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snowbound33: I'll come back here at some point in
the near future. I'm holding off for now, I want
to set up a bouncer first if I'm going
to be active in irc again
snowbound33: no, sorry, I didn't write
that article about
the book.
That was a guest post
mircea_popescu: anyway,
there's a whole pile of stuff. but no, i didn't
think you wrote
the book you reviewed.
snowbound33: yeah it me. I'm not aware of whatever discussion
that is
snowbound33: depends what /whois says about
this account
snowbound33: I was invited here recently by someone online. I'm here under an anon account
trying
to figure out what it is, and if I will regret joining under my real freenode account
mircea_popescu: this is
the forum of
the most serene republic. and who might you be ?
mircea_popescu: there's bonus points for
the "right kind" of jobs - for instance hiring black people detracts from
the fundamental racism of
the entire scheme (really, why should schmuck be deemed entitled
to "fair wage" because his mother dropped him on his head in new jersey rather
than golania ?) and so it's + points etcetera.
a111: Logged on 2017-01-26 22:39 asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: megabux are not allotted by 'buttcount', you know
this.
a111: Logged on 2017-01-26 23:08 asciilifeform: entirely unrelatedly
to recent
threads: anybody here ever experiment with 'toslink' ?
a111: Logged on 2017-01-26 22:42 asciilifeform: 'There is a carry propagating bug in
the x86_64 Montgomery squaring procedure. No EC algorithms are affected. Analysis suggests
that attacks against RSA and DSA as a result of
this defect would be very difficult
to perform and are not believed likely. Attacks against DH are considered just feasible (although very difficult) because...
BingoBoingo: Awe, I
thought by "community health"
they were going
to unveil WikiBamaCare!
jhvh1: asciilifeform:
The operation succeeded.
ben_vulpes: galois corp doesn't have enough butts on staff
to have a good chunk of anything outsourced
to it
mircea_popescu: seattle is microsoft, but
texas is roughly speaking all of new england
trinque: there will however be a lot of californians
to deport
trinque: the government will go;
there will be people here still
that are people
trinque: I spent 5 years in
total in Portland, in
two
tours.
mircea_popescu: the burning of ub is significant culturally.
they won't rebuild it because
TO
THEM
those aren't just some shitty yurts.
mircea_popescu: cunt, inviting and self-lubricating, concentrated in cramped boring spaces is easier
to fuck
than anything
mircea_popescu: civilisation isn't when
the blind can drive and
the deaf can hear.
mircea_popescu: nor has it anything
to do with civilisation in any sense.
trinque: moreover anyone who would want
to
take houston and destroyed it is an ~idiot~
trinque: comparing houston
to anywhere in iraq is insane
ben_vulpes: "yeah who knows he probably has a container of servers on his land somewhere, but he also keeps
the entire region connected
to
the bitcoin net so anyone who fucks with him fucks with
the whole valley"
ben_vulpes: don't bury a container of xyz much less
tell anyone about it. be indispensable
to
the people who feed you.
trinque: whole port of houston is outfitted
to refine and ship
trinque: I was referring
to
the state
ben_vulpes: here's
the spectre of atomized americans again.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform absolutely not. it's immensely morep roductive
to produce
than
to raid.
mircea_popescu: they'll just use
the opportunity
to shoot some of
their own idiots and clamp down.
trinque: asciilifeform: heh I've got plenty of
that
too!
a111: Logged on 2017-01-26 16:34 mircea_popescu: if we're
the
target rather
than other place it's
time
to slim down
the org.
trinque: the parts
that ship
their groceries in, sure.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: in re china embargo,
that'd be a
tidy provocation for cn
to demonstrate how easily
the us fleet is shredded.