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mircea_popescu: something on the magnitude order of getting fusion to work is pretty much the only way out of the slump for teh west.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck is a miniaturized version easier is beyond me.
mircea_popescu: he reduced size — just 10 feet by 7 feet — will allow Lockheed to “design, build, and test the CFR in less than a year.”
mircea_popescu: look at that, nif claims it actually went energy-positive last year
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: On the otherhand it isn't the slightest bit unbelievable for a dairy cow to drag its titties through cow shit <<< im pretty sure nobody milks unwashed anymore.
mircea_popescu: beef is safer than most meats, but still. you dun see the stuff.
mircea_popescu: trichinella is a fucking worm you still won't likely see it.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: RetroUpriser: Generally in a steak if there was a pathogen of conern you'd see/smell the abcess and wonder then the cow got into a knife fight << nah, most of the stuff youi can get that way you don't see.
mircea_popescu: anyway, romania is a few of the european states that never had it. along with, iirc, switzerland.
mircea_popescu: hadn't he done so, you'd probably have heard spineless gonzalez, bharara et all argue for the legitimacy of their use.
mircea_popescu: that's a thing nixon is never remembered for, ending the biological warfare stockpiles.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo they don't have endemic brucellosis in the us anymore do they ?!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: real reason: it is an extraordinarily expensive, multi-generational project to keep the entire field from developing. <<< what sense does that make ?
mircea_popescu: fuck them, move on, plenty of time left in the future to do important shit.
mircea_popescu: anyway, no point crying over the mud-like stupidity of our parents.
mircea_popescu: decimation that passion could have served a smarter man better you know ?
mircea_popescu: bitcoin + pgp + foss would have been a much better alternative past than fucktarded "flower power"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this millenium, nobody actually saw. perhaps an excusable oversight, but still ridoinculous.
mircea_popescu: prolly because only trolls and terrorists do that or something.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo larger problem : men don't generally get that they have the god fucking given right to say "fuck you and get lost"
mircea_popescu: stan's fork will win the bitcoin through the same interplay of the same cosmic forces.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo that's not happenstance. that shit will happen again and again because it happened for fundamental reasons.
mircea_popescu: well, except for terrorist me, of course, in a piece about romania's 80s generation. but that's besides the point.
mircea_popescu: nobody ever goes "you shitfaces, THIS opportunity you missed. all of you."
mircea_popescu: people tend to be very laudative of the people that were smart, at any juncture
mircea_popescu: the exact sort of thing that would render a us expeditionary force if the arabs but spoke english, is the exact thing that renders the "well meaning" idiots you mentioned earlier
mircea_popescu: same shit, so foss starts, great, get rhel to be a pentagon contractor.
mircea_popescu: "Government sponsored enterprises enter the business, in due course bad behavior is made mandatory, and the evil financial network is bigger than the honest financial network, with the result that even though everyone knows what is happening, people continue to use the paper issued by the evil financial network, because of network effects - the big, main issuers, are the issuers you use if you want to do business."
mircea_popescu: at the time i had a full complement of php coder guru types, threw in "make me a better wp" in a worklist once and well...
mircea_popescu: bout 5-6 years ago i had an actual major portal site, dtng (the 4chan clone) was on it, also fain (a romanian digg) and my blog and a bunch of other shit
mircea_popescu: fizzbuzz test is supposed to catch 99.5% of "programmers" too neh ?
mircea_popescu: PeterL also could you make it so only say first 100 words of a post appear ?
mircea_popescu: in general, the country suffers when taxes are paid, and gains through graft.
mircea_popescu: but in general : it is good that any one person steals any one sum from the usg.
mircea_popescu: whereas when taxes are significant, the opposite happens.
mircea_popescu: and so the conman moves to try adn con private interest.
mircea_popescu: the major point about low taxes is that it makes the pot of the public treasury too small to hold the estimation of the conman
mircea_popescu: was on qntra earlier, which is the only reason she's notable.
mircea_popescu: noably, romania's president announced in 2009 that "criza financiara va ocoli romania"
mircea_popescu: meanwhile they can all hold hands with the canada chick and chant how "bitcoin is not coming and not posing a risk"
mircea_popescu: for all these idiots to fall back on once the shit hits the fan.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo anyway, all the more reasons to have a proper, functional implementation of the canonical bitcoin code
mircea_popescu: but hey, who's to argue with the politico-experts, right ?
mircea_popescu: "Seriously, I bet the ‘model’ is some kind of gunky spreadsheet. Or something little better, anyway. A mishmash of data being shoved together to reach predetermined conclusions, with tons of ad hoc assumptions. " << sounds like exactly dub's brew :D
mircea_popescu: but the actual professionals should hang, by their own guts.
mircea_popescu: they should all hang for his sins. he may get off with prison, being just a fraud
mircea_popescu: "It all traces back to the fact that the academy did not police itself properly. They gave, or through their inaction/laziness allowed to get, this guy and his (retarded) output the mantle of ‘expertise’. If the bad PR spilling off of him now redounds back onto other academicians in his peer group I understand that will be unfair in some cases but they have only themselves to blame."
mircea_popescu: peppering this sort of nonsense in the code is a prime way to ensure the rough equivalent of "atomic weapons" for future negotiations.
mircea_popescu: tomorrow large miner joins, doesn't implement it, they hardfork all they want, chainwarz.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo only workls for as long as they actually do.