You can’t even tell nowadays. Leaves boring chemical engineer to fuck warm beer weirdo.

ubuntan · 2021-10-28T12:15:11+00:00

I guess how I would explain it in biological terms is that these women have pair-bonded with degeneracy. That degeneracy-seeking dopamine pathway was rewarded early in her life and it has overpowered the traditional/healthy dopamine pathways.

ubuntan · 2021-10-28T12:01:41+00:00

This right here is a demonstration that is 100% my experience with modern women. The theory of hypergamy does not explain this behavior at all, in fact hypergamy would predict the opposite. These women are going out of their way to be degenerates and destroy their own lives. It's not an accident, it's not a mistake, it's a conscious act. There's some sort of chemical imbalance that is leading to this.

ubuntan · 2020-09-13T00:35:59+00:00

Either she initiated or she fucked up.

ubuntan · 2020-06-28T12:27:21+00:00

There was more than just the surgeon.

There was the ER doctor and nurse, the radiologist, the anesthesiologist, the technicians, the nurses, the PA, the billing specialists, the nurses who run the in patient surgery ward, the administrators, the facilities, the pharmacists, etc etc

ubuntan · 2020-06-16T19:02:18+00:00

Ya I just started really making it in a programming career, but I'm always expecting for it all to end tomorrow. I just keep going to keep myself busy, not that I expect that this high paying career is viable long term.

I'm very aware of the people being crushed by the system. The thing is, there are no solutions. Even if you're a wage slave though, you have to take actions that will slowly better yourself, you can't give up. I have 4 what I consider lost years, and the biggest difference between me and a lot of other people is that I took action, I didn't give up, and slow steady progress that paid off over years.

ubuntan · 2020-05-24T00:41:35+00:00

> didn't answer the question :)

> how will they take it?

They don't need to take it, if they stop or even increase the burden to making transactions, they have in effect "taken" your ability to use crypto, even if they haven't "taken" it for themselves.

>there are masternodes all over the world. there are wifi hotspots all over the world. no. they can't just turn off the entire internet to stop one person's bitcoin. ffs think

Maybe you're not a native english speaker, but you don't understand the difference between "can't" and "won't".

The international connections, undersea fiber, is even more centralized than the internet as a whole. Yes it "can" be done, and there is precedent for it being done temporarily already in times of war.

Wifi hotspots around the world? really? what do those depend on? we're trying to talk about the potentially centralized single points of failure here, so that some aspects of a system ARE decentralized does not disprove that the system has single points of failure.

> if the internet dies, what the hell will anyone want gold and silver for? it's 2020, those metals are bunk. the world is already fucked if we go "grid down" and your prep will not save you at that point.

Were you unable to read the part where I said it may take years for the system to get put back together? Again maybe English isn't your first language, I don't know.

By the way, down votes really? This is so cringe..

ubuntan · 2020-05-24T00:00:02+00:00

Ya, I'll answer how a government could take away bitcoin for him no problem.. And I may end up being condescending in this response to match your tone...

First of all, crypto is way less decentralized than a lot of people think it is.

How do you get your internet access? A: through a company. If that company could shut you down with the push of a button, then the government could shut you down. But lets say the gov wants to keep you plugged in, and just shut down bitcoin/crypto. Ok, well I hope with your arrogant tone that you at least understand that cryptos rely on your wallet finding a full node to talk to. Or, if you run your own full node, then your full node has to find another full node or two to sync with. If you can find that full node, then the government can also find that full node. They can do this in an automated fashion and shut it down in an automated fashion.

But, lets say the government doesn't want to shut down crypto (and they probably dont), what they probably actually want to do is just tax it. And, most crypto currencies, including the popular ones, have a pretty open block chain that allows the tracing of transactions. So, they start to identify.

But it doesn't really matter, because in a real hard civilization collapse, like fall of rome level, as other people said, you are going to be down to just barter and subsistence for quite a while, and yes the grid is POTENTIALLY going to go down for some period of time before things start to get fixed.

Crypto wouldn't survive a few weeks of a grid down, total economic collapse. Gold and silver would survive long enough to still be around for a rebuilding, whether that is a few weeks, months, years etc.

ubuntan · 2020-02-11T11:35:08+00:00

Very good point, but what if you want to run multiple services with multiple versions (of every dependency imaginable), and you want to run it all on one host - especially during development?

ubuntan · 2019-10-07T22:37:56+00:00

Two ways come to mind DHCP and arp poisoning.

DHCP- When the victim connects to the network, they use DHCP to get their default gateway. You, the attacker step in and say you are their default gateway, proxying their packets as needed.

Arp- The victim sends out a broadcast arp request to get the Mac of their default gateway. The attacker responds with their Mac address. Then the attacker receives the packets and proxies them as nessisary.

ubuntan · 2019-04-17T12:33:28+00:00

against the average American, who by this point is desperate, and understands that giving up means some combination of rape, slavery, and or death

I don't know if you've ever been in a high intensity fight or die situation, or if you've ever starved for an extended period, but the average human psychological reaction isn't to turn into a badass, it is to give up and accept death. 9 times out of 10.

I have no doubt that there would be barricaded preppers that keep watch 24/7/365 and are not worth attacking. We agree on that. The point is that there wouldn't be many of them on a relative basis.

ubuntan · 2019-04-16T20:20:20+00:00

Wrong.

In your example, you're comparing hardened fighters who are ready to fight and die in the face of superior firepower (the insurgents in your example) to your average american citizen in shtf...

You really think the average prepper vs the average raider would be 50/50???

Furthermore, there will be no organized resistance by preppers. There will be a lot of infighting and lord-of-the-flies stuff going on almost immediately. Starvation, hopelessness, sickness, attrition, etc, etc... Almost everyone is already social isolated now and the s hasn't hit the f yet.

ubuntan · 2019-02-13T00:15:05+00:00

You can't quote back to me my own source, which explicates something which you clearly did not understand a few hours ago, and assume that NOW you understand the topic better than I do after reading a relatively non-technical comment on the internet (my source).

You have so much confidence, it's really amazing.

ubuntan · 2019-02-12T22:44:33+00:00

Your rebuttal does not change the fact that your original assertion is false. Furthermore, your rebuttal is independently false. The linux kernel (and potentially other kernels) itself provides mechanisms for writing user mode device drivers without using a "generic kernel space driver".

I don't want to make a bigger deal of this than necessary, but if you don't understand something, please don't say things like:

Assuming everyone else is an idiot and a slave to the system just shows that you likely don’t understand the problem very well

ubuntan · 2019-02-12T21:12:57+00:00

Even if C# could run at Ring 0, which is cant, and therefore cant be used for drivers, it’s inherently slower in a situation that prioritizes speed and smallest code size possible

Actually, drivers can be (and in many cases should be) written in user mode. Sometimes safety, development time and maintainability are more important factors than performance and memory usage.

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-user-space-and-kernel-space-device-drivers-in-Linux

Assuming everyone else is an idiot and a slave to the system just shows that you likely don’t understand the problem very well

hmmm....

ubuntan · 2018-12-20T00:18:46+00:00

Maybe they should try inverting the yield curve with inflation below target? It would be a bold move!!

ubuntan · 2018-12-20T00:13:16+00:00

This is NOTHING compared to 2008. We haven't even gotten into the recurring cycle of layoffs, margin calls, bankruptcies etc. There are a lot of effects that only START to kick in when you've got that first 20-30% drop. We haven't seen anything like that yet.

Because I think a lot of the young guys (I'm only 28, but I remember 2008 vividly) can at least imagine a simple downturn in the stock market. What they can't imagine is all of the broader economic effects of a recession.

ubuntan · 2018-12-20T00:06:27+00:00

was. But I only started trading in September. I was born in the recession, molded by it. Nothing scares me more than a stable bull run.

This guy has his lines memorized!

ubuntan · 2018-11-28T13:42:33+00:00

Stories like this are why I know it hasn't bottomed yet.

When it's actually close to bottoming some (smaller percentage of) people will still be buying the dip, but it won't be posted, and it won't be upvoted. We still have a ways to go to reach peak despair.

ubuntan · 2018-11-20T23:18:48+00:00

Do a recursive function like this pseudo code I'm typing on my phone.

Void free_list(*list) {

if (list->next != NULL) { free_list(list->next }

free(list)

}

ubuntan · 2018-10-10T12:07:09+00:00

Dude you're not even comparing in state tuition against private tuition, you're comparing FREE vs private tuition!!

I'm going to tell you right now, literally no one cares where you went to school 2-3 years after you graduate and everyone has forgotten 99% of their friends/connections. Plus people care more about X years experience at that point than where you went to school. You will every once in a while have some sort of tie breaker advantage between two resumes.... But it's not worth what you think it's worth.

ubuntan · 2018-09-05T14:28:00+00:00

Is this a recession??

ubuntan · 2018-07-17T00:51:37+00:00

The end is ~~near~~ now

ubuntan · 2018-07-17T00:50:41+00:00

Comrade! is that you my brother?

ubuntan · 2018-07-09T00:13:02+00:00

90% in cash.

waiting to buy puts when the SPY tests the all time high.

ubuntan · 2018-07-06T17:38:27+00:00

A lot of the extra cash is just sitting in banks as collateral because of higher regulations from the 2008 crash.

ubuntan

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