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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.
mircea_popescu: (inputs dblspent in 6a65aab8f7cc0be8ad03a940f0844b2c127e055749ac5e731faf7b64a1db0b81 )
mircea_popescu: like say 872699895ed8a85560405f63590ff6987f12a76fe25a8edee398451ec6c13a12 : "OP_RETURN j"
mircea_popescu: "here's what good libertards should think happened. it happens to be exactly unrelated to actual events. libertards prevail!"
mircea_popescu: no see, i'm rich like mircea not rich like usg. i tend to want to see roi.
mircea_popescu: "You dont need entropy to create an ECDSA signature. You do need it to create an RSA signature, for padding."
mircea_popescu: eh not even, a whole snakepit of scammers/fraudsters/vcs
mircea_popescu: nevertheless the right and the left differ in how often they visit the asshole.
mircea_popescu: but like an indian's hands are both tendrils of the same filth,
mircea_popescu: i dunno what sort of retards these people are, but it's not naturally orcuring.
mircea_popescu: is going to make me give coins to some of the worst idiots in that same space
mircea_popescu: the inept handling of coins by bitpay, perhaps the most washed of the entire fiat crowd masquerading around bitcoin
mircea_popescu: This is a wake up call to every Bitcoin CEO reading this thread. WE are ALL at risk and we could be next. Use BitGo, Xapo, or Coinbase to lock up large balances of corporate funds
mircea_popescu: it has a penis, currently more or less erect towards south africa
mircea_popescu: be it wash dc or the "capital of africa", he gotta be next to the fucking un building.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: basically alf wants to live in the asshole of a continent
mircea_popescu: topologist, twerpologist, what the hell's the diffewence.
mircea_popescu: there's really nobody left that both can read and watches daytime tv, is there.
mircea_popescu: no wonder he looks like he sucked down a pickle through a garden hose.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> or merely stupid. <<< it's a product. best results (area) for equal sides. but astounding performance can be obtained even with only one of the two
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> Each and every time someone in the Computer Science field has a Bright Idea, the world had better be prepared to adapt, because Here Comes Genius and everything everybody has done needs to be done differently from now on, because This Genius Knows Best. Gratuitous re-invention is very appealing to some people. << cstropes done by naggum. now that'd be a sight.
mircea_popescu will send 1 btc to the foundation donation nao, because srsly.
mircea_popescu: mod6 i take it that the idea of making V the epicenter of bitcoin releases going further is aprpoved by the foundation ?