ascii_field: ^ and this is just the ~publicly disclosed~ income
punkman: "The day after the breach was made public, OPM finalized a more than $20 million deal with Winvale Group to start notifying individuals "within 48 hours of award.""
ascii_field: meanwhile, http://cryptome.org/2015/06/cia-john-brennan-financial.pdf http://cryptome.org/2015/06/dni-james-clapper-financial.pdf << mircea_popescu tell me again how these buggers are 'poor'
punkman: they are gonna get paid of course
punkman: "Rather than immediately encrypt data, OPM plans to reduce the number of computer users with access to systems and require multistep login verifications, she said. OPM's fiscal 2016 request for congressional funding asks for an additional $21 million"
ascii_field: “When is OPM going to apologize to federal employees?”" << 'when the crayfish whistles on the mountain, and the fish in the sea begin to sing' (tm) (r) (ru)
assbot: OPM Will Soon Notify New Wave of Workers Their Data Was Hacked - Pay & Benefits - GovExec.com ... ( http://bit.ly/1GPhZj6 )
punkman: http://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2015/06/opm-will-soon-notify-new-wave-workers-their-data-was-hacked/115441/
assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 15:40:28; mircea_popescu: nah, all children are born with flat feet among numerous other diformities. some never grow out of it
ascii_field: the only fact ~i~ know is that the network hash sum does not even begin to be accounted for by even the most liberal estimate of miner machines publicly sold to date
ascii_field: me, how the fuck would i know
ascii_field: funkenstein_: mircea_popescu and the little birds who whisper in his ear say 'yes'
funkenstein_: and are they firing?
ascii_field: not to schmucks on the street
ascii_field: funkenstein_: they are out, but belong to usg & its antipodal counterparts
ascii_field: and you don't have the ones you might like, but solely the ones the chip came with from xilinx etc
funkenstein_: so the big guns aren't out yet
ascii_field: which is to say, they are all over the place and connected by the equivalent of very long wires
ascii_field: but it is still not a true asic, because the pieces are not movable
ascii_field: kakobrekla: 'hard copy fpga' has fixed metal, rather than sram LUTs for routing matrix. so slightly faster (and significantly cheaper to manufacture) than ordinary fpga
funkenstein_: "In your labyrinthine journey, [..] in the world of iron, learn to catch the thought behind the machine or it will swallow you."
kakobrekla: yeah just that the era of fpgas he meant was over purely because of economics
ascii_field: kakobrekla: at the very least, every single one of the ~publicly sold~ chips, afaik, fits this description as per the published specs.
ascii_field: (they are fpga with hardcoded metallization layer)
funkenstein_: wow, no wonder the era of fpga mining didn't last long
ascii_field: considering that to me, the ~whole fucking point~ of fpga is to get a computer which ~i and only i~ define
ascii_field: (of having to use the gui, every time you get a slightly variant chip, and of never coming remotely close to understanding wtf is in the black box)
ascii_field: (and only a paid-up, to the tune of 100K+ usd, or well-cracked, xilinx toolchain, will even talk to the $200-300 ones)
funkenstein_: so properly cracked turds will get you out of the extra charges for.. using the hardware you paid for?
ascii_field: price some of the larger xilinx chips
ascii_field: who said they didn't
ascii_field: funkenstein_: some of them - this too
funkenstein_: so, the turdchain phones home?
ascii_field: and if you want, e.g., a 100BaseT nic, or sdram controller, it has to be laid out mainly by hand using floor plan of the particular chip and explicit coordinates. which vendor can do, and you (user) cannot.
ascii_field: funkenstein_: the way it works is that there is literally no way to build a 'bitstream' (as the configs are called) for a chip without using vendor's turd toolchain
assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 17:32:11; ascii_field: (xilinx, altera, actel, etc. ~all~ make the bulk of their revenue by charging rent for 'properties' like 'the right to have a network card' in your fpga)
assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 16:01:16; mircea_popescu: and consequently this whole story is moot other than for the similarity with the past. it took the magical box allowing you to talk to people over the ethers a few decades to arrive starting in the 70s, or a few millenia to arrive starting pre caesar. in the interval, cellphones were mostly magic rings.
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-06-2015#1166292 << today we learn that mircea_popescu is actually an immortal (greek?) god and reasons in the timescale of immortal being
ascii_field: (homogeneous - per 'specificity of diddling' theorem)
ascii_field: and the folks who have notions that it is, demonstrate a total black-as-night unmarred by any light ignorance of the physical basics involved
ascii_field: (morons pulling their cocks in 'nanotech'-flavoured ways does NOT count as work)
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-06-2015#1166295 << the process to which the fool was referring IS NOT HAPPENING
assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 16:02:44; mircea_popescu: yes they understood that you can send communication over wires or over waves. but they did not understand what they were doing was "sending communication" in these terms, or in short they were speaking in prose but unaware of what prose is.
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-06-2015#1166294 << wtf - maxwell understood, and so well that he couldn't even be bothered to ~do~ it
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-06-2015#1166285 << it most assuredly is not. and on top of it, as soon as you're anywhere near done, they make a new and entirely incompatible one.
gribble: The operation succeeded.
ascii_field: (xilinx, altera, actel, etc. ~all~ make the bulk of their revenue by charging rent for 'properties' like 'the right to have a network card' in your fpga)
ascii_field: the entire thing, note, is built specifically around making this activity as unpleasant and expensive as possible.
ascii_field: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-06-2015#1166281 << everything is 'measurable.' but you have to be ~able to lay out the circuit physically~ rather than merely mathematically to get the guaranteed equal delays. as in, you have to have knowledge of ~all~ addressable part of the fpga.
thestringpuller: i don't see anything in the logs.
thestringpuller: has there been discussion here on BIP-100 yet?
mircea_popescu: yes they understood that you can send communication over wires or over waves. but they did not understand what they were doing was "sending communication" in these terms, or in short they were speaking in prose but unaware of what prose is.
mircea_popescu: now we understand that retrospectively, the chord in phones is not a requirement but an anachronism, and we expect everything be available as wired or wireless at our option. but the wired/wireless dichotomy was not even meaningful to bell, or marconi.
mircea_popescu: and consequently this whole story is moot other than for the similarity with the past. it took the magical box allowing you to talk to people over the ethers a few decades to arrive starting in the 70s, or a few millenia to arrive starting pre caesar. in the interval, cellphones were mostly magic rings.
mircea_popescu: yes, that so far is right. the thing it fails to account for is that roads create traffic, not the other way around. it's not need that creates advance, as the idiots writing schoolbooks claim. the other way around.
assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 13:42:52; asciilifeform: midnightmagic: meanwhile please go and 'nanofabricate atom by atom'... one mosfet. (it's been done! so what if you need a 'gigabuck' of gear to crap out an item which is worth a nanopenny...) then get back to us
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-06-2015#1165957 << this is you know, like saying that "printed matter powered education is nonsense, it costs more to write the infolios than an entire campus of ivy league's worth". or, for that matter, "it takes more work to program a sound card than it takes to think through all the problems humanity has thought through so far".
mircea_popescu: i am not for a moment arguing against the closed turdness approach ddram is wrapped in
assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 13:17:59; asciilifeform: you can pick up a textbook and write a dram controller for fpga from first principles - and it won't work. because, for starters, only a small number of output cells in the chip can function on both rising and falling edge of clock cycle (what 'ddr' means) and only xilinx's closed turd knows where they are in the routing fabric;
mircea_popescu: i didn't stomp all over their stupid faces those were different faces of different anon derps. this time it'll work!!!
mircea_popescu: meanwhile reddit iirc was rabidly "bitcoin must have endless blocks to be the only currency".
mircea_popescu: i thought we were the only ones left that actually believe there is a place for scrip like usd & the rest of the fiats, doing roughly the job of movie tickets and coffee coupons
mircea_popescu: These guys believe, without a trace of irony, that there will someday be no other currency than Bitcoin"
mircea_popescu: "qntra.net is a rabid bitcoin maximalist blog, run by one of the permanent fixtures in the #bitcoin-asshats tribe.
mircea_popescu: nah, all children are born with flat feet among numerous other diformities. some never grow out of it
mircea_popescu: (and the original reason high heels were invented. if the girl's properly heeled, you can't tell)
mircea_popescu: flat feet's just the sign of peasantish genetics.
midnightmagic: Notice the lack of foot arches. I thought that was a sign of a lack of exercise.
mircea_popescu: something like that. prolly phrased by original author more in the vein of "i jus dun care!11"
mircea_popescu: midnightmagic maybe it adds to the value proposition.
mircea_popescu: i know girly doing that number'd pretty much look hot regardless. but the straight me thinks it's rather disqualifying for a man.
asciilifeform: will guess that schmuck fell down, drunkenly, and was 'illustrated' after his clothes were stolen
kakobrekla: it did say 'permanent' on the marker.
mircea_popescu: yeah, from the californy.
asciilifeform: (and when magical fairy dust is sprinkled on planet so the 1000/minute cleaners do not move prices of anything at all)
kakobrekla: the golden ones ?
funkenstein_ is happy some of that time is spent teaching the kids in b-a
kakobrekla: your estimates are rather short.
kakobrekla: for the price of your life
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: it also matters ~what~ the 98% is spent doing
mats: somehow the 'we have a terrible business plan' has yet again transmogrified into the old 'omg the chinese are counterfeiting again' narrative
asciilifeform: kakobrekla: very easily. could, like 99.999% of the others, have this +plus+ no money
asciilifeform: also the gurl has valuable illiquid asset.
funkenstein_: and there's stephenson again today :D
asciilifeform: as it is, i fully expect to envy the '16yo-ish female in kabul
asciilifeform: at any rate, if the thread were about things that are ~likely to~ happen to me, vs 'what i'd like', it'd be much shorter and even more boring.
asciilifeform: idk if i'll pay. what'll i do if the kid refuses to pull? negrate him as i swing ?
asciilifeform: as pictured in the well-loved 'baroque cycle' by n. stephenson
funkenstein_: vpn is slow over there but works as you'd expect
mircea_popescu: nobody ever gave a shit. least of all the girly in discussion once she's 17.5
asciilifeform: which is why the whole thing is an acid trip
mircea_popescu: "oh in order to put up with what my mother puts up with i will want blabla"
mircea_popescu: the notion that future you asks past you anything at all is very 16yo-ish female in kabul sort of thought. it's not how it works.
asciilifeform: would have to stick to mathematics, probably. (can one even get unfiltered internet in shenzhen ?)
mircea_popescu: the worst dreams never end.
mircea_popescu: yes, the best dreams start with a twisted version of reality.
mircea_popescu: that's the exact problem in discussion here. you're freely mixing cartoons and footage, for a very lsd-looking example.
asciilifeform: answer: i can sit in the american jail now!
asciilifeform: why not i move to beijing straight to the jail?
asciilifeform: it's back to the 'living vs existing' thread.
asciilifeform: the given example was anything but random.
mircea_popescu: because if we're doing the entire "here's some random shit i came up with, do planning for it", might as well.
asciilifeform: but not without the entire orchestra
mircea_popescu: oh yeah, and while at it alf, compute the cost of raising ten children off three different women, also sight unseen.
mircea_popescu: ahhh, another 2. at this rate i'll be rich!
asciilifeform: funkenstein_: while you're at it, compute the cost of a 10km^2 opaque bubble for me to live in there.
funkenstein_: didi kuadi and others kicking uber ass in beijing
asciilifeform: (wrote hate mail, they 'gave it back' as shop credit. as if i have much desire for this service now)
asciilifeform: best part - they charged me five bux to 'cance;
asciilifeform: i filled a knapsack with books and didn't feel like trudging home in the 99% humidity
asciilifeform: so gaggle of 'dudebros' sits all in one 'cab' and rakes in the dough.
asciilifeform: i suspect that the iPnohe only checks that a chump has been 'picked up', but not delivered
jurov: but insisting that there is even no quality chocolate? what do the chinese rich eat, flavored vegetable oil?
asciilifeform: mats: glad that you mentioned this. because i did an experiment, and forgot to speak of it. actually tried to ride 'uber.' (did it once before, at an airport, and it sorta worked.) but this time the car approached, clearly saw me, and ... kept going. inside was a gaggle of college 'bros' all holding iPnohes.
jurov: guess you got typical usuan disease. freaks out at the thought of staying outside of The Standard Environment
kakobrekla: lets try the afternoon.
asciilifeform: can i get real (read: ru or identical) chocolate there? at what cost/gram ?
asciilifeform: where in shenzhen can i live without ~hearing smelling~ the locals?
jurov: and as for leisure, solitude, quiet, food.. you can find a fault with some of these things anywhere
jurov: they surely are doing things that need hard vacuum in shenzen. maybe even more than in wash dc
asciilifeform: how about the vacuum pump from earlier thread ?
asciilifeform: jurov: what does the leisure, solitude, quiet, and good eu-style food combo cost in shenzhen ?
asciilifeform: they - yes
jurov: people did relocate to shenzen and seem to be happy there without atomic dirigibles. how so?
jurov: that when i move there, will provide some basic information how to function
asciilifeform: (and what means 'not throw under the bus' ??)
jurov: also, i don't get how anyone in this age can *not* have some foreign acquaintances that one can be sure to not throw him under the bus
mats: folks regularly catch bullet for theft of much less than 1mn
mats: yes the executions are a big plus
asciilifeform: mats: at least they have public executions. i, for instance, am living in a tyrannical empire that doesn't even have fucking public executions to watch. picture that.
mats: i am not looking forward to the culture shock
asciilifeform: but might want to check with the cousins before buying ticket.
asciilifeform: mats: so possibly you have the 'seven-to-a-room' thing covered.
asciilifeform: mats: anybody waiting for you there ?
asciilifeform: (and before you say 'i am willing to live like mexican', note that for ~you personally~ it will cost 50x what it does for the native-born orc. because he has the extended family, willing to live seven-to-a-room with him without murder, and you don't.)
asciilifeform: the problems comes after.
assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 09:29:31; mats: the problem i'm faced with now is where to flee
asciilifeform: so soon the gears stop.
assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 09:10:49; mircea_popescu: only thing another hundred twerps does for you is more inane demands.
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-06-2015#1165778 << find us another way to amortize the cost of making so much as a z80
asciilifeform: they will get him to early grave.
asciilifeform: srsly, hitler oughta fire these fools
kakobrekla: could be the cam shy guy.
asciilifeform: (or where to point the grenade launcher)
asciilifeform: 'There is a discussion on FAA meetings about encrypting the ADS-B signal. By angering the authorities, we will only speed up this process.' << holy fuck the idiocy. i have idea! let's give usg brass cars without license plates ! that way no one will ~ever~ know where they are.
asciilifeform: because they will not deliver so much as the means for making a usable steel fork. and you can take this to the bank.
asciilifeform: you would have us believe that the idiot cult of technowankerous 'homework doers' will deliver salvation re: the 'ic in your kitchen' problem. and i will say that this is not a harmless misconception.
assbot: Logged on 07-02-2015 02:47:35; mircea_popescu: trinque i think the concern is to be approached on two lines, empirically. line 1) what % of queries constitute powerplays and b) what % of queries result in interesting education that a noob reading logs would benefit from.
punkman: midnightmagic: did you ever built a reprap by the way?
asciilifeform: midnightmagic: my observation was that there is a curiously large population of people who studiously avoid so much as dipping a toe into the prototype waters.
midnightmagic: I'm not doing any homework. I was just curious. People can get curious about things without actually sitting there for 12 months building prototypes.
asciilifeform: (last i saw, the 'cad' did not even do anything so basic as calculating bond strain energies. because atoms == legos, apparently.)
midnightmagic: turbomolecular pumps on ebay seem to range from $1,000 to $3,500. I have no idea which ones would be suitable for the vacuum chamber in a mother m-rap
asciilifeform: midnightmagic: do you know kanzure ? the two of you would get on very well, i think. he's another fella who likes 'doing homework.' wrote a 'nano cad', even. (because surely - somehow - this puts us closer to actually rearranging atoms with bare hands, right? or so goes the theory)
asciilifeform: if you have other sources, with experiments (done on something other than $maxint machinery, surplus or not) plz link...
asciilifeform: most - known even then.
midnightmagic: let's.. see.. hrm. According to the log about it, there was a device capable of a couple orders of magnitude better than 10-4 torr
asciilifeform: and often there are interesting hidden costs. for instance, i am somewhat limited in what surplus junk i can use on account of lacking 3-phase mains power
asciilifeform: midnightmagic: i'm an aficionado of university surplus junk myself. and will point out that, even without having to pay for shipping (absolute killer, but luckily i live near one) the actual price you pay, once you factor in the cost of (sometimes unobtainable) spare parts to replace broken/missing items - is often not far from 'car'
asciilifeform: midnightmagic: would be neat. where do i go to get a 10^-4-torr vacuum pump for less than the cost of new car ?
midnightmagic: the primary target is home-printed solar panelling.
asciilifeform: but so far all i see is... the apparatus described in linked www.
assbot: Logged on 02-06-2015 21:47:08; punkman: why do they register these and let them show up on flightradar24?
asciilifeform: midnightmagic: where is the evidence of any actual physical experiment by these folks ?
asciilifeform: this is precisely the kind of animal mircea_popescu wrote about - idiot 'millenials' who have never so much as carved a chess set with own hands, failing to distinguish elaborate 3d drawings from actual tech
midnightmagic: it's within human patience tolerance. x-rays are a natural side-effect of high-energy electron beams hitting metals. shielding is a major consideration in the design.
asciilifeform: also, very amusingly, there are a total of 3 sentences casually referring to xray shielding.
asciilifeform: i notice that all of the illustrations on http://reprap.org/wiki/MetalicaRap are 3d renderings ...
asciilifeform: *sputtering, rather than sintering
asciilifeform: midnightmagic: have you ever witnessed the operation and internals of even a very elementary 'nano' instrument such as electron microscope ?
punkman: the mendel was a big achievement?
midnightmagic: it, or something like it, will provide metal fab. at-home metal fab allows complex specialty tooling. complex specialty tooling will, eventually, allow home-fab. it is inevitable, much like the mendel was.
asciilifeform: midnightmagic: meanwhile please go and 'nanofabricate atom by atom'... one mosfet. (it's been done! so what if you need a 'gigabuck' of gear to crap out an item which is worth a nanopenny...) then get back to us
midnightmagic: metalicarap's coming. sooner or later, it'll arrive, and then it's just a matter of time to people being confident that from atomic structure on up, we can be sure that what we wanted is in fact what we have.
asciilifeform: i will not say with confidence that no one will ~ever~ make meaningful semiconductors in their kitchen or in the jungle. but i WILL say with confidence that no one will make meaningful semiconductors in their kitchen ~using things that have been made in today's kitchens.~
assbot: Logged on 13-06-2015 17:27:26; mircea_popescu: if you need anything that has to be made on something in the middle, make it now.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu's point about the 'excluded middle' ( http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=13-06-2015#1163457 << thread ) is valid, but it simply means that we are falling from skyscraper and trying to invent parachute on our way down.
asciilifeform: there would be no valid reason for any two units, regardless of ~when~ or ~where~ made, to be distinct in any way other than size and density.
asciilifeform: thing could even have a clear lid, like the old uv-erasable eeproms, for inspection with optical microscope (the fabric would be visibly homogeneous)
asciilifeform: a readily-available ~true~ fpga would be the greatest political advance in a century of electronic crud.
asciilifeform: you ~can~ sloppily 'bit-bang' a 10BaseT ethernet nic. but ~not~ sdram controller.
asciilifeform: sdram is the absolute worst case, because the difference between 'acceptable performance' and 'works at all, for any purpose' is slim
asciilifeform: the entire thing is cynically deliberate. notice how, e.g., xilinx boards, come with ethernet jack and magnetics? well, you can't actually ~use~ the ethernet without paying a per-unit license fee to the bastards
asciilifeform: but in reality, you are stuck using all kinds of pre-baked pieces (adders, shifters, ddr outputs, and the routing fabric per se) baked in there by vendor
asciilifeform: it gives the impression that you can actually turn any valid logical circuit into an imitation of something like slow 1980s silicon
asciilifeform: this, again, is only possible if you know the actual physical fabric (only xilix does)
asciilifeform: on top of this, all of the critical paths in the circuit must have approximately same propagation delay - or the thing ~won't work at all~
asciilifeform: you can pick up a textbook and write a dram controller for fpga from first principles - and it won't work. because, for starters, only a small number of output cells in the chip can function on both rising and falling edge of clock cycle (what 'ddr' means) and only xilinx's closed turd knows where they are in the routing fabric;
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-06-2015#1165915 << key detail: 'IP-Core : MIG V:3.6.1'. that's 'memory interface generator', xilinx's gui turd. it shits out code which is a mere wrapper on a closed-source gigantic steaming pile of shit. and the output is unique to a particular model and subtype of chip.
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cazalla: http://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/3a51q6/bitpay_falling_apart_sends_shockwaves_through_the/cs9ffoc lol top keks
funkenstein_: a lot of contentiouses there, but not a lot of content :)
assbot: If you label any new thing as "contentious" before a software vote can take place, that is attempted dictatorship. Theymos has just lost my support. : Bitcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1CdkZAi )
assbot: Logged on 17-06-2015 08:44:15; mats: chinese females are predictably holding out longer and raising their standards, but thats still a lot of extinct lines
funkenstein_: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-06-2015#1165728 <-- the policy mostly over already. lines could always or never go extinct, depending on how you choose to define them.
funkenstein_: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=17-06-2015#1165736 <-- I'm not sure about Shanghai but in Beijing they'll need to compete with massive population of russian girls
copypaste: "privacy of the ladies"
cazalla: free publicity btw, they named your site on tv heh
cazalla: not sure.. i read one about black dicks and some other weird shit, was a bit too far out there for me (sorta reminds me of the kid at school who never stfu about sex and knew far more than he should in all honesty)
cazalla: wikipedia it is.. "In Australia and New Zealand, usually pejorative or self-deprecating, for a woman of loose sexual morals, a bitch, slut, or prostitute. The term can also be used for a girlfriend of a surfie or bikie."
cazalla: the fuck..
gribble: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mole | mole. a really sexy animal that lives mainly underground. dad: ahh no, look at that lump in the lawn, we must have moles me: ooooo great! *runs out to molest ...
cazalla: agriculture class provided my first clasp of the titty
cazalla: i don't see the big deal tbh, australian school girls have always been huge moles
copypaste: because they dont; want people to find it so easily.
copypaste: i think they are attempting not to mention me and 8ch
copypaste: i suppose i'll never be headed to australia then
cazalla: i half expect to see your face on tv and in newspapers here in the next few days
copypaste: so they have to at least attempt parallel construction
copypaste: they do it
copypaste: well in the US at least
cazalla: data retention supposedly lasts 2 years but more likely forevar or until their hdds are full
copypaste: Hell, even that which stays within the country
copypaste: Did you know they readily admit to forcing ISPs to capture all data that leaves the country
cazalla: damn copypaste, this shit is gonna be all over the media here
mircea_popescu: things just went back to how they were before.
copypaste: (So I assume that was absorbed, or written off, or they hope to make it back somehow [somehow indeed])
copypaste: I converted what I was given by you and paid $250 to them already.
copypaste: but anyway mircea_popescu not sure why you're mad. We agreed to one month. The month ended, things went back to how they were before.
copypaste: i can read the important part :^)
copypaste: 10000 yen / month for something or other
copypaste: also regarding that ad, i assume the japanese just put up an ad network
cazalla: copypaste, did the AFP or any other coppers from down under contact you regarding those adelaide nude girl pics? (context - http://www.dailylife.com.au/dl-people/nude-photos-of-australian-women-shared-on-us-porn-site-20150617-ghpw5q.html)
mircea_popescu: there's yer ever-vaunted "social mobility", mats. the nonsensical premise that people should be in charge of their own life and make their own decisions. pure poison for everyone.
mircea_popescu: this is exactly like that one time when the alzheimer dude or w/e his name is wouldn't work with me then partnered up with keiser and started an ever-lulzy kickstarter that got together fiddy bucks and they're neither goinmg to ever mention again, because hey, internet, it's how it works.
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mircea_popescu: large country, they cvouldn't have fuxcked up all of it
mircea_popescu: the premise being that in that future of barely a thousand people, you don't really need names, and moreover, you can trivially ennumerate the list of everyone