mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> http://cryptome.org/2014/01/dual-ec-drbg-backdoor.htm <<< ahahaha

mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2014/the-all-american-asshole-in-his-own-words-with-my-own-notes/ << most notes. ever.

mircea_popescu: Panadol indeed.

mircea_popescu: kakobrekla lol how ?

mircea_popescu: kakobrekla lol

mircea_popescu: apparently i got really good intel.

mircea_popescu: in a sense

mircea_popescu: this was a very happy ending to a "find me a bitcoin dork that's not in bitcoin" side project

mircea_popescu: i've not been reading because i'm too busy writing ;/

mircea_popescu: it's like a sickness

mircea_popescu: true.

mircea_popescu: anyway, i'll go read some sleep nao. take it ezzy

mircea_popescu: .d

mircea_popescu: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/15/AR2008021502901.html

mircea_popescu: not a bad article.

mircea_popescu: ayup.

mircea_popescu: this'd be the first one.

mircea_popescu: ha. this thing cost five grand to make

mircea_popescu: im sure it does.

mircea_popescu: the reason this particular bit works however has nothing to do with the form, and everything to do with the facvt it's true

mircea_popescu: and truth is a powerful thing.

mircea_popescu: Duffer1 well it is five years old.

mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves is that a weak argument ?

mircea_popescu: moreover, is there a difference between the girl turning tricks during the recession from the girl turning tricks during the boom ?

mircea_popescu: they're both prostitutes.

mircea_popescu: one gets more money, the other gets more bruises, but still, what they do is what they do.

mircea_popescu: well the argument seems to be he claims to be fiscally conservative but votes for tax&spend.

mircea_popescu: i have no idea who the guy is, nor do i really care. california's problems are not fixable anyway.

mircea_popescu: well, it is how prostitution works, yes.

mircea_popescu: i thought the guy quit

mircea_popescu: they had everything. then they went and told their kids "we have everything"

mircea_popescu: and that was the last time you ever heard of that place.

mircea_popescu: wow.

mircea_popescu: see dub it's not just that they're fudging climate science generally.

mircea_popescu: they're fudging everything.

mircea_popescu: bad inflation numbers. bad employment numbers. pseudoclimatology. bad forensic tests (yeah, right, this only happened on drugs, not rape, yeah right, this only happened in ma, not wy)

mircea_popescu: pretty much lalaland over there.

mircea_popescu: soon enough you won't be able to find out your own height.

mircea_popescu: Duffer1 that has a glorious 20 year history, ye.

mircea_popescu: i mean principally three things.

mircea_popescu: the first, historically, is the misrepresentation of the very real, and also very local problem of so2 emissions into an imaginary global phenomenon called "Acid rain"

mircea_popescu: this did result in better emission controls for power plants, and did fully resolve the problem, but that doesn't make acid rain any less bullshit.

mircea_popescu: the second is the misrepresentation of high atmosphere chemistry processes, to have the so called "greenhouse gases" cause imaginary problems to imaginary essential things (the ozone layer).

mircea_popescu: arguably the replacement of cfc with more advanced heat exchange fluids is a net gain, certainly it padded the bottom lines of the manufacturers. nevertheless, the entire thing was fantasy rather than science.

mircea_popescu: the third is the taking of a very dubious set of data covering about seventy years and containing no quality controls whatsoever, extrapolating it to create an imaginary history, and then extrapolating that imaginary history to create a "very clear" path for the future (the golf club bs)

mircea_popescu: which just so happened to be politically directed rather than scientifically based.

mircea_popescu: you could throw in there the fourth case, of replacing incandescent lighting with mercury-based lights just in time to catch the narrow window where the superior led technology wasn't mature yet, so phillips can do two full upgrades for its customers and get paid twice within two decades, rather than just the once.

mircea_popescu: this sadly resulted in the worst ecologic disaster in modern history, with tons of very toxic chemicals distributed all over people's living space and so on.

mircea_popescu: but this is more of a "derivative work" so to speak.

mircea_popescu: definitely.

mircea_popescu: but such generalities do not excuse bad science.

mircea_popescu: it's like this : the fact that i believe some deaths each year are caused by murderers

mircea_popescu: can not stand in any murder case

mircea_popescu: if that is all you've got on the prosecution side, i'm dismissing each one in turn.

mircea_popescu: even if the guy standing right here before me definitely and in fact killed the alleged victim, unless you can actually prove this... he's walking.

mircea_popescu: well that may be.

mircea_popescu: to be sure, reducing energy consumption for instance is a worthy (and in no way novel) idea.

mircea_popescu: but as worthy as that idea is, calling carbon dioxide "carbon" as if that's how chemistry works makes me cringe.

mircea_popescu: "By encouraging, or even requiring, students to take stands where they have neither the knowledge nor the intellectual training to seriously examine complex issues, teachers promote the expression of unsubstantiated opinions, the venting of uninformed emotions, and the habit of acting on those opinions and emotions, while ignoring or dismissing opposing views, without having either the intellectual equipment or the per

mircea_popescu: sonal experience to weigh one view against another in any serious way."

mircea_popescu: Thomas Sowell ftw.

mircea_popescu: o hey, 1k again ?

mircea_popescu: every given sunday

mircea_popescu: you either break 1k or you make fun of bernanke

mircea_popescu: http://bitbet.us/bet/635/1btc-10-000-usd/ is 3:2 against

mircea_popescu: these are indeed not so bad odds

mircea_popescu: o wow, and the 2bn diff bet levelled out too

mircea_popescu: the sports don't get as much interest as diff/price huh ?

mircea_popescu: it would stand to reason that this navel grazing is in fact indicative of bitcoin's nicheness. as bitcoin diff bets start getting less interest than sport bets we will know that bitcoin is pretty much reached its secular price.

mircea_popescu: until then, upside is still likely

mircea_popescu: course last year, that's btc of what, 10 bux ?

mircea_popescu: 30 ?

mircea_popescu: aha

mircea_popescu: well ya

mircea_popescu: you filtered ebay ?