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mircea_popescu: ascii_field like the whole swathe of "bitcoin experts", and also like "cryptography experts" of the ilk of some nobody in particular running "socklpuppet.org"
mircea_popescu: specifically because if one of these is not open to challenge, he is ipso definition an S. and anons are ipso definitio not open to challenges
mircea_popescu: in any case : i am not valuing nor even reading "opinions" of anon folk ie Qs.
mircea_popescu: the entire list S exists so that "credible" S's can appear so that selected Ls can be fucked over.
mircea_popescu: in particular no trust or crediblity may attach to that record, for the simple reason that THAT IS HIS FUCKING JOB.
mircea_popescu: in this model, the fact that Sy displays any score on the basis of his past emitted Q is no proof of anything.
mircea_popescu: 3. create a set S of twobitidiots Sk, who put forth statements Q about various P, so that the actual T(Q(Px)) is normally distributed over the list S.
mircea_popescu: 2. take a list L of actors Lj , who decide (D) on which P to rely, and are scored by function S(Lx), according to the impact of their reliance on false P (which is uncomputable at all points before running S)
mircea_popescu: 1. take a complex situation C about which propositions may be formed Pi which are decidably correct or false through a T(Px) function.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field he is starting in the wrong place and therefore may never succeed.
mircea_popescu: anyway. i don;t know who this guy is and don't care what he [thinks he] may have to say on the topic.
mircea_popescu: and ftr, the nist ec crapolade was ALWAYS regarded as suspiciouys at best "by people in the business"
mircea_popescu: anyway. piuk can go dangle, i have very little respect left for his competence
mircea_popescu: irrespective of what "venture capital" it has wasted to date.
mircea_popescu: "A blockchain explorer has ONE JOB: to show its users valid blocks and transactions. Blockchain.info does not do this. It's worse than worthless; it's deceptive."
mircea_popescu: same cloud the brits store the islanders to create that .io in the firsat place.
mircea_popescu: do that, mgith as well "store your private keys with keybase.io indacloud"
mircea_popescu: lol actually you should see hanbot these days, running containers and whatnot. you lot have ruined her.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> to which i answer << and to wich is answer, if memory serves you were brought by a woman!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> knowing this, how to talk to 'under 30' ? << i have an easy enough time, prequals : nude, nice tits, better ass, on knees.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform long known, that machine. it consists of a belt and, as mo says, "totu-i din incheietura, ma, degeaba tot..."
mircea_popescu: "i know hoiw to make sitcom successful in big way (like seinfeld) so please send me some pics of you" ?
mircea_popescu: i made this point, vaguely, when we were discussing our own survival, in the form of "lordship lists" etc. but it stands - if you have a systematic closure you're in a bubble.
mircea_popescu: spartan may well speak with his sword, but this does not promise an easy translation.
mircea_popescu: but it also illustrates just how strained the melted cheese is
mircea_popescu: and if you wish you can say the same re programmers, and i'll buy it
mircea_popescu: some, the brighter ones, are sort-of trying, twitter, what have you. maybe it works, who knows.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, everyone else in fucking finance pretty much is
mircea_popescu: ~I~ am not in a bubble, because i actually take untold hours each quarter to talk here.
mircea_popescu: chetty you'll probably get asked what asciilifeform got asked yesterday re "industry".
mircea_popescu: for them reddit IS the west, much like for yours truly, outlet store catalogues was
mircea_popescu: i'd rather see the best in all fields, including poisons.
mircea_popescu: it is a culture with a fucktarded, buggy, slow implementation of these
mircea_popescu: you know what ? there's a usable kb or two on github too
mircea_popescu: tell you what - if we ever lose sandwiching, ima reinvent it
mircea_popescu: not unless you imagine the stale sandwich 3 months in your fridge is a "backup copy" of a sandwich
mircea_popescu: tumblr pheminism is a great strengthener. for a live one.
mircea_popescu: some shields are simply not worth having. period. for any cost. they mostly cost "0" anyway.
mircea_popescu: i suppose phillipe equalite is the patron saint of dead languages.
mircea_popescu: and for that matter versailles (which is how and why french died) was not a castle, but a jail.
mircea_popescu: i suppose the greatest mysetery of life is that there are shields you want and shields you do not want.
mircea_popescu: corporate job is idem "a shield" for usian fucktards, like working "for the govtr" was a shield that still got germans hung and soviets spat on.
mircea_popescu: this is why poetry worked back in the day the english aristrocracy imposed it on the masses, but esperanto and ebonics do not nor will ever work.
mircea_popescu: (anyway, lest the esl reader acquires the wrong impression from the logs - at issue is not that the thing was done, per se. at issue is HOW the thing is done. which is to say : shockingly unexpected, which requires a) a large body of work against which to expect pre-existend and b) a language strong enough to shock against that. these are plain impossible requisites in "reasonable" languages, and they can't be met by p
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it just so happens it died like 8 times to date.
mircea_popescu: but myeah. i am not the cunt's slightest fuck worried about assrussian.