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mircea_popescu: this entire "don't let people in" is purely a welfare state thing. romania is not one.
mircea_popescu: decimation: wonder how many lei it takes to get the local romaninan police to 'overlook' your immigration << it's a civilised country. if you don't break the law they don't care. if you show up at the border without proper paperwork you get fined 500 lei (~100 euro) and generally forbidden to reenter for 5 years.
mircea_popescu: being kept under wraps because whatever, can't go out saying the us caused a war atrocity and a refugee wave.
mircea_popescu: decimation: " In a Facebook post that was quickly deleted, Defense Minister Stepan Poltorak wrote: “According to unofficial sources, hostels and motels in border regions of neighboring Romania are completely filled with draft dodgers.” << this is true. romania took in like 50k refugees.
mircea_popescu: "where they are met either with a mass of angry villagers, who refuse to let them take anyone" so czar's army, this.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo nah, moar like
http 2 is basically a rushed "let's reimplement spdy"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: focus is expensive. << he is on to something.
mircea_popescu: decimation: ah google is going to drop SPDY and fully support HTTPbis << if any of teh strategic minds in attendance care to explain this to me i'd apprecfiate it
mircea_popescu: omfg i step out for pie, i come back, all the lines out of whack!
mircea_popescu: this is like asking wyatt earp "how do you distinguish between the f brothers and stray dog"
☟︎☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: poses exactly the same problems to the poser as the wot poses to the scammer.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in a meta sense, the way we write had been a wot all along.
mircea_popescu: if you look at the link thrown around in here a coupla days ago when it was being discussed, has a bunch of bibliographical wankery i snipped.
mircea_popescu: text that can actually not be textually reprocessed into usable text.
mircea_popescu: i suppose this is actually a never-before encountered problem : text that has meaning! IN LAYERS!
mircea_popescu: generally derpage doesn't get nuked until it becomes militantly stupid. bluemeanie got nuked earlier.
mircea_popescu: btw, someone edit that wiki page to reflect the assbot wotness ? who got perms ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i had a whole digg thing for the .ro market, ran on "credits", backed by paypal.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i haven't / don't intend to because a) anyone who can grasp the abstraction already knows it ; b) anyone likely to benefit from the description probably can't read.
mircea_popescu: jurov for lulz, masina = machine is how you say car in romanian.
mircea_popescu buys ballgag factory shares. cleary there's a future for these.
mircea_popescu: and there's obviously no defense. valid txn will be relayed.
mircea_popescu: 2.67 gb a day extra. whatever that costs, every node is stuck with it.
mircea_popescu: very cheap way to attack the gavincoin, too. 20-1 = 19, so then each day costs an extra
mircea_popescu: if they end up being larger, it becomes more of an attack. if they're large enough, sure, you can deny usage of the network this way.
mircea_popescu: today it's not a particularly valuable dos attack on bitcoin because whatever, 1mb blocks.
mircea_popescu: first time i got a report like this, so mebbe wait and see ? mebbe your mail server's slow ?
mircea_popescu: it's in fact the first paywall on any content site on the internet.
mircea_popescu: also, the paywall on trilema is a) older than bitcoin and b) older than the new york time's.
mircea_popescu: as a general rule : strike out all paragraphs that contain the pronoun "I" see what's left.
mircea_popescu: this doesn't mean me and eight other dudes get to vote on how to use gavin's wife.
mircea_popescu: sure, 9 out of 10 people enjoy themselves at any gangbang.
mircea_popescu: the concept of voting re bitcoin is not unlike the concept of voting re sex.
mircea_popescu: but in any case, "votes" by bs nodes with < 90% uptime is pointless.
mircea_popescu: federated wots best way to un-centralize this problem, i believe.