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BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Also how are the catfish in Río de la Plata? Probably ought to check that out before leaving hardware B-A
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform the reason rawls is in there is because it gives perhaps the best approach for average derp to touch his derpitude. the reasoin no discussion of scamming is in economy is because i do not believe it is in there. << belongs in Biology
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sybil and mitm are entirely orthogonal concepts
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that's rather like saying that locust is not an agriculturally-relevant organism, no ?
assbot: Logged on 25-08-2015 01:18:04; mircea_popescu: lemme see if anything occurs. ima keep it open for a little bit see if i become suddenly unhappy with b overnight, then ima set it in stone an' give out some symbolic prizes for first completors.
assbot: Logged on 24-08-2015 19:39:24; mircea_popescu: ;;google average salary in china
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'c' (or 'd' ?) - 'what information is conveyed by a cryptographic signature ?'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'c' (or 'd' ?) - 'describe what is steganography, and name a successful and a catastrophic instance of its use'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'c' (or 'd' ?) - 'distinguish 'fail-safe' and 'fail-deadly' mechanisms. give a common example of each.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'a' - 'what is idempotence ?'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'm trying to form a mental model of the how+why of certain quiz items; for instance, why is rawls in there, but not, e.g, 'describe what is a bucket shop'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'd' - 'what is a man-in-the-middle attack'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: water in sahara, air in orbit, entropy on ibm pc...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is kinda what literacy is about, i think
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not just this! gotta have access to arithmetic, even!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not strictly biological; e.g., winblowz virii qualify
mike_c: mircea_popescu: you want comments here or in trilema?
Adlai: mircea_popescu: Econ#5, "programmatically-issued"?
asciilifeform: i do wish that mircea_popescu were right about this, it would make for an interesting mathemagical mindfuck
Adlai: mircea_popescu: don't worry, so does satoshi :P
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> let me put it in these terms asciilifeform : if you actually need the concept of random to have bitcoin, this reduces to a situationb of "whosoever has priviledged access to random owns bitcoin". << An Vexual has most priviledged access to most random
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how the fuck can one say 'it functions' if i can divine all of your keys
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you can't nondeterministically create the addrs, OR the nonces, you're fucked
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: function ?!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: without concept of randomness, it is impossible to explain why it is that what the idjits did was idjotic
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: or hard to explain the 'android incident' etc
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: eh sure you do
Adlai: mircea_popescu: well shit, now any shmuck that reads the logs can do so. sorry bout that...
Adlai: mircea_popescu: re #1, AG /= DAG
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is hands-down the part 'b' lecturer, aha
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: some suggested items, in no particular order, here goes,
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: spiffy quiz piece
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: but i have given up trying to fit some kind of earthling logic to mircea_popescu's moves
assbot: Logged on 24-08-2015 17:27:24; mircea_popescu: it was originally interesting, "check it out, the kitsch version of us collapse, 20 years early" but eventually one has enough.
trinque: mircea_popescu | a which reminds me, trinque make sure pete_dushenski blog is only rss'd like randopmly one in 5 << lol, we'll see how it goes
asciilifeform: mod6, ben_vulpes, mircea_popescu, et al:
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu hm
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu sounds like it's definitely dead in buenos aires
assbot: Logged on 24-08-2015 20:24:27; mircea_popescu: trinque one of the best parts of this entire open experiment thingee is how the rss bot was by far the MOST redone part of all of b-a
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: old lulz, http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=15-02-2015#1020030 ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: altimeter solves that one, no?
asciilifeform wonders if mircea_popescu has considered/tried singapore
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: out of curiosity, what's so hot about shenzen in particular
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is certain they don't see articles? what kinda spammer uses anything but a fresh ip ?
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: you probably own one of the most valuable pgp/email lists going..
asciilifeform: i'll let mircea_popescu answer this one (if he feels like..) - iirc there is also a 'diode' in there somewhere
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'm not in the 'morals' business. but personally prefer the company of folks who wash, at least on occasion.
asciilifeform: but i, for one, look forward to reading mircea_popescu's description of life in middle kingdom!!
BingoBoingo more curious how mircea_popescu plans to get real internet in .cn
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my point is that china is different from ro, ar, usa, in several interesting ways which mircea_popescu appears to heavily discount the importance of. perhaps he has own reasons for this, but i couldn't possible know them..
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: whole orchestra of cn folks, many who did not even appear in the org chart but somehow had leverage, appeared out of nowhere, making a fuss
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: perhaps more on subject, the interesting and magic moment came when a middle-aged animal handler chick from cn was fired (over long-standing dispute over a paper's attribution) with the (.in) chief
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu wanted case study of folks i saw with own eyes ?
asciilifeform: or i suppose i could talk about my years of working in labs with ~50% or so cn folks, getting to know'em, but i don't imagine mircea_popescu will find this interesting
assbot: Logged on 19-06-2014 02:26:17; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ever do business with han chinese ?
asciilifeform: at any rate, this is not the class of problem which is a problem to mircea_popescu.
asciilifeform: but i reasoned that if mircea_popescu were an aficionado of mega-emptyspace, he'd be in patagonia now
asciilifeform: at any rate, who am i to say that mircea_popescu would not fit in cn. perhaps he has always wanted to eat roast dog, pay 90% of his revenue as bakshish to local party 'райком', and endure the stench of the most packed mass of beoble known...
asciilifeform lacks the necessary lsd to fully digest the notion of mircea_popescu moving to the world's statally-strongest, taking-no-shit-from-the-white-man mega-ethnostate
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: did someone mail you these and asked 'sister of mircea_popescu ?'
assbot: Logged on 06-07-2015 20:54:46; mircea_popescu: which is why no cows, no trees, everyone on tatamis
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=06-07-2015#1190095 << old mircea_popescu-and-the-chinese thread, for extra lulz ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not in the toy store
asciilifeform: but i can see what mircea_popescu meant here.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but you defended this re: titanic !
trinque: mircea_popescu | so they took the passengers back to hotel. directly. << lol!
asciilifeform: i can't wait till mircea_popescu discovers the cn mega-reddits
asciilifeform: and iirc mircea_popescu didn't either?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you gonna have white-man food and chix flown in or what
gribble: williamdunne was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 6 days, 21 hours, 26 minutes, and 10 seconds ago: <williamdunne> mircea_popescu: Relieve pressure by ranting on a blog? Sounds like it could work. I'll have another look at the incubators
assbot: Logged on 24-08-2015 09:21:40; wyrdmantis: ;;later tell mircea_popescu so why l2 cache is relevant? give me a hint, please.
fluffypony: mircea_popescu: well we need to be more certain
wywialm: mircea_popescu, what is java most hated for - in particular, in client-side? and what is the recommended alternative for similar purposes?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and see, if they used hot gurlz, it wouldn't be 'common man !!11!!!111'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: which 'she'
wywialm: mircea_popescu, is there something i miss? re bouncy castle: we'll most likely have to write a library to make it more usable
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's a shell-callout to gpg
wyrdmantis: ;;later tell mircea_popescu so why l2 cache is relevant? give me a hint, please. ☟︎
phf: mircea_popescu: i think mavrodi keeps spawning new mmm's, getting shut down or going bankrupt and then moving on. his last venture mentioned on wikipedia is MMM India in 2006, but there's no mention of this new mmmglobal
trinque: mircea_popescu: cheers
assbot: Logged on 27-07-2015 01:33:25; mircea_popescu: so /me goes to investigate this kingdom of loathing mud thingee. wikipedia claims 150k players playing regularly. /me has never seen > 500 players logged in. /me is confused.
phf: mircea_popescu: https://i.imgur.com/neNetGr.png, http://mmmglobal.org
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'd imagine there is room for requests for a dec vax port or whatnot.
asciilifeform looks through the window and does not see any private bankers coming to ask re: therealbitcoin... perhaps they all go to mircea_popescu's house. or ben_vulpes...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i know these as 'pocket banks' aha
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu ^
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: my thought was actually that it was illustrative of the idea you explained - that random beggar can't own a 'promissory n0te'
assbot: Logged on 23-08-2015 00:45:53; mircea_popescu: multiple UNSPECIFIED recipients.
assbot: Logged on 23-08-2015 00:42:58; mircea_popescu: incidentally asciilifeform and whoever else is privately thinking of reimplementing pgp : one thing i'd dearly love would be the ability to encrypt not to X, but to "l1".
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: please consider taking the thing in http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-08-2015#1249328 + http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=23-08-2015#1249335 and specifying a little more in detail. because i am utterly failing to grasp what was being sought here. ☝︎☝︎
assbot: Logged on 23-08-2015 00:32:28; mircea_popescu: punkman yes of course. just as soon as there's observable value everywhere a horde of shitheads with spoons are moving towards it.
assbot: Logged on 22-08-2015 21:23:49; mircea_popescu: there isn't a way for peasant to OWN picasso
assbot: Logged on 23-08-2015 04:49:18; mod6: mircea_popescu asciilifeform ben_vulpes trinque & all: For your review. http://thebitcoin.foundation/misc/orc.sh && http://thebitcoin.foundation/misc/rel1.vpatch && http://thebitcoin.foundation/misc/rel2.vpatch
assbot: Logged on 23-08-2015 21:42:47; mircea_popescu: point was agreed to before i think. which is how the discussion re what pgp implementation must be like got started.
fluffypony: mircea_popescu you want to hear a funny story
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: their logic, to the extent there is any, is approximately 'nothing grows till the oak hits the ground'
assbot: Logged on 22-08-2015 19:13:28; mircea_popescu: ely almost entirely on expert opinion concerning the quality of the art, that is to say, is the quality of the art being examined of the quality expected of a painting by the artist—in this case, Caravaggio.
assbot: Logged on 22-08-2015 19:09:30; mircea_popescu: anyway, upon consideration venus does have to some degree the sharp features of the ideal fox. at least moreso than all the piefaces everyone wants to paint for some reason
assbot: Logged on 22-08-2015 19:03:59; mircea_popescu: "de gustibus" ?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: regarding el gran teatro, have you been to a proper milonga yet?