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mircea_popescu: just as long as this
a) doesn't invalidate assumptions required by one in
a way operator couldn't verify and b) they are actually independent, as opposed to "i thought they were"
mircea_popescu: also asuming that
A USEFUL WAY TO COMPOSE is always available is nonsense. and certainly asuming that the obvious composition is correct.
mircea_popescu: crypto MAY compose usefully. assuming composition is
a solution is in itself braindamage.
mircea_popescu: it is not
a bad paper. it is also not
a bad thing to look for. unlike "cold fusion" and like "dark energy extraction", it has no actual merit for fundamental reasons.
BingoBoingo: Ah. I guess
a point could be made that if Obama's Hope and Change didn't fix the problem Bernie's isn't likely to either.
mircea_popescu: it is pointedly NOT
a scientific notion, for the record, not anymore than communism is ; and in no danger of ever becoming one, such as occasionally sf items did become.
BingoBoingo: As long as the email hasn't been used in spam, email isn't going to be the thing that makes or breaks
a comment's journey past the spam filter
assbot: Logged on 09-02-2016 17:53:11; asciilifeform: and irc frontend makes sense, thinkaboutit, nobody wants to use
a cruddy ui hacked up for the occasion, everyone already has something reasonable that is irctronic
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: What, guy can't spend 28 words on
a joke?
mircea_popescu: i suspek the only effectiveness of the lotioning is that it keeps them from doing stuff / touching the spot for
a while
phf: asciilifeform: it actually speaks
a subset of irc then?
PeterL: just needs
a bot here and listening to gossipd to transmit messages between platforms, right?
assbot: Ghostface Killah Says “Shithead" Martin Shkreli Should Release One-of-
a-Kind Wu-Tang Album | News | Pitchfork ... (
http://bit.ly/1Q5xSCj )
trinque: my setup was much like phf's, had
a few znc crashes/freezes and trashed the lot for weechat in
a tmux somewhere
BingoBoingo: jurov: How do you know that those bets aren't all from
a degenerate like myself who just wants betting action?
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i have
a *million* complaints against znc
ben_vulpes: phf: this means i have to maintain
a mental map for "emacs on my server" and "emacs on my desktop
kakobrekla: cant you elaborate it differently with
a subsequent comment?
kakobrekla: not
a single comment ever got removed and i dont think we will start now
ben_vulpes: phf: the best erc setup i've come up with is to run it through mosh in
a terminal
BingoBoingo: It's
a shame no one still connects to IRC by touching two wires together rhythmically
ben_vulpes: i motherfucking hate switching over to
a dark terminal after using
a light text editor
ben_vulpes: an appealing thing about irssi is that it has
a solarized light mode
ben_vulpes: i had
a pertinent question before the payroll people distracted me
assbot: Logged on 09-02-2016 17:14:13; ben_vulpes: "The cybercriminal reached out to Motherboard through an apparently compromised DOJ email account earlier last week, and claimed to have obtained the stolen data by compromising that account and then using it to access
a DOJ portal."
ben_vulpes: "The cybercriminal reached out to Motherboard through an apparently compromised DOJ email account earlier last week, and claimed to have obtained the stolen data by compromising that account and then using it to access
a DOJ portal."
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 09-02-2016 11:42:56; BingoBoingo: Spoiler alert, it was
a trap.
mircea_popescu: move to romania, run it from there ; small biz costs you
a few % in taxes and you get
a person to do all your filings + basic legal support for
a coupla hundred dollars/month.
ben_vulpes: all i want is
a form for hours and
a button that remits appropriately
BingoBoingo: Just deserts from the mines "With an ax rather than
a scalpel, Australia's federal science agency last week chopped off its climate research arm in
a decision that has stunned scientists and left employees dispirited. Why? Because the science is settled, there is no need for more basic research, the government says. No doubt many will experience
a case of schadenfreude as they see those who have long claimed "the science is settle
mircea_popescu: wait this hk boat / elbe thing was
a sexual innuendo item ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> where? antarctica ? << no, atomic diriglandia. it's
a wonderful place!
jurov: the last trb release is
a WRONG thing nao?
jurov: "nor is it clear that it is
a useful thing to do" but lxr must show it!!1 lmao.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: There's
a full range of them
BingoBoingo: <phf> i thought police carries those oversized maglites for the purpose of using them as batons in
a pinch << yes. For this 4, 5, or 6 D cell models
phf: i thought police carries those oversized maglites for the purpose of using them as batons in
a pinch
mircea_popescu: it took me
a while to buy one that wasn't uv-led powered.
mircea_popescu: they can't make
a plane or maintain the roads, but by god have you seen how superior their flashlights are over the orcs' ?
mircea_popescu: actually to risk going on
a limb : the us is an ex-industrial pwoerhouse, made pseudo-rich by uninspired finalcial arrangements. the degeneracy that necessarily came from that picked
a tiny topic and is making the glory of past days play out all over it. that topic is flashlights.
mircea_popescu: because there's
a humongo market of ... flashlights, of all things, in the us. and trying to invent value for it so the assburger'd males keep buying them
mircea_popescu: the task is : to compute
a) and b) for N2`, N3`` and all N4s.
mircea_popescu: G (
a, b, c, d, e, f, g) -> N1 (
a, b, c, d) / N1` (e) / N1`` (f, g) -> N2 (
a, c, d, e, f) / N2` (b, g) -> N3 (f, c) / N3` (
a, b, c) / N3`` (
a, d, f, g) -> N4 (
a) / N4` (b, c) / N4`` (
a, c, d, e) / N4``` (
a, f)
mircea_popescu: i could hash out
a more complex example if it may help, since this NOTATIONAL FORMALISM (see that alf!!!) actually solves the problem of saying graphs. something i wasn't going to do before not because you can't display them, but because im too lazy to draw em.
mircea_popescu: this is the counterposed thing. in this case, i would wish for N6 to know that
a) abc and b) c ; whereas for N4 that
a) abc and b)
a OR b and finally for N2 that
a) abc and b)
a Or B or C
mircea_popescu: what i said then phf was, i must be able to tell
a) which people in total contributed and b) on what sets of people does the present press depend.
mircea_popescu: of what ? no, it's not
a tie, is c running off with the count
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform consider this problem for
a moment if you will : have people
a, b and c ; have nodes as follows : G(
a,b,c) -> N1 (
a, b, c) -> N2 (
a, b, c) -> N3 (
a, b) / N3' (c) -> N4 (
a,b) / N4' (c) -> N5 (c) -> N6 (c).
assbot: Logged on 09-02-2016 15:16:19; ben_vulpes: press
a patch without hashes in the headers
mircea_popescu: but this is not really
a cogent consideration. as far as levels are concerned, this "current" one would be just qas much l1 as all the other direct-G descendants.
mircea_popescu: how would it be among "Current" leaves. we don't have
a notion of time.
mircea_popescu: i also confess to mentally having an imaginary pre-G as
a master node for all the various G's such as shiva's bitcoins v's etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform my idea of "level" was "all patches taking
a certain hash as input"
assbot: Logged on 09-02-2016 14:57:13; mircea_popescu: PeterL> or am I totally confused? <<
a patch can only be safely applied to its antecedent. two patches at the same level CAN NOT be both applied by definition.
mircea_popescu: what specifically would prevent me from later making
a non-alpha-sorting V ?
mircea_popescu: why should
a tool become
a means by which you may pretend to enact determinism out of absent such ?
PeterL: this morning we had
a bit of snow, I slid about 10 yards past the entrance to work, antilock brakes kicked in, had to shift to reverse and go back to turn into parking lot
ben_vulpes: i am
a barbarian though and it must be my fault somehow for expecting my tools to be robust