mircea_popescu: ro had a very identical equivalent. amusingly, also physicist. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nice find. you should prolly buy a warehouse by now, move in, make the rest museum.

mircea_popescu: internet access is a great boon to knowledge! all the learnin' of five billion bovines at your fingertips!

mircea_popescu: elliot rodger was such a trendsetter / visionary / posthumous jobs award.

mircea_popescu: meanwhile in herdemocracy, "Life is a scam if you don't luck out to become super rich."

mircea_popescu: "bitcoin is a very poor store of wealth long term"!!! it's just how things are!!!

mircea_popescu: and this is a fast-tracked engineer.

mircea_popescu: "It's only a matter of time before one of the Trident submarines are lost. HMS Vanguard a Trident submarine makes an appearance in the book for the deep depth incident. The submarine exceeded 300 meters (safe depth is 65meters). They under estimated the weight of the submarine and didn't have enough speed for the Aft-planes to create raise. The further the submarine descended the more the weight of the submarine increased due

mircea_popescu: "We are at war, with a new kind of enemy. The terrorists have infiltrated every nation on our planet. Our nuclear weapons are a target that's wide open to attack."

mircea_popescu: tl;dr : aspie ro chick's mother becomes senile, girly is very indignant that her redditlife is interrupted and she was transformed into a traditional society woman WITHOUT HER CONSENT!!!

mircea_popescu: in the vein of http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-11#1697131 possibly teh best offering would be http://trilema.com/2012/doua-vorbe-in-directia-generala-a-unei-copile-vaitate/ ☝︎

mircea_popescu: guess what... "I don't see the appeal of startups at all. I have never been a gambler. big companies allow me to get paid well while not really doing much work A++"

mircea_popescu: but because rank and file everyday tard is entirely incapable of even representing a working economy.

mircea_popescu: kinda why the country is doomed, not strictly speaking because "educators" who literally think the shamanic traditions of africa / sitting around in a circle chanting count ; nor because they "produce" "goods" that are literal painted paper like the rocks on a theatrical stage.

mircea_popescu: that dude's a fine example of usgistani ersatz. he hangs out in "personal finance" talking about finance, all the while his worldview is purely soviet socialism, command economy etc.

mircea_popescu: common attic was never much of a street lang.

mircea_popescu: a greek word is "what is left out of the space of all possible meanings once all the meanings interdicted by the other words have been removed".

mircea_popescu: anyway. his ro "diortosire" is a very well illuminated source, as to the original material, and if one speaks ro one benefits from reading it even if one can also read the septuagint in original.

mircea_popescu: (amusingly, because a succession of these since the 1970s, there's much better ro testaments than say en.)

mircea_popescu: anyway, 0 shits given, becoming "more subtle" does not help the cattle empire. if the blunt didn't work, the sharp is a lulz.

mircea_popescu: right, maybe there's some color-of-bits finally imported into bitcoin this way ? please ? so usg can still has a point in world ?

mircea_popescu: so in this sense it makes securing the chain more expensive, which is a legitimate 2nd goal of usg.

mircea_popescu: moreover, this is no different from any other rewind : if a long chain is orphaned a number of txn are reversed thereby.

mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes and block depth. if you make segwit tx a to me at height 1 and i put it into a normal tx at block 2, i can spend it from block 3 as my bitcoin, the segwitnmess is gone out of it. to steal it from me, one has to rewind all the way to block 1 again. which is possible, but expensive as the chain builds. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: but then again usg fronts don't need a good plan, they just need A PLAN. something, at all. idiots don't read.

mircea_popescu: now, if this is the plan it's not a very good one (you can bury a segwit tx into legitimate spending which is deep enough to not be practically reorg-able) but anyway

mircea_popescu: when bitbet blew a ~1k hole through this plan, they paid luke-jr a pittance to falsely claim they had delivered to him.

mircea_popescu: for instance : usg released a convicted felon / ndrngheta man (sony vleisides) for the purpose of pulling a "we build asic miners" scam in bitcoin to buy nsa enough time to make some themselves.

mircea_popescu: anyway! rather than bickering over the obviously rhetorics involved, how about we in general agree that such a huge mass of a rare atom is eminently detectable and thassat.

mircea_popescu: taking 20MeV source arbitrarily and 2 kev detector, you have roughly speaking 8 and a half halvings at your disposal. if your 1/e distance is 10 meters, that means 40 meters away your detector will still work.

mircea_popescu: basically, a high energy xray will lose 2/3 of its energy every dozen or so meters. whatever's left illuminates the gold (there's no crossing gold, too large barn), and then gets sent back, as gold-xray-pink

mircea_popescu: anyway. the whole point was that such a large agglomeration of single-atom rare element is eminently detectable. it is.

mircea_popescu: next you're going to nix lasers because you saw a lightbulb once.

mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes gold / other heavy metals are sorta fluorescent, let's say, in X-ray illumination. leaving aside that even amateur beach comber fare on sale for the cost of a lawn mower can see large chunks at 20-30 meters (that's 10 floors or so).

mircea_popescu: a a

mircea_popescu: if you have such a narrow premise ("is there or is there not a terragram of gold at so and so coords") experimental falsification is trivial, and not even expensive in contex. the bitch is forming the premise in the first place. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: ultrasound, rad scatter, there's a whole list.

mircea_popescu: same way it's detected when people start a mine.

mircea_popescu: tru fact : 6Tg of gold is detectable from a bridge over east river.

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-10#1696875 << it is conceivable you can reuse prb blockchains, if you care. not that there's anything wrong with rechecking the chain if oyu're in no hurry. expect a coupla months tho. and i suppose look into eatblock etc while at it. ☝︎☟︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-10#1696868 << running bitcoin nodes in containers is a really bad idea anyway. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform amusingly, the guy complains about the modular exponentiation not being constant time. maybe write to him ask where he ever saw a sane algo ?

mircea_popescu: this terribler / tribler thing is a very amusing read.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the whole fucking point of making a n-dimensional table, be it 1 or whatever else, is to avoid looking at all the cells all the time

mircea_popescu: you don't even have to know it's there, your code with your entire machine could be emulated later (a la bolix on chip say) and you'd suddenly be weak, even if you deliberately included no cache.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do you know what else reuses a hardcoded IV ?

mircea_popescu: what the fuck was that name of that poinless douche with a "tv show" and some "assistant" retarded chick masquerading about being me back in 2014ish ? k something