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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.
mircea_popescu: basically the problems of 1) do what you describe and 2) make a rsa key are homologous.
mircea_popescu: benkay perhaps ? it is i confess one of the foremost riddles in my head.
mircea_popescu: and this makes no sense because for the money it'd cost to plant 1mn idiots in 100k forums nobody really reads, the attacker could jhust as well have built a mining farm
mircea_popescu: coming from supposedly jane and jons next door, who however mysteriously all share the same stupid talking points.
mircea_popescu: the more concerning thing however is that mah people are measuring incredible levels of random-forum-oposition to bitcoin,
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: i already suspect major news comment sections to be riddled with fake anti-bitcoin sentiments << this is probably true just on the general instinct of the beast, meaning that on some level welfare-dependent scum writing the stuff is aware bitcoin will kill it and wants to survive.
mircea_popescu: really fucking difficult to get good data to mock them into insanity like that ;/
mircea_popescu: and you can't send any of the girls to spy on them either cause they get even awkwarder if any girls are within like a mile ?
mircea_popescu: you know how there's this loser group and they always talk among themselves but if you go by they get all awkward ?
mircea_popescu: basically twitter is what i always wanted as a kid in school : a chance to spy on the losers conversations.
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mircea_popescu: benkay nono you don't understand. "strategy and research"
mircea_popescu: anyway, pulled his chain a little on twitter, curious what comes of that.
mircea_popescu: bout the same thing here too, reddit kids "talk to their lawyers".
mircea_popescu: he never ever even bought a record, as they're not sold where he lives
mircea_popescu: say poor black kid trying to get accepted by wasps ? he pretends to like wop or w/e stupid music they like.
mircea_popescu: i don't think it's even that to be honest, it's more like a quest to belong.
mircea_popescu: every two bit whoever is "talking to his lawyers" these days, have you noticed ?
mircea_popescu: guy is a little young and naive tho, managed to come off rather impudent.
mircea_popescu: well i'm not arguing more people writing is a bad thing.
mircea_popescu: "This meeting triggered a chain reaction of events in which the solicited investors rebuffed Karpeles and his colleagues" vs "Feb 23 12:23:59 <mircea_popescu>may be that they've found a sucker, but that story'll end if i find him too."
mircea_popescu: Apocalyptic absolutely nothing new or newsworthy in there.
mircea_popescu: i mean either epoxy or seals, can these both work in any sense ?
mircea_popescu: and diametric too i guess : does that make any sense ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "The Boeing Black phone is manufactured as a sealed device both with epoxy around the casing and with screws, the heads of which are covered with tamper proof covering to identify attempted disassembly."
mircea_popescu: if you believe it has then yes it is. if you don't then no it isn't.
mircea_popescu: specifically if you'd say it has currently succeeded in meaningfully banning smoking.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: fwiw I don't believe USG is capable of any meaningful banning of bitcoin << that'd depend on the definition of meaningful,
mircea_popescu: i can't really comfortably read serbian fast enough to watch a movie