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mircea_popescu: right. worked so fucking splendidly over that last siege
mircea_popescu: in no way different than any other mental healthcare hospital, except it's larger and per-patient cheaper
mircea_popescu: <trinque>I would really like to understand this logic by which the entire US military vanishes << the "entrie us military" long ago vanished. it now consists of boys playing video games and girls playing the tomboy. that is not an army, it's a psycho patient support group.
mircea_popescu: <trinque>we'll lose ground but there's a vast difference there << nobody has any incentive whatsoever to be "american". it's not even vaguely an identity. you might wish to be texan, maybe, liek some soviets wished to be russian. but otherwiose, being an iowan or a californian or a wisconsinian or generally an american is the epitome of fair weather friends : for as long as it pays to do so and no longer.
mircea_popescu: the last light shut off is in the office of the guy giving free housing to "needy" voters.
mircea_popescu: <trinque>the us military will be the last light shut off, not the first << looked at the budget past decade ?
mircea_popescu: <trinque>seems about the same size << the chechens are about the same size. the us is in no sense the same size as the su when it fell. this theory can be readily verified putting the country through the equivalent of the 90s, which is coming regardless.
mircea_popescu: <mats>ISIS is an existential threat at this point in time << he has a point. isis would be the first state actually outside of us policy since soviet russia.
mircea_popescu: trinque how do you know he means the part about immigrants and not the part about "the debt of the us shall not be questioned" ?
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field>wake me up when they close mit << what, you mean THE PREMIERE something something INSTITUTION in THE WORLD!!! ?
mircea_popescu: they really should, once they're done fix bitcoin, go bring democracy to africa or what was it.
mircea_popescu: it makes for a decent contrast, which i guess is what all humor comes from.
mircea_popescu: on the other hand, we have yet another bleeting barn animal from anybarn, usa, derping impressively about things he's heard of, via movies.
mircea_popescu: lol. this entire "cheap suits" business has its comedic value. here's something you wouldn't know : while visiting here, ben_vulpes got to meet my tailor, on the grounds that we walked by his shop downtown and teh old jewish gentleman ran out to assure his dearly beloved mr popesco that his suit will be done in time.
mircea_popescu: i feel kinda scammed, those !up s go for like a bitcoin each iirc.
mircea_popescu: give me a cato any day, keep all your cesars and pompeys.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field well, a man can't really ask (nor should really ask) for more than to be on the wrong side of the major battles of his time.
mircea_popescu: phf nah, it means, "told you they're going to lose the war - already out of bullets!"
mircea_popescu: "We are sorry, This PDF is available in download format only"
mircea_popescu: how does it feel, to have stuck so badly in so many clocks ?
mircea_popescu: "oh, they won't be really USED yet. we just want it for when intel finally comes out wiht the chip and we can push it - not before"
mircea_popescu: in fact, making "intel the only way to run bitcoin node" is the biggest strategic gain usg can hope for atm.
mircea_popescu: the time i consider changing off rsa is a time after i've taken a piss on the ruins of the white house.
mircea_popescu: and no, they don't get to uise the "quantum" gimmick to push ecc against rsa. like they didn't manage the past three or four gimmicks.
mircea_popescu: well... in the sense that finding a girlfriend is cheaper than building a submarine in the garage, at any rate.
mircea_popescu: i would very much like to get better "humint" work put in.
mircea_popescu: imo it did make lincoln's brain work better than it ever had before.
mircea_popescu: forget everything. there's not going to be larger l2 caches.
mircea_popescu: in any case, comercially available home computers do not seem capable to verify full 8mb blocks six to the hour.
mircea_popescu: and back to the blocks issue : i've had a number of tests on various platforms. it would seem that time to verify blocks does not in fact scale liniarly with the block size.
mircea_popescu: but i would propose the actual case study for healthcare economics is... roman firefighting.
mircea_popescu: the major challenge with the healthcare is keeping payments fair (which really simply means meaningful).
mircea_popescu: like the "money" the derp sending script output to trilema is making.
mircea_popescu: surely. all fraud exists for profit, because why else.
mircea_popescu: difficult, but on the overall possible, i believe wilbns
mircea_popescu: the only thing you can have is forcible rituals of passing, where the kids pay in flesh.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, /me does not belive "for profit" education can be a thing. you can have for-profit amorous relaitons, something the us claims to be down on. you can't have for-profit education. it is a fundamentally unprofitable activity.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> and therefore have been marked for gassing. <<< the other thing is, they had been doing fraud on a scale not seen since the credit unions.
mircea_popescu: no, more like "it says what i want to hear or it didn't happen"
mircea_popescu: the entire "blockchain voting" thing is bunk of the first degree anyway, as the power rangered sponsored fiasco with the most recent fork shows.