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mircea_popescu: "AllAdvantage was a website that paid members to surf the Net. It paid to acquire these users, and supposedly leveraged its members eyeballs into advertizing dollars. At the initial fundraiser internet capitalist Frank Quattrone, who helped fund Cisco and many other legitimate successful concerns, and President Clinton both paid tribute to AllAdvantage"
mircea_popescu: Your browser is not compatible with this site. Sorry :( << kakobrekla wtf bs!
mircea_popescu: benkay a good theory which requires dupes to have a functioning ganglion.
mircea_popescu: "In an expansion investors are constantly looking for better places to invest their capital, while entrepreneurs are always overconfident, hoping to get capital to fund their restless ambition. Sometimes, the investors (dupes) think a certain set of key characteristics are sufficient statistics of a quality investment because historically they were. Mimic entrepreneurs seize upon these key characteristics that will all
mircea_popescu: now... explain to me again how teh nsa is 5 years ahead of my penis.
mircea_popescu: because well.... they can't compete, because they solve a problem rather than grooming it with dysfunctional non-solutions, and so have nothing to kick back.
mircea_popescu: as a result, all the proper urinals are nao destroyed.
mircea_popescu: and got kickback-based contracts to "supply" the city.
mircea_popescu: dumbass firm started importing the 2mc bullshits, with chemical "processing"
mircea_popescu: romania had, in all cities, proper urinals built all over town. the whole shebang, with running water.
mircea_popescu: Humanity was almost extinguished, their spirits becoming part of the background radiation that blanketed the earth.
mircea_popescu: 2.) fluffypony 1247 3.) assbot 1211 << africans and their long peens.
mircea_popescu: this makes it fair for BingoBoingo, seeing how mike_c also knew 1.
mircea_popescu: no robots. unlike the alex chick i'm an ACTUAL luddite. i use people.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually it's devilishly simple. you'll see after a few monthly reports.
mircea_popescu: jurov can wait, the contract'll be up at a sane time, but in a few days.
mircea_popescu: im known for my tough wagers and an almost fanatical devotion to the poke.
mircea_popescu: you get a list as long as you wish, provided you publish it by tomorrow.
mircea_popescu: mike_c actually i'll bet you a certain pizza you won't be able to guess all 4.
mircea_popescu: right. what's "impossible" is just admitting mp has the power to make the impossible quite possible.
mircea_popescu: apparently this is possible in fiat just fine. whodda thunk it.
mircea_popescu: because...well... they use the mpex shareholding model.
mircea_popescu: so on the very good news front, i've already lined up 4 managers for s.mpif, whole shebang nominally worth a little north of 170 btc atm.
mircea_popescu: what i meant was strictly this, that your particular response matched what i may have accepted as proof that you indeed may know how you read it.
mircea_popescu: ils ne se servent de la pensée que pour autoriser leurs injustices, et emploient les paroles que pour déguiser leurs pensées
mircea_popescu: i believe that's really the model for all communication.
mircea_popescu: (trivial to observe when it noticed you're human because of the very distinctive "error pls to start over" tone"
mircea_popescu: so, as kids, one party game was to whistle into an old, low baud modem. they were slow enough that it was still sort-of feasible. the game was, who gets the modem going for longer thinking it's got a sane modem on the other end
mircea_popescu: anyway, re your "you're reaching" comment, i told a story at teh conference that should prolly be on the record.
mircea_popescu: that's the trick with "being insulted" : it affords plausible deniability to they who don't want to have the truth extracted.
mircea_popescu: i might as well ask obama if he really meant i can keep my insurance.
mircea_popescu: now without offense, let me just propose to you as a theory that it's possible you'd not know how you read it. in the same sense advertising works.
mircea_popescu: anyway. i know what he's pretending he's trying to say, but that ain't at all what he;s saying. what he's saying is "resistence is futile", that's the message, and it's a ridiculous.
mircea_popescu: because you imagine perfect knowledge ("everyone publishes everything they know and everyone reads it all") to get your result
mircea_popescu: <bounce> still, they know what we know plus a bunch << this is strictly false.
mircea_popescu: and while we know what they don't know, they don't know what we know.
mircea_popescu: as the things stand right now, they never had an internal bitcoin,
mircea_popescu: it's not clear why this reclassification'd be useful to your position.
mircea_popescu: for all the brilliant russians living in the 70s, the ussr was dumb as rocks.
mircea_popescu: heck, a lot of smart people worked for microsoft, and alcatel, and whatever other pointless dinosaur. adobe.
mircea_popescu: nobody is denying a lot of smart people work for the nsa.
mircea_popescu: if spending money solved problems the phoenician empire'd still be a thing.
mircea_popescu: yo, bruce, wakeup call : the nsa is about as fucktartded as you are. srsly.
mircea_popescu: gotta love how schneier sticks these psy-ops little turds in everything he writes.
mircea_popescu: "Additionally, algorithms from the NSA are considered a sort of alien technology: they come from a superior race with no explanations."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform are you this Arlyn Culwick fellow and trolling me ?