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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the song, you mean ? or the spurious reinterpretation into "moral" ?
mircea_popescu: "But the real morals of the story is that one must be able to employ every little part of the animal you kill, like the man does… so that womenz can stuff that many more people into thje same fucking acre. won't you be happy then!"
mircea_popescu: all the teams sucked this superbowl so please focus all discussion on some aging mulatto's nipple slip ty.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dun worry alf, momstate's on top of things an' relevant an' errything.
mircea_popescu: the advantage of cryptography is that you can say "all messages are 64kb" or w/e.
mircea_popescu: do you see what kinds and pluralities of problems oyu cause ? do you ? DO YOU ???
mircea_popescu: "this is super useful for any definition of useful that reduces to utterly fucktarded."
mircea_popescu: but yes, the grand plan for june was "bitcoin prices drop while ethereum to the moon". it worked as well as the "liberation" of some town of a name i meanwhile forgot it was so long.
mircea_popescu: at this point 50-50 odds they'll manage to scare up the funds necessary to keep the charade going a little longer
mircea_popescu: ie, usg attempting to fight bitcoin with ether will result in usg "bitcoin" exchanges bubble popping instead.
mircea_popescu: (and yes -- for girls it IS prostitution. works exactly like black girl booty shaking, if there's music they WILL move. which is how you get 12yos throwing passes at all passers by.)
mircea_popescu: (note that in gypsy culture it is not a qualification for theft specifically. just independent operation, not being too dumb to live sorta thing. not a bad test for that, as it turns out.)
mircea_popescu: not really, because the gypsies were/are serious about it. sort of like injun "totem animal" thing
mircea_popescu: amusingly -- the chicken stealer (ro gainar, each language that saw them has its own word) is the lowest level of gypsy male qualification. a sort of transient baccalaureat if you will.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: in any case -- let the fucking bureaucracy get back to paper already, it's where it belongs.
mircea_popescu: obviously the only end state of "man who bought himself wife he could afford money-wise but not really penis-wise" is ... yellow rabid jealousy.
mircea_popescu: for the cheap added benefit of no further fucking wiki-reddit-washpo-whatevers.
mircea_popescu: none of this nonsense is necessary ; just let go of the notion that dumb kid / arabic speaker / whoever on a stick may touch a machine in his born days.
mircea_popescu: the other one is that poisonous/poisoned minds end up dedicating their time to navigating the impedance mismatch. so you end up with nsa and "hackers" and "digital crimes" and what have you.
mircea_popescu: anyway, there's two problems with the by-capital allocation. one is that various lusers (microsoft, govt offices, hospitals, etc) end up buying computers they can afford monetaerily, but can not afford intellectually. then it's all "antivirus companies" and "hackers" and their dumb, drunk-fucking mother on a stick.
mircea_popescu: currently they're "selling" it by, iirc, the half dollar. hence amazon and all that cloudy bs.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform just that -- have $100, get $100 worth of computer ; not have - not get.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the contortions they came up to "justify" the disconnect are also pretty lulzy. really, bitch, "silicon valley" ? "investors" ? what the fuck else ? "univeresity grants for research" ? reheheheheally ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, let it be pointed out that by-capital allocation of computing power is both a) immensely, ridiculously ineffectual and b) not really practiced, not even by the "obviously right way" de facto proponents (usg)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform gotta decorporealize teh hardware alfie.
mircea_popescu: let the shepherd herd his sheep and make cheese out of them. computers are for intelligent people and no one else.
mircea_popescu: certainly not in fucking usd ; but moreover - at all. hardware, much like cunt, belongs to he who knows how to use it well, not to he who inherited a herd of sheep.
mircea_popescu: fact is : we will slowly and over the years migrate to a situation where control of hardware will not relate to any sort of "paying for it".
mircea_popescu: it is, after all, how hot topic / starbux / sephora / whatever ustard outlet even stays in business.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform 1000 unreliable whores still make a brothel.
mircea_popescu: sooner or later the republic will run hardware that nobody can identify the owner of.
mircea_popescu: but yes, idiots with daddy's money can do stupid shit thart doesn't even pay.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is a poor indicator. ~nothing the usg does pays.
mircea_popescu: yeah, i don't have an obvious pill either. but for instance for running nodes ? what do you care if it's evil. doesn't pay to evil.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: dba variously as usg's very own honeypot for cypher-dorks.
mircea_popescu: they only get nsa-approved diddleware from privateinternetaccess.com
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but their being retarded doesn't mean we can't do it right.
mircea_popescu: mod6 incidentally, it occurs to me : it might be a good idea for the foundation to have some kind of policy whereby people interested can donate servers ? exactly like freenode, in theory, except they fuck it up so uttertly in practice it's not even funny.
mircea_popescu: is this a reference to the "lady of pain" ruler of sigil ?
mircea_popescu: somehow the dorks going on "nsa running out of moneyz!" never seem to notice such points in their expert analyseses. "dude, corp that can stuff the cpld like that will NEVER run out of anything."
mircea_popescu: now this is interesting. there is no... state machine entropy tester ? ynot!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, as a practical matter. i was just discussing the "must have buffer" theoretical point.
mircea_popescu: gate, switches on at some point pisses 100 1s, switches back
mircea_popescu: next the usg is going to get off its ass, discover the whole rapereum "ecosystem" was $7600.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform understand this isn't a matter of testing specified bitfields, but specified ~processes~
mircea_popescu: pass-fail tools notoriously horrendous measurement instruments.
mircea_popescu: and in the process see also that ent is not a very good measurement tool.
mircea_popescu: the whole discussion is, given a stream of perfect entropy, how to construct known-degree-of-badness out of it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no that's exactly what we're doing. controlledly-bad-level entropy.
mircea_popescu: a is also twice as strong, because obviously b will flip on average half the bits it sets. but is this ACTUALLY half ? ie, how do yo umeasure unrandomness ? b is much more strongly patterned than a.
mircea_popescu: as alf points out, a is "better" in the sense v-n debiaser kills b, if this is a better. unclear.
mircea_popescu: (ie, i dun have an answer for it myself, nor know how to get one.)
mircea_popescu: poor ben_vulpes has been silent since the blessing of wtf 10 minutes ago.