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mircea_popescu: "Every file you write in there is signed. There's no manual signing process, no taring or gzipping, no detached sigs. Instead, everything in this folder appears as plaintext files on everyone's computers. You can even open /keybase/public/yourname in your Finder or Explorer and drag things in."
mircea_popescu: i wish the idiot circuit would write their release document as to be meaningful to people rather than appealing to goats. da fuck am i going to read out of that windows950-esque screenshot other than "hey, windows 95!"
mircea_popescu: "Public, signed directories for everyone in the world You can now write data in a very special place: /keybase/public/yourname"
mircea_popescu: "Alpha releases of the Keybase app are starting to come with a cryptographically secure file mount. It is brand new. And very different." da fuck is this shit.
mircea_popescu: no place exists other than in the imagination ; and some imaginations really dun matter. for all anyone cares we live on fucking buyan
mircea_popescu: Formal neste artigo todo não significa “papelada” ou burocracia, mas se refere à formalidade matemática, aquela evidência que pode ser matematicamente comprovada (através de assinaturas digitais criptográficas, por exemplo). << :D
mircea_popescu: "dedico este artigo aos meu amigos Douglas Castro e Bingo Boingo" check it out bb you're also famous.
mircea_popescu: when i see the "s-boxes" and schedules and bs i get this distinct "technician aspiring to be engineer" feeling.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> any means to prove that a ~particular~ instance of that problem is not susceptible to a more efficient pill. << incidentally, this is the best argument for SIMPLE (mathematically) ciphers and cryptography generally.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: this person is intellectually unqualified to participate in any discussion.
mircea_popescu: " In another variation on the theme, statisticians created the concept of a “standard deviation” realizing that samples in a data set may vary considerably."
mircea_popescu: da fuck can i do, freedom and decentralization means people run away with the things!
mircea_popescu: pity we don't have any nubile young ladies to offer in marriage as well.
mircea_popescu: "italy" exists in the sense "the united states" exists. barely if at all.
mircea_popescu: for a while for instance they wanted to live in florence, venice etc.
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag> how many us folk realize that usa was mega-power in mid-20th ~because~ it was a place where folks like ulam wanted to live ? >> this is what i've been saying re tmsr for a while nao. finally dawned ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: as is the ballet teacher holding a switch or light cane.
mircea_popescu: "Dear Ms. Tarzian: Here's another idea I've had: Weight Beaters. Weight Beaters are a method of encouraging participants to lose weight. A participant who does not lose the desired number of pounds in a month is beaten up. This negative feedback can, of course, be combined with more traditional positive-feedback weight-loss mechanisms."
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag speaking of which, this very expensive rare custom job of a server that was made to be a phuctor host is going to be paid for the 2nd idle month.
mircea_popescu: sure, but i wish to hear a bunch of "oh there's nothing wrong with tiny block ciphers - bitcoin needs larger blocks!!11"
mircea_popescu: phf could have "yes, exactly" on one side and "right, exactly" on the other and you could just raise it as appropriate :D
mircea_popescu: more importantly : we've done enough positive work, to be met by the imbecile's "oh it never happened, if it did we did it already" as seen most recently in reddit's digestion of the block thing ; or in phuctor etc. it's time we do something inquisitive, and let the entire world full of fucktards admit that they're useless.
mircea_popescu: and by "we" i mean you know, actulaly trained specialists in teh field.
mircea_popescu: the unreliability of record being the chief reason we don;t know history today
mircea_popescu: but you have incremental, crypto-proofed history from an earlier point.
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag actually the one trouble for them is... rebasing :)
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag> the problem is that no such plans exist for ~anything~ except as part of the engineering context of their time << yet another one of the problems of not running v.
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag> -- because it maxed out in 1960s. << aka "because they have no practical utility"
mircea_popescu: this works for as long as it does, and in no case produces any airpl;anes.
mircea_popescu: and, this is the important part, ~AND~ those dumbasses would be hanged by their foreskins.
mircea_popescu: it is insulting. if i was djb and lived in su i would fucking phone stalin over this stupidity.
mircea_popescu: if the snake was as competent as is required for a living animal, it would certainly not harry djb with inept shit of that level.
mircea_popescu: note that the tsar's snake similarly was seen as the shit skin only, and look where that took the tsar!
mircea_popescu: it also has a lot of bitcoin experts, scattered all over reditg
mircea_popescu: what's more "well specified, mechanical" than A FUCKING AIRPLANE
mircea_popescu: usg can build anything it wants, and it'll never want to build anything useful. much better, more interesting shiny baubles scattered all over the field.
mircea_popescu: the true curse of idiots is that they think they know what they want. and they do get it, most usually.
mircea_popescu: nope. they can only build items that look enough like the image of a plane as hashed through their culture.
mircea_popescu: understand this "can" correctly : can cargo cult tribe build any item out of straw and mud that they wish ?
mircea_popescu: incidentally, are you happy with the call for papers as is ?