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mircea_popescu: i have half a dozen laptops which i use... maybe a day a season, or something, between the lot.
mircea_popescu: it went from 16 to 64 bits, sure, but otherwise the box is exactly the same size even
mircea_popescu: i guess im a reactionary. i own, substantially, the exact kind of machine i had as a child.
mircea_popescu: good god. a cloud of now useless paper, and a criminal eyed mp
mircea_popescu: and the worst thing a maid could do is drop a wreath of books on the way to shelving
mircea_popescu: as in, have someone to (cut, if uncut) and prefill with blank paper.
mircea_popescu: in the book days i used to have my books filled with papers.
mircea_popescu: in short, i know of no other process involving the noggin than the full process.
mircea_popescu: but my mental life is not compartimentalized, like kitchen.
mircea_popescu: decimation my poinbt being, i can't really do anything of the intellect without the whole computer.
mircea_popescu: o wait, this is like a woman that's useful as long as another woman is around ?
mircea_popescu: but fine, the notes : suppose you now want to write an article. how do you type, and how do you send it to trilema ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and if you need to bash something what do you do ?
mircea_popescu: "And yet somehow the ruling class decayed, lost its ability, its daring, finally even its ruthlessness, until a time came when stuffed shirts like Eden or Halifax could stand out as men of exceptional talent. As for Baldwin, one could not even dignify him with the name of stuffed shirt. He was simply a hole in the air. "
mircea_popescu: myeah. obviously point meant as a general - and thus indefensible - jab >
mircea_popescu: nobody else could make ti pocket calculators for lack of ti chip documentation. leaving alone why anyone would want to, after ti paid for tha someone to build their plants.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no but it makes them because "it controls the ip" or how did that line go/
mircea_popescu: 'I don't want to join the bloody Army, I don't want to go unto the war; I want no more to roam, I'd rather stay at home, Living on the earnings of a whore.'
mircea_popescu: i condone all violence that doesn't sit around waiting for my condonement.
mircea_popescu: set it to go off whenever a large collection of radiodildoes, phones and toy cars goes over it
mircea_popescu: um... wouldn't you just set the bomb to go off when the jammer goes by ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform heh reuters has a yearlong delay off trilema huh.
mircea_popescu: people's disenchantment with their own wives isn't predicated on the theory that somewhere there's a sane woman waiting.
mircea_popescu: to get an idea, picture blackberry today. in romanian it'd be "state ipad"
mircea_popescu: decimation they probably manifest that list of qualities which made "state' such a damning adjective in romanian.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think this is the best proof possible that current usg does not expect to survive more than a few years into the future anyway.
mircea_popescu: and what's better, since they are re=used, you needn't only worry about your own indiscretions, but those of people long dead
mircea_popescu: so basically, by pulling a ssn out of my arse i have just about 1:2 odds of hitting someone
mircea_popescu: ahem. 9 digits are going to be sufficient for 300mn people ?
mircea_popescu: "What is Social Security Number (SSN) Randomization? The project is a forward looking initiative of the Social Security Administration (SSA) to help protect the integrity of the SSN by establishing a new randomized assignment methodology. SSN Randomization will also extend the longevity of the nine-digit SSN nationwide."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: well, you may not believe this or like this, but... my banking depends on my gpg signature o.O
mircea_popescu: decimation well... secret in the sense you're supposed to keep your genitals secret neh ?
mircea_popescu: !rate lobbes 1 Well... he did teach himself how to view a directory...
mircea_popescu: "From the Desk of Joseph R. Swedish President and CEO Anthem, Inc." << "we now act just like warrior forum scammers - it's the industree"
mircea_popescu: "dear sheep. we lost your mother. we paid off the government agent for a fix. the fix is in. fuck you."
mircea_popescu: "Once the attack was discovered, Anthem immediately made every effort to close the security vulnerability, contacted the FBI and began fully cooperating with their investigation. Anthem has also retained Mandiant, one of the world’s leading cybersecurity firms, to evaluate our systems and identify solutions based on the evolving landscape."
mircea_popescu: mod6 oh the mysterious mp stuff, most of which dates from 2012
mircea_popescu: mod6 yes but see, a 168`000 diddled block is a huge issue, because checkpoint.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes most recent openssl which bitcoind imports decided to accept as valid padded sigs
mircea_popescu: mod6 a remote possibility was that your problem somehow came from a bad block, tho i have/had no idea wtf that'd be
mircea_popescu: BLOCK 000000000000099e61ea72015e79632f216fe6cb33d7899acb35b75c8303b763 << it checks out.
mircea_popescu: trinque: will my btcd still fart transactions at other nodes if I haven't finished syncing the blockchain? << yes.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: phillipsjk: where did you get that key, anyways? did you buy it? << fwiw i believe teh guy's genuine.
mircea_popescu: because they had to spend their time instead discussing how young men should wear a tie.
mircea_popescu: see, they had 30 years locked up, and AS A CONDITION OF THIS LOCK UP they couldn't market it.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes didja get on the part of teh log where the entire d&t think you were discussing with danielpbarron etc is dispelled ?
mircea_popescu: trinque: you want to build your visa? build it on bitcoin, but don't systemd the thing and decide it must have a visa built in << that's not a bnad angle.
mircea_popescu: but in the insane story of post-qe world, it makes it's own sort of sense.