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mircea_popescu: so what'd ion migration do ? show whether the user likes vi or emacs ?
mircea_popescu: may be just "what is done" according to the chinese corp in question
mircea_popescu: steven-__ that's like rather old #suckstobeleah posturing neh ?
mircea_popescu: it;s going to consist of raw material, you can comment whichever way so get your pencils ready.
mircea_popescu: soo, BingoBoingo bitcoinpete jborkl and generally ppl doing blogs : ima be doing a little bit of sec wikileaking in a few hours.
mircea_popescu: if nate silver, whoever he is, gets some sctatch together
mircea_popescu: "women in tech", but only for just as long as a) they're stupid and b) they don't ever do anything let alone make calls.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: probably they're mostly incensed because she knows too many words.
mircea_popescu: i was thinking more along the lines of, hey dear pentagon, if you're looking to start a research project into how to give people physical pain over the wire... i got the only documented case of this happening working for me.
mircea_popescu: "Every post from MPOE-PR I read gives me physical pain"
mircea_popescu: her constant welfare is dependant strictly on those folks continuing to like her.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hoiw's she loaded ? she just has rich friends.
mircea_popescu: which is how i conclude silicon valley ain't got much more life left in it.
mircea_popescu: obviously this isn't liable to happen in any venue that's doomed.
mircea_popescu: i wish some of those "business leaders" or w/e they are actually came forward to plainly state that they don't care, they'll never care, and the peons can get back to the mine.
mircea_popescu: they're not as much professionally sad as professionally useless
mircea_popescu: an entire generation of these, ballas spent some time discussing the zuckerberg woman
mircea_popescu: notice how nowhere is it mentioned what the fuck the woman actually did at any point.
mircea_popescu: and obamacare does pay for it, because what else is govbernment for
mircea_popescu: except since she's incapable of fidning a boyfriend, she would like obamacare to pay for it.
mircea_popescu: and to be told that she's important, and valuable, and remarkable and all the rest of the shit women her age want
mircea_popescu: "A software engineer named Julie Ann Horvath sent shock waves across Silicon Valley over the weekend" = "nobody gave a shit, so we'll just keep yakking about it"
mircea_popescu: silicon valley stands at a crossroad indeed. one way, despair and utter hopelessness
mircea_popescu: this'd eminently be one of those asciilifeform "parachute first pls" cases
mircea_popescu: the theoretical possibility still exists, in a variety of very difficult to model variants
mircea_popescu: it's more in terms of security, due to various graph splitting attacks that coudl conceivably be deployed
mircea_popescu: well for further mind blown, consider there's no bitcoin jesus, either o.O
mircea_popescu: but mastercoin was a new ripple once ripple got its guts ripped out
mircea_popescu: heh i guess they covered it by calling it "digital currency"
mircea_popescu: wasn't ethereum more like a new ripple than a new bitcoin ?
mircea_popescu: no because that is actually intended as a chump party.
mircea_popescu: too much describe, and also who are you to make recommendations to people running services ?
mircea_popescu: services to describe at least superficially describe their security policy
mircea_popescu: can be reasonably considered "absolutely secure" << depends by whom where for what purpose etc.
mircea_popescu: "Some other questions: 1) how naked would you like the models to be?"
mircea_popescu: it should be pretty obvious what the unit of account is.
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as bitcoin protocol happily handles half a bitcoin
mircea_popescu: the satoshi name is not documented, other than through ancient convention
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves the satoshi is quite clearly the only unit of account, a "bitcoin" is just a courtesy style.