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mircea_popescu: whatch five fucking minutes from the beginning "Band wagon" with fred astaire to get a fucking idea of what life in america still was, in the 50s.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-09-2015#1287799 << yeah, on the grounds of having been built for reasonably well off / middle class people in the... 1920s. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-09-2015#1287784 << right, for people who want to invest in eur without actually holding any >D ☝︎
mircea_popescu: but in other news, http://36.media.tumblr.com/88592d7877ee342801c347b98a0d2038/tumblr_nq3hgfT7gY1s9e2ofo1_1280.jpg
mircea_popescu: oops
mircea_popescu: but in other news, http://36.media.tumblr.com/88592d7877ee342801c347b98a0d2038/tumblr_nq3hgfT7gY1s9e2ofo1_1290.jpg
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i imagine those people will put more into advertising it than davout ever did, and so will take over.
mircea_popescu: then the whole echafaudage collapses ion a cloud of wtf and wchp
mircea_popescu: it's kinda funny how things are set up. the faitful always mistake the butresses of their chosen as mere weakness of the flesh that they, true templars, will find the courage and rectitude to straighten out
mircea_popescu: aha
mircea_popescu: is this more or less just as jobs was going out ?
mircea_popescu: in other news, http://33.media.tumblr.com/6faf034ca9ce9ec0deda67bc8840f5d4/tumblr_nu5t8abUsh1uvvy5ro1_500.gif
mircea_popescu: "grenade blows standoff"
mircea_popescu: who was attacking what ?
mircea_popescu: wwwwwait...
mircea_popescu: lol
mircea_popescu: phf you mean stack ?
mircea_popescu: right, it was the buterins of the world that are permanent.
mircea_popescu: wut the fuck are the derps on about ?
mircea_popescu: "WoW !!! Mircea Popescu is back. Not only on Trilema, but also on Twitter"
mircea_popescu: somehow this is supposed to not be gallingly obvious or what ?
mircea_popescu: i find it comedic that for all the "well documented" flaws of rsa, all these "take over the world" computing schemes fail to use ECC.
mircea_popescu: i thought you couldn't disable sip altogether ?
mircea_popescu: !up ascii_field
mircea_popescu: so basically apple is the sony corp of america sorta thing mkay.
mircea_popescu: heh.
mircea_popescu: the cpu die ?
mircea_popescu: so you drill it out i guess
mircea_popescu: it's a fucking processor on a board with a disk and a ram stick innit ?
mircea_popescu: what do you mean hole ?
mircea_popescu: i thought the trend was towards rooted iphones not the other way around
mircea_popescu: but then again i never really owned a mac so whatevs.
mircea_popescu: i dunno about any of that
mircea_popescu: what do you mean "forced"
mircea_popescu: so why would anyone "upgrade" ?
mircea_popescu: derp.
mircea_popescu: ahahah what is this bs
mircea_popescu: is that good for applecoin ?
mircea_popescu: sure it is, doesn't mean perambulating cocks will score that many dates.
mircea_popescu: this is not unlike observing that the penis is the major bedroom inseminator.
mircea_popescu: anyway, attempts to win wars by artillery have been ongoing ever since someone observed cca 1600 that cannon is the major batterfield KILLER.
mircea_popescu: ah ok right.
mircea_popescu: or was it new year
mircea_popescu: tet = xmas in vietnamese
mircea_popescu: this is that!
mircea_popescu: the us army and south vietnamese were at first inept but then regrouped and turned it into a disaster for the northeners
mircea_popescu: it was a communist offensive.
mircea_popescu: what sort of example is this ?
mircea_popescu: tet was an... infantry operation.
mircea_popescu: yeah, and day z.
mircea_popescu: wtf rewriting of military history is this!
mircea_popescu: no it wasn't, and no it didn't nor was it even treied or contempalted in ww2.
mircea_popescu: at no point was the pentagon idea that war is won by anything other than fucking guts.
mircea_popescu: no it wasn't. dude, srsly... they had a fucking draft for vietnam.
mircea_popescu: the day they decided to fret over "transgenderism" instead of beating kids for sport is the day performance went away
mircea_popescu: ascii_field it never was.
mircea_popescu: and the reaso nit is "very difficulty" to appraise the "capabilites" of us army/navy/etc is because they are nil. anmd the reason they are nil is exactly the same reason the intellectual abilities of college grads are nil.
mircea_popescu: 'The Pentagon didn't notice the moment when blowing up defenseless, demoralized adversaries using cruise missiles stopped being the only method for waging war.' << this was never the fucking case wtf narrative bs is this.
mircea_popescu: nah i mean in the original country.
mircea_popescu: iirc you could get hard time for that.
mircea_popescu: aha
mircea_popescu: drill fix
mircea_popescu: soviets also stole from "the property of the whole people"
mircea_popescu: it*
mircea_popescu: ascii_field sure but also not really teh point is i.
mircea_popescu: of course.
mircea_popescu: if you're curious as to where the endless scams draw their vigour from... you need look no further than government.
mircea_popescu: http://www.nationalhumanservices.org/what-is-human-services <<< if only this were as fake as it looks.
mircea_popescu: yeah i guess qntra ddoser got his monthly allowance or w/e that is.
mircea_popescu: still.
mircea_popescu: ;;calc 0.00000595 * 333333
mircea_popescu: oh wait wrong one.
mircea_popescu: how can i be this fuckign rich ?
mircea_popescu: o.O
mircea_popescu: ;;calc 0.0000249 * 333333
mircea_popescu: waht are those worth even ?
mircea_popescu: o hey look at that.
mircea_popescu: them's be fightin' words
mircea_popescu: lyf is but a dreaaammmm
mircea_popescu: merrily merrily merrily
mircea_popescu: o look who's here. how's lyf alf ?
mircea_popescu: !up ascii_field
mircea_popescu: in fact the smoothness comparison is a decent indication of the entropy involved.
mircea_popescu: there's no actual guarantee A' is smoother than A.
mircea_popescu: well sure, but...
mircea_popescu: funkenstein_ "smoothed" ?
mircea_popescu waves
mircea_popescu: hint : a world without complex systems IS a realistic goal. in point of fact, it is the baseline in realism.
mircea_popescu: bwahahaha habermas is not quite as smart as previously believed.
mircea_popescu: "Global terrorism is extreme both in its lack of realistic goals and in its cynical exploitation of the vulnerability of complex systems."
mircea_popescu: in other news, https://i.chzbgr.com/full/5682494208/hE78C470E/
mircea_popescu: check it out, ethereum needed moneyz so it sold its s.mpoe participation.
mircea_popescu: o.O
mircea_popescu: what would you say the "intuitive meaning" of A'j is ?
mircea_popescu: let there be a monotonous measurable system S. let Mi be measurements made at moments-in-time Ti. let average-per-unit-time delta values be reported for each Ti as Ai = (Mi - Mi-1) / (Ti - Ti-1). let an arbitrary "reporting unit" R be defined so that a finite count of Ti fit in each such unit Rj. Let Ais be plainly averaged so that A' = (Ak +...+ Am) / (m-k) where k, m are the first and last i's for Tis fitting in Rj.
mircea_popescu: a question for the mathematically inclined practical minds in the audience :
mircea_popescu: i would suspect there's more random common law criminals being shielded by the usg from various jurisdictions than there are successful prosecutions in any given year.
mircea_popescu: hey, romania still has an unsatisfied arrest warrant for some us derp that got drunk and ran over some relatively popular singer guy.
mircea_popescu: "The intelligence official, identified as William George Basil, was accused of espionage and eavesdropping. But by then he had already left the country, and the U.S. government, as it has done for the past 10 years, continues to stonewall Greek authorities on the agency’s involvement."
mircea_popescu: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CP722YKU8AAqoD2.png:large << clearly, more pki is the solution to pki.