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mircea_popescu: so you want to take a message m, add that many random bits to it, and then add twice that many bits as a hash of the pile, thereby using 25
% of the space for the plaintext ?
a111: Logged on 2017-08-08 21:42 asciilifeform: for only 25
% shave off the run time, it would not be worth it:
a111: Logged on 2017-07-08 00:17 asciilifeform: sina: the reason why i am not particularly hot&bothered, is that your prototype does not contain any of the parts that comprise 99+
% of the necessary work of an adult gossipd
mircea_popescu: not a matter of price, a matter of all the strings. gotta keep it maintained, tank full, etc. you realise 50
% of all arguments among car using negros is "who left the tank empty" ?
mircea_popescu: well yes, they expanded territory like 30
%, losing some areas, gaining others, look at teh map neh ?
mircea_popescu: "better own 100
% of obscure nonsense than ~0
% of reasonable statement" because "you never know" etc.
mircea_popescu: doing something on the basis of "it'll be cook for 12 seconds the first time someone sees me and once in 7 months at a party" is very dumb in that it neglects the other 99.99
% of the context.
mircea_popescu: musk doesn't have 1
% of 1
% of the money he needs to build such a thing. wtf already.
a111: Logged on 2015-07-23 01:10 mod6: we saw stuff like that before with the 168`001 Verify Signature fail too. most of the time it failed for us... the three of us who were independantly testing it. But sometimes, it'd pass. Maybe 30
% of the time. I was pulling my hair out.
BingoBoingo: Meanwhil of Failfork: Bitcoin Cash $3,878,816,077 $235.32 16,482,875 BCH $204,338,000 -37.74
% mircea_popescu: andf in the "don't do more damage than the shop would charge ; and don't take longer than it'd take to take to shop" view... god help us. 0
% and leave it at that.
mircea_popescu: i would guess < 0.01
% of general pop could do this at all.
shinohai: 99
% of all reporting nodes seem to still be the Amazon sybils from before.
mircea_popescu: hey, 0.1
% or so by mass, about 33
% or so by output of usg.nsa/etc is zekware. and i mean this quite literally.
mircea_popescu: (btw, my 3x above is correct figure, obtained fgrom busy bar/club experience. the surface doesn't do it justice, you need 150
% longer to use a toilet to pee than if you peed on the wall.)
mircea_popescu: 2.3
% "private", for a definition of "private" that essentially reduces to walmart. if it were properly private fred meyer would just be the stamp on the local scrip.
mircea_popescu: even today, if i'm trying to reference a girl it's 50
% gonna be "you know, that one, with the hair". literally. then the girls have to sort out if i mean jodie foster or that chick we fucked once three months ago.
BingoBoingo: In his current straight to netflix gig's he's been Stalone in the 1970's and Arnold in the early 80's type 8-4
% bodyfat sorta cut, but that mass dun impress on screen no more
mircea_popescu: funny, incidentally, how much of non-tmsr irc consists of join/part spam. apparently 80
% or os.
BingoBoingo: Kid Rock 49
% Sitting Pantsuit Senator 46
% in Michigan, 15 months out
BingoBoingo: Don't you know, Obama was supposed to lock America into a miserly 1.5
% growth rate for ever!!!
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: as you know, 80 (90?)
% of swamp inhabitants, 'medicated' << For very good reason. Shifts blame from lizards to their diseases.
phf: well, i'm wrong they use mimosa hostilis which contains 1.5
% dmt (and yes same shit that they use to cook ayahuasca)
mgoetze: does 'pay a tax in sum of 0.1
% or a hundred thousand satoshi per full Bitcoin realised' define the method of realisation ?
mircea_popescu: and in unrelated random lulz : during ww1 the count of derby came up with a nutty scheme to pressure people into "volunteering" for service without actually calling a draft. in spite of involving every busybody that could be find, male and female, to pester and harass the general populace, 54
% of married men and 38
% of single men publicly refused to enlist thereby empirically measuring the mental power of a period wife to be
mircea_popescu: at least in my experience, 60
% or so of independent practice lawyer's work is educating people in his office. sort-of private schooling.
mircea_popescu: your claim was "0 usg-style preet process", to which i showed 100
% preet process : 1. that indeed there was a preet ; and that indeed he was preet'ed.
mircea_popescu: (and yes, latin philosophy of the time was 60
% by mass "women, unbridled, will doom the republic". hence ~porcius~ cato for instance.)
mircea_popescu: In a post-mortem announcement, Middleton posted online today, the Veritaseum CEO said "the amount stolen was miniscule (less than 00.07
%) although the dollar amount was quite material."
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, overheard yest in car (as we were passing a quiznos sub thing with a huge "30
% mas carne!!" ad) "do you know what that is ?" "no idea" "when i was a kid it was the very best sandwich thing, better than subway or what have you. so when you left me behind i went to try it out. jesus christ it was the saddest affair ever. i could have made a better sandwich in all of five minutes."
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo they do have a point though ; costa rica imports some stuff from the us, and you can always tell. don't even have to taste, smell is enough 90
% of the time.
mod6: [17:32:00 mod6@obsd: ~/ada/fact]
% gnatmake ffa ffa_fact
a111: Logged on 2017-07-20 22:19 pete_dushenski: of course there are proportions at play, no one is 100
% any one thing, but mp is at least 3/4 gut, stan at least 3/4 head, thus the 'how can you just do?' question
pete_dushenski: of course there are proportions at play, no one is 100
% any one thing, but mp is at least 3/4 gut, stan at least 3/4 head, thus the 'how can you just do?' question
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-07-19 13:44 asciilifeform: meanwhile, in gavinlandia,
https://archive.is/KOhTm >> 'Resolution is to either guarantee there are non-bit1 signaling miners before enforcing (kind of incompatible with the definition of 80
% activation), or manually guarantee the the graph of enforcing miners is connected.' << d00d realizes that the softshitfork thing won't work without cartel... proceeds to demand one
sina: actually this quote seems like 100
% mircea_popescu
shinohai: Generating keypairs, etc on trb node has worked reliably for me 100
% of time since inception
mod6: <+asciilifeform> mod6: ram is 100
% irrelevant here << not saying it isn't, trying to be more descriptive than "box". lol
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-16#1685111 << obviously the purpose of the "asking" is the stroking of the implicit assumptions of equality baked in. the question isn't "what is this ?" but rather "hey, i know i'm a guy 100
% interchangeable with any/all of youze, right, i can even pm mp if i feel like it, so say something to signify your agreement, whatever it is, when i ask you hey guys what is this ?"
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2017-07-15 14:24 asciilifeform: !~later tell mod6 1.326 + log2(N)/2 + (log2(N) - 1.443)*N gives bitlength of N! to 1
% or so.
erlehmann: because journald spends like 95
% of its time trying to find out its own pid
mircea_popescu: the 2017 benchmark report has online fraud at about 12
% of us gdp, which is to say -- bigger than black people. twice over.
mircea_popescu: and also, and this is the best part, just about 0
% measurable "this is not right" in folks under 40, even when presented with egregious "subtle" changes in supposedly very well known, foundational tests.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-13#1682626 << only works if it's not cloudy. pretty much the whole of the current shitstack has this alternative explanation ready, that they moved away from things that absolutely not work some
% of the time to things that theoretically work universally, no matter how poorly / exzpensive /etc.
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