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mircea_popescu: consider that china had helicopter designs cca 500ad, it had known of gunpowder for 3k years by the time we finally heard of it and they were writing alchemy treatises before homer was even walking the earth.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: if rifles could only be produced in 12 places on the planet, most fighting would still be conducted with spears and axes. <<< there's a lot of depth to this observation. for instance :
mircea_popescu: i honestly do not wish to write either walking or laying down.
mircea_popescu: all the bad things teh french revolution hated, like you know, lord X who owns property but "doesn't give anything back to society"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: would have to give enough of a shit to fund, but not enough to attempt to direct. this will happen shortly after pigs fly. << incidentally, this is why the idle rich are so important irl.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform every single room in this country has hardware, wrought iron tv supporter. i've not seen a tv yet standed on any surface.
mircea_popescu: i think best walking. am not trying to get a walking computor tho
mircea_popescu: undata that's pretty much google yeah. and also everyone else trying to copy them (fb etc)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: part of eternal quest for 'write in bed' machine << i hate writing in bed.
mircea_popescu: yeah, it's kinda what it is and kinda where it started.
mircea_popescu: as in, the downside of "the good stuff that can be had for cheap" ?
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> i wouldn't mind a car that runs on farts, if it were possible at home. << can you imagine hpow that'd go ? how it'd smell ? how uncomfortable the gas pipe'd get ?
mircea_popescu: the irony of modernity is that there's no shortage of answers. in fact, they're written generally a century ago. just... nobody [knows how to] reads.
mircea_popescu: jesus the fruits in this country, i can't get over it.
mircea_popescu: the more interesting tyhing is that BingoBoingo is practically becoming a field-trained paralegal.
mircea_popescu: it's like nigeria, except in nigeria you can't find dentists. in the us you can't find lawyers.
mircea_popescu: the crowd of vultures pretending to represent people's interests in the us courts while strictly representing the court's interest in people's lives is one of the most underrated problems of that country.
mircea_popescu: on advice from his court-provided or else court-owned scamlawyer
mircea_popescu: i certainly am not about to go over the man's picks and "improve em".
mircea_popescu: i didn't pick it either, and i am thankful for not having had to.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo basically they're just begging for attention at this point.
mircea_popescu: obviously, this is no reason to change anything, but as an intellectual pursuit.
mircea_popescu: obviously, honest man would be in wot rather than sitting at the fringe arguing about how him being in the thief seats is wholly immaterial, he's just there for the view, comfort and etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform sure. which is why it's so difficult to discern.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo they can put people away without even saying what for huh.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform (incidentally, coppersmith didn't think much of the xsl thing)
mircea_popescu: they're just numbers, like any other numbers, exactly so.
mircea_popescu: but the principle remains. "small integers" are not in fact either small or integers but for our perspective.
mircea_popescu: anyway, birdy whispers in my ear guy's from group that came up with the original xls aes attack. definitely more standing than tim swanson or w/e.
mircea_popescu: i wonder, if i say Dr. Nicolas T. Courtois will this then be the first hit on his name tomorrow or something ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform still, i can see the argument that "7" is not safe just for being you know, the number of holes on your body.
mircea_popescu: srsly, he keeps linking to reddit thinking/pretending to think he's engaging bitcoin thereby.
mircea_popescu: but they're so fucking derpy they're not helping me, as itemized above.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform atm im trying to discern whether the recent "secp256k1" talk is simply the defeated nsa trying to find a better reason to fork bitcoin, or these derps actualy have something.
mircea_popescu: i get it, he's a "google scholar" and he has patents. whopee.
mircea_popescu: how the fuck do these people expect to survive, seriously ?
mircea_popescu: h), but which does not include his email, or his pgp key.
mircea_popescu: so the guy that wrote that otherwise interesting post : 1) aslo wrote
http://blog.bettercrypto.com/?p=640 , a complete misrepresentation of the tim swhatever incident ; 2) runs a blog where you need cookies/js to leave him a comment pointing out that no, he's not extempt from the common requirements of "know what you're talking about before you posture" ; 3) has a contact page where i could donate btc to him (or ltc he
mircea_popescu: Please be sure JavaScript and Cookies are enabled in your browser."
mircea_popescu: "ERROR: JavaScript and Cookies are required in order to post a comment.
mircea_popescu: "unanimous allergic reactions when serious security questions are raised by uninvited academics"
mircea_popescu: punkman: yeah and maybe indian/chinese guy watered field with sewage << actually good for it.
mircea_popescu: punkman: 10 GBP for truck mail? that's highway robbery <<< no, it's... AIRWAY ROBBERY
mircea_popescu: Namworld send me teh fb data if it's done (seems to be ?)