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mircea_popescu: undata see, this is why you should go work for me making 0.18 btc an hour.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: yes because even more pretending will save the world << my fucking thoughts exactly.
mircea_popescu: undata: please take my course on the above for only 10 BTC << too cheap to work.
mircea_popescu: because yes, there fucking IS more to it than just the politicals of uncle sam going "o hai linux guise, you has some cattle of mine, taking them back kthxbye"
mircea_popescu: jurov: this is the undoing of C.. due to its memory unsafety they must decide to either bloat the kernel or suffer the overhead <<< out of the 10`000 billion lines of commentary written on the "usg is making up money and giving it to redhat to implement its policies ; whereby control economy is now called "do-ocracy" topic the past year or so, yours is the first one to actually be fucking sensible.
mircea_popescu: should make for pretty decent shows for like, corporate parties and expensive weddings and whatnot. And now, Billy Bob, the Ice Mage!
mircea_popescu: in any case... the high fantasy power of the ice / frost mage, at your fingertips. all you need is a compressor.
mircea_popescu: perhaps works even better at the bottom of a shallow lake. "self-reorganising lake".
mircea_popescu: as the gas expanding sucks heat out of the canister, ice forms, which insulates, so eventually the gas coming out the outlet is itself supercooled, sucking the heat out of the atmosphere and making ice in random patterns. baiscally, "self-building ice tree"
mircea_popescu: then open up an outlet in a convenient atmosphere, such as where a mist machine is working, or maybe just very humid tropical climate,
mircea_popescu: so here's an idea i just had : if one were to take a gas with favourable properties (such as high phase lambda, low evaporation temperature, stuff like that) and put a bunch of it liquefied in a canister
mircea_popescu: in spite of having had some good points, mounted on the chick's chest.
mircea_popescu: the girl gets shoved in and he gets to stay behind the rope.
mircea_popescu: it's sort of like the beta dork showing up with his hot sister at the exclusive bar.
mircea_popescu: it's funny how they always proceed with this "chiken can eat the highway" outlook.
mircea_popescu: there's kinda no way out of the "i don't want to pay attention, why don't i understand anything" trap.
mircea_popescu: kuzetsa yeah i guess it's way too web 2.0 for its own good.
mircea_popescu: but then again, they never wanted to make a good game ; they just wanted to make a game everyone plays, and pays .
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03 i agree, they had the most braindamaged administrative approach
mircea_popescu: III. Until rock hits sixty at which point rock becomes an unstoppable killing machine that also beats paper, and would beat scissors, but it can't find scissors, because scissors are invisible. So scissors beat paper and avoid rock, and that is called balance.
mircea_popescu: II. Paper beats rock. Scissors beat paper. Scissors also happen to beat rock...
mircea_popescu: I. Rogues are scissors. Warriors are rock. Hunters, paladins, priests, druids, mages, and shamans are paper. Warlocks are mushrooms.
mircea_popescu: decimation> it's 'dead' in the sense that there's apparently no serious alternative to redhat-salaried developers who 'maintain' the core of userspace <<< history is the alternative.
mircea_popescu: i suppose the only point being proven is that insecure idiots, low on skills and very high on politicizing are never going to go away.
mircea_popescu: decimation basically this systemd is a ms windows of 1990s reboot.
mircea_popescu: and hidemyass is probably the most used web based proxy
mircea_popescu: <kuzetsa> assbot: you're a bad idea << if you'd have read the logs you'd know there was some derp in chan earlier dropping links to leech ips to ddos people.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> opera is a vastly superior browser <<< i been sayin'.
mircea_popescu: they'd make great soviet bureaucrats, if only there existed a soviet soyuz for them to run into the ground.
mircea_popescu: all things considered, i would say this is a reasonable summary of the business acumen of your average argentinian.
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding actual gold use is 1% or less of the metal in circulation, and usually less than production.
mircea_popescu: adlai those are mostly in india, and they have a huge problem keeping supplies up
mircea_popescu: it's like the proposition that there's an open market in police work. no, there isn't, not for as long as an agent steals any of it that it feels like and torches the efforts of anyone else.
mircea_popescu: still, been in teh army and can speak chinese by 22 ? you're way ahead of teh curve.
mircea_popescu: that's pretty young. i thought we had a coupla teens tho.
mircea_popescu: "market discipline" being you know, just this boogaboo to scare argentina with
mircea_popescu: and so the scammers of all stripes and colors, under the high patronage of the united states government, keep doing great business.
mircea_popescu: other than that, germany is always happy to think that a claim, no matter how unlikely, to "its gold" is more valuable to it than blowing the scam open.
mircea_popescu: in the entire history of that fucking thing, there's like, one case where the "i'll pay a little sometime when i can" thing blew up, and that was when mpoe-pr prosecuted harnett's "bank
mircea_popescu: decimation here's the thing with scammers, in bitcoin or otherwise : to the chump, a "claim" is worth as much as it can be pretended into being worth. and so, to chump-germany or to random tardstalk "investor", it is actually better to credit the scammer ("oh, they'll repay eventually) than to enforce the loss.
mircea_popescu: you srsly just went "we'll see how it goes for employees, maybe 50 btc in danny's wallet is a great thing for them" ?
mircea_popescu: except bitcoin makes it plainly obvious in its stupidity.
mircea_popescu: so it works EXACTLY the same, they're just doing what they're used to
mircea_popescu: (you see this money in "your" 401k in my wallet ? it's yours i promise!)
mircea_popescu: people are just doing what they're used to, and then they're surprised when it doesn't work. it didn't work before, either, but hey, still in denial about that part.
mircea_popescu: adlai: "He is also in possession of personal bitcoins of two employees (~50 bitcoins)" how do things go this far wrong? << it's called "shut up and take my money". aka, people are uncannily inept.
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03: i wonder if im the youngest asset-er << how old are you ?
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03: the tricky part is speaking it, i often sub in canto words by abusing tones and i don't realize im doing it << dude's got some problems i can scarcely imagine.
mircea_popescu: scam ddos, it does nothing by itself, it just hopes and prays maybe someone gives a shit so that the "countermeasures" actually do some damage.
mircea_popescu: i mean i'm tempted to ban ll and psychouroboros just so i don't have to watch three lines per hour or w/e.
mircea_popescu: not like we want the sort of noobs it filters out anyways.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla dude this ratpoison business is making join/part swarm literally 300% worse. just turn it off, it ain't worth it.
mircea_popescu: mats_cd03: imma buy some buttcoins << a man with a plan.
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: well. i mean, you can pickle and ferment anything, but i doubt regular cabbage would be any good <<< are you fucking kidding me ? regular cabbage, without none of this fish sauce crap, is THE THING.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Fuck your superfood shit. You know what's a read superfood? Lard. Much energy to mass ratio. << every cockroach's favorite food, too.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: i wonder if it walks like as well << now we know how slovenia makes its politicians. people just take walking, talking shits.