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mircea_popescu: but anyway, the whole caste bullshit is specifically indian. it is
a cheap and simple solution to "what to do when confronted with multitudes and unwilling to think"
mircea_popescu: west point hasn't had
a worthy officer come out of it since before you were born.
mircea_popescu: officers with purchased commissions is not in any sense
a bad idea ~per se~. would you be lead by some schmuck fresh out of west point or by some dude who made and spent 10k btc to lead you ?
mircea_popescu: when they start with "don't say nigger to be civilised and don't go topless to go to heaven", they took
a step back. which means
a step east. they're less greek and more indian.
ascii_butugychag: anyway what i meant was, they have
a pedigreed white meat thing going
mircea_popescu: there's
a reason the nazis were regarded as barely better than the russians back in the day.
mircea_popescu: to this fucking day "security" in the us is "he knew your mother's maiden name so clearly he was you" "what if my mother was
a whore ?"
ascii_butugychag: my suspicion is that neither side has
a block or stream cipher of provable hardness
mircea_popescu: they're guarding their precious proprietary meat curtains. for what ? FOR
A GUY THAT DESERVES THEM DAMNIT
ascii_butugychag: mircea_popescu: maslennikov actually discusses at great length why 'GOST' cipher, which is
a cruddy knockoff of DES, was adopted
ascii_butugychag: btw if you read that article, my hypothesis was that the usg ciphers are specially built to fail in
a particular way.
ascii_butugychag: this'd be
a neato use for mircea_popescu's network of little birds, incidentally
ascii_butugychag: i always found it interesting that, after all of the $maxint spent on both sides of the ocean on symmetric crypto (see maslennikov's b00k, from the l0gz, say) we have - publicly - no more provably-hard symmetric crypto than
a hundred years ago
mircea_popescu: "This is interesting because nowhere do they address the central engineering issue -- that
a fixed p,q is not secure yet
a variable one requires another RNG to seed the RNG." << except the part where
a prng IS NOT
A RNG
ascii_butugychag: it is interesting, to me, how the derpwall of 'don't go there! dragons!' always has quite the same appearance, from
a mile away
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag incidentally, if you'll excuse the naive approach : couldn't in principle any p-and-q scheme be made to have
a mutating p-and-q ?
mircea_popescu: this is actually
a good call for wisdoms. what's the #b-
a symmetric cypher ?
ascii_butugychag: btw how come nobody uses blum-blum-shub, which provably reduces to quadratic residuosity hardness, as
a block cipher ?
ascii_butugychag: but i wanted to put this basic summary here, in case i get flattened by
a bus or whatnot tonight.
ascii_butugychag: but not quite ready to fire in anger yet, this is
a world-exposed sorta thing and needs to be 'measure 777 times, cut once'
ascii_butugychag: this gets fed into
a small proggy on your box, which now knows where to connect, and what the symmetric cipher key is
ascii_butugychag: you ask for
a pgptronic random turd,
a la assbot, it gets enciphered to your pubkey (if you are in l1)
trinque: could get the thing
a shorter domain
mircea_popescu: hey jurov phf ascii_butugychag everyone else with an interest : let's get
a format for bot-ml-etc interoperability ?
ascii_butugychag: why this situation can persist for more than
a few seconds, is
a question to be asked of shitoshi
mircea_popescu: trinque i dunno, jurov was saying something about email, but that seems silly. just allow the import of files and piss them out as
a json i guess ?
ascii_butugychag: picture if somehow the phlogiston theory had, by way of sheer accident, resulted in the building of
a sorta-working refrigerator.
ascii_butugychag: do you recall the photo of
a very peculiar boar that kakobrekla once posted ?
ascii_butugychag: the activities listed above are
a) actual work, that involves not sitting in
a climate-controlled chair all day b) really needs having been raised 'free range' chicken instead of cage-born
mircea_popescu: they have
a very narrow cage through which they might be fed.
mircea_popescu: which is how the entire world (except brazil) enjoys the benefits of refrigeration, even as there's maybe
a guy in
a thousand people that could explain how it actually works.
phf: nah, my graph theory is rusty, and figuring out the right algo is
a slow mind grinding process
mircea_popescu: ok so does anyone have
a ready link or fresh context in head re that discussion recently (~month) of that british game publisher that went under with 20mn investment ?
gribble: diametric was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 3 days, 15 hours, 41 minutes, and 4 seconds ago: <diametric> not sure that makes it
a trivial non-crime at that point.
gribble: artifexd was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 40 weeks, 5 days, 16 hours, 19 minutes, and 16 seconds ago: <artifexd> I'm comfortable calling it
a review. Not just of what it is but what it was and how it got to where it is.
mircea_popescu: the maggot language doesn't have
a word for "corpse", and certainly not one for the corpse's ex-marital status.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Nah, but mebbe the inspire the kid that did. 4 people left in Free Oregon lead by kid named Fry. Fry seems like he's staying
a while since FBI killed his friend.
mircea_popescu: PeterL neither of those are options.
a russian oregon alaska and washington,
a chinese california,
a mexican arizona nm and texas and
a european protectorate all the way to ohio is much more likely
mircea_popescu: this is the one bit us folk are too blinded by their own internal narcissus to grasp. you don't get to retry on your own as
a failed state. you get put under the management of your neighbours, because you suck. it happened to the indian tribes in the same geography before, and they were extinctified by it.
mircea_popescu: there will come
a major pass with china, probably in the next five years.
mircea_popescu: anyway. in my detached view, this presidency is important for purely exterior reasons. the us, as it is, is irrelevant to everyone, including itself. the future of the us is mostly determined by the management of the image of the us, which is well divorced from the us of today, and
a sort of future tendril of the us of 1970.
BingoBoingo: <PeterL> but Hillary has been "waiting her turn", so the party bosses are trying to get her in despite her being
a horrible monster << THis is how the GOP sank in 2008 with the lich, and 2012 with Rommit
mircea_popescu: PeterL you're not supposed to trust your ruler. you're supposed to feel threatened by them, i guess, or fear them, if you don't have
a readier way to express submission in your own mind.
mircea_popescu: the woman is intelligent and determined. certainly
a lot less stupid than it is average for the us. she's no bush nor any kind of redditobama.
mircea_popescu: ftr, i may be the only one left, but i don't think she's anything of
a monster.
PeterL: not that Sanders is much better of
a candidate
PeterL: but Hillary has been "waiting her turn", so the party bosses are trying to get her in despite her being
a horrible monster
mircea_popescu: i would expect there's
a lot of power brokering going on there.
PeterL: maybe we should make it easier and skip the voting and go straight to
a coin flip to decide the presidency?
BingoBoingo: PeterL yes. Hilary ended up turning
a vote tie into
a 6 delegate advantage late last night on... COIN FLIPS
BingoBoingo: Well, first they gotta make
a Jim Crow Grand Lightning Network on top of BitBetBet results.
BingoBoingo: In other news, the crap weather that lifted Rubio to
a third place victory in Iowa has made it here. At least it's too warm to freeze here... so far...
assbot: Logged on 02-02-2016 06:22:46; mod6: give these
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BingoBoingo: mats: That was
a disappointment. I was hoping to see someone store linux kernel as dead tree on shelves
assbot: Logged on 02-02-2016 05:08:04; mircea_popescu: so basically polarbeard here's the thing : i considered signing this, and i will consider signing the next version. as it is however i won't do that, because
a) not all errors have both flags set ; b) occasional ' in error message ; c) occasional losing
a valuable datapoint (such as the hash above) or missing on adding
a useful one (nStart).
punkman: "coming in at
a market cap $558 billion after jumping about 8% after the company reported its fourth-quarter earnings, and passing Apple, which sits at
a market cap of $535 billion."
mats: I haven't read this paper yet, so I may be recalling
a discussion of it
mod6: give these
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☟︎☟︎ BingoBoingo: Anyways, Trumps future is as
a sort of Alternative Pat Buchanan
BingoBoingo: ATM Sanders and Clinton are nearly tied in Iowa and could take
a while to sort out that contest
BingoBoingo: But if Trump keeps drawing that large
a chunk while Cruz and Rubio fight it out
a Brokered convention is still possible.
BingoBoingo: But Blizzard keeping Trumpets at home likely played
a part
mircea_popescu: these are both very nice things, and the good news is that it's much easier for you to become very useful than it is for alf to grow another arm. so don't take this as
a censure per se. does all that make sense ?