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mircea_popescu: i was curious about dishes too, but i didn't expect to find them in the gutter.
mircea_popescu: more of the "lowest common denominator is representatives for groups" ideology crashing on the jagged shores of reality.
mircea_popescu: shorting instrument my foot. it can't be shorted for the same reason you can't short random idiot's imaginary girlfriend.
mircea_popescu: it will be absolutely great if they scam any exchange into accepting their shit as bitcoin, or otherwise if any retards pay money for xtc.
mircea_popescu: even if they have to be beaten with a nailed plank first
mircea_popescu: or any other place where the bar to entry is not as high as to exclude the urban poor.
mircea_popescu: and the kids coming after that just built on the habit.
mircea_popescu: no, in orwells - that he is insufficient, and he is a representative memberf of an inssuficient generation.
mircea_popescu: it's just buying into this "being civilised means inhabiting the world of dreams"
mircea_popescu: being a vegetable is unrelated to any other measurable quality.
mircea_popescu: they're all vegetal. the smart and the dumb, the tall and the short, the ones with tits and the ones without
mircea_popescu: but it may be that lisp is not actually useful in practice!11111!!1
mircea_popescu: how any lisper can keep away from it is anyone's guess by this point.
mircea_popescu contemplates the strange notion that every time he included hashes in stream he was actually doing the wrong thing.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: fear the power of the cult. the deepest errors can survive all of five minutes in the charged atmosphere.
mircea_popescu: which also happens to be the right thing, incidentally.
mircea_popescu: whereas i for a very long time have held the firm "fuck you, the text i write, i write with no consideration as to what you might misunderstand of it"
mircea_popescu: but it is apparent, from the apoplectic reactions, and glaring when you look at the shards together, that the same jerking around is both behind the openbsd story and the pgp story.
mircea_popescu: i think im going to translate an ancient romanian article, i can not begin to believe how fucking apt it is. i thoight it was purely a romanian thing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well obviouisly nobody ever used pgp for any serious purpose.
mircea_popescu: either i've been very stupid for many years or you're just being nuts over here.
mircea_popescu: so by this theory, we should have one phone network for the network and another phone network for the control codes ?
mircea_popescu: so i can't include a hash of the document i nthe document.
mircea_popescu: a checksum's not a bad idea, why do you think it is a bad idea ?
mircea_popescu: looky : when i signed a piece of paper i nulled out the empty spaces.
mircea_popescu: you can admire all the extra bezzle it forced microsoft & all to expend.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin changes everything, of course, and outside the heaped plate of humilation lasagna it allowed me to forcefeed bob beck,
mircea_popescu: incidentally, re <BingoBoingo> shinohai: I personally think this is the same process that slowly lead even Thermos to denounce Gavin, just... once enough time had passed to make MP espoused sanity seem original to the uninitiated <<< do not imagine that ms, yandex et all did not know same things i know. obviously trhey do, but they also had hoped they're somehow favoured sons. because "Terrorists will never do that, tr
mircea_popescu: we sadly have been overtaken by events in this point. i'd have much preferred to start work on this after the decanter work for "new pgp" was done.
mircea_popescu: why do you think this is possible and if you have any reason to think so why aren't you fixing bitcoin then
mircea_popescu: "signatures offer the means to meaning, and for they who can listen, the enunciation of truth."
mircea_popescu: a better name could not be had, for what this thing is and does.
mircea_popescu: but it's on teh list, it'll get done eventually, an' i know people have a habit to prevaricate.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, jurov and anyone else who might care : i will be wiping the archive of that hacker team thing. if you want copies of anything etc get it now.
mircea_popescu: "oh this failed project is so exciting - look, it even overtook last quarter's failed project on the failed projects list!!11"
mircea_popescu: they can go fight eth for doge supremacy or w/e it is retards do.
mircea_popescu: anyway. nobody cares. in the most literal sense of that word.
mircea_popescu: why am i reading some tard's pretense, no matter how he thinks he's "hooked it" into the events.
mircea_popescu: so basically some tard wanted to pretend like he's important.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no idea why retards seem to have all flocked to "medium.com" but hey.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im pretty sure hanbot is doing exactly this
mircea_popescu: it works for 19yos, it is not worth the hassle with 29yos.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> and 'unknown soldier' is what ? << there is no doubt that at least one soldier somewhere existed, right ? this is not abstract but synthetic, like a statue to an apple. "which apple".