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mircea_popescu: dude this entire bitcoin-assets system with its tools is turning me into a fucking singularity, im like brain on steroids.
mircea_popescu: decimation here's more. sha1 is implemented as "sha1sum". sha256 however is implemented as "sha256". then sha512 is... "sha512sum"
mircea_popescu: so wait, basically your wife used some paper altcoin to defraud grocery chains ?
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves i don't follow, so did the coupons yield boxes or not ?
mircea_popescu: sciilifeform do you read this thing like i do, ie, a nsa-sponsored attempt to survive the "everyone has cardano rng on board" apocalypse by making good entropy sources still circumventable ?
mircea_popescu: Dropping out the egd support made me puzzled for a moment, but then I realized that there is no point in using egd to feed the randomness to the process, you just need to feed entropy to the kernel, and let the process get it normally. I have had, unfortunately, quite a bit of experience with entropy-generating daemons, and I wonder if this might be the right time to suggest getting a new multi-source daemon out." << a
mircea_popescu: "I actually have been thrilled to see that finally there is movement to replace the straight access to /dev/random and /dev/urandom: Ted's patch to implement a getrandom() system call that can be made compatible with OpenBSD's own getentropy() in user space. And even more I'm happy to see that at least one of the OpenBSD/LibreSSL developers pitching in to help shape the interface.
mircea_popescu: Q : "ie. mining your competitors’ data to send unsolicited and misleading marketing messages isn’t allowed, so if you didn’t breach this clause how exactly did you send those notices?"
mircea_popescu: i have this impression your name's familiar, any idea whence ?
mircea_popescu: obviously if one applied the same standards to quarks as it does to bitcoins, one could never trust the fucking quark. obviously quark-nsa is behind it.
mircea_popescu: <thickasthieves> "The U.S. government is rapidly expanding the number of names it accepts for inclusion on its terrorist watch list, with more than 1.5 million added in the last five years, according to numbers divulged by the government in a civil lawsuit." << hey asciilifeform look at that! what was gulag, 50mn ?
mircea_popescu: sheldonthomas anyway, that was then. meanwhile a lot of progress'been made (notices of which scattered all over the log), and we're coming out of da woods.
mircea_popescu: basically god is just this very large dice assemblage in non-space, feeding all the quarks dicerolls.
mircea_popescu: no, the contrary. in the quest to make determinism infeasible, it requires some sort of entropy reservoir outside-the-world.
mircea_popescu: and about as close as one can get to physically proving divinity.
mircea_popescu: this is fundamentally why reductive (and most not-so-reductive) physicalism does not work.
mircea_popescu: one of the core (if unknown) principles underscoring all creation is that the qty of entropy in a system remains the same if it's cut in half.
mircea_popescu: <decimation> any source of finite entropy would eventually exhaust << this breaks physics.
mircea_popescu: so it turns out that ssh specifies ports with -p, but scp specifies ports with -P and -p is something else entirely.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well, it COULD be designed as a concatenation somehow, thus actually retaining 500ish bits. maybe.
mircea_popescu: "and it's illegal to not let us do illegal shit when we want to anyway, so."
mircea_popescu: "have a 4096 rsa key made out of 8 parts! it may not be as strong as the proper key, but that's good : if you forget your passphrase you can break the key and retreive your stuff!"
mircea_popescu: what's this, a way to reduce key entropy to breakable levels ?
mircea_popescu: so you know... stop misrepresenting the swastika as something bad just to serve your need to scapegoat imagery.
mircea_popescu: "Don’t depict the Magen David (Star of David) as an equivalent to the Nazi swastika. The Magen David represents all Jews—not just Israelis, not just people who are violent against Palestinians, ALL JEWS. When you do this, you are painting all Jews as violent, genocidal racists. DON’T." << and for that matter, the swastika represented all germans, not just the ones involved in homicide.
mircea_popescu: appointing yourself the judge of all fucking creation is the point of life.
mircea_popescu: "Don’t call Jews you agree with “the good Jews.” Imposing your values on another group is not okay. Tokenizing is not okay. Appointing yourself the judge of what other groups can or should believe is not okay." << omfg. this is about as offensive as it gets.
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard i originally thought it's a highschool/municipal sort of stadium for some reason.
mircea_popescu: ima end up persecuting fucking jews as the initiators of this "vocal minority trying to opress majority" meme.
mircea_popescu: this is the most preposterous shit i ever read. hey, fifty million jewish people ? about a billion people happen to not give a shit. this is how it should be.
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard so basically it's the georgia tech stadium ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform omfg, it's got BEK! pankkake you sly dog.
mircea_popescu: it's a mpex sort of corp, not a hot topic sort of corp.
mircea_popescu: thanks to all the inflation, they're safe : they didn't have that much to spend anyway. i doubt anything under 1bn even registers anymore, especially after the great successes of govt contractors in the mideast.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo this is starting to look so much like classic doctom bubble burnage...
mircea_popescu: this is the package maintainer's path to divinity : prevent all the f-students, masquerading as women-interest, "general public" interest etfuckingc from breaking math.
mircea_popescu: moreover, you trying to sell my king a device to harden the fortress against perpetuum mobile which relies on the 1st law of thermo will get me to advise him to hang you.
mircea_popescu: the day false evaluates to true, you're nine feet tall
mircea_popescu: so, i can argue that yes, it is just as readily inferred as anything else.
mircea_popescu: but feynman's hypothetical is not wholly self-contained.
mircea_popescu: but it does mean that IF it were to exist, we can't say anything about what it can't do./
mircea_popescu: the rules as they are preclude its existence. that may not mean it can't exist,
mircea_popescu: all these people derping about "quantum-computing-strong hashes" and whatnot are starting to get on my motherfucking nerves. yo idiots! are you aware that every rng out there actually uses some sort of quantum noise ? WHAT THE FUCK ARE HASHES GOING TO DO WHEN I KNOW ALL THE SEEDS!
mircea_popescu: is it the day of the married man's secret homosexual friend ? like "jour de la chere amie" would be in france ?
mircea_popescu: social media, fucking chewing gum. what is it ? it's not social, nor is it media. it's not a food, not a liquid, basically a stationery bike for you jaw.