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mircea_popescu: ang-st my point, conversely, is that the general public is as human as the population of holstein cattle. nobody cares nor ever will.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: me ? i have the 3 pilot boxen as prev. catalogued. or you meant him
ang-st: my point is crypto concept are still miles away from general public (and i consider most user of ttnn as general public)
asciilifeform: tho fr is nearly as 'good' as usa afaik
mircea_popescu: as it happens we're right in the middle of building republican infrastructure, in principle at least as to what meets the eye very similar to whart you have there.
ang-st: well we have a true DC room, and an "assocative" one (as in french term association which stand for non profit org)
ang-st: mircea_popescu: no we have our own AS, 2 kind of DC room a 10G line
mircea_popescu: if all the "here's the usg-bitcoin, accept it in exchange" doesn't work as it hasn't with ripple/ethereum/bitcoin-core/crash/whatever, the only remaining avenue is the idly papal claim to "all the bitcoins".
deedbot: F6859D5B0BD80C6F8B19A07DD64423DB580E6CFB registered as ang-st.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-09 17:34 asciilifeform: as it is it barely can afford trucks that dun leak oil, much less any quantity of 'bigdog'
ben_vulpes: "and for as long as your citizens run free 802.* rebroadcasters, we're going to be utterly uninterdictable"
ben_vulpes: predator and phriendz seem to work fine, so long as nobody's spoofing gps
asciilifeform: as it is it barely can afford trucks that dun leak oil, much less any quantity of 'bigdog' ☟︎
mircea_popescu: to explain ourselves : the coy behaviour is defined as the spurious pretense of sexual disinterest put forth by a universally-interested machine ; and it is counterproductive because while it does in fact increase (somewhat) the success with above-average value partners, it entirely ruins any perpsective of success with the highest value partners. that this may (arguable, and i doubt it) sum to positive over a larege populati
mircea_popescu: i have nfi why or wherefore, it's about as counterintuitive as the coy behaviour in females.
mircea_popescu: scary enough as it is, the hopes of the us as to http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-08#1722633 are entirely spurious. teh chinese have long reversed all us military chips. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: no dude, "having gone to school" tech as opposed to "i heard on youtube" tech
mircea_popescu: apparently it can be formulated so as to dissolve in dmf/dma etc
mircea_popescu: so basically speaking, for as long as the women will keep getting pregnant the schoolteachers will still have work to do.
mircea_popescu: concernedscaling the generator is ambitious idiots. they don't "feel" their current social station is befitting for one such as them ; but they ALSO don't "feel" like they should have to do what has to be done.
shinohai: Navigating to http://thebitcoin.foundation/trb-howto.html and building that would be a far, far better use of one's time as well.
concernedscaling: yeah, can't sink them all as they will just keep coming
mircea_popescu: the stubborn insistence of the "reading public" to read old newspapers is very much the chief ideological point of the journalist "profession", as it keeps them in print.
concernedscaling: g it was a fork (it's like Litecoin in my mind, which "scales" as well). But even more concerning is Bitcoin with segwit, and my current BTC on this upgraded protocol. I have not seen much talk about these issues in here lately, is there a reason for this? It seems like most are underestimating the threat of this fake bcash and segwit.
concernedscaling: Hi everyone. I'm trying to make sense of all this scale talk and I want to keep my BTC safe. My first mistake is probably getting information from twitter and redditard. We have Dr Craig W going on (and quite convincing) about BCash being the real bitcoin as it is able to scale like satoshis vision. However, this makes no sense to me considerin
mircea_popescu: anyway. mildly amusing that in 2017 rando still don quixoting with the same windmills as in 2014. who knows, maybe if he wastes his ENTIRE life at this, "how he thinks normal debates work" will matter.
asciilifeform: and imho a house you haven't usefully 'gentooed' is merely... a hotel. may as well live in actual hotel
trinque: as far as land ownership, not too sure how much I want to marry a piece of real estate anyway.
asciilifeform: or for that matter , timis is same parallel as odessa but warmer, because in a 'kettle'
asciilifeform: same as where
asciilifeform: ( ftr it ain't as if asciilifeform had a thing to move into yet. but may as well get all of the parallelizable balls rolling. )
asciilifeform: may as well sell for fiatola, or leave for the vultures.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-14 17:29 asciilifeform: asciilifeform had a 1958 'britannica', made in usa, that he fished out of a dumpster as a boy. it was superb, as far as encyclopaedia goes, about on par with famous большая советская энциклопедия . but today it lives packed in a crate.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-09 00:24 mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo qntra would work fine as a vps off your vps machine im sure.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: there is not such a thing as a sane fiatolistan. but otoh it is difficult to do worse than usa.
BingoBoingo: davout: Freight happens later as "household", that way duty free.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo qntra would work fine as a vps off your vps machine im sure. ☟︎
BingoBoingo: Does airline treat this as a bag or a something else
a111: Logged on 2016-10-03 19:15 asciilifeform: one of the interesting recurring motifs in dalrymple (british dude who worked for decades as prison doctor) re addicts is that they are not 'could be just anybody'
asciilifeform: dunno that this carries universally -- could just easily say 'caesar should have grown his chitinous plate on his chest, so as not to be stabbed'
asciilifeform: we do as soon as asciilifeform parks a box !
mircea_popescu: in the sense that third party can predict (by eliminating some as impossible) future urls in whatever manner.
asciilifeform: can reference by anything convenient. so long as not entertaining the seductive but very dangerous notion that the reference ~is~ the item.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-08#1734650 << this is very much a koch-gpg problem in the vein of "lobbes warning people not to rely on the "control dials" as provided by koch-gpg, for being unreliable" and probably the most important example thereof. ☝︎
davout: sounds to me as the same fundamental problem re hashes
mircea_popescu: in any case. there's no requirement that you be able to use the word "car" to go shopping in it ; and similarily there's no requirement that you be able to use a key's fingerprint to sign, or check signatures with it. the intention of the fingerprint is to permit you to reference a specific key unambiguously to a third party, such as when asking for it.
mircea_popescu: as i said, making the modulus be the name has its advantages.
mircea_popescu: well, at first it was about lobbes warning people not to rely on the "control dials" as provided by koch-gpg, for being unreliable ; then you wanted to talk about fps and then at some point and without warning anyone apparently pivoted to talking about pubkeys and signatures.
mircea_popescu: i had nfi you object to names as a matter of principle.
asciilifeform: as i see it it's an arbitrary turd.
trinque: I'll go change to to encode the FP as repititions of the string "cocks" to signify
mircea_popescu: but somehow commerce hasn't come at astandstill by the fact that you can call a folded sheet of paper as well as a 100`000 ton transport item "boat"
mircea_popescu: there can be no doubt as to which key is being referenced if the reference consists of modulus.
asciilifeform: not knowing the e has exactly same effect as not knowing half of the n. ☟︎
asciilifeform: just same as if you did not know the n.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, there's no doubt as to which key is in discussion.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-08#1734480 << how are they to find out ? by same argument you could as easily say 'post first half of modulus, let'em look for other half' ☝︎
trinque: right, I could as well use nick for that, since it's a non-colliding namespace for those
mircea_popescu: which reduces to "there ARE practical limits to labels for things ; and they are unrelated to the sizes of the things, i expect the WORD for ant, dick, car and aeroplane to all fit the ~5.6 characters rule as universally enforced in alphabet"
lobbes: But otherwise, even I can agree: no real use for key servers as-a-thing. And, as I've found out, expiration-as-a-thing idem
asciilifeform: and you're welcome to hash on own end, 'in harem'. just don't refer to my key as its hash, it is unseemly
davout: + exponent as asciilifeform points out, which iirc is to be 'large' as well
mircea_popescu: 512 chars as the case may be, but anyway.
davout: asciilifeform: i'm not speaking about gpg as its currently-existing braindamaged implementation of a shaky protocol
mircea_popescu: at no point was this discussion about key identifiers. the fact that gpg reports "no expiration" FALSELY, as it reports all sorts of false or otherwise stupid, misleading etc non-facts is at issue
lobbes: and yeah, I overlooked that I apparently had to also remove expiration on the sub -explicitly- (via gpg --edit-key). Even though it was showing the sub as 'expiration: none' after I had removed expiration on the pub way back when ☟︎☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-11-08 17:20 asciilifeform: 'Such an order by a US court is exceptional, Carroll says. “In general, our federal courts do not have the power to issue orders against people or entities that were not part of the lawsuit.” But he adds that US federal rules for civil procedures such as this do sometimes allow injunctions against persons who are in ‘active participation’ with an enjoined party. The current lawsuit is an example of that, he says.'
asciilifeform: 'Such an order by a US court is exceptional, Carroll says. “In general, our federal courts do not have the power to issue orders against people or entities that were not part of the lawsuit.” But he adds that US federal rules for civil procedures such as this do sometimes allow injunctions against persons who are in ‘active participation’ with an enjoined party. The current lawsuit is an example of that, he says.' ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-11-08 16:05 asciilifeform: in other lulz, amazon co nao offering... i shit thee not, 'Not at home? Not a problem. As a Prime member, you can get packages securely delivered into your home without being there. Plus, grant access to the people you trust, like your family, friends, dog walker, or house cleaner—no more leaving a key under the mat.' << 'cloud'-controlled door lock.
trinque remembers a time from his youth when drunk, chick puts on porn in group mixed company, figures hey, we're gonna fuck, proceeds as such.
mircea_popescu: the wheel turned as well as ever ... but the car... it didn't move.
mircea_popescu: this is the problem of 2, and it is as deep as it gets. mentally isolated, solitary lonely lost dorks.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform very much so, yes, and especially of this worst agraristan of all, "we're still wearing same clothes as roman colonists 2000 years ago and really speak the same language and fuck you"
mircea_popescu: anyway, the problem isn't creators, that romania has. the problem is romania itself, as dumbly impermeable as fresh clay.
mircea_popescu: not altogether an un-understandable or for that matter incorrect view. moreover, owing to romania's incredible literary sterility as manifested as a long term sustained inability to meaningfully write themselves...
asciilifeform: sounds almost exactly same story as hungary
mircea_popescu: as a result, the victorious revolutionaries found themselves in '45 in a dubious situation : they had absolutely no political legitimacy. outside of mihai, who was mentally incompetent then as now, but whose two aunts were very willing to sell out ; and sanatescu, who didn't think much of them (for cause), they had ~no one in bucharest.
mircea_popescu: romania got meanwhile engaged on the eastern front by general antonescu, who was literally as he describes himself, a military man being sucked into a power vacuum and trying to do best could be done.
mircea_popescu: as per above discussion lol.
asciilifeform: in other lulz, amazon co nao offering... i shit thee not, 'Not at home? Not a problem. As a Prime member, you can get packages securely delivered into your home without being there. Plus, grant access to the people you trust, like your family, friends, dog walker, or house cleaner—no more leaving a key under the mat.' << 'cloud'-controlled door lock. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: thereby a lowball estimate of "heat to dispose of one" is probably in excess of 30MJ per capita, as opposed to the 1MJ originally estimated above.
mircea_popescu: this disregards any losses due to the aerogel part, which insulates, and also any further losses from "boiling is not enough", as well as passive loss of heat into your apparatus etc.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-08#1734048 << deeper, as in deeper. ☝︎
davout: but upward force decreases as depth increases
asciilifeform: as good as sea, neh
mircea_popescu: there is no such thing as "cheap mains current". it's expensive universally.
mircea_popescu: anyway. let it be plainly stated that current idiot's expectation they'll be shot is about as ridiculous as 1940s jews'. who the fuck can be bothered.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: if they simply float back, not much point in the boat, eh. may as well then stack'em as pyramid, like chingis khan
shinohai: As long as producing plastic from corn, perhaps biodiesel also
mircea_popescu: as fucking if ?
a111: Logged on 2015-09-02 00:34 mircea_popescu: (in kbr's case, it's not that they're stupid, it's that they were raped. the classic "we provide indemnity so now you may not not break the law as we tell you to" trick. "key is in your pocket" in legal parlance)
BingoBoingo: "Taylor's lyrics in "Look What You Made Me Do" seem to play to the same subtle, quiet white support of a racial hierarchy. Many on the alt-right see the song as part of a "re-awakening," in line with Trump's rise. At one point in the accompanying music video, Taylor lords over an army of models from a podium, akin to what Hitler had in Nazi Germany. The similarities are uncanny and unsettling."
a111: Logged on 2016-08-18 13:39 asciilifeform: 'As physicists, radioastronomers, and electronics engineers, we were all struck by the possibility of doing independent broadcasts, if nothing else because that was our profession. My colleagues took part in broadcasts in Warsaw and other cities. Rooftop transmitters had low range. And they were easy for the security services to locate. We had to think of something else. Our colleague Andrzej Jeśmanowicz, son of the noted Toruń mat
mircea_popescu: coolant is over boiling point as it is. pressurized systems.
asciilifeform: ( model it, say, as an ensemble of '9000' stations, where if any half dozen of which successfully read other end, you have a link )
mircea_popescu: acts as a cheap filter.
a111: Logged on 2017-11-07 20:22 asciilifeform: as for atmospheric conditions, station has no way of knowing them
asciilifeform: ( the 'rtl' dongle sdr aficionados ~all use, started life as 'tv' )
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-07#1733562 << this is a doubtful proposition, as the enemy is basically "idiots", and much like nature having much more energy to burn than you do, idiots are much more affixed to their idiotarian ideology than you will ever be to yours. ☝︎
asciilifeform: wasn't meant to be 'kept in attics gathering dust', but simply low duty cycle - as in, e.g., 1ms per hour