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mircea_popescu: though it'd seem they've learned their etherape lesson and are much more conservative on the fiat side. prolly will be more like doge than ethereum. anyway.
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder seems it has some chance to become the next usg-sponsored wanna-be bitcoin thingee. that's usually good for a ride, fed still has a lot of printolade to spread around.
mircea_popescu: "i wash sword in blood of enemies and dick in ass of their wives. what need has true man for water ?"
mircea_popescu: how this came to pass is anyone's guess, but the arabs had a reputation for engineeringly inept.
mircea_popescu: who knows. fact is romania had it made in the shade, exporting skilled workers + machined parts in exchange for straight out concessions. had its own oil field which it sucked with its own rigs, oil moved on its own boats to its own refineries
mircea_popescu: aha. hey, i'm a man of simple tastes. 120 tdw boat , dirigible... i always content myself with the very inaccessible.
mircea_popescu: before not caring about random fashion, one needn't even know it exists. there are really NO prerequisites to simply not including bad code, caring abotu stupid social conventions etc.
mircea_popescu: maybe, vaguely, we might resurect something later that people who are really emotionalyl invested in their youth not having been wasted will misinterpret as "we took it from google".
mircea_popescu: this is universally true. a lot of "work" was "put" into myspace. so ? nobody cares, nobody uses it. same is true of google, or of facebook.
mircea_popescu: they think they're important, fine. every teenager thinks himself important, and relevant to the world. the truth is none of them are either.
mircea_popescu: that's not it. just ... look, all this "work" that the prb derps think they're doing. it has no future. it isn't getting imported into bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: not really. i already cleanned it up ; exactly in the way the spunk left behind by the teens is cleanned.
mircea_popescu: all the boys are out in the forest jacking off, and all the girls are being mean to each other in circles of n-1
mircea_popescu: not even vaguely. the activity resembles final middle school camp.
mircea_popescu: but the bullshit koch does ; or blizzard does ; or app development or etc ain't it
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this isn't to say that there can't exist a market ; or that one can't write useful code.
mircea_popescu: the govt distributes largesse for this and for that, so the mouthbreathers can keep going.
mircea_popescu: programming is not an economic activity ; it has no value. it's a social activity, like clicking on lolpics or liking on facebook.
mircea_popescu: this is plowing with chickens. they work for a year at a time not for a two hour stretch ; then you got a business.
mircea_popescu: review the problems of running mines in the us cca 1800. dumbass minersd want to work a week and visit a brothel.
mircea_popescu: it's entirely a social-media thing. boys "program" exactly like the girls "are popular"
mircea_popescu: the reason they're not programmers is that there's no useful value in programming.
mircea_popescu: like a large sort of ant colony digesting leaves of denim
mircea_popescu: hundreds of ships load raw materials in china deliver product in brazil and back and forth
mircea_popescu: there's MANY flotillas of sad shoe makers / tailors etc.
mircea_popescu: but that's because living on the sea sucks, not because the ships suck.
mircea_popescu: flour also keeps ; esp at sea. ten tons will still only cost you a few thousand dollars, who cares.
mircea_popescu: it works better if you have half a dozen slavegirls with you ; buy ten tons of flour, have them make bread each day
mircea_popescu: they'll deliver. you just buy your sprat by the pellet rather than by the box as now. it keeps./
mircea_popescu: hey, i had them deliver 2 tons of water by hand ; the whole purchase was a few hundred bux.
mircea_popescu: you got a crane or two. get people to bring you supplies by boat.
mircea_popescu: if you buy a newish one at a fire sale/bankruptcy proceeding today ; you will die before it dies.
mircea_popescu: too expensive to drydock. cheaper to melt and make new one than "fix".
mircea_popescu: unlike the kickstarter lolrlov nonsense. they exist, and they float. nobody asks you to go from vancouver to huangzhou.
mircea_popescu: time to buy your ship if you're serious. this unique circumstance in human history will never repeat.
mircea_popescu: "And honesty's against all common sense: men must be knaves, 'tis in their own defence. Mankind's dishonest; if you think it fair among known cheats to play upon the square you'll be undone. Nor can weak truth your reputation save: the knaves will all agree to call you knave."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so basically they took the windows pill.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no i mean, i nthe context of keys. they're still the same damned thing, what "2"
mircea_popescu: is this what they call the police arresting the key people of their child porn ring ? "attacked by terrorists" ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform just making it plain for teh log readership.
mircea_popescu: because if we discover that say "thisfunction is used on 64 bits of input of which the first 44 are known" ; then we run the other 20, add the resulting nextprime etc add those into the 8ball and it's goodnight.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: considering we have millions of keys, and considering the sort of shenanigans we've seen currently, including werner koch's gpg subversion most recently ; it would not be inconceivable at this point if a good chunk - thousands, hundreds of thousands of keys can actually be factored once we figure out which exact 20, 30, whatever bits are actual entropy , and how the nextprime is chosen on the basis of that.
mircea_popescu: to be clear here : if the keys are generated out of 16 bits of entropy ; and if there are 65537 keys ; then necessarily there will be at least one weak pair, and in practice more than half ; all of which will be cheaply hacked apart by phuctor's method.
mircea_popescu: but at this point it wouldn't be much surprise if there were, honestly.
mircea_popescu: trinque his idea was that it's worth checking if there were ; not necessarily that there are.
mircea_popescu: yes, the people with shitty opsec are never a tiny fraction of any group ; even if we don't meet them often
mircea_popescu: trinque depends on setup ; sometimes nat people do this. gotta remember we're talking of a tiny fraction of the space here.
mircea_popescu: but they are derps because impotent, not because "mp hates them"
mircea_popescu: yes, it could have, at any point during the past year, been a significant way for the derps to contribute ; and very cheap for them.