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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: got it, ty!
asciilifeform: lol! where did this pic come from mircea_popescu ?
shinohai: And continuing in mircea_popescu's "blondes prefer blacks" farms theme: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DHb4-tvWAAAp05V.jpg
a111: Logged on 2017-08-14 17:20 mircea_popescu: this is actually going to be teh magic number of the republic. so at this juncture i would like to ask everyone to compute "the largest primorial (ie, product of all successive primes) that fits in 515 bits", sign it and put it into deedbot.
mod6: mircea_popescu: could be. very strange indeed.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-16 23:34 mircea_popescu: he never had to dig a latrine, or carry the 3kg shovel you need to cary to be able to dig a latrine. consequently experience cost of that branch = 0
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-16#1699477 << gotta wonder how mircea_popescu arrived at this notion. ☝︎
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> dear celestial mommy in charge of government and all things, we thank you for regulating this new pile of dollars into bitcoin's value. amen. << :D
a111: Logged on 2016-03-11 02:32 mircea_popescu: Pedalavo come se fuggissi, e in realta fuggivo, da lei, da quelle emozioni, da i sogni, da i ricordi, da tutto. E pensavo che dovevo dimenticare. Ero certo che sarei riuscito a dimenticare. Ma oggi che sono vecchio, che ho consumato banalmente la vita, talchè ho conosciuto tante donne che m'hanno detto "ricordati di me" e io le ho scordate tutte, ancora oggi lei, l'unica che non ho mai dimenticato... Sutakora Sassa!
asciilifeform: i suspect that this type of 'bonsai kitten' is created by the ill-conceived half-education purveyors. as per mircea_popescu's talk at c3 re pediwikians
asciilifeform pictures mircea_popescu in steppes of ulan batur, 2030, horseman throws a sack at his yurt and speeds away in cloud of dust. inside : a head, and a pay addr scratched on forehead...
a111: Logged on 2017-08-16 17:15 mircea_popescu: valica_ the problem is not that it's not perfect. it is not perfectible. what you learn through this approach is how to never learn crypto.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: catholitards have iron 'discipline' in their chosen glassbeadgame.
asciilifeform: didjaknow, mircea_popescu
asciilifeform also entertained that this is almost the exact arg of mircea_popescu an' asciilifeform re mphf, originally, but with the sides reversed
asciilifeform: it is pretty strange imho to read mircea_popescu operating with the logic of poverty -- '100 horse suffices for standing at red light, why would anyone want a bugatti', '400 sq metres suffices to house a family' -- how is 4096b rsa any different ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this argument is not false, but ignores noncryptoanalytic breaks
asciilifeform: i dunno why mircea_popescu is defending a figure that came from wholly arbitrary, rather than natural, constraint ( 'what is fast on a uniprocessor x86 box' == 4096 )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu of all people knows this.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: isn't the only argument
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: parallelizes linearly, if one is impatient.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> that's like... 100 days sorta thing ? why exactly, have they decided the whole thing coming out of the previous attempts was the brief interval of "confusion" before being stomped and so trying to maximize that ? << This is Barry Sillybert's stunt
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it was at the very least in naggum
a111: Logged on 2017-08-16 17:15 mircea_popescu: valica_ the problem is not that it's not perfect. it is not perfectible. what you learn through this approach is how to never learn crypto.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: preferred duct tape and chewing gum brand!11
a111: Logged on 2017-08-16 17:13 mircea_popescu: "your job is to fill in this merkle.py". holy mother of god.
mod6: mircea_popescu ^
a111: Logged on 2017-08-16 07:49 mircea_popescu: advertising "hitler is bad" can't be anything more or anything besides a global "hitler is important".
a111: Logged on 2017-08-16 07:49 mircea_popescu: i expect the probloem with "nazi" is cachet. so much hurr durr-ing has been invested into the whole "nazi=bad" that the "nazi=important" angle is bound to be used by some schmuck trying to "make it up there fast".
a111: Logged on 2017-08-16 07:46 mircea_popescu: there's nothing there to learn, in this sense. if you got a bunch of ideologically-coherent tards that are out of touch with reality, be them pantsuits in 2017 us or peasants in 1917 russia you bring out the biofermenters. there's nothing else, misalligned ideological coherence is === biofermenters.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-16 07:41 mircea_popescu: the only problem with rthis view being that there's no such thing as "evils of the past".
a111: Logged on 2017-08-15 23:33 mircea_popescu: dun seem to be an en variant and yet i vaguely recall one.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu et al : trilema.com/2015/he-who-gets-married/
mod6: ~<+mircea_popescu> asciilifeform http://trilema.com/2017/tmsr-rsa-spec-extremely-early-draft/ << ah, thanks!
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> somebodyhood is overrated eh ? << Hey, people are selling "DON'T BE SOMEBODY!!!" now >> http://www.returnofkings.com/125632/the-influence-curve
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> somebodyhood is overrated eh ? << Hey, people are selling "DON'T BE SOMEBODY!!!" now <mircea_popescu> somebodyhood is overrated eh ?
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: The operation succeeded.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-15 22:52 mircea_popescu: constant-time MPFHF is now an open question for teh interested.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-06 00:28 mircea_popescu: anyway, yes. bound.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: was thinking of the aerial gun in ww1, before they figured out that the stuff on the nonbusiness end dun have to be same bullet, only same mass
a111: Logged on 2017-04-09 14:45 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, the more i think about it the more i'm convinced the ONLY "fingerprint" for rsa key may be... the modulus. 4096 bits and fuck you, if you can't take 32 chars you don't belong here.
asciilifeform: for my part, i'm curious re what part of rsa mircea_popescu thinks even needs to be standardized
asciilifeform: ( mircea_popescu's original rsa piece )
asciilifeform: didn't mircea_popescu make one in 2014 ?
asciilifeform: i bet mircea_popescu had a riot reading russel & whitehead , 'idjits, taking 1500 pgs to prove 1+1=2, which i know to be so'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu's observation was correct.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: recall what dijkstra said ?
a111: Logged on 2017-08-15 16:36 mircea_popescu: it's a minute, what.
asciilifeform: mod6: amusingly, if you ~did~ have a big enough and old enough universe to contain primorial(2**4096), you could factor, e.g., mircea_popescu's key, in polynomial time, with plain old gcd
shinohai: 12:27:29 Socal Mircea_popescu no it isn't it saves on bandwidth costs and doesn't require internet to get the BTC blockchain
a111: Logged on 2017-08-14 17:20 mircea_popescu: this is actually going to be teh magic number of the republic. so at this juncture i would like to ask everyone to compute "the largest primorial (ie, product of all successive primes) that fits in 515 bits", sign it and put it into deedbot.
asciilifeform: array slices retain the indexing of the underlying array. this is The Right Thing ( see prev thread on subj where i explained to mircea_popescu ) but makes iterating over them slightly trickier in certain cases.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> is the "i just wanted to" right opposed at the "i just wanted to left" removal as being too radical ? after all, they DO "just want to" undisturbed ? or what ? << It seems like there is a mass of confusion in them.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-14 20:57 mircea_popescu: how the fuck does the police "decline" to patrol.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-14 20:37 mircea_popescu: that's why the whole "doctor shining light in eyes" thing.
shinohai: https://steemit.com/cryptocurrency/@anonymint/re-anonymint-re-anonymint-re-anonymint-re-anonymint-shocking-crisis-coming-to-cryptocurrency-in-sept-20170814t065451341z <<< The expert on mircea_popescu has spoken
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'cossacks write letter to the sultan' in order?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: depends on distance, neh
a111: Logged on 2015-10-15 01:03 mircea_popescu: if you want a Tatra truck, ask for it.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-14 17:08 mircea_popescu: it's funny how all the things are the same thing and everything wraps into ideological identity. empire needs... a lot of really dumb ones, as a COLLECTIVE. we... make every one stand on its own INDIVIDUALLY.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there's something to be said for 111111.....1 (max hamming weight), and there's something else to be said for max-entropy
a111: Logged on 2017-08-14 17:57 mircea_popescu: no, it is not, in that it would simplify routines. that's what makes it an aesthetic non-choice.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu plox to expand on http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-14#1697729 ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but not cheaper for us
a111: Logged on 2017-08-14 17:50 mircea_popescu: but this important point has important consequences, because now we can't have my eccentric rsa keys. must be 4096, because the only alternatives ffa permits are 2048 which is too short and 8912 which is too long.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-14 17:56 mircea_popescu is really pissy that "gotta use trad width keys" ended up imposed on him!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you can use any key bitness you like ! but gotta top it out with 0s to sit it into a ffa word
asciilifeform: if you read the code, mircea_popescu ,
a111: Logged on 2017-08-14 17:44 mircea_popescu: "N must be 64 because at some point i nthe past a 64 bit machine was released and we care ; N will not have to be 128 in the future because even though an 128 bit machine will probably be released in the future, we don't understand the future and consequently do not care"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'solution to math problem' existed in 1978. ffa goal is simplicity+correctness of implementation + adequateperformance.
hanbot: <mircea_popescu> this is actually going to be teh magic number of the republic. so at this juncture i would like to ask everyone to compute "the largest primorial (ie, product of all successive primes) that fits in 515 bits", sign it and put it into deedbot. << is this right (up to 2900)? http://wotpaste.cascadianhacker.com/pastes/9lxGb/?raw=true
a111: Logged on 2017-08-10 14:54 mircea_popescu: 257, 258, 515.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-14 15:18 asciilifeform: in other hilarities almost worthy of mircea_popescu's robotzi, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKkcTpCur7g
asciilifeform: in other hilarities almost worthy of mircea_popescu's robotzi, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKkcTpCur7g ☟︎
trinque: mircea_popescu: makes sense. can't stop the bits from leaking; can however simply let the owner of an account know every time something happens, so he can yell at me before I do the next batch of withdrawals if he didn't do it.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-06 05:36 mircea_popescu: trinque re last para, what's wrong with you know, http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-03#1693444 ? basically replace "The user decrypts the ciphertext and returns the cleartext OTP to D, which relays it to T, meanwhile revealing it to L. T replies to D with either "OK" or "FAIL", and a transaction is complete." with "T sends hash(C) to L, encrypted(C) to D. The user decrypts the ciphertext and returns the cleartext OTP to D, which
a111: Logged on 2017-08-06 05:36 mircea_popescu: trinque re last para, what's wrong with you know, http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-03#1693444 ? basically replace "The user decrypts the ciphertext and returns the cleartext OTP to D, which relays it to T, meanwhile revealing it to L. T replies to D with either "OK" or "FAIL", and a transaction is complete." with "T sends hash(C) to L, encrypted(C) to D. The user decrypts the ciphertext and returns the cleartext OTP to D, which
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo don't you just love how the tards went straight on from "bitcoin cash" to "segwit" without skipping a beat ? << Well, they soft forked segwit. Their new hill is TWO mb blocks
mod6: mircea_popescu: ah, ok. couldn't recall.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> mike_c but look at the new v-based trb build << yah, if you're interested in standing up a node, we'll talk ya through it.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-13 02:30 mircea_popescu: ro had a very identical equivalent. amusingly, also physicist.
BingoBoingo: Anyways it appear there is a clear heirarchy: mircea_popescu >> slavegirls >> dark paladins, locusts, Trumpreich, Fna
phf: does that mean that mircea_popescu can buy russia?
a111: Logged on 2017-08-10 10:05 mircea_popescu: (nemtsov, recently assassinated, was, of course, the guy putin beat for to http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-21#1687959, yeltsin's chosen successor. ah what a great party it'd have been, for teh pantsuits. clinton forever, herdemocracy herp derp... then gore lost to bush, nemtsov lost to putin, nyc lost to gravity, sads sads sads.)
shinohai: Also, excellent profferings on the culinary front in trilema today, mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: police choppers in particular -- not merely 'no armour', but thinner skin than toyota
a111: Logged on 2017-08-12 00:55 mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo that's quite plainly the mark of ascendancy. "demonstration" aka "here's proof you can't enforce the law on us", and appropriation, aka, "we think more than you and therefore your symbols aren't yours in any meaningful sense".
a111: Logged on 2017-08-12 15:53 mircea_popescu: and in other manly news, http://uselectionatlas.org/FORUM/GALLERY/12834_20_05_17_6_12_03.jpeg
ben_about: ty mircea_popescu
diana_coman: eh mircea_popescu, you're using big words to seem important; wealth? long term? what are those?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> btw, that "we are vary silbert for your loss" is like so pregnant with meme. barry the sorry sorbet sillybert! << AHA!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lulzy, ye olde curtisyarvin 'if it could dent statusquo, Mother Church would pray it away' nonsense marches on
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: is there moar re the monk d00d somewhere ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu admit, do you have a bottle of rum open..?
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: High - energy X - rays - Wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-energy_X-rays>; Beam collimation with polycapillary x - ray optics for high ... - NCBI: <https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15651611>; velopment HIGH ENERGY X - RAY DIFFRACTION ... - NIST: <http://ws680.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm%3Fpub_id%3D851224>
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in production where?
a111: Logged on 2017-08-11 00:18 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-10#1696875 << it is conceivable you can reuse prb blockchains, if you care. not that there's anything wrong with rechecking the chain if oyu're in no hurry. expect a coupla months tho. and i suppose look into eatblock etc while at it.
a111: Logged on 2017-08-11 00:39 mircea_popescu: if you have such a narrow premise ("is there or is there not a terragram of gold at so and so coords") experimental falsification is trivial, and not even expensive in contex. the bitch is forming the premise in the first place.
asciilifeform: and mircea_popescu might like to mention the xray background ( wtf? ever consider the self-absorption of an item with density of gold!?) to prospectors
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: also why not ask him re philosopher's stone!11