mircea_popescu: http://dpaste.com/25PZKC1 < if anyone somehow cares, re phuctor and rsa exponents. since my comment is still unapproved a day later.

mircea_popescu: jurov yes. tat never ran a pc ?

mircea_popescu: As late as the autumn of 1945, a Gallup poll taken among the American troops in Germany showed that 51 percent "thought Hitler did much good before 1939". This was after five years of anti-Hitler propaganda.

mircea_popescu: (the above was a prediction in 1946)

mircea_popescu: strial centres in Europe, Asia, and America. These super-states will fight among themselves for possession of the remaining uncaptured portions of the earth, but will probably be unable to conquer one another completely. Internally, each society will be hierarchical, with an aristocracy of talent at the top and a mass of semi-slaves at the bottom."

mircea_popescu: ame of "managers". These people will eliminate the old capitalist class, crush the working class, and so organise society that all power and economic privilege remain in their own hands. Private property rights will be abolished, but common ownership will not be established. The new "managerial" societies will not consist of a patchwork of small, independent states, but of great super-states grouped round the main indu

mircea_popescu: "Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it. What is now arising is a new kind of planned, centralised society which will be neither capitalist nor, in any accepted sense of the word, democratic. The rulers of this new society will be the people who effectively control the means of production: that is, business executives, technicians, bureaucrats and soldiers, lumped together by Burnham, under the n

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300011h.html#part40 < also a fan ?

mircea_popescu: "It is Sunday afternoon, preferably before the war. The wife is already asleep in the armchair, and the children have been sent out for a nice long walk. You put your feet up on the sofa, settle your spectacles on your nose, and open the NEWS OF THE WORLD. Roast beef and Yorkshire, or roast pork and apple sauce, followed up by suet pudding and driven home, as it were, by a cup of mahogany-brown tea, have put you in jus

mircea_popescu: which will be a worse read.

mircea_popescu: and so they imagined it's a panacea. which it definitely is not.

mircea_popescu: "the editors" organized "on the other hand a good deal of reviewing, especially of novels, might well be done by amateurs. Nearly every book is capable of arousing passionate feeling, if it is only a passionate dislike, in some or other reader, whose ideas about it would surely be worth more than those of a bored professional"

mircea_popescu: a bored professional. But, unfortunately, as every editor knows, that kind of thing is very difficult to organise. In practice the editor always finds himself reverting to his team of hacks–his "regulars", as he calls them."

mircea_popescu: the solution lies in getting book reviewing out of the hands of hacks. Books on specialised subjects ought to be dealt with by experts, and on the other hand a good deal of reviewing, especially of novels, might well be done by amateurs. Nearly every book is capable of arousing passionate feeling, if it is only a passionate dislike, in some or other reader, whose ideas about it would surely be worth more than those of

mircea_popescu: "The great majority of reviews give an inadequate or misleading account of the book that is dealt with. Since the war publishers have been less able than before to twist the tails of literary editors and evoke a paean of praise for every book that they produce, but on the other hand the standard of reviewing has gone down owing to lack of space and other inconveniences. Seeing the results, people sometimes suggest that

mircea_popescu: (commie romania had weirdo "to buy x you must also buy y" quota system to prop up the central economy. that particular book was outrageous in a country nobodyu owned as much as a raft, let alone yachts. so it became symbolic)

mircea_popescu: i read a million words a day, and have been reading a million words a day each day for years straight.

mircea_popescu: ascii_field i submit to you that no, not "books cost money". people were just stupider a century ago. quoth http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300011h.html#part37 :

mircea_popescu: if i ever want to buy a bible, i do not wish to buy a soggy dog eared piece of composted toilet paper ensmeared with the biological refuse of five generations of idiots of the sort that'd misread a bible.

mircea_popescu: ly buying, directly or indirectly, about three books a year. These three books taken together might cost £1, or probably less."

mircea_popescu: "Meanwhile, what is the actual amount that the British public spends on books? I cannot discover any figures, though no doubt they exist. But I do know that before the war this country was publishing annually about 15,000 books, which included reprints and school books. If as many as 10,000 copies of each book were sold–and even allowing for the school books, this is probably a high estimate-the average person was on

mircea_popescu: and the mass of people take an interest once the poor activity becomes the cheapest in a class.

mircea_popescu: but i doubt i actually went through a pound yet.

mircea_popescu: i don't think i smoked enough to pay for a decent book in those tobacco prices.

mircea_popescu: making nearly £40 a year. Even before the war when the same tobacco cost 8d. an ounce, I was spending over £10 a year on it"

mircea_popescu: "Twenty-five pounds a year sounds quite a lot until you begin to measure it against other kinds of expenditure. It is nearly 9s. 9d. a week, and at present 9s. 9d. is the equivalent of about 83 cigarettes (Players): even before the war it would have bought you less than 200 cigarettes. With prices as they now are, I am spending far more on tobacco than I do on books. I smoke six ounces a week, at half-a-crown an ounce,

mircea_popescu: anyway, the "biblioteca de arta" collection was easily 500 volumes. it mostly dealt with cultural anthropology, aesthetics and such. tiny fraction of a fucking library seriously

mircea_popescu: Adlai a good one, easily.

mircea_popescu: how ELSE are you going to furnish a house ?

mircea_popescu: i owned > 10k volumes before getting rid of the lot, as a 20yo man.

mircea_popescu: "Trusted Platform Module From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Fritz-chip) Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is an international standard for a secure cryptoprocessor,"

mircea_popescu: in a sense they always are : they verify at the minimum that math is homogenous in the universe.

mircea_popescu: so : those could as well be the remote part of a fritz chip

mircea_popescu: not sure how to best convey this as the guy's terminology is a sort of pigdin latin numerals.

mircea_popescu: a good steak is also impossible i nthe general case.

mircea_popescu: <mats> i'm rapidly tiring of being a relay << why's the guy not come over anyway ? well... i guess the answer's actually obvious huh. nm.

mircea_popescu: not even necessary in the case at hand, but as a general rule.

mircea_popescu: <mats> wasn't telling a lie, merely made a mistake <<< it's a very interesting point as to how do you establish this ? ☟︎

mircea_popescu: "Fourthly, the tea should be strong. For a pot holding a quart, if you are going to fill it nearly to the brim, six heaped teaspoons would be about right."

mircea_popescu: anyway, icesomething or the other is making a pretty penny out of obfuscating and bytecoding php