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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.
mircea_popescu: the stuff you make empires with ? the substance of lookingat the east and seeing juicy fruit crawling with ants ?
mircea_popescu: what do you suppose this entire "needs immigration" "aging population" "below replenishment rate natality" etc is.
mircea_popescu: i never had to step on claymore mines when i went over to a woman's place.
mircea_popescu: maybe, at age 16, you imagine this is an idea. otherwise, it isn't. it's much better to have at least a few dozen dudes you can go drinking with.
mircea_popescu: would you srsly wish to be the only fuck-worthy individual in the entire building ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field ok, lemme take it this way. suppose you move to a new apartment building. there's say 100 flats there. in them, unsurprisingly, 100 men and 100 women, on average.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field orly. nobody rly cares, administration's more work than it's worth.
mircea_popescu: better make less rape in campuses, that's the bigissue.
mircea_popescu: a wellsure, stalin was a pretty efficient butcher, granted. but no, efficient at ringing up the score, so to speak.
mircea_popescu: anyway, contrary to what mostly russians (perhaps in retrospect understandably) fear, nobody really gonnen nicht-s a strong russia.
mircea_popescu: colbert was efficient, not particularly charismatic. napoleon was charismatic. not particularly efficient.
mircea_popescu: these aren't the same thing. rarely the same person, too.
mircea_popescu: there's a husband thatthe wife deeply loves, and will die for ; tthen there's a husband that makes a lot of money.
mircea_popescu: he was actually below mediocre. very convincing one, but that's not the same thing.
mircea_popescu: the problem with truly efficient leaders is that unlike mediocre ones, they actually solve the problem they were up to solve. in this sense they create their own obsolescence.
mircea_popescu: nothing like that. just, dude's an excellent boss, made everyone work ass off with seriositits etc.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i suppose. kinda waiting for putin to fall over.