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a111: Logged on 2017-07-13 15:58 mircea
_popescu: i can teach sanity to rabid street urchin within months and to rachel from jewish middle class home within years.
a111: Logged on 2017-04-07 18:24 mircea
_popescu: no, let's also de-equivocate think. there's two kinds of think, one's a forge/reflow/examination of trees resulting in analytical consumption of inputs with actionable outputs guaranteed ; the other is a neurotic behaviour perhaps best described as spinning, whereby specific emotional triggers / detriggers are visited in succession. the prussian model was never concerned with the former in any sense, but merely aimed to elimi
a111: Logged on 2017-07-12 00:56 asciilifeform: mod6 et al : in other noose, i have a working experimental build with No
_Implicit
_Conditionals, No
_Implicit
_Heap
_Allocations, No
_Implicit
_Dynamic
_Code, No
_Secondary
_Stack, No
_Exception
_Propagation, No
_Tasking, No
_Protected
_Types, No
_Delay, No
_Allocators, No
_Dispatch restrictions.
andreicon: i'll meet you guys and gals later. ofc diana
_coman, i will also register a key as soon as i reach my home office
deedbot: mircea
_popescu has not rated lukejr.
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> i had an open rum bottle in the fucking back seat tho! << Bless federalism. That's some sort of attempted murder in Illinois, but "Cool, have fun kids" in Missouri
hanbot: mircea
_popescu also helps that you're able to talk to cops. most people do some combo of flipping out n' whining
mod6: <+mircea
_popescu> motorized dumpster! << so recently i was told a story about how this guy in ohio borrowed this car that was a dumpster on wheels -- i'll spare you all the details, but the long of the short of it is; this guy's life was saved when he was t-boned by a dumptruck on the freeway because of all the garbage in the car.
mod6: <+mircea
_popescu> anyway, if they found you woithj two nazi cans of fuel they'd prolly hang you. wrecking through petrol stockpiliong or w/e. << yeah, you'd think that they'd encourage people to not run out of gas, but nope. in fact, it is highly illegal to run out of gas on the freeway.
mod6: <+mircea
_popescu> very. << indeed
mod6: <+ben
_vulpes> mod6: plenty of great, green, steel gas cans with no idiocy for sale on 'ebay' << werd
a111: Logged on 2017-07-11 22:02 mircea
_popescu: every stroke is precious, every stroke is good
a111: Logged on 2017-07-12 03:15 mod6: mircea
_popescu: thanks for the suggestion, I shall think on it.
sina: mircea
_popescu: you made me feel better
mod6: mircea
_popescu: thanks for the suggestion, I shall think on it.
☟︎ trinque: mircea
_popescu: meant that turning the foundation into a tax man with income tax records seems wrong-headed
a111: Logged on 2017-07-12 02:34 mircea
_popescu: they only get nsa-approved diddleware from privateinternetaccess.com
a111: Logged on 2017-07-12 02:36 mircea
_popescu: ideally it could take anonymous donations.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-12 02:41 mircea
_popescu: yeah, i don't have an obvious pill either. but for instance for running nodes ? what do you care if it's evil. doesn't pay to evil.
mod6: mircea
_popescu: aha, i see.
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> dba variously as usg's very own honeypot for cypher-dorks. << AHA, dedicated Thermos sodomizer
mircea_popescu: poor ben
_vulpes has been silent since the blessing of wtf 10 minutes ago.
shinohai likes mircea
_popescu 's barium enema analogy
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> wtf, newswriting not dictionary boating accident << Cleanup ongoing. Probably ought to write before baking brain in heat or sleep and proofread before publishing. /me resets "Days since linguistic boating accident" sign back to 0 days
a111: Logged on 2017-07-10 19:50 mircea
_popescu: which incidentally brings us to a very workable and very useful tmsr definition of entropy quality : take a FG string. flip a number of consecutive bits to 1. the result is your entropy quality, such as 100/1mb if you flipped 100 bits.
mircea_popescu: ben
_vulpes here's a high pay grade question for you : of the two models of "controlled de-entropy" i spawned in a week, specifically a) count of randomly placed flipped bits, as in the discussion with you re that and b) string of randomly initiated, n bit long SET bits, as discussed in
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-10#1681268 which does the bitcoin foundation regard as a better candidate for standardization as "the republic'
☝︎ ben_vulpes: mircea
_popescu: slowlybut surely, expanding the horizon of things i understand, taking the time to make sure i understand each part.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-11 16:30 ben
_vulpes: self-administered "remedial binary arthmetic with practical applications" course is very educational; going well
mod6: i haven't gone all the way through the W
_Mul yet, but just unrolling it as said.
mod6: my gurl is like X
_X
mod6: ok, my bad, i see those are the output words for W
_Mul, XY
_LW and XY
_HI.
mod6: asciilifeform: you mind throwing me your W
_Add
_D, i don't seem to have one.
mod6: mircea
_popescu: my eyyyes
a111: Logged on 2017-07-07 18:01 mircea
_popescu: if they did that sort of shit, i could almost respect artists.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-04 15:06 mircea
_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-04#1679054 << this is a fine approach. "here's the per spec impl, here's the optimized impl. you can verify they agree wrt results ; and you can trivially verify the former is spec-accurate."
a111: Logged on 2017-07-10 19:50 asciilifeform: mircea
_popescu: this'd be an interesting adjunct to the dh tests even.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-03 04:34 mircea
_popescu: actually to formalize that : a 4096 bits key means a p that is 257 to 259 bytes long ; and a q that is 258 to 260 bytes long. end of fucking story.
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> dun talk smack about the pole dancing and stilt wearing crowd until you greco-roman wrestle a coupla. they're NOT THAT EASY << Original Sport!!!
phf: mircea
_popescu: well, sexp ~is~ code, primarily it's for writing your programs, not ~storing~ data. there's no such thing as sexp internally