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mircea_popescu: you think the cypriots had it bad... watch till it happens in the us.
mircea_popescu: this is just damage control anyway. most of the deposits belong to companies, which a) are legally required to keep their funds in a bank and b) are not insured anyway.
mircea_popescu: flay a libertard alive today. he's earned it. then salt the wounds and make his mother watch.
mircea_popescu: the once glorious wester civilisation has to restart at fucking 1600 ?!
mircea_popescu: fucktards with their "let's make the world fair" as if it weren't managed to bomb us all the fucking way to the stone age.
mircea_popescu: "Someone should start a bank (or maybe someone has) that charges (rather than pays) interest and does not make loans. "
mircea_popescu: even if it had infinite money, which it clearly does not.
mircea_popescu: i'd be surprised if it can currently hire any ONE of the top five crackers in any field.
mircea_popescu: the us may hire as many Fargo policewomen as it can pay.
mircea_popescu: smart people are few and far between. things they can do are the grass o nthe fields. monstrous socialist regimes have this problem compounded by the fact that they're only popular with idiots.
mircea_popescu: what particular sector ? it's the same all through. how many db experts are there ?
mircea_popescu: so then what do you think, the problem eases as you go up ?
mircea_popescu: you work in hosting, right ? how many competent sysadmins are there, that you can actually motivate to do the job ?
mircea_popescu: besides, the nsa is dead. the us is scrambling to create a new, actually secret replacement, while pretending nsa is still a thing.
mircea_popescu: and so... no. they don't have the resources to anytihng.
mircea_popescu: and the worst morale in the history of secret servicing.
mircea_popescu: it'd be like bitcoin relying not on chain but on people being nice to each other.
mircea_popescu: if you can't do that, you've got little business doing it in the first place.
mircea_popescu: the idea is to implement technically sound solutions. this means god himself can not de-anon your server.
mircea_popescu: 2. most jurisdictions couldn't give less of a shit about the us and its problems.
mircea_popescu: 1. nsa is nowhere near as competent as they'd like you believe
mircea_popescu: but yes. freedom = no barrier to entry = chaos. nttawwt.
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids you know that's the exact link i gave you earlier in the logs :D
mircea_popescu: they just take their chances. they survive by schooling.
mircea_popescu: you know, no ammount of salmon being eaten by bears makes the salmon wear fucking german ww1 helmets.
mircea_popescu: exactly these types of presumtpions. they're like some mutant cockroaches which have somehow adapted to live in the cracks of this presumption.
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids you know, this entire generation of twentyspomething fuckups strictly exists because we keep presuming.
mircea_popescu: speaking of php. the stuff had me in a state of ptss for a few hours
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids did you see all the failed darknet drug marketplaces btw ?
mircea_popescu: also, benkay baby, more naked girl / dressed pitbull pics. you've lernered nothing off trilema ?
mircea_popescu: Vexual at the rate benkay is posting on that cascade of his, the cheatsheet will need a flatbed truck.
mircea_popescu: one of the things i enjoy most about bitcoin is all the shit people don't know. ot
mircea_popescu: if you had done nothing but reddit, retardopedia and lesssex for the past two decades...
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids something you may know, but this is hindering you from seeing the true pure beauty of Bit and Cloud!
mircea_popescu: actually, did moldbug&co ever manage to stop urbit from crashing ?
mircea_popescu: anyway. bad ideas being funded is a serious problem for any society.
mircea_popescu: yeah, interesting to me too. in the following sense : a londoner goes to the country, and upon hearing a goose meow he expresses his astonishment : listen to the cock neigh!
mircea_popescu: imo "crowdfunding" as in, kickfunder etc is a fad not unlike social media.
mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids> right now its about 5 commands when i wake up, <<
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mircea_popescu: herbijudlestoids i think it'll be much more interesting in 1-2 monmths, that thing
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves pankkake seems atc has a quite solid bottom in nao.