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mircea_popescu: architecture made by humanists for humanists. "here, look how insignificant the human is!!11"
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski what was shady ? there's nothing national about corporations.
mircea_popescu: have the firewall set up so it can only connect to them (deny from all accept from X Y Z) as a way around the incredibly braindamaged way the client itself handles connections
mircea_popescu: trinque if you're running it in cramped position you could just follow the republic nodes i guess
mircea_popescu: "spend 35bn to save 50k we call 1bn because all numbers are the same number. WE ARE HUMANISTS DAMNIT"
mircea_popescu: lol @ the "feminist anarchist" gargle. yay, Michelle Goldberg, you go roar girl.
mircea_popescu: "The question I have is why do we have to learn about it through guesswork, aren't miners themselves interested in Bitcoin being a reliable payment system?" aka "why don't people in bitcoin give a shit about people on reddit/github/tardstalk"
mircea_popescu: just because killerstorm doesn't understand what's going on doesn't mean "sophisticated devils etc"
mircea_popescu: at some point this'll have to be systematized, ain't nobody got time to keep track of all the retarded arbitrary shit.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: if you think "the patriarchy" is causing "global warming", you go on the foodstamp list. if you think government is causing the decay of society, you get on the no travel list.
mircea_popescu: if you're a 20something woman working in an office and you think you might have been raped by a 50 something outdoors type of guy, poor you. if you're a 50something outdoors type of guy and think you might have been raped by a 20something irs office drone, fuck you.
mircea_popescu: if you're smoking you're evil. if you're fat you're alt-beautiful.
mircea_popescu: if you're trying to get an abortion, yay! if you're trying to buy a gun BOO!!!
mircea_popescu: if you think you're "transsexual" that's a protected class. if you got allergies, fuck you.
mircea_popescu: heh. the lulzy this yes that no selection the usg does.
mircea_popescu: war was won by romanian troops with russian auxiliaries under romanian command. so HA!
mircea_popescu: „Turcii, adunând cele mai mari mase de trupe la Plevna, ne zdrobesc. Rog să faci fusiune, demonstrațiune și, dacă se poate, să treci Dunărea cu armata după cum dorești. Între Jiu și Corabia demonstrațiunea aceasta este neapărat necesară pentru înlesnirea mișcărilor mele.” etc.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field what do you think happened in teh turk-russian war ?
mircea_popescu: except there's no romania around to save the russians' butt this time
mircea_popescu: no, it's not "the internet". it's the usenet/bbs/forum model.
mircea_popescu: the only problem with that thing is that IT makes emotion unreadable
mircea_popescu: thinking about it twitter is particularly apt for this job.
mircea_popescu: should be there in days rather than yerars, yes. should be there in microseconds rather than seconds ? mno.
mircea_popescu: if anything real-time is truly DETRIMENTAL, if my mpex and our ba experience has taught us anything.
mircea_popescu: the alternative is susceptible to filtering on infrastructure you don't own.
mircea_popescu: to put this morning's set of realisations in a simple, clear package : making a battleship is nowhere near as good as making a battleship out of ustard decapitated heads.
mircea_popescu: you can use fucking twitter for all the difference it makes.
mircea_popescu: nobody cares if "fall over" because there's so damned many of them.
mircea_popescu: leaving aside the theory. the model here contemplated is actually workable.
mircea_popescu: is both a lot more feasible and way cheaper than the alternative "we'll lay our own cable fu"
mircea_popescu: looky. a gossipd based on the concept that you keep firewalled clients at home and they connect to a random pile of websites, which simply respond with pgp -w text
mircea_popescu: he could get 8.5 bts/byte from urandom for the same money.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo Posted on November 29, 2015 by Bingo Boingo ?
mircea_popescu: so far we're mostly finding novel ways to use up entropy we don't really have.
mircea_popescu: one could in principle do exactly what FM does to radio waves.
mircea_popescu: in so doing it actually promotes both personal-ness and variety.
mircea_popescu: which is to say : it provides a clean, standard interface that preserves personal and various thing entirely.
mircea_popescu: i suppose here wins. anyway : the proposed scheme has exactly the advantage of alphabet
mircea_popescu: (that's CarbonMan, before you ask. his superpower is well... super power.)
mircea_popescu: what ddos ? your node works exactly like your home nat router, only allowing outbound connections.
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