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mircea_popescu: and the historical master's taste in women shows they never met any for crying out loud.
mircea_popescu: besides, the modern copy can be fix. i much prefer my own rewrites of classical poems to the originals anwyay.
mircea_popescu would not feel particularly better for owning the "actual" copy of a painting he likes rather than a very good one. actually i'd feel like a total fool.
mircea_popescu: also, the thing is, it's perfectly legal to order and own, and trade etc COPIES
mircea_popescu: which is how 99% of these "fake fine art" arguments are settled - no eggyolk in the pigment or shit
mircea_popescu: ("oh this march is from 1722 and then they put antimony in the brass. this march was a fake!)
mircea_popescu: much like a good performance of a march does not get anulled through having been "not the original" and nobody sticks around to compare the brass instruments used
mircea_popescu: fine art is either fine for its fine-ness or then not even art at all.
mircea_popescu: (goya has a dressed maja and a nude one, they were goin to make "la maja en chemise")
mircea_popescu: anyway, pretty much your idea : a wanna-be rockefeller (except fraudster-y) hires an eccentric copyer to make an intermediate maja
mircea_popescu: this would be true if there existed a usg agency of authenticity.
mircea_popescu: what part of doublethink you think got cancelled ? the man with two maja desnudas simply is twice as happy.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: this is like, "it doesn't work if i come back home and there's TWO almost dressed blondies waiting for me"
mircea_popescu: he'll be voted, if that's what keeps millions from raining.
mircea_popescu: at the mental level where us adults are, $500 mn for soccer trading cards would not be amiss.
mircea_popescu: that weird feeling when you wake up at 4pm, everyone's gone to do useful stuffs and you have a pile of explanatory notes, aggregated foodstuffs and so forth.
mircea_popescu: oh i guess they were using it historicaly for the line above huh
mircea_popescu: incidentally, why the fuck is ^ called a caret. a caret is supposed to go below the line.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform say, you keep sending me these carets, what are they supposed to do ? add to my collection ?
mircea_popescu: s just they don't amount to much traffic wise, even when piled together, which is how i've never noticed before.
mircea_popescu: anyway, turns out trilema's linked from tons of various reddits in all sorts of topics, from recovering tlp old posts he apparently deleted to whatever random other thing.
mircea_popescu: either they stole someone's shit, in which case i want the original ; or else they made it up, in which case i dun want to hear it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu is not reading a vice regurgitation of anything. got the actual link ?
mircea_popescu: meanwhile how did that quote go, i really liked that thing, with social biddings and shit
mircea_popescu: all us tinfoil hats with our crazy notions about how shit that doesn't exist doesn't exist.
mircea_popescu: "A totalitarian society which succeeded in perpetuating itself would probably set up a schizophrenic system of thought, in which the laws of common sense held good in everyday life and in certain exact sciences, but could be disregarded by the politician, the historian, and the sociologist."
mircea_popescu: you know, they speak casually of how the bitches they know're gonna introduce the new ones. except... all this is a work of feverish imagination.
mircea_popescu: "The reappearance of HELEN'S BABIES, in its day one of the most popular books in the world–within the British Empire alone it was pirated by twenty different publishing firms, the author receiving a total profit of £40 from a sale of some hundreds of thousands or millions of copies–will ring a bell in any literate person over thirty-five."
mircea_popescu: cuz i might want to be able to distinguish orwell from orlov
mircea_popescu: because it's where it's headed anyway, and why the fuck wait.
mircea_popescu is tempted to deed a list of key,values of names of various people and start referring to people as "Primitive Man AFMrikO2o3Ka2pcpZ" instead of "Obama" or "Jean Jacques Rousseau" or whatever.
mircea_popescu: ;;google "pentru ca esti o vita spastica si te uraste soarta"
mircea_popescu: and if youy for some incomprehensible reason MUST use a hybrid scheme, use the following : 1. generate random 4096 hash ; 2. cut your message up into N chunks of size up to 2048 ; 3. xor the chunks with 1; encrypt each chunk via rsa
mircea_popescu: yes. but none of these actually requires a hybrid scheme
mircea_popescu: (and i maintain that in all context hybrid encryption is retarde dwithout exception. either fuck or get off the woman.)
mircea_popescu: i wasn't at any point contemplating "rsa encryption = rsa run once over the message herp"
mircea_popescu: no. rsa encryption = a succession of individually encrypted blocks.
mircea_popescu: make the damned thing match throughout. bapg = 4096 rsa, 4096 hash, etc.
mircea_popescu: actually. is there a 4096 bit hash function of any merit ?
mircea_popescu: phf yeah it's not actually as bad as it seemed on the basis of the snippet. still crud.
mircea_popescu: you "have" a horse. your dad bought youy it, except you may not ride it. what "have" ?