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mircea_popescu: i don't use gmail and don't have a spam problem. but hey.
mircea_popescu: actually briefcase was yahoo i guess, the "media company"
mircea_popescu: they're still living off fucking google ads. which work about as good as an ant blowjob. since then, endless string of failures, briefcase, glass, g+ you name it
mircea_popescu: decimation mp's law! when i was born, the first satellite had just cost a fortune. by the time i had my first threesome, they were doing consumer phone via satellite. as i made my self billion, fucing romania launched a satellite on a shoestring budget.
mircea_popescu: and if they refuse to sign a contract, im going to sue them for refusing to sign a contract, which thewy actually have to do being a de facto monopoluy
mircea_popescu: but the very basic "all plaintext email is spam, throw it out" rule would do that.
mircea_popescu: this notion that infrastructure has power is ludicrous.
mircea_popescu: what's next, power rangers will hurt the bitrcoin foundation by not releasing further crap ?
mircea_popescu: or they break it, in which case they kill themselves but we still don't care (for the same reason original internet was robuts - rerouting)
mircea_popescu: i dun see how they do anything. either they maintain compliance with tcp/ip spec as is, in which case they do nothing
mircea_popescu: you drop all traffic except port 1337 and check sigs for that so as to only forward stuff to your own peers that they accept.
mircea_popescu: you don't even need to charge per se. just, PEER. as in, actually.
mircea_popescu: server that rejects requests on 80 etc is way harder all of a sudden
mircea_popescu: it could trivially work on existing infrastructure really. the ability to ddos only exists on some ports and in some circumstances as it is, because that's what the derps use.
mircea_popescu: exactly how it works here : we have a public slut (ie, gribble) who will convey a message to anyone, and who can trivially be silenced. otherwise, suppose unknown asks you to convey message to me. well ? why would you.
mircea_popescu: you know those hops in the traceroute ? well... the assumption is that they'll just take a packet.
mircea_popescu: decimation just auto-drop any packets coming from unknown host.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, all the web that matters will be visible to all the people who matter.
mircea_popescu: this will make "most of the web" inaccessible to "most people", but only if we measure "most" linearily.
mircea_popescu: 1Mpps has been seen, so... yeah routing over wot will not be a trivial problem. but it does have a trivial solution :
mircea_popescu: moving from 2mb gifs to 600mb .avis was a great reason to ditch the cdrom get a dvd
mircea_popescu: moving from asciiart tits to 500kb gifs was a great reason to ditch the diskette and put in a cdrom
mircea_popescu: more like in hopes that social relevancy is tied to "technological advancement".
mircea_popescu: sort-of like nobody hires 21 yo athletes as entry level.
mircea_popescu: "can't afford to not hire this guy now and have him hired by someone later".
mircea_popescu: anwyay, the notion that google hires derps with degrees is news to me. i thought nobody got to finish his degree because hired in 3rd year.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: whole fucking country is by now the United Republic of Blackmail.
mircea_popescu: they took 4% last year and are in the workforce at 2% ?
mircea_popescu: Last year, black students took home 4.1 percent of the bachelor’s degrees in computer science"
mircea_popescu: "But fresh data show that top schools are turning out black and Hispanic graduates with tech degrees at rates significantly higher than they are being hired by leading tech firms.
mircea_popescu: anyway, all this is (as you prolly expect it from shit i do) very much experimental. trying to actually make a site where users can safely use their ips.
mircea_popescu: well that makes sense then. i was impressed originally.
mircea_popescu: i think they spent a coupla million real dollars on that gateway
mircea_popescu: nuked the parody site rightr off the net, but wh stands.
mircea_popescu: then they sprout cheeky teenagers with "nordic system" delusions. won't fill the void.
mircea_popescu: anyway, zee germans have gained a very petty habit of being miserable to the people they owe gratitude to. no hitler statues, put that kohl fellow in jail...
mircea_popescu: otherwise, see orwell : london in 1930 was entering its second decade of pretending ww1 never happenbed anmd "britannia forever"
mircea_popescu: specifically re 13 : if isis submits a bid to buy out raytheon, this proposal will not go to the shareholders. it will go to a so called "anti trust regulator" or w/e, which will reject it.
mircea_popescu: s/fuck you/you made the statement, you prove it/ for any unschooled gals in the audience.
mircea_popescu: ("you don't love me anymore" "sure i do" "prove it" "fuck you.")
mircea_popescu: not that the guy is pointedly "against populism", admitting for the sake of argument that tyhe concept even holds meaning outside of its proper reference (it is after all a notion of democracy). but then again the bar for "not being x" is not "being patently against x"
mircea_popescu: i don't recall any sort of voting being held on when to attack, soviet style.
mircea_popescu: (great film btw, murphy is the heir to the throne of zamunda, pursues some ugly nigglet in queens. who doesn't like him because he's rich, and to their assheads at the time in the 80s this is a flaw)_
mircea_popescu: you can quote chapter and verse for this notion or are merely relying on what us agitprop and clueless derps like that mcdowell woman in that eddie murphy movie told you ?
mircea_popescu: nobody yet stopped to consider "the real color of butter" for packaging purposes afaik,
mircea_popescu: they put butter in blue or red or yellow packaging according to what the focus group says. you think butter is "red" ? butter is butter.
mircea_popescu: sure, the turdmeisters in charge of the herd sell it thus.
mircea_popescu: mno. the notion that hitler was populist is akin to the notion that obama is democratic.