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mircea_popescu: i suspect there are more experienced aerospace minds here. how about you do it instead ?
mircea_popescu: i'm half tempted to do a "basics of satellites" like the hollywood and the corn one. however...
mircea_popescu: you're already talking half a ton of gear here. i didn't hear of aerospace material going for $200 / kg yet.
mircea_popescu: simpler problem : leaving aside the "Ever and ever" bs, even if you plan for 10 years you need tbs of hdd and gbs of ram. in space.
mircea_popescu: btw re computers and looms thread a coupla months back, i somehow forgot to mention the jacquard loom specifically.
mircea_popescu: generally everyone flies through ezeiza, but it doesn't matter.
mircea_popescu: in this day and age things aren't as they used to be, yo!
mircea_popescu: what, "we did most of the job" not good enough for ya ?!
mircea_popescu: need a berlusconi or something to show them how it'd sone
mircea_popescu: yeah, the southerners are too disorganised to even be corrupt properly
mircea_popescu: ahaha epic. no fucking wonder bitcoin-proto works on open-ssl
mircea_popescu: STACK_OF(X509_NAME) *SSL_load_client_CA_file(const char *file)
mircea_popescu: * much to do with CAs, either, since it will load any old cert.
mircea_popescu: * for a stack of CAs is to send it to the client). Actually, it doesn't have
mircea_popescu: * it doesn't really have anything to do with clients (except that a common use
mircea_popescu: * Load CA certs from a file into a ::STACK. Note that it is somewhat misnamed;
mircea_popescu: 8 the whole world has been trusting their secure communications to this impenetrable morass that calls itself the "OpenSSL" project. I bet that the doctors that work on that shitshow can not prescribe anything useful either!"
mircea_popescu: "After messing around with this code for about a month I decided to write this up for the tubes in the hope that I can save some souls. I have come to the conclusion that OpenSSL is equivalent to monkeys throwing feces at the wall. It is, bar none, the worst library I have ever worked with. I can not believe that the internet is running on such a ridiculous complex and gratuitously stupid piece of code. Since circa 199
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes essentially, it means they have not an inkling of how to code. they're importing code as data.
mircea_popescu: gtfo google. there's exactly one source on the whole internet.
mircea_popescu: ;;google "Satoshi Dice couldn't merge tx's anyway because bitcoind is written by monkeys"
mircea_popescu: <jurov> in short, we're standing on the shoulders of monkeys << quite.
mircea_popescu: wow! it actually happened that ppl complained about jurov's email thing and it actually was the case it was broken
mircea_popescu: plenty of people do just fine in positions of authority.
mircea_popescu: really, it's not about the position, it's about the scumbag. this is how you know vulgar folk in all times of places, that they're made of base metal : if put in charge they foul things up.
mircea_popescu: well... i also told the derpy organisers of some local "swinger's club" to get bent after they wanted the chick to check her clutch.
mircea_popescu: Adlai i dunno, i told a schmucky kid once to mind his own business. nothing happened./
mircea_popescu: "well... because i'm not a dickless dipsit, like you."
mircea_popescu: see, this is exactly adeuqate : these fuckwits are the exact prototype of the sterile "intellectual". they wish to matter, and they wish this mattering to happen through administrative measures.
mircea_popescu: it doesn't work in the low-density U.S., we'll try to compel people to live in higher density housing.
mircea_popescu: Second, the programs can only address needs defined by the intellectual elite. We won't provide cheaper cars; we'll force people to use mass transit. One volunteer aid group once did a study of Third World needs, concluded that one of the most pressing needs in Third World countries was transportation, then excluded automobiles from consideration because they felt that automobiles had a negative effect. When mass trans
mircea_popescu: First, the money has to be taken by force from the wealthy. Voluntary contributions don't count. Taxation at a level that the wealthy will consent to doesn't count. Any approach that recognizes the wealthy as having rights is unsatisfactory. Even worse is any recognition of philanthropy and the idea that some of the wealthy have social consciences.
mircea_popescu: Most of these folks simultaneously demand government programs to alleviate poverty and hunger, mass transit so the poor can get to where the good jobs are, and international aid to the Third World. In short they want structured, paternalistic programs that address needs defined by the intellectual elite. They are bitterly opposed to innovations that merely give the masses more goods, food, or money and leave the decisi
mircea_popescu: or in other words, they make 250 gsc for no risk, if they believe this theory whereby "people" will "update" to gavincoin on gavin's say so.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron ahem. through what sort of magic the parts summed exceed the sum ?
mircea_popescu: basically the usg is about 15 and has grown up on a gated community. in connecticut.
mircea_popescu: god forbid we think less of her unless she doesn't do the exact things that make one think less of her.
mircea_popescu: which is the ridiculousness of it all. teenaged priss kinda likes a boy, does not find it within her purview to go on knees moan for cock. oh no, must pretend this that and the other.
mircea_popescu: "give us your tired, your hungry" omits the whole picture : sure a country of immigrants is a grand way to build yourself up. but, necesarily, it's a great way to fall over like a deflated donut within a century.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron the problem with places that used to be great but lacked the social structure to support it is they degenerate essentially the same way.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, romania was in europe throughout, it was going to push industrialization through regardless.
mircea_popescu: hahaha the youtube ends on the same note. "let them do the food"
mircea_popescu: yeah well, there could scarcely be imagined a more degenerate people.
mircea_popescu: i propose this matter still needs a lot more thinking.
mircea_popescu: yeah, sure, because he couldn't be served just as well by a common bus.
mircea_popescu: would be a shitload cheaper to just rent serially. FURNISHED appartments.