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mircea_popescu: now you know what populared my imagination coupla decades ago.
mircea_popescu: they usually faint and lose any memories from the past hour.
mircea_popescu: i suspect the google hiring of turds a la hearn and a whole raft of others to be specifically intetional.
mircea_popescu: " and then you look at the code and it's the same set of aggressive, google employed queergenders." << there's more than one ways to go about fucking over the competition.
mircea_popescu: inexplicably, not really popular as working girl working name. for some reason.
mircea_popescu: random lulz : sorana (almost spoken as sore-anna) is a perfectly legit ro name.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform odd that the idiot horde can keep SOME things frozen in time.
mircea_popescu: because check it out, once it needed to open up an interface autocad did exactly what gimp did.
mircea_popescu: which is why pre-ba, all people i knew that knew what lisp was knew it was "oh, scripting language. pretty nifty."
mircea_popescu: i don't mean hobbist projects, owned and managed by the v ery enthusiast in question. i mean shops. with management
mircea_popescu: then again i guess it makes sense, reddit's collectively at that enchanted age when kid walks into bedroom unexpectedly, thinks dad's "beating the shit out of mom". because wut is fuck anyway.
mircea_popescu: Peshawar was known in Sanskrit as Puruṣapura (पुरूषपुर), literally meaning "city of men".
mircea_popescu: anyway, i guess maybe ? strikes me as fucking insane, but then again i guess that's their point
mircea_popescu: and the 800k gallons figure is nonsense. 3.2 cubic meters of water srsly ? 150 acres is what, half a square km ? so you're supposedly doing 4 * 8 * 10^5 * 365 / .5 / 10^6 = 2336mm rainfall a year ?
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> even place large quantity of gold in land mines. hell, make the land mines ~entirely~ out of gold. not like the yellow stuff has any better uses. <<< this is for sure how i'd be running the vault.
mircea_popescu: <jurov> "Russians safeguarding the stock late in the Cold War cached tiny reservoirs of red mercury in sewing machines and radios bound for export" ahahahaha <<< there is a very popular east european scam where "german collector" announces he is paying very high sums for "old german sewing machines".
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> irc is a pain. you would not believe what idiocies i had put in assbot to keep it as stable as it is. << i have a vague idea.
mircea_popescu: but generally their (planeta moldova) work should be pretty hysterical to a russian speaker with ro knowledge
mircea_popescu: imo the VERY best story of thanksgiving friends is made by pretty much the only thing worth the mention culturally to come out of the bit of romania currently stranded as an "independent state" because russians.
mircea_popescu: well... the hopeful moral in there is that the man STREUGGLES to eat the damned mcflurries
mircea_popescu: next you're gonna say samuel clemens smoke ten cigars a day for seventy years and all it did was to preserve him
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> most people eat every day but never think. << newton's 4th law of thermodumbnamycs.
mircea_popescu: <pete_dushenski> mircea_popescu: 'it' is the honey or the jews ? << the honey. feed it to infant, watch infant become really quiet./
mircea_popescu: dear "the press" : no matter what pig lipstick you try to put on the current iteration of hruschev, he's still uncomfortable wearing shoes.
mircea_popescu: since when droning bureaucrat droning on because too petrified of shutting up is "powerful" in any sense ?
mircea_popescu: either that or "chosen nation" emerges, butchers pharaoh.
mircea_popescu: are you complaining about your own blog to yourself ?!
mircea_popescu: or in the words of the old guard sicilians, "sell the dope to the niggers, they're animals anyway"
mircea_popescu: specifically, that there are two kids of people : the addicts, who aren't people, and the actual people.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform english words don'\t denote anymore. they aspire.
mircea_popescu: the difference being that nsa has nothing worth doing.
mircea_popescu: id-level computer operators and turn them into what they call "cyberwarriors." It's not that they're skilled hackers, it's that the procedures do the work for them."
mircea_popescu: "This cost-benefit analysis doesn't end at successful exploitation. According to Snowden, the TAO—that’s Tailored Access Operations—operators running the FOXACID system have a detailed flowchart, with tons of rules about when to stop. If something doesn't work, stop. If they detect a PSP, a personal security product, stop. If anything goes weird, stop. This is how the NSA avoids detection, and also how it takes m
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, whatg, someone is good enough to make it appear continuous while at the same time inept enough to give 4 days' worth of gestapo click tone ?
mircea_popescu has accidentally kefir, throuygh leaving the milk out overnight. it turned, was quite good.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform get a load of this : boxen weren't rebooted.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, i could confirm the story that there've been a bunch of stolen servers all through ukr / poland / baltics, "opperation
mircea_popescu: ok so. the story, after what was it, 4 days downtime, once the dude finally came back, is, and i quote, "ok I fixed it. give it about 20 minutes". whereupon at my inquiry trhat what was wrong wit hit ?! the response came that "it was turned off for some reason".