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mircea_popescu: stment in infrastructure would just about result in doubling, provided "infrastructure" is strictly defined
to mean rail, and excludes energy generation, hospitals, schools, roads, even busses.
mircea_popescu: let's play a little with numbers since we're reading
this guy. so : " Silicon Valley Rapid
Transit Project (SVRT) a $5 billion design-build project for a 16-mile extension of
the Bay Area Rapid
Transit District (BART) with six stations" (from
http://www.niquette.com/paul/access/resume.html ). now
then :
total
track in world is ~2 1/4 mn km. using "global warming" "scientific" best practices, we conclude
that a 1 billiard inve
mircea_popescu: this guy. calling 'software engineering' 'computer science' is
tantamount
to calling 'mechanical engineering' 'automobile science.' and
the 'debugger,' is a misnomer
tantamount
to calling a 'magnifying glass' an 'insecticide.'
mircea_popescu: "BTW - what was
that game withe gnome,
the guy and
the girl who were fighting against creatures and you could cast magic
too?" << guaranteed
to be golden axe.
mircea_popescu reads
the comments on alf's vectored sigs piece, is
thoroughly confused
mircea_popescu: lol. such bidniss sense in
these people. let 'em enjoy.
BingoBoingo: But with captcha "major" pool gets
to scam a couple adcents
mircea_popescu: so you replace
the "coin age" convention with
the "captcha on website" convention,
they're both
the same sort of nonsense,
trying
to aprpoximate "real people" in machine language.
mircea_popescu: have you seen any blocks where NO free
txn were included ?
shinohai never really has problem when using
trb ....
tx fee is set at 0.001
shinohai: This is on of
the "Bitcoin Unlimited" pools.
They have "Bigger Blocks" so
they can handle it xD
mircea_popescu: their idea i mean. "allow humans who give a shit
to signal
this
to
the network ; and allow
their
txn go first"
mircea_popescu:
This is a Bad
Thing." <<
this is both exactly correct and exactly inescapable. we will at some point have
to do something about it.
mircea_popescu: btw since
http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1545 was mentioned again, it must be said : "Not only are
there
times when one would like
to seal a payload with a caveat of one kind or another, but presently we have no means of conveying disapproval – other
than by refraining from sealing.
The latter act conveys very little useful information, and no permanent sealed record remains of
the effort
taken
to actually understand
the patch.
mircea_popescu: as far as
taming computors,
there's
the most serene republic, and
then
there's
the everyone else.
mircea_popescu: there are
teams with better history, because linux or whatever. i wouldn't however bet on
the
theory
there are better
teams altogether. and no, "secret meta-nsa" doesn't get
to dent
this discussion. because clinton lost.
mircea_popescu: never existed, even if you count bbses / webforums,
the whole
tree.
shinohai: I know of no other chan with such useful bots as
this one has.
shinohai: To quote mircea_popescu "
the irc festivities are moving over
to #trilema ; with a more selective lordship list and improved
tools all around. " I
think
the improved
tools have indeed materialized.
thestringpuller: UK "banned" end
to end encryption with Investigory Powers Act of 2016. I
think it basically says companies in UK have
to put back doors in
their shit or
they are "non-compliant",
thus making end-2-end encryption illegal. Effects Blockchain.info users (who operates in UK).
Takes effect 2017...
mircea_popescu: kinda gives a useful estimation of
the
total value of
the whole rest of
the ecosystem, i guess.
mircea_popescu: check it out, alf's fuckgoats +
trinque's wot work + ben_vulpes 's brunnr +
things -> btc goes up 10%.
mircea_popescu: but i lolled at
the dry "a very long depreciation schedule, possibly inexcess of five years".
a111: Logged on 2016-12-03 04:35 mod6: you are backing us away from "number of seconds from 'midnight' of rsacalypse" one step at a
time. first lamport,
then FUCKGOATS, each step helps.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform bonus points - got caught by... undercover operation! fancy
this wonder.
mod6: trinque:
that does fix
that ya.
mod6: lemme
try
that
trinque
mircea_popescu: in other lulz : supermax prison in colorado holds among
the child eaters &c a 70yo gent who for some reason plead guilty
to "being a cuban agent for 30 years",
two years after retiring from his job and
three years after saying
that
the us-uk "special relationship" is a joke on
the us side.
trinque: pretty sure --decrypt unwraps
those
mod6: so,
thanks for all your efforts. i appreciate it.
mod6: you are backing us away from "number of seconds from 'midnight' of rsacalypse" one step at a
time. first lamport,
then FUCKGOATS, each step helps.
☟︎ mod6: asciilifeform: your sig verifies, mine does not, unless you remove
the '- ' infront of
the '------' lines
mod6: aight, will remember for next
time
though.
mod6: fair enough, i can just
throw in another i suppose.
mod6: ah, shit. i guess i agree. maybe I should have put a line in
the
top of
that
thing.
mircea_popescu: you know it's not a bad idea ot have recitals for
these
things.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in my mind
this drove
the reaction of alt-rsa in eulora, for instance.
mod6: and we've seen how close
the rsacalypse. i feel like we were right
there a few months back.
mod6: It's weight of responsibility of protecting yet another key, or
the possibility of being locked out of heaven.
mircea_popescu: well yes,
the advantage being you don't have
to know aforehand what you intend
to use
mod6: yeah, all
those considerations are valid
too asciilifeform
mod6: I like what it does, and it seems
to make sense in
the case where I might need
this one single
time.
To prevent against cryptographic death, I can generate
this key pair, sign it with my PGP key, and
then send a one
time message of my new PGP key fp
to save me from hitting
the ground.
mod6: since it's confession
time: I read asciilifeform's post probably 5
times
total. Following
through all of
the steps at least 2x
to get
the hang of what was going on
there, and reviewing
the code.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you mean, "if i find aes collision, i can replace signed
text with (longer) signed
text" ?
mircea_popescu: no no, it makes sense in what it is. its implications
though, are far reaching. even something as simple as "how strong is your hash"
mircea_popescu: mod6 i confess i've not gotten my head altogether around
the lamport
thing.
mod6: i beleive
that mentally, when you read a rating, you grok
this
text on some level, which invokes some
type of response. i can be ignored, sure, but it happened never
the less.
mircea_popescu: more generally, maybe he's confused, maybe he's unhinged, maybe he's an asshole, but
there's no bright mind promise in
there.
mircea_popescu: suppose what's his face with
the blog shows up, +rates koch and
that other idiot, and -rates you and mod6
mod6: i agree, but it
tends
to happen.
that still doesn't
take away
that my rating is ~not~ a guarantee of anything.
mircea_popescu: so if some guy shows up and negrates me you derive no information from
this ?
a111: Logged on 2016-12-03 03:40 mod6: especially when my
transcation happened before his other "scammy" dealings
mircea_popescu: but re
the whole "each pope gets fisherman ring - and it is destroyed on death" alf concern - yes, having one's privkeys destroyed properly is pretty much
the only worldly charge of men.
mircea_popescu: yeah,
there's gonna be a bit of overlap/restating agreement as i go
through
the whole pile. sorry bout
the department of redundancy department.
mod6: Yah, and
then should I need it, I can use
the lamport priv key
to send a message "hey, it's mod6. my new pgpkey fp is: ABCDEF1234567890..."
a111: Logged on 2016-12-03 03:38 mircea_popescu: i
think actually he was perfectly satisfied with what we arrived at.
mod6: I should clearsign
the pubkey with my pgp-pubkey and deedbot
this, aha?
mod6: So, changing subjects for a minute... I have
these lamport battle-ready pub/priv keys made.
trinque: point was
that
there was permanent history in logs, ephemerality in ratings, but we've since discussed
that distinction at length.
mod6: i
thought also
that i remembered some guy who
tried
to hijack your nick or something.
trinque: no, was referring
to myself with different opinions
mircea_popescu: if you stop showing up, and some other dude for some reason ends up with your nick, such as
through asking freenode for it say, he won't be able
to voice himself - which encourages him
to get a "fresh" nick.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-02 21:31
trinque: something else comes
to mind;
there exists in our logs a person named
trinque who is not
the present
trinque
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-02#1576781 << actually, it IS
the present
trinque, and must be. in order
to voice itself,
the guy named
trinque must
talk
to deedbot, and reply with
the right challenge. so yes we forced
the shitty freenode name system into a very strong
thing.
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2016-12-02 21:20
trinque: if it is better
to forget, lets make
that explicit. when/why, and not just as an artifact of being built on shoddy computing infrastructure.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-02 21:05 asciilifeform: but picture , for instance, if phuctor bot rated keys
that were phuctored, in
the moment of.