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mircea_popescu: Last Wednesday, the Fed announced that it would not be tapering its bond buying program. This news was released at precisely 2 pm in Washington “as measured by the national atomic clock.” It takes 7 milliseconds for this information to get to Chicago. However, several huge orders that were based on the Fed’s decision were placed on Chicago exchanges 2-3 milliseconds after 2 pm. How did this happen ?
mircea_popescu: jurov : let me point out that your brilliant idea with the tracking made my life a lot easier at this juncture.
mircea_popescu: well these things are reported to the fbi as a matter of course, but i don't know if they ever do anything.
mircea_popescu: anyway, fact #1 : attacker failed to obtain any btc for his trouble. he did try to, but it was caught.
mircea_popescu: mkay. too soon to say for certain, but it seems a bunch of fake trades were reported. im putting a two hour hold on trades of s.mpoe and s.bbet.
mircea_popescu: the plot thickens. apparently there was a breach of some sort.
mircea_popescu: apparently ms has a lot of in house expertise in romanian.
mircea_popescu: learn that and russian, you can always dropkick teh gorgeous babes right into your bed.
mircea_popescu: romanian is a great language to learn because if you're talking to a hot white chick it's 33% she's romanian
mircea_popescu: either way i guess i have this awesome bonus that if i ever run out of shit to write i can spend years just translating old stuff
mircea_popescu: maybe it'll shame some of the native speaker readers into doing a better jhob
mircea_popescu: so at leas there's that. but i guess i should have the thing translated one of these days.
mircea_popescu: it just puts one in a particularly comfortable and solid mental place to be themselves.
mircea_popescu: obviously judging the other side is your domain, but i don't see why i'd want to live in a world wherein i can't say my name on my own blog. either such a world doesn't exist or i don't, and the sooner we find out the better.
mircea_popescu: society is an emergent phenomena. it does not allow definition by interested parties.
mircea_popescu: also get a footnotes plugin and a recent comments thing.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo by the way, the #1 thing you could do for your blog atm is coming out with your own identity.
mircea_popescu: it was from the urbit thing benkay keeps spamming for some obscure reason
mircea_popescu: so what, i'm not helping the soviets overthrow their illegitimate govt in the 80s, i'm not helping americans overthrow their illegitimate govt today because "it's antisocial" ?!
mircea_popescu: the notion that it's "Antisocial" to help people evade their local laws is scandalous.
mircea_popescu: also, the "watermark" bs was tried by adobe, as well as by the porn industry. it fails to work.
mircea_popescu: lol BingoBoingo it's not about speed, it's about duration.
mircea_popescu: benkay i think someone had that link here a day or two ago
mircea_popescu: anyway, it must really suck to be a vapid airhead stuck in the brood of some guy who seeded skype and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: this is that, except outpatient, you get to pretend luike you're rich and a bunch of twinks really want your cock.
mircea_popescu: you know how any brothel worth its salt allows you to act out your fantasies ?
mircea_popescu: no, they aren't. dudes are buying by the hour a particular sort of entertainment
mircea_popescu: get a coupla camwhores through 6 weeks buzzword programme and send them to collect the money of the foolish
mircea_popescu: these aren't companies tho. this is the vc freakshow circuit.
mircea_popescu: ”We can’t wait to realize the full potential of the creative and technological talent that already exists right here in Portland,”
mircea_popescu: dexX7 they're all bootstrap. that's why they all look the same.
mircea_popescu: no actually, thank you internets for mentioning hre guy.
mircea_popescu: Have you ever read the book "He's Just Not That into You"? Me neither, however I have seen the movie, and although it is lacking a whimsically charming Hugh Grant in order to make it into the "Best RomCom" category, there is one part of the movie
mircea_popescu: "My life's ambition is to assist in the creation of an Iron Man Suit."
mircea_popescu: Many states allow persons in minimum-security facilities access to the internet.
mircea_popescu: The United States has among the highest incarceration rates in the world. More people are behind bars in the United States than any other country. As of 2006, a record 7 million people were behind bars, on probation or on parole. Of the total, 2.2 million were incarcerated. The People's Republic of China ranks second with 1.5 million. The United States has 5% of the world's population and 25% of the world's incarcerate
mircea_popescu: all the time. there were two kids trying it here last month.
mircea_popescu: 1. big dig. 2. governor and head of local mob = brothers