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mircea_popescu: cazalla im not so sure about "differnent site". in any case same quantcast codes, so...
mircea_popescu: someone been playing teh big bad wolf ? i hope i haven't disappointed by not being impressed ?
mircea_popescu: dude look at that graph, mpoe fell of a cliff in slow motion.
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> I support thestringpuller's idea that it could be dangerous <
mircea_popescu: all that thing's doing is a more expensive, less useful, bitcoin node.
mircea_popescu: a is a non starter because their demo is reddit demo = poor people. it has to be free or no dice.
mircea_popescu: you don't seriously imagine the rasbperry pi 150 dollar node a) can achieve critical mass or b) can support gavincoin ?
mircea_popescu: dudes you should totally not eat meat and use free software!
mircea_popescu: lol there's little more amusing than seeing people try various fringe ideologies on b-a.
mircea_popescu: to the point in my head it connotes that, like bingo connotes old jewish women
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo most people that i've seen karaoke fit this boring midwestern 30something so-so woman type.
mircea_popescu: note that out of that 1.6%, about 1.5% is state-sponsored crapolade a la zynga. leaving the other 0.1% with an accidental 55k this year, which is barely enough to you know, pay rent.
mircea_popescu: 'According to reporting, "1.6 percent of developers earn more than the other 98.4 percent combined. And the bottom 47 percent of engineers earn less than $100 per month." << o chjecxk it out asciilifeform! as jurov sayz, clearly this isn't working o.O
mircea_popescu: battle i dunno about, but off tune melee for a few hours - sure.
mircea_popescu: those imperialistic dreams of the papal states were apparently never extinguished!
mircea_popescu: you wouldn't complain that the strippers don't wait on tables properly, would you ? as a woman ?
mircea_popescu: as in, i don't think so i can go wallow in the mud. i think so the mud can't come wallowing on me.
mircea_popescu: the point of a functioning intellect isn't to make one one with the universe. the point of a functioning intellect is to make it impossible for the universe to make itself one with one.
mircea_popescu: nist specifically is hostis humani generis due to that and similar mishaps.
mircea_popescu: 256k1 fails VERY hard on what are more relevant criteria.
mircea_popescu: not sure it's particularly a point of interest for bitcoin for that matter.
mircea_popescu: well alternatively a) deedbot b) set the damned timer.
mircea_popescu: the cm field issue is probably the most concerning, and if there's a baked in backdoor (something like, say, nsa is able to directly see through maybe 10% of all keys ever generated ?) that's where it'd be, that 3= -1 * 3≈ -2^1.6 property it shares with weak curves like bn(2,254) etc.
mircea_popescu: particularly the ladder... so it's not a montgommery curve. so what.
mircea_popescu: none of these seem, at least superficially, to be directly relevant to the usecase.
mircea_popescu: on the other hand, Daniel J. Bernstein is merely going by ec2, which is based on cm field discriminants / laders and indistinguishability
mircea_popescu: but for the fate of a random usg muppet ? dude, burn him down, his name won't even be remembered.
mircea_popescu: but importantly, your skepticism, while amply affirmed, is not supported by anything else. so you're skeptical of x theory, as an aesthetic matter. good for you. what's that do ?
mircea_popescu: was keeping my fingers crossed for it being just you know, two lines and a whistle.
mircea_popescu: it's not just opioidis and nubbins`, it's also overengineering
mircea_popescu: it's not even just that. gotta make sure it correctly takes and verifies the sigs now. etc etc.
mircea_popescu: no dude. you're trying to raise the engineering bill by 1000s of dollah to save pennies.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and now you gotta add gpg and debug it and srsly...
mircea_popescu: once they make a 4gb unit for ~25 we'll think about it ?