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mircea_popescu: Landgull there's no hard and fast requirement that what happens is perceptible. this in the general. there's also no requirement that what is perceptible is perceptible to you (ie, any arbitrary agent). the expectation that you personally would understand what happened in x or y complex political situation is, to me, highly comedic.
mircea_popescu: except this situation only exists in sid meyer's "civilisation"
mircea_popescu: the golden crescent has its own centrifugal dynamics, what.
mircea_popescu: you figure if al pacino makes a movie for new line cinema, nlc is doing HIM a favour by this ?
mircea_popescu: historically, saudi kingdom was well established and independent back when wolves ate more people on the us east coast than people killed wolves. politically, the us has ~alkways~ been the bitch in the us-saudi relationship.
mircea_popescu: next you're gonna tell me the us exists by serving tenochtitlan
mircea_popescu: Landgull where you got the idea that the saudites came to power serving the us ?
mircea_popescu: a minority that actually organises its ascendancy over any majority is the supreme good.
mircea_popescu: Landgull as you age you'll notice that organizing anything is too much effort for most minorities, and in general what they do is try to ride waves, like flies plowing.
mircea_popescu: which created, actually did create, an ethnic subset, with its own fenotypical and cultural particularities
mircea_popescu: i'll take ukrainian girls and usian machinery as it used to be and bid both let me be.
mircea_popescu: Landgull romania is culturally close to things that no longer exist, not have existed for a long time. romanian is the closest thing to spoken latin still left around.
mircea_popescu: "Thin privilege is uploading a picture of yourself that takes under 1 minute to render"
mircea_popescu: overeager young males with significant socialisation deficit.
mircea_popescu: much like the flea market works. cheapest half-and-half to be had in the lands, but you won't get any pornstar poon there.
mircea_popescu: so yes it is much cheaper, in the sense that if you're cheap it's cheaper and if not it can't be done.
mircea_popescu: the bar to effectual interdiction can be as low as a dozen armed trained hands.
mircea_popescu: "Orangutans are among the most forceful of mammals. Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) exhibited aggression in almost 90 percent of their copulations, including when the females were not resisting. A possible explanation for aggressive behaviors in primates is that it is a way for males to train females to be afraid of them and be more likely to surrender to future sexual advances."
mircea_popescu: arguably they do the same thing, with the means their limited intellect allows them to try and employ. or to quote :
mircea_popescu: i once knew a guy who deigned to pick up the phone half the time when desperate hot women were calling to beg him to let them come over for a spell.
mircea_popescu: but on tyhe other hand, make the bricks out of solid gold and see.
mircea_popescu: apparently, it's because they have very limited ability to screw with stuff.
mircea_popescu: you confuse two unrelated things. thieves do not steal the brickwork but leave it behind for similar reasons.
mircea_popescu: beware of women affraid to travel and fuck strangers. they make horrible wives.
mircea_popescu: the us would be infinitely better if instead of "raising awareness" the impotent twerps would be busy accepting rape into their lives.
mircea_popescu: if one's forced to pick prolly best pick a mix, but yeah
mircea_popescu: what's the idea, someone'll indemnify you, come hell or high water, because they deeply care ?
mircea_popescu: Landgull the future hears you and says "your cheap psycho-skullduggery holds no power here".
mircea_popescu: "we joined bitcoin because we didn't like the banks so please take our bitcoin and put it in a bank"
mircea_popescu: the masquerade where "people" ie, social media astroturf is misrepresented as being in favour of this atrocity...
mircea_popescu: it will self-defeat once the last policeman is buried in the coffin of the last politician.
mircea_popescu: Landgull the 20mb block is a transparent attempt by the usg to take control back.
mircea_popescu: meaning that the average server your average internaut can't afford would barely keep up with the chain.
mircea_popescu: if one scales shit linarily, a 20mb block would be verified by this machine in 560 seconds, or just a shade under 10 minutes
mircea_popescu: back when it was comissioned coupla years ago it blazed through them at the rate of 7-10 seconds per.
mircea_popescu: in sadder news, a reasonably recent 8 core server is doing block verification at the rate of 28 seconds per.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if every time i went to buy a quart of milk the teller asked me what time it is...
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel if you're going to be doing code preservation you prolly want to hash and deed like i did on the eulora binaries for nvidia drivers.
mircea_popescu: so they just throw things at it. "Can't hurt, right ?" "test more things"
mircea_popescu: retarded people who do not belong in front of a computer try their darndest to "make it secure" but have no fucking idea what that is
mircea_popescu: it's just this entire frantic activity as a cover-up for impotence.
mircea_popescu: key expiring has nothing to do with verifying material they produced tho