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mircea_popescu: so when it's firing time... buncha very drunk dudes that swear they didn't drink
a drop
cazalla: yeah my opa use to make it, locked him in the cellar once, such
a hiding for that one
BingoBoingo: Drink is totally not
a big deal. In the same way standardized tests in the US are not
a big deal. The cost to pass maximally is trivial.
mircea_popescu: i suspek that makes me
a heavy drinker, at least at the time.
mircea_popescu: cazalla heh notrly. my high mark is putting away something over
a liter of 50% moonshine and then walking out.
mircea_popescu: that's kinda the thing, if it's not
a big deal it just... isn't
a big deal.
cazalla: BingoBoingo, ease up, he's
a light drinker
BingoBoingo: * mircea_popescu had
a drink at his junior high prom. which was held in
a bar. because romanians didn't actually give
a shit. << Wait Wut, you only had one drink at prom? Junior year I was trying to keep pace with Anya.
mircea_popescu had
a drink at his junior high prom. which was held in
a bar. because romanians didn't actually give
a shit.
BingoBoingo: <cazalla> but if it's you turning up blind drunk and acing
a test, i'd believe it << Since 1998 when the injun store stopped carding me
cazalla: but if it's you turning up blind drunk and acing
a test, i'd believe it
cazalla: how well can
a student pay you for pretending to be them?
cazalla: sounds like
a lot of effort
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Pretty much, so long as you offer me an identify that does not have
a history of long term use of lamotrinine of chloro-amphetamines
mircea_popescu: so you could get me
a law degree just in time for lawsky being extradited to serenissima jurisdiction so i can da myself personally ?
BingoBoingo: I just think it is too early to surrender to the chicoms. Even though I could prolly bang out
a qntra.chicom in 45 minutes if I wasn't so pickled atm.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I am totally fine with the En language space surrendering except as
a pidgin used in trade. If you let
a single slant language into the acceptable trading space though. I sense trouble. Don't know of, but anticipate
Adlai: put it to shareholder votes. want more incentive for translations in your language? gotta pay to have
a say, like in 'real' politics
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo the thing is, if you give them parity you'll end up with you know, hungarian translation of 500 qntra articles diluting you to shit << Editors discretion. Fucking hungarian sucks, not
a lang
BingoBoingo: I thin translation is between 1/2 to 2/3rds.
A full 1 if from strange to Eng
mircea_popescu: the first time today i sat here and couldn't figure out
a problem was when i tried to parse davout's proposal. brain just can't cope.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo what's +10%vote mean ? << You and cazalla are 20%
a piece I throw my 10% behind translations, because we aren't fucking Cointelegrah with seperate US and UK press releases
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> cazalla i was thinking btw, on the general principle of translations. what do you think of
a model where translations, be they en to es, or es to en or cn to en or whatever they may be count for half the shares ? << +10%vote unless that is horribly uneconomical
mircea_popescu: cazalla i was thinking btw, on the general principle of translations. what do you think of
a model where translations, be they en to es, or es to en or cn to en or whatever they may be count for half the shares ?
BingoBoingo a liter in deeper than when I last touched the skunkswork project
brendafdez: <brendafdez> I always take
a long time before I do anything, so as to be sure that I won't fail to disappoint everyone involved.
cazalla: i hear brendafdez has got
a baby in es.qntra.net
BingoBoingo nevar made it from applied to law student in spite of 178 on LSat assumed to naturally shady to be
a lawyer
brendafdez: didn't last more than
a year in law school either, although it was in fact easier than math
brendafdez: i ended up just being
a pretend bitcoiner
BingoBoingo: Algebra spans
a spectrum from HS math to Gimme meth Imma not Erdos
mircea_popescu: dude look at that graph, mpoe fell of
a cliff in slow motion.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> <BingoBoingo> I support thestringpuller's idea that it could be dangerous < << Ah, I'm just thinking he might have
a better measure of the enemy's pulse.
BingoBoingo: I was just asking if people remember
a distributed memory safe system beign abandoned.
mircea_popescu: all that thing's doing is
a more expensive, less useful, bitcoin node.
mircea_popescu:
a is
a non starter because their demo is reddit demo = poor people. it has to be free or no dice.
mircea_popescu: you don't seriously imagine the rasbperry pi 150 dollar node
a) can achieve critical mass or b) can support gavincoin ?
BingoBoingo: <pete_dushenski> "Jordan has signed
a $10bn deal with Russia to build the kingdom's first nuclear power plant, with two 1,000-megawatt reactors in the country's north." << someone is actually building nuclear reactors these days. << /me remembers when King Hussein was the "Good Guy" (TM)
pete_dushenski: "Jordan has signed
a $10bn deal with Russia to build the kingdom's first nuclear power plant, with two 1,000-megawatt reactors in the country's north." << someone is actually building nuclear reactors these days.
BingoBoingo: brendafdez: Certain classes of drugs have
a history of being very effectual on me, but most drugs dropped in drink I have
a strongly trained cross tolerance to.
mircea_popescu: lol there's little more amusing than seeing people try various fringe ideologies on b-
a.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: I thought I rated you earlier. If not leave
a not. I'm too pickled atm to access important keys. Insufficiently skilled at the knife.
assbot: You rated user pete_dushenski on 08-Jul-2014, with
a rating of 2, and supplied these additional notes: Pimp..
pete_dushenski: you'll just have to trust me that i'm
a decent singer then.
mircea_popescu: note that out of that 1.6%, about 1.5% is state-sponsored crapolade
a la zynga. leaving the other 0.1% with an accidental 55k this year, which is barely enough to you know, pay rent.
mircea_popescu: battle i dunno about, but off tune melee for
a few hours - sure.
pete_dushenski: well i for one would like to see what the argentinian in the big house could muster as far as
a military goes
pete_dushenski: he has
a couple other too, none do quite that well but i was reasonably impressed that he hadn't lost his shirt
gribble: adam_obrien was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 4 weeks, 3 days, 3 hours, 48 minutes, and 11 seconds ago: <adam_obrien> I have to run here, if any of you need Bitcoin give me
a ping adam@btcsolutions.ca
pete_dushenski: speaking of which, turns out that bitcoin atms can actually make
a buck!
brendafdez: hough you can disable this if you prefer. This reminder will also include instructions on how to unsubscribe or change your account options. There is also
a button on your options page that will email your current password to you."
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> you wouldn't complain that the strippers don't wait on tables properly, would you ? as
a woman ? << Serious labor problem here in the Middle West. Strippers aren't table servers
mircea_popescu: you wouldn't complain that the strippers don't wait on tables properly, would you ? as
a woman ?
assbot: Logged on 24-03-2015 16:47:19; pete_dushenski: on one end is disinterest,
a la paris or w/e, on the other end is entitlement
mircea_popescu: the point of
a functioning intellect isn't to make one one with the universe. the point of
a functioning intellect is to make it impossible for the universe to make itself one with one.
nubbins`: i know, and all they gave me was
a b.sc.
Adlai: (this seems to be djb's real reason behind discounting curves without
a *convenient* constant-time algorithm)
mircea_popescu: not sure it's particularly
a point of interest for bitcoin for that matter.
Adlai: re: montgomery ladder, you can implement constant-time secp256k1, but it's
a pita
assbot: Logged on 24-03-2015 15:01:59; asciilifeform: yes, some crypto designers make mistake, they are good people, sure, whatever. i will borrow from slavoj žižek and say then 'we put them to
a good wall, shoot them with
a good bullet from
a good gun, and bury them in with
a good shove in the good earth' - since sure, they are good people.
mircea_popescu: well alternatively
a) deedbot b) set the damned timer.
mircea_popescu: the cm field issue is probably the most concerning, and if there's
a baked in backdoor (something like, say, nsa is able to directly see through maybe 10% of all keys ever generated ?) that's where it'd be, that 3= -1 * 3≈ -2^1.6 property it shares with weak curves like bn(2,254) etc.
mircea_popescu: particularly the ladder... so it's not
a montgommery curve. so what.
BingoBoingo: More suspicious than niggers.o as
a library function?
mircea_popescu: but for the fate of
a random usg muppet ? dude, burn him down, his name won't even be remembered.
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: Schools used to tend towards Mac fo
a reason and that was Nvir vs all those damn DOS & Windows virii
ben_vulpes: just had
a "don't blame the hackers" conversation.
assbot: ButterNubber comments on An entire US school district is having its whole network held hostage for
a 500 bitcoin ransom. The FBI and Homeland Security are getting involved. ... (
http://bit.ly/1GifYv8 )
ben_vulpes: and you can take fifty of them with you in
a backpack...anywhere.
assbot: Logged on 25-03-2015 00:37:43; assbot: Logged on 23-03-2015 06:08:33; ben_vulpes: <decimation> I just thought of
a brilliant anti-'area denial' (to usg term) weapon system. imagine
a small turboprop uav ... that can drop its wings and turn into kerosene rocket << why bother with expensive turbomachinery? just use solid propellants...
ben_vulpes: <nubbins`> we're assholes, yet here we are trying << "
a for effort"
mircea_popescu: was keeping my fingers crossed for it being just you know, two lines and
a whistle.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> seems that's 64 bit only now o.O << ahaha in between this line and my logreading mod6 posted
a patch
nubbins`: until you dropped it on
a corner anyway
assbot: Logged on 25-03-2015 04:37:57; nubbins`: anyone here have
a lead on custom injection-molded plastics?
nubbins`: mircea_popescu not as easily as
a box of tees 8)
mircea_popescu: once they make
a 4gb unit for ~25 we'll think about it ?
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: right hang on let me diddle this text for
a second