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mircea_popescu: ;;later tell thickasthieves see, you may be 12 and have no idea what you're doing, but at least you don't fail quite as bad as max keiser :D
mircea_popescu: ;;later see thickasthieves, you may be 12 and have no idea what you're doing, but at least you don't fail quite as bad as max keiser :D
mircea_popescu: i always thought the farts southpark episode was about him, but they didn't want to name him figuring (corrctly) that he's obscure enough he'd gain from the exposure
mircea_popescu: a gallon is a gallon if you carry it in the truck or on the back.
mircea_popescu: i think in a day or two alt blockchain will have done more hashng than all of doge in its entire history.
mircea_popescu: but i tell you! it's great to have a token worthless internet funbux currency to throw around
mircea_popescu: girl that's never been in a pool hall before... props her nose on the cue.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the best part of all this, of course, is that point defense is becoming an exercise in stupidity anyway
mircea_popescu: KRS-One seeing how more people own a dozen rockets than a dozen laser sharks...
mircea_popescu: Namworld so you think, but once you factor in the various factors it's actually no longer the case.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the salmon strategy, by its scientific name.
mircea_popescu: Namworld the human eye is much better than tech ersatzes.
mircea_popescu: most people who get punched out claim they never saw the fist.
mircea_popescu: depends on wavelength, but it IS probl;ematic for radar too yes
mircea_popescu: the 20 frames of a second cover a distance of about 3 miles say.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they keep knocking it, but ultra tensile meshes are better than all the crap they've built so far
mircea_popescu: basically a steel mesh would be better than a bullet in this configuration.
mircea_popescu: the missile is going about 10x as fast as your bullets.
mircea_popescu: Namworld i don't think you fully grok the mechanics involkved.
mircea_popescu: (cause obviously, the hypersonic missiles in discussion are chinese tech)
mircea_popescu: anyway : who was ranting about how china isn't a threat ?
mircea_popescu: at least they're not asking for an airplane that works like a submarine
mircea_popescu: "Strategic missile defense might therefore very well constitute the worst investment-return ratio of any major military system in U.S. history"
mircea_popescu: this is what people usually say about driving with their feet.
mircea_popescu: tracking missiles from a satellite isn't quite as trivial as all that.
mircea_popescu: "In San Francisco alone, about 60 percent of all robberies involve the theft of a mobile device, Police Chief Greg Suhr said. In nearby Oakland, such thefts amount to about 75 percent of robberies, Mayor Jean Quan added."
mircea_popescu: what the fuck leaders, that's not what you call a herd of pencilnecks.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform believe it or not, the most offensive part in there is the "leaders"
mircea_popescu: nubbins` according to the onion, 80% of us adults get their news from the onion.
mircea_popescu: ok i gotta put the markov chain on ignore, this is too much.
mircea_popescu: the rest is hardly within a coupla degrees of magnitude of that
mircea_popescu: your risks are that if btc reaches 10k in a year or two you're left with 1/10 of what you'd have had if you held on to the btc, and if the guy splits with the cash you're left with whatever people buying into asset-based btc corps are usually left with
mircea_popescu: dude forget it, real estate in central ohio isn't collapsing
mircea_popescu: maybe he could have arranged a 10x10 battery of price guns
mircea_popescu: someone pasted it here a few days ago and now i need it to prove a point
mircea_popescu: incidentally, anyone have handy a link to the golden painted whore at the whatever conference ?
mircea_popescu: dude check out all the bitcoin mfas : virtualmining.com/ cryptologs.com/ bitcoinviews.com/
mircea_popescu: even with all the monkey they do, african countries like say the car are more palatable.
mircea_popescu: can't fire people. can't evict people. the tax burden is like... 80% ?