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asciilifeform: 'Extract-key-from-key is defined in section 6.27.7 of PKCS#11 standard version 2.30. It may as well have been renamed “extract-substring” as the analog of standard operation on strings. This derivation scheme creates a new key by taking a contiguous sequence of bits at desired offset and length from an existing key.' << holy FUCK
asciilifeform: just that there is NO such thing as 'life in russia'
asciilifeform: (unless, as often the case, yer money is tied to geography)
mircea_popescu: meanwhile irl, islam is about him dieing with a fucking explosive towel wrapped around his head, as a 37 yo virgin.
asciilifeform: ended up in usa by stroke of misfortune as a boy though.
asciilifeform: granted his reaction involves reversion to living in yurts and taking up rape of dickless plains dwellers as primary hobby
asciilifeform: sure as hell.
spandrell_: limonov counts as reactionary?
asciilifeform: that they read the same völkischer beobachter as inflicted on you ?
mircea_popescu: *thumbsup* but mgith as well cut to the chase.
mircea_popescu: but think about it! what sad sort of bro culture is this where you put as much work into the book as a reader into the reading!
mircea_popescu: now, ironically, i ~could~ make useful children. but i require items (such as an undisputed right to kill them) that i could also make, but can't be arsed to.
spandrell: which is why people tend to have 1 or 2, as beyond that they start being less cute and more annoying
mircea_popescu: well, inasmuch as it forces you to do things.
mircea_popescu: i guess she's getting out one way or another. but then again this'd be why i own my women as opposed to marrying them.
spandrell: you're doing your thing as a military officer
spandrell: they also have this bro culture to them which i dislike too, as i wrote int he water margin post
mircea_popescu: the debates as to genetic basis for intelligence have raged for a while in the logs. it's not really settled i guess, but there's certainly no merit for NATIONAL concepts of intelligence hm ?
mircea_popescu: there's a huge pile of interlocking wonders that make up la serenissima, i'll be more than happy to explain them in detail as time goes by.
spandrell: btw as per the log you sent me
trinque: "Luckily, signature verification crypto doesn't have to worry about side channel attacks. Alternatively, we could add openssl as a dependency and outsource the signature verification to it."
mircea_popescu: somehow i doubt the real life models were nearly as... bubbly.
asciilifeform: 'More likely than not, some members of the ruling coalition are not very loyal. They’d rather defect. But they can’t backstab the coalition just like that. You don’t do that; it looks bad. Your comrades will go against you. There are costs to defection. Unless you’re not the only defector. You need a way to signal your intention to defect, so that other disloyal fucks such as yourself (and they’re bound to be others) can jo
asciilifeform: venerated, and the gift of the mango was lauded as evidence of the Chairman’s deep concern for the workers. Then everyone in the factory filed by and each worker drank a spoonful of the water in which the sacred mango had been boiled. After that, the revolutionary committee ordered a wax model of the original mango. The replica was duly made and placed on the altar to replace the real fruit, and workers continued to file by, their
asciilifeform: ration. The wax-covered fruit was placed on an altar in the factory auditorium, and workers lined up to file past it, solemnly bowing as they walked by. No one had thought to sterilize the mango before sealing it, however, and after a few days on display, it began to show signs of rot. The revolutionary committee of the factory retrieved the rotting mango, peeled it, then boiled the flesh in a huge pot of water. Mao again was greatly
a111: Logged on 2016-06-03 16:04 mircea_popescu: nor has it ever been, actually. so as a practical matter, you're guaranteed some contamination.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-03#1475866 << installing a wholly new mental operating system ~cannot~ be a 'rational' decision, nor is it really a decision as such, more of a 'cock action' that is done ~to~ somebody. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: nor has it ever been, actually. so as a practical matter, you're guaranteed some contamination. ☟︎
asciilifeform: i see cult as less of a religious mechanism and more of effective form of military organization. historically - misused.
asciilifeform: i never subscribed to 'cults' as being intrinsically wrong. they are only wrong when their gods don't actually exist.
mircea_popescu: and in fact was broken as designed...
asciilifeform: it was that his relationship with physics crackpots for last 30 yrs is ~same as mircea_popescu's - with bitcoin scammers
asciilifeform: and likewise that schrodinger et all were able to get pretty far without costly detectors, and i do not regard it as 'they had low-hanging fruit'
asciilifeform: they EXPLICITLY rejected testability as a value.
mircea_popescu: right, in the sense that it went as far as tesla-style can go
mircea_popescu: what'd you have me call it ? take the cern cyclotron as the flagship example.
asciilifeform: automated proofs are usg crapolade, i speak as a reformed and repented purveyor
asciilifeform: that's a surrender, may as well go back to trees.
mircea_popescu: science as "fits in head" is not exactly practicable anymore.
mircea_popescu: point remains, the way ahead is probably going to be automated maths (as we discussed re v a year ago) applied to immense reams of data. just like in genetics, and so following.
mircea_popescu: (incidentally, the deep reason "government" as in, the united retards, are so fixated on big data is simply because that's what physics has been doing since ~80s
mircea_popescu: "a proper prince's penis should be as long as my thumb" said the 12 yo princess in her diary.
mircea_popescu: even the sentence as stated, "oh, universe begun x bn years ago". "really, it was years ? what spun around what sun, that top of a mother of yours ?"
asciilifeform: only really makes sense to treat it as lower bound
asciilifeform: whereas lower bound, such as 'this star if is far off, i can di parallax arithmetic, yes, and measured speed of light personally' - no.
mircea_popescu: ftr, the "official" notion as to the age of the universe is not ~fundamentally~ better than the "3600 years ago, fixed value".
mircea_popescu: the logical construction of "naked eye" in this context is, visible in the armored pubkey as user is expected to manipulate. whadda ya want now.
danielpbarron: mircea_popescu> for the record, as ridiculous as the whole "earth was created ~30k years ago << more like ~6.1k years ago
asciilifeform: fella is one of them random int as modulus folk.
mircea_popescu: for the record, as ridiculous as the whole "earth was created ~30k years ago by a trickster that salted it with fossils to fuck with you" is ; it is no more or less ridiculous (seeing how absolutes aren't comparable) than all sorts of commonly accepted idiocies. such as the notion that man "always" had some sort of "equality" notion, along with a whole host of imbecile anachronisms the general herd entertains ; or that humani
shinohai: As it should be.
mircea_popescu: why not ? what you say and what i say aren't in any sense exclusive. yes it was the time of a horde of imbeciles "saving hte world". the behaviour of such horde is exactly as per the soap example. an item will not be used because it exists and is useful ; consequently existence and functionality aren't predictive.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-03 12:12 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-03#1475422 << that the herd is instinctively repelled by pgp, much like soap, so it's perfectly possible NOBODY uses some arbitrary windows offering. much like in the "creative writer and activist"'s house, the broom's not nearly as worn down as the mirror.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform https://www.adafruit.com/products/561 << incidentally it turns out laser cut acrylic is/would have been just as cool as we thought.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-03#1475480 << as is usually the case, mircea_popescu is the grim plague doctor, complete with beak, telling us exactly when death will come - and pretty much always on target. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: yeah we could never make as cool robots as kid can today
a111: Logged on 2016-06-03 04:05 asciilifeform: see if yours is same as mine.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-03#1475422 << that the herd is instinctively repelled by pgp, much like soap, so it's perfectly possible NOBODY uses some arbitrary windows offering. much like in the "creative writer and activist"'s house, the broom's not nearly as worn down as the mirror. ☝︎☟︎
mircea_popescu: and while on it : a) wake me up when ivy league is not only free to entry but pays "bounty" to some lazy ass fuckwads for doing the fucking course work and b) the notion that this place will always be free as in beer to join is the height of ridiculousness.
asciilifeform: see if yours is same as mine. ☟︎
asciilifeform: i will leave it as rot13 - znyjner be bgurejvfr rkgreany vaqvivqhnyyl-gnvyberq, if znff, fnobgntr bs n ctcgeba.
asciilifeform: but i'm not, so all i can do is to suggest this here, as 'easy path to glory and fame.'
asciilifeform: (as popularized by the movie)
mod6: this was implemented as a means to ensure that the logs don't miss anything should one of the other bots drop off of a few minutes or something.
mod6: this makes sense to me, because i don't want this irc bot to reside on the same host as the webserver.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> anyway, wiped. i guess once tbot's here ima put the silkroad dump thing in there, maybe it's still around by the time someone figures out the world enough. << in related tbot news: i've got 8 remaining steps outlined to get us to the initial rollout in here. each isn't super hard or anything, working on the first one as I type this.
asciilifeform: iirc these regularly explode -- sometimes into audience, as in rammstein
mircea_popescu: oh right, as long as they keep it from going up, right. heh.
asciilifeform: 'CFTC Orders Bitcoin Exchange Bitfinex to Pay $75,000 for Offering Illegal Off-Exchange Financed Retail Commodity Transactions and Failing to Register as a Futures Commission Merchant'
asciilifeform: probably best to treat this find as archaeological, rather than as part of actual wot
mircea_popescu learned this as a teen, whenceupon leaving the shop cashier was "ask me out". "aren't you busy ?!" genuinely puzzled mp. "not for you".
asciilifeform: as for where useful - pretty much anywhere cheap nonx86 server thing is called for.
mircea_popescu: no, the police just beats people found stealing 3x as hard.
mircea_popescu: as time goes on i guess we'll be seeing a lot more of this low level maggotry.
asciilifeform: anyway thing oughta be safe to use so long as nand is never mounted r/w.
asciilifeform: is as described on box.
mircea_popescu: i bet you whatever you want just as we sit here there's some dude flying some desk somewhere (that used to be mahogany, and used to have plants around! ahh cold war!) to whom we seem the very perennial rats
a111: Logged on 2016-06-01 23:50 ben_vulpes: aight maybe some naggum as well. but there are extended discussions of political time in the logs.
asciilifeform: as in, you could crack a skull.
ben_vulpes: aight maybe some naggum as well. but there are extended discussions of political time in the logs. ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2016-06-01 20:53 asciilifeform: (i am about to snap one, as soon as camera charges)
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-01#1474899 << it's been in use as a bona fide english term (which it is) on trilema, as the last repository of actual english (which it is). so there! ☝︎
asciilifeform: because 256M will die in merely twice as long as the 128M dies in (what was it, 8 hours?)
asciilifeform: it is same sort of box as pogo
mod6: anyway, this seems easier as one could just rip the drive out, load up the full orchastra on the disk, drop it back in and you're ready to go.
asciilifeform: http://blog.livedoor.jp/hide_system/archives/2013-02-05.html << suggests that this is same board, and 1 of the 4pin pads, as usual, is tty.
asciilifeform: (i am about to snap one, as soon as camera charges) ☟︎
asciilifeform: thing is also sold as 'silverstone dc01'.
mircea_popescu: there seems to me there's a field to graze upon here ; without any such sillyness as "basis is cipher"
mircea_popescu: i dunno the whole thing. the observation however stands that just as there's a way to verify a number ISNT irrational, by the same way in the same manner for the same reason the reverse can also be verified. and there are indeed very hard (as it is the case here, harder than np-complete) problems to do with such numbers, arbitrarily chosen.
mircea_popescu: yes, but as long as the notation is in an irrational base,
mircea_popescu: well, it does as much as guarantee if your string is finite you're operating on an irrational.
a111: Logged on 2014-06-11 00:49 asciilifeform: 'My Navrozov moment, of course, was when I approached one of the two - Sacco, I think - and attempted to have an intellectual discussion of this realization. The story is basically the same as Navrozov's, so it would be boring to repeat, but basically I came away with the feeling that I'd told someone his Sicilian grandmother liked to get drunk and fuck her own goats.'
asciilifeform: that's the basic boojum of crypto as practiced by extant 'cryptographers'.
asciilifeform: it is 100% exactly the same case as in symmetric cipherdom.
mircea_popescu: well, you could consider pair-of-primes as the key.
Framedragger: hm. *this* (i.e.: that "no polynomial-time algorithm exists for factoring the product of two random n-bit primes with some good probability") *is* less safe as compared to the safer assumption that "no polynomial-time algorithm exists for always factoring all products of two random n-bit primes". this is a much safer assumption cf. to the one you interpreted it to mean, no? (no baiting this time - just honestly confused). but eh, may
asciilifeform: if you could prove what is called 'flat keyspace', you can work as if every key you select requires same work to break.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-01#1474465 << the republic seeks not so as to find, but so as to make. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: and so the matter settled : what started on may 25th as a slight disparity between the usg faux bitcoin exchanges trading at 448 (bitfinex isn't inclued here, having nothing to do with bitcoin altogether) while btcchina was reporting 455 (and 2/3 of the total volume), eventually peaked out at 510/580 (with btcchina still doing 2/3 of the volume) and eventually settled at 530/540. the moral that "you should have yielded rather