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asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> usg.nsa loves "virtualization", but it's by no means the only way to skin that cube << the only reason why they so easily sell this flavour of snake oil is that virtualizator gets you 'cpu cycles by the pound' and buckets of little arm boxes - don't (why not? because we never actually invented parallel processing or, especially, process migration. apparently. at least, unix world did not.)
asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> other than that, aglass of water is a computational machine << in the same sense as a fart, or even two electrons whizzing by in vacuum, are a computing machine. us earthlings are interested, for this reason, in -programmable- computators.
trinque: mircea_popescu: your point about fake security barriers in operating systems turned many gears in my skull
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: Good nuff'
assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 05:05:00; trinque: mircea_popescu | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-04-2015#1110960 << quite possibru. << http://www.ebay.com/itm/RLX-System-600ex-Xeon-CPU-Blade-2-8GHz-x-2-1GB-60GB-HD-/170369036116?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27aac92f54 big time
jurov: perhaps the word mircea_popescu wants is "cybernetics" in its original meaning but it kinda went the way of vitalism
assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 03:50:42; asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> that may be. i'm just pointing out that biology offers a very significant challenge to theoretical cs. << i must confess, that i am at a loss as to which aspects of meat we should like to replicate in machines: intransigence? toe fungus? pneumonia? schizophrenia?
assbot: Logged on 25-04-2015 18:27:00; mircea_popescu: cazalla dude the http://qntra.net/archives/ page kicks ass.
assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 05:35:38; mircea_popescu: "Be suspicious of pedestrians when you pull up to a house. Don't open your car door if people are nearby."
assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 05:53:14; mircea_popescu: "Unfortunately unlike Bitcoin there is no reputation Trezor." << a) trezor's kinda dysfunctional/derpy ; b) of course there is. airgapped gpg.
assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 04:34:06; mircea_popescu: seems nuts. 1% of new price if used ?
assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 12:48:59; mircea_popescu: ;;later tell williamdunne explain this difference between "1 btc = 1 btc" and "anyone and everyone being able to have a bitcoin wallet".
assbot: Successfully added a rating of 2 for mircea_popescu with note: bitcoin sage. pimp of all pimps.
menahem: !v assbot:menahem.rate.mircea_popescu.2:7cc82d0435c8ff1762d08246dbadfdf1fd432f6719194f70ecaa5bf6457e89e4
menahem: !rate mircea_popescu 2 bitcoin sage. pimp of all pimps.
assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 06:08:42; mircea_popescu: ;;later tell menahem you really don't know how to bother girls.
menahem: mircea_popescu thanks for the vote of confidence.
assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 05:17:59; mircea_popescu: williamdunne so in retrospect : "immutable, fungible, non-discriminatory, and trustless" is really redundant. fungible includes "non-discriminatory".
assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 05:33:34; mircea_popescu: williamdunne "The cost of enforcement of contracts grows over time as an increasing number of loopholes are found - as described in an article by Mircea Popescu" you know you could ~link it~ o.O
assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 04:35:18; mircea_popescu: before smartphones, it was not uncommon to stop two people in the street whose clocks were 30 minutes apart.
Naphex: mircea_popescu: https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/161.pdf for bitcoin related sidechans
assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 05:08:43; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-04-2015#1111214 << being specific here would be interesting.
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.menahem.1:ef600b5ecdbf4fb4fc6975db6a8a625a670ccde4c18d5e5462f354dbec68aadb
cazalla: mircea_popescu, ya the taps, hitting ya head on that shit ain't fun
cazalla: mircea_popescu, i guess so, figured you had the kavorka yourself but guess not :P
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.jayk.1:486e17533db78ce8c35a9aed04ec6c2e015f4f145af1c95a3188b499c90d6515
cazalla: mircea_popescu, but did ya have ya bandana on with ya feet on the table?
assbot: Trust relationship from user mircea_popescu to user Pierre_Rochard: Level 1: 2, Level 2: 4 via 7 connections. |http://www.btcalpha.com/wot/trust/?from=mircea_popescu&to=Pierre_Rochard | http://www.btcalpha.com/wot/user/Pierre_Rochard/
mike_c: mircea_popescu: requested changes to wot site are live.
trinque: mircea_popescu | http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-04-2015#1110960 << quite possibru. << http://www.ebay.com/itm/RLX-System-600ex-Xeon-CPU-Blade-2-8GHz-x-2-1GB-60GB-HD-/170369036116?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27aac92f54 big time ☝︎☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: l0l wut? clock towers existed
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: are you ever going to post the Jerusalem follow-up to your Istanbul article?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in the end, the amoeba get the voice.
trinque: mircea_popescu: right, so we're talking about the difference between systems which try to be general solutions to (not sure how to articulate it) vs specific tools which live in a given niche?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's so deeply baked into the structure of the world, you'll never be free of it. << johnson noise, shot noise, etc. are intrinsic to electrical circuit. yet we have to sweat and build whole other box to get pc to cough up random bits.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ... there must be a reason for this. << same reason eagle doesn't have jet with afterburner in his arse
asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> that may be. i'm just pointing out that biology offers a very significant challenge to theoretical cs. << i must confess, that i am at a loss as to which aspects of meat we should like to replicate in machines: intransigence? toe fungus? pneumonia? schizophrenia? ☟︎
trinque: mircea_popescu: seems like systems where there are a variety of ways to solve problems accept that they don't know the "perfect" way, if there is one
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: oh, btw thanks for your input on my document
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if we get the stochasticity of meat, we also need to have the wide functional state space of meat.
Pierre_Rochard: mircea_popescu: they created PCAOB - para-govt auditor of auditors - to avoid beheadings and only chop off fingers/toes. Beheadings will have to come exogenously. For log, background on lehman accounting fraud: http://drillingthrough.com/lehman/
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: pretty sure the example you cited is immunological
assbot: Logged on 26-04-2015 02:51:20; mircea_popescu: what the fuck is deloitte even
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: concept alluded to was 'fits in head.' i suppose this is a good time and place to note that it can be accomplished in three basic ways: a) small system b) big head c) powerful hydraulic press
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this'd all benefit from a lot more documentation << which 'this'
assbot: Logged on 25-04-2015 22:06:38; asciilifeform: to paraphrase mircea_popescu article, if christ saves in java - let me go straight to hell.
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: In a couple of days could you make your RSS feed show all bitcoin related articles for an hour or so?
assbot: Logged on 25-04-2015 21:16:50; menahem: seeing as everyone is posting their blog love, i did write this today: http://chedr.ca/2015/04/your-emotions-are-irrelevant-and-youve-missed-the-point/ (brings up mircea_popescu 's discussion on RIPple with W3C)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu et al ^^^ mega-inflationary-l0lz4tr0n
assbot: Logged on 25-04-2015 20:39:52; mircea_popescu: https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/572468782057013248/WtdCdJXG_400x400.jpeg << so who are teh people ?
pete_dushenski: ;;later tell mircea_popescu on the contrary! http://www.contravex.com/2015/04/24/narrated-video-of-the-poem-stop-all-the-clocks-again/#comment-16132
asciilifeform: to paraphrase mircea_popescu article, if christ saves in java - let me go straight to hell. ☟︎☟︎
assbot: Logged on 25-04-2015 18:29:26; mircea_popescu: not to even consider the fact that once this commodifies, the night discount goes away
assbot: Logged on 25-04-2015 18:22:57; mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-04-2015#1110187 << you know how the literary criticism goes, "don't tell, show". you've not really shown.
menahem: seeing as everyone is posting their blog love, i did write this today: http://chedr.ca/2015/04/your-emotions-are-irrelevant-and-youve-missed-the-point/ (brings up mircea_popescu 's discussion on RIPple with W3C) ☟︎
assbot: Logged on 25-04-2015 18:27:00; mircea_popescu: cazalla dude the http://qntra.net/archives/ page kicks ass.
ben_vulpes: hey well mircea_popescu i'm off to have some real coffe
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: More specifically it means staying in business is more important than my morals
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: Yeah
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> turns out i kinda like ben_vulpes blog. << blush
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: ty, i'll have words with the copyeditor
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: Surely a lot of the costs can be massively reduced now? Wasn't exactly much automation in the 15th century
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: "i tried and therefore no-one can criticize me" 10/10.
assbot: Successfully updated the rating for mircea_popescu from 3 to 4 with note: throws a hell of a party.
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ben_vulpes: !rate mircea_popescu 4 throws a hell of a party.
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: I'll draw up a full spec and be sure that I can do it (in terms of time) and show that to you. Good starting point?
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: Its definitely an interesting job, and if its a paying job I have the time. So yes
Naphex: mircea_popescu: all there is left to do now is grep for secrets :P
Naphex: mircea_popescu: well if they do the breakout they'll surely rootkit the hypervisor kernel as well. so doubt they'll ever find out :P
trinque: mircea_popescu: it's a feature for their biggest customer
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: he's also self-insuring his solar panels.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: musk's got a good handle on the battery safety thing. d'you recall the trumpeting over how his cell design nukes cascading failures when the Boeing batteries caught on fire midair?
mod6: mircea_popescu: ok, will do.
assbot: Logged on 25-04-2015 18:05:45; mircea_popescu: speaking of varnish, i actually got some numbers.
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: So what are these Pogos? I had a look for them but I found some cloud backup company who didn't even advertise a pogo plug as far as I could see
mike_c: mircea_popescu: yes
Pierre_Rochard: mircea_popescu: here’s a joke for you - I run a WinXP 32 bit VM so that I can use 32 bit IE8 so that I can access online bank
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu leads us to an interesting observation - that no www browser ever made any kind of provision for ensuring that you are running a particular known copy of a js proggy
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this was precisely because they did not have anything else suitable for owning the userbase
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the subpoena concerned their ssl signing key
cazalla: mircea_popescu, meh not really missing anything anyway
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i thought it's where all the privileged white maletriarchs go to be horrible and chauvinistic and encourage rape and stuff ? << nah, that's at 18446744073709551616chan.
cazalla: mircea_popescu, nope, 8chan is the 4chan replacement seeing moot got cucked
asciilifeform now understands why mircea_popescu did not offer any of the c3 guests a game of go. 'no homo' (TM)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: key churning started yet ? i kinda wanna peek << not yet. caught something on the plane, spent most of the time since coming home, in bed, in a kind of delirium.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: It's what the 502 guy called himself
williamdunne: 20:50:53 - mircea_popescu: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=24-04-2015#1109367 << you actually getting any packet spam or is that thing history by now ? << I've not experienced any either way ☝︎
davout: mircea_popescu mod6 ty
Pierre_Rochard: mircea_popescu: ah agreed, important distinction
assbot: Logged on 23-04-2015 16:16:55; mircea_popescu: we might well discover that actually 1mb is way too much, and all we can afford is less.
assbot: Successfully updated the rating for mircea_popescu from 5 to 6 with note: Met IRL, Owner/Operator of MPEx, Trilema, #bitcoin-assets: Always professional & helpful!
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mod6: !rate mircea_popescu 6 Met IRL, Owner/Operator of MPEx, Trilema, #bitcoin-assets: Always professional & helpful!
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: so... trackback ? thoughts on poem narration ?
mike_c: mircea_popescu: yes, I'll add JS sorting to the tables that fit on a page.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: you can't watch html5 video?
pete_dushenski: http://www.contravex.com/2015/04/24/narrated-video-of-the-poem-stop-all-the-clocks-again/ << for mircea_popescu and whoever else likes his poetry but wonders how it'd sound spoken by yours truly
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williamdunne: mircea_popescu: I have no intention of slowing down