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mircea_popescu: but by now computing is coallescing, and once moore's law finally fucking dies (trompi be praised)
mircea_popescu: security wasn't high on the list of gold seeking miners, or of cowboys,
mircea_popescu: well, security was not the first priority. it rarely is, when going over new space.
mircea_popescu: i mean you're basically asking, "suppose you could be killed by trying to fuck scorpions in the tail. do you suppose fucking habits would change ?"
mircea_popescu: never trust a baby boom, for the baby boomers are almost always the end of things.
mircea_popescu: basically, "self-seeking" addicted college kids being given the reins of the country.
mircea_popescu: all in the name of "open society of knowledge" and "progress" and generally speaking the mistaken view that exploring the space of opportunities is more valuable than staying in one piece
mircea_popescu: infectious, of course, but nothing much than a tool of contagion.
mircea_popescu: fancy that, adult world has like two or even three tiers of complexity on top of what you find in coloring books.
mircea_popescu: little girl taking a drink from suspicious man in overcoat is not making a mistake
mircea_popescu: the notion that derps imagining themselves involved and part of and etc still treat hearn as anything but vomit behind a bar is perhaps the best argument against democracy.
mircea_popescu: all in the name of the "needed" pki, which was never needed by us, it was needed by nsa.
mircea_popescu: as if this were any kind of argument. as if crops don't fail exactly the same way. etc
mircea_popescu: it went something like, "if a lock fails that lock can be replaced, but if software failed ALL a company's products fail at the same time so there's nobody to absorb the costs"
mircea_popescu: anyway, i wish i recall who wrote the example with the locks, in favour of software tort immunity
mircea_popescu: nobody'd put it in without specific representations and certifications
mircea_popescu: benkay methinks you might have to brush up on corp law :)
mircea_popescu: as if bitcoin'd suffer from a complete ban on all the tard venues, or computers from a complete disappearance of bad software
mircea_popescu: rms and co really meant "bad software" but just said "software", and "plain language" being what it is, who's to know the difference.
mircea_popescu: which is exactly how it was argued for software responsibility immunity in the 80s : that ALL software failures are clearly of a coal-abl etype, and so not granting immunity would make software "impossible"
mircea_popescu: but that aside, the openssl recent string of bugs WOULD have been of the coal kind
mircea_popescu: benkay> two months later, the house has been dragged down from 900k to 700k, and that broker has straight ghosted with all the leads she generated via excellent hustle. << dumbass approach imo, but hey
mircea_popescu: btw mthreat wouldja be interested in filling in the logs for the first missing year, and generate a drop-in blob kakobrekla can put into his log thing too ?
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves no i meant i actually heard someone else complain
mircea_popescu: The BitPay prompt for payment seems awkwardly designed to me, particularly in that the text version of the payment address is very tiny. << I heard this in the form of "wow, they're really trying to stop you from copying pasting it huh". no idea wtf they;'d be thinking
mircea_popescu: On and off, I’ve had the urge to acquire physical Bitcoin coins to give to family and invest/collect them for myself. I have never purchased any sort of collectible coin before, nor have I ever purchased precious metals. << weird what btc does to people.
mircea_popescu: by now i'm drastically past the threshold of doorman telling me apart "you know i've never seen so much computer equipment since i work here"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im putting a whole array in, what's to do.
mircea_popescu: motherfucker. power surge during write operation -> destroyed boot.
mircea_popescu: (not even kidding, i got the top package of everyone, loadbalancing it)
mircea_popescu: their scoring is byzantine, but! i think they getrematches and whatnot
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ianal, but it'd seem cribbing is better. rather than writing from scratch and inventing a new mistakes-space, they just take out some mistakes of a well documenterd space
mircea_popescu: actually nm that. i think ties are allowed in this game.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo 90 mins, then they start shooting straight at the goalposts
mircea_popescu: <Cosmos> [13:14] <+Cosmos> [..] ..is here in IRC, [..] gracing us w/ his wisdom, ..his $1k/hr time.. << some people are modest.
mircea_popescu: people that follow sports can't be given a ton of power either ?
mircea_popescu: corrientes, which is a major avenue, is COVERED in swat vans, fire trucks, miles of it from the center.
mircea_popescu: moiety i think they just do phone number footsole tattoos now
mircea_popescu: i've never loved baba gnoush as much as i do here. i'm up for it brakfast lunch and dinner, it's crazy. these folkjs eat nothing but meat.