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mircea_popescu: people need to learn to stop associated with scammers.
mircea_popescu: we just lie and steal and you know, it's nobody's fault, not like there exist things that work or people who aren't shitheads just like us. har har.
mircea_popescu: mike_hearnMike Hearn - Bitcoin Expert 2 points 3 months ago - It's nobodies "fault" - there is no such thing as a programmer who never writes buggy code.
mircea_popescu: oh you don't understand, "Gavin has support from the companies and has talked to economists".
mircea_popescu: hey - at least half the trombone & clowning majors can suck cock!
mircea_popescu: and they didn't just waste their tiome and govt's money in school
mircea_popescu: and yet they manage to delude themselves into this wholly hallucinated alt-reality where they are actually useful,
mircea_popescu: so far the score's preeeeety badly stacked against 'em
mircea_popescu: whenever you hear the inept business majors with the "adult supervision" bs, you can kindly remind them that they adult supervised xerox right into the fucking hole.
mircea_popescu: Rick is a Chinese guy who works in a shitty office in a shitty town. Because the printers suck, occasionally his name is misspelled.
mircea_popescu: well at least the shitheads didn't try to trademark the integral sign
☟︎ mircea_popescu: or maybe we are meant to think we are meant to ... hm!
mircea_popescu: the fellow with the magical virus, used to run apple hakathon
mircea_popescu: so the cryptome guy finally went over to the what's his name
mircea_popescu: "Să fii al propriilor fapte fiu, e un principiu onorant şi viu"
mircea_popescu: the problem isn't that they want the god damned life to be a movie, and movies to have happy endings.
mircea_popescu: it's not even "gotta have happy endings", that's not it. it's "gotta have PLENARY happy endings". as usual the actual disease agent is hidden from examination by the very workings of the disease.
mircea_popescu: because obviously fucktarded puritans and "all goods are one"
mircea_popescu: that's the fucking bitch there. a conflation of aim and desirability.
mircea_popescu: just as long as i stick to aiming to scatter self around, i will be fine.
mircea_popescu: just like failure works in humans : i can't fly, but i also didn't declare i aim to be a bird.
mircea_popescu: the us is one, because it fails to be what it DECLARES it wants to be. so was the soviet union.
mircea_popescu: but i know why, now. there IS such a thing as a failed state.
mircea_popescu: your observation re a failed state a few days ago has bothered me hence.
mircea_popescu: the alternative being, obviously, usistan. "democracy" if you don't look too closely. such as by living there, or thinking about it any.
mircea_popescu: (which is why democracy is always born and only ever seems to work in states built atop homogenuous nations. if you have multiple distinct social groups, it is strictly impossible to actually represent them while at the same time having a working democracy. which is why mass murder and ethnic cleansing always appears reasonable to the people doing it : they have to choose between democracy and multiculturalism, and the
mircea_popescu: obtaining less democracy to be spread out to more people.
mircea_popescu: somehow no political "scientist" of the anglosphere figured out yet that democracy and representativity are sides of a field, and when you increase "participation" you generally degrade representativity.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field and "fuzzy process" aka "rough consensus" aka democracy facade without representativity (and preferably - without anyone to represent).
mircea_popescu: herpitty derp we went to community college, and we buy ENHANCED shit.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes and you're not gonna answer "no, they include unenhanced security measures. shithead."
mircea_popescu: i dunno. i know i ran the numbers at some point, loled and forgot about it.
mircea_popescu: only way that's cost effective is if you're very weird.
mircea_popescu: jurov i don't imagine anyone seriously uses them for ddos mitigation. maybe in obscure corner cases.
mircea_popescu: assbot is on a different wot. they got forked last year.
mircea_popescu: "Earlier this month, Dell pledged to spend $125 billion in China over the next fiveyears, which is about five times the company’s value when it was taken private in 2013. " ahahaha mkay.
mircea_popescu: In a recent speech, Travis Kalanick, chief executive of the ride-hailing company Uber, said that progress brought by his company had to be “in harmony with stability,” words often used by Chinese officials to signal the dangers of social and political unrest. IBM’s China marketing materials use phrases like “building a harmonious society” and “the Chinese dream,” the latter a phrase coined by Xi to signif
mircea_popescu: heh. there's not been a jew in nazi germany like the american in china.
mircea_popescu: "The first issue is defining an identity. In OpenPGP, the identity is, by convention, an RFC 2822 name-addr, which has the form "John Doe <jdoe at example.com> (comment)" (without the quotes)." << not only is openpgp completely idiotic on this score, but also. wut ?
mircea_popescu: "if you think that a standard for wooden cheeses is a bad idea please restrain yourself, herpitty derp"
mircea_popescu: "But if all you have to say is that you think TOFU is a bad idea, please restrain yourself." << all i have to say is not that "i think tofu is a bad idea". all i have to say is that tofu isn't even a bad idea, and Neal H. Walfield is too stupid to even be wrong.
mircea_popescu: first thing ion your 2nd link, "This hack happened in December 2014."
mircea_popescu: car alarms were set off in Buenos Aires, << not that i heard.