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mircea_popescu: "we are the people you tried to kill, and we will bury you"
mircea_popescu: i can readily see how something like that would create plenty of national identity.
mircea_popescu: random guess. their pr is mtgox-level atrocious, which is kinda sad after all these trilema articles on the topic
mircea_popescu: they probably lost a hard drive, didn't have a proper array and can't restart till they fsck
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell benkay "the secret discovery of these techniques was for the Tyrant merely a happy accident" << it was in fact. rsa was invented by some brit guy, kept under lock and key unused for 4 decades.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile back at the ranch, bitbet invented a whole new kind of hell.
mircea_popescu: "OP, I know cryptostocks makes it seem as though starting your very own security is a sort of past time accessible to anyone who'd like to try, sort of like adopting a pet fish. This has nothing to do with bitcoin securities in fact and everything to do with play-pretend exchanges exploiting those who'd like to try but aren't ready for one reason or another."
mircea_popescu: this pando stuff is like a breath of fresh air, it almost reads like press from before digital ruined it all.
mircea_popescu: i'/d suggest you try this theory out, but instead just lie down D:
mircea_popescu: many countless ways to throw camnav for a loop, including lulzy things like silly strings
mircea_popescu: but on large icmb type of things. tehy've not really fittedf it to the 10lb shits yet
mircea_popescu: and if this keeps up for another 3-4 years the rest of the world will own more drones than the usg.
mircea_popescu: the word around the backchannels is that the usaf gets back about 2/3 of the drones it sends out
mircea_popescu: i guess people in the us are so starstruck with "technology" they forget they're just little radio planes.
mircea_popescu: turns out they are kinda useless in actual military operations.
mircea_popescu: may have something to do with all the drones the us lost in the ukraine.
mircea_popescu: "Two U.S. Air Force commanders in the 422nd Air Base Group at RAF Croughton have been relieved over a loss of confidence in their abilities."
mircea_popescu: mebbe by autumn i feel like clearing my ignore list again or something.
mircea_popescu: so now stfu for a few months and spend hours reading the logs.
mircea_popescu: old people buy spamvertised dietary supplements and so on
mircea_popescu: no, you could radically overestimate how much you understand of what's being discussed.
mircea_popescu: you're in a very poor position to evaluate any of these contingencies.
mircea_popescu: lmao this reminds me of the original tucker max wage fixing story.
mircea_popescu: bitcoinpete now the work of submitting to hn and the smokinggun and so on begins :D
mircea_popescu: "it made me so miserable that life seemed worthless" and so on
mircea_popescu: when otherwise nice, smart guys realised that they had literally killed hundreds of women
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually dr semmelweis is a major moment in the cultural history of medicine
mircea_popescu: i despise the entire thinking process that got you there.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo bout a dozen in the bucharest residentura.
mircea_popescu: apparently somehow they still don't see me coming, it's fascinating.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so what was so bad about independence ? (trying to educate myself)
mircea_popescu: to further save costs, the entire thing could be done over the web, as an app
mircea_popescu: half why i even keep that blog, if i didn't write the shit up i'd end up forgetting it all.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i recall he was prepping for some surgery i hope they didn't end up cutting the wrong part.
mircea_popescu: ninjashogun people who don't have to supervise their own humours to please a third party behave differently than the us norm.