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asciilifeform: literal fucking of goats.
asciilifeform observes that it is bidirectionally correlated with goatfucking, 1.0.
asciilifeform: https://www.ucalgary.ca/rzach/blog/2009/09/logic-and-madness.html << lulzy, related.
asciilifeform can't actually think of kronecker without also thinking of cantor frothing in lunatic asylum
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu for whom does gnu-mpi have the jacobi, legendre, kronecker, lucas knobs?! i have failed to turn up any instance of anyone ever having used them. or even tested.
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asciilifeform: yeah yeah if you aren't on a nietzschean atomic dirigible you're nothing, i get it
asciilifeform: on account of not having chosen your parents carefully.
asciilifeform: where i live, it more typically means that you are 'more distant from the pipeline'
asciilifeform: (to show up in court, press the issue, etc)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the rub is that enforcement of the contract typically requires money. or, at the very least, time.
asciilifeform: also lulzily, where i live, not only tenants 'feel oppressed' by landlord, but (small-time) landlords also 'oh noez we are oppressed' by tenants!
asciilifeform: ah
asciilifeform: wai wat
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-10-2015#1300456 << where i live, 'return keys' is a ceremonial thing, landlord traditionally changes lock each time ☝︎
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=16-10-2015#1300495 << we had this here before. gnu tar versions. ☝︎
asciilifeform: the not-being...
asciilifeform: what would this even look like ?
asciilifeform: hence 0.5.3
asciilifeform: but to some extent earlier.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: 0.8+
asciilifeform will be more excited after the checkmate
asciilifeform: good thing?!
asciilifeform: l0l aha.
asciilifeform: the overarching picture in my mind is that bitcoin would scarcely look any different if it had been designed by вредители
asciilifeform has been sitting and trying to ascertain precisely 'why'
asciilifeform: 'because openssl'
asciilifeform: as far as i can tell - unused sign bit.
asciilifeform: bit
asciilifeform: 'malleability' vector - any idiot can, presently, flip it, and both variants compute as valid sig.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there is a 'don't care' value, one bit's worth. the proposed tweak abolishes it.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: notice that the operation takes place after the act of signing properly speaking.
asciilifeform: anyway, as far as i can see the suggested tweak is harmless. who wants to write the patch, can.
asciilifeform: but yes, if you buried the tx-shooter in cement at the bottom of the mariana trench, it will suck
asciilifeform: which doesn't actually do anything random bozos can't already do to your tx.
asciilifeform: now if all you have is this kind of tx, you can trivially transform it into one that is legal per the patch linked earlier
asciilifeform: now this is true.
asciilifeform: *pre-loaded tx-en, that is
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this'd be: to nuke pre-loaded sigs (e.g., dead-man switch systems, or otherwise secreted.)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have a theory re: one possible reason why enemy might be interested in altering sig format
asciilifeform: so what i actually sat down at the console to say was...
asciilifeform: and this is the 4th or so, on my end, in 3 days.
asciilifeform: aha
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asciilifeform: advertise 'we sold ten tonnes of meat', but no reason to mention what % is maggot ☟︎
asciilifeform: lulzy
asciilifeform is mildly curious re: whether this flavour of nonsense even pretends to physically exist, as product, or is straight bezzle laundry
asciilifeform: 'blockchains'
asciilifeform: ed among multiple parties. The validation and verification tools let the client audit these transactions in real time or run more sophisticated business process analysis of systems in the future.'
asciilifeform: 'Factom's software allows companies to maintain a permanent, time-stamped record of their data tied to blockchains, reducing the cost and complexity of conducting audits, managing records, and complying with government regulations. n the financial services industry, Factom tools let customers build transparent accountability systems for the financial industry, helping clients build immutable records that can be synced and shar
asciilifeform: vs one of sticks and mud
asciilifeform: but how is this a cargo cult? what i'm seeing is a very small but functioning airplane ☟︎
asciilifeform: pretense how? is the refrigerator box a hobo lives in a pretense of a house ? or merely the only house he can afford
asciilifeform: but where's the 'ustardation' ? all i see thus far is poverty
asciilifeform: aka 'brass pole in bangkok'
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-10-2015#1299118 << would be entertaining to hear more of this ☝︎
asciilifeform: only if you have a mole
asciilifeform: how?
asciilifeform: esp. in small firms
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this misses a fairly big chunk of reality, where hiring is not done publicly but through meatwot
asciilifeform: and yes, cost is not a scalar. but as someone who actually buys things i am led to partially differentiate. i.e. if i personally need max cpu ~quantity~ for my personal bag of money, i will be buying z80.
asciilifeform: recall the crashing flashlight ?
asciilifeform: http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html << it.
asciilifeform: in his 'blub' article.
asciilifeform: hell, this was even in (pre-braindamage) paul graham
asciilifeform: this - yes.
asciilifeform: i thought that was a standard 'jam tomorrow'
asciilifeform: or my personal favourite 'cockroaches will inherit the earth'
asciilifeform: as per the 'infinite hitpoints' article from mircea_popescu's www, aha
asciilifeform is palpably confused
asciilifeform: except where they do.
asciilifeform: aha
asciilifeform: so what was cheaper on day 0 ?
asciilifeform: incidentally, for the two kinds of dope picked for this comparison, the packaging and distribution costs dwarf the actual cost of producing the pill
asciilifeform: this is handy for the present day but does not explain how the pieces on the board got to where they are
asciilifeform: pray to god, he drops a pallet down ?
asciilifeform: how does it 'cost nothing' ?
asciilifeform: yes, $0
asciilifeform: in the sense of go-dig-up-from-the-skip ?
asciilifeform: wai wut
asciilifeform: re: previous thread: i get the hypothesis, but it falls apart re: z80 specifically. as it is... still made. and is about $5 in qty.
asciilifeform: hung != acquit
asciilifeform: unless one goes 'but no one is tooled for it'
asciilifeform: z80 is absolutely cheaper.
asciilifeform: of, e.g., 'depakote' vs dextraamphetamine
asciilifeform: i don't see anything in the structures that would suggest a substantial difference in cost per kg.
asciilifeform: is PeterL around ? let's look at the synthesis for either.