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mircea_popescu: there might have been some hookers working the cream off the top, those 1-2% oif males that finally got the nerve together to actually GASP!~1 meet someone after 10 or so years of derping around on the site.
mircea_popescu: which is why the breach is particularly ruinous to them. as seinfeld said, "that's why divorce is so traumatic : you've been impeached, and i wasn't even the president!"
mircea_popescu: the value proposition of ashley madison reads something likle "you too can be ALMOST like one of those dudes that cheats on his wife. except, you won't ever get caught, because... you're not ACTUALLY doing it"
mircea_popescu: re the ashley madison thing, i believe it chiefly provides the same service faux exchanges etc provide to the click-bound generation. ie, they get to pretend like they're traders, don juans, what not, all from the safety of their own den, and - crucially - without actually doing it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: im not saying you shouldn't read it or anything, but you asked me what i make of it. i don't.
mircea_popescu: the thing's basically a usgism, in spirit if not in form.
mircea_popescu: good for it. i dun know the author and don't care what he might wish to say one way or the other.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'm not reading random expose of random derp hoping to matter. sorry.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform why surprising ? nobody seriously thought women were in there.
mircea_popescu: "There's absolutely no difference between Keiser's scamcoin and Gavin's scam coin as far as the network is concerned : while one's a scammer that I humiliatingly defeated in the past whereas the other a scammer that I humiliatingly defeat in the future, this makes no difference for Bitcoin."
mircea_popescu: clinton can rest easy, his school of public communication still depends on what is is.
mircea_popescu: anyway, notice the word wizardry. "if there is full credit card data in a dump, it’s not from us". whereas the dump clearly and pointedly states "some credit card data".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: concerned ceo told the clueless press "i don't even" in an emotionally charged meeting over tea tonight
mircea_popescu: as the romanian expression goes, "sa increstam in grinda".
mircea_popescu: wilbns>Sovereign credit ratings from Moody’s, Fitch and S&P will soon become extinct << unavoidably. they have been largely ignored ever since the ridiculous failures they displayed a decade or so ago.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field>'military threat', in usg parlance, means 'won't bend over immediately when asked nicely to assume buggery position' << amusingly, this bled from the DoD into the "law enforcement" paramilitary wing.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, i'm about as biased in favour of an empire of china as i'm biased in favour of an empire of grasshoppers.
mircea_popescu: so no, it's not bias. just facts you don't know in contexts you don't grasp.
mircea_popescu: and it would seem the us is all glass. much like hitler's socialist regime, or stalin's socialist regime, the us socialism can not really take defeat well. either they turn it around or they go under, there's no "occupied france" going on.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: now, a graphite baton can survive some cleavage. but a glass baton will shatter.
mircea_popescu: because in reaction to this, those countries have, and do, and will reallign.
mircea_popescu: this is a political disaster for the us, nothing like the superficial humiliations it has received politically from the likes of putin and practically from the likes of isis
mircea_popescu: trinque>china for example builds its *first* aircraft carrier, and people talk about the chinese being a military threat <<< you don't understand how this works. the aircraft carrier is irrelevant. china bet on the winning strat (missile defense) and bet a lot more than the us can afford, and as a result now has unchallangeable area denial ability throughout the shores. this means it can pursue its own, private local
☟︎ mircea_popescu: because renouncing it still to this day seems too much to ask.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field>vs the more subtle but destructive 'international law' and financial pyramid << in fairness : this was bismarck's idea, to finance the pre-ww1 eurozone. it HAD to be constantly rolled up in higher and higher schemes, because at all points throughout the past two centuries, bismarck's folly (pay now and the more people coming next will pay you) seemed too big to fail.
mircea_popescu: lots of things now the height of fashion in the us were invented by west a-h jewz.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the girls iirc czech, and hm... don't ever visit bohemia then. it's where the small round cro mignon faceship landed
mircea_popescu: trinque you know, the austro-hungarians had much better call to think of their alcatuire as "a singular thing"
mircea_popescu: tell you what asciilifeform, bitcoin works well enough.
mircea_popescu: that their deranged successors don't even recognise the marks of this...
mircea_popescu: the only people that ever made the airplane tank work were the 60s usians.
mircea_popescu: fucking comedic that thing, should have a surrealist film made about it
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, has ever existed a worse failure than the GSh-6-30
mircea_popescu: rinque>my understanding was that everything we did in the 20th century involved the rape of other countries << kick that dem-socialist coolaid srsly.
mircea_popescu: otherwise what, "bravery to me is X" "oh, you mean pissing ? because X pissed at a certain point in time!"
mircea_popescu: the word programmer, to me, is chiefly synonymous with rms.
mircea_popescu: in africa doctor is more or less synonymous with shaman, what the fuck light does that throw on any discussion
mircea_popescu: what am i, an engineer now ? a scientist ? wtf is this pious fraud bs.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck is it the managers get the short stick again!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i am testing out my new just in time examples webservice, built on node.js and ruby on rails!
mircea_popescu: the even reason you bother selecting people in the first place, is that.
mircea_popescu: no dude. not everyone's 14 when their battery runs down.
mircea_popescu: in the casino for the first time, and can only win, because mom had us with saint Winny.
mircea_popescu: then you get "the german people have failed and let's blow everything up"
mircea_popescu: not like you're gonna try and argue THAT bunch of degenerates were the true namesakes.
mircea_popescu: (but i can bring same argument - hey, any PROPER romanovs the reds shot ?)
mircea_popescu: unlike in the case of the romanovs, by the 1940s time had already cleansed this bunch.
mircea_popescu: the "proper" rothschilds lived in the 17th and 18th century.
mircea_popescu: for a while there you couldf even fuck one, for the asking.
mircea_popescu: you can't build yourself a rich house as a fiftene year old stealing from your father and fencing the stuff.