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mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-26#1529659 << and timing attacks, of course. of all numerous kinds - suppose as a banal example that what i want to do is discern whether key X is yours or his. well, a simple solution would be to add a third i know is not involved, send the same thing to all three, and see which of the susperct two behaves like the third.
☝︎☟︎☟︎ BingoBoingo:
<phf> but we don't even have an equivalent of "great thing until it wasn't" produced by tmsr
<< BitBet follows, but was produced by TMSR blastocyst
mircea_popescu: Фантастический мир русской романтической повести
< there we go! teh russians even agree omg im so impressed.
thestringpuller: "I see the devolution of Western culture upon us because the males have been emasculated with a combination of societal enforcement of child support payments along with the absolute right of the female to divorce taking all the financial support while remaining promiscuous."
<< actually i have no idea what gender this person is, but makes great points.
Framedragger:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-26#1529496 << just curious - does the gossip spec as it is place any trust in ip addresses? this iirc was one of the points criticized by asciilifeform, i would think it to be a valid one. sorry if this, too, was extensively discussed in the logs.
☝︎ BingoBoingo: "I left around the beginning of August. This was my first time traveling alone, and I didnt know what to expect. Father signed me up to have supervised travel assistance to help me along the way, otherwise I would get lost in the airport."
<< LOL Airport Special ED!
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> if mircea_popescu had written that rodgier ought to have ~been buggered~, or enslaved by arabs, or similar, i would have no dispute. but it is just as fantastic to posit schmuck going into pederasty willingly, as to picture him growing taller by effort of will
<< He probably would enthusiastically have embraced getting buggered if he was a level 70 chocolate elfhole while recieving buggery
a111: Logged on 2014-10-30 23:55 mircea_popescu: undata: if only there were some way to organize the efforts of a large number of people around projects
<<< there is. you're watching it. just because leadership is not in your face doesn't necessarily mean leadership is absent and it's your time to shine. it may also mean leadership is extremely good at what it does.
mod6:
<+trinque> adlai: I use it.
<< actually, this really was cool.
mod6: like this: "What the fuck is wrong with these people."
<< i mean right?
mircea_popescu: " However, this is something that Joe can evaluate by himself, without having any need for Moe, and without needing to ask him anything"
<< mod6:
<+mircea_popescu> o hai
<< hey! also had some lulz reading part III of Rodger on the train.
mod6:
<+shinohai> ;;later tell mod6 success ... this is the coolest thing yet.
<< nice! thanks for testing that :]
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-25#1529232 << when i used to drink heavily back in philadelphia my собутыльники (literally "those who share bottles", a derisive way of saying that the thing we had in common was an excuse to drink) was a small group of european philosophy ph.d.-s from upenn program. those guys would habitually get blackout drunk, which they thought was most important skill of a philosopher. usually we'd end up at one of
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2016-08-25 00:29 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-24#1528679 << not all the children are fit to live ; all the parents are liable to lie to themselves on this score. this impedance mismatch is the first and in plenty of approximations the only business of social science.
indoor_jellyfish: "A large source of the incredible tedium of his prose is that where you see predicates and subjects with their determinants he just runs a mess of copulative constructions in pre-cut forms ; his idea of English phraseology is essentially a trainload of nouns."
< a part-chinaman trying for hieroglyphs
BingoBoingo: "This was the most horrible thing she could do to me, to take away my only source of joy left in the world."
<< lol nope. He still had a joy. Mebbe they should have sent him to drugs.
BingoBoingo: "My parents shocked me with very horrible news. They were planning on sending me to Taft High School. Taft had five times as many students as Crespi, it was a public school, it had girls in it, and it had a bad reputation. I had never been so scared in my entire life. How could they do this to me, after knowing what I went through at Crespi? Taft High School would eat me alive and spit me out. I felt so betrayed by my parents."
<< AHA, I
ben_vulpes:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-24#1528522 << "with any luck the most we can hope for is that they're tolerable company. if one's halfway qualified to be sent to more school, i'll consider myself lucky. and if we're unlucky, well, there's always the beach and teaching surfing."
☝︎ mod6:
<+asciilifeform> ben_vulpes: i half-expect to hand out otp's at the next meat gathering.
<< werd.
shinohai: mircea_popescu well i hope you're having fun.
<<< least I could do in exchange for the #trilema girl
mircea_popescu: "
<audrow> pipping: I see. Femlisp seems good. I think femlisp, LLA, and GSLL meet my requirements. Do you have any idea how to compare the performance of various libraries, short of trying them all?"
<< ok, i must say i am deeply impressed with those snr enforcement measures :D
diana_coman: mircea_popescu> also consider - someone like the young rodger is the result of careful selection over the generations.
<- thing is: if ancients were aware of the type, this selection thing is not really that relevant: there probably always was, there always will be
deedbot: PeterL rated mircea_popescu +1
<< Runs MPEx and Eulora and stuff.
deedbot: mircea_popescu rated t2yax 1
<< Euloran
shinohai: t2yax: /msg NickServ SET PASSWORD
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