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mircea_popescu: Adlai it just says "you're authed" and lists how that could be
mircea_popescu: double the hassle of logging. tide's not really that high yet.
mircea_popescu: now imagine what happens if either is breached somehow.
mircea_popescu: anwyay : you'll also notice we quite strictly use 4kb rsa sigs in our gpg
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform are you asking me why or the abuser why ?
mircea_popescu: the only proper way to use bitcoin addresses as identification correctly is to run a never-connected node that has no balance.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not even getting into these technical discussion : getting people to use their credit cards as identification paperwork is a bad idea.
mircea_popescu: badly thought out, pointless functionality doesn't get much use among the sane.
mircea_popescu: Our biggest concern is the welfare of children who appear on this site. {Site name redacted} has a ZERO tolerance policy for rape or
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im just saying, let's not confuse those who pass the fertility test with those who fail the turing test.
mircea_popescu: she hacks herself. of course she does. so what of it ?
mircea_popescu: understand something : if female brain were not hackable, if female vulva had no opening, there'd be no species.
mircea_popescu: so basically we could say it's "the understanding" of magnetism ?
mircea_popescu: what i am saying is that the mechanism clearly exists.
mircea_popescu: now look. im not saying the small scale thing is effectual.
mircea_popescu: fine, whatever unquenchable permariots. the paris stuff.
mircea_popescu: because if he perceives too many, he's going to go "fuck you, and your laws, and your union"
mircea_popescu: no, but her ability to continue in relevance is a strict function of how many mrs smith johnny perceives a day.
mircea_popescu: you know, peacible grasshoppers suddenly change mode because they got touched on the toes by others too many times.
mircea_popescu: well, actually, i suspect old gals is more of a burden, but who knows.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that scheme only works when there's few old guys.
mircea_popescu: sure. they also fuck her, then they go have a drink with the first gang, exchange impressions.
mircea_popescu: hires a different gang of thugs to... kill the first gang ?
mircea_popescu: suppose kim kardashian goes around drunk in the bad part of detroit, gets raped by a gang of thugs
mircea_popescu: Adlai you don't understand. there's nothing more readily cohesive of a group than hatred for old people.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, my favourite discussion of the topic is balzac. eugenie grandet.
mircea_popescu: part of the reason there's going to be blood is that there's too many old people.
mircea_popescu: 40yo male, with a buncha chicks. 20 yo male, in a group of derps.
mircea_popescu: but see... because of the "nonviolent principle" or w/e, it doesnt HAVE TO adapt anymore.
mircea_popescu: only way to select people now is age, which explains disasters like nanci pelosi
mircea_popescu: the west did too, for... well... "fairness" i guess, same bs.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's the normally sclerotic reaction of society to a dissolution of values
mircea_popescu: something the us is getting more and more acquainted with.
mircea_popescu: in fairness, the commies were very well familiar with the problem of just-wont-fucking-die-already dinosaurs
mircea_popescu: undata i recall reading this east-side of cold war story (rdg it was i think ?), about the drink that bestowed immortality, and how obnoxious old people were, 700+ yo clinging on to life to "see who wins whatever games"
mircea_popescu: Adlai i have no idea, but i suspect your conviction is more informed by a faint whiff of a personal desire to survive/fear of death than anything else.
mircea_popescu: as opposed to moderately possible within a few thousand years ?
mircea_popescu: if queen dies newborn queen emerges almost immediately.
mircea_popescu: Adlai generally most ant colonies have emergency backups always ready
mircea_popescu: Adlai maybe, but i'm very wary of recent brainscience.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> or with an entirely non-interactive and ultimately easily described physical system that you simply don't grasp yet. << incidentally, the brain seems to fit this quite exactly.