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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: 'Please could we stick to the technical aspects of this problem. Attempts to apportion responsibilty rarely lead anywhere.' << immediately shoot in the head anyone saying this. help make the world a better place.
mircea_popescu: the problem with those being singularly that they diverge from the world.
mircea_popescu: except the usg is not a version of the world, it's merely a version of graham & co's beliefs.
mircea_popescu: he succeeded as an easy money usg moocher, which is i suppose something he justifies to himself as "being an expert in a later version of the world"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes "To some extent, yes. I spent almost a decade investing in early stage startups, and curiously enough protecting yourself against obsolete beliefs is exactly what you have to do to succeed as a startup investor." << yes, you miss the part where he never succeeded as a start-up investor.
mircea_popescu: decimation: asciilifeform: either from ore or paying the ransom required to get intel et. al. to completely open the design for a chipset <<< or else simply sony-ing it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: afaik every word of the history of the two koreas available in the english language, since the first days leading up to the war, is a cheap fabrication.<< in no way different from the same words available in juche language
mircea_popescu: i'd watch that, and that's the first entertainment sony ever made that i'd watch.
mircea_popescu: that'd be the lulz of all time tho, sony sueing microsoft for lost revenues etc.
mircea_popescu: decimation: no word on whether microsoft is going to be held liable for ridiculously poor engineering < :)))
mircea_popescu: and all the agents involved, as well as the plethora of idiots, will just duly update their cv to reflect their certified expertise and act as if you know, they know shit.
mircea_popescu: decimation: asciilifeform: I doubt there will be a 'day of reckoning' w.r.t. tor. it will just turn off and the derps will move on << pretty much exactly.
mircea_popescu: what will it do in 2025, when you will ostensibly still wish to eat ? to avoid daily beatings ? to not be fed, live, to specially prepared hungry pigs ?
mircea_popescu: how secure can one feel, as a mid range us bureaucrat, given these revelations ? the usg can not protect you, yo.
mircea_popescu: note it took them HALF A YEAR to figure out we actually do know where they live.
mircea_popescu: decimation: It's good that reporters apologize for asking questions, makes the situation clear for the little people <<< seriously, since when does the press EVEN GO to prepared statement and catering sort of affairs ?
mircea_popescu: the fbi as it currently stands has not the werewithal to extract itself from a paper bag. and i mean that literally, if i kidnapped them all and dropped them in rural kansas they'd prolly never make it back to headquarters.
mircea_popescu: that stuff happens once all the actual agents left, and the remaining bureaucrats understandably have no self respect or career spirit.
mircea_popescu: i mean, seriously. what agency in the history of that business would ever, under any circumstances, make such a ridiculous blunder ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform seriously, if this meta-nsa exists, how come the fbi is this impotent ?
mircea_popescu: "kakobrekla: On a good note, Judge Rakoff called me a brilliant visionary and that he admires my brainpower. #bitcoin" << shrem's retarded, basically.
mircea_popescu: im sure it'll work out so very differently from the first version, because yes, totally, people matter and their desires change reality.
mircea_popescu: so basically doge v2.0, because the fucktards must have a "moon rocket".
mircea_popescu: "Hey friends, reddit cryptocurrency engineer here. The post is deliberately vague about technology and legal. For one, we're holding back on committing to a particular technology just because the bitcoin world changes very fast, and we want to make sure we pick the right choice. However, almost certainly it will be either colored coins or sidechains."
mircea_popescu: "The nation would be well-served to elevate Bharara from the "Sheriff of Wall Street" to chief federal law-enforcement officer."
mircea_popescu: they even have the unmitigated audacity to add that violation of the indian diplomat on his cv as if it were a positive.
mircea_popescu: yep, the roland freiser thing is quite on point. fucking fatlogic, well done cnn.
mircea_popescu: "10 reasons Preet Bharara should be the next attorney general" "Investment banks were most responsible for the devastating economic downturn, yet the costs of their opportunistic behavior were placed on the shoulders of everyday Americans, who lost jobs, retirement savings, and confidence in the market."
mircea_popescu: "This was a single Windows executable with well over a hundred man-years of blood, sweat and tears invested in it." idiot, srsly.
mircea_popescu: the guy's lying through his teeth, michael o church style ?
mircea_popescu: "They spent several months testing my code, comparing its performance with their old database, which was pretty primitive but known to be reliable." vs "If their application went down for even a day, it would cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars. This was a common occurrence, as their existing application was pretty buggy."
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: BitBet mixer is why I thought prop stakes were refunded minus fee << that's like advanced class.
mircea_popescu: "hi, i had my tits done at your clinic two weeks ago but my husband left me for a younger woman anyway so i'd like a refund now because you didn't provide a service".
mircea_popescu: i suppose if there wasn't an obamacare "you don't have to pay your own medical bills" the us consumer'd "have come to expect" that he only pays if the surgery/treatment is successful.
mircea_popescu: i suppose providing a service doesn't count as providing a service except in those cases where the beneficiary is happy with the outcome or something ?
mircea_popescu: crybabi: but i won't be using bitbet again, charging a fee when you don't provide a service is no way to run a business << o.O
mircea_popescu: decimation mats : the situation with freenode is that it's basically a sinking ship / abandoned tech. the few hanger ons do not actually have the werewithal to do anything other than push the levers, which they sort-of understand how to do, but various rooms are constantly being sealed off because "it's too much". it's indubitable that freenode will eventually sink, and it won't take it decades, for this very reason.
mircea_popescu: same reason napoleon tried to invade moscow not magnitogorsk, same reason the barricades went up in paris not derpue-sur-herpoise
mircea_popescu: decimation: although one wonders why mr. spam targets this channel instead of -otc << this is worth something.
mircea_popescu: "asciilifeform: no actual human transmits $maxint whatevers from a single ip per second/hour/etc" except a) yes they do and b) 4kb should be enough for everyone.
mircea_popescu: there's also 723 pieces of email thanking me or otherwise discussing the wordpress hole. since the 16th.
mircea_popescu: there's like... 6 different ones from ninjashogun AFTER hanbot wrote that post.
mircea_popescu: occasionally there's some sec "senior attorney" gofer. the vast majority is X dude who doesn't like the fact that trilema maintains a copy of whatever stupid evil shit he did a few years ago and figures "hey, a few years ago means it never happened"
mircea_popescu: cazalla i get between a few and a dozen poorly cobbled together "legal threats" each week.
mircea_popescu: PeterL: so instead of just saying "eauth peterl", now we will say "eauth peterl <signature by key goes here>"? << conceivably, you'd say something like .rate url exactly hjow notary bot [used to] work
mircea_popescu: nanotube: it is being worked on. but have a lot of other stuff on my plate. once everything is signed, there will not even be a need for something like "auth". <<< this is a good point. having identity implemented as a stateful thing is mindboggling anyway. stuff like cloaks and so on pale in comparison.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: even if you do, there is no guarantee that other readers see the same thing you see << yeah, there is.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: re: wot: (question to all present) - how often do you re-read your own wot history? << weekly.
mircea_popescu: security is not reducible to "build a really thick steel plate"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: PeterL: you have to - yes. mr i-owned-fleanode nsa clerk - no. <<< yes, let him do this, love to see it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: (i'd love to hear a rationale for it) << people other than nanotube are keeping track of the various scammers trying to use gribble.
mircea_popescu: there's a lot of benefit for any 7yo in having a close friend that lost some appendages to heavy machinery.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: that sucks << there's a lot more depth to this point than meets the eye. us children are inept these days first and foremost because they have been removed from the workplace in the 50s and 60s, under the guise of "safety" and the general nonsense where "Everything must be separated" that also yielded zoning laws etc.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: the solution being, we lock them out. << "if we kill all the babies, we will in fact have reduced infant mortality to an unmatchable 0 in subsequent years"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: mike_c: sure. <<< tis melting like april snow, the case.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, the project does need more resources. if you feel like reading and submitting the thing, signed, jurov's keeping the list and erryone'd be moar than happy.
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic in theory there is no difference between theory and practice.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: i think the main issue is he wont be able to take credit. << omfg the slanders.
mircea_popescu: mod6 it is somewhat used. not that widely. then again, linuxkernel is widely used. so what of it.
mircea_popescu: decimation: freenode seems to attract folks like mr. spam << has 0 to do with freenode. everything sweet attracts gnats.
mircea_popescu: honestly i don't even know that the raw transaction power ranger implementation was ever read by anyone.
mircea_popescu: mod6 at some point the code transforms an user indicated tx into an actual tx.
mircea_popescu: and since the fiat world mostl yexists as a staging scene for various social engineering attacks, from preet bharara onwards, this isn't a good design.