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mircea_popescu: pankkake: French hair salons love word plays in their names. it's ridiculous << the lumbar yard!
mircea_popescu: drawingthesun: I shudder to think what people have said about ActiveMining here << lol fluffypony who's she ?
mircea_popescu: well, the dorks that made bitcoin* stuff, at any rate.
mircea_popescu: now it will be bought for pennies in a court auction, and you will ALL have to be on my pissing on patents submarine, willy-nilly.
mircea_popescu: jurov: bitcoin is registered trademark nao << always has been. by... mtgox. bcause... "it;'s better someone with bitcoin's interests at heart have the tm than someone random"
mircea_popescu: your leader is not fucking here to tell you what to do.
mircea_popescu: there's this very active, latin approach to leadership that i object to.
mircea_popescu: fucking bullshit, collectivists arguing with each other as to the proper way to the gallows, pretending like it's a world.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im justannoyed that people like mises and hayek, ultimate fucking socialists, are represented as some sort of anti-socialism.
mircea_popescu: you currently are not, which is why assbot isn't upping you.
mircea_popescu: to auto-voice you need to a) identify with gribble. you don't need gpg for this, tho gpg works. you can also identify with your btc address ; b) be in assbot's l2 trust.
mircea_popescu: davout: do i read this one correctly or is euronext valued somewhere around a fifth of whatsapp << if you believe the numbers, yes.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: i do :) i should clean up some of my scripts and publish them sometime.. << prolly.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform still with the fucking pdfs. anything good in that sandkey thing ?
mircea_popescu: trilema serves 5gb a day on average. maybe you're just becoming famous ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo this may then be relevant to your interests :
mircea_popescu: were you born in a less dumb culture it'd have been more pleasant.
mircea_popescu: problem is civ was written from a broken (french revolutionary) pov.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, the chinese extremely heavy investment in cheap, easy to deploy, rocket defenses and the way research has been going, it's quite clear we're entering another pikeman phase.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform meanwhile opponent is researching how to fuck with the [measured] gravity
mircea_popescu: and i'll be it'll never be reached again in the lifetime of that republic.
mircea_popescu: mike_c actually the 2nd gulf war was probably the pinacle of us military tech advantage
mircea_popescu: mike_c sort-of. obviously it's an endless battle etc. but it's not nearly as lopsided as you seem to think.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> signal from the genuine gps sat is... below thermal noise. << exactly, and directionality is w-expensive.
mircea_popescu: plenty of times the sattelites will be under your horizon
mircea_popescu: mike_c you can't always identify directionality like that
mircea_popescu: or yeah i guess asciilifeform's version is even better.
mircea_popescu: mike_c if properly geometrically spaced the harm misses
mircea_popescu: the crucial bit of spec, rendered whole thing useless.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> a tale was once told to me by one fellow 'in the know': russia sold gps jammers (serious ones, not the chinese pocket gizmos off ebay) to iraq, shortly prior to '03 american invasion. but iraq didn't pay the full invoice. so, the vendor neglected to remind the buyer that they must be arranged in a ring pattern and operated in unison << i heard the same story passed off as successful intel mission, stole
mircea_popescu: <benkay> <mircea_popescu> benkay 300 dollar shirt, no underwear works better. // by the time i feel okay about buying 300 dollar shirts, i hopefully can delegate the harrasment of neighbors. << and peeing ?
mircea_popescu: similarly, managing noise levels in your building is not something you do anonymously.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> that's when i realized that talking about anything worthwhile under a 'tight' alias is arduous to the degree that it's probably not worth it <<
mircea_popescu: anyway, the requirement was to know what it does. you proposing bar too high ?
mircea_popescu: ok so i ended up picking a link from someone in here and writing a fucking important and grandiose piece.