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mircea_popescu: being humiliated by shitholes like romania apparently isn't going to be a temporary situation.
mircea_popescu: nah, because a) the usg doesn't care to steer you a particular direction. it only wants you to not move - it's a bureaucracy after all, it has no resources to deal with change, nor can change mean anything but it's ass ; b) the illusion of free wheeling is what's important.
mircea_popescu: and prolly have more market cap than gm, as far as that goes.
mircea_popescu: get some fed grants for it, idiots will prolly go in the box just to be different...
mircea_popescu: i should probably ycombinate a start-up to deploy tons of these in old warehouses across the us
mircea_popescu: plus, it prevents not only traffic accidents (leading cause of death!) but also, this one time, this guy used a car and was robbed!
mircea_popescu: "but it's just as good and much easier to use than a car!11"
mircea_popescu: i wonder if i could sell some cars to these idiots that are really wooden crates with lcd screen inside.
mircea_popescu: "Even the projects that attempt to use it as a dependency struggle." heh
mircea_popescu: half way, because if the public interface is compromised it still sees all your emails.
mircea_popescu: this can be repeated as many times as you wish, and it can also be used as an otr process (just make new key for each exchange).
mircea_popescu: 3) you send mail to 1 using 2 and including pubkey for your new key.
mircea_popescu: 2) you generate - SECURELY (see airgap guide etc) a new keypair for yourself
mircea_popescu: 1) you find the public key of the public interface you wish to use
mircea_popescu: as a side note : secure comunication via gpg works as follows :
mircea_popescu: PeterL sure, there's nothing but convenience requiring it.
mircea_popescu: Looking forward, however, I think of GPG as a very dangerous technology that really has to go away if we're serious about making it impossible for journalists, their sources, activists and other enemies of the state to survive in a NSA/TSA/ETC-only world."
mircea_popescu: Today, journalists use GPG to communicate with sources securely, activists use it to coordinate world wide, and software companies use it to help secure their infrastructure. Some really heroic people have put in an enormous amount of effort to get us here, at substantial personal cost, and with little support.
mircea_popescu: "nobody else" as in, all people are equal, getting a 50k elite out of a 4mn aspirational set out of a 1bn population is somehow unexpected and un-natural.
mircea_popescu: "Worse, it turns out that nobody else found all this stuff to be fascinating. Even though GPG has been around for almost 20 years, there are only ~50,000 keys in the “strong set,” and less than 4 million keys have ever been published to the SKS keyserver pool ever. By today’s standards, that’s a shockingly small user base for a month of activity, much less 20 years."
mircea_popescu: the oil and the water are separating, and no welfarist state-sponsored mixer can do anything abotu the accelerating rate.
mircea_popescu: "There just seems to be something particular about people who try GPG and conclude that it’s a realistic path to introducing private communication in their lives for casual correspondence with strangers. Increasingly, it’s a club that I don’t want to belong to anymore." << well... granted, eh.
mircea_popescu: "That a public education system could disgorge untold legions of literate, numerate, and motivated graduates is beyond their collective comprehension. How unlucky the Caucasoid races are to have all the kids with learning disabilities."
mircea_popescu: this is exactly wrong. indigence is the state of being worthless.
mircea_popescu: til internet dictionaries define indigence as "the state of being poor".
mircea_popescu: in unrelated news, chetty just found a layered bug in the stack eulora uses. one bug prevented the functionality (wrong pointer reference) ; the other bug prevented the previous bug from crashing every single machine all the time.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo and you know, if you follow the course of events, #1 we went to anti-uspoettering debvian chan
mircea_popescu: at this rate indiancandy1 is getting replaced with madonna on the short term.
mircea_popescu: that b-a drives "biutcoin foundation" policy is not even remarkable. that assets like the marlinspike dood are thrown in the fray to try and prevent a wot based republic however...
mircea_popescu: anyway, the speed at which the entire world seems to be coagulating around us is nothing short of impressive.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell bitstein in a purely ops perspective, it's always a bad idea to link those you disagree with. replace with a link to something you agree to. @moxie knows what he wrote.
mircea_popescu: (we, of course, which prolly means we're redoing the sks too)
mircea_popescu: "the alleged hacking of SIM card encryption keys" eh ?
mircea_popescu: time for some non-white colonisation failures after all.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel that's the plan. it won't work, but anyway.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the idea is that you have someone trading you 1 joule of fuel for half joule of electricity.
mircea_popescu: "hey, let's make it into the south pre 1830, then they can be invaded by lincoln v2.0 and have detroit!"
mircea_popescu: it's been selected for 250k years for suckage. no fixing that.
mircea_popescu: PeterL the problem is : africa is essentially "they who stayed". those always suck.
mircea_popescu: how exactly different from us research you think that is ?
mircea_popescu: no, it wouldn't. africa, as unfortunately and politically unpleasant that sounds, probably sucks because genetics.
mircea_popescu: chinese politburo isn't going around publicly and internationally humiliating us president with a monthly frequency.