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mircea_popescu: yes, that's the problem there : in order to have your own oppinions you need to study the groupthink.
mircea_popescu: Chillum i suspek you have to do a bunch of log reading to acclimate to the groupthink.
mircea_popescu: apparently wikipedia is keenly aware it exists primarily as an advertising source. just... not for the fucking chinese aaaite ?
mircea_popescu: -NickServ- m_p!~matter_pa@49.207.189.76 failed to login to mircea_popescu. There has been 1 failed login attempt since your last successful login. << check it out ?!
mircea_popescu: they're not NAKED. they're in their jimbo blessed underwear.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck hijacks blog dns's ? and also... www just goes to plain domain.
mircea_popescu: you must have some weird dns issue ? what's the perceived ip ?
mircea_popescu: trinque kinda why sane people don't travel into rogue states without an army.
mircea_popescu: "how come you have something" != "how come you told us earlier this income is extempt when it clearly isn't"
mircea_popescu: it's not a question of "where it's from", but "why have you not reported it". which ideally you have reported.
mircea_popescu: it can't ask me "hey where you got your money from". unless im a politician and submitted some sort of "this is what my fortune is" statement.
mircea_popescu: it can do whatever the fuck it feels like, with its own data.
mircea_popescu: something like "always output 0 if the previous 7th output was 1" or whatever ?
mircea_popescu: i mean, a biased source is a biased source. do you mean it's not actually biased, but the bits are correlated ?
mircea_popescu: in the case of your lamp, it basically extracts phase transition errors
mircea_popescu: it doesn't "dilute" anything. if you have 1 bit of entropy per byte, it puts out one byte every eightish bytes.
mircea_popescu: there's this algorithm which consists of : flip biased coin twice. if flips agree, one thing. iof they disagree, another thing.
mircea_popescu: <Chillum> no amount of debiasing will create entropy from a patterned source << howdja figure that one ?
mircea_popescu: i wonder what % of said paraphenalia is sold to protect your goods, and what % "ticket to shooting your own guy!"
mircea_popescu: decimation makes door lock the weak point again is all.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's not policarbonate replacement for glass in window. it's a very highly adhesive foil, which you stick on the window
mircea_popescu: Chillum we don't trust it because very suspicious corp / closed turd.
mircea_popescu: first time ppl that wander in here and a) aren't going to spaceghost the bitcoin ; b) aren't retarded.
mircea_popescu: you can trivially make tamper evident stickers that aren't fixable with infinite resoruces.
mircea_popescu: actually, my bird wouldn't be a baloon. it'd be a sheet of plastic, basically. this can have zero size if it wants to
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform really more like a manta that's an acre and goes in air.
mircea_popescu: the newer polymers hold a lot of promise for strength etc
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if you could make the waveguide very flat and tiny
mircea_popescu: a plastic bag never reaches the bottom, it is ground into mush before.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not straight up like that. a flexible foil that exploits atmospheric randomness
mircea_popescu: actually what i'd really like to see would be a truely flying microfibre machine.
mircea_popescu: one day this guy is going to make us sorry we mocked yekudsky
mircea_popescu: Chillum it's not better per se, just the variety of assholes is greater.