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mircea_popescu: this is how
the glorious lie was born in
the first place.
mircea_popescu: if
the knowledge differential is large enough
to approach
the magic event horizon, hiding in plain sight works.
ben_vulpes: back
to
this "what is
the value of a bitcoin"
thing again
assbot: Blue Meanie (BlueMeanie4) auf
Twitter
mircea_popescu: if every
time someone opened a steakhouse everyone had
to go have steak
there it'd be a sad world/
mircea_popescu: * asciilifeform can't immediately picture who might see wot
the way he sees ads on site << anyway,
this is about fucking freedom, so, you know, enjoy fucking her. it's not about adding musts, it's about adding mays.
mircea_popescu: generally
the girls
that've not yet been buggered
tend
to attach a lot more importance
to it
than
the normal ones.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well now
that's obviously all subjective neh ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i just
took some arbitrary numbers. you can make it 10 bitcents a day, in which case it costs 0.1
mircea_popescu: turns out
this process is a lot more fundamental
to bitcoin
than originally
thought. your exact argument can be brought by person at
the brink of
the wot, "i'll get in
the wot if you guarantee me good deals" he may say.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: how do you suppose most people would react
to 'taking it slowly' for
that one? << what are weddng rings if not a system for slow-cooking
tattoos ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes:
this whole
thing's been a really eye opening exercise in pricing < :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: ben_vulpes:
there was mention of user-tweakable minimum bids at one point ? <<< open up for bids, bid 1 btc/day on your own
thing,
this way you're charged a bitcent a day and in exchange you get a guarantee
that nobody willing
to pay less
than 1 btc per half your impressions shows up.
mircea_popescu: it's perfectl;y
transliterable
tho, which means
the font is just a mask.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: russian would be a good language
to learn. Some of
the best authors wrote in russian << it's actually not nearly as hard as it seems.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: not
that
those are umbers
that really matter < yeah srsly, i wouldn't put much stock in
that counter.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: keeps
this feasible << and by feasible you mean plausible ?
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: obummer ran on
the pretense of "Change" << yeah but change
that way not
this way.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: read log ? << lol what you seriously negged
the guy ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: did he ever get it? << yeah yeah. it's not
THAT intuitive a system
mircea_popescu: dsherm: i hang out on reddit but it has moved away from libertarian roots << reddit ? libertarian roots ?! when did
this happen.
mircea_popescu: decimation: perhaps assbot should only 'validate'
those who have more positive
than negative ratings << but it already does
this.
mircea_popescu: you know,
the schneier of "this is an interesting article on gpg by Random Asshat Greene, Cryptozoologist"
mircea_popescu: decimation: asciilifeform: which is why elliptic key systems still have doubt cast upon
them (plus
the patent issues) << plus
the fact schneier is pushing
them
decimation: anyway with
that I must retire, good evening gents
decimation: asciilifeform: well, I imagine
that
these 'security officers' were not highly
trained physicists for one
thing. which brings up
the point - how does usg keep its secrets if its security officers are not smart enough
to understand
them?
decimation: asciilifeform: If
true,
that's ironic considering
the
total failure of anyone
to keep
those secrets from day one
decimation: lol ebay search for 'tadpole'
turns up... baby frogs
decimation: asciilifeform: well, I did say almost. "routine" information
that would be classified
today was generally not, back
then. of course
things like ULTRA were classified
BingoBoingo: Well, you don't need classified when everyone is
treated like adults
assbot: A Proper Barrel Fire: A secure way
to dispose of data storage | Bingo Blog
decimation: probably 90% of
the
tadpoles/alphas were sold into
that market I suspect
decimation: usg doesn't allow its surplus computers which have
touched anything sensitive
to return
to reality unharmed
decimation remembers playing with alpha machine circa 2001,
thinking it was quaint
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: But
the later ones have
this dilema where
they are advertised for quite a bit or scrapped
BingoBoingo: decimation> BingoBoingo: I suspect most of
them were destroyed rather
than sold surplus << I imagine problem is more akin
to why everything Alpha is still as expensive as fuck
decimation: asciilifeform: well it is certainly
true
that 'brainfuck' is not a habitable bedrock
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I've looked at
the SGI octane
decimation: BingoBoingo: I suspect most of
them were destroyed rather
than sold surplus
BingoBoingo: decimation:
Tadpole laptops are still as expensive as fuck
BingoBoingo envisions not ancientware or deck or cards but something
that fits in an ATX case, roughly 2009 midrange intel performance
decimation: surely
those are available surplus for cheap
these days
decimation: asciilifeform: do you also have one of
those
tadpoles?
decimation: BingoBoingo: MIPS workstations are easy
to purchase, buy an old sparc
decimation: asciilifeform: did
the zeks eat melba
toast
BingoBoingo wonders if asciilifeform is a sufficient masochist
to
try building Loper on
the back of his MIPS or if MIPS workstation will be an intermediate product...
assbot: Zwieback - Wikipedia,
the free encyclopedia
decimation: it goes on
to say
that apparently Leibniz researched a method for producing a hard biscut for feeding soldiers on
the march
decimation: asciilifeform: Der Werbeslogan lautete 1898: „Was ißt die Menschheit unterwegs? Na selbstverständlich Leibniz Cakes!“ "The 1898 advertisement: What does humanity eat while on
the move? Why Leibniz Cakes of course!
assbot: A sad story, illustrated pe
Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform it's just
thatr i can't locate any data showign
they are succesfull
to any degree. but anyway. << crickets i
tell ya crickets
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> perhaps
there is even a 'socrates' dildo. << Sure, sold in
the under 12 section in
the
toy store
BingoBoingo: <ben_vulpes> he also doesn't need as much
to pay for
the space, emotionally, as asciilifeform doe << I do, but on a different standard. asciilifeform's blog has been going much longer
than mine and with greater sustained excellence