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mircea_popescu: well you know it occurs to me it'd be a lot more productive if you go in early with a "hey, could it please be c ? i would like to run this on mips" discussion than a late paniucwhen guy picks whatever he happened to pick.
mircea_popescu: so c is a gnu proprietary language ? what's a proprietary language ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what's the problem anyway, you weren't going to run his binaries ? no os compiler for it ?
mircea_popescu: so... what do you mean not everybody on the internet is a dumbass ?
mircea_popescu: hey, the average domestic animal regards its keeper as an animal of the same age and the same gender as it is.
mircea_popescu: yes. as ideas spread on the internet, the derps they touch become increasingly nonsensical.
mircea_popescu: also, if they never hear a dissenting opinion ever again that'll be soon enough.
mircea_popescu: same here : not doing anything, but hey, they're "involved" with bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: not learning anything, but hey, they've gone to college.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no im pretty sure he has it. "they feel like they're doing something". much like their education.
mircea_popescu: i mostly hung out with the girls. and if the girls didn't show up i mostly harrangued the prof.
mircea_popescu: teward you are aware this place has a history and so on, right ? read it and all ?
mircea_popescu: in that it drastically limits the pool of potential attackers and attackable material.
mircea_popescu: well, depending of what you actually need to sign, never putting your signed matter over the wire unencrypted can help a lot.
mircea_popescu: unrelatedly : today i find that prior to 1820 or so, hawaii was all-nude, and that the proper an' traditional hula dance is to be done without panties or other apparel.
mircea_popescu: and inasmuch as you're a person rather than an organisation, "forced coercion" is really not very much use.
mircea_popescu: entropy could be more important for encryption than signing.
mircea_popescu: nobody ever said "if i'm ever in a fire i'll have bigger problems than this tiny fire hydrant can solve"
mircea_popescu: that's not how you build effectual deterrence. that's how you set yourself up to shrem.
mircea_popescu: they must PAY To have such articles published. in that they're fraud.
mircea_popescu: cazalla not particularly. unless you either have exclusivity, a scoop or actual documents,
mircea_popescu: the one with "too important, i didn;t recognize him" had me rolling on the floor lol
mircea_popescu: that's the female prayer, thank you allah for not having made me sheep (beast of field)
mircea_popescu: it's a huge no-no. you can't go into afterlife anymore.
mircea_popescu: i dunno how inclined teh arabs would be to fight if losing means they're eaten.
mircea_popescu: i wonder what the us army would look like on the ground if they actually started eating the afghanistani.
mircea_popescu: TomServo welll... some guy i never heard of presented on some webpage i never saw before as important, turns out he's another gavin, doing parlour tricks atparties and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: cazalla no, but i am not an egotist. i think of my fellow man
mircea_popescu: if illegalizing things did anything i'd make mosquitoes illegal
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski government is the junior partner by tradition / legislation
mircea_popescu: the solution are as always : either make the senior much richer (which really is not feasible) or break the relationship.
mircea_popescu: it's an unstable situation this, where the supposedly senior rulemaker is cheaper to buy than the supposedly junior partner.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski it would seem the story there isthat obama knows that congress can be bought quite cheaply
mircea_popescu: herpy-derp an' a bottle of rum... well not rum. ginger ale.
mircea_popescu: "here's the temperatures in the past 30 years. on the basis of this, here's how the temperatures woud have been in the past 5000 years, if our presupositions are correct. on the basis of this, here's the story of the future : our presupositions are correct"
mircea_popescu: it's not even "easy-difficulty" it's now "better-difficult". fucking psychotic generation already.
mircea_popescu: "why do we interact with the fantastic representations in our head rather than with the flesh and blood woman before us ? IT IS EASIER!"
mircea_popescu: "The reason for doing this is that we can better reason about the output of a CSPRNG; by contrast, it is difficult to reason about the output of the entropy source." << gotta love the sweet innocence on display here tho.
mircea_popescu: In the immortal rights of Moss, Goddamn right, that's right. Guys come on: "Oh, the blah blah blah, I know what I'll do: I'll go in and rob everyone blind and go to Argentina cause nobody ever thought of this before."