178400+ entries in 0.069s
mircea_popescu: “Those who organized, who perpetrated the attacks are the very same people who the refugees are fleeing and not the opposite,” Agence-France Presse quoted Mr. Juncker as saying. “And so there is no need for an overall review of the European policy on refugees.”
mircea_popescu: they got the recipe, time for butt meet work, work meet butt.
mircea_popescu: i can also interview mental patients and then transcribe the results and publish them as "the crazy ramblings of us libertards". this is probably more factual than the breitbart butthurt.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you know, just because "the press" that got kicked off campus is claiming some derps as representative for a group they hate doesn't mean all that much.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla oh i see, THERE it's about the version. if it were a different version than 3.1 it'd have been fine, because windows is usgtronics. MEANWHILE the problems with gpg-hijacked are really problems WITH PGP.
mircea_popescu: shinohai are these the same imbeciles of inexistent "bitcoin embassy" fame or a new crop of hollow if pretentious garglemeisters ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes aha. also piece work is a deal with individuals, this involves an [ex soviet] factory usually.
mircea_popescu: for one thing, complex organic molecules don't mass spectrometry so well.
mircea_popescu: im gonna give out a whole milion eulora coppers. which are actually backed by more substance than usdollars.
mircea_popescu: the principal sleigh of hand here is the implication, unspoken but universally pushed, that you would want "automatic" encryption. ie somehow the "standard" shouild be a "browswer extension" or other such crap.
mircea_popescu: "let's pretend like the patently untrue bullshit we want to push is not arbitrary but necessary"
mircea_popescu: phf it's research in the sense "earth sciences" are research.
mircea_popescu: "(Let's not get into the NSA's collect-it-all policy for encrypted messages. If the NSA is your adversary just forget about PGP.)" << yeah, right. THAT is why i read their stuff and they don't read my stuff, because i take advice from john hopkins fucktards.
mircea_popescu: the only conclusion of that piece of nonsense is that Matthew Green must die. nothing more.
mircea_popescu: but "pgp is bad" which was the entire point of the 2.x branch of "developlent" in the first fucking place.
mircea_popescu: "Except maybe not: if you happen to do this with GnuPG 2.0.18 -- one version off from the very latest GnuPG -- the client won't actually bother to check the fingerprint of the received key. A malicious server (or HTTP attacker) can ship you back the wrong key and you'll get no warning. This is fixed in the very latest versions of GPG but... Oy Vey."
mircea_popescu: "usability" is a concern for cryptographic systems like "glaring absence of shit stuck on all sides of rifle" is a concern for kalashnikov design.
mircea_popescu: while the aparatchicks shoot each other in the street.
mircea_popescu: like "o noes, accidentally hercules carrying 200 tons of gold was downed by the brave men of air defense".
mircea_popescu: but bitcoin is by its nature EXACTLY the heroin usg individuals want.
mircea_popescu: the only impediment being that nobody had made essence of jeans and toiletpaper in weightless form, back then.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if i was running forward ss in 1985 moscow, what i'd do is have a huge supply of $stuff crash 30 miles from moscow.
mircea_popescu: the actual boulder of irony in here is that if the usg actually got the stash, it'd crash it.
mircea_popescu: this ain't how the thing works. if it abhors anything, it's actual meat. for some reason.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, and that's what they'll make him, too.
mircea_popescu: i'd rather work as an orderly at some establishment dedicated to humor research on public moneys (also known as insane asylum) than be a fucking professor in the us.
mircea_popescu: so pervasive, this braindamage. what higher aspiration a gentleman scholar could have than to be trapped on a "campus" populated by monkeys unfit to carry water.
mircea_popescu: he'll get a professorship. WHO WOULD NOT WANT A PROFESSORSHIP!111
mircea_popescu: who the fuck, other than indians 2nd generation in shoes.
mircea_popescu: "oh, if i take a million bux and one plastic golden medal from the nobel pocket and put it intop the ucla pocket, someone's going to take it at face value!11"
mircea_popescu: i have no idea what strained whey must be found in their brainboxes to imagine someone actually gives half a rat's arse what the usg CALLS the moving of moneys from one pocket to another.
mircea_popescu: but if it helps you any, the secret production of the river of meat is no more readable (or worth reading) than its visible outpour.
mircea_popescu: i have this pile of very secret derpage here including the very expert "profile" of some random derp explaining how an elderly, principled gentleman is perhaps going to react crazily to the crass injustice of this entire scheme.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, the entire exercise shows you that the previously discussed reserve powers bother the derps.
mircea_popescu: maybe there's something juicy in there like you know, plagiarism (for sure there is), and like mathematica stealing of stuff from people (almost willing to bet)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo if you feel like hunting down the fabled papers this insult to culture has defecated upon the language of his father's masters, i'd like to hear a summary.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: they sure got themselves a nice cozy stupid club going there don't they.\
mircea_popescu: been at ucla since 1988 (that's 27 years for the mit-educated log readers), and what he has to say for it is "oh, i heard of bitcoin recently".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform check it out, sandnigger did "some articles" in "some papers".
mircea_popescu: apparently gotta burn this hot iron of "if you lift your head up it WILL get cut off" into ever more ustardian lardass.
mircea_popescu: this guy did nothing his entire fucking life, outside of being a coolie for who the fuck knows what highly placed usg libtard.
mircea_popescu: Professor Chowdhry is the co-founder (with Professor Ivo Welch) and Executive Editor of a new publication Finance & Accounting Memos (FAMe) that makes academic research more accessible for MBA and PhD students, journal"
mircea_popescu: Professor Chowdhry has recently proposed Financial Access at Birth (FAB) initiative in which every child born in the world is given an initial deposit of $100 in an online bank account to guarantee that everyone in the world will have access to financial services in a few decades.You can read about the initiative by clicking here..
☟︎ mircea_popescu: Microfinance has been his recent teaching, research and applied interest. He has supervised several MBA student projects in Microfinance in the last several years and has taught an undergraduate seminar class and an MBA elective on the subject. He has developed a new model for "Franchising Microfinance" on which he has written a research paper and is studying the feasibility of implementing the model with a Microfinanc
mircea_popescu: Risk Management and Valuation in Los Angeles, Singapore, Hong Kong, Mumbai, and Hyderabad.
mircea_popescu: His research interests, on which he has published several papers in finance and economics journals, are in International Finance and Corporate Finance and Strategy. He has been on the editorial board of a number of finance journals. He teaches International Finance, Corporate Finance and Financial Institutions at Anderson. He has also organized and taught Executive Education programs on Financial Derivatives, Corporate
mircea_popescu: Professor Chowdhry has also taught at the University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and the Indian School of Business. He received his Ph.D. in 1989 from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago. He also has an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Iowa and a B.Tech. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology.
mircea_popescu: Bhagwan Chowdhry is a Professor of Finance at UCLA Anderson where he has held an appointment since 1988.
mircea_popescu: if you're nto going to be beating the monkeys into working, you'll be stuck tricking them, because the cock ain't gonna suck itself.
mircea_popescu: hence all the "do what you love" "work while you're sleeping" "you won't believe it's actually work not butter" etc.
mircea_popescu: yes, well, again : this is how this goes. the entire point of "economy" is the redefinition of work.
mircea_popescu: seems to me they work at producing poorly strung together sentences by the boatload.
mircea_popescu: well, lohn was for the derpy chicks that weren't willing to be ACTUALLY working, also.
mircea_popescu: granted, they obey stupid people saying stupid things, but ...
mircea_popescu: one more tweak and you'd be ceo of your own company on reddit.
mircea_popescu: there's really no good way to describe it outside of "here are stupid people in a historical valley". i it's a mix of factoring, leasing and outsourcing supply provisioning + financing in one package.
mircea_popescu: this is basically the fundamental deal of "we have unskilled, obedient derps here and nothing else. what now ?"