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asciilifeform: he devotes a few pages to them.
asciilifeform: not simply a matter of balance sheet, either.
asciilifeform: when it's a+b - then the 'fun' starts
asciilifeform: the only thing better than a generic imbecile is one with a titanic bag of benjies under his car seat
asciilifeform: though folks who differ from above portrait solely in the have-money part (e.g. shrem) are also a favourite prey animal ☟︎
asciilifeform: doubtful that there's more than a handful of them
asciilifeform: incidentally, uzbek translator for usg must be a killer gig
BingoBoingo: decimation: I'll give it another read. Maybe you could give a writeup a try since you seem to have a hook for it.
decimation: you have a PACER account don't you?
asciilifeform: ^ funnily enough, after being let go from gulag, he earned his living for many years as a translator.
asciilifeform: ^ a snowdenism featured a cellar where nsa likes to open mail, plant bugs in routers, etc. there was an outside shot. someone appears to have found it on 'google earth' and is now marked
asciilifeform: and mircea_popescu has a prettified one on his site
thestringpuller: mod6: doesn't like #b-a people
cazalla: <BingoBoingo> a) For violent accidents that lead to death killed is used frequently <<< that was my thinking, was not an intentional click bait title as some alleged
thestringpuller: "i dont think its a good idea to go poking around the profiles of the dead on reddit."
chetty: yep, Andrew Tepper, A Tale in the Desert and Dragon Tales
BingoBoingo: a) For violent accidents that lead to death killed is used frequently
mircea_popescu: cazalla a) killed is a little misleading, traditionally "died" is the word for accidental death ; b) isn't this teppy of dragon tale / tale in the desert fame ?
adlai slaps danielpbarron around a bit with a ra qnt
danielpbarron slaps fluffypony around a bit with a large Qntra
punkman: maybe we need poetry.b-a.link ;)
asciilifeform: And many a foe was within our own ranks,
asciilifeform: And then aeroplanes pierced the night with a roar,
asciilifeform: We'll wake and hear hoofbeats a-thundering go,
asciilifeform: Since childhood I've dreamed that a bugler would blow,
mircea_popescu: guy wants a magic trumpet to make enemies stand out from friends.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i get a general idea
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: say later if were able to digest it. otherwise i might have to attempt a transl.
asciilifeform: or say a shipment of petahash's worth of usg-commissioned miners sailing from taiwan ends up in hands of 'isis' because of a leaked key
mircea_popescu: if they change their mind... you're left holding up a very scared 13 yo.
mircea_popescu: eh... here's the caper : if she were, for a weird reason, the fucking queen of terrania
decimation: note that usg only gains superpowers when she's trying to conduct a worldwide coordinated deception
mircea_popescu: except... she's a dumb 13 yo with barel yany tits, that nobody but you would even notice.
mircea_popescu: is your argument going to be that "unless it shows her naked fucking a satellite it's not truely a diary" ?
asciilifeform: basic idea is, a mortal wound
asciilifeform: could go on, but i'm not a novelist, just trying to make a point
asciilifeform: something from which no recovery is possible, any more than from shooting self in the head with a 'stinger'
asciilifeform: or even a hangout-gone-botched
asciilifeform: essentially, something so utterly catastrophic to usg that it could not possibly be a hangout ☟︎
asciilifeform: what'd count as a -real, indisputable- usg leak? example: info leading to perma-pwn of a whole constellation (hell, why not all of them) of usg orbiting junk
mircea_popescu: "can god make a rock so big and hide it so well he ends up making another one ???"
mircea_popescu: what you propose (a forced meme film that is secretly made) can not be done. period.
mircea_popescu: well, i'm not the king of tinseltown, however, on the grounds of my cursory familiarty with the topic of making movies (ie, being a producer),
asciilifeform confesses to having only a very basic familiarity with the subject
mircea_popescu: the major difference here being that your example is some kids having fun, my example is some idiot trying to force a meme.
mircea_popescu: dude, they can't even make a film looking credible on 100mn.
asciilifeform did not see the film, but will say that he could probably produce a 'snowden' film with an arbitrarily high degree of 'truthiness' given a few $10M-usd
asciilifeform unsurprised, recalls a list of similar gotchas that added up to 'give us money because you're retarded'
asciilifeform - as ben_vulpes will be entertained to learn - just opened a 'macbook air' in dire need of a modern-sized drive to discover that said box made use of an obscure type of disk interface previously unknown to him, with aftermarket units only available from cn
asciilifeform: ^ could co-exist with a technically unfinished state of war
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: now -that's- interesting. got a link to the treaty ?
asciilifeform: because, in a well-cultivated sc4mz0r0cr4cy with multigenerational rackets, there is usually an established pecking order
asciilifeform: not always there is a logical answer, granted
asciilifeform: as a logical entity - sure
mircea_popescu: obviously they'd operate on a (being scammed) to (merit washing) continuum. it won't be either 0% or 100%.
asciilifeform: just pointing out bureaucracy functioning in a particular mode of idiocy
assbot: Logged on 27-02-2015 23:29:14; cazalla: for anyone that recalls shrem's attempt to lure investors into a scheme last month.. it already shut.. weeks ago https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=906838.msg10370543#msg10370543
trinque: maybe we're fat and lazy because earth hasn't put up enough of a fight
asciilifeform: king, if he has any sense, begins with 'i want a tetris and underlying stack that doesn't crash, and if it does, you+extended family get intimate with anthills'
trinque: king says I want a moon base
asciilifeform: how would you engineer if every morning you got to see a colleague slowly lowered into a piraña tank for having made a mistake ?
asciilifeform: call it megalomania, but i'm fascinated with a certain kind of engineering
asciilifeform: this is merely a hypothesis in my mind, i'm putting it here for others to ponder.
assbot: Logged on 16-02-2014 02:58:15; asciilifeform: the entire field, giving its history and monetary incentives, is a poisonous offering.
asciilifeform: but something that looks more like a programming lang you might've learned as a kid.
asciilifeform: so not a magical guarantee (want guarantees, pray to the gods?)
asciilifeform: but you can still do a few useful tricks like taint/flow analysis
asciilifeform: re: proof: studious readers of log may recall the old thread where we spoke of general-case attributes of a proggy being unprovable
ben_vulpes: my point is that large fractions of a planet's worth of btc are already bet on btc.
ben_vulpes: perhaps talk to others who are risking 'a planet' worth of btc already on...extant btc.
assbot: 56 results for 'power rangers' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=power+rangers
asciilifeform: a fucking airplane.
asciilifeform: even a lowly airplane has triple+ majority-circuit cpu
asciilifeform: would you bet a planet on that ?
asciilifeform: but for something like a battlefield bitcoind, this kind of thing probably cannot be avoided.
asciilifeform: i can't recommend this for 'tetris' (that was a homework)
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i've historically been a skeptic of 'provably' whatevers, because the required furniture, in my experience, never failed to interfere with 'fits in head' - and the promised are often overblown
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: It would be at least a couple years out
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: when did you become a fan of provably anything software?
BingoBoingo: Film definitely points to a leak in the hotel room
assbot: 42 results for 'hangout' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=hangout
trinque: obviously a new channel through which to broadcast that which must be assumed to be true, because it's "leaked!"
asciilifeform: (naturally, in a scene where this is not expected, and out of edge of camera)
asciilifeform for some reason thought it was a hollywood production
trinque: asciilifeform: looks a lot like plpgsql
cazalla: so i made a bitbet under the influence and couldn't fund it until later, i assume 0 conf address listed for it in /propositions/ is the address of which i need to fund? ☟︎
mircea_popescu: i guess nobody gives a shit about bfl anymore huh
BingoBoingo: Seems like a way to keep people playing a game where "advanced" play is simply botting your balance to 0 faster. Honest stuff.
mike_c: even still. just letting people play without having to deposit first seems like a great idea.
Stunna: mike_c: A very very small amount back
mike_c: what a scam. i lost my free 200 satoshis on the first roll
BingoBoingo: Stunna: Some asshole has a DoS bot running
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: If your shiva hands have time to do a quick irony piece... qntra...
gabriel_laddel: The daughters Schwartz were walking home, and see a sign "Become Catholic, receive $50"
BingoBoingo: Well, Franco was a trendsetter
danielpbarron: not usually a fan of TV, but I do like that show ^
BingoBoingo: When just dice was a thing, the Chicoms loved it
BingoBoingo not really a dice person. More into event betting.
Stunna: and it progresses as a user wagers more and gains levels
Stunna: we give people a significant amount more if they've wagered one coin though