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mircea_popescu: jurov they lost about 200k in one go o nthat 1 cent/btc debacle in 2011 if you recall
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the20year1: is it provable/possible that gox has 740k bitcoins 'somewhere'? < that figure includes all their numerous historical losses going back 4 years, converted to bitcoin at the time of loss
mircea_popescu: o look decimation had it before me :D sorry, hadn't read the entire log.
mircea_popescu: of course he's special so he can't really block print, he has to draw.
mircea_popescu: jurov no in this case it's competent self management. i was inches from going "oh go get laid, you're nuts" at him.
mircea_popescu: the tube strength and relative pressure required to not crush it at depth
mircea_popescu: how you gonna launch airbreathing rocket 4 miles underwater ?
mircea_popescu: various us senators make proclamations about how intolerable this is.
mircea_popescu: because the undersubs thought it expedient to cut an eighty mile tall hole in the bedrock supporting it
mircea_popescu: there's all these people on the surface redditing about shit.
mircea_popescu: it just sits on the bottom of the sea, like 3-4 miles long, half a mile thick sort of catfish
mircea_popescu: benkay actually, check it out : robot 3d printing nuclear marine exploatation sub.
mircea_popescu: aircraft impossible to make large enough for nuclear power to work. submarines pretty much only work as nukes.
mircea_popescu: anyway : aircraft easy to spot. a well designed sub is impossible to spot.
mircea_popescu: a robot nuclear submarine is perhaps one of the best power projectors available.
mircea_popescu: careful who you tell or you may end up convicted to six months' eyeroll therapy.
mircea_popescu: benkay you're clearly a traitor to the holy cause of geekery.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: 30k buys jpm a senator. it buys a somali 100k rounds of 7.62x39. it buys you: a toyota. << this is not exactly correct tho. consider : i have three girls, they kinda like each other. like-like. they share an appartment, we sometimes fuck. the whole shebang costs me maybe 30k a year. prolly less.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless we were plainly able to buy their bureaucracy once the politburo was unable to keep the suit shops supplied.
mircea_popescu: kinda curious how the dev thing (as a cultural construct mind you) will fare.
mircea_popescu: most sane people (and defo anyone in finance) strongly despises "devs"
mircea_popescu: i guess i ended up self-employed in a consulting capacity. again.
mircea_popescu: a coupla hundred different datasets that don't really coallesce.
mircea_popescu: at large volumes, all data generation is key generation.
mircea_popescu: an attacker sees 50k posts on 400k forums, compares the timing of them and knows what processors you are using.
mircea_popescu: ok. suppose i hire you to do this job. now you have to make 100k posts a day from supposedly 100k different handles on 1mn forums.