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mircea_popescu: but hey, whatever. sucks being a govt agency, if you do shit like this you're too eager, if you don't you're dumb, there's no way out.
mircea_popescu: dexX7 i'm aware. i just thought it's marginally ridiculous to be that desperate to impress bitcoin forum/reddit.
mircea_popescu: dub yeah, i'd be speaking chinese and you lot wouldn't be on the internet.
mircea_popescu: dexX7 lmao someone in the fbi seriously sat over a console coding up a way to send bitcoins in 324 batches ?
mircea_popescu: it does strangely veer into how aids is all about faggots and evil black people in africa however.
mircea_popescu: no, seriously, it's perhaps the best discussion of us academia i've read. ever.
mircea_popescu: "Americans don't want to study hard things. That's for foreigners. Fluff courses like these ethnic-studies timewasters—that's what people want. Unless a university is 'anchored' by a big department teaching real subjects—a medical or engineering school—the drift is all that way."
mircea_popescu: i can't do that, the neoreactionaries would hate me because i am helping the jewish-african plot to subvert white fecundity.
mircea_popescu: i don't know anyone there i'd want to partner with tho.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform here you go : "The worst case scenario I think would be having our European allies saying they will no longer share signals intelligence because of a concern that our SigInt is being derived from mechanisms that violate their privacy rules," said Ray Kimball, an army strategist with policy experience on European issues.
mircea_popescu: schooling would appear to be more akin cooking than dentistry.
mircea_popescu: jurov yeah, those two really look like they can't afford the dentist visit
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform NEVER AGAIN YOU HEAR!!! WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT~!!!!1
mircea_popescu: ahem. so basically all future bitcoin incvome of the us will be reported as allegedly confiscated from this guy ?
mircea_popescu: An FBI official tells me that the bureau has located and seized a collection of 144,000 bitcoins, the largest seizure of that cryptocurrency ever, worth close to $28.5 million at current exchange rates. It believes that the stash belonged to Ross Ulbricht
mircea_popescu: the problem with free software is that unless there's an omnipotent dictator a la torvalds,
mircea_popescu: bitcointalk being replaced with markov chain generated noise might be an improvement.
mircea_popescu: write a script, make 500k accounts, age them and take over.
mircea_popescu: people really don't understand what dams are or how they work, do they
mircea_popescu: if indeed he delivers something like 500th in two weeks am is going back to a decent 10-15% then
mircea_popescu: selling coffee brewed from miner waste heat is probably more profitable than deploying the miners too.
mircea_popescu: long long ago on a planet far far away, known only as "this spring"
mircea_popescu: well it's good that they're keeping to their promise not to 50% the network.
mircea_popescu: and you know, a sucker is me for not having sold out at 250 or w/e.
mircea_popescu: you know your own circumstance, make some long term predictions and split your effort accordingly.
mircea_popescu: well, that's something you'd have to come up with on your own.
mircea_popescu: well, why is it hard ? that's why the long term strategy is a long term strategy.
mircea_popescu: the stories you hear about "ordinary citizens just like you" daytrading for a profit are mostly fake.
mircea_popescu: in general it's a good idea to set a long term strategy and follow that.
mircea_popescu: yeah, kinda par for the course here. you certainly can't say "crash" if the price isn't at day lows.
mircea_popescu: im sorry, price is 200, day min max is 175/233. what flash crash ?
mircea_popescu: Vexual the idea to school people comes from a desire to have them powerful and idnependent citizens, rather than worthless dependent subjects.
mircea_popescu: and i don't think dewey ruined anything. i think dewey just "cut through the cuts that were there" as the old azn story goes.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo the list is longer than pierce, who is imo respectable, but exactly : logic is logic, and "utilitarianism" isn't much philosophy.
mircea_popescu: and i don't want to school anyone, there's about 10mn people pretending they are schooling a hundred million kids in the us.
mircea_popescu: hardly a point. this seems the three year old's expectation that his mother will feed him because she can.
mircea_popescu: schooling is all about putting people in controlled environment designed for their changing.
mircea_popescu: well ok, but psychology is not philosophy. and for that matter, really difficult to argue it into much more than a fashionable lady passtime.
mircea_popescu: maybe if some actual philosopher ever visited and felt inclined to talk to the hordes, which seems improbable.
mircea_popescu: i don't know americans ever had the opportunity to listen to philosophy lectures in their country.
mircea_popescu: it's funny, they go to all this trouble to make school as much like a prison as possible, but then fail to take advantage of any of the implicit benefits.
mircea_popescu: well... it's easier, and more comfortable, and always easier to find cheap waitresses than cheap mistresses, so...
mircea_popescu: "either write a chess program in asm or starve for one month" seems a perfectly healthy proposition for any 20 year old to confront.
mircea_popescu: see, im not sure why hunger and education'd be separate issues.
mircea_popescu: that this isn't required of sophomore it students in the west speaks more of the poor quality of it education in the west.