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mircea_popescu: it did. including for the feminist (ugly tomboyis streetwalker that hates men) and for the woman in tech (pickpocket distracting the mark by playing the whore) and so on.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it works fucking admirably though, compared to the soviet approach...
mircea_popescu: the rest of the "balance sheet", two bit gainarii / trading of stolen phones and classmates' inept sexwork is entirely spurious nonsense bolted on
mircea_popescu: actually, that only works because the chinese are playing the role of romanian student's mother, sending over lunchboxes fulla pork and beans without economic counterprestation, accepting self-issued "certificates" in lieu of payment.
mircea_popescu: the whole "western world" is built on the hope that nope.
mircea_popescu: because if problem they'll change "discharged" with "deferred" and nyah nyah.
mircea_popescu: yes but the pantsuitistan theory is that poverty is an absolute bar to cash repayment and "human rights" are an absolute bar to фуфло repayment and consequently repayment obligation discharged, problem ?!
mircea_popescu: this can only come to grief ; and the name of the griefbox is "why is mp so arrogant ; we don't yet know whether it was a scam ; this looks like a serious business because aeron chairs" and other such nonsense amply and insistently documented years ago back when i still vaguely gave a shit about what idiots say and how the idiot brainbox works.
mircea_popescu: the problem, however, seems to be that your mind is actually regressing to the mean, and you find yourself in 2017 making the type of arguments you'd have readily recognized as an idiot's (not even a scammer's ; some people are too dumb to actually scam in that they have not the intelligence required to create a space between themselves and their victims, so they're just fucking everyone over without mens rea for lack of a m
mircea_popescu: now -- it's fine for you to sorta-kinda keep up with the logs, now and again, and trade off the credit you built historically. nobody gives a shit, per se, people have been failing to keep up and getting shedded off like so much dead skin ever since day 1.
mircea_popescu: the specific item here discussed is an EXACT rehash of say ttp://trilema.com/2012/and-another-one-bites-the-dust-bitmarketeu/#selection-55.0-57.87 ; which while 5 years old is nevertheless entirely identical ; which is the problem here -- that a specific sort of "mind" keeps making a specific sort of mistake. which is why all the discussions about
http://trilema.com/2013/the-story-of-pointless-and-witless/ and so on and so fo
☟︎ mircea_popescu: yes futures exist, as a financial derivative. no the millenials' meat isn't worth money "because human rights and democrcy" ; nor has argentina's masfuturo a financiable value.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "stuff that doesn't exist yet" in the sense of the milking of tomorrow when you own a cow is not "stuff that doesn't exist yet" in the sense of davout's isp that davout neither owns nor will but for 0 reasons feels within himself a swelling indicating that he's just as good as one who does, and therefore in a small manner, as if by contagion, he also will. because he "could".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: aw damn i thought logotron gets the utf points whatever
mircea_popescu: (cylinder scytale trivially broken using two rigid sticks -- alter distance)
mircea_popescu: fun fact : most actual applciations were lazy, used plain stick.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman is m-r upper-bounded by 1/4 ^ 12 ? or lower ?
mircea_popescu: this is more like "usg pr experts reusing superficial arrangements of ro folklore"
mircea_popescu: well, no, inasmuch as that was made by and for the local soviets.
mircea_popescu: in the 00s us stole romania's nuclear tech, fine mechanics plants, etc.
mircea_popescu: well, in the 50s su stole romania's u-quartz, grain, train cars etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform aha. part and parcel of the great benefits romania derived from it's great loving western neighbour stealing all its shit.
mircea_popescu: tell you what : criminal lawyer either uses rsa or isn't.
mircea_popescu: but, for they interested in ancient history, the phillip g potter dood was there at c1, trying to sell his stuff. it didn't take.
mircea_popescu: part of the reason the us believed su is nuclear-capable though.
mircea_popescu: there's such a thing as a classification of insanity loci.
mircea_popescu: a perfectly valid alt-approach would be to say "transhumanist" is how the new generation of idiots (that call themselves socialists) call "the new man".
mircea_popescu: i also have a vague sense of which categories of psychogenic noise are involved, but...
mircea_popescu: apeloyee but does this heuristic pass your own criteria for what a definition is ?
mircea_popescu: i expect a full half of extant rsatrons simply crash if exponent 1kbit
mircea_popescu: also it will have the interesting side effect of exposinbg the shit quality of the imperial hardware/software stacks whenever they try to use our keypairs.
mircea_popescu: but this is nothing i can prove in any degree of particuliar.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, i know. from the pov of rsa-being-attacked, it's probably better to have non-standard exponent than "everyone uses 65537"
mircea_popescu: (kinda why historically these were "secrets", from eleusis to scientology. the less material, the easier the complexity load)
mircea_popescu: the advantage of small batshit cults is that there's not enough of them to discover where they self-contradict.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have not yet managed to find the 1 ton of earthworms required to put through the blenders so as to extract the definition of any of these nuts' terms.
mircea_popescu: the rationale is that there ~might~ be some approaches based on pre-established exponents. this is vague, but still, why magic number.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dafuq is anything else. what, you understand "transhumanism" but not "dfhgkerjhtkr" ?
mircea_popescu: !!rate apeloyee 2 might be the smartest guy here, actually.