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mircea_popescu: thestringpuller yeah. who do you think steals a laptop you got for 180 on ebay ?
mircea_popescu: you can email your wallet to yourself in gpg encrypted form for backup, and just hang on tight to the laptop.
mircea_popescu: but yeah, the best security is having a cheap laptop you don't use for anything else. generate a wallet and some gpg keys.
mircea_popescu: dood was drooling so hard his wife didn't want to rent anymore.
mircea_popescu: one of the two says "oh, i rent here, but she comes with the place".
mircea_popescu: some other time, two chicks living together, landlord comes to do the same thing with a young goofy married couple.
mircea_popescu: "A lot of holes in the desert, and a lot of problems are buried in those holes. But you gotta do it right. I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you're talking about a half-hour to forty-five minutes worth of digging. And who knows who's gonna come along in that time? Pretty soon, you gotta dig a few more holes. You could be there all fuckin' night."
mircea_popescu: he's gonna be out there digging ditches with nicky santoro.
mircea_popescu: if you've never made original contributions to a scientific field your mind is probably too banal for the brain wallet to be safer than the alternatives.
mircea_popescu: unless there was some flaw in it. in case you're wondering btw, this has happened in the past
mircea_popescu: i don't follow that reasoning too well. but anyway : absent someone with a screenshot of the proper link, there's no basis to contest the bet.
mircea_popescu: your link currently reads for me " Something went terribly wrong"
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves other than that i've not yet made a data feed. waiting for a company to offer to do this, and convince me that it has a market above and beyond assbot.
mircea_popescu: which reminds me : "Production of useful work is limited by the laws of thermodynamics, but the production of useless work seems to be unlimited."
mircea_popescu: you gotta throw out large swathes of "possibilities" in order to be able to do something useful.
mircea_popescu: this is fact. as explained by kuhn et all, scientific endeavour is impossible absent some sort of paradigm.
mircea_popescu: cca 1920 it was the scientific consensus that we will never have nuclear reactors.
mircea_popescu: "any one who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine"
mircea_popescu: "There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom. The glib supposition of utilizing atomic energy when our coal has run out is a completely unscientific Utopian dream, a childish bug-a-boo. Nature has introduced a few fool-proof devices into the great majority of elements that constitute the bulk of the world, and they have no energy to give up in the process of disintegration."
mircea_popescu: apparently not just people are getting fatter. ursides and rodents too.
mircea_popescu: it's not the case that i know ALL OF THE THINGS to the degree i can immediately summarize any argument of any deepness in any field.
mircea_popescu: in any case i wouldn't read too much into the happenstance that i know what c-y is. shit looks cool, it's naturally interesting to my particular mindset.
mircea_popescu: or theoretically, never even touching a chess table, studying graphs or w/e
mircea_popescu: im not sure there's an imbalance of that kind. you can get to be a great chess player either practically, spending all your time in central park playing chess with the dudes
mircea_popescu: "dude, you gotta talk to X, she's cute/cool/knows der quantz. come by my place friday ?"
mircea_popescu: i can't immediately discern and meh, i have a bunch of other shit to do atm
mircea_popescu: mod6 on the face of it there's a brighjt young canadian guy and his grad student that either found some shortcut in c-y or else are just repackaging it for the media buzz.
mircea_popescu: they;ve been diddling with drawing it for... 30 years ?
mircea_popescu: if not physically necessarily, then in a certaion metaphorical sense.
mircea_popescu: the only people that can be helped by others are on their knees.
mircea_popescu: and then whine as to why it's 300 bitcoins worth 10k usd each by then
mircea_popescu: i don't push it. let them come begging for it in their own time
mircea_popescu: experience shows kids with that sort of mental issues end up in a corner.
mircea_popescu: basically they're begging to die the dearth of irrelevance