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ascii_field: the (largely lysenkoine and fraudulent, but bear with me) promise of 'homomorphic' is that you can, ostensibly, make
a circuit where determining function is similar to breaking rsa
mircea_popescu: "I think it is worth recording what some of them cost, just to show what you can do with
a few shillings if you invest them in something that grows.I think it is worth recording what some of them cost, just to show what you can do with
a few shillings if you invest them in something that grows. [...] Between them, in nine years, those seven rose bushes will have given what would add up to
a hundred or
a hundred and fif
mircea_popescu: scale wars at the cost of prolonging indefinitely
a 'peace that is no peace'.
mircea_popescu: Had the atomic bomb turned out to be something as cheap and easily manufactured as
a bicycle or an alarm clock, it might well have plunged us back into barbarism, but it might, on the other hand, have meant the end of national sovereignty and of the highly-centralised police state. If, as seems to be the case, it is
a rare and costly object as difficult to produce as
a battleship, it is likelier to put an end to large-
mircea_popescu: James Burnham's theory has been much discussed, but few people have yet considered its ideological implications–that is, the kind of world-view, the kind of beliefs, and the social structure that would probably prevail in
a state which was at once UNCONQUERABLE and in
a permanent state of 'cold war' with its neighbors.
phf: jurov: theoretical potential is not the problem. what i'm saying is that there's existing "flora and fauna" that you're going to run into pretty fast. local деревенские "people from the village", police, military divisions that for all practical purposes own the locations principality style and don't need to "trade" in order to get guns, cars and supplies. for some reason that sort of fantasies don't usually go "let's build
a dream su
assbot: Logged on 12-08-2015 16:31:25; phf: precisely how many people died in remote locations like that during the 90s as
a result of rapid transition from central planning economy to
a "free market" by way of so called "shock doctrine". that info might never surface
assbot: Logged on 12-08-2015 15:46:48; mircea_popescu: "But
a boxing audience is always disgusting, and the behaviour of the women, in particular, is such that the army, I believe, does not allow them to attend its contests." lmao orlov and his middle class sentimentalities.
mircea_popescu: jurov if "gotta trade with somebody" is your premise, go to new york, and be
a jew.
mircea_popescu: HERE IS THE RECENT TRICK THAT B-
A REALLY HATES. HOW AN UNEMPLOYED TWERP MADE IMPOSSIBLE TO SOFTWARE.
mircea_popescu: how about you go live in china, then, if your plan is to put your life on
a foundation of trade with china ?
assbot: Logged on 12-08-2015 15:36:52; mircea_popescu: "
A Crypto Trick That Makes Software Nearly Impossible to Reverse"
phf: precisely how many people died in remote locations like that during the 90s as
a result of rapid transition from central planning economy to
a "free market" by way of so called "shock doctrine". that info might never surface
☟︎ phf: the heat in novosibirsk like in all russian cities is provided through pipes in
a form of
a compressed steam and hot water from
a ТЭЦ. (
a major difference between eastern europe and the states). if ТЭЦ fails, novosibirsk turns into
a ice coffin, on account of all the concrete box construction. that actually happened in the past for short periods of time (like
a week or two) and it's usually
a major humanitarian disaster. we don't even know
phf: that's kind of an obvious point to
a nerd boy, i thought the solution always was "stop being such
a little shit", not "let's change everyone around me so i finally don't feel inadequate"
mircea_popescu: see phf, men are deeply afraid of women. especially the men that never killed anyone for the simple aesthetic pleasure of taking
a life.
mircea_popescu: "But
a boxing audience is always disgusting, and the behaviour of the women, in particular, is such that the army, I believe, does not allow them to attend its contests." lmao orlov and his middle class sentimentalities.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: mats there's certainly
a difference between brainfuck and c++ programs that's driven by difference between actual brainfuck and c++. what exactly it is, tho...
phf: this must be
a puton, his twitter says "Described by @wireheadlance as the Anthony Bourdain of InfoSec"
mircea_popescu: heck, given the shape they're in, one in
a billion may be excessive.
mircea_popescu: current computer science favours the speed of light over other speeds "much more important to "us"". it is
a serious fucking problem for usg/nsa/alphabetsoup that there still exist people who even vaguely understand what this shit even is, because even one in
a million that can make actual decisions based on actual facts when that asshole asciilifeform publishes things about pgp keys or that asshole mircea_popescu thre
mircea_popescu: ng, not the emulation gap between modern CPUs and
a theoretical Turing machine."
mircea_popescu: "The divergence between the theoretical Turing machines and the machines designed to emulate has grown significantly; most of the "work" modern computers (including mobile devices, etc.) perform is not computation oriented as it was with
a Turing machine. Today networking, graphics/audio and interaction with the physical world (SCADA, wearables, etc.) have become the key features that the industry is working on improvi
phf: (there's
a 90s russian commedy, дмб, about
a bunch of hapless army conscripts. at some point they are supposed to provide entertainment for generals, in some total buttfuck nowhere location. one of the activities is pig hunting, they release
a pig, and the general goes after it. so of course the pig gets eaten by one of the hungry conscripts, and he has to pretend to be
a pig running through fields. i can't help but think about orlov's boomer
mircea_popescu: my chair has spent
a great deal of time pondering my ass.
mircea_popescu is further unimpressed with "Since joining the cult of LangSec, I've spent
a great deal of time pondering" intros.
mircea_popescu is not particularly impressed with this recently discovered pop-crypto celeb. srsly, this is it, people stopped giving
a shit about "music" so mpaa may die, but there's going to be
a naa creating "crypto popstars" instead ?
mircea_popescu: "
A Crypto Trick That Makes Software Nearly Impossible to Reverse"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: yeah, universal literacy totally was
a good idea, i see it now.
phf: i started reading orlov with his piece about "everyone should get russian passport and move syberia to survive orks and global warming", i thought that maybe he was one of those slightly misguided older russian expats, so i sent him an email in russian with the general idea of, what about existing power structures there, it's not like moving to alaska, there's not going to be
a shortage of local generals interested in hunting out of shape expats
phf: duda is
a form of bagpipes, though not used in russian much, there's still "dudet'", which is to make
a bagpipe sound. someone could work that into him being
a blowhard somehow
phf: right, i've not seen it in
a while, so i'm definitely misremembering
phf: well, the fantasy is
a from the perspective of the bureaucrat himself, so he doesn't necessarily sees the bigger picture like
a monarch would, he just does the inspection. record would be required though
mircea_popescu:
a record made of the incident at the very list! what sort of bureaucracy is this.
phf: oh i thought it's
a control fantasy,
a bureaucrat who imagines himself
a sultan will necessarily act
a bureaucrat in that role
mircea_popescu: (anyway, one girl, the only one that is overtly flirting with the men, is rejected for the obscure reason that she had
a bad 1st molar. the procureress protests (in italian) that such
a pretty girlie! nobody even noticed!
mircea_popescu: "una si bella fanciula... nessun' ne se h'
a accorso..."
mircea_popescu: i'm not an authority on subcaucasian tribal customs, but my guess would be that such deeds would be
a face wound for the poor guy in question incompatible with any sort of continued authority.
phf: "my brother's brother heard it from the guy WHO WAS THERE" "man, i wish i could just steal girls from classrooms like
a brave chechen, because i sure as hell can't talk to them"
mircea_popescu: and the "criminal authority" has
a name. also ran
a hotel, which also had
a name. etc.
mircea_popescu: "Another time, in school,
a group of Chechens stormed into
a classroom in the middle of
a class, selected the three most attractive girls, and dragged them away with them. Later we found out that the girls were presented as birthday presents to
a local Chechen criminal authority."
mircea_popescu: but hey, orlov doesn't know about india. he got
a hammer an' he's
a builder.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the problem is that the us never having been
a nation, it can't possibly fail like one.
phf: that orlov quote is questionable, with the same message as his other writing, i.e. "orks are cooler then you" where you is
a u.s. office worker. i grew up in intelligentsia family and when i started getting into fights i was sent to sambo. i also saw fights involving chechen boys, including "деревня на деревню" kind, and in none of those were russian boys holding back. what is this
mircea_popescu: you're not smart to live
a long time, you're smart to live well. length don't enter into it.
mircea_popescu: but teaching
a boy that he should somehow cleave his intelligence from his activity is just as fucking criminal.
mircea_popescu: you know, teaching
a woman that she's supposed to neglect the functioning of her head so she can focus on... the kitchen, i guess, as the puritans can't quite make the cunt point, is criminal.
assbot: Logged on 16-07-2014 23:42:34; mircea_popescu: if teh muricans really just wanted "something that shoots and
a bus ticker there", i'd have been really worried about the afghanistani.
mircea_popescu: On the Russian side, it was invariably the mommy who came, and nagged her son: “You shouldn't fight! Fighting is bad!” On the Chechen side it was invariably the father who came. He slapped his son upside the head and told him: “How dare you lose
a fight to
a stinking Russian—the son of an alcoholic and
a prostitute? Tomorrow you thrash him so hard that he pisses himself from fear any time he sees you!”
mircea_popescu: i moreover envision
a situation where whatever steel's left, if there is, bands together and the shit gets buried.
mircea_popescu: why did rome succeed "holding the barbarians at bay" for
a millenium and then collapsed in two centuries ? look at what was going on in china during.
mircea_popescu: so if you want to have
a superpower, use china. the us is neither
a superpower not really invovled.
mircea_popescu: those dudes are going to be out before next year's out, they probably just wanted
a break.
mircea_popescu: how about the references where hundreds of people were involved in raping thousands of preteens for
a decade + and all the ridiculous queen's got are five convictions for less than five years
a head ?
williamdunne: Well the only references I'm seeing to it are describing it as
a traumatic experience. While traumatic can be
a force for good I can't see anything suggesting it did her any particular favours
mircea_popescu: now, sure, maybe you personally are different from
a few thousand pubescent girlies.
mircea_popescu: so in that town, there once were
a bunch of girlies, which for whatever reason grew up with the impression that they're not plainly wrapped fuckmeat for some dudes.
mircea_popescu: ;;google "i've never been punched! black and white are the same color!
a yellow apple on
a yellow cab!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "i've never been punched! black and white are the same color!
a yellow apple on
a yellow cab!"
williamdunne: For example, when one person tried to get
a few to jump me, they were forced to keep
a fairly large distance between themselves and I
punkman: asciilifeform: there are folks who were never beaten? not even
a bit ? << lots of em
mircea_popescu: obviouisly an amicable bout between friends & equals is
a great community building tool.
williamdunne: Purely in my head, I'm not certain I'd fear any individual in
a group of 8 that beat me
williamdunne: I'd disagree that
a gang-beating is particularly dominating
mircea_popescu: nothing better illustrates the fundamentally maggoty quality of the human race than being in the position of, approximately speaking,
a highschool disciplinarian.
mircea_popescu: not that people weren't tempted, especially after
a fucking while.
mircea_popescu: then you had the practical choice of either killing
a bunch of 16 yos or complete disorder
williamdunne: I'd happily give them some silly putty, but I'd rather not be forced to waste my own time and resources for something that should be easy like opening
a bank account. Bitcoin has spoiled me.
mircea_popescu: williamdunne people wanna matter. whenever
a vote comes to whether they wanna matter more or less, they vote they wanna matter more. meanwhile they keep mattering less. what's one to do.
punkman: also, there are worse things than having to apostille
a document
mircea_popescu: "85% voted to implement
a trivial change that was both needed and uncontroversial. they didn't implement it and bitcoin forked. lesson learned! 44% "vote" to implement
a change that mp said he will attack. WHATCOULDGOWRONG!111"