asciilifeform: which - whatddoyaknow - confirms that mircea_popescu was partly right, the turd broadcasts a random selection of mempool at all times...
a111: Logged on 2016-06-23 00:30 mircea_popescu: no, if they just throw everything they have randomly at everyone you get exponential chattering-up
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-23#1487613 << incidentally, this is incorrect. in the current scheme, node only broadcasts new-to-it tx. so after a tx propagates, it dampens, nothing exponential happens.
mircea_popescu: but absent that, the prb solution (where p stands for a poor man) is well...
mircea_popescu: no, if they just throw everything they have randomly at everyone you get exponential chattering-up
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the way to be rid of GB chatter is... to have moar nodez!!
mircea_popescu: one large driving factor of the low node count is exactly this ALL TO ALL nonsense scheme. if you have 1mb mempool and 100 nodes your chatter is 10gb. if you had 1k nodes your chatter would be 1tb.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-22#1487599 << for the record, a scheme to reduce chatter is unavoidable in the design.
mircea_popescu: trinque nah, the german chick was much too organised to pili.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger i kinda doubt it. there's really not much common root between me and teh esl derps.
shinohai: https://github.com/bitcoinxt/bitcoinxt/releases <<< LOL they are STILL publishing releases on this junk.
BingoBoingo: In other news: "SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE Crews were working to repair a gas line at Scott Air Force Base Wednesday. According to Scott officials, a contractor in the area of 2403 Oak Grove Circle flipped concrete material over that fell on a gas line and cracked it about 3 p.m. The cracked gas line was being repaired."
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: lel, part of the 'segregated witness' crud ?
a111: Logged on 2015-05-18 23:49 justJanne: let’s say it like this, not even the literal nazis had such a right-wing idea about society. And they are nazis.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-22 18:46 mircea_popescu: how THE FUCK do they get away with it. i mean, they still give the bums the sort of stuff bums misrepresenting tghemselves as "students" and "With potential!" get all over the world
BingoBoingo: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-22#1487373 << Because Etsy college is for making generation pass through expect the shit to be normal
a111: Logged on 2015-10-19 21:14 ascii_field: https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/216551-nypd-caught-using-x-ray-vans-to-search-the-public-refuses-court-order-to-release-details << l0l!
asciilifeform: so quite likely we know now ~what~ was under the parallel construct.
asciilifeform: (if anyone gave half a shit, it would be ~trivial~ to track their movements in real time from, e.g, toy chopper)
asciilifeform: the usual thing is stoolie tip.
asciilifeform: (iirc, decided that car was neither 'house' nor 'person' and therefore as searchable as they want)
asciilifeform: hey they canceled 4th amendment for cars in 1980s.
mircea_popescu: funny how there's not even the cursory attempt to bow to laws anymore. cracked shield -> searched car. problem ?
mircea_popescu: whereas apparently this is more like cocksure bois that really should be singing the castrato parts in classical italian operas.
mircea_popescu: of course, that's mostly because the fat ugly women composing 90% of that scene tend to write things on their sikrit livejournals.
mircea_popescu: the sheer amount of idiots pouring into trilema since the etherape is unmatched historically. not when the doge, not when the ripple, not when the mtgox, not when the any other thing. where the everloving fuck do they keep spawning from and when is their mother getting her god damned tubes tied already!
asciilifeform was in the closed beta, and l0lled when demo monkey refused to answer his questions
asciilifeform: it was laughed off the stage as soon as went public.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform sweet dreams are made of this, who am i to disagree. i own the world and its seven seas, every nigger's lookin for free dough...
asciilifeform: 'so you replaced mouthbreathing unskilled derps with robots that cost 1/10th?? hahaha, pay up, you owe the difference, what, you really thought you'd get to keep it??'
mircea_popescu: anyway, the yarvin thing has a point. "intelligent" interface is exactly like "perpetuum mobile"|
a111: Logged on 2016-06-21 01:13 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i found it especially entertaining how reddit folk (at least used to) believe the 'if only male birth control pill' thing would make any difference (if such thing existed, 'paternity' would simply get redefined, french style, to accomodate cuckoldry)
mircea_popescu: nor the amorous advances of goats.
phf: but the terminology is lacking, so it's not coming out right
phf: mircea_popescu: i was trying to describe the kind of thinking that goes into the "linux on desktop" drive
mircea_popescu: phf i'm not even sure what proper tools to talk about this in. so basically, you're discussing a sort of "nothing happened" for the mouthbreather population ?
mircea_popescu: there is no common ground.
mircea_popescu: whole thing's incredibly stupid. fuck you if i'm going to pay a red cent to the "state budget". once i make a factory, it'll assemble its own tanks and fucking shoot the lot of them derps.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: linked for the gold nugget: 'It also suggested the creation of a register for smart autonomous robots, which would link each one to funds established to cover its legal liabilities.' << dao!11111111
phf: there's a "mail client" which is a modality, can be inline, can be a popup, as long as everything's kept in same modality. "now i interact with electronic mail, what pray is this pdf document??"
asciilifeform: in other nyooz: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-robotics-lawmaking-idUSKCN0Z72AY << robot tax!1111
mircea_popescu: do you ever want a pdf inline in the mail client ?
mircea_popescu: oh, inline is the idea ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: from ui perspective, it means that it scrolls in the same window as if it were plain text. from an exploitation perspective, it means that pdf renderer run whether chumps wants it to or not, just by virtue of him reading the mailz
mircea_popescu: this "in the X" windows user concept always baffled me. nigga, these are pieces of paper, they don't have anyting IN them.
mircea_popescu: well no, cuz you left me in the dark here. wut is being discussed!
phf: i guess the two are in lockstep. you get pdf in your email, you save it to file, you open it with xpdf. a dwim equivalent is to open it, dwiw style, right in the mail client. can't do that with xpdf (actually you can but need to read specs for x11, yawn), so make xpdf into a library, embed the whole thing into client.
phf: but i think the library problem is separate from dwim problem, where retards find all these levers, and go "oh i can rube goldber level 1 to lever 12 so that, but i'm missing an http client library to do this so i'm just going to bring in libweb and everything will be peachy keen"
asciilifeform: re the evils of dwim, one of mr mold's few technical articles, from the old dayz, http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/07/wolfram-alpha-and-hubristic-user.html
phf: there's of course no xpdf compatible client for libpopper, but you have your choice of KDE4/GNOME10 monstrosities
asciilifeform: [insert one of the 7 or so threads we had re this here]
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i don't have this luxury. mathematics ~= pdf.
phf: which you see all over the linux ecosystem. xpdf was taken out the backyard and shot to be replaced by libpopper which pulls 10 libraries etc.
mircea_popescu: how exactly does unix force someone to write code that allocates heap on the basis of what user tells it to
asciilifeform: just like vermin are ~structurally~ baked into dirty kitchen, no matter who is the cook.
asciilifeform: the crapolade is attributable to individual вредители in all cases, but exists ~structurally~ because of c-machine and idiot unix.
mircea_popescu: what's the sovietism for this ? when derp gets pass from his job to do something stupid ?
phf: i think these are two parallel process though
mircea_popescu: there is absolutely no conceivable reason the derps responsible for libarchive should have been "taken out of production" in the first place.
mircea_popescu: phf how does this relate to "peasant found himself writing code for library other peasants imported for no reason" ?
phf: when i started using emacs there was an almost ideological aversion to DWIM in the community, instead of having say smart context "search" thing you'd have a dozen search-foo-in-bar combinations, and that was thought The Right Thing. emacs has long been dragged in the dwim direction by the usual suspects, but the vogue elsewhere is now dwiw, i.e. do what i want. as explicit/"want" gap gets bigger, you're going to have all kinds of attack vectors o
mircea_popescu: there was a .zip
mircea_popescu: there wasn't an .exe
Framedragger: "This means that to overflow the "unpack_streams" variable we need only have a 7-Zip file with the number of folders "numFolders" larger than 42 and then populate "numUnpackStreams" with sufficient values." heheh
mircea_popescu: "here's my order, here's your order, here's the court whatever".
asciilifeform: in other nyooz: http://blog.talosintel.com/2016/06/the-poisoned-archives.html << libarchive 0day
Framedragger: asciilifeform: btw lynx is able to load the large phuctor pages all proper and stuff :) not that this is unexpected, but still nice to know that the server-side stuff is *just fine* for sane clients.
mircea_popescu: fucking schmucks, listen to them go. "tmsr defeated our derpy attempt to bypass bitcoin so this means we get to regulate it"
mircea_popescu: the sec may humbly gorge on my penis.
mircea_popescu: ahahaha the government lol
thestringpuller: In Ether Huffing news >> "People need to understand this. Your individual ideological beliefs on blockchain tech need to take a backseat to pragmatism. If we don't reverse all of this, cleanly and quickly, the government will step in and complicate all of our lives indefinitely." "Oh, and for the non-ETH holders coming here for the drama - this will affect your coin too. If you think that the SEC will make a distinction between BTC or
mircea_popescu: so really, either iB or outright TRB will have to have an auth layer for nodes.
mircea_popescu: there's really no conceivable reason to have unauthenticating nodes in the first place.
trinque: asciilifeform: how far are we from the glorious c-s future?
mircea_popescu: as well as to the fortune teller who importantly prophesizes "things will occur and phenomena will happen"
mircea_popescu: both to the helicopter mom that importantly recommends you "be careful" (bitch - be careful IS ALWAUYS TRANSITIVE. if you don't specify the object i'ma slap you)
mircea_popescu: mno, that's not the right equivalency. the right equivalency is "you could just as well say dangerous day" means nothing.
mircea_popescu: this incidentally is a very interesting, at least to me, comment on the problems of code-in-society. because omfg, you're going to have implicit mark-up, really ? you gotta know what joke index <1k means ?
ascii_deadfiber: what's the door game ?
mircea_popescu: hanbot oh, the "door game is born" derp ?
ascii_deadfiber: ergo the cost.
ascii_deadfiber: not the cup.
ascii_deadfiber: yer payin' for the chair.
mircea_popescu: how THE FUCK do they get away with it. i mean, they still give the bums the sort of stuff bums misrepresenting tghemselves as "students" and "With potential!" get all over the world
mircea_popescu: they wanted THIRTY EIGHT PESOS for the thing. this is as much as it costs in the poshiest cafe i go to.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, i had a cup of coffee in the food court there. i was the only guy that bought coffee, everyone else was too busy with utterly revolting meat patties in wonderbread (SUCH an insult in argentina, this, that they'd eat the us crap) and fructose syrup drinks.
ascii_deadfiber: theorems ?
mircea_popescu: also, most of their proposals are "bla bla with materiales al costo", ie, they want to be supplied cheaper cardboard to fuck around with while sitting on the pavement like the bums that they are.
mircea_popescu: dude gtfo. these kids couldn't thread a wire if it saved them from bilateral amputation.
ascii_deadfiber: if not for them, could have actual boat-rockers
ascii_deadfiber: these heat sinks have a very real function tho
mircea_popescu: the pilis!
ascii_deadfiber: ah the pilis.
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber that is the site of the student political groups in the Etsy University of Buenos Aires.
mircea_popescu: the best part, of course "the so-called "careers" of derps with degrees here should somehow matter in society".
mircea_popescu: http://www.juventudinformada.com.ar/2012/10/18/conoce-a-las-agrupaciones-de-la-fadu/ << for the truly dedicated entomologists.
ascii_deadfiber: mircea_popescu: seems like the 'littoral combat ship' is 500-600mil each.
Framedragger: their use of encryption seems to be so that lazy competitors would be forced to use their own servers; because there's not really much in terms of authentication, see...
mircea_popescu: what the fuck.
Framedragger: "It also downloads firmware updates over http and doesn't appear to check signatures on them, so there's the potential for MITM attacks on the plug itself. The remote control server is on AWS unless your timezone is GMT+8, in which case it's in China."
ascii_deadfiber: there is no art in it.
ascii_deadfiber: (there was an after-hours reversing club thing)
ascii_deadfiber: Framedragger: we had these - iirc - at $rupturefarm
ascii_deadfiber: the torpedo itself, for one
ascii_deadfiber: more than just engines on the thing
ascii_deadfiber: it comes with some of caveats of the jet fighter tho.
ascii_deadfiber: and the libyan ones went somewhere also.
mircea_popescu: quite the kalash of its own, that thing, as it turns out.
mircea_popescu: of which there's 100s still unaccounted, ftr.
ascii_deadfiber: (of what did they make torpedo? out of old socks?)
mircea_popescu: locals shat their pants so bad had the us coast goard sail over from florida to protect them
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber they fired torpedoes off submarine at coast goard while i was there in CR.
ascii_deadfiber: it isn't in their traditional kit
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber so it was for fighting what, women from the 1950s household ? with the hairdo and the apron ?
mircea_popescu: how the everloving fuck is this a ship
mircea_popescu: "let's build a ship so that if anyone hits it with a rocket, like the smallest possible rocket, like a healthy 4th of july piece of firework, it splits right in half and sinks in five minutes"
ascii_deadfiber: but i expect the original will soon enough make its way to a museum
mircea_popescu: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/USS_Independence_LCS-2_at_pierce_%28cropped%29.jpg << this must be the worst "ship" i've ever seen.
mircea_popescu: holy shit on wheels, what fucking "performance enhancing" drugs must one be to design this shit omfg. have you SEEN these things ?
mircea_popescu: in principle nothing ever happened and etc etc, i think we all know the drill by now.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the story of ther "littoral combat ship" really should be told. derps wanted a sort of "automated gunship" but on water, to fight drug people. ended up with a ship that's entirely useless.
ascii_deadfiber: since the exchanges are shams anyway
ascii_deadfiber: incidentally - and i've not been keeping up with altsc4mz - but, is it necessarily the case that eth price was propped up by burning btc ?
ascii_deadfiber: and ~half - the continuation crapolade
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber see, the "LCS" officially only cost 80mn per annum. so like... they just fucked up the budget for five of them (iirc they only have 2 anyway) in one short week!
ascii_deadfiber: mircea_popescu: it was and is - hilariously - one of their few 'cultural universals'. ~everyone in usa has seen the film.
trinque: jurov: there, be as floppy as you want, puny human
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber they look like something from star wars, also. fucking ridiculous, how entirely inept, uncultivated and in general intellectually useless usians are.
ascii_deadfiber: some 'creative thinker' decided that a floating 'stealth bomber' would be just the thing.
mircea_popescu: the difference being that those scams go into buying harvard yachts ; whereas these losses go into buying isis spiked condoms./
mircea_popescu: they're 3 to 500mn underwater, depending what exact accounting standard you employ, and on other things. this may seem like a joke to you, but it's pretty fucking far from a joke to them. and the fact that they naively authorised more funds to try and buy their way out of it because mp said "rape"... well. it's not even cautered yet, still bleeding.
ascii_deadfiber: the f35 was pure embezzlement, the bloody ship - was actually built, expending strategic metals, labour, etc. of a whole pyramid army
ascii_deadfiber: (not even to mention the f35)
ascii_deadfiber: but not more than any number of their idiot 'own goals', e.g., the 'littoral combat ship'
mircea_popescu: no, it's just that if you write down the historical trade losses of usg agents to date, etherape figures way towards the top. this is more than, say, gaddafi ever managed.
ascii_deadfiber: is this something like 'liver transplant for a corpse' theorem ?
mircea_popescu: compare like things for the plox.
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber that bit of irrelevance is also not germane. possibly ms "stole the 9bn back", via treasury fiat printing. so ?
ascii_deadfiber: supposing that they 1) bought the coin 2) can't simply steal it back -- i can see it
mircea_popescu: the etherape easily figures in the top 50 most costly mistakes of usg agencies to date.
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber anyway, back to the topic of bleeding the usg : you understand that the largest loss in its history was ~10bn via MS on the subprime crap. this is already percents of that.
mircea_popescu: cuz it's the logs ?
ascii_deadfiber: i dun have any experience chewing broken glass either.
trinque: you want me to put a regex engine in the middle eh?
trinque: jurov: the fuck does that have to do with lisp
ascii_deadfiber: they look like this even before secondary sex traits
mircea_popescu: so catch them young enough ? i dunno...
ascii_deadfiber: i was in b-a, they all looked like actual people
mircea_popescu: mno. the difference between domesticated animal and animal domesticator is that the domesticated animal only hangs out with man whereas man hangs out with random animals.
mircea_popescu: i went to the fucking vagrant epicenter aka "design college" here.
mircea_popescu: ever more stuff for the "it never happened and hanno boeck did it anyway" machine.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-22 12:55 thestringpuller: the original dao is drained. but the attacker split into the whitehat child dao, so he can now start attacking
a111: Logged on 2016-06-22 12:52 ascii_deadfiber: and force the derps to have a blacklist weighing a GB, in their idiot fork
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-22#1486987 << think for a moment. what did the great general say ? "never interrupt something something" ?
mircea_popescu: they've been on a net outflow for years now.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-22#1486974 << sure they are. what, you think the great piracy days of the 2014s are still ongoing ?
a111: Logged on 2016-06-22 12:02 thestringpuller: ascii_deadfiber: would pop when we own them << that is true. one of us would also be addicted to some techno drug. don't that have "intellect enhancer" in neuromancer too?
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-22#1486970 << you know, the proposition that drugs enhance the mind is not so unlikely from the proposition that hanging polished stones of various colors, dead parrots and other detritus from the weights of a grandfather clock improve its timekeeping accuracy.
mircea_popescu: anyway. if you're not too invested in current sig, making new one treating it better is certainly the golden road.
gernika: mircea_popescu: jurov's suggestion was to declare the thing invalid for any use case in a deed. It's not clear to me what good that would do.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-22 11:58 ascii_deadfiber: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-22#1486876 << as late as 18th c. there was 'everybody goes wherever', no ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber the trailer park
mircea_popescu: gernika how'd a retraction work, you know ? think of the dao!
ascii_deadfiber: they would sooner think of burning the north pole, at least they can picture it on the map.
ascii_deadfiber: this would be perhaps why the 'blacks burn black streets' thing.
ascii_deadfiber: they do not go to any of the same places, the roads are arranged such that you will never glimpse it, etc.
ascii_deadfiber: but i have some clues. homo usaticus is veeery well-bred for parochialism. easily compartmented. i learned recently that there is a trailer park 20min away from where i live. but i have never once seen it, nor any of the people in it!
mircea_popescu: sounds pretty fragile, a thing of the 80s
ascii_deadfiber: almost as if they had force field generator.
ascii_deadfiber: they have 'black' streets with multiple condemned row houses and regular corpse removal calls, and perhaps 50m away there is 'white' street with $2mil houses.
ben_vulpes: current enclave is not particularly monied. there is a trailer park less than a quarter mile away.
ben_vulpes: there are myriad small children running around off leash in my neighborhood.
mircea_popescu: depends, what's legal and illegal in the states varies a lot by where you live, the color of your skin, whether you're married to one woman or just live with half a dozen etc.
mircea_popescu: well, except if the kid's black.
diana_coman: I think it might even be illegal in the US if I'm not mistaking? (kid alone in the street coming/going to school)
mircea_popescu: of course i've not seen any kids with the threaded key around neck here yet.
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber actually, recall the ru keys ? lol.
mircea_popescu: possibly made by the exact same machines, too, i routinely find ancient euro machinery at work here.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman the little bitches here are whining that "costs - by the sky, presupuestos (ie, "conditii"), under the floors". you should see the fucking place, i nearly wept for 1970s nostalgia.
diana_coman: mircea_popescu> lol. "on the plus side, i have my own kitchen. on the minus side, let's go eat out." <- that's the full story of uni dorms really
diana_coman: no door to push for the bathroom, lol
diana_coman: no, in the room!
diana_coman: I take the carpet away to discover that they had put it on top of all the bits and pieces of walls and whatnot they had gotten down to change the window frames
diana_coman: oh, and on the first day after the renovation thing I get into the room by pushing on the door with all my might and then I notice that the floor is bulging all over the place
ascii_deadfiber: but they would have 1 bathroom per 2 rooms there, and railway-style doors with 'semaphore' lock
mircea_popescu: lol. "on the plus side, i have my own kitchen. on the minus side, let's go eat out."
ascii_deadfiber: this existed in my uni, in a few of the houses
mircea_popescu: ^ the "taken by surprise" is a term of art :D
diana_coman: we even lived at some point without a toilet door for about 2-3 months (they were renovating the faculty dorm building and somehow the start of the uni year had taken them by surprise) but there would have been a riot if there was no net for 1 day
ascii_deadfiber: net pipe situation in usa is astonishing. when i was at $rupturefarm... this was a 'beltway bandit', usg contracting shop with princely budget, building had gilded doorknobs and other nonsense, but net was 'comcast' gas modem.
diana_coman: ascii_deadfiber> (heat in the winter, water, toilets, etc. - failed. net - never.) <- same in my uni dorms for the very simple reason that the network was made and maintained by us, students living there
ascii_deadfiber: (heat in the winter, water, toilets, etc. - failed. net - never.)
ascii_deadfiber: incidentally, when i lived in uni dorm the net pipe rocked and never failed.
mircea_popescu: heck, it's how everyone did in the 50s
mircea_popescu: maybe tomorrow municipality decides there's too many people and you have to share living quarters, like the NY derps occasionally decide people gotta share cabs.
ascii_deadfiber: i'd bridge the 2 lans and avoid the ascii_misc_rubbish gymnastics but will need mechanism to switch off zoolag so as not to exhaust the gsm bw quota
ascii_deadfiber: as it is, i'm sitting on the gsm modem fallback.
ascii_deadfiber: another ru fella used to live here.
ben_vulpes: https://www.reddit.com/r/Portland/comments/4oeg4s/what_the_hell_is_going_on_in_the_colombia_river/ << local cops too busy with Pirate Island
mircea_popescu: well, this is the true problem of political decay : society decays too, and in this precise manner. what used to be an ideologically-mediated disconnect between action and representation ("if you see a fire don't jump into it, call the FD, it's better that way) becomes a fully separated disconnect, mediated by nothing.
ascii_deadfiber: iirc maryland state road law doesn't even require it, other than on federal highway
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber i was thinking about this too. so now we're going to saddle him with protecting the idiots. what is this, minidao ?
mircea_popescu: they can't even signal turns. NOT for any other reason than THIS. they have no relation between action and representation whatsoever.
mircea_popescu: argentines are entirely unrelated, there is NO relation between what they hear/say and what they do.
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber well, the muricans are behaving stupidly, yes, but at least there's some relation, however contorted out of shape, between ear and head.
mircea_popescu: jurov there's no such thing as a joke omg!
mircea_popescu: ascii_deadfiber so between a misbehaving slavegirl and an idiot slavegirl your preference's for the idiot ?
mircea_popescu: well, so far they have enough trouble trying to track bitcoin.
a111: Logged on 2016-03-28 15:41 asciilifeform: y'know, as a boy, i was playing with other boyz in the yard and mentioned съезд кпсс , and they laughed. i learned lesson - for life.
thestringpuller: There will be a lot of butthurt during the halvening. The halvening may also mark the destruction Buterin's waterfall (in this incarnation).
thestringpuller: All the attacker has to do is take a very fine pin and pop the balloon at any time.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller history is not a thing, they got social sciences to make it all right!
a111: Logged on 2016-06-22 16:00 mircea_popescu: consequently, the troop that got fucked (mit) is in favour of "defend this perimeter at all costs!111" attitude. whereas the rest of them (ie, cornell, stanford, etc etc) are more of a "this perimeter is not defensible, retreat and create a new one".
thestringpuller: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-22#1487034 << both options will result in heavy casualties. i think this is what the attacker wants. Everytime he makes a move on the chess board the price hits massive volatility. Now the bulls are emotional and pumping the price like back in early 2013 when MtGox became a victim of its own success and you warned everyone to stop buying.
ascii_deadfiber: 'spoodje of my father' or whatnot.
ascii_deadfiber: solely from this description, i have actually more respect for these folk than for the americans, who obsess over their muppets
ascii_deadfiber: they had selection of N idiots to vote for, doesn't mean they want to read their spew ?
mircea_popescu: because they voted for it ?
ascii_deadfiber: why would they add a derpy politico on twatter ?
mircea_popescu: this, as the foreign women stuck helping me out here readily confirm, is just about representative of the derpitude of the local mind.
mircea_popescu: out of an estimated 30 to 40k twentysomethings THAT VOTED for this entity, a little over 1% BOTHERED TO FOLLOW IT ON TWITTER. notwithstanding that ALL THEY EVER DO is fuck around on their phones.
mircea_popescu: these are the people with the "a pili la indigna la pobreza" bullshit that i mocked. more importantly, they also have a twitter handle, which they promote insistently.