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mircea_popescu: amusingly, it reads like a square with f0f0 written in it, which'd be a short form of a romanian euphemism for... cunt, of course
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell herbijudlestoids srsly, blogspot ? why such evil ;/
mircea_popescu: because it controls the only easy access into the west from constantinople.
mircea_popescu: for instance the town i live in, has been sieged by the turks and by the germans about 18 times, switching sides like 7
mircea_popescu: romania had been bordering on an arabic invasion of the western world all through the middle ages.
mircea_popescu: the ancientest response to this is "may your heart be good, stranger"
mircea_popescu: anywya : hi in romanian is, to this day, "buna ziua", ie good day.
mircea_popescu: (obviously in this case by "login" i mean, any
http request to your server at all)
mircea_popescu: if your salt+nonce -> cookie process is deterministic you can even verify it's the same actual user to any arbitrary degree of fineness (such as, same ip)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and upon each subsequent login you a) check if the user has the old cookie ; b) hash the salt, store it, increment the nonce, store it ; c) send a new cookie
mircea_popescu: wouldn't the best practice be, that upon user registration you generate a user salt and a nonce, send these as a hashed cookie,
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as you're going to do a site with accounts, which people can log in over
http (stupid as this may be)
mircea_popescu: so since pretty much anyone here has a better knowledge of webstuff than i do, here's a question :
mircea_popescu: too much hassle to improvise useful fires when you got an oven and everything
mircea_popescu: if you're not alcoholics like me you can use buttermilk, i had it once made by austrian hands, it was delicious (both)
mircea_popescu: also in practice, i don't use vinegar, like the germans, i use wine, something red (depicted above, merlot/pinot noir from recas)
mircea_popescu: Tot in practica eu n-o marinez in otet, cum e ideea nemteasca, ci-n vin, ceva rosu (in imagine dinsus aveti un cupaj de Merlot / Pinot Noir de la Recas. Daca nu sunteti alcolisti ca si mine puteti folosi lapte batut, am mincat o data facuta asa de austriece miini, fu delicioasa. (Si, si).
mircea_popescu: (all the chicks came one by one to discreetly check me out)
mircea_popescu: last burger i had was at some irish restaurant in boston. i ate it with a knife and fork, much to the waitstaff's delight
mircea_popescu: this being, of course, romania, where labour an' materials are cheap
mircea_popescu: last time i ate in a popular joint i left like 40 dollars there iirc.
mircea_popescu: no, as in take the gf. you eat the big hoovespaste thing, she eats the small one
mircea_popescu: apparently mcd is taking advantage of the aussies' polyglot nature.
mircea_popescu: for one thing, the clannish groups don't actually need the large constructs like the alienated individuals do.
mircea_popescu: "remember that it’s the individualists who seem to work together best towards the collective — the BIG collective — society as a whole — a nation, for instance. meanwhile, the “collectivists” (as hofstede calls them) — or the clannish groups (as i call them) — don’t manage to handle, or even to create, commonweals hardly at all."
mircea_popescu: is this hbd supposed to be "sanity ready to fight spurious accusations of racism" ?
mircea_popescu: possibly because the term is in my mind strictly related to stalin.
mircea_popescu: which is fundamentally why england conquered scotland rather than the other way around
mircea_popescu: and it's a well known fact that the more connected model always emerges victorious.
mircea_popescu: in the end, this all yields a richer conenctivity in society,
mircea_popescu: so in the end, the future looks like, two to six slaves living i nthe care of one master, who gets in the wot and tries to make sense of whether mp or x or y is more sensible to keep his house's money.
mircea_popescu: not deliberately, just, they're too fucking dumb and uninformed to survive in the world as it is.
mircea_popescu: this meanwhile has expanded to college aged kids, who are in fact an opressed group by now.
mircea_popescu: in most large towns cops reflexively seek him out in any conflict
mircea_popescu: much like average people going out to drink have a designated driver, these cvasi-familial arrangements have a house mother
mircea_popescu: also other opressed groups (entertainers, especially sex workers, for instace ; drug users definitely)
mircea_popescu: heterosexual couples ended up doing cellular families, somehow, for some reason.
mircea_popescu: ownership is a muddled thing anyway. so you own your house. you can't set it on fire. you can't dig a hole in the livingroom. etc.
mircea_popescu: yeah, of which 69`999`923 people do banking with a select few :)
mircea_popescu: i guess it depends on how conspiracy-minded the approach is.
mircea_popescu: (fun fact : 50% of all wealth today is owned by 97 people, i hear)
mircea_popescu: the original observation, however, to wit that politics has very quickly diminishing marginal returns, and in general you don't need more than 100 men involved in it in any case, is sound.