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mircea_popescu: suppose someoine who isn't us registers 0day_bourbaky in the wot.
mircea_popescu: and by uncomfortable i mean, the places where yo ususpect the solution may lie.
mircea_popescu: for all you know it can literally say "i don't trust him".
mircea_popescu: ascii_field what part of wot requires any deal be public!
mircea_popescu: ascii_field couldja for five minutes stop with this "i know how things are in direct proportion of how little i know about them" ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i'm not sure why such a concern would be of any interest. this "fund" is not represented in the wot. consequently, any piece of email purportying to be from them ACTUALLY IS every time that is detrimental to them
mircea_popescu: ascii_field> and what is ~his~ assurance that i won't immediately pastebin the goods << you ever heard of teh wot ?
mircea_popescu: but yes, trivial to find this sort of shit once you got the guy
mircea_popescu: and with the force the 4th guy... the whole thing looked more like turf war between rival drug lords, on of which being the usg, than anything legitimate.
mircea_popescu: "how" they found ulbricht = "we discovered this github post" or what was it ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, anyone know this Jenna McLaughlin chick ? invite her over.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (lying, of any kind it might be, always takes more clever than speaking the truth. it also always enbds up taking more cleverf than is available, but that's secondary here.)
mircea_popescu: "Hess said that data currently available on investigations, including the annual wiretap report indicating that agents encountered encryption only a handful of times during the course of the year, is simply wrong." << it is simply wrong, because it never figures in court matter, because they parallel construct to all hell and don't know how to do it well
mircea_popescu: you are a SERVANT. nothing more. just like your mom used to be, minus the assfucking.
mircea_popescu: nobody cares what some anon goat fucker thinks on any topic. on your knees, answer humbly and move on.
mircea_popescu: listen up raj your mother-s a whore go back to india : you don't fucking get to score the questions
mircea_popescu: "Asked how often investigations are stymied by encryption, Kiran Raj, a senior counsel of the Department of Justice, responded with a non-answer. “It is an important point that you make, that we have to provide the sense of a scale,” he said."
mircea_popescu: hey, at least they admit the nsl was there before 2001.
mircea_popescu: and all this because they wanted her to dedicate her entire fucking day to taking it up the ass for the great god of colonoscopy.
mircea_popescu: "we broke her ribs and other things, but hey, she responds to commands now"
mircea_popescu: e was discharged home on hospital day 3 with a sodium level of 133 mmol/L and baseline mental status."
mircea_popescu: "Then, the patient gradually became more alert with an increased ability to follow commands over the next evening and was at baseline 38 hours after presenting to the hospital. The patient did have significant associated morbidities including 3 thoracic spine compression fractures, a comminuted humeral head fracture likely secondary to seizures and requiring arthroplasty, and multiple rib fractures secondary to CPR. Sh
mircea_popescu: kinda weird they missed the great 2008 opportunity for that, was expecting more lively action on that.
mircea_popescu: it's the people burning shit down that are the true law abiding folk.
mircea_popescu: just fucking burn it down already. there's absolutely no reason to continue the charade. "law abiding" = terrorist.
mircea_popescu: according to new research by Gavin & Mike, in 2020 that number will reduce to 4 digits, and then continue to halve every few years!
mircea_popescu: Starting in 2016, the IRS will no longer accept checks for $100 million or more because the equipment at the Federal Reserve Bank that processes checks can’t handle checks for more than 8 digits. Checks larger than that have to be processed manually by hand, which, according to internal memos obtained by the Associated Press, could increase “the risk of theft, fraud and errors.”
mircea_popescu: ascii_field well yeah. being that the state had to get involved into it.
mircea_popescu: funny how every two bit scammer/fraudster/rent seeker is quick to misrepresent himself as "innovative" "competitor" "entrepreneur" and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: "And that simply raises the question, how far will this Internet content standard go? What kinds of business practices that innovative new competitors might want to introduce might be frowned upon by the FCC?” << superlulzy, because the behaviour discussed is deeply un-innovative. in fact, it's strictly monopoly milking.
mircea_popescu: <deedbot-> [BitBet Bets Bets] 11.28000000 BTC on 'No' - The ETH scam won't see 2016 << whoa that's some decent bang for a buck. ty internets.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i don't need to lay an egg to tell you this one's rotten.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> naggum ~had~ something like #b-a - comp.lang.lisp. very similar mix of brain. << not unlike saying you have si in your fridge. there's bottles there, very similar "mix of atoms".
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> unpredictable, largely unpreventable, and very high failure rate. << there is no such thing.
mircea_popescu: in the "all leaks are catastrophic leaks" school of cryptoplumbing
mircea_popescu: (the chick in that ad, btw, Anya Major, is probably best known to the audience as the russki chick in elton john's stupid nikita thing)
mircea_popescu: that's all they ever did right. not a tiny thing, either, but has exactly 0 to do with tech.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i maintain that apple's exactly ONLY know how was "how to get roi on advertising".
mircea_popescu: incidentally, heh, the days ridley scott was directing jobs' signle shot ad campaigns.
mircea_popescu: (for the record the book isn't very good, but hey. pulp fiction._
mircea_popescu: if there's a good argument against suicide, naggum-b-a might be it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (inflation being, of course, just the monetary equivalent of "stealing the having been stolen from". people do a pretty decent job of managing to forget their parents lived better than they will.)
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