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asciilifeform: punkman: this would deplete the s.nsa piggy pretty quickly
asciilifeform: punkman: this is doable, with the new design, but would do jack shit for making the site stay up.
asciilifeform: shinohai: the one problem is that i don't have physical control of whole motherfucking net.
punkman: maybe split off the website from the phuctoring part, keep the latter seekrit
shinohai: That seems to be the only way to keep it from being diddled with, having physical control of box.
asciilifeform: i will prolly wind up putting it ~in my house~ only to start suffering from mysterious daily fiber cuts.
asciilifeform: i have nfi what it would take to keep this thing from getting unplugged.
asciilifeform: INCIDENTALLY that box never ONCE went down since it was brought up, until now.
asciilifeform: phuctor, boiz and gurlz, you will notice, is down. because the box has been apparently again unplugged.
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu now thaaaaaaaaat was fast. dulap stolen AGAIN ?!!!!
shinohai: ;;later tell BingoBoingo http://ix.io/xkb <<< Preet strikes again?
midnightmagic: finally found that draft rfc re: tls non-repudiation extensions: https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-hajjeh-tls-sign-03
mircea_popescu: to go to Heaven yet at the same time are likelier to make a Hell of earth."
mircea_popescu: "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims will be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely
mircea_popescu: i estimate the log coudl do with some
mircea_popescu: yes i reckon if they manage this, pulling themselves into orbit can't be far behind
mircea_popescu: " if the large number N is the product of two primes, p and q, and someone obtains two other numbers, p' and q' which while prime or not nevertheless multiply to the same N, are not they now able to do anything"
needsmoarlaser: that you buying up all the arg bonds?
mircea_popescu: and yet inexplicably i'm sure this will son be was already found-ed and documented by research that nevertheless fails to exist etc.
mircea_popescu: Bradley R. Smith <brad@cse.ucsc.edu>; Mike Kisser <mtronics@uni.de>; Mike Kisser <mtronics@gmx.net>; Mike Kisser <Mike.Kisser@T-Online.de>; Mike Kisser <mtronics_scs@geocities.com>; Robert Staszewski <monopole@aol.com>; Doc Tomoe <Doc.Tomoe@gmx.de>; Stefan Roehrich <sr@stefan.lake.de>; Sven Martinek <Sven.Martinek@gmx.net>; Sven Martinek <Sven.Martinek@tu-berlin.de>; Sven Martinek <svenmartinek@earthling.net>; Sven Martine
mircea_popescu: Public Exponent 170141183460469231731687303715884105731 is NOT PRIME ! <<< check out this shit.
mircea_popescu: 33 more found. this monster is totally worth it.
a111: Logged on 2016-04-22 02:23 phf: so the idea is what drop $500k on an pure documented fpga, hope that maker crowd will help you recoup your costs, use fraction to run tmsr infrastructure? :)
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-22#1455231 << in principle this is an approachable problem, but definitely not before much lower steps such as you know, cardano, isp, etc.\ ☝︎
mircea_popescu: just like high-performance designer chemistry jumped fro mbeing a well funded uni lab only thing back in 1996 to being accessible to random spammer with a desire to sell temporarily "legal" psychoactives.
a111: Logged on 2016-04-22 02:14 asciilifeform: you did not make anything, really, and you relied on a supply chain that is quite likely unstable, esp. if you become 'interesting'
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-22#1455207 << actually the commodization of prepped si is proceeding apace over the years. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2016-04-22 02:02 asciilifeform: (last i recall mircea_popescu gave somewhere close to 1/10th of a damn, he is to be commended for this)
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-22#1455176 << my damns are a complex echafaudage of roots and smoked mirrors and etc. hard to say how tall what is. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: and there's no great american novel ; nor a french dictionary. what of it.
asciilifeform: and what mircea_popescu thinks of as 'soviet great private life' is all post-'53.
mircea_popescu: on the contrary, the more dictatorially insane the society, the absolutely better the private life.
mircea_popescu: i also do not credit the "dictatorial education -> no diaries" argument from experience. there are NO BETTER jokes than the ro/ru/etc jokes from that time.
trinque: asciilifeform: sure, and your blog is a big part of why I ended up interested enough to hang around
asciilifeform: as i had to excavate, e.g., 'Refal'.
trinque: so then some who were hacks or w/e, they dry up
asciilifeform: you did not have to excavate it from beneath six metres of cement,
asciilifeform: and had to excavate diligently to turn up the necessary materials, i have 0 meatwot connection to the folks who built'em.
mircea_popescu: cuz they need other derps.
asciilifeform: i for instance found out that lispm even existed by sheer stroke of luck
asciilifeform: but what thinking man needs is not 'the herd' but the other thinking folk.
trinque: if this were true how could it ever change
asciilifeform: if cut this way - sure.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't credit his "man needs the herd" nonsense worth halfpence.
asciilifeform: ^ posted here for the record, apologies for the ~2kb.
asciilifeform: rmans really got to England my acquaintance of the Cafe Royal would soon have found his painting deteriorating, even if the Gestapo had let him alone. And when the lid is taken off Europe, I believe one of the things that will surprise us will be to find how little worthwhile writing of any kind -- even such things as diaries, for instance -- has been produced in secret under the dictators.' ☟︎
asciilifeform: because your thoughts are never entirely your own. Philosophers, writers, artists, even scientists, not only need encouragement and an audience, they need constant stimulation from other people. It is almost impossible to think without talking. If Defoe had really lived on a desert island, he could not have written Robinson Crusoe, nor would he have wanted to. Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up. Had the Ge
asciilifeform: Why is this idea false? I pass over the fact that modern dictatorships don't, in fact, leave the loopholes that the old-fashioned despotisms did; and also the probable weakening of the desire for intellectual liberty owing to totalitarian methods of education. The greatest mistake is to imagine that the human being is an autonomous individual. The secret freedom which you can supposedly enjoy under a despotic government is nonsense,
asciilifeform: very hoarding; but up in the attics the secret enemies of the regime can record their thoughts in perfect freedom -- that is the idea, more or less. And many people are under the impression that this is going on now in Germany and other dictatorial countries.
asciilifeform: 'The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside. Quite a number of people console themselves with this thought, now that totalitarianism in one form or another is visibly on the up-grade in every part of the world. Out in the street the loudspeakers bellow, the flags flutter from the rooftops, the police with their tommy-guns prowl to and fro, the face of the Leader, four feet wide, glares from e
asciilifeform: orwell actually had a bit re this:
asciilifeform: (you somehow gotta wind up ~wanting to~ and knowing-it-exists etc)
asciilifeform: same reason not so many folks running the lispm emulator now.
a111: Logged on 2016-04-22 01:28 phf: i.e. my cmucl runs on a clearly compromised intel cpu and can even do interesting things. imagine future(tm) where only way to run cmucl is by crosscompiling into x86 emulator inside your web browser ;]
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-22#1455101 << i have a difficult to explain and perhaps dubious proof as to why this imagined future is not a possible future. ☝︎☟︎
a111: Logged on 2016-04-22 01:05 phf: who's going to do the burning
a111: Logged on 2016-04-22 00:49 asciilifeform: once the gangrene sets in, you either freeze your toolchain or give up work.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-04-22#1455052 << this is actually the truth. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: by defensible i mean, in terms of fiction.
asciilifeform: ference. Short of being dead, it is the final, unsurpassable stage of irresponsibility.'
asciilifeform: reality, able to keep up an attitude of the completest indifference, no matter what happens. A storm that would sink all the battleships in the world would hardly reach you as an echo. Even the whale's own movements would probably be imperceptible to you. He might be wallowing among the surface waves or shooting down into the blackness of the middle seas (a mile deep, according to Herman Melville), but you would never notice the dif
asciilifeform: 'For the fact is that being inside a whale is a very comfortable, cosy, homelike thought. The historical Jonah, if he can be so called, was glad enough to escape, but in imagination, in day-dream, countless people have envied him. It is, of course, quite obvious why. The whale's belly is simply a womb big enough for an adult. There you are, in the dark, cushioned space that exactly fits you, with yards of blubber between yourself and
mircea_popescu: and by the way things work - hey, 99% safe!
mircea_popescu: trinque yeah. and very defensible, too. in principle you could readily sit in there and design robots to protect you even today.
trinque: certainly an immediate - and bleak - visual for the infantile urge to return to the womb
mircea_popescu: yeah somehow this never got anywhere. weird huh.
asciilifeform: (the latter being the ~only recent 'bubble men' trope film of any real fame)
asciilifeform: incidentally, jp film 'animatrix' is palpably less, imho, retarded, than original american 'matrix'.
mircea_popescu readily admits he's prolly the most sf-ignorant here.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah it's a kinda usable/powerful metaphor to work on i thought
mircea_popescu: if anyone feels like writing into/towards it we could have like one of those sf things.
mircea_popescu: while dudes with socket wrenches roam around the abandoned physical world looking for the better fucktoys in the goop.
mircea_popescu: i laid down to sleep and instead had this vision of you know, dreamers fucking around on reddit while suspended in vats,
mircea_popescu: oh incidentally, anyone read the next generation thing ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this brings to mind tales of african throwbacks who tried to use condom ~after the fact~ and genuinely believed, i'm told, that it will save them from syphilis/aids/etc
asciilifeform: trinque: good in theory, but be sure to invent parachute ~before~ thrown from window
trinque: become interesting, then attract allies that can help you get the rest of the supply chain you need!
trinque: +asciilifeform │ you did not make anything, really, and you relied on a supply chain that is quite likely unstable, esp. if you become 'interesting' << this is the wrong strategy.
BingoBoingo: Keeps Enclave from having to worry about Lloyd's paying out to the Great Khans
mircea_popescu: at any rate : no actuarial tables re that, you understand.
mircea_popescu: i suspect that's part of propaganda ministry orders.
asciilifeform: same reason every policy i ever took ruled out nuke war
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Pest control at the home's periphery. Barrier treatment's etc. Pesticide applicator's license seens to have very low barrier to entry.
mircea_popescu: why the hell wouldn't they :D
mircea_popescu: oh, they will DEFINITELY insure that lol
mircea_popescu: much better than say cancer
mircea_popescu: anyway. asteroid one of the more beloved risks by insurers. rather rare, pretty decent auctuarial tables...
BingoBoingo: But just floating the idea.
mircea_popescu: eventually settled, took a coupla years.
mircea_popescu: insurance didn't want to pay, wtf it's not meteoric. "hey they came from the sky"
mircea_popescu: one of the lulziest dispute, birds went into plant air intake.
asciilifeform: veeeeery useful to naggum suure.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you can actually insure against the tax thing, yes. you just have to have a large enough operation.
mircea_popescu: mats i'm kinda typical eastern european dude.
asciilifeform: nor can you insure against usg deciding that you owe $maxint in tax
BingoBoingo: If you want to start a fiat business your first expense isn't insurance it is a lawnmower.
trinque: boston likes to drink; it could happen
asciilifeform: pretty neat but there is no way in hell it covers ~suing others~
mats: i struggle to determine ethnic origins through facial features in p much all not-asian races
mircea_popescu: if i tripped, fell, and set boston on fire it'd have probably paid.