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mircea_popescu: iirc i have
a "why you don't want to chain hashes" thing somewhere.
ascii_field: all that would be required is (yes, open problem)
a particular kind of aes boojum.
mircea_popescu: but yes, automated security and suicide share
a flavour.
mircea_popescu: kinda why the issuie is an elephant in room : we (i) dun really wanna go into it because it's such
a bitch to manage and creeping featuritis 5 ways to sunday
mircea_popescu: no, but if the number reads "4" you don't need to be shown the deed with number 3 to know 4 is
a valid number.
jurov: thus, you have to create
a collision to forge valid 3 later
ascii_field: but what you actually decrypted with rsa was
a random blob
mircea_popescu: ascii_field it includes
a plaintext field for this reason.
mircea_popescu: otherwise you get
a disaster of commons situation where 5k services are stuck doing things because you were bored one evening. that might work for
a woman's book club\
ascii_field: the flip side of this is that civil-death-by-dint-of-key-compromise will become
a thing.
nubbins`: the wisdom of buying
a private key is left as an exercise to the reader
ascii_field: because 1) he would have to send
a shuttle to his orbital station to swap out the ROM with the old key 2) people could sell mpex accounts!!111111
mircea_popescu: jurov what's wrong with
a deed saying "this is my new keyt" ?
ascii_field: jurov: in this scheme, you can 'blow'
a key when it is time, by churning through its remaining shots
mircea_popescu: jurov because the date at which
a message was signed is not verifiable.
assbot: Logged on 14-05-2015 21:32:19; mircea_popescu: if you can upgrade your key for free, you don't have to pay mpex, you can just find someone with
a key they don't want to use anymore and they can "upgrade" theirs to yours.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Mummer is
a kinda Mardi Gras thing
BingoBoingo: "I needed to be somewhere by 6 p.m., and all of the active chargers were full. I couldn't plug in all day," he said. "There was
a Volt that appeared to be finished charging, so I unplugged it so I could get
a half-hour boost. The Volt isn't pure electric -- it also has
a gasoline engine. The next day, I learned that the Volt owner was furious, and he sent out this email blast saying that I stole his charge. It was awful."
ascii_field: BingoBoingo: i almost expect there to appear some idiot rob-peter-pay-paul scheme where plebes' petrol cars have to spin wheels on
a treadmill to charge some eloi's 'tesla', in lieu of parking fee, or the like
ascii_field: (everyone with even
a passing interest in mnemonics, at least in the english world, knows this one)
assbot: The news wants to do
a story on the $500 computer Bitcoin lock hack. Does anyone know anyone affected by this? : Bitcoin ... (
http://bit.ly/1G24DlG )
ascii_field: same site also hosts marvels like '
A New Block Size Increase BIP is Planned for the ‘Rough Consensus’ from Montreal' and 'The Josh Garza Interview: Organized Crime, Threats and Is He In America?'
shinohai: "It should be noted that Longtime Bitcoin Entrepreneur Mircea Popescu also shared his own account of Bitcoin adoption in Argentina roughly
a year ago. His full teardown of the idea that Bitcoin is taking off in Argentina can be read on his blog."
shinohai: mircea_popescu gets mentioned for
a year-old article?
mircea_popescu: "You might think that the rage is the spark for
a transformation of America,
a full scale Dagny Taggart meltdown or Bolshevik revolution, depending on your hat. That's not how it works. If this is narcissism, then its purpose is protecting identity, defending against change. Doesn't matter what side you think you're on, unless you are unplugged you are for the status quo."
ascii_field: would this be something like
a 1-man version of human wave attack?
mircea_popescu: it's
a fruit off the same bizarro tree of their sexuality.
mircea_popescu: but for the record, this "perverse pleasure" is strictly
a ustardian thing.
mircea_popescu: e is in your living room, eyeballing the nice things in your home. If it is
a fact that you will inevitably give him the money, is it easier to for you to pair it with your venom or your sympathy? Though it's enraging, there is
a perverse pleasure in giving that bastard the money. It tells you that you showed him that you are better than him."
mircea_popescu: "If this seems implausible to you, which it must-- that's exactly the point of it-- consider the following extreme analogy, which surprisingly will be easier to understand, which is also the whole point: Say your father raped you repeatedly for
a decade. Hold on, slow down, it gets worse: now you're 40, and he shows up asking you for $2400 because, and I quote, "you have
a responsibility to take care of me." There h
ascii_field: any other policy, not my place, I am pointing out that doing it the way it's done protects the 1% by letting the Aspirational 14%-- who crave recognition and are easily identifiable and hatable because they are poseurs, just of
a different kind-- act as human shields. They take the bullets, the unknown mega-rich take tinted window rides to the Hamptons.'
ascii_field: 'Here's the other side's example: when they talk about raising taxes on the rich, why do they pick
a "low" point and push it higher? Should the highest rates be at $250k/yr? $300k? Another way of doing it, which is precisely why they cannot do it, is start at the top and move down. "We need $1T. Ok, top five guys pay 90%. Not enough? How about top ten guys pay 90%. Not enough? Top...." I'm not advocating this or
mircea_popescu: " Is there
a natural economic equilibrium price where, say,
a U Chicago grad can do no economically productive work at all but still be paid to use Instagram? Let me be explicit: my question is not should we do this, my question is that since this is precisely what's happening already, is it sustainable? What is the cost? I don't have to run the numbers, someone already has: it's $150/mo for
a college grads, i.e. t
mircea_popescu: for that matter, i can make
a summary statement of calculus that reads exactly like timecube for the first half. after which it starts falling into place.
mircea_popescu: in so being, they also become
a descriptor of your worth as
a being. there's no good reason to pick any set nor
a good method to find out which to pick.
mircea_popescu: they ARE equivalent.
a picture of
a car IS equivalent to
a picture of
a slut even if
a car and
a slut are not equivalent. axioms are just that, axioms. arbitrary statements for no reason with no cause.
mircea_popescu: why do i look at
a woman's ass ? ask me that, go in the corner on knees on rice.
ascii_field: (want
a set of tyres? have
a good phriend)
mircea_popescu: otherwise derps will go right on into the swamp of mechanised trust / resource allocation / doom on
a stick.
mircea_popescu: incidentallty, this is why "corruption" aka elite networks are both
a needed as well as an efficient control on capitalism.
phf: "how do i put it in the terms you understand? an apartment for $300
a month. -- whoa! how do i get that? -- sure, so 5 apartments in this building, 7 year contract, i'll give you
a 25% discount, that'll be $94.5k. my secretary will give your secretary ach routing details."
assbot: Logged on 12-10-2015 15:36:41; mircea_popescu: (thing is amusingly reminescent of how various people keep asking me what i pay in rent and expect
a number. as if that's how it fucking works, somehow.)
mircea_popescu: s, but
a picture of
a baby isn't more important than
a picture of
a car. "Yeah, but--" I know. Logic is mean. "
mircea_popescu: " I'll grant that there is some level of bonding that occurs between women over baby pictures, worth exploring later, but not for men: men will only (and rarely) show photos of their children doing something, the activity is what represents the kid as kid and them as
a parent. Showing
a man
a baby picture is equivalent to showing
a woman
a picture of his car. "
A #baby is more important than
a car, dontcha think?" Ye
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: how is rent not
a scalar?
mircea_popescu: fucking ballas. he's like this crazy drug addled chick you knew when you were
a teen and STILL catch up with occasionally because hot damn...
mircea_popescu: "However, not all women are the target demo of Randi's lip synching, the CEO of General Dynamics is
a woman, I think she has
a higher security clearance than the entire Senate, and I know for
a fact she builds alien spaceships, why not interview her about how she uses social media to promote her brand and make connections and break ceilings? Because there's no Like button for hard work or triple integrals, which is do
mircea_popescu: (thing is amusingly reminescent of how various people keep asking me what i pay in rent and expect
a number. as if that's how it fucking works, somehow.)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "The final piece of the puzzle is
a bonkers fiscal environment driving capital misallocation on
a scale that tiny shot-pulling brains simply cannot wrap themselves around. Take Adam, Bill, and Charlie: three young men who all attended Harvard together, and went into finance seperately."
mircea_popescu: it's
a european festival thing with ancient tradition, if you will.
assbot: Logged on 12-10-2015 06:35:13; pete_dushenski: "sham ceremonies offer unparalleled chances to meet new potential partners. “It’s easier to meet someone at
a fake wedding,” says Boniface. “I’d walk up and introduce myself as
a cousin of the groom, and the girls immediately fell into their role. It’s like
a game everyone joins in.”" << no es un pais pobre, es un pais de jugadores !
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-10-2015#1296821 << that's not the problem, i don't need you to let me in. the problem is that you don't have the means to distinguish between one "humanities" and another humanities. that's the fucking problem. you can sort out
a bad engineer in all of five minutes, just ask pointed questions.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: i forgot what the one is where he fucks
a woman's twennysomething daughter and then ends up marring the woman.
mircea_popescu: tho he does
a lot of these "actual old/wounded male interacting with fucktarded us women" things.
assbot: Logged on 12-10-2015 04:12:18; phf: pete_dushenski: i don't know how successful kesey was at capturing the mind of
a schizophrenic, but he certainly was good at relaying an inner state of an acid head. the movie is something else entirely, but still great, since it's basically jack nicholson playing his only role at his best.
hdbuck: anyway, been
a long time since i lurked, i think you guys are quite outsmarting the corporatist wannabes, and i like the sorta outraging honesty approach. so thanks.
hdbuck: also, as i understand trading via irc allows mpex to be more resilient, woudltn it be nice tho to make
a more user friendly website for, say more advertizing > traffic > trades > revenues ?
mike_c: they aren't. mircea has
a mpex account too
danielpbarron: I don't know about this "acting range" of nicholson, but Chinatown is
a great film staring him
assbot: Logged on 12-10-2015 04:06:28; pete_dushenski: still haven't seen the movie with nicholson et al. but it's supposed to be
a decent flick, if not the most accurate of transpositions
punkman: jurov: but why did he turn down
a billion from the chinese?
punkman: "[$400m] will be doled out slowly, however, says Mr. Ravikant, so as not to overwhelm the market. In the first year, AngelList will disperse about $20 million of the money, ramping up to $50 million
a year in subsequent years." and "on
a recent trip to China, two different limited partners each offered him $500 million, but “we’re limited in how much capital we can absorb,”"
fluffypony: this sounds like
a dumb version of those murder mystery dinners
punkman: "Hired actors play the bride, groom and
a surprise third party:
a spurned lover or secret boyfriend who arrives “unexpectedly” – and with dramatic results."
punkman: "
A typical “fake wedding” hosts about 600 or 700 paying guests" * $50 = $30k, say the venue charges $25 per head, that's
a lot of pesos leftover
punkman: from fake wedding link: “It all started two years ago with
a group of friends: we realized we hadn’t been to
a wedding in
a long time because hardly anybody is getting married anymore,” << and this was
a problem that needed fixing????!!