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mircea_popescu: fucking lexington is still a joke, and you're going to be a joke for going there. not just in my eyes, which whatever, who cares, but in your own 60yo eyes. and that burns.
mircea_popescu: and even if parents would much prefer their 17 yo rebelious teenager goes to the flaming man instead of the burning man, and even if they give the car with a full tank of gasoline and two small bottles of ginger ale for the former and punish the latter,
mircea_popescu: it's still shit, in the manner the local fair in lexington, kentucky, even if called "the flaming man", is still a very poor approximation of the actual burning man.
mircea_popescu: not from anyone else. and it doesn't even do such a good job of hiding it from you yourselves on a long enough timeline.
mircea_popescu: you've bought into the entire sm swag just like other generations have bought in the shit offered for their consumption. guess what : the fact that you all get it only hides the fact that it's shit from you yourselves,
mircea_popescu: it'd read "cern laboratory using social media to collide large hadrons" if the movie of the week were about the cern
mircea_popescu: chetty gotta love how the sm people keep pumping out more articles about how essential sm is.
mircea_popescu: the better news here is that while i tried to sleep my cold off people actually got to the bottom of the whole gpg snag. hallelujah.
mircea_popescu: i have no idea who fucking asked amazon fanboi there to pass his judgement on de raadt, but i can state for teh records it wasn't me.
mircea_popescu: maybe i visit after the fall. play fallout in new reno irl or some4thing.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in a randomly selected lit of numbers, 30% will start with 1.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the baby-in-belly was the more disturbing part i thought
mircea_popescu: the latter is easier to disprove, but the former easily sticks with people, who then form the spurious belief that everything is systematic
mircea_popescu: which is why the warning came to be on financial products, that "past performance is no indication of future success". the fortune teller makes two spurious claims, one that his arbitrariety is systematic, the other that he has a good historical record.
mircea_popescu: jurov generally their whole claim is butressed on such past history.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony the one film schwarzy made that was trying to not be hack and slash ?
mircea_popescu: definitely more important than derpstamp or w/e. and this is pretty hefty as we sit now.
mircea_popescu: anyway, one of the comparatively more important btc valuations is, "cost incurred by the usg litigating per btc available to defendant".
mircea_popescu: but anyway. the 2012 peg in the eye of the beast has been holding out splendidly well. they're trying to enact this difference between game currencies and bitcoin, and who knows, maybe it'll work. who;s to say that's the last peg trilema go.
mircea_popescu: which is why the 100% conviction-through-plea-bargain system is so important.
mircea_popescu: decimation anyway, one doesn't "demonstrate". one claims, and prays nobody calls the bluff.
mircea_popescu: that's why regulation is taking over legislation as a normative process.
mircea_popescu: once you get the bitches you have no attention to spare.
mircea_popescu: mike_c makes it quite impossible to get the wrong change.
mircea_popescu: mike_c they dun wanna end up with a bunch of terrorist bux
mircea_popescu: mike_c armored battlerats! with a terminal upside the head!
mircea_popescu: specially-constructed oubliettes with a terminal in the lid and a hole for shit in the bottom. <<< ahaha ok.
mircea_popescu: mike_c mice don't actually attack babies. you're thinking rats.
mircea_popescu: the whole fucking point of code is to make the world more like salem cca 1700 now ;/
mircea_popescu: <decimation> 'don't talk politics around the table (so we can just eat)' -> 'don't question the code(so we can just use it)' << ;/
mircea_popescu: hanbot no, not as such. the traditional way is for the naive to train their submission, as practiced in say india.
mircea_popescu: (which was the same cca 1890, except then it was irish criminal etc)
mircea_popescu: yeah. it's that whole "italian mobster turned policeman to clean up ny" story all over again
mircea_popescu: the solution is to open the whole thing, let the market drive it down to zero, then you won't care someone made fifty bucks or w/e.
mircea_popescu: however, the solution is emphatically NOT to try and prosecute them, because this just drives the specific behaviours enshrined in indian culture that cause the mess.
mircea_popescu: decimation now granted, what the indians are doing in the us finance (btw, have you noticed how few 3rd generation americans are involved in anything worth the mention ?) is nothing short of scandalous
mircea_popescu: benkay so far fighting with the obscurity of free and open source software, which is this endless bundle fifty million lines long that nobody ever read, in spite of you know, how "open source" etc.
mircea_popescu: much like you know, trying to prosecute "buggery" because people who don't have sex don't want to think of sex in terms of "all holes, dp and your girlfriend". as if.
mircea_popescu: "insider trading" is what trading is. irrespective of what people who don't trade wish to think trading is.
mircea_popescu: there's simply no logical way to reconcile the naive want for "fairness" with the practicality of trade.
mircea_popescu: that problem is a lot worse than anyone wants to admit.
mircea_popescu: "That seems to have been the end of the courtship. (Mr. Palecek died from an infection in 2010.)" << the rate at which these people die of preventable causes is ridiculous. seriously, work for supposedly the masters of the country, best paid job, corridors of power, die of "an infection" ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: Theodore Y. Ts'o doesn't comprehend what random means << 'random' is simply a non-scientific qualifier. like 'big'. << looking forward to reading medicine treatises in similar terms. something tells me teh colonies will soon deliver.
mircea_popescu: hanbot:well exactly. something bound by accidental inhalation on the lower end and hernias on the higher << i agree. half meter cube, ideal robot.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: mpex modem << as i recall, reliability of net connection is not an issue at mpex << so far that's the part that works best.
mircea_popescu: this "we got the courts rigged so you gotta say you did what we say you did and then go to siberia" bs only goes as far as it goes.
mircea_popescu: in which we find Theodore Y. Ts'o doesn't comprehend what random means.
mircea_popescu: *look* random, even though the source material is anything but random."
mircea_popescu: "As an example, the following string of numbers is anything but random:1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 However, if this is run through a MD5 or SHA whitener, the result would
mircea_popescu: for a coupla hours there it looked like the whole damned charade'll have to be taken down and redone.
mircea_popescu: Namworld yeah but take the recent camho invasion for instance.
mircea_popescu: 64 bytes from [x.x.x.x]: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.47 ms
mircea_popescu: i'd rather make it so it works than you know, make it so it phones.