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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.
mircea_popescu: i don't think anyone's aware of what the laws are, in texas :D
mircea_popescu: i think i even have pics published on trilema somewhere of this in san antonio tx
mircea_popescu: mthreat no even there. us condom dispenser machines are in girl's bathrooms too
mircea_popescu: dude the fucking weird laws they have, texas is nothing compared
mircea_popescu: about 4% of the monetary mass in circulation sold out, bitcoin dropped from 5.3 to 4.5, and people were in agreeemnt that it's prolly the end
mircea_popescu: this is an article about the black monday, which you're prolly mostly too young to remember.
mircea_popescu: "Coinalytics receives seed funding as one of 500 Startups first Bitcoin ventures"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: anyone who buys a berth on mp's 'we piss on patents' atomic battleship should give 'cyranose' a thought. << this is a good point actually.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: don't they make anyone use actual ir spectrometer in school now? << no. because it'd be racist.
mircea_popescu: curious what sort of magic kickstarter can turn out of 2.5mn
mircea_popescu: "Based on a statistical analysis of the recovered passwords, Hýža constructed two character sets that stood the best chance of quickly cracking the remaining undeciphered passcodes. The shorter of the two contained just 28 characters: acdehiklmnorstu01234579!-.@_"
mircea_popescu: well... on the optimistic side... you'll prolly have no trouble catching the bus.
mircea_popescu: Namworld: Those coins would shatter easily and be kinda troublesome. << yeah the shatter factor is a problem. also, god help you if you're trying to carry say a 20 lb bag of them in the street.
mircea_popescu: ya right. and who even told eduardo decastro he can be a ceo anyway.
mircea_popescu: and on top of it, they get all butthurt when they're treated to a heapful of stfu and go read the logs for a year on the FIRST announcement.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: hashfast ceo one month ago: "I joined this company a month ago because the team is amazing and we are not scammers" | today: "we're bankrupt. I'm outta here" << fucking exactly.
mircea_popescu: anyway, he doesn't have an office, he worked as a sort of that-fat--and-gay-guy-in-high-fidelity
mircea_popescu: hm, come to think of it, perhaps it could be argued im not even THAT mildly short. i'm like 600k in against brk publicly
mircea_popescu: im actually mildly short on us crapola, from google to the rest of the "Tech" sector.
mircea_popescu: not unless you're a sovereign yourself, ready able and willing to go to war with the sovereigns backing them
mircea_popescu: and the chinese/russian/etc royal entreprises no, either.
mircea_popescu: a rather close approximation of mpex, for that matter.
mircea_popescu: it's owned by the chinese govt, and a tool of its foreign policy.
mircea_popescu: and iut's been trading at about 12.83 usd/share on otc