asciilifeform: adlai: these are typically found in the old-style 'kaya' wood boards, the kind having legs
asciilifeform: this is kinda what civilians end up doing with mathematical terminology.
asciilifeform: there is a legend, iirc, that a go board & stones set somehow made its way to euler. but sans the rules, or any reasonable notion thereof! he then inferred that it was played by throwing the stones into the little cavity on the underside of the board.
asciilifeform cringes when folks who otherwise show no symptoms of a mathematical past speak of 'metrics' etc
asciilifeform was just about to utter something like what mircea_popescu just observed re: the maths, but now doesn't need to !
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i mean, it doesn't exist in any mainstream programming system, of the kind favoured by the tards
asciilifeform: (btw this subject is near & dear to yours truly, as it was one of the historic 'holy wars' between the common lisp and scheme aficionados - the latter system had tailcall elimination as a required mechanism per the standard, the former - did not)
asciilifeform: during the 19th century. But that's a different discussion.) Thus what we call hate speech is merely a 20th-century name for the age-old crime of blasphemy.'
asciilifeform: 'Even more precisely, it is a core doctrine of the neo-primitive Christianity that we call Protestantism. And specifically, I believe it to be a mutated and metastasized version of the Quaker doctrine of the Inner Light. Basically, all humans must be neurologically uniform because we all have the same little piece of God inside us. (All the American Protestant sects, or at least all the Northern ones, became heavily Quakerized
asciilifeform: and placed it at the root of the 'they're people just like you!!11111' contagion
asciilifeform: mr mold identified this in vintage puritan spew as 'the inner light doctrine'
asciilifeform: y while the attacker is studying the actual problem of forging signatures. Maybe we're studying the problem of attacking one key while the attacker is studying the actual problem of attacking a large batch of keys. This oversimplification is surprisingly common...'
asciilifeform: 'Maybe we're studying the problem of setting public factorization records using academic computer clusters, while the attacker is studying the problem of factoring 1024-bit keys as quickly as possible using billion-dollar clusters. Or maybe, in an effort to advertise attractively simple problems, we've oversimplified the problem of attacking the actual cryptosystem. Maybe we're studying the problem of recovering a signature ke
asciilifeform: aha. inquire at dealership for full catalogue.
asciilifeform: other optional modules available are 'mercytron', which releases hcn gas when address printed on outside of machine is loaded with certain coin; or even 'ransomatron', which opens the lock if a certain coin arrives...
asciilifeform: also available with optional rectal module
asciilifeform: davout: it was, i think, in old thread. it's a kind of iron box where you lock a man and he only gets to eat (corn syrup, by the litre) while he enters valid btc private keys and the cumulative balance not yet exhausted.
asciilifeform: 'When he saw the cast photos earlier this month, he demanded through Blickers to know the ethnicity of the actors, she said. "I couldn't stop myself from crying when I saw the photos and realized what was happening," Suh wrote in his e-mail.'
asciilifeform: 'Potential for nodes that do not wish to store or verify old transaction signatures' << didja know we 'needed' this ?? i certainly didn't
