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mircea_popescu: of course it dun matter, it's a broken ikea replica of an engine.
mircea_popescu: the dispute around that event centers on "alf : he can't win mp: lol of course he will", ain't gonna transmute into an "alf:dun matter that he won".
mircea_popescu: anyway, i'm not entirely sure what the argument is, so i dunno.
mircea_popescu: god damned this black mirror shit is unwatchable. where the fuck do they find these dumb bitchez that can't act to save their life, it's like they're not even b list. netflix has invented the c-list. and who the fuck writes this inane crap, it's like they're trying for a reboot of the venerable twilight zone / tales from the crypt, except failing to reach that high.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes if you mean alf's q, the snippet in the logs yest, "oh, these ppl doing the nazi salute should stop"
mircea_popescu: fucktards are utterly unreadable by now, i'd rather peruse byzantine court poetry cca comnena.
mircea_popescu: "SULZBERGER: I thought maybe I’d start this off by asking if you have anything you would like to start this off with before we move to" aaaaand i lost interest.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> i had nfi that it is possible to 'sound fat' << very possible. low testosterone nasal male voice almost guaranteed to come from fatty.
mircea_popescu: anway - you can buy buenos aires buildings at judicial auction for a few mil. not like it's some sort of uber big deal.
mircea_popescu: this is how tv works in the third world (which more and more includes the us) : derp floats something "because why not".
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes it's altogether dubious. a) nobody wants to build in argentina atm, the market is dying ; b) it's as hamilton pointed out too little money, abuilding, wtf is a building ; c) the "journalist" this supposedly comes from has c1) no way of knowing and c2) a very good reason to lie, seeing how he's up to the eyeballs in debt which c2.1)is owed to a bunch of financially misplaced idiots who will go bankrupt if the caba r
mircea_popescu: imagine you know, a 200mn a piece, 500 ton bipedal battle tank
mircea_popescu: god knows us military stole everything else from georg lucas
mircea_popescu: really they should make one of those inept walking-tanks
mircea_popescu: Framedragger anyway, stalin or no stalin, the marxist "perspective" is exactly "a study of antarctica from the point of view of santa's factory"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes the white house experts have identified russian hackers behind the incident.
mircea_popescu: moreover not all fruits are blocking ; and some things are just good hygiene at low cost
mircea_popescu: it makes the db slightly larger, but it does solve a fundamental problem.
mircea_popescu: trinque it'd just be the index, you can keep precomputed field with anything you'd like right next to it.
mircea_popescu: he does have a point, and i think also the code to allow you to extract it from a pubkey if need be
mircea_popescu: trinque would you be capable to migrate to indexing by pubkey numeric value ?
mircea_popescu: yes well, to clean a room you gotta at some point stand on dirty floor.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you realise, deedbot searched me in its own copy of the gns. by fp.
mircea_popescu: all our uses, in deedbot, in voicing model, in wot, in v, all rely on the concept of fp as gns namespace.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no argument re it being broken. point is - it exists, and can't be trivially fucked for now, so until replacement is made, can be used.
mircea_popescu: no i wasn't about to send pubkeys to freeonlinehashes.foryou
mircea_popescu: i'm not making the argument you should. i'm just pointing out that it is the only way to be 100%.
mircea_popescu: because thatg's the only way you're guaranteed to not have the current gpg problem
mircea_popescu: this problem is harder than you realise, because eg, you don't know what publishing hash(privkey) leaks.
mircea_popescu: this ranks way up there in the top 10 machine humour incidents
mircea_popescu: think - currently deedbot administers a very narrow implementation of the gns, whereby if you claim to own X domain, it challenges you and if you pass it gives it to you.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: make it take fingerprints as they are for now, and can be extended later.
mircea_popescu: it's like being indiana jones, all the meaningless fragments snap together eventually.
mircea_popescu: note how neatly this clasps into the "causes, not purposes" thing, also.
mircea_popescu: now, the one hold-up here is that we've not yet settled on an universal-fingerprinting-function and we don't like how the koch-rsa fingerprinting works
mircea_popescu: then have name record on that = mircea popescu and freenode-nick record = mircea_popescu and blog = trilema.com and goodreads = whatever
mircea_popescu: technically i suppose the correct way for this to work would be for me to own 6160E1CAC8A3C52966FD76998A736F0E2FB7B452 which i do own because hey.
mircea_popescu: you know what'd happen if women had no legs ? all sidewalks would be covered in slime lines. but do you know what happened once plebs were taught to read ? all fucking code is covered in slime lines.
mircea_popescu: that's the thing with magic values : they are secreted by and attract like pheromones the imperial mind.
mircea_popescu: whole piece of shit is a repugnant midden of magic crap
mircea_popescu: so then deedbot could own goodreads and delegate mircea_popescu.goodreads to me.
mircea_popescu: gns is not dns ; it will hold any symbols you realise.