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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 ?
mircea_popescu: (in the sense of having a miserable memory leaking low cost node)
mircea_popescu: so basically no os whatsoever builds on these things ?
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron there wouldn't normally be huge differences.
mircea_popescu: "teach the faux controversy mayhap people forget shit doesn't have tyo be eaten"
mircea_popescu: so to conflate "modern idiotic usgtronics" with "capitalism" which in turn conflates with "everything minus stone age, feudalism, and the soviets" is...
mircea_popescu: i mean shit, you can't go around conflating everything you don't know about for chrissakes.
mircea_popescu: moreover, as late as during ww2, the west thought the war is mostly about preventing exactly that.
mircea_popescu: for most of the industrial revolution, late 1600s to early 1900s, this view was exactly not held.
mircea_popescu: "A new system of economic relations was brought into being, based on money that could be generated at will, in the form of debt" << this is EXACTLY unrelated to capitalism.
mircea_popescu: the centralised state can only be a centralised state after all.
mircea_popescu: decimation that cavalry was not feudal tho. prussian military.
mircea_popescu: this may be true, but the girl's still pretty badly bloodied.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the problem with using a language is that you're stuck using it according to itself tho. this is like, orlov horribly mauled a teenaged girl and you're like "well clearly the bear thought her cunt's salmon."
mircea_popescu: perhaps an argument can be brought for places like sicily cca 1930, but it is still very tenuous.
mircea_popescu: this is like saying bows were replaced by submachine guns. well... no. at absolutely no point had people using bows encountered people using submachine guns.
mircea_popescu: but basically, feudalism and metalwork almost look as a zero sum game : as the latter develops the former fades
mircea_popescu: decimation before long you'll be looking into subtle distinctions such as between "king of germany" and "king in germany"
mircea_popescu: it was ending just as the hansa was coming into its own.
mircea_popescu: anyway. the peak of feudalism is around the peak of things like the tournoi as a public sport.
mircea_popescu: (march = marsh = border, in this understanding. strips of marginal and thus uninhabited lands)
mircea_popescu: "about half the power a count used to have back when the counts of belgium dominated france, for to protect the country borders"
mircea_popescu: decimation landgraf aka margrave aka march lord is a post-feudalist construct
mircea_popescu: "here's what i remember of this bad translation of a phenomena by some people who didn't live it, and who are so far from me culturally i in turn have no idea. let's make an infographic and educate reddit."