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mircea_popescu: i tell you. there are no professionals left. all children posing for the mirror.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform your idea of nuke plants is more akin to a UP's big boy control hatch. this is not how they work, whole shit's run in java these days. for that matter - remember the recent airbus which had all 4 engines stop because counter smash issues ?
mircea_popescu: (gauss copula, look into that sometime. if you want "pseudoscience that burned the world", global warming's nothing, witch hunts are nothing, this thing ruioned trillions)
mircea_popescu: or my info as to how the entire fucking house of cards came down chiefly bewcause some idiots were doing copula calculations
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> (or even valid in a block) << they are not valid. they are spendable for reasons that have to do with what the protocol says, ie, unintentionally.
mircea_popescu: anyway, re punkman's reddit link - the tards miss the fruit and focus on the pit of that thing, as usual.
mircea_popescu: siemens is "german" in the sense tsipras is "greek" and so on. absolutely nothing to do.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> so it would have to be very clean to justify losing search << technically speaking, needing "search" is a symptom that you've not yet learned it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> can give the 'atoms' electrostatic-style charge, so they repel, and the bonds - 'strain', so they contract << this is actually a pretty great idea. and then run iterations over the thing until stable.
mircea_popescu: <jurov> in these parts most reactors reportedly run on win2k << why not me while at it.
mircea_popescu: do not expect a girl with a collar is actually a slave - she probably thought it looks good for her facebook ; do not expect someone with a pgp key is a lord - they probably were just trying to impress someone.
mircea_popescu: because i suspect you go by ops whereas i go by financials./
mircea_popescu: trying to feed themselves out of used condoms left behind in dark alleys
mircea_popescu: the "industry", such as it is, is fucking google, holding hackathons
mircea_popescu: since then, everyone's just been trying to salvage utility out of the kids' roleplaying
mircea_popescu: possibly the last time anyone did anything for serious with computers was in tyhe 80s.
mircea_popescu: then they went about roleplaying their super-secret-agent kink for a while
mircea_popescu: "hey, woiuldn't it be cool if you could like... encrypt shit ?" "why ?" "so you cxould be like... a secre agent!"
mircea_popescu: and i posit that the entire fucking thing, "from the ground up", is B. all of it.
mircea_popescu: case B : kid sees girl in bar, works up his courage until 3am, eventually approaches her and explains that he's into kinky stuff. which works out, because she always dreamed about being raped, so they meet in dark alley and have some great sex.
mircea_popescu: case A : kid sees girl in bar. waits for moment when no-one's looking around 3am, kloinks her in the head with bottle, drags her dark alley outside, shreds her clothes and her virginity.
mircea_popescu: anyway : there's this entire pretend culture, and it goes very deep. dunno how to properly illustrate it in its meta splendor.
mircea_popescu: i vaguely recall some incident where precisely this happened.
mircea_popescu: orly ? i thought he just dumps code someone emailed him intop the kernel.
mircea_popescu suddenly realised, sometimes last night, that the deep reason nothing works is simply that - all of it was made on a lark.
mircea_popescu: i bet you, dollars to donuts, that they signed it for "wouldn';t it be cool if" reasons. an d the thing doesn't actually work / is not full lengthj /.trivially defeated on some op sec hole or other.
mircea_popescu: it's a case of, 12 yo girly playing a game she doesn't understand with toys that aren't really toys. except online and with boys.
mircea_popescu: not.a.single.entry.on.your.list.ever.hand.any.legitimate.use.for.encryption.
mircea_popescu: i'll take it a notch further : none of them had anything to sign. ever.
mircea_popescu: you got one schmuck exercising his right to be idiotic is the sumall.
mircea_popescu: neither class wants to talk to you about it, for different reasons.
mircea_popescu: they have in common being either dumb per se or else i nthe crosshairs of the manacling-with-dumb cannon.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: you're coming from tyhis weird place where we're all possessed of functioning brains here on this great internet and stuff. wtf.
mircea_popescu: well, it exists as a signed thing in the hands of the conference participants.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform let's keep it simple. have you loaded the svg in gimp and examined the picture painted.
mircea_popescu: how long it's been on is the largest factor for that metric.
mircea_popescu: 100% mainstream anywhere outside of "my mother had me with a retard" land.
mircea_popescu: fancy that, trendmicro discovered the hole in the donut!
mircea_popescu: lulz of today : if one googles for bulletproof hosting stuff in the last month, the first 5 results are this dumbass trendmicro "report", and the rest references to it. like : "A new report from TrendLabs -- the research arm of security company Trend Micro -- uncovers the existence of what it calls 'Bulletproof Hosting Services' (BPHSs) which provide"
mircea_popescu: gotta get back to the good old 80s "if you follow the law you're unfuckable, an idiot and get lost"
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla you're a nihilist. everything's ultimately based on nothing as fatr as you're concerned, if you're willing to take the time and look.
mircea_popescu: people happen to agree alright, it's just the other way.
mircea_popescu: none of this "people agree, rule of law, bla bla" nonsense any more.
mircea_popescu: it's purely a pr thing. got to get people used to the idea that they MUST say they despise the usg.
mircea_popescu: and yes, it's a difficult principle to apply uniformly, and yes i don't universally managing atm. nevertheless, i'm not taking stuff back to the dumbass world. and yes i think it'd be just grand if everyone follows it wherever possible.
mircea_popescu: i am worried about living in a world which contains isps that follow "law"
mircea_popescu: in any case : i will not pay any isp that fails to advertise ignoring "law".