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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: i wasn't intending to (with what, ha.) just ringing the bell to possibly wake up folks who think they can achieve a new result by doing the same thing as was done for 100 years. <<< you know, the clerk maxwell guy, arguably a novel result, WAS in fact achieved by doing the exact same thing men have been doing to women for a hundred years.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: once q transforms into the kind of thing which is presently lucrative, it will cease to be distinguishable from the despised competition. << the idea is to transform things around it.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: ethics schmethics. newspapers have been funded by ads from forever <<< yeah but i find the entire goldline glenn beck thing pretty objectionable.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: i think it can be nothing more <<< yeah, but then i noticed there's actually two, and they're pretty close.
mircea_popescu: devthedev: Bitcointalk: "Due to a recently-discovered flaw in the TLS and SSL protocols, you may want to change your password, especially if you accessed the forum using Tor." <<< what, tor isn't safe ? incredibru.
mircea_popescu: incidentally : if any reader feels like building a botnet / expanding his botnet, you can probably hit the earlier linked list of ips. if you're carefgul going in you can probably blame whatever mischief on the original derp, too.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: By this time next month Amtrack business will be booming. US air travel is on its way out. <<< can only go where there's track.
mircea_popescu: Freen0deAdmin: why do some names have a color next to them? ThickAsThieves: because racism << ok i lolled. because colonialism.
mircea_popescu: then beggar can talk to king dracula any time he wants.
mircea_popescu: so you kill them and then hang the alchemists by their guts.
mircea_popescu: the solution, as practiced in history, was to teach the drunks restraint.
mircea_popescu: sure, and at a bunch of unintentional other mishaps at that.
mircea_popescu: suppose you, unknown stranger of razi level, have a q. takes you three years and a dozen idiotic answers ?
mircea_popescu: this is fine, but if you actually calculate the computational load you'll get more than the current star model
mircea_popescu: you're never going to escape the fact that a 3 person sitcom crew can fuck three different ways whereas a 4 person crew can fuck in 6 ways
mircea_popescu: so yes, avoidance is the name of the game. nevertheless...
mircea_popescu: granted, this is not a problem that can actually be solved
mircea_popescu: ddos is an intrinsic property of the world, like bitcoin, like falling to your death, like the nuclear bomb
mircea_popescu: same thing here : the more people you add, the exponentially more potential connections in the graph.
mircea_popescu: nah, consider gravity. your potential energy increases with your height, but your speed of ultimate impact with the square of the height.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: but the fact of ddos still being a thing at all, reveals catastrophically broken design at large. << not really, it just reflects a major problem of the world at large (the quare-linear problem, specifically)
mircea_popescu: (this, of course, excludes the wordpress stuff, which is about 90% or so of the entire thing, but also easy to filter)
mircea_popescu: roughtly reads to me like a disertation on surgery written by waiters next to the hospital on the basis of what they overheard during their jobs would read if i were a surgeon
mircea_popescu: and i bet you 90% of those are actually correct uses of the term, as opposed to the common derpage.
mircea_popescu: modern english (ie, shakespeare's writ) is readable to
mircea_popescu: HelpPlease prolly hasn't propagated yet, give it a little.
mircea_popescu: and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. << "there but for blind luck goes I", just because you're here today doesn't mean another just like you didn't die yesterday, or the day before.
mircea_popescu: To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time, << roughly equivalent to "life is what happens while we were waiting for other things"
mircea_popescu: there would have been a time for such a word. << It's not like this was the only opportunity for her to die and she had to take it.
mircea_popescu: She should have died hereafter; << She should have died LATER.
mircea_popescu: but the fact that they did already speaks, does it not.
mircea_popescu: you could entertain yourself indefinitely just following the yakking.
mircea_popescu: people. harlots and scamps and duchesses and everything.
mircea_popescu: they had more then than you have now for crying out loud. for one thing, the street was fun
mircea_popescu: mike_c that wasn't worse, those you could identify as such
mircea_popescu: no, they went to the theatre like you come here. because it's new and cool and it speaks to you and you can afford to.
mircea_popescu: this wasn't a time when theatre was ancient and respected.
mircea_popescu: i should do a shakespeare once just to mess with people.
mircea_popescu: this ? you kidding me ? and people bitch at trilema being too complex to read ?
mircea_popescu: this was read, over screams and bellows, in a crummy theatre, and people fucking understood it ?!
mircea_popescu: creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time, and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! "
mircea_popescu: bounce incidentally, since you quoth macbeth. "She should have died hereafter; there would have been a time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
mircea_popescu: except the most common form of congenital malformation is fixed with ties.
mircea_popescu: not that widely, it's recent and still experimental therapy afaik