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mircea_popescu: a decently wrought small link suit weighs < 10kgs and offers immunity to all bladed weapons, electrically charged or not, today like it did 500 years ago.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it's both the original and the better ru, for that matter.
mircea_popescu: this delusional system would work pretty well if they took it that final step and completely divorced it from reality. you know, just play with puppets in a room or something.
mircea_popescu: mp pirate radio coming to you loud an' clear from... mmm... a new undisclosed location!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: pity the internet killed the "music industry", he could have had cussack's job in high fidelity.
mircea_popescu: not such a bright idea. he'll end up finding some 9 year old he really agrees with and doing a bonny and clyde remake
mircea_popescu: also complains that some other time the first mile fee wasn't "rounded down". one peso is, again, like six cents.
mircea_popescu: derp demands cab stops extemporaneously, guy takes too long (5 seconds!11) and ends up "overcharging" by 6 cents. (literally). derp throws fit, cabbie eventually figures not worth arguing with idiot. derp counts this as victory, for democracee.
mircea_popescu: clearly us campuses need to do more about the issue of campus rape.
mircea_popescu: no quarter, no mercy, push that list building. "be safe" hurr durr.
mircea_popescu: ag3nt_zer0 so what do you do after beingfired by some school ?
mircea_popescu: what does that mean, "is it even worth to wait for fallout 4". what are they gonna do other than wait, make fallout 5 ?
mircea_popescu: <jurov> sane people either don't give a fuck or avoid engaging idiots <<< loser people. the lack of an idiot killing instinct is a larger character flaw than stupidity could ever be.
mircea_popescu: the fact that people suck. on the elite side, nobody was wise enough to use the stick. on the mass side, lazy and stupid.
mircea_popescu: the difference between linux and bitcoin is that gavin;s a laughingstock and erm is invited speaker, and hearn's barely a shitstain whereby drepper took a decade to be worked out of the thing.
mircea_popescu: of course they live. it's fucking impossible for most derps to even die anymore.
mircea_popescu: sure. like orlov, locklin and eric what's his face. they all live.
mircea_popescu: well they don't need any gremlins to make their tits sag.
mircea_popescu: i suppose it's more palatable than admitting people suck.
mircea_popescu: mno, vice versa. everything that goes to shit because people are weak and stupid and lazy, you allocate to some imaginary lizard
mircea_popescu: anyway, apparently statistical divergence is marked with D in american. so s/r/D/
mircea_popescu: so far r(intentions, actions) = 0.5 and r(actions,results) also= 0.5. within three or even four decimal points. exactly same as throwing darts.
mircea_popescu: it's an accident they even manage to meet. if it weren't fixed by tradition they gotta groan in the swamps of washington they'd prolly take two decades to get the damned senate in session.
mircea_popescu: much better to dream up cohesive activity and whatnot. from whom ?
mircea_popescu: right, because why confront the fact that it's a great day when these muppets manage to find each other's phone numbers.
mircea_popescu: florida. woman's the first republican to support same sex marriage.
mircea_popescu: random but rather fine balancing example for all teh usg agency lulz in here.
mircea_popescu: "Following the 2008 elections, then President-elect Barack Obama rang Ros-Lehtinen to congratulate her on her re-election. She hung up on him, believing that it was a prank call from a radio station. She did the same to Obama's chief of staff Rahm Emanuel when he rang to confirm the original call was genuine, and only accepted the call after Congressman Howard Berman managed to speak to her."
mircea_popescu: just this much, which is, incidentally, an accurate description.
mircea_popescu: -validating nodes do actually process the transactions, but only the agreed ledger of the trusted validators counts for all intents and purposes."
mircea_popescu: nd the hash of the public key (account id) and if the signature is good, it disseminates the transaction to the other rippled nodes operating on the same network that it knows about. These instances pass that transaction on to nodes that it did not receive it from and this flooding should result in it being considered for adoption in a ledger by the validators running in the network by the process of consensus. All non
mircea_popescu: "Ripple transactions are serializable to a custom binary format that is cryptographically hashed and then signed by one of two schemes (ECDSA and EdDSA). This signature is then inserted back into the binary serialized form which is hashed again to produce a transaction id through which it can be uniquely identified. Transactions are submitted to a rippled node, which verifies that the signature matches the public key a
mircea_popescu: "we compute daily unique ips and then add these across 700+ days because that's meaningful"
mircea_popescu: "2 years with 4mn unique visitors", da fuck is that even.