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a111: Logged on 2016-12-21 18:32 mircea_popescu: because no, words don't "have meanings". your meanings for ANY WORD are a function of ALL THE OTHER WORDS YOU KNOW. which is why my definitions regularily blow out english dictionaries, wikipedia and other sources of "wisdom" out of the water - i know more words, and in this knowledge i know all the words i know ~better~. infinitely and irreproducibly so.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: tense -> terse ??

a111: Logged on 2017-09-07 07:17 mircea_popescu: check out alf made a little nsa banner thing! http://www.loper-os.org/snsa_small.jpg

asciilifeform: i find it strange that mircea_popescu forgives the pseudophysicists the same sins that he correctly unforgives the pseudocryptographers

asciilifeform: the sad thing is that money pretty much begs itself to be spent on fancy machines. because neither mircea_popescu nor i nor anybody else could transform arbitrarily large bag of money, into another schrodinger.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'particle zoo' curation is what the post-war twits with 0 imagination have busied themselves with.

a111: Logged on 2017-09-07 06:09 mircea_popescu: anyway, physics is only broke in the us, and mostly because us is broke. euro physics is doing fine, spending about the entire us welfare budget on things like large lasers, ciclotrons and the like.

mimisbrunnr: Logged on 2017-09-02 16:41 mircea_popescu: one major point is that other than mpfhf which has been well implemented thanks to peterl, sina and ben_vulpes (and to some degree researched -- speaking of which, still cooking ben_vulpes ?), there's keccak which HASNT yet been implemented much ; and we really could use a fixed-block hash function that's any good.

mod6: <+trinque> congrats mircea_popescu and asciilifeform, wish ya many more profitable months. << here, here!

a111: Logged on 2017-08-27 22:38 mircea_popescu: teh very respectable southern poverty law center. and i bet you bitcoin to donuts they didn't actually pay jack for it, either.

a111: Logged on 2017-09-06 22:38 trinque: congrats mircea_popescu and asciilifeform, wish ya many more profitable months.

BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> "there seems to no actual movement by fiat concerns to compete with the ascendant" ? << was written and reads as "there seems to no actual movement by fiat concerns to compete with the ascendant No Such lAbs at this time."

trinque: congrats mircea_popescu and asciilifeform, wish ya many more profitable months. ☟︎

shinohai imagines some random girl pulling this on mircea_popescu .... would likely wind up in the trash ala my favourite Trilema header

BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> a kiss is a contract! << The sacred ones are just there witnessing

a111: Logged on 2017-09-06 00:30 mircea_popescu: maybe it's some derpy "gps 1 meter resolution and not above 100m altitude" thing, you know ?

a111: Logged on 2017-08-19 16:18 mircea_popescu: it's incredible, that place, the official capitol of the spanish main, every monkey from argentina to panama worships miami.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: wouldjabelieve, it's in EVERY single pieceofshit arm ever built.

a111: Logged on 2017-09-05 21:25 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-05#1710819 << yes yes, i'll make my own categories and draw my own separators if you dun mind.

a111: Logged on 2017-09-05 06:11 mircea_popescu: if only.

a111: Logged on 2017-09-05 06:07 mircea_popescu: i am very happy with the computer interfaces as were available cca 1960.

a111: Logged on 2017-09-05 06:09 mircea_popescu: all the progress in terms of "BCI" has been shittier keyboards and latency in the machine. noty.

asciilifeform: !~later tell mircea_popescu http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/4lO1B/?raw=true

hanbot: btw mircea_popescu can haz a bot call command? is http://www.contravex.com/trilema-bots-directory/ accurate, ie next in line is !A?

hanbot: mircea_popescu> what['s "bci" supposed to be in human language ? "Brain-computer interfaces allow you to manipulate computers and machinery with your thoughts." i.e. 'mirror mirror on the wall, who's the bestest of them all? (me! me! me!)', i'm guessing.

asciilifeform: !~later tell mircea_popescu http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/w76wV/?raw=true

shinohai: Ah buenas tardes mircea_popescu !

asciilifeform: !~later tell mircea_popescu http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/1R8Ok/?raw=true

a111: Logged on 2017-09-02 16:44 mircea_popescu: one major point is that other than mpfhf which has been well implemented thanks to peterl, sina and ben_vulpes (and to some degree researched -- speaking of which, still cooking ben_vulpes ?), there's keccak which HASNT yet been implemented much ; and we really could use a fixed-block hash function that's any good.

spyked: mircea_popescu, o, I see. also, for some reason the scenario in original trilema post sounds much more plausible today. if "gpu" monster, then why not dbpu.

a111: Logged on 2017-08-02 20:28 mircea_popescu: to revisit a very ancient mp wonderment since his less-interested days ( http://trilema.com/2010/curiozitate-calculatoristica/ ) : why not ada-on-a-chip ?

asciilifeform: !~later tell mircea_popescu http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/RPoHG/?raw=true

a111: Logged on 2017-09-03 03:18 mircea_popescu: just the clue cptn breezy needs is actually north of a million bucks ; as proven by the fact that all the cptn breezys who won the loterry still couldn't afford to buy it.

a111: Logged on 2017-09-03 01:20 mircea_popescu: and in other re-industrializations, https://blog.za3k.com/blast-furance/

a111: Logged on 2017-09-03 01:48 mircea_popescu: but it is easily north of 1mn. and this is actuarial costs, rather than "What';d it cost intel to reproduce".

asciilifeform: on mircea_popescu's www, http://trilema.com/category/snsa

a111: Logged on 2017-09-02 22:49 mircea_popescu: they are up to gcc SEVEN ?!

a111: Logged on 2017-09-02 22:31 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-02#1710137 << nice going eh! how's life now that living again ? :D

a111: Logged on 2016-06-14 01:33 mircea_popescu: ^ if anyone has suggestions...

a111: Logged on 2017-08-27 22:38 mircea_popescu: teh very respectable southern poverty law center. and i bet you bitcoin to donuts they didn't actually pay jack for it, either.

a111: Logged on 2017-09-02 17:41 asciilifeform: but largely unrelatedly : BingoBoingo ( qntra fodder ? ) , mircea_popescu : https://archive.is/E5Fyk << recent lulz re the http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-02#1709834 folx

mircea_popescu: and meanwhile in #eulora lulz : <kisspunch> i don't know what the shit any of this is <mircea_popescu> yeah, there's A LOT you don't know. <kisspunch> mircea_popescu: fuck you and your ecosystem

a111: Logged on 2017-07-18 18:23 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform understand this bit of GT : the knowledge of all the things you don't know thereby constructs a sybil of you.

a111: Logged on 2017-08-29 19:08 mircea_popescu: the captured male how to behave so it doesn't rub wrongly. Example suffices, he will perhaps protest but certainly learn and definitely change to fit the limit on his penis. It's not like he's not very eager to alter his behaviour so he can maintain that sweet, sweet delicious cage for longer, for as long as possible, forever. Whatever he may say, it's all window-dressing for that simple, fundamental fact -- he's happier neu

a111: Logged on 2015-04-12 19:18 mircea_popescu: does this not suggest that the ACTUAL REASON adults "had to" register their typewriters was because they wanted to have to ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: recall the thread with the typewriter ribbons ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: wouldja believe, it was also this toy with a sprint to jump on...

asciilifeform: btw mircea_popescu would be delighted to learn that 'modern' envirotronic led bulbs typically never properly die, they just grow moar flickery and... orange, if you will

mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> now the lightbulbs, connected to the standard battery, did not light up. but only ever slightly orange in the filament.

a111: Logged on 2017-08-31 23:18 asciilifeform: meanwhile, in ic-pr0n, http://www.clifford.at/icestorm/bitdocs-8k << spiffy example of nonpdfized ( per earlier mircea_popescu thread ) hierarchical docs

a111: Logged on 2017-09-02 13:25 mircea_popescu: (that being the idea here, the shit-piss-licker center isn't suing about "is it ok for a meg ryan wanna-be to try and defraud an old woman into giving her all the moneyz". it's suing about "is it ok for fraudster specializing in old women to be told off by the public if she's defrauding for the dnc!")

asciilifeform: but largely unrelatedly : BingoBoingo ( qntra fodder ? ) , mircea_popescu : https://archive.is/E5Fyk << recent lulz re the http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-02#1709834 folx ☝︎☟︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there's an ada keccak published decade ago that was not, at first glance, defective in any obvious way, and is a few pgs. but asciilifeform has not yet formally audited.

a111: Logged on 2017-09-01 23:39 mircea_popescu: right.

asciilifeform: unrelatedly mircea_popescu , doyathink http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-01#1709607 link belongs in your rsa draft article ? ☝︎

a111: Logged on 2017-09-01 22:51 mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2011/am-mai-contribuit-si-noi-la-cite-ceva-n-lume/ << a fine example.

asciilifeform: i'm starting to think that mircea_popescu's su-era ro was a very unlike beast from su per se

jhvh1: mircea_popescu: A Guide to Square Footage w/ Real Life Examples - Platinum ...: <https://www.platinumpropertiesnyc.com/blog/guide-square-footage-w-real-life-examples>; Square Feet to Square Centimeters conversion: <http://www.metric-conversions.org/area/square-feet-to-square-centimeters.htm>; What Does 100 Square Feet Really Look Like? | Apartment Therapy: (1 more message)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i suppose it works by 'at will employment, we do whatever we feel like, incl. fuck your ear, and if you dun like it go find another plantation'

asciilifeform: y'mean there's still a hole b/w there and mircea_popescu's eulora kitchen ?! big enough for ants ?

jhvh1: mircea_popescu: What people say about making $120,000 in Silicon Valley ...: <http://www.businessinsider.com/what-people-say-about-making-120000-in-silicon-valley-2016-6>; How Much You Have To Work To Make $100000 ... - Business Insider: <http://www.businessinsider.com/where-to-work-to-to-make-100000-driving-for-uber-lyft-and-sidecar-2015-1>; Here's What A $100,000 Salary Gets You In 20 Global Cities ...: (1 more message)

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: still tearing prbisms out of the graphics libs, or wat

a111: Logged on 2017-09-02 06:27 mircea_popescu: im, they staked it out. The fruitless search for him exemplifies the challenges that online harassment cases sometimes encounter.

needhelpwithnode: mircea_popescu: 30

a111: Logged on 2017-09-02 00:01 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this impression is borne out of lack of experience and no more. what, i'm going to assembly line phds ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: nitpick was not specific to poker, applies to any 3+party game

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in point of fact folx can and do sometimes pay for phd to make an appearance at an assembly line.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i beg to differ, if unit hangs around asciilifeform's neck from door to door, it's a layer reduction and not == to usmail.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: proposed strictly as an answer to the provenance thing

a111: Logged on 2017-09-01 22:06 asciilifeform: though i've thought about suggesting to mircea_popescu to offer hand-delivery ( chore would fall to asciilifeform... ) as an option. but i dun like nonflat prices

a111: Logged on 2017-09-01 23:43 mircea_popescu: btw am i the only one HIGHLY entertained by the internets producing a girl alf ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there's potentially infinitely many ways to lubyate

asciilifeform: btw mircea_popescu it so happens that i have what looks like a solution to 'sign a TB with a 4096bit key with no hash'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i did not say 'let's all quit using hashes', nao

jhvh1: mircea_popescu: 2 ** 256 = 1.157920892373162E77

Barbarossa_: mircea_popescu: Romanian gamblers have warned me to stay away from their womenfolk, no matter how voluptuous - apparently more trouble than worth - good advice?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: imho trinque hit upon a potentially good 'engineer cut' tho -- separation of 'fetch me this thing, that we know exists' from 'perform the following computation with these-here params'

asciilifeform: i can see where mircea_popescu is going. they had nfi, then some 'kind' soul 'helped'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lol, i'm sold

a111: Logged on 2017-09-01 19:36 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform my point was that by the time they typed in 83 the rest of the "unmemorizable address" is already filled in.

jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Simple DNS Plus: <http://simpledns.com/>; MaraDNS - a small open-source DNS server: <http://www.maradns.org/>; Dual DHCP DNS Server download | SourceForge.net: <https://sourceforge.net/projects/dhcp-dns-server/>

asciilifeform: Barbarossa_: meet mircea_popescu

asciilifeform: ohai mircea_popescu !

asciilifeform: though i've thought about suggesting to mircea_popescu to offer hand-delivery ( chore would fall to asciilifeform... ) as an option. but i dun like nonflat prices ☟︎

asciilifeform: so if mircea_popescu is paying ben_vulpes 10 dubloons per diem to guard his plutonium stash, it does not follow that this is 'above market' just because there is a queue of redditors offering to do it for 1 dubloon

asciilifeform: Barbarossa_: np. i recommend to stay tuned until mircea_popescu wakesup

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is co-author of fg.

asciilifeform: Barbarossa_: you should definitely stick around until mircea_popescu wakes up

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: contemplated scenario is d00d shouting propaganda, go to joepunishesmaryslowlywithabroomstickinaconcerthall.com and that turns into 123.45.67.89 etc

a111: Logged on 2017-08-30 21:57 mircea_popescu: the only reasonable move for safeguarding earth's future, is to keep you lot as far as feasible from any buttons that are connected to anything.

a111: Logged on 2017-09-01 19:12 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-09-01#1708972 <<< none of them even knows how to find a browser without autocomplete.

a111: Logged on 2017-09-01 07:36 mircea_popescu: in other shit i discover, tila tequilla isn't who i thought it was.

jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Powerword - Encyclopedia Dramatica: <https://encyclopediadramatica.rs/Powerword>; Power Word : Real Name - GraphJam - funny graphs - Cheezburger: <http://cheezburger.com/4669066240>; Urban Dictionary: powerword: <http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php%3Fterm%3Dpowerword>

mircea_popescu: i'm mircea_popescu , danielpbarron is danielpbarron, diana_coman is diana_coman and so following.

a111: Logged on 2017-08-16 17:33 mircea_popescu: meanwhile at "blondes prefer blacks" farms, http://68.media.tumblr.com/1a7dd6fdaecc66e186cada47a345ee7e/tumblr_o0gsz450rp1ubgc5jo1_1280.jpg

a111: Logged on 2017-08-29 22:22 mircea_popescu just counted, trilema (articles only) stands at 10`631`726 words. this excludes my comments there and of course whatever my share of the log's 2mn lines (ie about what, a further 20-30mn words ?) is.

a111: Logged on 2017-09-01 05:23 mircea_popescu: http://91.218.246.33/2017/beating-that-spark-of-heaven/ << and i don't mean just the root, either.

jhvh1: mircea_popescu: 1000 / 24 / 60 = 0.6944444444444444

a111: Logged on 2017-08-30 23:25 mircea_popescu: http://p.bvulpes.com/pastes/WGSbc/?raw=true foir the curious.

cazalla: mircea_popescu, heya