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mircea_popescu: notwithstanding you can make a steel sword and behead someone
mircea_popescu: the idea is, that e coli is commensal or symbiotic, depending on your perspective, whereas salmonella is pathogenic
mircea_popescu: decimation very unfair contrast, this. e coli is natural gut fauna. salmonella is never found in healthy humans.
mircea_popescu: williamdunne and the part they didn't sell because their own agents stole ? removed that too ?
mircea_popescu: honestly, if i was seriously contemplating living in the us, i'd seriously consider getting a life sentence. that way they're stuck paying for it all
☟︎ mircea_popescu: what do you suppose is the difference between this life in prison and that life in prison anyway ? not like he was gonna buy himself a house.
mircea_popescu: they got money burnin holes in their pockets absolutely must buy guy's meal and doctor visits.
mircea_popescu: i think ima start "tit 1337" investigations of random people nao.
mircea_popescu: "Kipnis was not allowed to have an attorney present during her interview with Title IX investigators, she writes, but she was allowed to bring along another faculty member as a "support person" provided that the person she brought did not speak. That support person later discussed Kipnis' situation at a "Faculty Senate" meeting—and has subsequently been accused of, yes, committing a Title IX violation."
mircea_popescu: one can always spin up an arbitrary number of spammy txn.
mircea_popescu: imagine the "stress test" if the blocks ACTUALLY WERE 20mb.
mircea_popescu: spending anything out of it makes BOTH the little you spent and the 999.x remainder NEW coinbases.
mircea_popescu: the beauty of this being that if you have say 1000btc in one chunk
mircea_popescu: gotta give people enough room to fail, otherwise people can't be good.
mircea_popescu: the idea being, ifsomeone absuses it we just negrate him.
mircea_popescu: gheorghe gheorghiu dej went from common criminal to head of romanian state in a decade
mircea_popescu: cazalla ahahaha idiots. same derps did this purge job that did thew original reddit "bitcoin blocks consensus" purge job ?
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as the woman's public communication is being indicted for failing to kow-tow to idiocy, it'd seem this is just cultural-revolution style maoism.
mircea_popescu: "On Friday, Kipnis published another piece in the Chronicle, revealing that, in a twist that's ironic on more than one level, she is now the subject of an investigation into graduate student complaints that her earlier column and a subsequent tweet violated Title IX, the law that prohibits sex descrimination in education."
mircea_popescu: which, inasmuch as it's factually correct, is what it is.
mircea_popescu: gawker was somehow the loss leader in that, but otherwise "industry"-wide it's been a serious case of "work for free or don't work at all, for money there isn't".
mircea_popescu: mildly humiliated us marshalls service and slightly more humiliated federal prosecutors. tho both of these being public servants, they can do a lot better than this.
mircea_popescu: drastically humiliated cantor fitzgerald vp, drastically humiliated nsa assets, i can't wait for autumn.
mircea_popescu: 2014 wasn't altogether bad, but it doesn't hold a candle to 2015 so far.
mircea_popescu: got slightly better once mtgox got finished, but not by much. that year's lolcow promotion was delulded fatso, the pageantry genius with her "chamber of commerce", that schmuck in ny that meanwhile got sent to "privately practice" with his privates...
mircea_popescu: i remember the sad days when all we had was kludge the banker and ponzi the smooth operator.
mircea_popescu: "i paid someone to make five hundred thousand fake facebook pages that like me, SO THERE1!1"
mircea_popescu: not just from a "must be in there for we need all the dns-carried pores imported via glibc etc", but also in the much lower level "who's in charge of the it!!1" thing
mircea_popescu: this should be enough indication of the importance of dns-in-bitcoin for the shitgnome.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, the one interesting tidbit in all this : one difference between current bitcoin and hearn-bitcoin is that the latter replaces Jeff Garzik's DNS seed with the seed run by one Addy Yeow.
mircea_popescu: as BingoBoingo points out, this has been a very high lulz week.
mircea_popescu: "in theory, there's no difference between theory and practice, while in practice theory does not exist." fify!
mircea_popescu: there's no expectation the contents of the boxes be obsolete any time before it amortises.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell BlueMatt if you want to join #b-a and actually work on bitcoin for a change, you have a rating already, so you can voice.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell sipa if you want to join #b-a and actually work on bitcoin for a change, i'll rate you so you can voice.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: hey check it out, nsa-dev goes to join ver-foundation in the pile of relevancy ?
mircea_popescu: punkman the correct way to do this would be with heat exchangers of course.
mircea_popescu: "eRadiators makes the data more secure: "It becomes nearly impossible to know what data is where, when it is there and how to get to it," Nerdalize's Florian Schneider told the BBC."
mircea_popescu: amusingly, this is EXACTLY how communists ran their industry in romania of the 60s
mircea_popescu: glhf. the problems of being born in the 80s, ie, too late.
mircea_popescu: mostly because
http://trenchcoatx.com/about lulz. "We believe in high quality product, fair prices for the consumer, and fair pay for the people who work for us. Right now we’re in beta, figuring out how these values fit into today’s adult entertainment industry. "
mircea_popescu: alternatively, it would be 72 cubits high, translucent, ageless, nonmenstruating and deliver pregnancy to term within the day