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mircea_popescu: how about this : only accept gpg-encrypted communications, and only distribute the pubkey to people you like.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: as illustrated by discussion of "entrepreneurs" quoted in the logs.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes note that often these self-misrepresented "techs" are actually 6 weeks away from the day they first heard of "that css programming language"
mircea_popescu: i think locks and lock behavious is nsa's #1 favourite metacomputing item.
mircea_popescu: mod6 reconfigures BDB to pass the wedge at block 252450 << remember that alf ? :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know the (same vintage) aspirin contraception joke ?
mircea_popescu is partial to that fashion for girlies, perhaps on account of having grown up in a sea of teenybopper knickers.
mircea_popescu: was discussing more the hitler jugend one-inch-over-pubis skirts
mircea_popescu: the other guy that was going to "ruin bitbet in social media" because similar ?
mircea_popescu: the guy that got all butthurt about his eth short not good enough for you ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> maybe i'm just thick, but i can't think of what ben_vulpes's 'wotpaste' is actually for << not really his, i just idly asked why would we make a special thing for paste when deedbot already has all that functionality and more. within the same ten minutes it came to light why and the matter went away afaic.
mircea_popescu: the article kinda mocks some .ro rappers because hey, hunger. anyway.
mircea_popescu: looky, the 1990 revolutions happened because hunger. this is a fact.
mircea_popescu: <punkman> isn't verifyall equivalent to no checkpoints? << in trb yes. otherwise... complicated.
mircea_popescu: heh, i suppose that's the strongest indictment for the soviets ever : can't fucking distinguish 50s from 80s looking at the pictures.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: shit. i could have written for "bitcoin news" ALL THIS TIME ?
mircea_popescu: Make sure your article is easy to read. People familiar and not will be reading the articles.
mircea_popescu: best use of one's time in this field, deeply recommended for any gentleman anyway.
mircea_popescu: as if any judge has the authority to order such a wonder.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> phun phakt: virtually all american 'health insurance' is void abroad << ofcourse it is ? just like soviet ruble vouchers were void in bonn ?
mircea_popescu: this is whjat i get for going "who the fduck is vincent canfield"
mircea_popescu: lol " The Maine college drop-out, 21, at center of hoax terrorist threat emails sent to schools across the East and West coasts that sparked college evacuations "
mircea_popescu: it's about this world. a small town next to bakersfield (a sort of california's own ohio)
mircea_popescu: maybe that's the issue. what "turd world" ? third world ?
mircea_popescu: or did i misconstrue your question and you weren't asking something along the lines of "how COULD you stick your penis in brown!!1"
mircea_popescu: it's about california being dumb in a different color scheme , i guess.
mircea_popescu: as someone who actually fucks third worlders, i do not buy this.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform apparently yes, had to ask teh womenz. really fucking retarded movie.
mircea_popescu: fucktards are advertising coca cola with their own money, out of every single drink coca cola makes a dollar fifty if they make a dollar.
mircea_popescu: some bright minds decided to advertise it. they actually paid money to get outdoor space, and on it they're selling... rum and cola. huge, block lettered 4 stage recipe, 3rd being "bebida cola".
mircea_popescu: heh. here's the thing : by far the finest alcohol available in this country is havana club 7 yo.
mircea_popescu: "The growing public attention sparked by the investment became both a heaven and a hell. On one hand, during the course of Gowalla’s life we received more tech press coverage than is right and holy for any startup. On the other, I dare you to find a post about Gowalla that doesn't mention Foursquare."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't think it's africanization, to me it seems very ... surfer culture, to be honest. the whole trend with walla this and palooza that traces back to that idiotic aussie band of the 90s wtf was it called.
mircea_popescu: it's apparently very hard to underestimate just how little these people do with their time.
mircea_popescu: apparently that pointless foursquare thing is somehow a success that had it's own wanna-bes that meanwhile died.
mircea_popescu: these idiots aim to "revolutionize", "improve" and ultimately save a world they do not wish to ever see.
mircea_popescu: this is not a trend among the newly "creative" worthless class, not getting out of the building.
mircea_popescu: "But we never defined clear hypotheses, developed experiments, and we rarely had meaningful conversations with our target end-users. And while we had some wonderful advisors in the parking industry, we should have met with everyone we could get our hands on. Worst, we rarely got out of the building."
mircea_popescu: shinohai the problem is that for someone to later verify the bundle deed one needs to keep the whole bundle.
mircea_popescu: " any increase in return that’s attributable merely to an improvement in the local stock market;" << i wish to know on what planet these people live where there's "local" stock markets.
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