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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if the rats set fire to the lab, what'd you expect they'd burn ? the cages or the files ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: decimation this is true, and you can diagnose it in adults by their reaction to minor destabilisation.
mircea_popescu: it's one of those fundamental apis of reality that'd be implemented in all species-language
mircea_popescu: the mechanism is quite simple : if the males are absent the population is under threat and it must be supported biologically.
mircea_popescu: . “Researchers have revealed a robust association between father absence—both physical and psychological—and accelerated reproductive development and sexual risk-taking in daughters,”
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> drunk man with bottle of absolut heading to scene << lawl.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> conquest's third law: "The simplest way to explain the behavior of any bureaucratic organization is to assume that it is controlled by a cabal of its enemies. " <<< quite.
mircea_popescu: kinda like that guy in prison that had the guards tattooed and whatnot
mircea_popescu: honestly, the only appeal i see to a life in the military is having a bunch of sex slave commanding officers.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't get this. what exactly about being a rabid slut makes a woman unfit to command ?
mircea_popescu: decimation but if they were corruption, it'd be cheaper.
mircea_popescu: excellent example of why corruption is not the worst problem in a state.
mircea_popescu: [The two Democratic fundraisers that Obama attended brought in roughly $3.5 million (source). So it would have been far cheaper for taxpayers if Obama had stayed in Washington and the U.S. Treasury had written a $3.5 million check to the Democratic Party.]
mircea_popescu: then look how the shoulders and arms look of a (always titless) woman that can do 11
mircea_popescu: decimation this makes sense. do the experiment yourself, make juciy ass 21yo chicks do chinups.
mircea_popescu: but, anyway, let anyone fighting a war fight it the way he deems most convenient, who am i to intercede.
mircea_popescu: if his brain is not functioning you need not pay attention to him.
mircea_popescu: man is given voice to hide his thoughts. your enemy is not to be trusted. why would you trust x thing he's SAYING ? sure, maybe it's true, maybe it doesn't realise you're listening. after you use it, he will. if he's too stupid to, you won't need it anyway. if you need it, you probably should not be fighting anyway.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform let me articulate my objection better, out of respect for the attention it's getting.
mircea_popescu: maybe i'm too used to running campaigns where the "enemy" can't even muster the courage to use its materiel.
mircea_popescu: i confess i don't believe in this jit style of military operations.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if you're down to finding out about this trhough its own radio chatter...
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller well they must do something at some point...
mircea_popescu: all this of course presupposes anyone gives a shit as to what fbi agents say to each other.,
mircea_popescu: decimation if you think the shocking stupidity of people like "silk road operators" occurs in a vacuum, let me remind you of the special agent that solved the case by excel spreadsheet.
mircea_popescu: breakage of a cypher that resists to 2**39 time costs roughly speaking a satoshi.
mircea_popescu: decimation just trying to put in perspective the "time" in academic crypto paper.
mircea_popescu: 3TH/s means, for the record, at something like 150 "times" per hash, that the bitcoin network does ~2**50 time as-is.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform we are the folk with acres of crays. like no others.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo why the heck is she involved, wasn't she doing finance ?
mircea_popescu: cause at the time they were desperate for a friend, a relative, anyone, to hide them somewhere lest they be lynched.
mircea_popescu: <mthreat> i know there's a strippers forum online, there's probably a prostitute one too << there';s at least a hundred, of each.
mircea_popescu: anyone know what this "ESS" is supposed to be in "natural law" clueless nitwittery ?
mircea_popescu: bagels7 stop thinking about hundreds of dollars. whoring is a "five digit or go home" sort of affair.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo from what i hear camwhoring is doing poorly these days, most of the girls i knew killing the cams years ago are moving back to fucking