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decimation: yeah but that's
a slightly different case right? in the sense that whatsapp enabled cross-platform communications?
mircea_popescu: it just doesn't make sense for g+ to only have
a few mn profiles for all the resoureces they poured into it.
mircea_popescu: decimation i think you're doing it wrong. ~5mn made posts, of
a total > 10bn profiles ?
decimation: well, if the numbers above are in the right ballpark, google+ has the population of
a county seat in rural kansas
danielpbarron:
a private thing between me and
a moderator of "THE Bitcoin Community on Google+ since 2012"
danielpbarron:
http://danielpbarron.com/Avatar_X.txt "On why your comment was removed? Well, you decided to do
a slight snide remark and at the same time promote another site. If you had just said: qntra is worth
a look. they are more into articles and commentary though. Then you comment would be still there."
assbot: Logged on 06-03-2015 21:27:52; asciilifeform: i might exaggerate slightly, but at any rate it won't be accomplished by
a fella with
a day job.
assbot: Logged on 06-03-2015 21:25:02; asciilifeform: trinque: the hypothetical 'mutual assistance' org you suggest would roughly resolve to
a 'society for let's we all get filthy rich, and not warren-buffet-usg-rich either, but mircea_popescu-rich'
mircea_popescu: it's not magically sprung up by the end. expect
a good half of usg to just lay down and die, just like that.
mircea_popescu: the reason there even is
a remnant in the first place - vz, the collapse - is that they didn't have enough virility in the system.
mircea_popescu: this idea that the remnants automatically inherit
a chunk of the future is naive. one in ten is my experience.
mircea_popescu: so it may be
a case that YOU be thinking of another usa hm ? :D
thestringpuller: mircea_popescu: would like Francis Underwood if he were
a real person.
mircea_popescu: remember that time when food stamp system ran out of funds, took
a three day hiaturs, everyone held their breath ?
mircea_popescu: give it
a week and
a half of "we can no longer give you free stuff"
assbot: Logged on 06-03-2015 20:38:28; asciilifeform: if there were
a 'rural militia' with above room-temperature iq, usa would already look like iraq
mircea_popescu: let's put it the other way :
a sharp tungsten tipped .5 round is >20 bux.
mircea_popescu: anyway, pointless stock. if you can use stocked stuff just get
a carbine or something.
mircea_popescu: it is just about at the tolerance level of
a physically elite man.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the thing is just on the margin : the common "action express" .5 round is generally stopped by
a level 3 and always by
a level 4 vest.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the bmg is
a machine gun round not
a pistol round
mircea_popescu: btw, anyone put together the "usg will target ammunition rather than small arms" with the "various agencies bought and stored millions of rounds at the beginning of this decade" to come to
a "usg will ban ammunition period" thing yet ?
mircea_popescu: right. the tlp described phenomenon of "oh, this class of medicine is now generic ? guess what, on
a review of the data available it turns out it wasn't effective anyway, so we're using Y now instead".
mircea_popescu: anyway, to imagine the "ban smoking" thing is an isolated incident is naive. no, there's
a shitton of these underway, continuously, and generally unreported.
mircea_popescu: then they run for 4 years and have to replace the batteries, and run for another 2 and there's
a lightning strike and have to replace them again. tru story.
mircea_popescu: "do you have
a basementfull of nife ?" "o yeah! shit rocks" vs "say wut ?"
mircea_popescu: cazalla hardest thing for
a fraudster is to keep the story straight.
mircea_popescu: you know, i'd like to read
a sf novel which explores
a future where technology has re-arranged deep magma of earth into
a humongo battery
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, S.CARS would be pretty cool.
a company that
a) aspires atmospheric H2, b) fuses it into Li c) which it uses to make car batteries while d) the energy so produced it uses to make the cars and fill them up.
cazalla: mircea_popescu, it's not that i'm interested in it (or would understand/appreciate the issue tbh) but it seemed obvious way to poke
a hole in orlov's prediction, at least that it might occur in my lifetime anyway
mircea_popescu: cazalla anyway, practically, the peak oil thing is
a lot less interesting now that electric cars have been demonstrated than 20 years ago. (dunno if you know, but this has been
a fringe theory for > 50, almost 100 years by now)
mircea_popescu: you can't run out of carbon, ie, the element. but you can run out of, say, sugar. venus is
a fine example.
mircea_popescu: cazalla it is elementary that if you keep taking out of
a sack and never adding, eventually you run out.
airgapped: what i'm looking for is just
a node, wallet is out of scope
assbot: Logged on 01-03-2014 22:42:52; asciilifeform: re: raspberry pi: the news item is -
a sham
assbot: Logged on 19-02-2015 04:39:24; asciilifeform: decimation:
a diddled die of 100 gates in
a tiled matrix will do what, exactly ?
danielpbarron: not that it matters, but telling
a passphrase should surely be considered "testifying against yourself"
danielpbarron: what if i'm caught traveling with my private key ascii armored and printed on
a sheet of paper? do they even know well enough to ask for
a passphrase?
pete_dushenski: it's obvious that airport security is about as meaningfully useful as curtains on
a submarine
danielpbarron: what is to wipe on
a phone that they don't already have? It's not like my keys are on the thing
pete_dushenski: airgapped so are you working in the field currently ? or is this more of
a hobby of yours ?
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