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mircea_popescu: argentina is pretty much the only place i've seen that has the sanity to cut bike lanes out of the street. everyone seems to always cut them out of fucking sidewalks.
mircea_popescu: much to everyone's feigned surprise, ITS THE STANDARDS, STUPID.
mircea_popescu vaguely remembers an obscure discussion about exponents and whatnot, which consisted of a guy asking on some derp social media sites about one of my articles, and getting an "expert" answer within hours.
mircea_popescu: ematicians and the practitioners: an adversary can perform a single enormous computation to “crack” a particular prime, then easily break any individual connection that uses that prime."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "For the nerds in the audience, here’s what’s wrong: If a client and server are speaking Diffie-Hellman, they first need to agree on a large prime number with a particular form. There seemed to be no reason why everyone couldn’t just use the same prime, and, in fact, many applications tend to use standardized or hard-coded primes. But there was a very important detail that got lost in translation between the math
mircea_popescu: tru to life too. "he tried to make the trains wear out the rail!"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: lol insufficient maggot in meat wrecking natl economy!
mircea_popescu: yeah, im totally ultra-sure bitcoin cares about all the particular way people who got their egos wounded by it misunderstand or misrepresent it.
mircea_popescu: assbot: Malleability, stress-tests and other Bitcoin problems. << "me being fat, stupid, and other problems of reality"
mircea_popescu: o look at that, time for the monthly ddos trilema exercise in futility ?
mircea_popescu: here's the thing : cargo cult is what savages / pacific islanders / subhuman monkeys do as a reaction to exposure to actual hjuman beings and their civilisation.
mircea_popescu: seriously, if all yhou have are "not enough money to be a retired midwestern mobster" what you do is go south and try to pretend ?
mircea_popescu: not really too much to tell. buncha old dudes who couldn't really afford to live in the states [to their expectations], hitting the casinos and the 5 foot nothing whores of san jose.
mircea_popescu: i've seen many skins, i've yet to meet one without a single mole on it.
mircea_popescu: "we don't care what the unknown animal sounds like. what does it eat ?"
mircea_popescu: "If you ever do find yourself working for a startup, here's a handy tip for evaluating competitors. Read their job listings. Everything else on their site may be stock photos or the prose equivalent, but the job listings have to be specific about what they want, or they'll get the wrong candidates." << this is actually very much correct.
mircea_popescu: and if you want maximum sploodge for your penis you buy brunettes.
mircea_popescu: this is trivially understood either through geometry or high physics. there are fewer things than you can write equations for.
mircea_popescu: so - efficient markets, yes. but only if markets. and there's no guarantee everything you imagine can be a market.
mircea_popescu: when they can be compared, z80 loses. where they be meaningfully compared, common ground breaks down.
mircea_popescu: but back to our point of interest : your expectation that "z80" and "pentium" costs can be meaningfully compared breaks down.
mircea_popescu: it's a very plain statement that dunning-kruger, and consequently, the reward for being not an idiot is not accessible in idiot terms.
mircea_popescu: but if there's one criticism that can not be put at the feet of the scholasticis, it is superficiality.
mircea_popescu: in a very amusing (to me) twist, this is actually in the fucking patristics (the wanna-be mishnah of xtianity). "your reward be not of this world" etc.
mircea_popescu: "oh, the end of their world is visible from our world". a) no, it isn't ; b) so ?
mircea_popescu: if multiverse, and if in ALL possible verses picking a on X quesdtion results in annihilation, this means exactly nothing. the a pickers aren't in any way different from the non-a pickers.
mircea_popescu: things are only meaningful to those capable to perceive meaning, and this ALREADY means not-them.
mircea_popescu: so in this sense, there is no "unless it does". yes, they'll die.
mircea_popescu: the idiot can not lose, because by the time he's lost he's gone. where's the neobee schmuck ?
mircea_popescu: i'm still here, they as individuals are not. but they as group are still here. perhaps to outlast me.
mircea_popescu: look, let's go at it this way. in your own private experience, as a witness, how many times did a horde of idiots on some idiot forum know better than me ?
mircea_popescu: yes the people that won won. but this means nothing in context.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they never do. that's the problem. by the time the war is lost, the people who lost it are dead. that's the thing.
mircea_popescu: which is just another restatement of "people are insane" which is pretty much the oldest observation in the book that everyone keeps restating self-importantly and lo, it's voltaire! it's nietsche! it's existentialism! it's your grandmother vigin! etgc
mircea_popescu: the fundamental problem of reality is that for things to work, things don't actually have to work.
mircea_popescu: you familiar with this, yes ? the romans kept going "why would someone farm when he could heroicly steal women and shit ?!?!?!"
mircea_popescu: you familiar with the mathematical sleigh of hand called "induction" rite.
mircea_popescu: well, they got to where they are through a succession of present days.
mircea_popescu: "hey, maybe we should use linux, it's cheaper". sure, as a red herring for "red hat", which is not linux.
mircea_popescu: what company you ever heard of had a debate over "windows licensing costs" ?
mircea_popescu: your wife's cunt costs 0. teen poon costs... how much does it cost ? as alf says "might as well me from mars."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform iirc he went to work as an exeprty in fucking teens for the fbi afterwards.
mircea_popescu: somehow THAT gender gap doesn't figure too prominently in "feminist" discourse today
mircea_popescu: speaking of nothing related, anyone recall the original patrick naughton trial ? compuserve exec, flew to La to meet a 40yo FBI agent that had been posing as a 13 yo girl in a dads&daughers sex chatroom. hung jury : all women voted to convict ; all men voted he;s innocent.
mircea_popescu: in the world where women cook as a matter of course, cooking is MORE EXPENSIVE than in the world where cooking would be "absolutely" less expensive but women would kill themselves if you allowed them in a kitchen