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mircea_popescu: mike_c http://trilema.com/2013/noob-mp-or-how-it-all-began/ if you didn't see it.
mircea_popescu: mike_c i went there because commenters on my blog kept pestering me.
mircea_popescu: mike_c you know, i was originally not interested in bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel no fucking idea.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel well, the problem is i have nfi.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: Okay, so what are these terms exactly?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nobody can be lost quite like the king >> http://oglaf.com/legacy
mircea_popescu: !up gabriel_laddel
bitcoinpete: https://twitter.com/Jason_Pollock/status/488888685782237184 << kinda got a kick out of this imagining mccartney selling buffett btc for bitbet
bitcoinpete: mircea_popescu: lol you're going to end up with more listings than the nasdaq ;)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the ancient 'war' between 'engineer' and 'management' comes from the 'iconography' (believed by more or less all technical folks) of 'manager' as a kind of yacht-dwelling parasitic goblin on all that is good and bright.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: herr orlov was engineer of some description before 'bugged out'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: russian rockets are kept plugged in permanently. no idea re: america.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in such cases, one uses, e.g. Ir instead if Au
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is a concern if and only if the plug must cycle many times.
asciilifeform: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Autonetics_D-17.JPG << 'strategic' computer.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'strategic' - clearly, a gadget that wouldn't look out of place in intercontinental rocket's 'physics package.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'why do half of them have to be “tactical” ?' << 'tactical', in american marketingspeak, originally meant 'can bolt to a rifle.' then it turned into 'can, if really needed, be used as a brass knuckle.' now it means something like 'looks vaguely like anodized metal.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: very much related to flashlight article: http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2010/02/industrys-parting-gifts.html
mircea_popescu: mike_c the main challenge to economy, since forever, is scalbility.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it was a chicom die-on-pcb turd. no debug outputs; what was inside (other than clearly, a micro with state) only satan knows. so, i never learned.
danielpbarron: mike_c, I agree; my objection is going through traditional financial institutions to aquire Bitcoin; these channels can be frozen by governments
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: flashlight article << a decade or so ago, i had a flashlight that... crashed! when destroyed, it revealed a microcontroller, with eeprom... ☟︎
ThickAsThieves: mike_c right, that's where it gets scammy
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform http://trilema.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/mircea_popescu.jpg (solution)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not the normal way (buy some)... << this is because their actual goal is quite independent of bitcoin. rather, it is: to own people.
mircea_popescu: mike_c another rule is that you can't send people mail as single-image pdfs.
asciilifeform: http://www.edwardothorp.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/wearable_computer4.jpg
mircea_popescu: mike_c: i don't know. I guess I didn't feel like it fit the rest of his portfolio. << iirc he ended up with it as part of some other acquisition
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-07-2014#754108 << that one ? ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: too much like work.
mircea_popescu: benkay: ;;later tell mircea_popescu benkay eh what, you can tell. // this is to imply that actually discerning females on internet is hard? << yea.
mircea_popescu: mike_c no ?!
benkay: mike_c: <dub> http://thegeekiary.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/10514163_10153083113518569_5085828363159786149_o.jpg
mircea_popescu: mike_c it's the central bank, kinda its job to broadly value all sectors.
benkay: they're in charge of valuing the whole economy, mike_c
mircea_popescu: mike_c fucking clown wigs and everything ?
nubbins`: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shake_Hands_with_the_Devil_(book)
benkay: why is that surprising, mike_c ?
adrrr: french bomb : http://noisey.vice.com/fr/blog/time-bomb-explose-revolution-rap-francais?utm_source=vicefb
adrrr: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6v_AiUK5mk
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assbot: Massive attack_Protection - 07 - Eurochild - YouTube
Vexual: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYIeYKAb_Jk
Vexual: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-69_ncALA0
benkay: but excellent point. way to dilute the wot, mircea_popescu.
benkay: ;;later tell mircea_popescu benkay eh what, you can tell. // this is to imply that actually discerning females on internet is hard?
benkay: mircea_popescu: re: truffles?
cazalla: mircea_popescu, so i had this dream about you, in a lobby, it was eyes wide shut-esque except you wouldn't let me come upstairs where the women were but then you sent 2 down to me at the bar so i was content
cazalla: yo i heard you like #bitcoin-assets so we put mircea_popescu in your dreams so you can #bitcoin-assets while you sleep, no homo
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: In the comments you can see the new psyops angle, "The cruft was good! Mysterymeat Nourishes!"
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well, it was born knowing it would be the RNG. The problem is do the devs make shims or does Linuxen fix itself
mircea_popescu: mike_c: i like the split and raised ones << i've never used one of the splitsd
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 you know you can dictate.
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03: SetThreadContext is non-deterministically broken from XP x64 SP0 to Server 2008 R1 x64 SP2 <<< ahahahaha
mircea_popescu: Mats_cd03 but nobody uses skype anyways
BingoBoingo: !up Mats_cd03
BingoBoingo: !up Mats_cd03
BingoBoingo: mike_c: Occasionally
BingoBoingo: mike_c: A proper keyboard (portable machine or not) ought to have a Thinkpad style clit.
kakobrekla: http://webwit.nl/input/ibm_m15/m15-5.jpg
asciilifeform: mike_c: what makes a keyboard 'ergonomic' in your view ?
BingoBoingo: mike_c: It's 2014 already. Why are they censoring the keyboard's clit?
asciilifeform: mike_c: the recent 'model m' clones are based on lexmark's version. somewhat shoddier mechanically than original.
asciilifeform: Mats_cd03: the issue isn't whether one likes it, but whether any practical substitute (other than 'objdump' and 10-100x the time/sweat) exists.
asciilifeform: Mats_cd03: 'ida hexray' is the only one i've ever seen that was actually usable for anything practical.
BingoBoingo: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/07/15/yahoo_quarterly_earnings_plunging_ad_prices_pull_down_revenue.html
BingoBoingo: !up Mats_cd03
asciilifeform: mike_c: 'ibm model m' is indestructible, short of power tools
BingoBoingo: !up Mats_cd03
BingoBoingo: Mats_cd03: How is that going? Find anything that offers more relief yet?
asciilifeform: Mats_cd03: crapware authors went lazy ages ago. most use none - or standard - packers. standard packer -> standard unpacker.
BigBitz: interesting link, Mats_cd03.
Mats_cd03: also read this today http://www.hexeffect.com/virtual_deob.html discusses VM-based packers
dub: the real question, is it bongwater in Mats_cd03's laptop
asciilifeform: !up Mats_cd03
BingoBoingo: Mats_cd03: Not even perfection, merely "good enough" is a challenge in any endeavor
asciilifeform: Mats_cd03: not quite dead. just had to drive home.
benkay: y u no backup, Mats_cd03
benkay: !up Mats_cd03
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: That's a shortcut for the consumer. It's the opposite of a shortcut to produce. Doing the minimum is the right way to produce. Never mind we won't polish the burrs off the edges either.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: No, I'm just cutting the pipe and selling it. A dick fits, what is this thing where a dick needs to do more than fit in something to fuck it. I'm just taking a shortcut.
dub: mircea_popescu: works here
kakobrekla: mircea_popescu leave the bits you dont like? :)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: incidentally, it may not eve be necessary to capture a particular unit. just one of her 'sisters.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: betcha the tech won't read any of this.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i was hoping he'd figure it out, without you or i drawing the picture.
mircea_popescu: !up ducky_
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: comput von neumann of '0101010101'.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: von neumann of predictable bitstream is still predictable.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: yes. some people, somehow, think this adds 'entropy'
Rassah: mircea_popescu: Not realy. The reason I was hired is because they don't have time or patience for that
Rassah: Initially the idea was: Write a salt onto the stick. Then generate key = H(H(entropy_1) + salt) + H(H(entropy_2) + salt), and print all of [key, salt, H(e1), H(H(e1) + salt), H(e2), H(H(e2) + salt)]. (+ could be arithmetic addition or XOR; either should be fine.) The user can then verify exactly one of the outer hashes on an insecure computer, and can verify the additions by hand (literally, pen and paper, no computer)
mircea_popescu: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2aq7w0/psa_bitbet_holding_funds_past_bet_resolution_date/cixxunv kinda lulzy shit.
Rassah: mircea_popescu: No, the hardware design is finished. Changes are only in software. Initial method of creating keys is done, we are just adding software patches to add more and more entropy sources to this thing.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: somebody had to crap out the physical unit.
asciilifeform: Rassah, mircea_popescu: then one last question, for if/when he does. value of adjacent sram cells is correlated. what, if anything, was done about this? (my guess - nothing but the usual 'whitening'.)
CheckDavid: mircea_popescu: hi baby