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mircea_popescu: a simple serial iteration of "x as expected y as expected" can be followed and remembered momentarily.
mircea_popescu: if the discussion revolves around a tree five levels deep, with on average five leaves per branch, this is readily 3k items being discussed.
mircea_popescu: yeah, im aware really good scientists can listen to a two hour lab report, write down three lines and then reproduce it exactly.
mircea_popescu: and speaking of which, judging by how using things made by other people is going, i guess bitcoin will be its own language before this dustball settles.
mircea_popescu: williamdunne hey, wanna add bitbet reporting to the scoopbot_revived activity ?
mircea_popescu: name's actually vaguely familiar, intel must have had him in something or the other.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron bitfinex was at no point in its existence anything but a [very thinly veiled] scam.
mircea_popescu: it's like... they're so stupid and trying to hard they're just giving me free gains.
mircea_popescu: seriously, how inept do they need to be, these people. "unless everyone X currency will die" is ~exactly~ the wrong thing to say. everyone will not, currency will not die, now suddenly vice has [even more] egg on its face.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes getting that shit to compile is god's work. i imagine alf's set is untouched since 1993 and probably the last tiem anyone actually compiled it was back when paris hilton was still a virgin
mircea_popescu: seriously, ten bitcoins ? what did they do, make every woman in the office show me her tits ?
mircea_popescu: such as the idea that their sexual preferences are given by god.
mircea_popescu: the alternative would be to learn to live with fragmented sovereignity, which would require giving up pretty much everything the west has come to stand on.
mircea_popescu: it's an important point, perhaps where the chinese got the idea that they should center their force around rocketry.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform load average: 0.94 << need like 7 more workers ?
mircea_popescu: (hint, the fmj habit of naming the gun is not invented in us"
mircea_popescu: and continued to send over women and money to maintain peace
mircea_popescu: which pissed her off to the degree she ~wanted~ to declare war. except then she realise the mongols are about three times as strong as the chinese, so instead just wrote humble apology about being old and frail and bald,
mircea_popescu: incidentally, china during lu zhi is a very interesting case study. anyone recall the episode when the much more powerful mongols sent an emissary with practically that day's equivalent of PUA wisdom,
mircea_popescu: the oats the[ir heads] contain become inflamed and they start imagining they may do various stupid shit.
mircea_popescu: because if they get large... se umfla tarita-n ei, as the romanian expression goes.
mircea_popescu: you will note there's nothing nato about it. we intend to do the same thing, to all nato, to china, to russia etc.
mircea_popescu: current russia... probably safer. but does not include small russians, caucauss etc.
mircea_popescu: original soviet empire was historically the result of the race to asia they had with the uk, and it's certainly not above revisionism.
mircea_popescu: just keeping the ru style away, is enough for referendum win.
mircea_popescu: by which i mean, i dun think it needed much more than tv stations, ipads, the usual stuff.
mircea_popescu: hehe. so yeah, referendum. i dun think it had to be manipulated much.
mircea_popescu: governments routinely steal 20 years' worth of labour offa people, i don't recall the protests.
mircea_popescu: all this derping about "an eight of its gpd" - eh get bent, so that's six week's worth ? get back to work.
mircea_popescu: keyserver.matts and matts show the same ; keys.matts and key.matts do not exist. he moved.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform why would my browser work any better ? it also fails.
mircea_popescu: prolly should drop him an email. are you or should i ?
mircea_popescu: isn't this heap of dung fascinating, that whatever way you turn something oozes ? if only we were phorid flies.
mircea_popescu: The version of OpenSSL on RHEL6 (and its derivatives) supports TLS all the way up to TLSv1.2. It also does SSLv3, but it wants to negotiate TLS."
mircea_popescu: basically, "The version of OpenSSL on RHEL5 (and its derivatives) doesn't advertise support for TLS at all. It only does SSLv3 and SSLv2.
mircea_popescu: because why not, ssl lv3 is a standard-as-implementred thing.
mircea_popescu: "Now after a lot of research, it appears that there is an incompatibility between OpenSSL < 0.9.8k and OpenSSL 1.0.1."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "OpenSSL: error:14077410:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:sslv3 alert handshake failure"
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