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mircea_popescu: because it really makes one sleep better at night, to see teh crime fightin' experts couldn't find someone older about 13 or so to write their writings.
mircea_popescu: but if the whorbassadors i ncongo agree the age should be 18, then hey, DEMOCRACY!!11
mircea_popescu: the fact that most of the world agrees girls can marry once they can walk, that doesn't count.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: " Most pro age-limit organizations agree that 18 should be the legal age for marriage." << check it out, voting works NOW.
mircea_popescu: "oh, doctoring is a privileged activity, if some people die that's just not mentioned ; a functioning society is pointedly not a privileged activity, if anyone dies we'll put it in the newspaper".
mircea_popescu: convenient enough that there's nobody in english speaking places reading the yemenite newspapers about how "child dies at hands of doctor" or similar nonsense.
mircea_popescu: ""According to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), between 2011 and 2020, more than 140 million girls will become child brides. Furthermore, of the 140 million girls who will marry before the age of 18, 50 million will be under the age of 15." << note how little the agenda has to do with the purely fabricated news story.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck is this "casey research ring my scam bell"
mircea_popescu: don't credit newspapers just because they're newspapers when you know in your own field what a shitfest they are ; don't expect the laws etc are anythig but badly written, poorly maintained code full of holes. as reverse-engineerable as anything else.
mircea_popescu: the appearance of "costs" is what's known in poker as a trap. to keep the fucktards out. so dun be a fucktard, you can think, there's no rule that you may only think about coding or something. think all through, the same way, everywhere.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: yes you pay more for utilities, but not THAT much more and in general actually less than what the tax would have cost you, and you get to deduce the rent too, and it never really ends.
mircea_popescu: i'm not about to go all crazy here and suggest you actually hire an expert, you've not been buying bitcoin for long enough yet.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field you're a smart kid, do the math. or better yet, have the girl do the math.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field 4x 40 bucks ? so ? why do you care ? tax deductible.
mircea_popescu: actually a honest signal to all the twerps involved not to mess around.
mircea_popescu: your company rents a place from some other company to crimp the ceo (ie, you)
mircea_popescu: place's crawling with "whornorary ambassadors" and whatnot
mircea_popescu: your idea is amply divergent from reality. do you know WHO is itching to go ?
mircea_popescu: it'll be cheaper than paying a coin a month for 10 months i'm sure, and we also get the added advantage that we put all the eggs in your basket
mircea_popescu: how about you pick out a system, i buy it, and then you run nsa from home.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i think you should apologize before making fool of self kthx.
mircea_popescu: online webexperts assure me that this is a coincidence and also was published before by a scientist somewhere.
mircea_popescu: yeah i dun see a problem paying 1-1.5 for this. provided the box is decent and the dc unretarded, i'd take it.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field well, sent note pointing out that if it happens again that's it for that box. i'm not so convinced it'll do anything. consequently... prep to move it, i guess. got any suggestions of location ?
mircea_popescu: chick's great, and check out how deeply she bothers the two other insecure ones.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the ridiculous pretense that openssl is still even a thing at all.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: they'll sell their worthless startup for billions and so forth, if only they respect licenses and never say bad things about fat people or something
mircea_popescu: punkman well some people still persist in this vc fairytale/pipedream
mircea_popescu wouldn't feel safe fucking kim w/o a coupla wrestler wingmen ready to tag.
mircea_popescu: this notion where we respect ~anything~ has got to go.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, the "bitcoin uses port 8333" thing is retarded.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the "blocking ports" bs has been going on for nigh on 20 years now.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> 'v' is a double-edged sword, however, i must say, in that it makes it possible to build therealbitcoin without reading patches or giving a fuck << blind trust is only a problem to the blind trustor.
mircea_popescu: there's a finite count of failing to goal that these things can survive.
mircea_popescu: "Alydian Inc., a unit of CoinLab Inc., on Friday filed for Chapter 11 protection in U.S. bankruptcy court in Seattle. The 10-page court filing didn't disclose why Alydian filed for bankruptcy or how it hopes to repay its debts."
mircea_popescu: you kidding me they just took even more millions at whatever dilution