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mircea_popescu: <decimation> mircea: the chance of a random integer from 1 to x being prime is about 1/ln(x) << you just use the entropy to seed, much like pgp does. you don't actually roll the prime itself.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> twitter... botnet << no 'captcha' ? << trivial to bypass.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you know f3 fucking sucks. i sometimes fire up 1 or 2... but 3mmeh
mircea_popescu: <benkay> nah, she'd not get along with mircea_popescu << wait wut
mircea_popescu: <benkay> i will bring ruination on all social everythings <<hence my comment re partially implemented wots and their fundamental unsustainability.
mircea_popescu: by the time every human is surrounded by 100s of bots, it's dead.
mircea_popescu: benkay all it needs is a bunch of ips making accoutns and generating text.
mircea_popescu: mike_c kakobrekla was making a fucking machine then got carried away
mircea_popescu: somebody should tell orlov how caesarean section got to be called that.
mircea_popescu: "Once cesareans are no longer available, we should expect a lot of those deaths will be in childbirth. "
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in fairness, im not so sure it works for non-bitcoin stuff.
mircea_popescu: princessnell the sense to not put her legs forth among them ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform looked into it. won't work : no good msdos db.
mircea_popescu: its how they call unix inspired oses like linux when they're being cool.
mircea_popescu: as the situation is reversed however... no amount of derpage can possibly help.
mircea_popescu: if teh muricans really just wanted "something that shoots and a bus ticker there", i'd have been really worried about the afghanistani.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but anyway : the eventual winner doesn't quite have the same needs from his equipment as the eventual loser does.
mircea_popescu: the only problem is... well... in his 38 years of 'being a dom" so far, he's had a slave for a total of 3 years, if you add it all up.
mircea_popescu: some other dood somewhere has this truely ellaborate and complex punishment station, cost him 18`000 dollars
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform to put this in a better perspective : i do not have dedicated tools to discipline my slaves. i use whatever i feel like using at the time, or nothing at all. i've used vacuum cleanning tubes, wire hangers, braided electric cord, belts, chunks of wook, rolled up newspaper, whatever. cooking spatulas.
mircea_popescu: and the latin influence comes from the veterans that settled there, much like a us army guy retiring to vietnam
mircea_popescu: germania and gaul are still fucking germanic, notwithstanding all the genocides cesar & co drove there.
mircea_popescu: think of the young russki kids and their street culture. who is going to be respected who doesn't know to take a punch ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform debatable which is the chain of causality. imo it's just because they promote a wrong approach to fighting.
mircea_popescu: that's what makes greek fire et all the weaponry of the losers.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo the winner wins specifically because doesn't care about scathing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a population heavy on the young is not more stupid, it's more strippers.
mircea_popescu: basically nuclear weapons, as well as tomahawks, aircraft carriers and so on are further elements in a class of weapons inaugurated by the byzantines, with their greek fire :
mircea_popescu: some of the weak and shitty die, life expectancy a little shorter ?
mircea_popescu: second off, it's fucking difficulkt to achieve uniformity. most likely you'll have to get peaks and lows, needing even more fissiles.
mircea_popescu: what inconvenience exactly ? suppose the current level of radiation in japan becomes worldwide.
mircea_popescu: one needs to come up with very exotic avenues to realise it, now that simple coal soot isn't gonna cut it
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo not nearly as sexy. it was possible based on pre-ww2 england style industrialisation.
mircea_popescu: but sure, as the ice moves around we may get to various mineral riches in siberia, canda etc
mircea_popescu: kinda naive approach. there's nothing worse than winning with the wrong people for the wrong reasons.
mircea_popescu: This is why every successful community I've looked at knows how to exclude (shun, expel) people. Every successful community jealously safeguards its separateness from the surrounding society. This is critical to their survival and for achieving much better outcomes for their members than the surrounding society.
mircea_popescu: of course he started censoring once he didn't like what he was hearing.
mircea_popescu: fuck him. the pretense that liars & scammers, which is without exception anyone who fucking "moderates" are somehow ethically superior to actual people is morally offensive.
mircea_popescu: "Her blog's comments section is a sort of Land of the Lost: people who inhabit the comments sections of unmoderated blogs, and who are perpetually miffed that no half-decent blog will post their comments."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what the fuck is going on in this guy's head, engaging in a debate on these terms ?
mircea_popescu: "Gail insinuates that Albert Bates is an environmentalist hypocrite because he flies a lot. Albert does travel a lot but goes to great personal effort to physically mitigate carbon from his travel footprint, and this is obvious from even a cursory glance at his website. Overall, he is very much carbon-negative, while Gail goes on aimless drives through the countryside in her gigantic, gas-
mircea_popescu: ok well, i need a bunch of secretarial stuff done. you game ?
mircea_popescu: this idea that the progressive's in the driver seat is weird.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform even funnier, because well... stable is ambiguous.