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mircea_popescu: ;;later tell mike_c yo, want a fiverr acct ? prolly got a coupla hundred bucks in it.
mircea_popescu: afaik they only got out of the mtgox business ("collectibles") cca 2005 or someshit.
mircea_popescu: in any case, a) ebay hasn't been around for 20 years, b) 20 years is only a long time because you're too young to be "thinking about things" and c) the notion that ebay's abomination works... AAA plus would do thinks again.
mircea_popescu: WolfGoethe it's kinda funny that someone feels compelled to pitch this sort of retardation here about every quarter.
mircea_popescu: o whether the key is authentic your guess is still as good as mine."
mircea_popescu: "To add insult to injury, despite the emails containing references to the aforementioned website and key, the following Microsoft announcements on July 10 and 11 were actually signed by the key 0xF0B7406D which is not referenced as a key used for current Microsoft announcements. This key actually does contain a small number of signatures from external users, but as with 0xA92965F2 none from any Microsoft employee. As t
mircea_popescu: and re the pyx thing : argentina had a very aspirational relationship with england. kinda why the faulkland war was such a big deal, sort-of like rambunctious kid going after dad, in a sense.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i think it's because for a while they added new keys in batches ?
mircea_popescu: i think there are some such, mostly with confederate dollars, in the us
mircea_popescu: well not many countries have this much experience with it.
mircea_popescu: mats it recently changed ip, you seeing 195.211.154.159 ?
mircea_popescu: the good news being that neither a or b are actual things, or have any sort of hope of long term survival. just the froth of our days, soon to be gone back into the darkness that spawned them.
mircea_popescu: it's irresolvable, for as long as a) "being special" is valued formally rather than substantially, and b) people get to make choice on the mere grounds of existing.
mircea_popescu: anyway, that's the broad conflict. "being special" having been promulgated as a social good, and smashing the classification being a bona fide way to manufacture specialness, you now have the conflict of the boring who aspire to hack their way to attention vs the people who don't care about them and wish to remain able to not care about them.
mircea_popescu: obviously the correct reaction would just be what i did on the meat list, ie, group all weird under a single "Weird" heading. but then obviously this irks the delusions of individuality of the individual weird involved, so there's that line of bitching.
mircea_popescu: and this is why the traditional statement of the objection among the wrong side of kink high is "i don't want them imposing their stuff on me".
mircea_popescu: lobbes let me tell you why. because if servers introduce a new response code, you're stuck either making your browser aware of it, or else put up with the constant bitching.
mircea_popescu: williamdunne by now they've completely lost any sort of relation between words. it's just... word word word word.
mircea_popescu: or else why do [mostly old women] go to church ? because they're affraid they're secretly god ?
mircea_popescu: while it's true that it probably shares that source with all sorts of nuttery (religious fervor, for instance), i very much doubt the actual motivator is what's proposed, ie, "dude is secretly gay and fighting it overtly"
mircea_popescu: obviously sexual normativity is enforced on some sort of level irrespectively of the type.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, the original (mostly politically driven) explanation for violence against homosexuals - some sort of "homophobia" suffers a lot seeing how ALL SORTS of other sexual behaviours elicit the same violent response. such as transsexualism, or pedophilia.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: hm, that might not be so clever, ends up crunching the lines instead of crunching the nodes by outside exposure.
mircea_popescu: as opposed to now where 1.05-1.1 is five people from cazalla to mats.
mircea_popescu: mike_c q : how hard would it be to enforce fixed placement on the inner circle ? i dunno how they're placed now, but how about just divide 2pi to however many people and each gets that much sector
mircea_popescu: does it keep a list of what it last posted so when it comes back up it can see if there's anything new ?
mircea_popescu: clearly, there's nothing wrong with this. everyone (else) is just mean evil and weird.
mircea_popescu: I agree. If you tell them upfront, they'll be weirded out. If you tell them in person, they might try to physically hurt you."
mircea_popescu: "When To Tell A Guy You Are Transgender by Whitey Niggerson -
mircea_popescu: (they go away for the same reason vaccine-acquired immunity goes away, ftr)
mircea_popescu: that's treatment : remove the allergen, give it a few years, try a minute dose.
mircea_popescu: the thng with allergies, and especiaslly in young people, is that they do go away.
mircea_popescu: right, just because prayer worked in the past is no reason to pray.
mircea_popescu: veblen goods are goods which exhibit reverse price relation (demand increases as price increases, as opposed to how it normally goes).
mircea_popescu: that it explains it does NOT reduce the insanity of it however.
mircea_popescu: because that's what #5 does, practically : it offers a model to explain and understand the otherwise insane, and otherwise never explain, luxury behaviour.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "This, mystical domination, is easily the prettiest girl in school. She’s the most unattainable, the most lust-worthy, the most drool-inducing" << you know what veblen goods are ?
mircea_popescu: "rsa. use for text. rsa/aes. use for anything that's not text."
mircea_popescu: anyway, optimal thing would be user specified, and full rsa option.
mircea_popescu: iirc blackberry was positioning itself as "text only. for important folk".
mircea_popescu: but obama and the rest of the blackberry users type... 500k wpm ?
mircea_popescu: naggum, through the magic of shoving lisp up his ass, types 180wpm
mircea_popescu: funny how moore law is always there to justify doing something stupid, never to justify doing things like "rsa all the way - we can afford it now"
mircea_popescu: jurov gpg does the same thing, yeah, but then again that was the 80s.
mircea_popescu: do they do the "rsa encryption of an aes symmetric key" thing ?
mircea_popescu: "to maintain correspondence between numbers and persons and tenses and such, and since this is mostly redundant, it can be also automated. this is stuff that takes just a bit of time to do, but when a whole paragraph of text " << such nonsense.
mircea_popescu: "I have typed an average of 21.3 keystrokes per second" eh gtfo.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: a shannonizer is a formalisation, but not of natural language.
mircea_popescu: i would agree that the counting horse is a remarkable horse,
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel natural languages are not formalizable.
mircea_popescu: hey various folks whose pgp keys i've signed at teh conference key signing party... you're supposed to also sign mine!
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