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mircea_popescu: anything as long as it's not throwing more pigs around.
mircea_popescu: it provides good fucking reasons for people to come up with solutions, and right now.
mircea_popescu: this is what government does : it provides a base. it doesn't provide solutions
mircea_popescu: people start fucking listening to people who have better solutions.
mircea_popescu: you don't understand the network effects. once the entire fucking country is engrossed in throwing chattel around,
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller is the watchdog of democracy over here.
mircea_popescu: you understand this ? anecdotic agreement by wizard x with wizard y is not how you fly to the moon.
mircea_popescu: "i want a complete report on every tcp/ip implementation out there. by hand. line by line comparison of all versions ever made"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform o yes it does. let's take the smallest part of it.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, that's why the entire "press" derped and ocasionally still derps about kennedy = us royalty. becauise that guy was the last us president to go "fuck you, do something useful with your time"
mircea_popescu: my words! they has been taken out of context! and given unforeseen boners!
mircea_popescu: if they had, the soviets would still be a thing, painting the moon red
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not that dude. when they wanted to send a guy to the moon they didn't give gm "the contract"
mircea_popescu: unlike the foregoing, these ARENT rules of the fucking world.
mircea_popescu: fuck that shit. war on drugs, poverty, people far away that don't like us and think we're stupid...
mircea_popescu: try that, see who hates you then. but no, they';ve tried "everything" : banged head on wall, sat on hot stove, kicked shin against all corners.... nothing in this house works
mircea_popescu: mysteriously, "everything" they do never includes a "we wil spend one trillion dollars to fix our software-hardware. all of it."
mircea_popescu: see, people go "o, anything obama does you hate him for it"
mircea_popescu: bounce last i heard, the usg was throwing money into the street because "gotta spend"
mircea_popescu: quite the contrary, such a programming paradigm is immoral.
mircea_popescu: there's no advantage to trying to hide hardware deffects in software
mircea_popescu: "some people connect to internet through brooms, or try to" ?!
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves my point being that this is something you solve client side not server side.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform isn't this eminently a local config issue tho ? give people scripts to just do it locally.
mircea_popescu: sure, it saves you from interacting with various people. which, you know, if that's the goal why are you commenting.
mircea_popescu: i still don't see what's the advantage of "go everywhere with an identity provided by a 3rd party"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves so then you like the concept for everything the concept isn't ?
mircea_popescu: i could see if it centralized in my own hands. but centralizing it in the hands of the enemies of everything that's nice and good in this world, the ycombinator crowd ?
mircea_popescu: bounce no, better yet. "the MTA has turned off comments on blogs because reasons"
mircea_popescu: same thing that's wrong with cloudflare, and with all the rest of the crap ruining the web
mircea_popescu: devthedev im not voicing you, because last time i did you linkbombed and i dun see the benefit.
mircea_popescu: then watch the adjustments, retractions and "taking of full responsibilities" come pouring in.
mircea_popescu: cool, so perhaps qntra should run a piece about how whoever nobody from coinfire divulged today that coinfire is in the posession of signed letters by the sec demanding they do not publish information.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves anyway, to revisit that yest discussion : THIS isn't news.
mircea_popescu: and so it goes, 2015 will be the year of that set of lolz.
mircea_popescu: i suppose this is all mp butthurt, next the twobit idiot is going to want to claim "o noes, teh sec is talking to me in my sleeps!!1"
mircea_popescu: the sec can try all sorts of things, but why would it talk to some derpy nobody snipping at the edges is unclear.
mircea_popescu: so basically this thing reads to me like, "we've read about this on reddit, here's a re-narration of events that makes us sound important"
mircea_popescu: "Coin Fire was first made aware of this investigation on October 14th but officials with the SEC and the Department of Justice actively informed our editorial team to not jeopardize current investigations. However, as new information has come to light and a third source stepped forward with further information our editors now feel compelled to begin publishing information."
mircea_popescu: is this the one with the old guy chemist that joins some derpy kid and they make meth ?