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mircea_popescu: i mean, tests, sure, provable code, sure, random tests, sure.
mircea_popescu: i'm sort of pondering creating a "compare openssl / polarssl / blockstream ec implementations" research project
mircea_popescu: but yes openssl is warty. especially for this use. and heck, more tests... never hurt.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i very much doubt nullc actually has any idea as to what's going on, apart from being in the room when it was explained and now typing words on reddit. and i doubt wuille actually did anything deliberately nefarious there.
mircea_popescu: well, don't burn out. intelligence is relatively common
mircea_popescu: so if you had to guess, how many previously innocent reddit read your comment and figured "hmm... there's something here" ?
mircea_popescu: it doesn't plead in favour for your intelligence, but it is certainly noble.
mircea_popescu: but i do respect the sort of idiot that will actually go in there and do that sort of thing.
mircea_popescu: you know, i despise reddit, and that thing's a fine example, like are many others.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony that you in there, pointing out gmaxwell's idiocy ?
mircea_popescu: davout there exists something like that already, "gavin's orphan chain won't die before 50 block long"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i forget, what was the bitcoin bowl thing cost ?
mircea_popescu: "That's quite publicity for MP for a mere 5 BTC (he owns half bitbet), maybe less. (It's obvious that bitcoin will go up faster, so not many will bet no)"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: lulzy anyway. cazalla pops their bubble, they go kill some dude in indiana ?
mircea_popescu: lmao wait, garza's scamcoin now has an army on top of all the other things it doesn't have ?
mircea_popescu: lucky asciilifeform is out of bitcoin, can't put nething down :D
mircea_popescu: more like it's one of those viruses for which the capsid plays so many functions, it's not really anything without it
mircea_popescu: there's no intrinsic quality that makes a text string "science". it's the signature on it. a repository of anon derpage can be an encyclopedia like a pile of ascari lumbricoides can be my wife.
mircea_popescu: then people want to know why retardopedia is not a source of information. this is why. because in the mouths of the stupid, even good sense loses itself.
mircea_popescu: not by humans. and it doesn't properly fit allogenic succession definition, but because, like the putative anthropogenic climate change that allegedly is being prevented by that dumb teenager in the snow up in the log, is caused by fucking living things.
mircea_popescu: totally. except the only climate change documented to date is caused BY FUCKING BACTERIA
mircea_popescu: check out idiotpedia : "An allogenic succession can be brought about in a number of ways which can include: Volcanic eruptions Meteor or comet strike Flooding Drought Earthquakes Non-anthropogenic climate change"
mircea_popescu: if that's not the 3rd millenium united states i have no idea what is.
mircea_popescu: vaccine doesn't work, but that's ok, because the thing it "protects " against doesn't really happen.
mircea_popescu: and then let's sell a vaccine for it. which is a shitload more expensive than a useful one, like the polio one.
mircea_popescu: this is perhaps the best example of bs. first off, idiot us derps are more affraid of pain than anytihng. so let's create this fantastic disease which CAN HURT REALLY BAD
mircea_popescu: but, just like in the case of shittywood and so on, the actual creatives get 1.5% and tjhey gotta be in a union for that even.
mircea_popescu: and i fat least all this embezzled money went into research, you know ? all the idiots that gave themselves zona zooster because "medicine" and "Science" could at least serve humanity.
mircea_popescu: but you gotta sell crap for 200 bux a pop or w/e it is
mircea_popescu: anyway, "got shingles from the merck vaccine ? O ITS JUS TAN ALLERGIC REACTION WILL GO AWAY"
mircea_popescu: i am deeply amused at how everything's "an allergic reaction" now.
mircea_popescu: speaking of horrible us pharma crapola that's ended up giving vaccines a bad name in the us, and the people who (properly!) refuse vaccination now get to be depicted as redneck savages because o noes, vaccines are great (they would be, and they were before us companies got involved) :
mircea_popescu: if anything that delivery is the explanation of why the fuck the call was even necessary.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the reason they pushed for lowering inventory is probably exactly the fact that they keep ending up with shit that doesn'tsell because it expires.
mircea_popescu: zostavax is notorious for being the main source of shingles in the us, but that's another story.
mircea_popescu: that's why the shop exists. if it doesn't do that, it can dangle.
mircea_popescu: that's not how business works. the shop is in the business of solving hq's problems. all of them.
mircea_popescu: i suppose the error is the bizarre notion that headquarters is in the business of doing the shop's job, only they have better tools ?
mircea_popescu: the two are unrelated tho. they had some shit about to expire. of coruse it gets sent out.
mircea_popescu: (bum goes to donate blood. "do you have aids ?" "no. do you ?" "actually... yes." "gimme two.")