mircea_popescu: if you wish, this is an interesting case of "orange revolution" of a web property. also rather an era ender, since 2011 they're no longer on the web but on the "deep" web whatevers.
mircea_popescu: this all ended in 2011, when a crack team of damien trevatt + gf (one jasmin choudhury ; split cca 2016 to whore out for deloitte uk) took over and pushed it in a "new direction", which consists of trying to make friends with the tedx zone of the blue usg. dood runs some minor conference organizer http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-11#1723924 item on the side.
mircea_popescu: it was very much what you'd expect (somewhat anachronistically) of a "silk road 2.0" these days ; replete with moderators scamming users, various independent activities (what the usg calls illegal) and so forth.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-14 21:02 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-14#1725340 << i will admit to being curious re what it is mircea_popescu thinks he can use those folx for. they have the apparent intellectual ability of a turnip.
mircea_popescu: random chick. of no consequence other than in how typical she is for the "liberated" horseface-whatserhname demographic.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: find also if the 12.6kW refers to peak or avg.
jhvh1: shinohai: The operation succeeded.
jhvh1: shinohai: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: alf is basically an explosion. now i gotta go to all the shards and say hang on, hang on individually.
asciilifeform: ( theoretically, can haz 'eternal' boxes, welded shut )
asciilifeform: incidentally anybody interested in the diskless variant discussed in last thread ?
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: know anything re the vendor ?
ben_vulpes: am working a few other quotes as well, will check in later
ben_vulpes: mention thereof at least
mircea_popescu: i have this utterly psychotic delusion that i don't personally wish to take more than i should have ; nor less ; and that a general system can be built on these premises. why the fuck would he want for me to have fewer shares than i should have ? what sense does it make, he is going to fuck all the women himself ? with what ? solve all the problems ? etc.
asciilifeform: the implication also is that there is a particular kind of mistake, exemplified imho by the zeroasset corp thing in bbet, that is easy to make -- to insist that the energy be conserved at all times
mircea_popescu: the veheheheeeery shaky premise is that republic has forum and can communicate consequently is not so constrained.
mircea_popescu: the fiat forced mistake is to "o noes, gotta write it down BEFORE". it is forced because fiat world doesn't have a forum, ie, can't communciate, and as a result there's no such thing as meaningful consent, or negotiation.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the fundamental problem, for which recall bitbet works as well as any other recall, is that you have ~0 chances of knowing at t0 what'll be fair at t2, because t1 is ???
asciilifeform: simply re the 'contract is important for what it doesn't say' item
mircea_popescu: that's kinda the basis here.
mircea_popescu: there are some advantages in having equity in some projects, such as that you can to some degree prevent them from going dumb.
mircea_popescu: there are some advantages to having certain people in your equity base. such as that not being idiots, they won't vote stupidtly ; and so on.
mircea_popescu: anyway, re conversion, it's not clear that you'll necessarily want me to convert ; nor that i necessarily will want to. maybe. in general the fiatista "i want all the things" approach is not simply flawed but outright dumb.
mircea_popescu: "contracts like this" are more important for what they don't say.
mircea_popescu: well no, no interest was specified, neither strict nor by reference, so there is no reference
ben_vulpes: how, for instance, does the equity conversion rate get calculated?
ben_vulpes: sounds workable in the abstract to the extent that i understand what you're saying; contracts like this are not something i'm familiar with so i'll have to think slowly about it
ben_vulpes: what would the terms be?
ben_vulpes: 2.5k of which is the bw charge
ben_vulpes: i could manage with fr but eng does reduce the ognitive coverhead
asciilifeform: i have the fr orig somewhere but i assumed ben_vulpes wants eng
asciilifeform: asciilifeform's jp-fu too weak to say if works there.
mircea_popescu: i doubt the form works in anything but ru and like, japanese.
asciilifeform: imho it captures the structure.
mircea_popescu: unless im missing something this captures the structure (for teh reasons stated above). am i missing something ?
asciilifeform: either
mircea_popescu: it exploits the a batut (vb, to fight, imperfect) / abatut (noun, depressed) homophony and then of coruse a major trope of romanian humor, lapte batut, ie beaten milk, ie buttermilk.
asciilifeform: well all the sense it's ever gonna make in engl.
mircea_popescu: you mean, ip of the commenter ? or what ?
a111: Logged on 2017-10-18 14:19 asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-18#1726087 << mp’s wp worx on nfsco BUT not the comments spamfilter ( it relies on static ip ). nfsco is also incompatible with mp-style pill against dnsism ( 1980s hand-curated /etc/hosts ), see also http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-10#1654113 thread
asciilifeform realized that 80+% of the joakes, don't translate worth a shit, e.g. 'Штирлиц дрался с огоньком. Огонек дрался как мог. Мог был парень крутой. А Крутая слабаков не жаловала.' << can this be made to work in ro ? or do you need agglutinative declensions necessarily.
asciilifeform: ( the staph on your nose will ~also~ take over your cultures if you give it half a chance )
BingoBoingo: In other legends, today some derps published an estimate, HeLa likely to lead to 30 kilodribble paper retractions
asciilifeform: 'stierlitz was thrown from the tenth floor, but caught on a balcony by a miracle. but the next day, the miracle was swollen and interfered with walking.'
BingoBoingo: Kinda how US teaches it. Before war of Northern Aggression, things happened with names occasionally attached. After "Oh noes people and their plights"
mircea_popescu: sick burn for the anals of sick burns.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> 'While Defendant has surrendered her passport and cannot obtain another one in her own name, this obstacle provides little assurance given her self-described desire to "burn the White house down" and "[find somewhere in Kurdistan to live ... or Nepal."' << Lol, mebbe shouldn't have got her balls from a syringe?
mircea_popescu: then from there it found its way into (german) police work, and from there to us a coupla decades later. much like everything else.
asciilifeform: or see the rusty staples thread.
mircea_popescu: otherwise a hunchback dude with a magnifying glass could make you in a fucking cafe for crying out loud.
asciilifeform: ( 'stierlitz walked on the streets of berlin. mueller recognized that he was a soviet spy, but not because of the ppsh machinepistol clumsily slung across his shoulder, and not because of the parachute he dragged behind him, but because of the maker tag on his waistcoat, 'bolshevikess', which in typical russian slopiness had not been torn off.'
asciilifeform: or the even moar sacramental 'Штирлиц шел по Берлину. Мюллер узнал в нем советского разведчика, но не по ППШ, небрежно наброшенному на плечо, и не по парашюту, волочившемуся сзади, а по клейму фабрики "Большевичка", кото- рое забыли отпороть с внутреннего
mircea_popescu: than to attempt to supplant the absent intelligence of the large mass of sub-pantsuit (they call themselves alt-right or whatever the fuck).
mircea_popescu: anyway, here's the proposal : be it proposed that it is actually cheaper to explain to the brighter among the reality winners what exactly they never learned of history and theory, so that they renounce on their own power the assorted bundle of idiocy and sheer nonsense that constitutes the difference between republican and pantsuit or ultrapantsuit ideology,
asciilifeform: 'in the official dachas, amidst the flicker of tv screens and the squal of mosquitoes, the brass agreed that it will be the last generation of brass' or how did limonov put it.
mircea_popescu: funny shit, the ultra-pantsuit actually agree with the republic, usg worst thing to come out of fuhrerbunker.
asciilifeform: 'While Defendant has surrendered her passport and cannot obtain another one in her own name, this obstacle provides little assurance given her self-described desire to "burn the White house down" and "[find somewhere in Kurdistan to live ... or Nepal."'
asciilifeform: otted against the United States Government. Gov't Ex. 11. On the same day, Defendant wrote her sister she hated America. When her sister responded with incredulity, Defendant proclaimed again she hated America and explained she feels this way because America is "literally the worst thing to happen to the planet."'
asciilifeform: '"hates" America, misused a top-secret computer during her Air Force career, admires Edward Snowden and Julian Assange... ...one need look no further than Defendant's own writings to surmise that she hates the United States and has plotted against the government. On February 25, 2017, during training for her new NSA job, Defendant wrote her sister that she would fail a polygraph because of questions conceming whether she had ever pl
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in other news -- girl goes shopping, comes back with pineapple SO FRAGRANT that it STANK UP THE ONIONS.
mircea_popescu: "honey, here's the guys you have to fuck to get the part" "could they call some friends ?"
mircea_popescu: of the minority qualified, there's readily distinguished three categories : the utter imbeciles a la maria schneider, sewing up their togas "for modesty!!!" ; the tolerant girlies who put up with the couch but no more ; and finally gia -- the chicks the fucking couch itself can't keep up with.
mircea_popescu: anyway, back to gia : women, in the http://trilema.com/2016/portrait-of-an-adult-woman/ adult woman sense, have some things to do in this world. like say http://trilema.com/2014/holy-shit-technical-analysis-is-real/#footnote_0_57849 ; these aren't jobs that can be done by non-women, and when they try the results are as sad as shakespearian theatre (not the text, the actual montage).
mircea_popescu: it is VERY unlikely to have any kind of symmetry involved there.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform recall the classic http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=%22learn%22+%22unlearn%22
asciilifeform: pet : 'problem with dysgenics hypothesis is that the pertinent change is much too slow' ' asciilifeform : 'entirely possible that descent and climb are wholly asymmetric -- just like process of falling from a plane is quite unlike take-off; 1 or 2 generations of supernumerary children failing to die, possibly can wreck the pool'
mircea_popescu: died of fucking. which is a much better way to go than the dying of boredom, a la adriana ( http://trilema.com/2016/io-la-conoscevo-bene/#comment-118515 ).
mircea_popescu: and speaking of aids-en : isn't it a pity nobody's yet made a film out of gia carangi's life ? that chick was ACTUALLY a model, in the most proper of senses.
asciilifeform: reminds me, asciilifeform had interesting convo with pet re the dysgenics thread
mircea_popescu: but this is the deep reason why "death from stressor - ban stressor" is not adequate a response. no, let them die. ban the dieing if you must.
mircea_popescu: stopping smoking doesn't reduce cancer, because the sort of shameful shitsacks that GET cancer will get it, whether from smoking or not. if not from smoking -- they'll find a different stressor.
mircea_popescu: your cat isn't giving you toxoplasmosis even if asimov's cat gave it to him is because you don't get toxoplasmosis, not because it doesn't have it to give ; this is exactly the link to http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-25#1716989
mircea_popescu: the difference between the human rotting alive and the human not rotting alive is the first human's aquired immune deficiency syndrome, NOT the involved protozoans.
mircea_popescu: but yes, the day git is replaced by v and us presidency appointments are implemented as a !! function, the ~same flies will be laying the ~same eggs on this new meat, equally like on the old. at least as far as they're concerned.
asciilifeform: 'It is to the benefit of software companies and programmers to claim that software as we know it is the state of nature. They can do stupid things, things we know will result in software vulnerabilities, and they suffer no consequences because people don’t know that software could be well-written. Often this ignorance includes developers themselves. We’ve also been conditioned to believe that software rots as fast as fruit. That
asciilifeform: in other lulz, not only trilema gets plagiarized... https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/09/14/software-is-a-long-con ( https://archive.is/TYEEm ) happily peddles http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1719 + http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1299 with serialnumberfiledoff
asciilifeform: ( constant-spacetime-able, and not in any particular way known to be weaker than the other voodoos, and you already ~have~, presumably, a keccak )
asciilifeform: ( because otherwise you are making entirely new voodootron from scratch, will need test sets, etc )
asciilifeform: then definitely existing-serpent-shamirized
asciilifeform: it isn't even that asciilifeform is particularly enamoured of 'serpent', but does believe that any cipher that cannot be implemented in the style shown in the paste, is ipso facto braindamaged beyond repair
mircea_popescu was a great fan of tiger hash back in the day.
asciilifeform: iirc it is the one in final draft ( submitted to braindamage competition ).
mircea_popescu: (as per customary and recently discussed with keccak, the actual item and the item submitted to the usg braindamage competition differ)
mircea_popescu: hm, wait, isn't this the item that was similarily-vulnerable to des ?
asciilifeform: very easily, using same algo as with any other block cipher ( xor splits )
asciilifeform: fwiw there is a quite short ada serpent existing, passes the test set ( and branch-free ).
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'm not going to burden the minigame dev with implementing two of these nosnenses in the first pass.
mircea_popescu: and approved by the euros. and put in during 2008 by the ustards, then taken back out recently "for lack of interest" ie nsa pressure.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: all blockciphers are pseudoscientific. the only differences you can take to the bank, is that camellia was approved by nato bureaucrats, serpent was not; and the fact that serpent runs in constant time ( branch-free ).
a111: Logged on 2016-12-28 17:48 asciilifeform: BUT it is in several ways, apparent to the naked eye, less retarded than aes
mircea_popescu: in other items of republican interest : eulora is at a stage where we have to set down what we'll use for sensitive data encryption (such as for instance the privkey files). i don't particularily wish to use aes ; anyone wants to contribute to this emerging spec ?
mod6: i lul'd at your encounter with a "martial arts expert" in The Mechanic.
mod6: good! just catching up on the log here.
mircea_popescu: he inelastic demand by deliberately (and falsely) elasticizing their demand ; or else they attack the high fixed costs.
mircea_popescu: and this is evident both in how people dissolve the kolhoz once it becomes "politically" untenable (bullshit. there's no such thing as politics exactly like there's no such thing as "her feelings". she got fuicked because she got drunk, she got drunk because she was in the bar, and she went to the bar to get herself drunk to get herself fucked. politics is the "why" and economics is the "what she did".) : either they attack t
mircea_popescu: but you can't have some bloodwork you didn't need today because they had some extra capacity, nor can you not have a yellow fever shot when needed because they'll have some next week. by next week their value is 0.
mircea_popescu: the demand is, as they say, very inelastic. if it comes to fucking, you can fuck whatever you catch : a lithe blonde today, a nothing tomorrow, a turkish hipped brunette next week. when it comes to eatring, you can eat three plums today even if you felt like two, so as not to throw one out, and you can make do with a chicken tomorrow, even if you wanted a slice of beef.
mircea_popescu: myeah. living space, be it of the housing kind, or of the hosting kind, or of the hospital kind, or of all other kinds can only ever be operated as a kolhoz.
asciilifeform: ( the sad thing re nfs co, is that it is in fact a kolhoz, quite like amazon's and the rest, but more ancient and built by actual men, vs 'millenial' scum, and so it actually ~works~, and delivers on the promise -- you don't own your hdd, BUT you never have to go down from a dead hdd; you own no ip; BUT no ddos; etc. it however IS STILL A KOLHOZ , with the complacency and inevitable day of doom that comes with this. )
mircea_popescu: it's becoming difficult to go by it, the warak arish / baba ganoush / cardamom coffee exert a discernible pull.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dun recall thewhet ever beinbg ddosed.
mircea_popescu: if they could figure this ancient trilema all on their own, WHO KNOWS WHAT THEY CAN END UP GROKING EVENTUALLY!!!11
mircea_popescu: "hurr durr, so-and-so is traditionally a democratic stronghold in the very limited sense that people there are willing to spend an hour on a sunday supporting democrats if it's not raining, and if the support is limited to stamping a piece of paper once. and if it's not gonna happen more often than once every few years at the most."
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo heh they're finally starting to figure out that there's a fucking difference between painting a state blue in the sense that 300 more people could be arsed to answer the phone out of a population of 5mn is VERY DIFFERENT from turning a state red in the sense that you've got ten k people there ready to shoot.
asciilifeform: and neither of these is a bug, or will ever be fixed, nfs co’s. ddosproofing relies on the dynamic ip shenanigans
a111: Logged on 2017-10-18 04:47 hanbot: asciilifeform yeah thewhet.net is X_X atm. i'm futzing around with nfs to see if i can finagle a mp-wp-cum-import with them.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-18#1726087 << mp’s wp worx on nfsco BUT not the comments spamfilter ( it relies on static ip ). nfsco is also incompatible with mp-style pill against dnsism ( 1980s hand-curated /etc/hosts ), see also http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-10#1654113 thread
asciilifeform: meanwhile, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/10/16/turning_a_hard_disk_drive_into_an_ear << prolly worx with all recent mechanical hdd
BingoBoingo: And having escaped one hole, from deep in the mines of another: "This poll scared me more than just about any other I have seen in the past months. If Trump can turn his base against the NFL, then what cant he get them to do?"
mircea_popescu: and in other "romanian is 100% about sexual innuendo and nobody can ever hope to translate trilema.ro" exercises, ttp://trilema.com/2011/chec-cu-tite/
mircea_popescu: "nevermind what ~I~'m doing with a machine gun in school. i'm fucking curious what dad's gonna do with a violin at the congress."
mircea_popescu: and in other lulz : on the day of the democratic national congress, bula paddock in school, during music class. the teacher is "kids, prepare your instruments". bula paddock opens his violin case and closes it back quickly. the teacher notices, comes over, opens the case and finds a machine gun.
BingoBoingo: In other old meme https://images.encyclopediadramatica.rs/9/99/Cavitysearchpedobear.jpg
hanbot: asciilifeform yeah thewhet.net is X_X atm. i'm futzing around with nfs to see if i can finagle a mp-wp-cum-import with them.
BingoBoingo: If only the wikipedos could be banished to a world where snakes are wide instead of long
BingoBoingo: "A quick consultation with Satan established that Our Dark Lord and Master doesn't like her much at all. Satan doesn't like furries even though Satan is, himself, a yiffing furry with a Goatlord fursona - Satan is allowed to be a hypocrite because he is Satan." << Not bad, but #trilema sorta raises the bar above this. Oh to go back to binge reading ED 2009
jhvh1: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
asciilifeform: !~later tell hanbot http://thewhet.net appears to be down -- is it in same brother's grave as dulap ?
asciilifeform: in blasts from the even moar distant past, https://archive.is/SIBFA << yet another diddled konsoomer ciphertron from 1980s
davout: the akamai thing just didn't make much sense to me
mircea_popescu: pretty much the only thing that comes to mind is the now famous soviet самокритика, and the significantly less famous but culturally much more important habiot of medieval tards to conduct "religious debates" with the jews, lose miserably, then claim "draw".
a111: Logged on 2017-10-17 18:55 mircea_popescu: davout trying to include you into republican affairs in the only apparently remaining opportunity, ie discussions of accounting reform.
mircea_popescu: Vcalist Klaus Meine explains that the band's penchant for controversial cover art stems from a desire "to go over the edge" and not "to offend some people or make the headlines [as] that would be stupid" << what the fuck does this even mean ?
mircea_popescu: whatever, minor band in the later days of a minor subculture.
mircea_popescu: "In a 2008 interview, Schenker added "We would never again do something like this".[11] The band's former lead guitarist Uli Jon Roth notes that the cover art of the "old Scorpion albums" were "usually done by other people".[10] He has since expressed regret over the original album cover: Looking at that picture today makes me cringe. It was done in the worst possible taste. Back then I was too immature to see that." and bull
mircea_popescu: i dunno, they had a thing going in the 80s, most all of the slowly-irrelevantizing bands of "classic rock" put out pre-fuck chick covers.
mircea_popescu: so i've been for the past 15 minutes reading about the problems of poor people. jesus christ who even gives a twinkling fuck.
mircea_popescu: is this how the anglotards have sex then ? they bump into each other at that delicate moment of confuswion when crossind thresholds ?
mircea_popescu: https://images.encyclopediadramatica.rs/6/66/Playboykitty.jpg << who the fuck has doors like that. what is this, a film set ?!
asciilifeform: http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/65x3G/?raw=true << elsewhere in the reich. ( entomologists only )
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, https://archive.is/LeUKx#selection-4015.124-4015.211 <<->> http://trilema.com/2014/spamming-reddit-an-experiment/#selection-2863.0-2863.4 yet STILL can't come out with "oh ok, whadda ya know, turns out MP owns all teh interwebz".
asciilifeform at one time familiar with subj through direct contact in the saeculum
a111: Logged on 2017-10-17 15:49 mircea_popescu: shinohai from the same source, https://twitter.com/x0rz/status/920311815124504576 << what's he on about ? of... course they would.
asciilifeform: upstack, in http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-17#1725998 is mentioned a https://twitter.com/AlgoVPN , 'Set up a personal IPSEC VPN in the cloud. We are an open source project supported by @trailofbits' , which -- hilariously and not at all secretly -- is nsa contractor
mircea_popescu: i like how the zebra has a shooster of its own.
mircea_popescu: https://images.encyclopediadramatica.rs/9/91/David_Gerard_wedding_pics.jpg <<< ima use this as the standard illustration of new russia.
mircea_popescu: davout trying to include you into republican affairs in the only apparently remaining opportunity, ie discussions of accounting reform.
mircea_popescu: PSA : hey schmucks -- it's ok to exist without attempting to pretend you're me. seriously now. being MP isn't for everyone. not quite managing to be MP isn't the end of the world.
mircea_popescu: " He is noted for his "billionaire bad boy" image yet shrewd business sense." << what the everloving fuck ?
asciilifeform: 'He really is a bisexual goth s&m freak with a disabled wife and furry girlfriend, and he got that girlfriend pregnant, while his wife has her own girlfriend. He really is a senior member of Wikipedia - the motherfucking UK media spokesperson and a Checkuser. He is meant to be respectable! He uses his real name in all of this. These are his real photos that he took himself, and has listed for public download. It is very difficult to
a111: Logged on 2017-10-07 01:03 mircea_popescu: well, yes, but then again how many of the 500 will join the choir invisible ?
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in orlols, https://archive.is/Bz5MY >> 'The final numbers, announced early the next day, came to exactly 59 dead and 527 wounded, and they haven't been updated since. Of the wounded, not a single person has subsequently died. It appears that the only two options were instant death or swift recovery.'
mircea_popescu: shinohai from the same source, https://twitter.com/x0rz/status/920311815124504576 << what's he on about ? of... course they would.
phf: and for those who'd like an even deeper david rabbit hole, https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/David_Gerard and https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/Arkady, i am otherwise tapping out. first article of the day, and i've already had enough
phf: “He was previously an award-winning music journalist, and has blogged about music at Rocknerd since 2001. He is a volunteer spokesman for Wikipedia, and is on the board of the RationalMedia Foundation, host of skeptical wiki RationalWiki. Originally from Australia, he lives in east London with his spouse Arkady and their daughter. Until he reinstalled the laptop they were on, he was the proud owner of six Dogecoins.”
mircea_popescu: anyway, i would expect "his interest in russia" dates from the 90s, back when he was a 39 yo bachelor "looking to expand his dating horizons"
phf: i'd rather look ad david in lower resolution
phf: actually i'm just going to leave the whole about page here https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/about/
phf: mircea_popescu, asciilifeform i will admit i didn't read the article, original is in ru, various english transcommentaries are no better than this david guy.
asciilifeform: in other thefts, 'The researchers went on to find 15 factorizable keys used for TLS. Strangely, almost all of them contain the string "SCADA" in the common name field.'
a111: Logged on 2017-10-17 11:43 phf: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2017/10/16/the-russian-cryptoruble-story-whats-actually-happening-here/ Russian crypto currency with Russian cryptography
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-17#1725950 << hilarious homogoogletranslaticus : 'we know that there are certain bookmark mechanisms in this cryptography'
mircea_popescu: (oh and since we're on usg tools : nominum, nsa's shell company used in the "community consensus" building of the reformed dns system etc, ended up parked in akamai's basement for "an undisclosed amount" earlier this year. which is how these work and why they exist in the first place.)
mircea_popescu: but let's talk instead of what proof i have that the proof there displayed is proving anything, amirite.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck is nasdaq.com linking to companyspotlight.com that seo-redirects to orderanualreports.com any fucking different from randomscamsite.lol redirecting to fakeoffers.hurr redirecting to 419emergency.site ?
mircea_popescu: (and in other lulz : http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/akam ; now try and find their fucking annual reports, and when the link 404s think to yourself that hey, this is perfectly fine, after all it's nasdaq, a perfectly legitimate scamsite, because pantsuit says so! for ourdemocracy vorwarts!!!)
mircea_popescu: and that's about the whole story, really.
mircea_popescu: because no, as a point of republican ideology no tax is anything other than a salary.
mircea_popescu: Net Margin is what's left of the GM once all human costs have been substracted. this includes all salaries, ALL TAX, compliance, etcetera.
mircea_popescu: these are all gross approximations, of course, but not really THAT far off.
mircea_popescu: possibly something like 50% GM makes sense, at least at the level of precision contemplated here. it's not so far off to say that a) the lifetime of a box is a year ; b) the lifetime cost of a box is about 5k and c) there are no other capital goods in akamai.
mircea_popescu: Gross Margin is specifically what's left of revenue (aka GR) once you substract the capital costs. that's maintenance, amortization, scl.
mircea_popescu: so, this entity has Gross Receipts on the level of about 2.5bn, for simplicity.
mircea_popescu: anyway, let's briefly revisit the http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-16#1725733 akamai story to establish some points of republican accounting.
mircea_popescu: phf who the fuck is some tool named david know or have to say about "ruble" anyway
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo i have nfi, apparently the idiotreich by now imagines i have to make the case, not it.
phf: https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2017/10/16/the-russian-cryptoruble-story-whats-actually-happening-here/ Russian crypto currency with Russian cryptography
BingoBoingo: "You could now go to court and deny that it was you that signed somethingthere would be no way to prove it, because theoretically, anyone could have worked out your private key." << WTF Mate?
mircea_popescu: oh i see, "conspiracy theories" is it.
jurov: mod6: ben_vulpes: shall i renew therealbitcoin.org/com using foundation funds?
jurov: "The flaw resides in the Infineon-developed RSA Library version v1.02.013, specifically within an algorithm it implements for RSA primes generation. "
asciilifeform: relatedly, asciilifeform turned over a stone and saw a great many worms, none of them in any way remarkable.
mircea_popescu: and in the latest of dangers, http://trilema.com/2017/the-majority-of-things-are-build-through-eggpress/#comment-123185
BingoBoingo: ^ asciilifeform this suggests 100 Mbps may be eliciting the same response from the connectivity endowed as request for 1U
mircea_popescu: mod6 hey, you spend a year teaching goy chicks to make proper matzah balls, you're not gonna sit around and hope maybe one of the local tupi tribesmen managed to impale an edible iguana that evening.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and the hour is nearly come, t=-<1wk .
mod6: nice pics of the beach.
mircea_popescu: aand in other fucktoys, http://78.media.tumblr.com/57ec870fa72593989b7a1a67d6fd6453/tumblr_nlwodiHVw51u37bn1o1_500.gif
mircea_popescu: first they get some convicted criminal to steal some data and start a site, then they use it to prop their hallucinations re bitcoin and fiat, then they pretend it was all illegal, then they run off with it, then they start a few more, it's like watching housewives fuck/
mircea_popescu: i think the evolution of the usg reclaimation of their own buterin waterfals is well documented by now, it's always the same thing.
asciilifeform: but the 'omfg we factored some keyz' presumably had to wait for phuctor to go down
asciilifeform: the above item, will point out, is not news, was even iirc discussed here
asciilifeform: https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/conference/protected-files/security16_slides_svenda.pdf << the very dubious orig item. ( can skip straight to last pic )
asciilifeform: quite conceivably they simply lifted from phuctor.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: check this out, the 'vuln test' is... https://github.com/crocs-muni/roca/tree/master/roca/tests << spoiler: checks fp against enumerated badness
ben_vulpes: in other weak rsa key news: https://www.yubico.com/support/security-advisories/ysa-2017-01/
asciilifeform: shinohai: in some orcistans, post office dun even handle money, as such, or the orc staff will steal it. so gotta pay for ALL mail with... stamps
BingoBoingo: My the stamps
asciilifeform: to certain (limited, as observed by napoleon himself, 'can do whatever with bayonet, but not sit on it' extent -- the bayonet up the arse is incentive
mircea_popescu: in this perspective, the empire became an absolute necessity, topless Republique glorieuse y compris, once the literary salons ran their course.
mircea_popescu: if the merchant being "Stolen" from doesn't believe he could be a fieldmarchal's father one day, what sells him on it ?
mircea_popescu: well, so applying this to the french revolution point of interest -- you're going to end up with a lot of "kings are bad, mkay, notwithstanding monarchy is the only workable system" because... because how else is napoleon to pass legislation allowing pregnant women to eat anything off the market stalls and not be punished for it ?
asciilifeform: the inbred brahmins get the noyade and guillotine, as surely as california kindling catches fire
mircea_popescu: and only then etc.
mircea_popescu: both did the right thing. first, teardown of the nonsense, with a lot of "unnecessary" collateral damage -- except if it weren't damaged it'd have been way the fuck necssary to damage it.
asciilifeform: i didn't colour the revolutions, as error
mircea_popescu: a) that there was no direct route from imperial ranks to soviet ranks and b) that therefore the lenin moment is JUST AS necessary and "Correct" or how you call it as stalin's. there's no "error".
asciilifeform: culminating in brezhnev's re-introduction of the feldwebel
asciilifeform: most recently historically, consider lenin's 'rank-less' red army, and slowly growing back all of the ranks of imperial ru
mircea_popescu: there was also a that one.
mircea_popescu: there's no patching human culture.
mircea_popescu: anyway, to underscore : i don't mean "cultural degradation" in some kind of paseist "o woe, things used to be great". no. rather, things used to suck and it finally became obvious what the problem is exactly. and as luck usually has it in such contexts, first you gotta throw out all the babies with all the bathwaters, then draw new baths, make new babies...
asciilifeform: where on 1 hand mr turing has a point, and folx beat him for no particularly good reason; on other hand the civilization with ~no~ arbitrary rules, goes unglued.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform because in a large pile of people who did not perceive a problem with "women are dumb because they are women" a speck of "this is not so" emerged. this is altogether very much a http://trilema.com/2017/resplenduminous/ / luminous scenario.
mircea_popescu: and so hafta go through the whole mess to sort it out.
mircea_popescu: the ancient culture predicated on the ♂/♀ split had to be replaced with a more effectual eloi/moloch split.
mircea_popescu: and cultural degradation here means something very specific -- it is all brought about by the hajnal fault line.
asciilifeform: just of the ruling brahmins
mircea_popescu: because the size of the genetic universe of possibility / potential space is so entirely immense, all of european history wouild not have sufficed to perceptibly alter anything even if directed deliberately.
asciilifeform: i dun have hard proofs, but... it isn't inconceivable that, e.g., french rev & the consequences, happened when it did because of genetic degradation
mircea_popescu: the historical approach to this divide, proclaiming women dumb "by nature" and splitting the cake that way is evidently suboptimal and won't be revisited.
mircea_popescu: there ARE alternate sources of energy. there's no alternate source of intelligence. cunt is all there is.
mircea_popescu: an altogether different kind of fat burning.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-16 20:34 asciilifeform: rather why the particular shape, size, physically and otherwise, of people, changes very slowly ( geologically )
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-16#1725827 << in fact this is the very substance of the argument : because of the immense inertia involved, it is "safe" to have children spawned by the idiots. the large numbers of non-idiots or should i say not-specifically-selected-for-idiocy antecessors will slowly filter back out, so you get something for nothing.
mircea_popescu: the whole teracotta thing ?
asciilifeform: much more valuable 'in the wrapper', this candy.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-16 20:13 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's more of an intellectual thing. the difference between a concession and a partnership is described in http://trilema.com/2011/jaful-si-economia/
asciilifeform: upstack, i can't resist to point out that story in http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-16#1725769 with the gold mountain, is quite similar to the infamous chinese pyramids
asciilifeform: in asciilifeform's 'intelligent nsa' cosmography, it'd have to be 'and the white van pulled up and now we gotta get this d00d to unsheath his keysword..'
mircea_popescu: what's the expectation, that we'll leak key or what exactly.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i get these not uncommonly
a111: Logged on 2017-10-16 20:34 mircea_popescu: i'm not proposing you seriously entertain the model,
mircea_popescu: o hey, check that out! this was actual RST injection : my box received a rst "from" peer (185.30.166.38) whereas that peer simply saw me drop. in other words, the above conn loss was factually third party DoS.
asciilifeform: kanzure et al ( or their predecessor culture ) had some term for this, but i fughet what it was.
asciilifeform: the basic 'improve memory' device was the clay tablet, papyrus, etc -- everything after that, is variation on theme
mircea_popescu: i'm not proposing you seriously entertain the model,
asciilifeform: rather why the particular shape, size, physically and otherwise, of people, changes very slowly ( geologically )
mircea_popescu: and yet you believe that your memory could be scalarily improved, thereby scalarily leading to a gain of intelligence.
asciilifeform: the 'scalar sort' thing