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mircea_popescu: anyway, just more nails in the coffin of bullshiot "higher resolution".
mircea_popescu: Making matters worse, HEVC Advance says their licensing terms [listed in detail here] are “retroactive to date of 1st sale”
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.hanbot.5:5c7030a162ab2367b81a4db0d5ef459ecaca547660a6d5397053e0a4d1428875
mircea_popescu: user_999123 get registered with assbot, get rated, then you can self-voice.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform 1k digits/modulus means that most keys are actually 4kb huh
mircea_popescu: the POINT of text is that everyone fucks with its bits.
mircea_popescu: whatever the pretext : so it's "easier to print", so it "can be handled by tabled", what have you, it's an abuse of text
mircea_popescu: point being, they're all the same thing, aka a pdf : an attempt to encapsulate text into some sort of blob.
mircea_popescu: but to whosoever struggles to understand my outright rejection of pdfs : think moar. same stupid shit, the ebook of the 90s.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: " how nerds around the world are trying to silence violent ISIS terrorist propaganda."
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-07-2015#1212471 << more like, only path to survival for google. they don't have an actual place in the marketplace, they're much too large, old and ossified to find one. if they don't pull a redhat/mcdonalds/walmart/whatever and screw themselves in the usg spigot, they're going the way of revlon.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.alt072.1:f08f7ddcbe375259c7186e524a39b3bd176d7d528d39fa50f347d14194f9eaaa
mircea_popescu: which point should readily explain why it costs the chinese nothing to make missiles and the usians can't afford to make a plane.
mircea_popescu: it is a much stronger state that which taxes everyone, no matter how little, than the one which mostly doesn't tax, but gets "more money". the money it gets are worthless to it
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-07-2015#1212302 << taxation is first and foremost a political activity. it is an economic activity as a very distant second. the noton that "it'd ok because we;re doing productive milking" misses the point by about the same berth as the notion that "it's ok, we don't need guns because we got money". this is simply not how the car works.
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: lol the libtards could never forgive the gawker sinkage huh
mircea_popescu: they don't collect, but they don't collect from like 1/3 not from like 3/5
mircea_popescu: that government is so fucking weak, greece is actually a less decrepit state.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i only ever ran a small town, but i never went for this bs. everyone has to pay A LITTLE. because otherwise...
mircea_popescu: here's a fun factoid for you : just a shade under half of the us registered population (which means, about 60% of the actual population) pays no income tax.
mircea_popescu: so now owner of palantir goes out and buys himself fiddy million twenty dollar hookers, amirite.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ascii_field palantir 450mn, slashdot 20 mn, everything makes sense.
mircea_popescu: i told him nobody really knows, but light seconds are about ten times the circumference of the earth.
mircea_popescu: driver told me he heard they found a planet which might contain life 1400 light years away
mircea_popescu: <mod6> i'll let it go for a while. maybe it'll work itself out. <<< pretty soon something like this is what ;;ud bitcoin will return.
mircea_popescu: i guess i get the advantage of surprise the next time around too. pretty cool.
mircea_popescu: at least they scrubbed my name out of it, "constituency of chinese mienrs" nao