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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw if it wasn;t obvious, base 10 because of the exaflops.
mircea_popescu: im a phb not a tech see. i think in practically useful terms :D
mircea_popescu: in which case exaflop is not particularly useful in any sense
mircea_popescu: also afaik aes-128 is something to the tune of 10^40 ?
mircea_popescu: . Recently, our classified NSA Oak Ridge facility made a stunning breakthrough that is leading us on a path towards building the first exaflop machine (1 quintillion instructions per second) by 2018. This will give us the capability to break the AES-128 encryption key
mircea_popescu: it would seem to me it's not possible for both snaps to represent the same solid.
mircea_popescu: the silo + 9 tanks 1st picture is not contradicted by the silo + 9 tanks last picture in that scroll ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform listen maybe im geometrically challenged, but!
mircea_popescu: ahaha it just occured to me... do the utah nsa people wear special blessed underwear ?
mircea_popescu: "Alienation of Affections and Criminal Conversation lawsuits are allowed in North Carolina to preserve the sanctity of marriage and the institution of the family. It is estimated that over 200 alienation of affection cases are filed in North Carolina each year."
mircea_popescu: but i would propose there is a difference between the people who have a problem with their gender,
mircea_popescu: (l conway is actually quoted by name as the reason i can't quite declare transsexualism out of this world, in my article about transsexualism)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's this craig woods character which became kate, and had been running all sorts of projects and whatnot
mircea_popescu: if you ask him, max keiser leads groups doing bitcoin stuff.
mircea_popescu: or is it more like "ladies of wallstreet" consisting of the barristas and hooters waitresses ?
mircea_popescu: pankkake yeah i think you may be right, there is something to this sculpting communities theory.
mircea_popescu: best abstract ever. tyvm whoever wrote this, now i know.
mircea_popescu: "This report is a return to the problem of security mechanisms implemented in modern anti-theft technologies that reside in firmware and PC BIOS of commonly used laptops and some desktop computers."
mircea_popescu: how did all these schmucks end up so persuaded of their own importance anyway
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it was such a problem where i lived by 1992ish i was able to spot it with diskedit
mircea_popescu: we had a number of segfaults which were ironed out, curious if yours is a new brand or some edge case.
mircea_popescu: @Mircea_Popescu @ligayaya @nrrrdcore Of course you don't think so. Oppressors honestly think they're just being nice.
mircea_popescu: @ligayaya @Mircea_Popescu @nrrrdcore actually, I don't think it is. at all.
mircea_popescu: @Mircea_Popescu This is like saying "behind every nigger is stupidity" @ligayaya "Behind every troll is pain." Community wisdom @nrrrdcore #PassionProjects
mircea_popescu: there's a coupla bn in 2015 notes that are being written off.
mircea_popescu: was geared towards college kids originally, so prolly plenty.
mircea_popescu: sane people couldn't care less. when kid's had enough holding his breath he'll give up on it.
mircea_popescu: well, most parents have this experience. whereby angry 5 yo threatens to hold his breath to death.
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan sure, it is really elegant, but not for those reasons.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin has terrible overhead and it is without a doubt the klunkiest, most ineffectual way to transmit payments ever devised
mircea_popescu: "life is on the wire. everything else's just waiting."
mircea_popescu: and we'd use it better than them, so overal... thanks for the fishes.
mircea_popescu: jurov here's the funny thing on top of it : if the us actually DID try to build something, like a superadvanced asic design ? we'd get it for free in the next leak bundle.
mircea_popescu: thigns have changed. we have a real republic and a real bitcoin now, which leaves the us back among its peers.
mircea_popescu: anyway : back then the most serene republica veneta was the us. much in the sense of how back then the bitcoin of the world was the usd.
mircea_popescu: you know this was a majorly discussed topic recently hiar.