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mircea_popescu: ascii_modem looky,
the 12 btc or w/e random reddit noob
threw under
the bus in
that scam does not
to any degree figure.
mircea_popescu: decimation: maybe 'honest' silicon valley is impossible, in
the same way
that it's impossible for
the
two prisoners
to coorperate, even if it is in
their best interests << actually
the
two prisoners cooperate more often
than not.
ascii_modem: sank btc/usd. and
this is
the one
time of year when i can feel it on on skin
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, earlier
they needed discipline
to avoid starving.
ascii_modem: that which can be bought with
toy money - will be
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo amusingly enough,
they did get
the right ideas earlier, just no execution.
this i suppose is much easier.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> still a horrible use of dollars. apple got
to be apple by paying about 2-5% of
that, over a decade. << It's a fake money problem really.
Too many VC dollars
that can't actually buy
things so
they go marketing pissing matches.
thestringpuller: you're on a modem? I fall asleep for 2 hours and
the world is back int he dark ages?
assbot: Investigations in
the bone heap of
the lost generation.
Today, Mashable. pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1A71lsS )
assbot: Investigations in
the bone heap of
the lost generation.
Today, Mashable. pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1A71lsD )
mircea_popescu: in completely unrelated idiocy : "No Javascript You are seeing
this page because you do not have Javascript enabled in your browser. Unshorten.It! requires Javascript
to function. "
mircea_popescu: compared
to
that discipline,
the impact of jobs' "genius" is overstated.
mircea_popescu: still a horrible use of dollars. apple got
to be apple by paying about 2-5% of
that, over a decade.
ascii_modem: lol! i can't even readily distinguish
this incident from
the ordinary background radiation of perverse chumpatronicity
that surrounds everything sport-related at all
times...
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> how is it a win lol. << If USG accepts it can't have nice
things it can
try
to still be kind of
the dump
ascii_modem: ephialtes doesnt care abou straightening own back - knows it's a fantasy - but happy
to
turn everyone else into hunchback.
ascii_modem: the silent,
tedious corrosion of everything even vaguely computerized, on account of winblows -
that's a modern usg win.
ascii_modem: see
the siberian pipeline incident. << i am not convinced by
this sole flower. <<<< an attributable wreck is a failed mission, really
BingoBoingo: <gribble> #21874 || darsie || BUY 1.0 1 kg uranium @ 100 EUR || e.g. counterweight, projectile, radiation shield. I'm not sure if
that's a reasonable price since an aircraft company had
trouble finding a dump where
they could get rid of some counterweights. I'm open for other amounts or some
thorium metal/compounds, highly radioactive stuff like mushrooms from Chernobyl and a ~1 kg piece of
tungsten at/near
theoretical density.
ben_vulpes: kakobrekla: got my hopes up for a second
there
mircea_popescu: keep nipping from
the sides until eventually, have a complete, us-independent computing stack. start open war on
the patent idiots, put everyone ever involved in jail, starve
them slowly, publish pictures in a specially created memorial etc etc.
mircea_popescu: Adlai: so what's
the roadmap for liberating honest silicon's ability
to self-reproduce from
the monkeys
that are
trying
to choke it down? a) make cardano ; b) make next product ; c) keep doing
this.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform:
the freedom of
the semiconductor belongs - not!
to
the fellow with
the factory - but
the one who controlls
the entire process stack << so much bull. and i suppose
the freedom of
the press belongs
to conde nast, because mp can't write a blong and it can't be more widely read
than mashable because wikipedia won't admit
to it and
that matters. o.O and okay...
mircea_popescu: decimation: complexity is intentional,
to lock everybody in <<< while
this may be
true, it is also in economical
terms an anti-moat. not only does it not make it hard for competitors
to compete, it actually makes it easy.
mircea_popescu: in 2014 ? no wai. ascii's description of
the chinaman suits
the usian much closer
than it suits
the intended subject.
mircea_popescu: decimation: if
the world were reversed and china was designing stuff for us foundries
to stamp out, it would certainly be
the case
that us folks would
try
to do it
themselves << in 1814
this actually was
the case, except china was england.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: what should he want on
top of
this ? <<
the world is not made either by or for
the content.
mircea_popescu: you might as well claim a
tb patient is god, because he can kill people. sort-of.
mircea_popescu: and
this without as much as considering
the wilful part.
to propose
that
the us has any control over
the ineptitude it peddles (not just software -
their politics of "democracy" are equally inept, and just as eagerly exported) past
the simple "it'll suck" strikes me as nonsense.
mircea_popescu: in
that sea of diverse failure,
that malware was involved in like... one in a decade fails
to even register
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: see
the siberian pipeline incident. << i am not convinced by
this sole flower.
kakobrekla: jesus bbet div incident again.
this is worse
than if it was automated.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> [02:37:56] kakobrekla: he is just caught in a local pain minimum. <<< kako is like our blind slovenly prophet. he knows
teh
truths! << blind somalian i
thot ;)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: at
the risk of repeating
the last 100+ xilinx
threads <<< basically,
there was no
torvalds for hardware. yet.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: xilinx ships a set of identially-functioning
turdlibraries for both languages. << one wonders how
they actually achieved
this.
mircea_popescu: davout: BingoBoingo: i really like your articles <<< i agree,
the man's showing real
talent.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: misery keeps us feed. <<<
that kicked ass lol
ascii_modem: (specially-prepared cell full of eager beavers of wtf
the current eng
term is for
them)
ascii_modem: perhaps simply
the inside of
two different prisons
mircea_popescu: fail
that, kick him out of his own
trial, hold
the whole
thing stalin-style
mircea_popescu: likely,
the same education
that produced retardo-shrem had some effect on him
too
ascii_modem: i still want
to learn how
they intend
to keep dpr from mouthing off in
the cage
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2014 03:30:09; asciilifeform: all
that resulted was a leak, of facts which anglo media will never print - so it's almost as good, from
their point of view, as 'never happened'
assbot: Logged on 24-12-2014 08:40:19; jurov: <mircea_popescu> somehow nobody goes "o look, mp paid 100s of btc so bitcoin financial space may exist" << you know,
that space practically does not exist for
them
mircea_popescu: that'd be
the fate of an actual, vital, functioning empire.
mircea_popescu: it doesn't actually have
the oomph
to carry it
through
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: wake me up when a 'minuteman' is pwned and sent off on an unsanctioned joyride. <<
that may require fixing
them.
mircea_popescu: by
the way ascii_modem!
teh world eagerly awaits a letter from you. seeing how we missed
the previous opportunity
mircea_popescu: decimation: one gets
the picture
that usg 'leaders'
think of
themselves as being above such
trivialities as secure communications <<
this is not as unlikely as itmay seem. at a
time when caesar came up with
the pgp of
that
time, most of
the senate a) loled at
the nonsense ; b) wondered which gods caesar was praying
to
to be
that successful.
ascii_modem: (usa mixed
tetryl into gunpowder and slipped
the cartridges behind north vietnamese lines)
mircea_popescu: how does isis know
the dushkas aren't really "gushkas" ?
ascii_modem: lol which 'yourself' ? and how
to know it wasn't a hangout design
ascii_modem: how come
the fbi is
this impotent ? << because it is slated for replacement with a new gendarmerie. i
thought we went over
this
ascii_modem: but invariably
this happens only when
the chip can no longer be met with even in a scrapyard.
ascii_modem: notice how more or less full docs for 15+ y.o. pc components can usually be had (perhaps minus
the backdoors & easter eggs, but sufficient for kernel devs)
ascii_modem: else simply sony-ing it << only question is how
to make
the buggers keep
the 'sony-d' chip in print.
ascii_modem: that money only existed for as long as it wasn't put
to work << definition of bezzle, aha
mircea_popescu: that money only existed for as long as it wasn't put
to work, much like buffett's billions worth of chewinggum empires
mircea_popescu: in any case, money and us dollars aren't fungible, and so no, nobody could ever have used
the billions poured into cybersecurity for any useful purpose.
mircea_popescu: i can use my bitcoin
to pay for a hit on obama. one can't even use his dollars in lumps larger
than 10k, we don't even get
to discuss
the content because
the form already
trips us up.
mircea_popescu: so in
this sense,
thinking of bitcoin as even having a dollar value other
than infinity is nonsense.
mircea_popescu: even if
the coconut goes for
ten
trillion "dollars" on
their island, and a sloop never costs 1mn
mircea_popescu: what
they couldn't ever do, no matter what nominal value each coconut
theoretically reaches, is buy a sloop.
mircea_popescu: in
this sense, some guys stranded on a deserted island COULD build a coconut
trading empire where
they just keep selling and buying
the same
three dried old coconuts
to
the point where
their imaginary "economy" far outstrips
the whole combined world
trade.
mircea_popescu: specifically, not in
the loafer's nature
to chance, he needs
to be coerced. and not in
the scrip's nature
to coerce, it'd have
to be hard money for
that.
mircea_popescu: you could not get a single dolphin
to fly, nor a single loafer
to work, for an infinity in scrip. because it's not "in
their nature"
mircea_popescu: this is exactly how soft money work : you can easily "spend" billions in scrip
to get loafers
to loaf around.
mircea_popescu: there's
that quip about how it's easy enough
to get women
to do what
they want
to do anyway, getting
them
to do what should actually be done is
the headache.
mircea_popescu: decimation: imagine if
the billions poured into 'cybersecurity' were spent on constructing an actual secure
terminal from first principles <<
there's a fundamental problem with soft, fiat, paper money,
that it can't be used for arbitrary purposes, which is
the very meaning of "soft" in
their name.
mircea_popescu: so, look into
the bank accounts of all
those invovled, see who's made a little bezzlebucks
they had no perspective of making in 2005
mircea_popescu: to
the
typically corrupt latter soviet system where
that hero is a hero of
the union.
mircea_popescu: all
the asshole "lefties" for pay
that helped
the usg "react
to" snowden have made money out of it.
the old system where a "random hero" was selected
to be held up as a fetish for
the masses, "explaining"
their poverty and justifying
their pointless struggle is giving way, out of sheer exhaustion of resources,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: and
the whole greenwald/poitras/etc shitgnome gang <<< very little has been made of
this, but here'd be a great angle for investigative jouralism :
gribble: austeritysucks was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 week, 3 days, 17 hours, 6 minutes, and 26 seconds ago: <austeritysucks> ok have a good one cazalla you
too
mircea_popescu: A spokesperson for Booking.com
told Money Box
the firm is working with police on how
to prevent future phishing attacks.
They declined
to be interviewed.
mircea_popescu: "I want
to know how
this scamming company are finding out
the reservation numbers,
the dates,
the contact details,
there's a lot of private information
there," she said.
assbot: Logged on 22-12-2014 07:07:40; fluffypony:
thestringpuller: what's lol about
that? reasonable use of an unused HTTP code, and I don't
think
that
there's anything wrong with
the plugin
they've developed
mircea_popescu: cazalla "Qntra first began sounding
the alarm in regards suspicious claims made by GAW Miners back in October of 2014 and despite
these warnings, it has largely gone ignored until
the past few days whereby it has exploded all over /r/bitcoin." dja mean qntra or gaw has been largely ignored ?
adlai: actually looks like
the cop is getting his ass handed
to him
mircea_popescu: and
this shouldn't be a point of discussion in
that
trial because...
they know
they'll lose ?
mircea_popescu: "views concerning
the propriety of U.S. or international drug laws or
the propriety of government regulation of individual conduct or commerce on
the Internet"
mircea_popescu: Preet Baharara is himself specifically concerned
that
the defense wants
to bring up:
mircea_popescu: also where it's headed.
the entire "o we hate
this
that and
the other" verbiage peripheral
to energy generation
today is entirely born out of abundance.