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mircea_popescu: takes the proceeds and pays "salaries" for "public servants"
mircea_popescu: possibly the most impressive success of us diplomacy to date - the recruitment of beria.
mircea_popescu: had beria not been pro-us, but symetrically anti, the fulda gap'd have been taken in a week and well... russia from sea to sea.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo iirc his proposition to just bomb the suckers and ride tanks to china is well documented.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i was doing a mental fuzzy conversion to modern.
mircea_popescu: moreover, what, every time you need a car you steal a car ?
mircea_popescu: i never had anyone in hiding without at least a few rifles + sidearms, at least a coupla people along for the ride, etc. 40k is good for a quarter, and that if the guy's very sensible all around.
mircea_popescu: guy seriously lived three years on the run out of 40k ?
mircea_popescu: somehow i couldn't remember correctly any of the words.
mircea_popescu bores of trying to find the "maybe blocks end up being too large" reference. was a coupla weeks ago iirc
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron heh, first mentioned... in #bitcoin-assets
mircea_popescu: felipelalli find out the details, write a qntra article.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform isn't protobuf the google something or the other ?
mircea_popescu: "today bitcoin core is so far diverged from bitcoin i have no idea why anyone even mentions it"
mircea_popescu: cazalla : it only imported gpg based identities, not bitcoin address based.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla is it possible ratings got lost over the import ?
mircea_popescu: decimation foundation didn't do reporting at the time, remember ? col brian foley, for all you know.
mircea_popescu: cazalla it's the case for the -10 to rozal (id 37459 on gribble wot) for instance.
mircea_popescu: cazalla i missed ratings i made after gribble went down, on gribble's wot. like for instance the phantomcircuit one i discovered missing yest, was made in february.
mircea_popescu: if this isn't disarray i have nfi what is. these people don't even have a forum, a venue where to discuss their shit.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo jesus christ the deluge of verbiage from these people. that two line call-out in #bitcoin-dev has produced almost a million lines of derpage, on irc, on reddit, on personal blogs, everywhere.
mircea_popescu: cazalla that's photochopped. i can tell by some pixels.
mircea_popescu: no, computing. "the only way to run a computer today is with an intel itanium running debian"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nobody asks intel. the idea was, if FOSS actually can deliver on the promises it makes, then it takes over at that juncture.
mircea_popescu: (and it didn't really work well enough - which was perhaps correctly blamed on the proc)
mircea_popescu: the itanic thing was perhaps the breaking point for FOSS, in retrospect.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the reason for this is because we're not big enough yet lol. "the next builders of roads once the romans croak will still not be the huns". well.... yes.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, is my discussion of water captive in a glass part of the 7 ?
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, soft guarantees can be extractred from the unloving tits of mother nature, and so they will be.
mircea_popescu: so yeah, we don't have, nor can we get just yet, the hard guarantees we'd like, and it'd altogether seem we're entitled to, by the shape of the space of logical possibility.
mircea_popescu: the only way to gain immunity to them is to not be one.
mircea_popescu: same reason intel's fundamentally unconcerning : all greedy algorithms are vulnerable to other greedy algorithms. that's what it means.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "fuck intel, we will subsidize X, because we are so big and powerful we can just crush it outright"