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mircea_popescu: the us is no longer governable. they can do all usual the song and dance about how "crazy" etc the guy was,
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "I will say this though, I myself would have rather lived in 1940's American than Nazi Germany, and no this is not ignorance speaking, it is just my opinion." << holy shit, by the time a guy with serious respect for opinions as a mental construct and a preference for historical us over nazi germany goes shooting up the police station you know the sops problem hath come full circle.
mircea_popescu: "I think that if we could somehow destroy the jewish identity, then they wouldnt cause much of a problem." bwahaha dude...
mircea_popescu: the multicultural proposition is idempotence, not identity.
mircea_popescu: logical identity, or for that matter identity in nature.
mircea_popescu: "A horse and a donkey can breed and make a mule, but they are still two completely different animals. Just because we can breed with the other races doesnt make us the same. " << this is actually a flawed argument on multiple levels. first off, the mule is sterile. second off, the ability to conceive is a very good measure of species proximity. thirdly, there's no proposition of "identity", there's no such thing as bio
mircea_popescu: anyway, as a present day slave owner that thing makes for a pretty amusing read.
mircea_popescu: The event that truly awakened me was the Trayvon Martin case. I kept hearing and seeing his name, and eventually I decided to look him up. I read the Wikipedia article and right away I was unable to understand what the big deal was. It was obvious that Zimmerman was in the right. But more importantly this prompted me to type in the words �black on White crime� into Google, and I have never been the same since that
mircea_popescu: "Nevertheless, if at issue is to find out if FartFarer was the DukeDickwalker's father or uncle one can always trust the wikidorks got it right."
mircea_popescu: i have no fucking clue how greenspun keeps from going on a shooting rampage, living with these idiots.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: some other schmuck by the name of "jim" explains that he would really really want everyone to beliueve that hte children of special people are not in fact special by this fact, but merely indistinct mass, because everything's equal, and moreover that kids who didn't go through the everything's equal idiocizer "lack the ability to empathize with their peers", which is codetalk for "do not credit the idiotic propositiopn
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, the comments on that article are particularly retarded. one schmuck that can barely spell brings the entire "football team fan" argument, without a trace of irony or even the faintest hint of self awareness. he honestly believes that since "technology" today is better than 100 years ago, while the math kids could do out of highschool back then was 10x harder, it then follows that studying hard has no payoff.
mircea_popescu: "[How is it possible for an adult American to need to spend full-time maintaining a 20-year-old house? I got some insight into this the other day. << holy shit the us has turned into 80s romania.
mircea_popescu: There are still attacks that can be mounted from large distances. Laptop-chassis potential, measured from the far end of virtually any shielded cable connected to the laptop" << tells you all you actually wanted to know.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "Q5: What if I can't get physically close enough to the target computer?
mircea_popescu: yes, further, but logarithmically. the next 1k spent adds 10 cm. the next 100k spent adds another 10 cm. etc.
mircea_popescu: "In order to extend the attack range, we added a 50dB gain stage using a pair of inexpensive low-noise amplifiers (Mini-Circuits ZFL-500LN+ and ZFL-1000LN+ in series, 175$ total). We also added a low-pass filter before the amplifiers. With this enhanced setup, the attack can be mounted from 50 cm away. Using better antennas, amplifiers and digitizers, the range can be extended even further."
mircea_popescu: (not even going into the details of how running bitcoin in the background provides nearly perfect defense for all this, because good luck distinguishing)
mircea_popescu: punkman antenna has to be very close and the reason they use it on laptops is that it doesn't actually work on metallic chassis desktops.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but in any case, ima direct something with girls in it, so twedledoo
mircea_popescu: the director's more like the spiritual leader of teh tribe. the producer just makes sure they have enough food and don't fight with it.
mircea_popescu: a producer is traditionally more like the adult in charge of the children on the set.
mircea_popescu: memory is getting hazy after all the years, but i dun think i actually directed anything
mircea_popescu: well so then that's why i didn't tell you, because i told them. i can't do everything myself.
mircea_popescu: indiancandy1 not much to tell, back before you were born porn used ot make money.
mircea_popescu: you know what happened. some lt in that preceinct had a .5 DE in his special closet.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "Police disabled the vehicle with a .50 caliber rifle shot to the engine block."
mircea_popescu: anyway : the do doesn't exist when it appears in the code, but when the returning while is looking for it. much like the tits on the girl don't belong to the girl.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: that said, it's prolly a safe bet that contemporary compilers do in fact complain
mircea_popescu: and i bet you for any bayesian filter you can come up with someone can find a circumventer
mircea_popescu: decimation the only way that wouldn't compile is if you specifically put custom code in tyh4e compiler to complain about it
mircea_popescu: but it is a powerful indictment of the "colored bits" concept. because lo! the compiler doth NOT CARE whence this executionable bitcoin went. merely what it says
mircea_popescu: actually, any half good lawyer wouldnt be surprised either.
mircea_popescu: before fucking her a while before cutting her up again
mircea_popescu: "why should the machine put out the right numbers regardless ?!?! BECAUSE IT IS THE MACHINE"
mircea_popescu: incidentally, the original babbage wonderment is perhaps the first clash of the two
mircea_popescu: "they who imagine the computer is god" from "they who imagine the computer is this tramp they picked up hitchhiking and will fcuk her a little before cutting her up to pieces"
mircea_popescu: this is a subtle but perhaps excellent test for distinguishing the categories you proposed
mircea_popescu: is it because they imagien that the "do" only exists in case 0
mircea_popescu: what do you mean "how it works" anyway ? cheaper to compare than to iterate.
mircea_popescu: "It amazes me that after 10 years of writing C there are still little corners that I haven't explored fully. "
mircea_popescu: Received: by dagobah.LFL (4.6/4.6b) id AA01034; Thu, 10 Nov 83 17:57:56 PST
mircea_popescu: Received: by ucbvax.ARPA (4.16/4.13) id AA18997; Sun, 13 Nov 83 07:35:46 pst
mircea_popescu: From research!ucbvax!dagobah!td Sun Nov 13 07:35:46 1983
mircea_popescu: "A second poster tried the test, but botched the implementation, proving only that with diligence it is possible to make anything run slowly."
mircea_popescu: honestly i never saw someoine who could code call themselves "code literate in x". sounds more like something i'd say.