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mircea_popescu: nobody ever said "if i'm ever in a fire i'll have bigger problems than this tiny fire hydrant can solve"
mircea_popescu: that's not how you build effectual deterrence. that's how you set yourself up to shrem.
mircea_popescu: they must PAY To have such articles published. in that they're fraud.
mircea_popescu: cazalla not particularly. unless you either have exclusivity, a scoop or actual documents,
mircea_popescu: the one with "too important, i didn;t recognize him" had me rolling on the floor lol
mircea_popescu: that's the female prayer, thank you allah for not having made me sheep (beast of field)
mircea_popescu: it's a huge no-no. you can't go into afterlife anymore.
mircea_popescu: i dunno how inclined teh arabs would be to fight if losing means they're eaten.
mircea_popescu: i wonder what the us army would look like on the ground if they actually started eating the afghanistani.
mircea_popescu: TomServo welll... some guy i never heard of presented on some webpage i never saw before as important, turns out he's another gavin, doing parlour tricks atparties and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: cazalla no, but i am not an egotist. i think of my fellow man
mircea_popescu: if illegalizing things did anything i'd make mosquitoes illegal
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski government is the junior partner by tradition / legislation
mircea_popescu: the solution are as always : either make the senior much richer (which really is not feasible) or break the relationship.
mircea_popescu: it's an unstable situation this, where the supposedly senior rulemaker is cheaper to buy than the supposedly junior partner.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski it would seem the story there isthat obama knows that congress can be bought quite cheaply
mircea_popescu: herpy-derp an' a bottle of rum... well not rum. ginger ale.
mircea_popescu: "here's the temperatures in the past 30 years. on the basis of this, here's how the temperatures woud have been in the past 5000 years, if our presupositions are correct. on the basis of this, here's the story of the future : our presupositions are correct"
mircea_popescu: it's not even "easy-difficulty" it's now "better-difficult". fucking psychotic generation already.
mircea_popescu: "why do we interact with the fantastic representations in our head rather than with the flesh and blood woman before us ? IT IS EASIER!"
mircea_popescu: "The reason for doing this is that we can better reason about the output of a CSPRNG; by contrast, it is difficult to reason about the output of the entropy source." << gotta love the sweet innocence on display here tho.
mircea_popescu: In the immortal rights of Moss, Goddamn right, that's right. Guys come on: "Oh, the blah blah blah, I know what I'll do: I'll go in and rob everyone blind and go to Argentina cause nobody ever thought of this before."
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski you're missing the point. he won't be there in 2025.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> why these folks renamed it, i cannot say. << guess/
mircea_popescu: <kakobrekla> and mp had direct contact with the man iirc << who this again ?
mircea_popescu: "LSU football equipment is leased to student-athetes, who are not allowed to give it away or sell it." fucking outrage.
mircea_popescu: "So let’s learn from the Swiss. They’ve been careful; they’ve maintained sound money for generations. And now they’re paying the price."
mircea_popescu: it's kind-of remarkable (not really) just how self-labeling stupidity actually is. the difference between trying to "explain yourself" as an idiot and simply wearing a lot of large "hey everyone, i'm the idiot!" signs and tags is hard to notice.
mircea_popescu: they were left on this other side with nobody, and putin.
mircea_popescu: those people just failed to "enter the looking glass world" when "everybody" did.
mircea_popescu: that what the us considers important thinkers have no access to basic data, because they're isolated on a WoI, should speak volumes.
mircea_popescu: "And for three years it worked. But on Thursday the Swiss suddenly gave up. We don’t know exactly why; nobody I know believes the official explanation, that it’s a response to a weakening euro. " << ha-ha. everyone you DON'T know knows the explanation. it was published on fucking trilema for crissakes, not even as a news item.
mircea_popescu: Hey! This page will never end! Just keep on scrolling to see more posts! < lol busted. anyway! i guess it goes back i nthe pile that has been holding "open transactyions" since about 2011.
mircea_popescu: "With the two attacks we thwarted in 2014, the GUI development had to take a bit of a backseat." << in depth description ? links ? somehow for me to evaluate if they're due to the world being full of idiots (ddos ?) or the devs being idiots (we were using ruby!!1)
mircea_popescu: in any case it'd benefit from an explanation of itself.
mircea_popescu: (when what looks like a term of art has basically two apparently divorced meanings via google, it's suspicious if they don't seem mutually aware)
mircea_popescu: "OpenAlias is different. Not only does it "square Zooko's triangle" " << the entire discusison of that thing (my mind went, ok, let's try and poke one particular thing and see" is nice and all for the zooko discussion, but a) it's not clear to me what's the relation to open alias corporation if any
mircea_popescu: Testing infrastructure consists of a Mac Mini hosted at MacStadium, as well as a beefy testing box hosted at Hetzner in Germany, on which we have a number of VMs for the various operating systems and variants we target. >> much better.
mircea_popescu hated that "illustrative" graph too. fucking sleek but meaningless graphics.
mircea_popescu: 35 weeks of development (245 days) since Monero was inherited by the Core Team 594 separate commits << inherited by whom ? how ? if that inherited had linked to a gpg signed testament...
mircea_popescu: this would explain the shockingly large 50 btc donations figure for an altcoin i guess.
mircea_popescu: aid at all, but we've put a significant amount of funds into Monero)."
mircea_popescu: "Expenditure for the year comprised of 3 totals as some costs could not be settled in BTC or were preferably settled in XMR. Our expenditure was 190.513492 BTC + 1 891.31 XMR + US $5 732.80, which is around the 212 BTC mark. Thus the shortfall of 164.5 BTC was paid out of the Core Team's own pockets in the hopes of recovering the funds later on (ie. just in case anyone was wondering, not only do the core team not get p
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo " So far it hasn't been enforced due to its extreme vagary, but in the unstable environment of applied United States law. Not with the sudden resurgence of threats to invoke the All Writs Act reentering the public discourse in late 2014."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform lol always great to read the comedy gold classics every time us policy backfires massively.
mircea_popescu: you can trivially make it out of silicone. it'll suck.
mircea_popescu: there must be some shop left somewhere that still does it. they make chain mail by hand and whatnot, i can't imagine shoemakers all died out.
mircea_popescu: twenty years ago you could have leather shoes made by design to order in quantities of one, up in harlem.
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic they look to me like a steel frame tied to the calf and foot.
mircea_popescu: because somehow inexplicably cuntpuss has purchasing power. for shame.
mircea_popescu: hard to be found and find peers when drowning in sewage & assorted cuntpuss
mircea_popescu: now if in question were shoes... or rifles... but they aren't, are they.