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mircea_popescu: it is a matter of need : in order to ensure your space you must control whole chains. there's no escaping this, and so someone will have to. nobody particularly has a desire to run a cnc mill or an ic fab, but if one wants working software, one has to. and so it flows.
mircea_popescu: anything conflicting with this chain is about as interesting as "a bitcoin" that doesn't mine off the main chain.
mircea_popescu: his desire to own a cnc mill is a result of his desire to own a nuke, which is a result of his desire to go "either you stick to this rule or i kill you"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not my fault boys are worthless irl, when irl is designed by usg.
mircea_popescu: in this sense, someone who has to mooch wifi and someone who "owns" a mortgage are identical.
mircea_popescu:
http://log1.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=01-04-2015#1082985 << no. it is strictly a function of whether they are posing a threat to the leviathan or not. strictly that. no "routes". you can only matter if you can actually blow a hole in them, and you can only blow a hole in them if you don't depend on someone's permission for your activity.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "Faced with technology that forces it to reveal its teeth and claws, along with the reaping of the fruit the United States Government planted in its subversion of the computing stack at every level, the fangs are being bared and the claws unsheathed."
mircea_popescu: "To those that suggest that the Sun has something to do with the weather, I say that is just a superstition. The Sun is far too far away to have any effect on the neighborhood. And besides, the Sun comes up in the winter, but it does not stay warm. But, as soon as people stop using lawnmowers, it gets cold. So, it seems obvious and irrefutable that carbon dioxide causes global warming, and lawnmowers are the main sourc
mircea_popescu: " Lawnmowers have a nearly immediate effect on the local climate, too. In my area, lawnmowers are rarely used at night, and even 8-hours of lawnmower inactivity can cool the neighborhood by 20-degrees Fahrenheit. The tight correlation between lawnmower use and temperature is so closely related, that the scientific debate on the subject should be closed."
mircea_popescu: most always hot weather. And, as lawnmower use starts to taper in the fall, it starts getting cooler again."
mircea_popescu: in other news, "It seems obvious to me that global warming is caused by carbon dioxide, and the main source of carbon dioxide is lawnmowers. I have noticed over the years that it gets really cold during the winter, and during that time I rarely hear lawn mowers. But, as soon as I start hearing the occasional lawnmower in the neighborhood, it starts getting warmer. By midsummer when I hear lawnmowers every day, it is al
mircea_popescu: heck, BingoBoingo has some stories about how it applied to him already, give or take.
mircea_popescu: anyway, alligns incentrives correctly. "have you or anyone you know or care about been stolen from by the usg ? come join the people working to take away its shit"
mircea_popescu: ascii_field im not saying it's a complete solution. i am saying it is a lot more than nothing.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field oh meanwhile i recall who callas is. the reason i don't like openpgp!
mircea_popescu: im kinda curious how is jurov going to rationalise away the fact that on the balance of things, the us thug is actually more thuggish than the ru thug.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: or to quote, "Goddamn right, that's right. Guys come on: "Oh, the blah blah blah, I know what I'll do: I'll go in and rob everyone blind and go to Argentina cause nobody ever thought of this before.""
mircea_popescu: trinque artifexd been working on it. he occasionalyl comes up for air.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field well, eventually 1 btc will be ample fortune for one to live.
mircea_popescu: trinque bitcoin is factually a threat to the usg "national security". it exists to end them.
mircea_popescu: but when a cow thinks itself a farmer and thinks the farmer a cow...
mircea_popescu: a cow won't fight another cow, nor a farmer another farmer,
mircea_popescu: i suppose war is inevitable when people agree in principle but not in fact.
mircea_popescu: "i just graduated from stanford, i don;t know anything."
mircea_popescu: cue obama going for a condolezza rice impersonation. "nobody had any idea what we were doing was illegal."
mircea_popescu: ascii_field he might have the ability. does not have the right.
mircea_popescu: no, rights are exactly not that, which is why the concept even exists.
mircea_popescu: anyway, for the record : the us president does not have the rights it gives itself.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field if there was, you'd know it by this sign, that he'd glass new york anyway.
mircea_popescu: not for being likely, but for it being exactly the way in which that unlikely'd be seen.
mircea_popescu: for all we know, this is how the universally diddled compiler is discovered.
mircea_popescu: a) i don't think think this would have been caught by pretty much any other outfit on the planet and b) i don't see the proposition we've found a deep seated hole is readily dismissable.
mircea_popescu: one's just gotta pick on which side they wish to live ilegally.
mircea_popescu: welll hopefully you all got your propertah out of the us at any point during the many discussions as to teh effect.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo ima read the qntra. usually better than original.
mircea_popescu: so willy-nilly we can't practically use the vomit of the others.
mircea_popescu: and this is a major political decision we are, as far as history knows, the ONLY group willing to make.
mircea_popescu: is to make it actively insulting to the stupidity of the nonpractitioners.
mircea_popescu: all standards are, by the nature of what a standard is, irrational.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field there is no such thing as a rational standard.
mircea_popescu: well, the good news is that serenissima really has no unemployment.
mircea_popescu: so you'll soon discover "same part number" when we're talking boards means exactly nothing, and we'll be stuck tracing down exact vintage ?
mircea_popescu: a bitwise copy of your current system on an assemblage of the same hardware wouldn't boot ?
mircea_popescu: don't tell me we lost the "interchangeable parts" to THAT degree.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field shouldn't be any extra work really. just, bundle the software with a description of the hardware.
mircea_popescu: this entire "latest version" bullcrap has to go away anyway.