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mircea_popescu: "In one example, the Army lost track of roughly $5.8 billion worth of supplies between 2003 and 2011."
mircea_popescu: it's not the same if your daddy rapes you or some filthy stranger does.
mircea_popescu: bgupta yeah system didn't have either that or tracepath
mircea_popescu: well i don't have the energy to dig into this all the way to having traceroute read.
mircea_popescu: so basically my thinking is that i got both the legit and the spoofed packet from 213.154.128.21
mircea_popescu: no i actually know where the gear is that has that ip.
mircea_popescu: cause i know what gear is in practice allocated those ips
mircea_popescu: well also the geographical distance between 213.154/16 and 209.85/16 is about 300 miles.
mircea_popescu: why the fuck does it trace to the same machine from itself ?
mircea_popescu: bgupta afaik the allaire guy sold to general catalyst in 2004, and is running brightcove since a decade ago, to no particular results.
mircea_popescu: bloctoc someone should write the transcript and s/bitcoin/obamacare/
mircea_popescu: bgupta and do you mean brightcove ? when was that sold ?!
mircea_popescu: he's the fuckwit that blessed the world with the suck that is macromedia. /me bristles
mircea_popescu: bgupta the problem of course is that nobody cares what he thinks.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla store your btc on mpex, that way once the solar flare wipes all my btc you can milk all over me.
mircea_popescu: pankkake: looks like $600 isn't happening today << sweet.
mircea_popescu: and conditional upon nondelivery (you have to host "your' miner with them)
mircea_popescu: apparently they changed their "contract" (what peas-for-brains regard unsigned matter as "contracts" is beyond me)
mircea_popescu: the chinese have the working brains to figure this out on their own tho
mircea_popescu: truth is things are overheating, but we still have some leeway.
mircea_popescu: shit i've been yakking about since i dunno, a year ago or w/e.
mircea_popescu: anyway, on the positive side, the plaintive story of the guy out however many bitcoins over not including tx fees will perhaps inspire all the noobs to set their tx fee > 0 like... NOW
mircea_popescu: basic stuff like "don't blow your entire wad on the first thing you fall upon without having tried to figure it out first"
mircea_popescu: consumers. bitcoin will bust a large number of butts before people get used to how things work irl.
mircea_popescu: i like people who learned about bitcoin once it passed 500 or w/e telling what the network is all about
mircea_popescu: jurov no, i'll just push it down just to be an asshole.
mircea_popescu: who was it, patton ? "we don't fight the war we'd like with the weapons we'd want, we fight the war what is with whatever we've got"
mircea_popescu: the last one they won, they were woefully unequipped to win.
mircea_popescu: how equipped one is has little bearing. the us "soldiers" are splendidly equipped to win any war
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that'd seem to be a counterargument to your terrarium argument.
mircea_popescu: most of the persians that went to battle the greeks also were woefully unequipped to fight nutty spartans
mircea_popescu: i thought it came out quite plainly between the lines.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the secret nobody wants to share is that the price for a shot at the entire rich busienss is your life.
mircea_popescu: somebody needs to write a markov chain script to talk to vexual.
mircea_popescu: if i knew how to make people through blog posts i would do it.
mircea_popescu: i can write out how a rock falls, and that will help you aim your cannon
mircea_popescu: but see, this is a script. scripts differ from reality in that they're correct.