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mircea_popescu: that's
the fucking bitch
there. a conflation of aim and desirability.
mircea_popescu: just as long as i stick
to aiming
to scatter self around, i will be fine.
mircea_popescu: just like failure works in humans : i can't fly, but i also didn't declare i aim
to be a bird.
mircea_popescu: the us is one, because it fails
to be what it DECLARES it wants
to be. so was
the soviet union.
mircea_popescu: but i know why, now.
there IS such a
thing as a failed state.
mircea_popescu: the alternative being, obviously, usistan. "democracy" if you don't look
too closely. such as by living
there, or
thinking about it any.
mircea_popescu: (which is why democracy is always born and only ever seems
to work in states built atop homogenuous nations. if you have multiple distinct social groups, it is strictly impossible
to actually represent
them while at
the same
time having a working democracy. which is why mass murder and ethnic cleansing always appears reasonable
to
the people doing it :
they have
to choose between democracy and multiculturalism, and
the
mircea_popescu: obtaining less democracy
to be spread out
to more people.
mircea_popescu: somehow no political "scientist" of
the anglosphere figured out yet
that democracy and representativity are sides of a field, and when you increase "participation" you generally degrade representativity.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field and "fuzzy process" aka "rough consensus" aka democracy facade without representativity (and preferably - without anyone
to represent).
mircea_popescu: herpitty derp we went
to community college, and we buy ENHANCED shit.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes and you're not gonna answer "no,
they include unenhanced security measures. shithead."
ben_vulpes: from
the lulzmine: "Do specialized systems include enhanced security measures consistent with risk analysis?"
☟︎ punkman: jurov: where was
the quote from?
jurov: it would be yet more hilarious if it said "loaded coins" as it was demonstrated
there's no such
thing
jurov: yes,
the argument flied off in bad direction. i found
the recommendation(to check for loaded dice or cards) hilarious in
that context
ascii_field: $1 per rebel; $99.999999m per
to halliburton...
mircea_popescu: i dunno. i know i ran
the numbers at some point, loled and forgot about it.
jurov: why weird. coinbr had a ddos, so I just fired beefier instance
to filter
the crud
that made
through load balancer
kakobrekla: i never used aws so i dunno what
they have but aws users usually end up using clouflare or smth (see buttstamp)
mircea_popescu: only way
that's cost effective is if you're very weird.
jurov: Their caching initially caused so much grief
to mod6
that he moved foundation stuff out
mircea_popescu: jurov i don't imagine anyone seriously uses
them for ddos mitigation. maybe in obscure corner cases.
assbot: Logged on 17-09-2015 04:30:45; copypaste: AWS is quite expensive, but
the great
thing about it is you never get down due
to DDoS.
mircea_popescu: assbot is on a different wot.
they got forked last year.
jurov: punkman: nondeterministic != biased.
the quote i referred
to conflated
the
two,
too
kakobrekla: > It's up
to glibc
to return it
to
the kernel and it is poor at
that. < ahhh
assbot: Successfully added a rating of 1 for mike_c with note: For btcalpha,
thanks for
the useful site.
stripclubmc: next up, no
that wasnt
tux misusing
the prison
toilets, staright from some forgotten ward in
tokyo, hold on
tight, it's yuuuurei
mike_c: "Congress approved $500m (£323m)
to
train and equip around 5,000 rebels as a key plank of US strategy against IS... Asked how many US
trained rebels were fighting he said: 'It's a small number... we're
talking four or five.'"
assbot: Logged on 17-09-2015 03:58:56; mircea_popescu:
THAT is a debate ?
assbot: British Isis member complains of 'rude Arabs' who steal his shoes, eat like children – and won't queue - Middle East - World -
The Independent ... (
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mircea_popescu: "Earlier
this month, Dell pledged
to spend $125 billion in China over
the next fiveyears, which is about five
times
the company’s value when it was
taken private in 2013. " ahahaha mkay.
mircea_popescu: In a recent speech,
Travis Kalanick, chief executive of
the ride-hailing company Uber, said
that progress brought by his company had
to be “in harmony with stability,” words often used by Chinese officials
to signal
the dangers of social and political unrest. IBM’s China marketing materials use phrases like “building a harmonious society” and “the Chinese dream,”
the latter a phrase coined by Xi
to signif
mircea_popescu: heh.
there's not been a jew in nazi germany like
the american in china.
mircea_popescu: "The first issue is defining an identity. In OpenPGP,
the identity is, by convention, an RFC 2822 name-addr, which has
the form "John Doe <jdoe at example.com> (comment)" (without
the quotes)." << not only is openpgp completely idiotic on
this score, but also. wut ?
mircea_popescu: "if you
think
that a standard for wooden cheeses is a bad idea please restrain yourself, herpitty derp"
mircea_popescu: "But if all you have
to say is
that you
think
TOFU is a bad idea, please restrain yourself." << all i have
to say is not
that "i
think
tofu is a bad idea". all i have
to say is
that
tofu isn't even a bad idea, and Neal H. Walfield is
too stupid
to even be wrong.
assbot: BitBet - Rand Paul will get less
than 7 minutes in Sept. 16th Republican debate :: 5.04 B (94%) on Yes, 0.31 B (6%) on No | closed 2 days 9 hours ago ... (
http://bit.ly/1KkQ9bU )
shinohai: the argument against plain wot seems silly,
the point of it is manual review isn't it?
punkman: shinohai: does
that read as nonsense or is it just me?
punkman: there's also a slight problem when you have identical files with different filepaths, I was
thinking of doing path+sha512 in my mappings
assbot: Logged on 17-09-2015 03:00:27; asciilifeform:
this will happen, for example, when we finally... add a file
BingoBoingo: But who am I
to know if BitPay sent 100,000 BTC
to a 1BitcoinEater address back in 2012?
BingoBoingo: There's
too many bowl games, only way
to win
the bowl game naming game is pony up for a January 1st game or have
the cash reserves
BingoBoingo: As opaque as BitPay is if we are at
this moment ascribing its failures
to anything I am still leaning
towards its deal with ESPN, Bowl game naming right have slaughtered many a small business
BingoBoingo: I mean ESPN can do more
than
the Department of Education
to make or break bezzle institutions
BingoBoingo: Unless a court gets involved for bankruptcy or some shit, but
that would come out
too.
BingoBoingo: ESPN doesn't simply cancel contracts
though.
To cancel
the
three game contract BitPay almost certainly had
to settle forst just under
the cost of
the first
two games.
BingoBoingo: Given
the lack of WoT for all I know
this "hack" was just
Tony building up his buget for bricks of cocaine while some for of money was
there.
BingoBoingo: everythign BitPay is a mess, nothing BitPay makes sense, and
the worst damage inflicted upon BitPay still seems explicitly self inflicted
BingoBoingo: Still less of a
thing
than
their Bowl game loss
mircea_popescu: first
thing ion your 2nd link, "This hack happened in December 2014."
mircea_popescu: car alarms were set off in Buenos Aires, << not
that i heard.
BingoBoingo: Search engine burps prolly make bigger blips on
the data
transfer graph
BingoBoingo: Why would it look like anything
there compared
to complete pipe saturating DDoS
mats: mods asleep at
the wheel
assbot: Chile earthquake: one million people evacuated after 8.3 magnitude quake – rolling report | World news |
The Guardian ... (
http://bit.ly/1OgIiTw )
BingoBoingo surprised qntra has now
topped /r/bitcoin for several consecutive hours nao
BingoBoingo: Yeah,
that was closer
to
The Waterboy and further from Gladiator
mats: it suffered at
the box office, probably because
the
theatrical cut sucked
BingoBoingo: It is neither Gladiator nor
The Waterboy... Just exactly between
them
mats: I watched
the directors cut of
the movie Kingdom of Heaven
tonight
BingoBoingo: So far
tonight I watched
the South Park premier (great) and
the MasterChef finale (hiss), next up is
the inside of my eyelids
mats: I
thought you watched
the shit
tonight
BingoBoingo: I have yet
to find a number
that puts him under 9 minutes
BingoBoingo: mats: Numbers aren't solidly sourced yet, but looking like "no" on
the Paul bet was bank
mats: I put up 2btc on Yes for
the eth bet
BingoBoingo: We have
the opposite of survival skills floating around here
BingoBoingo: Three years old and
type 2 diabetes, most people with congential
type 1 diabetes don't know it at
that age
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