asciilifeform: this is the thing that always puzzled me about the alt folks. if they're meant to be 'spares' for btc, where's the one using rsa? lattice? etc
asciilifeform: i've caught myself wondering if a 'cloud' company which explicitly promises to steal and use your data for whatever purpose, might be even cheaper.
asciilifeform: must be pretty rought to be one of the many ragnar danneskjolds on the net. everywhere you go, no one gets the reference.
asciilifeform: hope there are no btc sniffing dogs << laugh, but i bet some bozo is working on ferreting out 'kulaks' through pheromonal sensing of one kind or another. fellow who walks around knowing he's loaded, probably can be smelled, in principle
asciilifeform: (for smart-arses who answer, 'this won't work with a language having a full numeric tower' - the answer is, we can tear the paper off your abstraction by analyzing timing)
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: urbit is actually a great example of what happens when some bozo thinks he can substitute mathematical trickery for understandability
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: problem is mundane/human rather than mathematical. excess complexity makes everyone who is trying to 'swallow' a discipline (or particular engineering design) stupider. quite like tying weights to a marathon runner.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: urbit is drowning in its own shit, just like every other software project which clings to the ubiquitous 1970s conceptual crapola. nothing exotic/godelian about it.
asciilifeform: if it was one of the (rare) fpga clusters, it might've been interesting.
asciilifeform: no mention of what kind of machine was involved
asciilifeform: a kind of 'soft' deindustrialization.
asciilifeform: the practical limit for 'shrinkflation' is, i imagine, the point where the pharmacy and its supply chain can no longer compete with your neighbour brewing soap from corpses or whatever in his cellar.
asciilifeform: if you're gonna buy a $10 bar of soap, it might as well be made from weasel fat if you go in for that kind of thing.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: i'd guess that this kind of thing is driven by ordinary consumer product shrinkflation, rather than vice versa
asciilifeform: ^ i've been noticing this for years, evidently not the only one
asciilifeform moved to different town recently, there are lottery machines everywhere
asciilifeform: benkay: hypothesis: the devs have an 'address telescope' (box that continuously generates random addrs/keys) and are the kind of folks who like to play lotto.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: where he needs it (bathroom) and whjat for (to have light) << the inescapable conclusion is that he needs it: in his arse, and as to what for: to expand his annulus diameter.
asciilifeform: anyone who wants to know more re: dl or rsa, is advised to... read books.
asciilifeform: ok since 'everyone' keeps asking, there is no (public) proof that discrete logarithm problem is np-complete. more interestingly, also no rigorous proof that rsa difficulty is equal to that of factoring problem.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: crappy rc4 encryption and the backend was silly php, forced mistake when you're stuck working with random cheapo hosters << even the most pathetic public ftp can still host an rsa-signed blob for trojan payload. number of crap artists who do 'the right thing'? not 1 in 100.
asciilifeform: zeus trojan << very educational case. zeus is a very poorly designed turd, but it is smashingly popular on account of a thousand spamz0r idiots buying 'custom' builds and paying to have them spammed out to chumps. see also one of mp's old articles on spam being a 'cargo cult.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: mastercard told xapo to go fuck itself << if i recall, you're friends with the fellow who runs it, ask him wtf
asciilifeform: afaik everybody expected gasenwagen for vorhees, at least
asciilifeform: third, why did vorhees, having profited handsomely from sd, have to take to spam?
asciilifeform: two things about this story puzzle me (confession: i never gave enough of a damn to keep track in real time...) - why nothing about satoshidice? only sued for a small part of the spam op profit and: why vorhees ponied up
asciilifeform: ^ first saw that one on orlov's page. i think he's friends with the artist.
