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mircea_popescu: no fucking way ? you actually inputting text on a tablet ?!
mircea_popescu: decimation from any settlement under 2-3 bn, the actuasl employees get zilch.
mircea_popescu: i guess as the flesh sears under the hot tongs, "high ranking" usg employees will scream how people "willingly paid taxes"
mircea_popescu: and iirc the woman with mcdonalds willingly bought coffee.
mircea_popescu: you know what, women willingly entered the workforce, what the fuck is with these "civil rights" lawsuits.
mircea_popescu: i mean gimme a break, even junk like sr was supposedly doing more damage than this.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi how it can cost them less than 10-20 billion
mircea_popescu: brave sir robert got some bank to pay for "helpying money laundering", right ?
mircea_popescu: that's only for when italian dudes run their own independent govt.
mircea_popescu: decimation they didn't end up paying ten billion over the rico conspiracy thing they had with the wage fixing did they ?
mircea_popescu: i am not aware of ANY stock option deal that is not a scam outside of mpex to date.
mircea_popescu: "Now, the average employee stays at Amazon for LESS than two years, so when you do the math to compare offers from various companies go ahead and factor that in. The entire system is designed to bring you in, burn you out, and send you on your way with as little equity lost as possible."
mircea_popescu: that's a major point incidentally. we'll have to make our own crypto oscars, this usg situation is untenable
mircea_popescu: at the time, as a game maker, it was "directx or go home"
mircea_popescu: the only performance edge ms ever had in its entire history. ever. directx 6-7
mircea_popescu: look, you dun have to be a fan to admit it looked bleak in 2002.
mircea_popescu: i spent the decade playing homm2 and mm6/7. nevertheless... some people actually cared about everquest and wow and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: punkman completely driven crazy with the body image these days. i'm surprised there's even females left at all, sometimes. reasonable expectation last one died cca 2003 over a bulimia-anorexia crisis.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: put a woman naked on a horse, it'll tell you all you need to know about the "empowerment of feminism" and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: this is shocking but factual : rarely will you see women carrying themselves like actual people outside of dance school and the slave quarters.
mircea_popescu: cazalla i liked the fact that the only pictures in which she displays good posture, she's wearing "slave" or whatever you'd call it garb.
mircea_popescu: phillipsjk yes, but that's both trivial to fix and in practice long fixed (twofish, threefish, etc). it is in point of fact a VERY promising cypher branch, mostly on the account of its extremely complex schedule
mircea_popescu: (yes, i confess, mp doesn't generally use natural language "as it is", but "as it should be", like any serious autist. it's wonder anything i say's comprehensible to any degree)
mircea_popescu: (amusingly enough, that says "inkwell" in romanian, phonetically)
mircea_popescu: i guess "purely political" is not even the best way to state it. purely idiosyncratic.
mircea_popescu: and i don't expect a dude to have something meaningful to say because he got a nobel prize, but IN SPITE of getting it.
mircea_popescu: you know, like i don't expect a film to be good because it got 7 oscars. i expect it to suck.
mircea_popescu: i dunno about you, or anyone else. but to me, winning a competition is a discomendation.
mircea_popescu: blowfish has successfully resisted analysis and was thoroughly abandoned. because aes "won a competition" ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: hm. by "worst retarded" i actually mean "least retarded".
mircea_popescu: worst thing about the early 2000s was how ms seemed it was going to live forever through directx
☟︎ mircea_popescu: granted this isn't much seeing just how retarded that field is, but anway
mircea_popescu: phillipsjk i've not put much design effort into that yet at any rate.
mircea_popescu: that process works better the other way. ("i need to intern for this guy" vs "i need people to intern for me")
mircea_popescu: if you can actually write programs to fix programs - why haven't you yet and why are we still running broken code everywhere.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel i think the principle of machine-fixed code is broken, but hey. maybe you're in a narrow enough case you can pull it off.
mircea_popescu: in any case : i don't like aes for purely political reasons. it became an apparent schelling point out of absolutely nowhere for no discernible reason. these situations always stink.
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