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decimation:
a dark force dissolves every economic decision into
a sjw forum
mircea_popescu: by now
a "we hold 100mn chumps, who pay us 0, give us usd" is
a better revenue source than "we have 1mn people paying us 1k
a year each"
mircea_popescu: meanwhile jpm was NOT tbtf, because it held
a lot of money from people who had money, so it could you knoiw, just steal that,
mircea_popescu: ie, boa was "too big to fail" because it held
a lot of mortgages of people WHO COULDNT PAY FOR THEM.
decimation: wtf, when did it ever make sense as
a creditor to make enemies with those who had money in order to court those who don't?
decimation: the 'meaning of money' seems to have
a scale from 'tool to settle private debts' to 'note from stalin'
decimation: because 'must grow big to get
a seat at the table where they hand out bezzlars'
mircea_popescu: in another perspective, qe is an abdication of monetarty sovereignty. sovereignity is
a fixed sum, so it just moves in other parts of the system - monopolies form.
mircea_popescu: the worst effect is that everything forms monopolies. in
a physics intuitive approach, what QE does is basically increase the superficial tension. this forces bubbles to merge.
assbot: Logged on 14-02-2015 00:20:24; BingoBoingo: punkman: if we replace openssl with libressl or whatever, how do we verify all the buggy data generated by 7 different openssl versions? << For the time being... empirically. There
a set with six year's worth
a data to test against by syncing.
assbot: Logged on 04-01-2015 22:07:08; mircea_popescu: decimation: re: costco & amex << I suspect amex gives costco
a deal (pays them) to force
a large percentage of the upper-crust customer-base to have an amex card in their wallet << pretty much how that racket goes yes.
assbot: Logged on 04-01-2015 22:07:08; mircea_popescu: decimation: re: costco & amex << I suspect amex gives costco
a deal (pays them) to force
a large percentage of the upper-crust customer-base to have an amex card in their wallet << pretty much how that racket goes yes.
decimation: you guys have
a loud n' proud bisexual governor now
ben_vulpes: i got
a reckless driving charge one time.
decimation: asciilifeform: I think they have the nub of
a good idea, having all the steps in manufacturing clearly brought out in one spot
thestringpuller: decimation: isn't there
a super speeder law in VA and MD because people drive so terribly in DC?
decimation: it will be interesting to see if this 'service' continues to exist for
a period of time, and if so, how it matures
decimation: nor
a catalog of parts that 'can be had for
a price'
decimation: pony-farts would be
a fairly good way of navigating the dc traffic jams
decimation: supposedly the macrolabs people 'make the economics work' by queuing up all the jobs onto
a giant panel
decimation: asciilifeform: I find kicad amusing - when you go to download they have
a little description begging not to download the 'old stable' version
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes so do mine. but at least
a) i actually fuck them and b) i don't take them without
a significant prior investment from other people.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform stop wasting your hours! you're
a process man, you belong to s.nsa now!
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes : take the bright side of life. "not liking kids is not
a valid reason to not have any - you'll be stuck with some anyway."
mircea_popescu: for that matter, if one doesn't have the culture to know that glob's
a verb, the above is also "
a very bad argument" .and so on.
mircea_popescu: your average doobie, with
a mediocre college degree and an ESL culture mostly geared towards ingested summaries is perfectly unable to decode metaphor or recognise complex enough patterns and fill in the gaps. this to him is frustrating, and the frustration is predictably resolved by lashing out (hey, it's the guy fault for using rferences i have to google and math i don't grok!11). in no way better than
a clinical mor
decimation: it's like watching
a cripple trip on
a bump, adjacent to which is
a sign that says "attention cripples: do not trip on this bump"
decimation: mircea_popescu: that's
a lulzy exchange. the doctor_why_bother guy is
a living example of 'he misses the forest for the tiny sapling'
herbijudlestoids: so far: squid, ldap, kerberos, djbdns, postfix, and today i finished setting up nginx and getting "
A" score on the qualys ssl test
decimation: "In centuries to come, future historians looking back on the current era could be confronted by
a digital desert comparable with the dark ages - the post-Roman period in Western Europe about which relatively little is known because of the scarcity of written records. "
decimation: I might give them
a spin to see if they really exist
decimation: if you use their small selection of 'house parts' they do not charge
a 'labor' fee
BingoBoingo: Set up pins on
a salt flat, attach 16lb ball to hardpoint. Fly and release
mircea_popescu: if this satellite is
a ton of iron,
a megawatt OVER
A MINUTE will vaporize it.
mircea_popescu: there's
a monty python sketch about missile hunting mosquitoes.
mircea_popescu: moreover, iuf you need 1mw to kill
a sat chip you have serious mental issues.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you mean, "the angular projection of
a 10 metre target 150 km away" ?
herbijudlestoids: well, some of the odroids i know have
a hw RNG, but i dont know how adequate it is
herbijudlestoids: yeah, im just proposing exactly that except with smaller formfactor hardware and
a GUI shell that just runs seahorse or whatever
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if nubbins` weren't such
a noob, he'd have laser etched
a mechanical rsa by now
herbijudlestoids: i mean, this device, it can handle decrypt/sign in the same way as cardano, but also add the ability for the user to write and encrypt
a message with their key using the touchscreen
BingoBoingo: herbijudlestoids: I dare you to try
a makefile for 0.9.3 on FreeBSD that doesn't lean on the linux emulation layer
mircea_popescu: but i mean this quite literally. scam foundation tried to push
a bitcoin fork.
mircea_popescu: decimation if you review the us foreign policy, it can't escape your notice that the us is playing exactly the role of one of the classical woman in love : will pretend like she's
a priss to all comers, except there's one she will literally eat the shit from.
herbijudlestoids: BingoBoingo: how stupid large is the blockchain right now?
a billion gigabytes?
decimation: the problem with keeping things alive on bezzlars is that there's always
a runt who will squeal if not on the tit
mircea_popescu: yeah, so what's the plan, sell to microshit for 100mn in
a year or two once they decide to beef up that biz ?
mircea_popescu: this is
a noble goal, but
a little like pron studios claiming the same.
mircea_popescu: you telling me you can actually eke
a living in such
a market ?
BingoBoingo: herbijudlestoids: It's been how long now,
a year almost since your last visit?
mircea_popescu: Medicine, or the APA, can legitimately express
a policy only if the policy was grounded in science or logic. Perhaps the APA cares to release this intriguing scientific data? (While it is at it, perhaps it can also release the data supporting the use of half of the medications currently favored by APA Guidelines?) But this seems pretty much business as usual for the APA. Rather than work on its own serious failings,
mircea_popescu: What if the NFL came out against antidepressants in children? This is
a perfectly valid analogy, because neither the NFL nor psychiatry have special knowledge that make their statements anything more than opinions. What do psychiatrists know about same-sex marriage that the quarterback for the Patriots doesn’t? Don’t laugh—I’m serious. What’s the answer?