did github. the process of packaging the ignorant vouches of the average imbecile, selling them and running off has completed with facebook.
mircea_popescu: Prior to this years HOPE conference,
a few articles appeared touting Nadim Kobeissi's new project, miniLock and him and I got into
a heated debate regarding some issues that I, as
a certified non-cryptographer, was concerned about in his design (at least what I could gather from it from the pre-release Wired article). The essence of my concerns boiled down to the fact that in miniLock, Nadim is using the human user as
mircea_popescu: "the interwebs doesn't worx ? oh, you must be on
a different browser"
mircea_popescu: then again, this is kinda why we don't give
a shit about the lot of them.
ascii_field: 128 bits by
a clever child in three languages - never
ascii_field: the other is actual 'guessability by enemy',
a more nebulous thing
ascii_field: so it is not
a question of whether to use brainwallets - but whether to -also- use permanent copies of keys !
ascii_field: my point is that everyone here is either using brainwallet in some form already (backup of your key in
a postbox in japan, symmetrically encrypted with pw in your brain, and postbox # also in your brain) OR is one stint in pow camp away from 'civil death' (total loss of key)
ascii_field: and i don't give
a fuck about general public
mircea_popescu: ascii_field but it was written in
a language nevertheless, right ?
ascii_field: go guess
a bi- or tri- lingual macaronic poem that some fella wrote in his head as
a boy.
mats: i use
a memory palace
mircea_popescu: the notion that anyone can have
a peculiar, different, original liberty...
mircea_popescu: it goes "better
a hooligan than
a communist" etc, and it specifically says "we do not wish for original liberty and other lies"
mircea_popescu: ascii_field there's
a bit to go with that : the more or less official hymn of the romanian revolution, which is this thing :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkI42zPuH7w (very neener tune, incidentally, much like the argentine's favourite thing - and btw those guys put the cap everywhere)
assbot: Logged on 13-05-2015 05:12:34; decimation: heh there are amusing layers here > "In 1854, when sculptor Thomas Crawford was preparing models for sculpture for the United States Capitol, Secretary of War Jefferson Davis (later to be the President of the Confederate States of America) insisted that
a Phrygian cap not be included on
a Statue of Freedom, on the grounds that "American liberty is original and not the liberty of the freed slave". "
mircea_popescu: freed slaves with "
a lot of money" or "power" or "influence"
mircea_popescu: no, it was done to
a collection of "scions" of rockefeller and rotschild and the like.
ascii_field: wake me up when there's
a humiliated rockefeller.
mircea_popescu: again, this is what the coumo associates prosecutions mark. not that it wans't
a fact
a while before.
ascii_field knows buncha folks working in civil service, not one gives
a flying fuck which party is in office
assbot: Logged on 10-06-2015 13:35:11; asciilifeform:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-06-2015#1158998 << mircea_popescu is posting through
a temporal modem from 1870s ? because 'spoils system' in usg civil service is long, long gone. nobody at nsa, usually not even the director (they don't stick around long anyway) worries about which party is in the white house.
assbot: Logged on 10-06-2015 00:09:38; asciilifeform: if i were to obtain (fell out of airplane, aha)
a crate full of benjies, it would do exactly zero for my situation.
mircea_popescu: yes.
a perceived social consensus and low self esteem.
mircea_popescu: there's
a minimum bar to belief, and it's "not being made out of pressed shitboard"
mircea_popescu: yes eventually everything applies to all things. in this sense preet's
a respectable fellow - hey, how many indians own their own suit ?!
assbot: Logged on 04-06-2014 00:08:26; asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: the buggers' traditional defense is to pretend that the event was
a non-event - or, if this is impractical, to continue living in an imaginary world where they 'scooped' the story first, and all of the 'unsanctioned' discussion never happened.
mircea_popescu: i wonder how much time will elapse between t1 where we reach hanging parity and t2 when there's 100 usis hangings per historical b-
a hanging
mats: i wonder who will be the first to be hanged for #b-
a association
mircea_popescu: dude do the stupid go to
a special stupid school that makes them self defeating or what the fuck is it
mircea_popescu: who ever fucks
a housewife and who ever passed up the chance to wet it in random roadkill ?
shinohai: "Your asshole is looking
a little dingy my dear. Freshen that up, will ya?"
lobbes:
a lot of people here are in that category. 'if you starve enough' etc
funkenstein_: and so I should ask you lords, if this is
a pardonable offense
funkenstein_: if I were so employed, perhaps I could be
a useful mole for you.
assbot: Logged on 10-06-2015 06:06:36; mircea_popescu: one who is not mentally retarded can not BE
a bureaucrat. they may temporarily work in
a bureaucracy, but for short stints and fully loathing it, miller's cosmococcic empire style.
funkenstein_: so i threw
a coin at s.nsa the day of first phuctoring.. can't help but notice that was the last listed volume
assbot: Logged on 10-06-2015 00:35:40; asciilifeform: use of linux/bsd is
a legal nsa 'selector.' this is publicly known by now.
BingoBoingo: wyrdmantis: Feel free to write it up. I'm taking part
a Preet Bharara turd atm.
thestringpuller: "If Bitcoin was to be controlled by
a popularity contest, we're pretty doomed."
shinohai: That's where I got the idea for it. Finding high-quality material is
a little difficult.
shinohai: I promise one day #b-
a will have
a state-of-the-art fap bot full of such goodness.
assbot: Logged on 10-06-2015 04:25:02; decimation: some grunt who has done honest work surely outranks some ditz with
a degree in english
assbot: Logged on 10-06-2015 03:58:58; trinque: not that insane to collect
a good check and be relatively certain of life
mircea_popescu: one who is not mentally retarded can not BE
a bureaucrat. they may temporarily work in
a bureaucracy, but for short stints and fully loathing it, miller's cosmococcic empire style.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 10-06-2015 03:57:50; asciilifeform: no one ever talks about the 'up side' of being
a bureaucrat, but i think it is necessary. otherwise you are stuck believing that these people are clinically insane (they are not.)
mircea_popescu:
a salary is for the office cocksucker and for that twerp who actually sat through ALL FOUR YEARS of computer school.
assbot: Logged on 10-06-2015 03:54:32; decimation: "cons: Process and management inhibit mission. Pay does not match market (as low as 60% of what you can get as
a contractor)."
mircea_popescu: the only reason the nukes haven't wandered off is that
a) they're not actually flight worthy and b) they're not actually strategically useful.
mircea_popescu: not
a very good list this.
a collection of derps (middle school teacher, seriously ?!) and reasonably known people who had little to nothing to do.