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mircea_popescu: until that day, he can continue playing with the xbox or w/e it is he's doing.
mircea_popescu: let the man learn enough about how to use a computer to get a gpg sig and register it with the bot.
mircea_popescu: whatevs.
mircea_popescu: never heard of 'em.
mircea_popescu: hegemoOn written by whom ?
mircea_popescu: accounting's a fascinating field.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field unrealised income is not for that reason automatically not income.
mircea_popescu: sure.
mircea_popescu: and the explanation comes out to "any girl can get so horny one night she fucks a dog"
mircea_popescu: aha.
mircea_popescu: it just.... happened.
mircea_popescu: which was in no way related to any politics
mircea_popescu: in the past. always in the past tense, this.
mircea_popescu: worked, yes.
mircea_popescu: it dun work thatway.
mircea_popescu: the only true universal equality, the equality to zero.
mircea_popescu: which is to say not at all.
mircea_popescu: mr o's "football"'s security protects you, bharara, forrest and cuomo just as much
mircea_popescu: it does not trickle down.
mircea_popescu: to cover for the fact that i can go into the chambers of the ny comissioner for finance, and rape him.
mircea_popescu: the reason the potus "security" is such circus is exactly the reason oprah's pay is so advertised :
mircea_popescu: i can guarantee the schmuck in question had no "batallion", on the plain grounds that there isn't such a thing.
mircea_popescu: "revolution for some - ??? for others!"
mircea_popescu: otherwise we'd still be on the pre-copernican astronomy.
mircea_popescu: this doesn't work as a theory.
mircea_popescu: no batallion.
mircea_popescu: no need to ask nething really, it's all on public record.
mircea_popescu: i agree, it is.
mircea_popescu: uh wrong url. i meant http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-06-2015#1159124 ☝︎
mircea_popescu: what, it hath been ordained for the "nordicx systems" only ?
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-06-2015#1159107 << why shouldn't the poor blacks get some cheese ? ☝︎
mircea_popescu: how's canada pimpin' these days btw ?
mircea_popescu: if the geese have nice tits...
mircea_popescu: caste schmaste.
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-06-2015#1159107 << you're right, i have very little patience and give very little credit to the affectations of people. the usians are not special in this regard - like i don't give a shit for the argentines' or the romanians', similarly i don't give a shit there. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: to quote the pawnbroker, "more like a stench, if i remember"
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski hey, it did it once or twice before...
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-06-2015#1159105 << no. being rich is not like that. being rich is like having the power to alter the course of the world, and the responsibility therein incumbent. ☝︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-06-2015#1159096 << you personally misrepresent your income, for whatever reasons, but you actually are mostly working for warrants these past coupla years. the others - probably a combination of incompetence (note that high functioning autism is still mental incompetence) and similar misrepresentation, similarly for whatever reasons. ☝︎☟︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: (and yes, i know these things from experience - i have the benefit that i can order slave girls do anything.)
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-06-2015#1159094 << it's not merely that i don't think. i know they can not. you try simulating a limp with working legs, see where it gets you. ☝︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=10-06-2015#1159090 ;;google Sean Smith ☝︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: maybe instead of phasing out "fossil fuels" the g7 tards should get together and phase out the pretense of gargle-economy.
mircea_popescu: the empire's running out of shit to pretend like it stole.
mircea_popescu: finally, the ignorant vouches of random geek has been sold, in github. what's left ?
mircea_popescu: the process of packaging the ignorant vouches of your average 20something aspie "young professional" / marketing expert slut idem, with twitter.
mircea_popescu: more interestingly, facebook has had it's "turner buys myspace" moment, a while back. the only way it's going now is to that same 99.999% "value" drop. so did twitter. recently, so did github. the process of packaging the ignorant vouches of the average imbecile, selling them and running off has completed with facebook.
mircea_popescu: why ? what exactly is the value of 2k followers that he would use the irreproducible value of his intellectual output to prop up twitter ?
mircea_popescu: and yet the guy ends his very apt article with "You can also find me on Twitter and GitHub."
mircea_popescu: bwahaha o gawd.
mircea_popescu: HOPE was last weekend (I didn't go) and finally the design specification has been posted along with the audited code. It appears that my initial concerns were warranted, each key is generated directly from the user's pass-phrase with no salt, thus leaving the true amount of entropy in the key generation process highly unknown. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: the sole source for entropy in the ECC key generation. At the time of the debate, Nadim suggested I wait until the big unveiling at HOPE to pass judgement as he had some research into secure human-generated pass-phrases that he was going to share.
mircea_popescu: Prior to this years HOPE conference, a few articles appeared touting Nadim Kobeissi's new project, miniLock and him and I got into a heated debate regarding some issues that I, as a certified non-cryptographer, was concerned about in his design (at least what I could gather from it from the pre-release Wired article). The essence of my concerns boiled down to the fact that in miniLock, Nadim is using the human user as
mircea_popescu: cool
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski feelings fusion to provide free energy soon
mircea_popescu: "the interwebs doesn't worx ? oh, you must be on a different browser"
mircea_popescu: odd huh.
mircea_popescu: or pre or whatever's used
mircea_popescu: prolly code element not playing well with long lines huh
mircea_popescu: the penis too
mircea_popescu: yeah but he doesn't drink as much :D
mircea_popescu: poor reddit, stuck with this sad situation where it doesn't matter, and the people doing things are the people it hates.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo ah, not necessarily either, at your disposal.
mircea_popescu: then again, this is kinda why we don't give a shit about the lot of them.
mircea_popescu: makes sense.
mircea_popescu: haha mmmmkay
mircea_popescu: aha
mircea_popescu: !up referredbyqntra
mircea_popescu: !up referredbyloper
mircea_popescu: unsafe presumption :D
mircea_popescu: the disagreement mostly stems from definitions tho. what people mean when they say "don't use brainwallets for you are stupid" mostly reduces to redditard going on brainwallet.org
mircea_popescu: "machine-empowered brainwallet"
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i can see that angle.
mircea_popescu: the entire thing was mostly about instructing the bitcoin-lemmings (peeps who think themselves "the community") about where to not step on the tiger.
mircea_popescu: aha well k then
mircea_popescu: that's "the general case", what you tell urmom to do
mircea_popescu: but you've seen the general public lose btc to weak "brainwallets" ?
mircea_popescu: and i have my doubts about the particular case.
mircea_popescu: brainwallets provedly suck in te general case
mircea_popescu: k
mircea_popescu: oic
mircea_popescu: as it's now an utility rather than a math argument
mircea_popescu: this obviously will only be verified in practice
mircea_popescu: you wouldn't stand for this in your cardano rng.
mircea_popescu: even so. constraints are present.
mircea_popescu: and the argument here isn't about "guessing", it's about reducing entropy.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field but it was written in a language nevertheless, right ?
mircea_popescu: i dun really think so tho.
mircea_popescu: perhaps.
mircea_popescu: ...
mircea_popescu: did i just make a prediction about your palace ?
mircea_popescu: mats would you agree that your palace is standing ?
mircea_popescu: ok, we can aproach this one too.
mircea_popescu: ie, that the marginal cost monotonically increases ?
mircea_popescu: let's work this out. ascii_field would you agree that the mental cost PER UNIT of generating five random bytes is larger than generating six ?
mircea_popescu: iam not so convinced.
mircea_popescu: the hero of the soviet union, marshall zhukov... no.
mircea_popescu: you understand ? beria may rape women off the street.
mircea_popescu: because intel's not cool.
mircea_popescu: !up referredbyloper