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BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: In my first stint as a Teaching Assistant I had Late 40's grad students. Retired military or house wives getting almost always already employed by the university looking for their second or third career
decimation: they went to put a sign on the ground near ancient drawings in a desert, to protest the desecration of climate change, and they descrated the lines in the process
asciilifeform: (they exist! everyone remembers the 19th c. 'eternal students', who were bequeathed a certain income to live on -while students- by rich family, and so stretched out study for decades - today, it's loan deferment.)
mircea_popescu: 20 years later, it's a very fat, but in denial about it, very socially inept, but also in denial about it, 30something yo female.
mircea_popescu: you know what i'd really go for ? happy thursdays or something, wherein participating bars/coffee shops all over the world give free drinks to people in the b-a wot.
mircea_popescu: "Remember: anything a prog/leftist/SJW accuses others of doing, they always are guilty of themselves. Always. And that's why they can't see the contradiction here. Because the projection is a defense mechanism. They can't see the contradiction without realizing some very nasty truths about themselves."
mircea_popescu: who the fuck else imagines "nobody likes you" is a valid attack lmao
PeterL: speaking of Universities in Michigan, http://www.mlive.com/lansing-news/index.ssf/2014/12/george_will_speech_set_to_go_a.html
mircea_popescu asks nubbins to make him a sign
mircea_popescu: equalitarianism is a pipe dream, whether it calls itself democracy, socialism or anything else. hierarchy is both good and indispensable. this is factually correct, which means it's practically falsifiable and scientifically approacheable.
asciilifeform: sorta like what a more clever usg would have offered.
asciilifeform: mr mold realized this, but for reasons of his own he ended up crapping out a centrally-controlled abortion
asciilifeform: the important takeaway from the earlier thread is that 'democracy is mistake, hierarchy is useful concept' is a testable hypothesis with immediate engineering applications.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo is a backwards endian
decimation: which is a fantastic waste if you think about it
decimation: most of the modems that are now in use on shortwave are designed to turn the natural broadcast medium into a point-to-point link
decimation: actually vint has much to answer for, because of tcp. TCP was a step backwards in networking
asciilifeform: the beauty of a wot-enabled net is that you no longer need to think about perverse edge cases quite so much.
decimation: bitcoin is a kind of global namespace
decimation: absolutely. mr. yarvin linked to a vint cerf lecture where herr cerf was talking about global persistant namespaces
asciilifeform: (to pervert the liberast slogan 'a different world is possible')
asciilifeform: a different kind of net is possible.
decimation: well, it need not be a per-session ephemeral key in that case
asciilifeform: i bet mircea_popescu can tell us why ephemeral key is a must
asciilifeform: decimation is a winner
decimation: asciilifeform: why bother with the emphemeral key? wouldn't a signed blob (however you do the error coding) be good enough?
mircea_popescu: because the telcos WILL do a mickey mouse or should i say microsoft version of it
thestringpuller: that seems like a huge packet though ~_~
asciilifeform: i've deliberately described only a point-to-point link. routing with multiple hops is left as an exercise for the reader!
asciilifeform: to finish the earlier thread: machine on the other end of the link (destination) decides whether to keep packet and attempt payload reassembly based on simple criteria: 1) is it a hello from a wot-blessed (from his pov) key 2) is it signed by an ephemeral key from one such 'hello' received recently.
decimation: I managed to get that pci card with the onboard ocxo working with a slightly custom ntp driver
decimation: it's a mess
decimation: he also wrote a book on renewable resources from Herr McCarthy's point of view
asciilifeform: not a bad intro.
decimation: asciilifeform: did you see that david mackay book I recommended? He has a chapter on fountain codes
asciilifeform: fucking magic numbers << mircea_popescu wants to buy everyone on the planet a new nic and lay own oceanic fibers, launch own satellites, etc. ? sure, why not.
asciilifeform: here's a very rough description of above experiment. to start a transmission a --> b, 'a' sends a hello (udp) packet, which consists of an ephemeral rsa key, hash and length of (coming) payload, and all of the preceding signed with his wot key. this fits handily below the traditional 576 byte mtu.
mircea_popescu: exactly like gunpowder is impressive even without a fine 1850 hovitzer
mircea_popescu: and a shitty version, beyond primitive, yet it still worked.
asciilifeform: but really it was because posts were attached to identities (as a matter of convention, rather than 'hard' protocol)
mircea_popescu: the glory of the usenet is exactly the glory of b-a.
asciilifeform: whole thing was based (in my head) on a hypothesis that folks misidentify the reason for the glory of old usenet
mircea_popescu: it'd be a better tor and everything else by default.
asciilifeform: i may have spoken of this once. i've a very rough draft of precisely this, using an interesting bit of mathematics called 'fountain code'
mircea_popescu: make a whole new web, on a whole new port, based on pgp signs
asciilifeform: let's rephrase a little. the internet as presently exists, is, in practice, mainly a machine for 1) connecting derps to 'reddit' and 'arsebook' 2) routing ddos packets to trilema, qntra...
asciilifeform: i can think of a few events that would apply the necessary upward pressure on bandwidth cost.
mircea_popescu: they only get away with it because a flaw in the design.
mircea_popescu: it's a situation exactly identical to "pay for software" and software market in general.
mircea_popescu: that is what im saying. to get a packet there, you need more than one
asciilifeform: because in real life, taking a shit in someone's kitchen requires physically entering.
mircea_popescu: it's not a matter of who wishes anything.
mircea_popescu: it's like a beautifully drawn mmorpg made by blizzard. you KNOW the economy will be broken to all shit.
ben_vulpes: once upon a time, computers were such that children could actually reason about them.
assbot: Logged on 08-12-2014 17:09:27; asciilifeform: where every packet knows who paid for it << those who imagine a wot-routing based net as a rent-seekers' paradise are mistaken. it is today's net that is a rent-seeker's paradise, where folks who cannot abide ddos must buy bandwidth in vast excess of their normal needs
asciilifeform: most 'human' networks have a single gateway.
mircea_popescu: not trivial to know where a packet enters tho. they do have to traverse it anyway
asciilifeform: this in turn is fundamental braindamage baked into a good chunk of the net.
mircea_popescu: no, just ntp is a braindamaged protocol
cazalla: and it's that bullshit law which enables mohammed to hold down a chocolate shop for almost 24 hours.. the gov actually enabled him to do better than he could if the playing field was level
mircea_popescu: THAT shouldbe a tld.
decimation: .зэк would be a great tld
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: noone for values such that of people who claim to have, finding actual readers is still a hard problem. Not an actual 0.
undata: not that I dispute ubuntu being a steaming pile
assbot: Ubuntu is a worse piece of shit than MS-DOS ever was. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu. ... ( http://bit.ly/1wbmC1Q )
mircea_popescu: sounds like http://trilema.com/2014/ubuntu-is-a-worse-piece-of-shit-than-ms-dos-ever-was/
adlai: why does convert need 5G ram to build a 4M file. somebody didn't read knuth?
mircea_popescu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeYsTmIzjkw << my humble proposal for a isis.oz anthem
mircea_popescu: whai can it not be a gif
adlai: good thing the chart scraper was turned off, it would've captured a cartload of horseshit
kakobrekla: mats it seem they are right this time. dik, get a real client or smth.
assbot: 3 results for 's.nsa november' : http://s.b-a.link/?q=s.nsa+november
mats: i almost started a fire just now bc some extension cable started melting when i hooked up a space heater
mats: nah a cloak won't take precedence over the irccloud one
BingoBoingo: Is .inmate a tld yet?
kakobrekla: we sincerely apologize but our site was under a massive Distributed Denial of Service attack. We have reconfigured our servers for full protection by one of the world's best DDOS protection providers, so there will not be any downtime in the future. Our service has now world-class security.
BingoBoingo: Well, maybe if host doesn't have a dot assbot can greet people with joke?
kakobrekla: ok so assbot will now warn you bout ddos only if you have a dot in you host
mats: heart dun mean shit when you've got to march 20mi in a 30 pound iotv, with a 45 pound pack, and 15 pounds of weapon and magazine
assbot: SSDP Amplification Vector Explain [Attack Script & Scanner included] + a GIFT - Page 1 ... ( http://bit.ly/1svQ6YH )
mircea_popescu: davout lol well, they have a split issue. the proxies are online, just... no data.
davout: n/a everywhere
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> the way this guy cuts down on all the dumb idlers that imagine whatever, b-a is just another channel, can autopilot in is so fucking great srlsy. << too strong of a noob filter imho. more spport for the casuals!
davout: from what i understand, it's usually the case that the N and N+1 contracts trade simultaneously during a few days at least
davout: absolutely, but at any point of time there can't be only a single contract type trading, unlike what i understand from the usual future contracts where at some point both contracts are trading simultaneously
mircea_popescu: but these aren't two dollar bills. one is a dollar bill of your paycheck today. the other is a dollar bill of your paycheck next month. they aren't fungible.
davout: well, just because two dollar bills have a different serial number doesn't make it very useful to distinguish them, likewise it does not seem very useful to me to want to distinguish between these, maybe it's just me but i don't see what problem this solves
mircea_popescu: basically, we're cheating by using a singlke name for different instruments.
mircea_popescu: and because downstream providers & brokers need a settlement spot
thestringpuller: see you in a few hours
mircea_popescu: but whenever reddit or whoever pours in, there's a huge upsurge in traffic visible for quantcast.
assbot: Ford Motor Company: Bitcoin A Trend For 2015 : Bitcoin ... ( http://bit.ly/1GHCSsy )
cazalla: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2p9ctz/ford_motor_company_bitcoin_a_trend_for_2015/
cazalla: yeah, a qntra post was like #4 or something on reddit earlier
mircea_popescu: by a good 50%
mircea_popescu: the way this guy cuts down on all the dumb idlers that imagine whatever, b-a is just another channel, can autopilot in is so fucking great srlsy.
cazalla: i wonder if it's a psychological tactic to release his name at this time, maybe he feels media gives him recognition and being tired, is content with that and gives up
mircea_popescu: get a cloak Rory_
thestringpuller: dunno why a homeless person addicted to crack would have an iPhone...
mircea_popescu: that a good thing ?