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mircea_popescu: (THAT is the true altcoin killer. people proceed lazily to imagine that hey, just
as money is called euro in eu and dollars in the us, there may be a future with bitcoin and litecoin etc. no, no it may not. money is money, and yes you can call it x in x and y in y, but they are ON THE SAME BLOCKCAIN. euro and dollar settle in the same place.)
mircea_popescu: anyway, there's nothing wrong with xt scamcoin folk having
as many forums
as they can stand.
mircea_popescu: btcdrak he got "assets" suich
as a worthless domain name and gotta make rent
btcdrak:
as if ver's shitty use of bitcoin.com wasnt enough, now they create an XT circlejerk forum to mislead even more people.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-09-2015#1278682 << there is a difference between "not interested", like say someone who wants to play the flute, and simply doesn't care about the stuff you discuss ; and "know better",
as in, people who ARE very much interested in the KIND of thing you discuss, who have evaluated it and come to the conclusion it's a big fat 0. those are not "not interested". they were interested.
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 18-09-2015 17:18:00; ascii_field: but there is no such thing, in our universe,
as a 'functional' cpu.
mircea_popescu: the proposition is that the usg exists
as a system of stupid people, dedicated to the supporting of stupidity and the containing of the threat (to them) presented by intelligence.
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-09-2015#1278635 << if you're so inclined, the push to make men sexually insecure
as a sort of "celebration of womanhood / millitant feminism victory" etc was also exactly it. and the fact that you must spend a full day looking for edibles to find enough edibles to get you through a day. and everything else.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: e equipped with infinite patience may find isolated useful items in that outpour. it is necessarily true however that such finds won't be worth the expense. this is not coincidental - consider the earlier discussion
as to how we distinguish usg disinfo from genuinely interesting items.
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=08-09-2015#1266663 etc.
☝︎ mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-09-2015#1278610 << the view is valid, if mats is curious of my position. nobody cares about the actual "names" / "careers" involved,
as per the pseudoscience article, they can be safely ignored. the important point however is that while usg spends a lot of money on "research", the expenditure is PREDICATED on it being "research", ie, not actual research. it is perhaps true that on
☝︎ mircea_popescu: actually the gpg specification is so miserable, a code prototype in the way of bitcoind
as an intermediate step to rescuing the standard and restating it properly is prolly unavoidable.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-09-2015#1278428 << shocking, isn't it ? o hey, if hitler did it it was bad, but here's out last hope for "humanity" : blow everything to bits!!1 because going back to the stone age was a horrible plan when it was called Nerobefehl buit a spiffy idea when we came up with it (without,
as is the socialist habit, even quoting sources!)
☝︎ mircea_popescu:
As you can see he joined Google Code-in on behalf of wikimedia. << soi basically what we have here is a well known scammer representing wikimedia / wikipedia foundation at google hackerthons and whatnot ?
TheButterZone: so i noticed a few users in here had negrated tradefortress, and thought you might like to know he's been lurking
as unicodesnowman
mircea_popescu: so. they will be, at best, "relatively independent"
as in "sufficient for the task at hand". this is great. so long
as the above standard of security is observed.
ascii_field: and if they ~are~ independent, you can give 1MB to me and another 1MB to hitler, and so long
as they are not overlapping, hitler does not win
ascii_field: obviously if you use the ~same~ rng bits to generate key
as you also made available to someone else, then you're dead
ascii_field: the reason for this is that (
as anyone who stayed awake in kindergarten ??) knows, rsa operation is malleable
mats: i'm on my third attempt at this and i still haven't quite wrapped my head around rfc4880
as well
as the behavior of various gpg versions
ascii_field: i ~like~ the idea of 'this quicksort will provably not overstep its bounds.' but much better is ~this quicksort can
as easily overstep its bounds
as my car can start itself and drive to alaska'
ascii_field: understand, i have no objection to tools such
as computerized theorem-proving, data flow analysis, etc. except in that these are put forward
as ~substitutes for fits-in-head simplicity~.
ascii_field: but there is no such thing, in our universe,
as a 'functional' cpu.
☟︎ ascii_field: instead, it is baked into the 'firmware' of academia
as a thing.
punkman: "LANGSEC posits that the only path to trustworthy software that takes untrusted inputs is treating all valid or expected inputs
as a formal language, and the respective input-handling routines
as a recognizer for that language."
ascii_field: it is not an uninteresting subject. just
as, say, historical climate patterns are not uninteresting. but both would become considerably more intellectually respectable if all of the current academic practitioners of each were to be shot.
ascii_field: if pursued
as pure mathematics, it can be a mildly respectable thing.
mats: USG is a fount of grants for certain fields, computer security is one of those blessed. consideration of all USG research
as poisoned fruit is your prerogative, but for me, extraordinary and specific claims require extraordinarily specific evidence. like someone diddling an IR parser.
ascii_field: mats: we are also bedeviled by pseudoscientific academitards who push them
as 'security research'
ascii_field: but
as an overall panacea, it is a usgism.
mats: well,
as you like to remind so often, x86 ain't everything there is.
mats: that is: translation to an intermediate language with low expressive power, then back to whatever's parsed by original recipient,
as a means of avoiding pwnage by a powerful adversary
cazalla: prob right
as cheetah lady was the first one my missus picked
as "she's total trash"
cazalla:
as for a 2nd.. 6th from left
assbot: Logged on 18-09-2015 01:08:16; BingoBoingo: I
as so fucking happy I won the Rand Paul bet
mircea_popescu: mike_hearnMike Hearn - Bitcoin Expert 2 points 3 months ago - It's nobodies "fault" - there is no such thing
as a programmer who never writes buggy code.
BingoBoingo: I still do. Not
as many people seem to read it
as when MP saved BSDM, but it gets reads by virtue of not being
as bad
as other places you can find stories missed elsewhere
assbot: Logged on 15-09-2015 23:23:53; punkman: I saw a dog steal an unopened bag of cheetos while I was buying some tobacco from a kiosk couple days ago. guy inside shrugs "what am I gonna do, chase the fucking mutt". I wonder if some bum trained the dog, it was wearing a length of string
as a collar.
mircea_popescu: it's not even "gotta have happy endings", that's not it. it's "gotta have PLENARY happy endings".
as usual the actual disease agent is hidden from examination by the very workings of the disease.
mircea_popescu: just
as long
as i stick to aiming to scatter self around, i will be fine.
mircea_popescu: but i know why, now. there IS such a thing
as a failed state.
mircea_popescu: the alternative being, obviously, usistan. "democracy" if you don't look too closely. such
as by living there, or thinking about it any.
jurov: it would be yet more hilarious if it said "loaded coins"
as it was demonstrated there's no such thing
gribble: CAUTION: irc nick differs from otc registered nick. Nick 'crescendo', with hostmask 'crescendo!~mozart@unaffiliated/crescendo', is identified
as user 'martindale', with GPG key id 6D413F92BC7CFDC4, key fingerprint 3A1957775B9D02D35F4D130A6D413F92BC7CFDC4, and bitcoin address 17kMRNtUMqPGj4dfJsCn6yjBn8cQh38A2K
mike_c: "Congress approved $500m (£323m) to train and equip around 5,000 rebels
as a key plank of US strategy against IS... Asked how many US trained rebels were fighting he said: 'It's a small number... we're talking four or five.'"
punkman: shinohai: does that read
as nonsense or is it just me?
BingoBoingo:
As opaque
as BitPay is if we are at this moment ascribing its failures to anything I am still leaning towards its deal with ESPN, Bowl game naming right have slaughtered many a small business
BingoBoingo: The Disney empire is viscious, but no arm is a viscious
as ESPN
copypaste:
As in, I think they don't charge traffic if it originates within Amazon's network
BingoBoingo: Stupid is prolly more somewhere along the lines of preference. Stupidly obeast though has physiolocical characteristics which necessitate identifying
as fat-gendered among the afflicted
pete_dushenski: so much for the second-grade-level 'mitochondria
as the cell's powerplant' theory
pete_dushenski: "t the intracellular level, discoveries now reveal the existence of 'mitochondrial synapses' establishing mitochondrial networks, with defined chromatin-modifying mitochondrial output signals capable of orchestrating gene expression across the genome. These discoveries raise the possibility that in addition to their role
as powerhouses and neuromodulators, mitochondria behave
as intracellular signal-processing n
mircea_popescu: dude no wonder they're misrepresenting themselves
as "gay" and "transsexual" and whatnot.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: the advent of crt ruined eyes << First summer after high school when exposed to computer monitors daily for extended periods of time first... Eyesight measurably worsened, kept myself to panel display only
as much
as I can after that
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> BingoBoingo: is this observation qntra-worthy? << If you want to write it up or just drop it
as a comment I have no reason to deny you that.
mircea_popescu: 13 yo performance, in the united states of america and the republic of congo, counts
as scholarly engineering.
assbot: Logged on 19-10-2014 03:19:21; asciilifeform: main danger,
as i understand, is that their combustion will: create a visible plume of smoke. or, the ultimate catastrophe, 'auschwitzy' smell.
mircea_popescu: t,
as such, nor any "progress" in the sense of "levelling up to krishna" and supersizing your karma serving.
mircea_popescu: <phf> talking about it or presenting second hand revelations
as some sort of ultimate truth completely contradicts the original intent. <<< it is altogether dubious any original intent even exists, or that "intent"
as a category is at all adequate to discuss the matter. perhaps a decent approach towards what "existential" sanely means in the context is provided by the "causes not purposes" dichotomy. there is no inten
ag3nt_zer0: no offense but I actually think one would have to explore him a bit more than less than a chapter to really offer up a viable criticism... but maybe that's just because I don't know what you have read and so do not know by what criteria you judge something
as true or not true (some people hear voices, others echoes of dead philosophers)... at any rate thanks for taking the time to look and for sharing your thoughts at all
phf: hand revelations
as some sort of ultimate truth completely contradicts the original intent.
phf:
as far
as ultimate knowledge, different schools have contradictory answers to some of those fundamental questions (say samkhya vs advaita vedanta's take on self vs absolute)
ag3nt_zer0: trinque: yes. one is better off reading wittgestein or heidegger over the theosophical trash... but imo guenon, schuon, coomaraswami (ananda) and evola are infinitely better to read than those philosophers you mentioned - and they are not at all aligned with theosophy - except for guenons youthful foray into it
as mentioned
ag3nt_zer0: let me be clear.
as is probably all theosophy...
ag3nt_zer0: and if there is another plzce that is
as primed
as this room to offer valuable critique I know not where it is to be found
ag3nt_zer0: btw if anyone can prove the "assertions" in that book (crisis of the modern world - rene guenon) false, useless, or shitty in another way... I would love it because I read it
as truth...
jurov: "The backup must be protected against environmental risks such
as fire, flood, and other acts of God."
thestringpuller: it's an extremely profound from a technical stand point, but it's not
as philosophically compelling
ag3nt_zer0: yeah I prefer lateralus
as well but there are some great extended areas of aenima
thestringpuller: Adam Jones the guitarist used to work
as an animator for stuff like Jurassic Park ( he actually has a credit in Jurassic Park since he worked on that prod before quitting to do Tool full time )
mircea_popescu: not that fucking many big guns available. all fucking guns are their standard size, being
as they are industrial products.
mircea_popescu: i would propose this is an exceptionally apt comparison, incidentally. the relative economic might of chicago of the 30s
as part of the us of the 30s is about where the economic might of the yugoslavia of the 50s
as part of the eu+ru of the 50s stands ; the stalin-hoover equality is not particularly inept, on many scores (and the ones where it isn't, it advantages stalin)
ascii_field: 'may
as well hang for a sheep
as for a lamb'
ascii_field: shinohai: comcast exists here, i am not even considering it
as an option
shinohai: Comcast has the evil all-in-ones that use your modem
as a AP
mircea_popescu: i dun recall it ever taking that long, but,
as the man says. give it a bit.
assbot: Logged on 16-09-2015 09:00:07; thestringpuller: pete_dushenski: honestly, how fucking smart and alert do you have to be to drive a car ? << I have always had sleep problems.
As a kid would always fall asleep on car rides. And
as an adult I seem to regularly fall asleep at the wheel and still get home. But this is super dangerous. I really need to just pull over and nap for a second or red bull it up like a trucker would do...
mircea_popescu: 1 in 232 chance of selecting zero
as the sequence number."