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mircea_popescu: the
thing
the "community" prefers
to ignore is
that its continued existence is fully predicated on it being made 80% of people who are not older
than six months and don't intend
to be.
mircea_popescu: anyone ~else~ inclined
to listen
to gavin,
take notice
pete_dushenski: ^mining pool
takes itself down because of 'bitlisence'
mircea_popescu: which is, incidentally, why any discussion with
the devil may only logically start with a full and unwavering declaration from
the devil
that it is
talking
to ~the incorruptible~. ie, outside of its jurisdiction,
they whose "corruptness" may not be judged by it.
mircea_popescu: obama also "might" be corrupt. nixon "actually was" corrupt.
the difference between
these is left as an exercise, but not
to
the reader of history. it's strictly an exercise
to
the writer of history.
mircea_popescu: so in
this sense "cuomo might be corrupt".
they...
they just haven't figured it out yet lolz.
mircea_popescu: ie, exactly as you point out, "the devil is not interested in lies, but in liars". so it is. with
the caveat
that it is not interested in
THE
TRUTH of anyone's being a liar, but in
the useful political lie of anyone having been a liar.
mircea_popescu: ,
the guy's action
to disclose was "reasonable", and your approach only works if you're
there as an envoy of
the most serene republic or
the republic of china, and
they are actually afraid
that if
they misbehave
their children are going
to be used as ingredients in someone's supper.
assbot: Logged on 16-06-2015 01:38:53; assbot: Logged on 15-06-2015 21:22:20; asciilifeform: speaking of 'sf-86' form, does anyone else consider such
things a peculiar anachronism? it isn't as if usg did not already have 100% of everything in
that
thing in some db or other
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-06-2015#1164751 << i
think you broadly miss
the point
there. it doesn't matter what it ACTUALLY asks. what matters is
that once you sign and serve it,
they will pretend it had asked whatever it is
they wish it were
the case it had asked at any later point, which is how "it doesn't ask about fucktoys"
turned into "paetreus broke
the law by visiting a local socialite!11". so in
this
☝︎☟︎ jurov: gribs forgot how
to convert
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gribble: Error: Failure
to retrieve
ticker.
Try again later.
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ben_vulpes: everyone goes home politely but
the vagrants
ben_vulpes: nah, lights on
the
tennis court
turn out at
ten
ben_vulpes: ;;later
tell shinohai what platform did you end up compiling bitcoind on?
decimation: just because
they have in-house
talent wouldn't exclude
the possibility of pissing money away on other shit
too
decimation: well,
the job of usg is
to spend money
decimation: "we
thought our museum-fremen ways would impress you"
decimation: ironically, if
the NSA heckler is correct about
the real-world pressure, such jingoism would be a disqualifier
decimation: "Apparently
the availability of money from NSA had had a corrupting effect on some mathemati- cians, who started
to
think in nationalistic and jingoistic
terms so
that
they could write
their proposal in a way
that
they
thought would appeal
to NSA."
decimation: instead of
trying
to model and criticize anything resembling real-world crypto
decimation: in one of his papers koblitz complains
that
the only
thing 'cryptographers' care about is finding nifty new one-way functions
decimation: "Once I heard a speaker from NSA complain about university researchers who are cavalier about proposing untested cryptosystems. He pointed out
that in
the real world if your cryptography fails, you lose a million dollars or your secret agent gets killed. In academia, if you write about a cryptosystem and
then a few months later find a way
to break it, you've got
two new papers
to add
to your résumé!"
decimation: it's a good paper about
the pointlessness of provability in crypto
decimation: duh, first rule of marketing club is don't
talk about marketing club
decimation: it's hard for me
to begrudge a man
that
decimation: my point being, he picked his
tools, stuck with
them
Adlai: so? i'll copypaste
the navyseals copypasta, doesn't mean i know how
to
triforce
decimation: as ascii said,
they probably use winblows because
that's what
they sell at
the computer store
Adlai: his using msvc was just like writing
the note with your non-dominant hand
decimation: actually, what it says
to me is
that
the alternatives are dead
mod6: staggers
the imagination
☟︎ Adlai: "a king has his reign and
then he dies"
decimation: maybe next week he will be complaining about
the damn mailman
Adlai: 'jew
things' is such a game of broken
telephone, it's amazing how people survived without deedbots
Adlai: and
this was a few years back. haven't seen many of
those 'parties' since
then, either
☟︎ Adlai: fwiw ben_vulpes i distinctly remember him saying "wifi", although it could be
that different manufacturers use different
technologies
assbot: Logged on 16-06-2015 03:18:14; Adlai: isn't
the primary purpose of a jew
the production of more jews?
Adlai: he has since moved up in life, last i heard he cancelled a return
ticket from
the west coast
to stick around and carve surfeboards
ben_vulpes: this was less eerie
two nights ago at 1 in
the morning.
ben_vulpes: many many people with headphones dancing
to music only
they can hear
ben_vulpes: there is a "silent dance party" occuring at
the park down
the street
Adlai: isn't
the primary purpose of a jew
the production of more jews?
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 16-06-2015 02:24:53; ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu>
that sounds pretty jewish << he's probably
the most jewish jew in here - endlessly pessimistic about everything, everything costs $maxint, gurls are unreadable, and practically a
talmudic scholar
to boot
assbot: Logged on 15-06-2015 19:45:47;
trinque: what's a mouse
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu>
that sounds pretty jewish << he's probably
the most jewish jew in here - endlessly pessimistic about everything, everything costs $maxint, gurls are unreadable, and practically a
talmudic scholar
to boot
☟︎☟︎ ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> when an otherwise smart guy is
too stupid
to get out of
the rain. << or insists, operating under a complete lack of evidence
that "it can't possibly keep going on like
this much longer!"
☟︎ ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> how is "working undercover" what you do when you << couldn't possibly be real. lulzy satire of
the state of
the state
tho
assbot: Logged on 27-08-2014 04:10:26; asciilifeform: notably absent from menu is 'retain army of
thugs who know
that spheres are interestingly secret'
assbot: Logged on 27-08-2014 04:09:34; asciilifeform: if you (org.) want
to keep secrets,
the menu is roughly: a) employ incorruptible fanatics b) keep all henchmen incommunicado, in 'шарашка' prisons c)
there is no 'c.'
tertium non datur.
decimation: apparently like it is also geared
to catch dumb
terrorists
decimation: it seems
that most of
the 'security apparatus' of usg is geared
toward catching dumb or incompetent spies
assbot: Logged on 15-06-2015 21:22:20; asciilifeform: speaking of 'sf-86' form, does anyone else consider such
things a peculiar anachronism? it isn't as if usg did not already have 100% of everything in
that
thing in some db or other
☟︎ mircea_popescu: must be in backwards world,
this magical place where "official replies" go
to reddit and
tardstalk.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo of course,
the
truly ridiculous
thing in
that inept flailing of
two different groups of idiots with 100 BTC in
the middle is
the proposition
that btc-e stealing user funds is "what any legitimate busines would have done".
trinque: ~or~ why doesn't
the NSA file my
taxes?
assbot: Logged on 15-06-2015 15:26:58; pete_dushenski: "Management “wanted a creative building MMO [massively multiplayer online-game] with a promise of zero penises seen,”
tweeted Megan Fox, a developer who worked on
the project,"