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mircea_popescu: PeterL afaik anyone who's not a tard tests the first batch from a new vendor.
mircea_popescu: PeterL you could prolly make a killing doing analysis for teh "darknet" pillheads.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "Cuccias said that Nest Cam uses 128-bit SSL encryption, Perfect Forward Secrecy and a 2048-bit RSA key that is unique to each camera. “This ensures that videos are not accessible, even over open WiFi networks. That said, customers can always see the status of their camera through the Nest app,” "
mircea_popescu: "You will probably experience a higher attempted double spend rate, for example, if selling a digital good to someone who didn't buy a device."
mircea_popescu: so the box you'd buy is putative, as you didn't buy it, and as far as the rest of the quoted is concerned ima go on a limb and guess thye had other reasons.
mircea_popescu: why would you pay 1k for something that retails for like 80 ?
mircea_popescu: i only ever liked romania, or any other place come to think of it, for that kind of reason.
mircea_popescu: you know, i suppose i'd like the us a lot more if the people running the private "scam the suckers" entreprises there were literate and spoke enlish
mircea_popescu: what are they gonna do, steal his cash and car if he drives through washington dc ?
mircea_popescu: more like, drivers leaving trucks did more damage than the enitre rest of the ops.
mircea_popescu: immanence is a kantian concept ; imminence is the state of proximity in time of a future item to the present.
mircea_popescu: In 2014 alone, US Attorneys "forfeited" $4.5 billion. This dollar amount now places federal law enforcement at the top of the list of of "People Who Take Stuff That Belongs To Others."
mircea_popescu: now i'm gonna have to go in and take dialogue down by hand ? WHAT GOOD ARE YOU INTERNETS
mircea_popescu: business will have to learn that it has to do a lot of cocksucking of btc folks.
mircea_popescu: people will sit around in the dark waiting for the cloujds to clear so they can water their farmville crops, while oil wells will sit capped and waiting for them to die out because "oil is not fashionable". this is totally happening. and it'll matter.
mircea_popescu: that's what i'm worried about, coal mines and oil wells. not the amazon/google/facebook/apple babyblue-chip bs.
mircea_popescu: "Fossil fuel companies risk wasting up to $2tn (£1.3tn) of investors’ money in the next decade on projects left worthless by global action on climate change and the surge in clean energy, according to a new report."
mircea_popescu: this guy should stick to cleaning floors or w/e he does for a living, exterminate rodents.
mircea_popescu: also "progressive" and "advanced" do not mean the same thing, they mean the opposite thing. so they're not interchangeable.
mircea_popescu: by definition of pep talk and archeology, there can not be an archeology pep talk.
mircea_popescu: leaving aside how they're not even wrong, too far gone off the map to even be wrong : what the fuck is with this mentally slow 12yo style of communication!
mircea_popescu: can't write on any topic without channeling one's 7th grade football coach doing a pep talk ?
mircea_popescu: "But if you’re in Walnut Canyon in 1150 A.D., these guys are totally amazing! They’ve got canals, stone buildings, and advanced ceramics. They were so far ahead of everybody they knew, that they are absolutely the smartest guys anybody has ever heard of. They’re the pinnacle of human achievement. They’re the Stone-Age Stanford. They’re the MIT of black and white pottery."
mircea_popescu: the whole population of yurp was less than the bay area. not to mention the land value.
mircea_popescu: moreover, at the time lavoisier was working on these things they had fucking kings!\
mircea_popescu: why should the great march of liberty stumble on ancient nonsense like laws that were perhaps valid in the middle ages, but no longer satisfy the needs of an ever progressing humanity ?
mircea_popescu: if marriage could change, if we've progressed past narrow views of the past on so many topics from what science means and how to collect data all the way to you name it,
mircea_popescu: no more of this sterile reinventing the same things over.
mircea_popescu: about damn time technology brings solutions to the actual pressing problems of manking
mircea_popescu: curious who ends up with the copyrights over particularly valuable genotypes.
mircea_popescu: all bread is made with "own vaginal yeast". wtf other yeast is there.
mircea_popescu: well, cobalt decay convincingly proves "nature" has a handedness
mircea_popescu: incidentally : thinking of the cobalt parity violation. somehow im reminded of the spin engine discussions last year
mircea_popescu: in the immortal words of clark gable, "a good whipping would benefit oyu immensely my dear"
mircea_popescu: ie, much better than now. the empire wants them to work, and will whip them just enough to actually get some work done.
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