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BingoBoingo: Well, that does explain why the CIA picked such
a manicured numale in the tradition of Canada's princess, and France's Ms. Blakkked. Ty for feeding the local media outlets.
mircea_popescu: point in case : Maryhen Jimenez Morales ("is
a PhD candidate in politics at University of Oxford.") : " the system of personalised power and governance which the country has experienced for decades did not begin with Hugo Chavez ; The charismatic aristocrat Simon Bolivar ; He was
a man in search of glory and
a military officer who believed in top-down decision-making. ; The caudillo rule did not disappear with Bolivar's death
mircea_popescu: anyway, since there's ~0 results FROM ACTUAL FUCKING VENEZUELA on any kind of google/bing/duckduckgo/whatever the fuck for
a search of venezuela, let's link here some actual venues :
a111: Logged on 2019-01-29 03:04 BingoBoingo: The latest noise is stroked out John Bolton doing
a press conference while holding
a notepad with 5000 troops to Colombia written on it.
https://archive.is/TYi6x a111: Logged on 2019-01-22 07:34 mircea_popescu: the problem is, cartels not particularly impressed with usg these days. all was needed to keep assad in power was russia, but
a colombia-venezuela-mexico wondertriangle is
a lot easier defended.
BingoBoingo: Noriega wasn't really sitting on much other than CIA friendship before getting stuffed into
a hole
a111: Logged on 2016-11-01 22:36 asciilifeform: north kr is simply
a large-scale version of the thing wonderful civilized americans like to do to prisoners, chain'em up to
a post until shits himself.
BingoBoingo: All that's realling missing is
a "Maine" to remember
BingoBoingo: Odd how all these "repressive dictators" seem to have
a much lighter hand than European "Champions of Demoocrity"
a111: Logged on 2019-01-15 22:09 mircea_popescu: but tbh, the "stochastic convergence test" seems to me worth
A LOT more than any bs "ent" ultimately meaningless "squares of pi" bs.
mircea_popescu: there's
a difference between well and wide, for fuck's sake. what is this, intellectual fast fooding
a111: Logged on 2016-09-08 17:31 asciilifeform: the #1 entry is gut-bustingly lulzy to asciilifeform , because i spend ~half year auditing
a multilinear-map thing for $rupturefarm, and even was sent to
a 'conference' where 'serious cryptographers' did not even blink when someone walked in with
a proof that whole thing was crock of shit
a111: Logged on 2019-01-25 17:21 asciilifeform: meanwhile, in 'holy fuck, i thought we hit rock bottom but then heard
a knock from below' lulz,
http://www.loper-os.org/pub/mcleod/index.html << 'professor of engineering' tries to argue in favour of old-fashioned , carmichaelizable primality litmus ~instead~ of m-r, on acct of the 'rarity of carmichael #s' .
diana_coman:
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-27#1890343 ->
a paper with actual content, ha! though I rather doubt the authors' statement that "the need for careful distinction between non-adversarial (or random) and adversarial primality testing is of course well understood in the cryptographic research community."
☝︎ mircea_popescu: nowadays, smartphones are within half
a second of each other -- jobs fixed paris timekeeping!
mircea_popescu: the original said "The French don't like being famous for their incapacity of being on time ? Let them fix their watches somehow to the same hour, so they quit going about Paris, apparent adults, with half hour's delta among what their watches show. " and i'm willing to attest even as late as LAST DECADE this was
a factual state of affairs.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
a narrative is
a set of interconnected events. as long as no interconnectedness is proposed, it's not
a narrative, whether fictitious or factual. so you could say
a painting is plastic fiction (while
a photography plastic realism). cuz they're not narrative.
mircea_popescu: yeah, right. because there is such
a thing as experts, and the femstate spawns them.
mircea_popescu: well, one possible explanation is "the smartphone revolution" : it managed to make say
a butler overexpensive through the simple application of "why should i practice being stiff when i could just catpic all day". conceivably, if it managed to reduce the butler population to practical zero, it might've reduced others too.
phf: asciilifeform: yeap, i've been keeping up with what you've been publishing on the subject. i'm looking forward to your xray results, i mean that's not something i thought would be doable at home, even if
a home lab
phf: unfortunately i failed to make careful note of various vpatch appearances. there's been some by people other than asciilifeform and diana_coman where the author didn't explicitly request
a btcbase upload. so if anyone's explicitly missing
a vpatch that they want to be up on btcbase, please leave note with me, privmsg also works
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I'm digging through stuff and apparently Israel doesn't have
a strong opinion on Vzla regime change is the US isn't going to have
a strong opinion on Syria regime change seems to be the sentiment.
mircea_popescu: much like lenses, really, the difference between
a very expensive and
a very cheap glass wasn't substantial, both made of polished glass. but much different in implementation, made of complicatedly boiled glass hand polished over months or not.
mircea_popescu: well, for
a long time the movements in cheap and expensive clocks were ~same, with mostly
a difference of fineness, precision of machining, to distinguish them.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-19 18:13 phf: i supper proper presentation of fg schematics in
a v-tron is either in the style of the marine chronometer book i have next to me or not at all. "taking first the essentials, c is the escape wheel. the escapement consists of the bar E, carrying the two projections e, e' etc". everything else ought to be handled separately
a111: Logged on 2019-01-26 18:16 asciilifeform: speaking of 'where to stop', diana_coman i still dunhave
a Troo proof that after r - 1 shots, the squaring loop really does always cycle; so unless i find one, i'ma have to put in
a mux there.
mircea_popescu: lmao. you know, many have tried, none have yet succeeded in guessing as much as
a title, as much as
a sentence, afore i publish my brew.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-19 03:54 asciilifeform: (iirc we had
a thread where i described how corporate ameritards, if given
a problem like phuctor, would happily soak up
a few $mil and megawatt of iron)
mircea_popescu: anyone have
a ready link to asciilifeform 's celebrated "in order for me to do anything else i'd have to have three trillion dollars in gold brick first" ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's only
a witness for EVEN composites tho ?
diana_coman: no hurry; if I have
a mistake in there I certainly want to know
diana_coman: that is my proof that always y= n-1 for
a= n-1
a111: Logged on 2019-01-26 08:58 diana_coman:
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-25#1889973 -> didn't rummage as too late yest but woke up this morning with this: when
a= n-1 step 2.2 aka y=
a^r mod n becomes y= (n-1)^r mod n; using for instance binomial expansion you have (n-1)^r = n^r + rC1*n^(r-1)*(-1)+rC2*n^(r-2)*(-1)^2+....+rC(r-1)*n*(-1)^(r-1)+(-1)^r; since the whole thing was "mod n", of all those terms you are in fact left with only the last one, aka y = (-1)^r mod n ; r is odd so
diana_coman: alternatively: do you see
a whole in my previous maffs?
diana_coman: it is
a leggit witness, yes; do you mean that it's not counted as it should be?