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mircea_popescu: i put it
to you bitcoion would still exist and function.
mircea_popescu: this as a rule of
the universe, not avoidable. perfectly deterministic anything and everything.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform let's for a second presume, as a
thought experiment,
that magically any call
to a random function returned 5.
Adlai: this question is a "how
to avoid derping your client's funds"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform lemme put it
this way :
their problem has nothing
to do with bitcoin, but with
their head.
mircea_popescu: this is also not a "how
to save" or "how
to put out fires" guide.
Adlai: "i do not
think you actually have
to have
the concept of random
to have bitcoin" <<
this actually goes hand-in-hand with my suggestion!
mircea_popescu: i don't
think it was idiotic.
they spent
their bitcoin.
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".
Adlai: why? because if
they don't, somebody else will.
Adlai: well not literally "say something about ECC"... how about: "given [idiotically-signed]
transactions A and B, recover
the private key [mis]used in
their signatures"
mircea_popescu: i do not
think you actually have
to have
the concept of random
to have bitcoin
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> i won't even
touch 'b' << I might work on answering
the b problems as
they materialize
Adlai would also add
to Section A something about ECC
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "Discuss perfect forward secrecy, in
the broader context of mathematical guarantees."
Adlai: mircea_popescu: well shit, now any shmuck
that reads
the logs can do so. sorry bout
that...
mircea_popescu: in one famous case, because
this allows you
to pass a null parameter
mircea_popescu: you
think we\re discussing F(F(F(x))) whereas we did not say a=b=F
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform
though riga is damn near russian
territory, and if not yet, soon
to be again
mircea_popescu: just -
the broad scheme should be visible, so might as well share.
mircea_popescu: note
that it's a draft yet at rfc stage and im still actively working on it
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.
phf: is a standard answer
to "howto in ruby?" "we use pegster gem with mustashbar extension,
though lately we've been migrating
to fellater gem"
☟︎ trinque: this aside from
the beauty of dealing only in one's WoT
trinque: it is at
this point I'll note for
the attentive readers
that I parse my inputs myself,
tyvm
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mircea_popescu: anyway, im writing
this "Basic Bitcoin Competency Certification", bbs.
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
pete_dushenski: "financially, she benefits from living on a
train:
The flat-rate
ticket costs her about $380, whereas she had
to pay about $450 for her previous apartment."
pete_dushenski: thestringpuller i've only ever migrated a blog from wp
to wp
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski
thatre's a dead concern everywhere. and even opera.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> ;;later
tell felipelalli you sent
the
thing
to ~me~ instead of
the ml <<< ahahaha epic.
pete_dushenski: the riff-raff
they let in wouldn't cut it in any of
the high school or junior high productions i was in
felipelalli: asciilifeform, ok, I'm sorry. I did not want
to pollute
the list.
pete_dushenski: the local production had
this 'make accessible' and 'involve whole community' mandate branded on
their stupid skulls, with entirely predictable results
pete_dushenski: cows with
tuning forks up
their asses could hold a better
tune
than golde
felipelalli: asciilifeform, I sent you
two
things. Which one should I send
to
the mailing list?
pete_dushenski: ^saw local production of fiddler last night as part of 'the fringe' festival (as was covered in recent contravex reviews). unfortunately, other
than a hell of a
tevye and a rather lovely hodel,
the cast of 45 was unbearably atrocious