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decimation: "But be honest. H-1B visa demand is not high because companies are striving for excellence.
The visas are being used
to preserve
the existing labor market (salary levels) rather
than paying higher salaries as dictated by supply and demand. Paul’s suggestion would help US companies find employees, but drain brainpower from
the rest of
the world, and leave
the US workforce uncompetitive for US jobs. "
mircea_popescu: "In particular, if IRET executes on a writeable kernel stack (this was always
the case before 3.16 and is sometimes
the case on 3.16 and newer),
the assembly function general_protection will execute with
the user's gsbase and
the kernel's gsbase swapped."
mircea_popescu: it's all such retarded virginal bullshit,
too. why shouldn't folks pose a fucking
threat!
decimation: no,
that's pretty much
the glue
that holds usg
together (quashing folks before
they pose a
threat)
mircea_popescu: and it'd work just fine,
too, if it weren't for btc.
this construction where someone could be a secure billionaire and not part of
the usg club simply wasn't being planned for.
mircea_popescu: basically
the usg is
trying (through its "vc" agency)
to run
the web exactly
the way it's running
the country : use
the poor
to scare
the productive.
mircea_popescu: i suspect
they literally are under orders
to maintain a certain structure on
the webs. one where
the middle class so
to speak can at any
time be ganked by "nefarious", "mysterious" entitites
that are not either.
decimation: why not let
the little people suffer when you can rake in
the $$$ and push
the costs onto others
decimation: I suspect he didn't want
to bother writing
the code required
to intelligently filter pingbacks
mircea_popescu: the entire "security holes are in
there deliberately" dirty secret is getting more and more air.
decimation: it's worse
then
that -
that n00b escalated
to
the designer of wordpress and was shot down
mircea_popescu: i
think
the derps who imagine
their publishing of
threat advisories and so forth actually does anything are off
their rocker.
mircea_popescu: imagine
this, by
the way : after
three months of
the practical equivalent of going
to people's houses and leaving
them a post-it note,
the fix rate is under 1%.
assbot: theymos comments on What happened
to
this subforum? All posts about some shitty altcoin? Moderators on strike? WTF? ... (
http://bit.ly/1zJp6BW )
decimation: yeah exactly. it was an interesting
thing
to watch unfold
mircea_popescu: for another
thing it gave me an elephant rifle
to shoot at some dreamhost employe derp
mircea_popescu: well for one
thing it bestowed upon me a huge list of wordpress blogs which can be used
to leverage a packet stream about 1mn x and automattic does not want
to fix.
decimation: thus, some degree of anti-fragility. but it wasn't in
the software, or
the networking - it was in
the people running
things
decimation: actually your servers became stronger when faced with adversity from
the spammer
mircea_popescu: Bloke sitting at
the bar when a woman comes in and sits on
the stool next
to him, he buys her a drink and asks her name. "Carmen" she says "Because I like Cars and Men, whats your name?" "Charlie Beer-Cunt"
undata: I've been uncloaked
thanks
to freenode derpitude several
times, never ddosed
mircea_popescu: then guy's never heard from again. because yes,
totally.
that's what permanence means,
two weeks' worth of
three hourlong intervals.
mircea_popescu: "16-11-2014 bitbethelp: so, cazalla, what's your plan on running qntra when it's going
to be down 7x24 if it gets any sort of
traction?"
mircea_popescu: wait, asciilifeform wasn't even on a cloaked connection ? what,
the haxxor gave up and went away ?
gribble: ukto was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 year, 6 weeks, 0 days, 5 hours, 59 minutes, and 33 seconds ago: <Ukto> I dont want
to work on anything other
than weexchange heh
mircea_popescu: but in point of fact it'd have as much
truck with
that concept as
the present day us has with a constitutional republic.
mircea_popescu: isuppose either of
these could be rechristened "advertising"
decimation: yeah.
the future is content for
the minority willing
to pay; porn for
the masses
mircea_popescu: advertising is a dead
thing anyway.
the cattle processors don't need
to advertise
to
the cattle,
the rest of
the world doesn't want
the cattle.
decimation: oh no, imagine a world where
twitter and reddit were cut out of business! inconceivable!!
mircea_popescu: typical us-style academic, dress up something commonly known in
the
trade for a grant, act as if he's done science.
ascii_modem: if i had a satoshi for every academtard who went 'this
thing diesn't implement lamport's byzantine consensus...'
mircea_popescu: basically,
they dressed up
the ancient block withholding attack, a fully documented andf fully fixed problem cca 2012
decimation: "Some people seem
to believe
that microtipping can bring about
the end of advertising.
This doesn't quite make sense, because microtip systems like ChangeTip cut out
the platform operator: a user directly
transfers a
tiny amount
to another user, leaving out
the platform (e.g. Reddit,
Twitter, etc)."
mircea_popescu: "Bitcoin is broken. And not just superficially so, but fundamentally, at
the core protocol level. We're not
talking about a simple buffer overflow here, or even a badly designed API
that can be easily patched; instead,
the problem is intrinsic
to
the entire way Bitcoin works. All other cryptocurrencies and schemes based on
the same Bitcoin idea, including Litecoin, Namecoin, and any of
the other few dozen Bitcoin-inspi
mircea_popescu: anyway. "clean up
the act" = no more
tim sweneys and other gun sirers, plox.
mircea_popescu: somehow when i say "Gün Sirer" no "flaw
that was fixed" pops intoi memory.
decimation: bitcoin is for entities
to move money, not for
the little people
to pay hobos
mircea_popescu: After years of acting like enfants
terribles, perpetrating a prosecution complex, fearmongering about an inflationary collapse
that refuses
to happen, veering into antisemitic rants about Jewish bankers, blaming Mt. Gox victims, brigading a Nobel laureate, badmouthing core developers, attacking researchers including yours
truly (for finding and even fixing a flaw, and making predictions
that were later borne out; you k
mircea_popescu: decimation
this is also
true, but adding a "they donate grains of sand" isn't much of an addition.
mircea_popescu: "We need
to work as a community
to buy advertising like normal people, and perhaps work on our collective image."
decimation: yeah I find
that
to mostly be
the case, except all
the know is
that mt gox got hacked
mircea_popescu: this is my experience
too.
then again, it has been, for a while.
mircea_popescu: "First of all, every
time I strike up a random conversation with a stranger, I discover
that
they have already heard about Bitcoin. Every. Single.
Time."
ascii_modem: turned
this
thing on just
to put
to record
the vomitory power of
the 'changetip' piece
decimation: lol ascii are you logging in from
the arctic
decimation: "you can't just curse a district
to democracy" lol
mike_c: lots of options
though
mike_c: you're on
the public record owning a majority of s.nsa lol. << he actually doesn't own any
mircea_popescu: i suppose
that's
the best proof he's entirely correct on his religious observances. his continued existence -> best miracle yet.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo at some point you run up against
the inevitable "how did
this guy make it so far"
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> holy shit Luke-Jr raises kids and plans
to buy sheep, has no clue about anthrax before reading up on b-a ? << Why so surprised?
mircea_popescu: mats: no buttcoin option <<< considering what
they want
to do is "continue development" i'd much rather
they never got a dime anyway.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: he is just caught in a local pain minimum. <<< kako is like our blind slovenly prophet. he knows
teh
truths!
mircea_popescu: holy shit Luke-Jr raises kids and plans
to buy sheep, has no clue about anthrax before reading up on b-a ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: PeterL: i do in
theory, but it doesn't work yet <<< an asset is not predicated on whether it works or not lol. whether you own
the house and whether anyone's paying you rent for it so far are different matters.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: iirc,
that was mircea_popescu describing
the virtues of working on inventions in a yurt <<< iirc
that was mostly a joke built on
the probleblems of garbage collecting.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: i don't own any bitcoin assets, incidentally. << you're on
the public record owning a majority of s.nsa lol.
mircea_popescu: and god help me
this log is
tough... barely on
the 17th ?!
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: absolutely correct. should be something more along
the lines of "unemployment rate for skilled programmers". <<< programmers who depend on some sort of regionalized unemployment rate can't possibly be all
that skilled.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: for instance, afaik, white man anywhere in east asia is either a miserable wretch, a hermit, or largely confined
to an enclave of his own kind. <<< from what i hear it's mostly "just grab any girl and fuck her, ask later".
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel: cazalla: consider
this a request for a qntra article entitled <<< what makes you
thik he'd be in a position
to write it ? guy never left australia.
mircea_popescu: so no, it's not "genetic", and pointedly no,
the statal measures intended
to help do not in fact help,
they massively hinder.
decimation: I suspect
that all
the Palestinians who have more ambition
than scamming old women or stealing 'aid' money have already left
the place anyway
mircea_popescu: somehow
they can go about peacefully earning
their existence.
mircea_popescu: random example : somehow
the black community in buenos aires - which is ACTUALLY being oppressed into
the dirt - is neither hostile nor in any case fearsome
to anyone.
mircea_popescu: there's not large groups of unemployed but healthy youths swarming around crossroads glaring at passengers in places
that arent usistans.
mircea_popescu: if
there's no longer a "public opinion" in
the sense
that
term has been abused by usian know-nothing all-one aunt pollies, all sorts of anal child behaviour will necessarily go away.
decimation: yeah I suspect Israel would be able
to figure its shit out with out
the us just fine
mircea_popescu: so yeah
the allies will ahve some new problems. easier
to solve
than
their current problems
that alliance is causing.
mircea_popescu: PeterL: If US disappears,
then many of
the other US allies will be having problems, so will be unable
to help Isreal << fwiw i suspek
the us is on
the balance of
things more of a problem
than a solution.
mircea_popescu: they're like greeks, except on
the other side of
the same old sea.
mircea_popescu: taking old western women for all
the charity
they're worth, sure. actually working ? meh.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: gabriel_laddel: If USia disappears Israel probably becomes untenable as a state <<< i have my doubts. for all
their noise,
the palestinians do not seem genuinely interested in running a state.
decimation: well, of course.
that's why
they fear old works going into public domain -
they are well aware
that old works are generally superior in nearly all aspects
mircea_popescu: decimation i dunno, seems
to me all sorts of bathroom pics as well as sony's latest crud got public domaine'd just fine
decimation: someone should start a bitbet
that disney et.al. will get congress
to save mickey mouse again
decimation: the 'window' for new copyright expiration will open in 2019 I
think (right now, frozen at works copyright 1923 and earlier)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel:
the very reason why it is still
trivial
to leave usa is
the lack of an obvious destination. <<
this is not much unlike proposing
that
the reason
the gun's not fired is "because
the bullet has nowhere
to go".
mircea_popescu: what
the hell's going on with
that
thing, what has it been, a straight month /