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mircea_popescu: Framedragger hey, they were trying to spread teh nsa goodword!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hey, they want to be part of the great beyond / "our" democracy!
mircea_popescu: except china has never in its history been this great.
mircea_popescu: republican party has not this peroblem at all : the trump side is 30yos who want to curb stomp faggots, pussies and people from SV ; the remainder is people over 70. nature resolves that problem all by itself.
mircea_popescu: there was no way to keep this pile of cats and octopi herded even should clinton have won.
mircea_popescu: which is ~exactly representative an image, as it happens.
mircea_popescu: pantsuit party is a very volatile hodge podge of single issue fascists ("gender rights", "Ecologists", radical black activists, some latino weirdos etc) and multi-issue socialists that used to masquerade as "market oriented liberal capitalists" (the dudes who keep pushing the "science" narrative etc) and are now about as confused wrt their identity as dude trying to wear a suit on wall street by day and suck cock on knees in
mircea_popescu: the notion that it'll still exist by 2020 is a little dubious.
mircea_popescu: lel. pretty surte they were doing this years ago9 also
mircea_popescu: shinohai nah, my days of mountain walking were over just about the time girls started to interest.
mircea_popescu: it's not even the drop per se. it's very rocky, it'll crack your skull wide open in a 20 foot fall.
mircea_popescu: (for the innocent : retezat is a hard mountain, dozen-ish groups are about the largest that can be sanely managed. to ensure things such as you know, NOT STARTING AVALANCHES)
mircea_popescu: how about such groups don't go where you go, instrad. fucking sheep already. "guides" pshew.
mircea_popescu: you ever seen a group that large who wasn't 105% douchebag by mass ?
mircea_popescu: diana_coman in principle, sure. so far as the matter stands, one man trained a bunch of record holders and the other man went around retezat in large groups. how the fuck even dare he take 51 persons over there ?
mircea_popescu: diana_coman bullshit, yes. but this is a factual description of the world. you're gonna ignore it now ?
mircea_popescu: you know, like jwz. or like teh people on #bitcoin-assets pre dragon call.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman it's technical competence, not politicval competence.
mircea_popescu: and if society in general doesn't understand this either, in short order you'll find yourself wondering where the dodo bird went.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman yes, and this is exactly my greater point here : competent people don't understand how to defend themselves from the tedx crowd, and don't. they're, basically speaking, dodo birds.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: because no, random dork who's read all the tedx and reddit on the topic and intends to follow it by the letter is not thereby qualified to have an opinion on things and matters. which is what this catalin ioan berenghi schmuck strikes me as.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman let's consider this : late april, you can go lower or higher. if you're competent you take your pick, if you are not competent and so can't follow the competent YOU DO NOT GO. you don't fucking go anyway, relying on your group numbers, and then of fucking course if you bigfoot about HIGHER than the other guys end up... causing an avalanche.
mircea_popescu: things like "there's no gsm signal therefore survival chances are minimal" tend to give him away. seeing how you know, gsm, our democracy and his assorted ineptitudes were invented slightly after retezat stood there.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman apparently the greenhorns stand accused of having actually ~caused~ the avalanche that claimed the experts ?
mircea_popescu: diana_coman yeah they are pretty weird with that huh. /me reads
mircea_popescu: shinohai if he manages to capture the lot he could not only skin 'em and make himself a hat + bathingsuit for girl combo, but also could make squirrel stu.
mircea_popescu: from experience, every time something blows up i can produce for the benefit of the slavegirl in whose hands it did blow up a list of what minor precautions she could have taken.
mircea_popescu: ex post facto-isms. where were these experts prior to the event ?
mircea_popescu: aaand in not-really-news : avalance in retezat (romanian mountain) killed a few kids that were european and world record holders in mountain-related items. ro "our democracy" media railing about how the trainer (also father of one of the victims) "forced his two daughters to break record after record while training in EXTREME CONDITIONS!!!1 ONLY TO SATISFY HIS OWN EGOTISM!!1111"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and findally, yes "products" no "longer" compete on algos but on puffery. this is not because of anything than laziness, intellectual and otherwise, on the part of everyone involved. similarily, "psychic healers" also do not compete on healing but on distance, having the phonelines open 24/7 and other points of ~convenience~.
mircea_popescu: no, break the thing, steal the shit, blame nsa. the gutting of the socialist empire must proceed apace.
mircea_popescu: to be perfectly clear : the ONLY use of a successful attack on a cryptosystem is to attack real world deployments. publishing is particularly a worthless (and stupid) endeavour, because it gives a lazy and entitled "public" something for free that it shouldn't have even for pay.
mircea_popescu: d because cryptology is now a respectable academic discipline, the benefits of publishing a successful attack on a cryptosystem far outweigh the dubious benefits of keeping that attack secret and using it for some kind of fraud. In this area, at least, cryptology has grown up."
mircea_popescu: of course, any fiat paper must include its "hail party" lines, and so "In retrospect this time marks a turning point in the history of cryptology. No longer would products compete on claimed "better algorithms" than their opposition. It became in everyone's interest to focus on published algorithms whose design principles were well known. Cryptographic products found other areas to compete in (speed, features, ease of use) an
mircea_popescu: "Instead, the effort that could have been spent on securing the system was spent on public relations. The firm claimed that the attack could work only on our own copy of Fortress (in fact, it could work with any copy at all because it deduced the key from the data on the disk)." << from kochanski's (ancient) piece on comedy of commercial encryption software. the shamans still falling into same pits today, of course, as seen
mircea_popescu: too bad i wanted to leave them a "drop fucking dead, bunch of illiterate monkeys"
mircea_popescu: and of course no way to leave a comment on the "announcing linkerd 1.0" follow-up piece. but i could "share this post on hacker news".
mircea_popescu: o wait, and the whole thing is actually copy for this "linkerd" piece of shit "buoyant.io" is hawking.
mircea_popescu: "The explicit goal of the service mesh is to move service communication out of the realm of the invisible, implied infrastructure, and into the role of a first-class member of the ecosystem—where it can be monitored, managed and controlled." << alternatively, you could read a fucking book. motherfucking chukas.
mircea_popescu: dude, what the fuck is with the bullshit. "we made a tcp on top of tcp because we're bored at "work" and hurr."
mircea_popescu: "Unlike TCP, the service mesh has a significant goal beyond “just make it work”: it provides a uniform, application-wide point for introducing visibility and control into the application runtime."
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes whart's the difference between auto_ptr and unique_ptr, dja know ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: you'd expect respectable people involved in something either publish post mortem or aren't very respectable going forward.
mircea_popescu: i keep putting these small charge footmines in the logs you dutifully scoop them up.
mircea_popescu: "look, i can afford fire, pretty young thing! dare be naked, you won't freeze here!"
mircea_popescu: in some cases it may be worth it to do twice the work on non-fixed-time algo than to actually fixtime the algo.
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http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-28#1649667 << bwahaha. apparently it occurs to no-one that by the time merit washing requires them "seasoned cryptographers" and "security researchers" BY THE ROOMFULL, and anonymously, the actual value of either symbol isn't very much anymore nor can be.
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http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-29#1649775 << come to think of it, this is rather remarkable a quote, enacting as it is teh republic as the ~only antifa available. "for the individual against the state and for the state only inasmuch as it identifies with the individual"
☝︎ mircea_popescu: you can verify this sort of anti-property directly every time someone publishes one of these bs studies and actually forgets to scrub all the data.
mircea_popescu: i bet you that, to use your numbers, the 6"5 cohort in your study composes a lesser section of "the ceos" than the 6"4 cohort.
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http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-28#1649659 << the principal problem with this "multivariate regression" bs-chasing is that desirable traits almost never correlate with marginal traits. it may be true that intelligent (more to the point, "successful"-juju) people are ~taller than~ average population. however, the outer edges of tallness will not contain the outer edges of good-juju, and vice-versa. to make the point practical,
☝︎ mircea_popescu: (the principal driver for large penii is female sluttery ; there is no such thing as "the naiton of africa" and there's black or ~black people living from brazil to india. there's no homogenity of female sluttery in everyone's history and so...)
mircea_popescu: notwithstanding the flattering aspects -- my cock is actually quite normal. the theory whereby black dudes have huge cocks is ~false.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-28#1649658 << no, actually. ~black chick wanted to know if my penis is really big ; i told her it's normal. she later saw it and her comment was "oh that's not normal!!1" (her english is approximative. other girl chuckled at the implicationz.)
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