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mircea_popescu: (this, fwiw, carries 0 water in mp's own dungeon. girl
that had no way
to know hangs just along well warned one. it IS a little chilling but what can you do.)
mircea_popescu: you'd be surprised how often
the defense is "oh, nobody
TOLD ME" when cornered.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-14 18:09 mircea_popescu:
the ~only~
think
these
two fellows, mrame and fircea, ARE NOT going
to engage in is any sort or kind of ancestor worship.
mircea_popescu: o, right,
there's no
trains where you live. well... it's basically a
tin can on wheels.
davout would love
to visit asciilifeform and mircea_popescu's kindergartens
mircea_popescu: (taking schoolgirl
to abandoned / out of service
train and fucking her is, i expect, kindergarten-universal yes.)
mircea_popescu: incidentally, i wonder how many people
took a ho over
to graf zepellin and fucked her
there, during
the 30s.
mircea_popescu: (and if you're going
to run an illegal boat ... in what sense was it hijacked by pirates. already was pirate yes ?)
mircea_popescu: leaving aside how
that's uninsurable -- it's not even legal.
mircea_popescu: the ~only~
think
these
two fellows, mrame and fircea, ARE NOT going
to engage in is any sort or kind of ancestor worship.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: two men land on deserted island, let's call
them mrame pragger and fircea dopescu.
they observe
that a) monkeys are powerless b)
there are no proper latrines and c) how dare you shit out in
the open you stinked up
the whole island. problem ?
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: i do.
the inconsistency
that my (naive) mind spots is
the "eh empire is not powerful anyway" + "there is no current alternative for X
than Y" in conjunction with "how dare you use Y!!!"
a111: Logged on 2017-03-14 15:53 asciilifeform: 'no, increase
the mtu!'
a111: Logged on 2017-03-14 15:50 asciilifeform: Framedragger: nothing
to do with keys
a111: Logged on 2017-03-14 15:25 asciilifeform: i suspect
that 'greybeard' holdouts,
taleb et al, who 'bitcoin is a fad, will go into
the sands of
time, snoar' are on a sound logical footing, 'every OTHER attempt
to combat massed stupidity has ultimately fallen, nuked by OurDemocracy, and
the more brazen
the assault,
the quicker'
mircea_popescu: this one's way
the fuck more appealing
to my
taste
than "and everyone will be nice
to everyone and
there will be no poverty or suffering"
mircea_popescu: these discussions predate stilpniks, we're
talking 4-3 bce
davout: asciilifeform: Sokushinbutsu according
to pedopedia
davout: asciilifeform: .jp
thing i reckon
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yep, afaik actually imported from india via persia and
the lebanese/syrian/etc early christianhood.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-14 15:17 asciilifeform: it is in
the empowered whinerism.
mircea_popescu: to
this day "pleasantly scented remains" is on
the orthodox list of santly merits.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, in an earlier, simpler
time of "men inhabit bare stone dugouts
together",
the ability
to not stink without washing was regarded as about half of what made monk a candiate for sainthood.
a111: 2017-02-17 <mthreat> people who don't shower in jail/prison are called 'vikings', or another name in Spanish which I forget.
There is peer pressure
to not stink in
there.
mircea_popescu: and in other hieroglyph lulz, me at
travel agent, buying
tickets. calls girl, "send so and so email a picture". beet red
travel agent. "you know... i needed a copy of
the passport". "what did you get ?" > nudegirl.jpg
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know ? " We aim
to empower our customers" = hun go wun bo = # ; "is a leading full service supplier of high-quality" = bing ding shing ling = @
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i wonder why
they even bother spelling
that shit out by now,
truly should just have pictorgraphs.
Framedragger: ...and all
this is exposed
to ecdsa and
the particular parameters (secp256k1) not breaking... ouch.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi what people
think, but from eg mpoe-pr's experience, it'll be something shockingly stupid and in all
the joins nonsequiturial.
mircea_popescu: -293.0-292.1 ie, mp "who is not
truly a billionaire because reasons" is more
than willing
to sacrifice
tens of
thousands of
the coins.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-14 15:11 asciilifeform: and 'dead bitcoin', esp. if it dies on enemy's
terms, would imho be a
technogenic catastrophe, quite comparable
to, e.g., chernobyl. ( not for mircea_popescu 'i'm rich anyway, fuck everyone' , and not for other folx, who might not even have any; but for
the concept of 'gold sans
the guard labour')
mircea_popescu: which, considering
the sad confluence of not dumb people who (self servingly, and shamelessly), "think" bitcoin code is perfect (hey, alpha dun wanna be bothered, yes ?) and imbeciles who "are being like suparheoes power rangers"... is a virtual certainty.
mircea_popescu: and
the idea is
to have it more or less ready before
the prototype actually dies.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-14 15:08 asciilifeform: ( what ~can~ be done is
to build a
thing
that could function in place of a dead bitcoin. )
mircea_popescu: sort-of how
the bare-under-raincoat sexual behaviour is not common in men who get sucked off whenever
they feel like.
mircea_popescu: wich is why rayon plant isn't engaged in
the practice of "see kids, organic chemistry!" experiments
mircea_popescu: it's a not
terrible "garage chemistry lab" project, costs maybe fiddy bux a month or such\
a111: Logged on 2017-03-14 14:54 asciilifeform:
this went on for, iirc, a year or so,
then got
tired.
mircea_popescu: yes, but
then asciilifeform gets pissed off
that
the heads aren't cut :D
mircea_popescu: because every empire ever is backed by
the
trade in flesh, and well...
the former pays in flesh.
the latter - in scrip.
mircea_popescu: average gauleiter actually gains more from secretaries NOT HAVING ink ribbons so
they can't do
their job
than from
their HAVING ink ribbons and doing
their job.
mircea_popescu: this is periodically discussed in
the logs, but i suppose pretty out
there
to grok.
mircea_popescu: irl,
the relative gain from "lording it over"
the "lower" limbs
that need
tools
to do
their job is often more significant
than
the gain
to
the decident of
the actual correct usage.
mircea_popescu: it is a
tempting naivism
to imagine
the empire as a sort of frictionless monster, in which every limb gets full and impeded access
to any
tool it needs whenever it needs it.
this however is not how any empire works irl.
mircea_popescu: sure
there is. but, not for garden variety gnome, not for free, etc.
Framedragger: luckily
there's no conceivable way
to forge "source ip" field in headers :p
a111: Logged on 2017-03-14 14:36 asciilifeform: ( but
to make alt-udp you gotta patch
the kernel. )
a111: Logged on 2017-03-14 14:07 Framedragger: mircea_popescu: re. blackholing and
to be alf-pessimistic for a second, node is exposed
to risk of being blackholed as long as it uses
TCP; because not only can enemy make it read packets (unavoidable in
the end it seems), but
there may be ways
to making it send packets back.
ben_vulpes: forwarding is swiss cheese, i don't even
think
that's for sale
Framedragger: (i wonder if he
tried just-ssh'ing, no autossh first. because he needs
to answer "yes"
to "trust
this fingerprint?" prompt first, it seems. just
that.)