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mircea_popescu: i guess we go at this the other way then : we play poker, you see five + two cards, i see five + twelve cards.
mircea_popescu: well so if you play 1k hands for an average of 1k a hand and come out 7k ahead is it a good game or a bad game ?
mircea_popescu: mike_c you jus' sayin' or you actually thought about this ?
mircea_popescu: it's been a decent replacement for teflon for a while now.
mircea_popescu: Joseph Bekken was arrested and jailed on charged of attempted misuse of public funds, attempted procurement of prostitution, burglary, using a computer in a scheme to defraud and bribery."
mircea_popescu: "The financial aid director at North Idaho College was arrested this month and fired for offering to trade scholarships for sex with a student. However, the student wasn't real.
mircea_popescu: that guy was probably doing them a favour, whoever they were.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski no but he has a point. making an irc bot excellent coding exercise. i agree, good 1st time thing for intelligent person.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and then when we start hiring, we hire slaves, like anyone hiring. and then the slave-born cry and whine that "oh look, bitcoin's no better".
mircea_popescu: "no you schmuck, you couldn't. as proven by ? didn't."
mircea_popescu: a decade later or w/e, the world can be as full of "i too could have been in" as it pleases, for all the good it'll do anyone.
mircea_popescu: early days of the republic are ALL ABOUT barriers to entry.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i need that like i need more women that'd date me if i paid them a salary for it.
mircea_popescu: he means well, but he doesn't have the tools to examine himself with.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform at the time this was put in, the blockchain was mb not gb.
mircea_popescu: hopefully this alleviates with better pogo density on the network.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron which setup is this again ? pogo and sata ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform my construction (which obviously could be wrong) is that "the authorities" refuse to disclose it "citing privacy concerns"
mircea_popescu: they've really built the most hallucinant re-enaction of the soviets : the guy doesn't have the right to anything EXCEPT he has the right for no one to know how the government fucked him over.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no because see, "to protect identities" this is not reported.
mircea_popescu: not that i mind the arrangement... but in absolute fairness it IS stupid as all fuck.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform then they wonder why they have to pay people immense sums to keep secrets that still don't, and i don't have to pay them anything other than "yeah, yeah, i'll stick it to those dudes".
mircea_popescu: that's the way this world works : normally adjusted individuals on the street, individuals who for whatever reason can't cope, in the coop.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck asked the stupid bitch. if she can't come to terms with the world she should stay in the asylum
mircea_popescu: "t’s devastating to think of a student being unable to walk around campus without having to risk being traumatized by reminders of her rape."
mircea_popescu: "every hand can be a new post. and hwat, you password protect it, so there's security"
mircea_popescu: "WizSec has been investigating the MtGox crash since soon after it occurred, making us probably the longest running non-official investigation."
mircea_popescu: (dja know the joke with "what, you think medicine has not progressed in the interval ?!?!")
mircea_popescu: i guess social sciences have made some progresses over the years ?
mircea_popescu: dem pres obama supports the OTHER side in the ukr conflict.
mircea_popescu: haha it is kinda reversed huh ? democrat pres clinton supported one side in the serb-bosnian conflict,
mircea_popescu: my point is... they who tell the story and then act on the story are responsible toanswer as to their own consistency.
mircea_popescu: mno. for that matter, i didn't watch my own birth happen, either.
mircea_popescu: somehow THIS is acceptable to the "democratic west". what wasn't acceptable was you know, gaddafi an' his harem.
mircea_popescu: then killed his kids, then the kids' kids, like fiddy bodies by now.
mircea_popescu: that guy is nuts btw, check this out : he kicked his uncle out of power, if you recall ? the guy who pretty much made him succeed.
mircea_popescu: but i think it'd pretty much require best kim involvement for that result.
mircea_popescu: yeah yeah, i recall, the usms "auction" where they forgot to publish the results, in spite of foia, and their late promise to respect foia on an arbitrary extralegal self appointed date.
mircea_popescu: noooo, you're telling me tim draper "won" the "auciton" ? again ?
mircea_popescu: well... the problem is the previous attempt failed on pretty much exactly the same lines. who is this friend, why's he not in the wot etc.
mircea_popescu: dignork cool, but what i'm really looking for is someone to do the site.
mircea_popescu: new generation of mouthbreathers every what, 5 years ?
mircea_popescu: the fucking lesson of "do not create content on a platorm you don't control" is never being learned is it.
mircea_popescu: mages into their videos without handing Google a cut of the revenue."
mircea_popescu: "A YouTube representative called this revision a clarification of its existing policy, one that occurred late last year, intended to prevent advertiser conflicts and ensure viewers don’t feel bombarded by ads. Paul Kontonis, executive director of the Global Online Video Association, however framed it as an explicit change that prevents YouTube stars and multichannel networks from working prominent sponsor logos and i
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: height=210431 vs height=186701 << is it about 10k a day or am i sorely misreading the numbers ?
mircea_popescu: dude, if i tell you it's solved... what, want me to pay you an escrow on it ?