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mircea_popescu: mrX_ waiting for teh usms to come up with the winning bid.
mircea_popescu: jborkl: So how is the mpex rebuild progressing? << slowly.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell decimation you'll have to bear in mind knuth was interested in randomness from the perspective of scientific simulation, not from the perspective of cryptography (a topic he never reasearched or to any degree understood)
mircea_popescu: by the time you've got a few tbs of rainbow tables you generally also have a good enough understanding of why exactly whitening doesn't do much.
mircea_popescu: dignork: i thought about it, kind of partial reversal in case hash input size is smaller than hash output << you have to look into rainbow tables. try something easy and well studied like md5
mircea_popescu: assbot: Stem cell treatment causes nasal growth in woman's back - health - 08 July 2014 - New Scientist << lmao
mircea_popescu: ;;8ball did fluffypony have sex with his wife and two hookers
mircea_popescu: "I've noticed the same weird principle on soc.singles: the more a man needs a virtual woman, the more threatened he is by the very concept. Why is that? [Rhetorical.]" << for the exact same reason poor people understand better than rich people that they can't afford substitutes.
mircea_popescu: worst angle a girl could possibly present herself if she's not actually a pro. simply comes off as a whiny entitled pointless bitch.
mircea_popescu: BayAreaCoins so if this chick isn't a camwhore why exactly would you be pestering her.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla omg hater on lulzgertina. it was prolly freenode being all slow!
mircea_popescu: why do people think there's something to negotiate is entirely beyond me.
mircea_popescu: mthreat omfg the entire building smells of pizza. MY pizza. brb.
mircea_popescu: like fcc claiming "lulz are bad mkay" or reddit claiming "people not doing what i think are evil mkay"
mircea_popescu: extra points when the message doesn't even make sense in a way readily apparent to the intended demo.
mircea_popescu: i think maybe what's at work here is, that "there's no such thing as deliberate character assasination when the people trying to do it are a relatively irrelevant, powerless and uninfluential minority".
mircea_popescu: mike_c: this feels the same as "bitbet is a scam" flamewars: "[FCC levies huge fine on Stern] << it does huh.
mircea_popescu: the only reason that is notable is because the radium jaw is really just phosphorus jaw.
mircea_popescu: this is why there has to be a fucking board of employment in th first place, otherwise people would happily STILL be sucking down phosphorus
mircea_popescu: especially if the employers represent them as "standard"
mircea_popescu: jurov people take unreasonable risks as part of their employment ALL THE TIME
mircea_popescu: (we're giving the people over at X your radio id, and they'll shoot you down. omitting to mention this part.)
mircea_popescu: "mr jurov, we have a very important mission for you. it's to fly here : X"
mircea_popescu: you're telling me he's not going to do it, becase "it's not done" or something ?
mircea_popescu: suppose this manger now goes to work for me, and i'm "whatever, fuck them all in chains for all i care."
mircea_popescu: ok, let me put this to you. average us middle manager can't fuck his employees, because he's affraid of scandal. of the employees, at least a few would be open to being fucked
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the only thing we can infer is that the whole org is made out of people motivated through income, which means it's not really a threat to anyone (other than perhaps its employer)
mircea_popescu: "in the interest of santa clause we can't say" "sorry, not interesed."
mircea_popescu: at some point cca 2012 any consultant with anything inside the skull started answering the "o hey, we want to promote you" with "o yeah ? who else is going ?"
mircea_popescu: any "consultants" organisation of a decent size can fill an airplane with people who are costing it more than they're worth.
mircea_popescu: i guess england is the only major player to not have tried yet huh.
mircea_popescu: but i guess "tactical" isn't a word anymore, and so strategy is a lost art.
mircea_popescu: the only difference here is that germany didn't have a bound border. russia does.
mircea_popescu: [which was loaded full of fulmicotton and tons of ammo, we're not saying this part])
mircea_popescu: "o the evil german submarines sunk a passenger ship kiling everyone on board
mircea_popescu: this is a rehash of that miserable rms lusitania bullshit.
mircea_popescu: so now as the public retirement schemes are collapsing...
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo sometime in 2005 they made the mistake to promise senior pilots payment "in kind"
mircea_popescu: he past headgames people had to play to cope with the problem. And nobody misses the supposed "benefits" of the problem they once dreamed up excuses for."
mircea_popescu: ahaha this is rich, because succession : "Social skills will decline markedly after the advent of sex robots, much like the way electronic calculators degraded arithmetic skills." "People often cope with an unsolvable problem by convincing themselves that somehow there is some purpose or need for the problem. Like it builds character or something. But when technology eliminates a problem, people soon forget about all t