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pete_dushenski: would be good wotbet / bitbet : when will eulora be larger economically
than, say, idaho ?
mircea_popescu: hey, gotta leave some room for future growth lest
the webcommenters win
the webattle.
pete_dushenski: so eulora is basically
the same as
the entire canadian prairies.
mircea_popescu: do
they have science in your country ? how about
tedx ?
pete_dushenski: keystone, at least not at
the national level. but
then again, whotf cares about
the national level ?
pete_dushenski: "The value of Canada’s natural resource assets stood at $287 billion in 2015, down 73% from 2014, largely due
to lower energy prices. […]
Timber resources accounted for 55% of
the value of all natural resource assets in 2015, followed by minerals (26%) and energy resources (19%)." << in other news,
trump's looming war on softwood lumber is going
to fucking hurt. and no, it won't be balanced out by
a111: Logged on 2016-12-20 21:49
trinque: seems deeply political. what you've got
there is a consent bit.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-20 22:11 phf: i'd imagine in sane world
they would have something like FUCKGOATS or an expensive variation of (like john walker's hotbits) so can publish schematics all you want. in reality it is probably a prng with a seed under
two keys
a111: Logged on 2016-12-20 22:04 asciilifeform:
the ones with
the little padlock.
ben_vulpes waits for "omfg whats wrong with you americans, none of
those
tits were even on girls"
trinque: there's a "merits of suffering" notion somewhere in
there,
too
phf: hehe,
this looks horrible
mircea_popescu: phf but if you're up for some utter wtf, can always
try "this must be
the place". i have no idea what i saw.
mircea_popescu: (this, i come
to realise, is a major block for my watching ~any video sf. back when
the people involved weren't idiots,
the machines weren't yet capable.)
phf: well, sucks. i have fond memories of it, so i'm not even going
to
try. like i watched a
tv show
that was popular in ru in mid90s, "quantum leap". i could barely sit
through a handful of eposides and only because i was
trying
to see if it'll get any good..
mircea_popescu: i just don't go for
the whole carny show with
the facepaint and
the star wars papier mache models.
mircea_popescu: phf i
tried recently and couldn't stand it.
the cheapo roadshow really irks me. it's almost like watching
that dude "commenting", what's his face
phf: mircea_popescu: while you're in
that french mode you should watch (or rewatch?) fantômas.
there's
the
three 1960s ones, with de funes. i have no idea if
they are any good, because i haven't seen
them for a very long
time, but i suspect
that
they are sort of comedic 60s
take on james bond.
mircea_popescu: the insanity of
this boggles
the mind, if
the mind can be bothered
to stop and
think for a minute.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-20 21:43 asciilifeform: author ~wants~
to be boiled in oil..?
mircea_popescu: yeah, he's not a very good actor, but a fine icon. in
the vein of brooms
that shoot once, a picture of a car can count for a car from
the right angle once ; and a stopped clock still shows accurate
time on occasion.
phf: i always
thought of him as a pretty boy who can hold a certain pose.
that's why i
think purple noon is great, where he fits perfectly because he looks young, fresh, aloof and arrogant. but his other stuff is forgettable. i
think he had some
tv show where he played a middle aged detective, where he was great again, by virtue of being
the right age
mircea_popescu: fwiw de funes shows
the same
tragic character, except he's more of an engineer at heart, a great administrator, a sort of fouquet rather
than you know, piaf's legionnaire.
mircea_popescu: phf possibly not. but yes, not ~entirely~ bad, and as an actor certainly better
than whatever dorks available
today, so he'd still win a "what do we watch" competition.
the period
though... ah, ah.
phf: fwiw his purple noon is great, i
think it even got
the
trilema
treatment?
phf: well french cinema not being entirely corrupted by imperialism was popular in su, so alen delon got
the same
treatment as other "anekdot" characters.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> (take, for instance, urushiol. not per se allergenic! but denatures certain protein in skin such
that you are your own allergen.) << But where else could Varnish come from!
mircea_popescu: back
then,
the french were still pretending
to be a
thing. much in
the manner of
today's us.
mircea_popescu: last i fell alseep on alain delon. holy shit is
that period weird.
mircea_popescu: anyway - IF
there's ever going
to be
that "radical bioengineering
technology" medicine, it starts exactly in
these places. gotta first do
the 13yo
torah reading work.
then can be man.
mircea_popescu: (yes, all allergies mean one
thing -
that you're a degenerate fenotype not fit for life. what can you do ? certainly can't go back in
time and whack ytour mother
to fuck better drunks.)
mircea_popescu: guess what - if you
take your allergies
to
the doctor he will also not cut into every cell and fix your bad dna
mircea_popescu: patient is indeed not operable in
the sense you mean ; but medicine is chiefly a pile of paleatives, not "radical bioreengineering
technology"
mircea_popescu: no, it wasn't, as i don't actually propose any changes
to processblock. it can go wholesale in b.blockchain
a111: Logged on 2016-12-20 20:10 asciilifeform: at a certain point, if you attempt
the operation, you start
to ask 'why is
there satoshi crapolade in my bitcoin2.0' rather
than 'ooh neato, a repaired
trb!'
phf: that's fair, i
think we had a
thread, when you first started working on
this, with various schemes. "use
the optics on your iphone" etc.
phf: i'd imagine in sane world
they would have something like FUCKGOATS or an expensive variation of (like john walker's hotbits) so can publish schematics all you want. in reality it is probably a prng with a seed under
two keys
☟︎ phf: yeah,
that's what it looks like. i wonder if in your explorations of state of rng you came across any offical GCB evaluation of casino rngs, i don't know if
those would even be public or have
technical detail...
phf: asciilifeform: is
that one of
those mandatory gaming authority certifications? or a "you can
trust our gaming servers, we got an EVALUATION, got checksums and everything"
trinque: seems deeply political. what you've got
there is a consent bit.
☟︎ trinque: you mayn't remove
the fig leaf!1!1!!
ben_vulpes: and i don't recall it well enough
to find. alas.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: do you recall and could you cite a line where you
talk about folx using ersatz clients, forking and 'fools'?
ben_vulpes: kinda
think
that a bitcoin client is journeyman republican project
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i've ruminated on
this as well before