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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anything's possible. in this case tho, the discussion is whether it's possible without the subject's will.
mircea_popescu: more on point : i wonder how many people didn't have to pay their tickets because had intelligent lawyer who disputed chain of custody claims of police.
mircea_popescu: something they couldn't even legally do, which is why they had to bring in delphi for 20k.
mircea_popescu: i suppose as the dea goes bankrupt the ex-dea agents move on to helping local police "fight terrorism" at the rate of 20k for every .5k paid out
mircea_popescu: this pretty much explains how the thing work. "in order to pay 500 bux to terrorists we must first pay 20k to our own people!"
mircea_popescu: "There is no total figure available for the total cost inflicted by the multi agency investigation though $19,604 was paid to Delphi Technology Solutions, the firm which handled the ransom payment for Tewksbury. "
mircea_popescu: just like having a car doesn't alow having gasoline. it's true that often people who have cars also independently have gasoline, but the two are fundamentally unrelated, and there is such a thing as the fool's breakdown, ie, car's outta gas on the side of hte road.
☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: even fucking air traffic controllers have slumps, once or twice a century one's unemployed. maybe two if it's real bad.
mircea_popescu: i don't think there was ever someone unemployed in that field, ever.
mircea_popescu: but yes, ductape it on one of those robo vacuum cleanners... "nobody could have foreseen"
mircea_popescu: it just sort-of works provided a) lemmings and b) some very basic nonsensical assumptions.
mircea_popescu: of course, the original was a fucking cycle of operas.
mircea_popescu: this, of course, was pre HB. now they might be more amenable. lol.
mircea_popescu: in which we find out that openssh does not wish to bestatic linked, and this by design.
mircea_popescu: it also doesn't work, necessarily. if it did, we wouldn't actually need bitcoin to solve the specific problems it solves.
mircea_popescu: mental disease is no different, diseased states are always narrower than sanity.
mircea_popescu: generally, illness in humans is manifested as a contraction of the "presence bubble". you may sit in your bed thinking of things as far away as a continent, but the man in pain sees nothing past his nose. and the man in love, past HER nose.
mircea_popescu: wtf is this world where such great things can go out and not even a billion people show for the burial.
mircea_popescu: dude for all the pretense they put forth ... they've been gone for a month and i've not yet run into a mourning woman ?
mircea_popescu: aaanyways. it's a safe enough model for as long as inflation holds, because it's based on nominal figures. known as the hyperinflation debenture frenzy.
mircea_popescu: "Pinterest board observer raised $200 million in three days to buy more shares—with startup’s blessing" << almost exactly different from how a ponzi is run,
mircea_popescu: OUR GREAT LEADER WAS SLAIN BY SOMETHING IN A ROUND BOX THINGEE! ROUNDBOX THINGEES ARE NOW BANNED!11
mircea_popescu: im kinda surprised "spvs" didn't get banned last time tbh.
mircea_popescu: give or take, but i'm not really crazy about the difference between 5% and 3% either way
mircea_popescu: ascii_field it's the other thing people use other than uclibc
mircea_popescu: "i make a loss on every sale but hope to make it up on volume"
mircea_popescu: ascii_field except the last perso who bought was later indicted for terrorist bombmaking.
mircea_popescu: kinda not bodes well for government, either, this state of affairs.
mircea_popescu: luckily, the 80s are long gone, and this strat simply does not work.
mircea_popescu: trying to be fucking aol over here, huge corp with by far shittiest product.
mircea_popescu: right. the bitpay "method", except they're doing out of their own money.
mircea_popescu: was discussed here. that ho being their "image" what's her name ?
mircea_popescu: unlike pretty much anyone, including google and facebook/ godaddy is like apple.
mircea_popescu: their yearly total gross attained 1% of yearly expenditure in no year since 2001.
mircea_popescu: the part i like best is the scamconferences they organise where they go to spend a coupla days in alt.universe where HUGE DEALS happen and stupidity is "an industry"
mircea_popescu: this is a business now. derps actually hope to make money out of this. someone might care about domain names still, because they did pre 2001, because dotcom people were idiots
mircea_popescu: anyway, it was good enough for the webpage + guestbook era, which is back when it shone. everything goes away eventually, and the duct tape and chewed gum contraptions holding togethere the everyman's arpanet especially so.
mircea_popescu: "no that doesn't happen" "right" "you don't understand how the world works!"
mircea_popescu: yes. "and what happens if letter server sends you crafted package ?" "huh ?!"
mircea_popescu: at least from what i've pieced together from what people have been reciting to me as bedstories since my involvement in bitcoin
mircea_popescu: but, regardless. every journey begins with a frenzied fuck and a sad kiss goodbye.
mircea_popescu: you being one of the perhaps five people that did it this year,
mircea_popescu: anyway, if one's interested feel free to contact me and i'll either say gtfo or tell you what you have to do. if you'd rather avoid the record of the gtfo feel free to discuss privately.
mircea_popescu: you will be helped by the glibc team but you.absolutely.must.know.what.you're.doing.
mircea_popescu: what's now needed is an expert computer engineer willing and able to take over maintenance of libnss, starting with fixing it so it allows proper static linking.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in the wake of my "who shat the libnss" investigation tptb have agreed something must be done about this.