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benkay: also if internal pressure = external pressure are hoop stresses really significant? don;t
they only have
to resist osmotic leaking
through membrane?
mircea_popescu: the
tube strength and relative pressure required
to not crush it at depth
benkay: emerging nearly
tangent
to
the surface
benkay: with an inflated launch
tube duh
benkay: 2 companies
that may fall over dead within
the next 5 years whose
technologies should not be let rust
benkay: single stage
to orbit with an air-breathing rocket
mircea_popescu: various us senators make proclamations about how intolerable
this is.
benkay: hey mircea_popescu are you familiar with
the skylon dudes?
mircea_popescu: because
the undersubs
thought it expedient
to cut an eighty mile
tall hole in
the bedrock supporting it
mircea_popescu: there's all
these people on
the surface redditing about shit.
benkay: i
thought we agreed "no grey goo"!
mircea_popescu: it just sits on
the bottom of
the sea, like 3-4 miles long, half a mile
thick sort of catfish
mircea_popescu: aircraft impossible
to make large enough for nuclear power
to work. submarines pretty much only work as nukes.
mircea_popescu: anyway : aircraft easy
to spot. a well designed sub is impossible
to spot.
benkay: (but for
the record robotic does not exclude manned)
mircea_popescu: a robot nuclear submarine is perhaps one of
the best power projectors available.
benkay: manned submersibles? how are manned submersibles not
the worst engineering decision you could make?
benkay: everyone knows i'm only peripherally interested in
technology as a
tool
to make shitloads of money.
mircea_popescu: careful who you
tell or you may end up convicted
to six months' eyeroll
therapy.
mircea_popescu: benkay you're clearly a
traitor
to
the holy cause of geekery.
benkay: I MEAN SERIOUSLY GET YOUR HEADS
TOGETHER
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: 30k buys jpm a senator. it buys a somali 100k rounds of 7.62x39. it buys you: a
toyota. <<
this is not exactly correct
tho. consider : i have
three girls,
they kinda like each other. like-like.
they share an appartment, we sometimes fuck.
the whole shebang costs me maybe 30k a year. prolly less.
benkay: i stand up and
talk about esoteric shit for
twenty minutes, go
talk
to
these dudes,
they buy me drinks all night and
tell me war stories about breaking relatives out of
the shah's basement gaeol
benkay: none of
the nerds are willing
to step within
ten feet of
them
benkay: dudes foot
the bill for
the whole night
benkay: dev: "oh
these guys have some boring business
that makes money"
benkay: i hope you're picking up on
the sarcasm around 'business model and shit'
mircea_popescu: nevertheless we were plainly able
to buy
their bureaucracy once
the politburo was unable
to keep
the suit shops supplied.
benkay: those with mastery of
toolchains
that enable productivity will help
those with capital multiply it and everyone else will serve as labor in
the oop salt mines?
mircea_popescu: kinda curious how
the dev
thing (as a cultural construct mind you) will fare.
benkay: ya well
there's a reason
there's basically no
technical literature on
the company site
benkay: i actually may have hammered into
the heads of some folks
that maybe
the 'dev
team' is a joke
benkay: at
the bar on
the
tab of some poor company with a business model and shit
trying
to recruit developers and whatnot
jurov: "consultant for
troll activity data mining"
benkay: hey so i did
this
talk on lisp
tonight
benkay: i
thought you got out of
the consulting game!
benkay: timing's obvious,
though. what other axes
tend
to show patterns in
these problem spaces?
benkay: and also have you actually run
the numbers on post
timing?!
mircea_popescu: a coupla hundred different datasets
that don't really coallesce.
benkay: so
timing's
the obvious side-channel, what others have you looked at?
mircea_popescu: an attacker sees 50k posts on 400k forums, compares
the
timing of
them and knows what processors you are using.
benkay: or some subset
thereof.
mircea_popescu: ok. suppose i hire you
to do
this job. now you have
to make 100k posts a day from supposedly 100k different handles on 1mn forums.
benkay: plus
these logs are a
thing for posterity
mircea_popescu: basically
the problems of 1) do what you describe and 2) make a rsa key are homologous.
benkay: given
thread, here are 10 replies. select one.
benkay: perhaps consider
that
the forum planting may be highly automated
mircea_popescu: benkay perhaps ? it is i confess one of
the foremost riddles in my head.
benkay: pathologies of
the welfare state?
B007: benkay: implying he hasn't hired a
troll for irc and
twitter already
mircea_popescu: and
this makes no sense because for
the money it'd cost
to plant 1mn idiots in 100k forums nobody really reads,
the attacker could jhust as well have built a mining farm
mircea_popescu: coming from supposedly jane and jons next door, who however mysteriously all share
the same stupid
talking points.
mircea_popescu: the more concerning
thing however is
that mah people are measuring incredible levels of random-forum-oposition
to bitcoin,
benkay: a fuck it has an e
these days
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: i already suspect major news comment sections
to be riddled with fake anti-bitcoin sentiments <<
this is probably
true just on
the general instinct of
the beast, meaning
that on some level welfare-dependent scum writing
the stuff is aware bitcoin will kill it and wants
to survive.
benkay: also who's making odds on when mp hires a
twittr
troll?
mircea_popescu: really fucking difficult
to get good data
to mock
them into insanity like
that ;/
mircea_popescu: and you can't send any of
the girls
to spy on
them either cause
they get even awkwarder if any girls are within like a mile ?
mircea_popescu: you know how
there's
this loser group and
they always
talk among
themselves but if you go by
they get all awkward ?
mircea_popescu: basically
twitter is what i always wanted as a kid in school : a chance
to spy on
the losers conversations.
benkay: every derp face crafting
their derpy 140 char dropping for
the internet
copumpkin: benkay:
the rest of you is fair game?