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mircea_popescu: "That a public education system could disgorge untold legions of literate, numerate, and motivated graduates is beyond
their collective comprehension. How unlucky
the Caucasoid races are
to have all
the kids with learning disabilities."
bitstein: mircea_popescu: Good advice,
thanks.
mircea_popescu: this is exactly wrong. indigence is
the state of being worthless.
mircea_popescu: in unrelated news, chetty just found a layered bug in
the stack eulora uses. one bug prevented
the functionality (wrong pointer reference) ;
the other bug prevented
the previous bug from crashing every single machine all
the
time.
BingoBoingo: It is amusing. Still when it comes
time
to replace GPG it will look more like
https://github.com/tedu/reop than any Moxenslit iPerson
thing (except... with RSA support and done in ADA/Common Lisp)
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo and you know, if you follow
the course of events, #1 we went
to anti-uspoettering debvian chan
nubbins`: mildly amusing
to see
this phoundation push for full nodes after it started being worked on in here
mircea_popescu: at
this rate indiancandy1 is getting replaced with madonna on
the short
term.
mircea_popescu: that b-a drives "biutcoin foundation" policy is not even remarkable.
that assets like
the marlinspike dood are
thrown in
the fray
to
try and prevent a wot based republic however...
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: BitcoinXT is
the hearn foundation Bitcoin fork which has all kinds of features even Gavin rejected because
they make nodes incredibly more DoS attackable
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the speed at which
the entire world seems
to be coagulating around us is nothing short of impressive.
nubbins`: today i learned it is legal
to sell and serve dog meat in canada
mircea_popescu: ;;later
tell bitstein in a purely ops perspective, it's always a bad idea
to link
those you disagree with. replace with a link
to something you agree
to. @moxie knows what he wrote.
BingoBoingo: but, how could
the chief scientusk of BitcoinXT be wrong?
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2015 14:42:59; mats:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9104188 >> mike_hearn "In
the world of crypto, where we've learned so much, yes old means bad. Almost always... How many crypto geeks STILL spout rubbish about how
the PKI is
totally busted and
the web of
trust is
the future? Way
too many...
The future of encrypted messaging is not GPG."
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2015 14:39:34; lobbes: "Looking forward, however, I
think of GPG as a glorious experiment
that has run its course.
The journalists who depend on it struggle with it and often mess up (“I send you
the private key
to communicate privately, right?”)" << lol,
this doesn't sound like a problem with gpg. I'll never understand
this 'hard-to-use' argument. Just
take an afternoon and learn
the fundamentals!
PeterL: add
that
to
the #b-a
todo list?
mircea_popescu: (we, of course, which prolly means we're redoing
the sks
too)
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2015 14:34:59; mats: also deliberately misleading folks about widespread use with
the quantity of keys on sks keyservers
assbot: Logged on 23-02-2015 15:20:03; mircea_popescu:
the ONLY way i'd have
them fighting overseas is if congress approves
this plan whereby a) all
territory we step on gets granted
territory status ; b) soldiers once veteranized are rewarded in homesteads
there, and HAVE
TO marry local
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2015 08:49:12; gmaxwell: cazalla: not my
taste doesn't necessarily imply an active dislike.
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2015 08:22:52; gmaxwell: man y'all will get a kick out of
the latest foundation lol-event.
They have some _utterly_ braindead 'blockchain voting' scheme for
their board vote run off (gotta love changing voting infrastructure mid election for election integrity)
NewLiberty: I don't want
to know what
they did
to
the
tiger
to encourage
that kind of fortifying
PeterL: they make
the wine from crushed bones of 8-yo
tigers?
punkman: "The Xionsen Wine Company sells bottles of eight-year-old
tiger bone wine, also fortified with
tiger penis, for around £200"
assbot: Save
the
Tiger:
The animals bred for bones on China’s
tiger farms - Commentators - Voices -
The Independent ... (
http://bit.ly/1EQBgwS )
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel
that's
the plan. it won't work, but anyway.
gabriel_laddel: they don't have
the same sensibilities, being a different people (*gasp*).
gabriel_laddel: it seems
to me
that if
the west would just fuck off and let China have Africa everything will go swimmingly.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the idea is
that you have someone
trading you 1 joule of fuel for half joule of electricity.
PeterL: my brother works in
the Detroit Public Schools, from his anecdotes I have little hope
things will change
there.
PeterL: "I have big plans, BIG PLANS!, as mayor I will accomplish AMAZING
things, with your help!"
PeterL: you want me
to go over
to Detroit and organize
the populace into something not a worthless mess?
nubbins`: PeterL no doubt. worth noting
that "rivaling china for output" is not necessarily a positive
PeterL: nubbins`: I am not saying self-sufficiency, I am saying rivaling china for output. I also have no idea how one would go about doing it, just saying
there are lots of people in Africa which could be used as a resource for
the right person
punkman: PeterL: somebody just has
to get
the Africans organized and industrialized << China's all over it, but
they might have
to import a billion chinese workers
mircea_popescu: "hey, let's make it into
the south pre 1830,
then
they can be invaded by lincoln v2.0 and have detroit!"
nubbins`: <+PeterL> somebody just has
to get
the Africans organized and industrialized <<< surely external help running
the show is
the path
to self sufficiency
mircea_popescu: it's been selected for 250k years for suckage. no fixing
that.
mircea_popescu: PeterL
the problem is : africa is essentially "they who stayed".
those always suck.
mircea_popescu: how exactly different from us research you
think
that is ?
PeterL: somebody just has
to get
the Africans organized and industrialized
mircea_popescu: no, it wouldn't. africa, as unfortunately and politically unpleasant
that sounds, probably sucks because genetics.
assbot: Logged on 25-02-2015 07:05:44; cazalla: mmm home made potato gnocchi with muh
tomato/chilli sauce (both from garden) and chorizo.. just missing a beer :\
nubbins`: PeterL
they knew about
the intrusion a year or
two ago
mircea_popescu: notice
that
the us diplomacy is nowhere nearly as inept handling china. arguably russia is more of a
threat
tho, at least immediately.
nubbins`: which sorta 100% agrees with everyone in #bitcoin-cad, including me, saying we started getting mysterious emails with .jar attachments around
this
time
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform:
this is simply what usg... is << i actually have a more psychotropic
theory. basically, on some subconscious level, us knows it's become uss. and what it wants is,
the validation of "well i didn't do anything useful, but at least
the stupid
thing i did i did WELL".
this
to be obtained, in
the way such nonsense works, by confronting
the symbolic representative
thereof and "winning".
jurov: but some day i can see
them going "financial service? yea we got some regulation for you"