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mod6: got a link
to phuctor
too. \o/
mod6: sweet,
the sorting of ratings data looks great
mike_c: mod6: maybe yes, I'm exploring
that.
mod6: I love
this chart as well; are
there any plans
to make
the name's in
the graph link
to
the corresponding page for
that user/keyid?
mircea_popescu: hm,
that might not be so clever, ends up crunching
the lines instead of crunching
the nodes by outside exposure.
mircea_popescu: as opposed
to now where 1.05-1.1 is five people from cazalla
to mats.
mircea_popescu: mike_c q : how hard would it be
to enforce fixed placement on
the inner circle ? i dunno how
they're placed now, but how about just divide 2pi
to however many people and each gets
that much sector
mod6: Well,
the lordship updates seem
to be in place nicely.
ben_vulpes: young man, you have committed an outrageous upgrade for
the most serene republic!
mircea_popescu: does it keep a list of what it last posted so when it comes back up it can see if
there's anything new ?
williamdunne: mircea_popescu: Scoop was down for a while, I committed an upgrade
too early
ben_vulpes: pahahaha yeah okay i'll just ask you
to do
that every
time i comment on contravex
ben_vulpes: pete_dushenski: plz foar
to nuke gravatar
mircea_popescu: clearly,
there's nothing wrong with
this. everyone (else) is just mean evil and weird.
mircea_popescu: I agree. If you
tell
them upfront,
they'll be weirded out. If you
tell
them in person,
they might
try
to physically hurt you."
mircea_popescu: "When
To
Tell A Guy You Are
Transgender by Whitey Niggerson -
mircea_popescu: (they go away for
the same reason vaccine-acquired immunity goes away, ftr)
pete_dushenski: i
tried a corona a few months, which are supposedly as low on
the gluten scale as
they come for normal beers, and i puked my guts out.
mircea_popescu: that's
treatment : remove
the allergen, give it a few years,
try a minute dose.
mircea_popescu: the
thng with allergies, and especiaslly in young people, is
that
they do go away.
pete_dushenski: re: prayer, not like i'm going
to go eat a loaf of bread now either just because a pizza pinged off my immunoarmour
assbot: Logged on 27-04-2015 16:32:38; pete_dushenski: like
the dentist who's busy when priced competitively, wants
to be less busy, jacks up his prices
to
the highest in
town, and
then has his doors beaten down with customers like never before.
pete_dushenski: ah so veblen goods would be like
that dentist's services i was mentioning
the other day.
mircea_popescu: right, just because prayer worked in
the past is no reason
to pray.
pete_dushenski: agreed about
the insanity of pursuing #5, no matter how useful of a model its pursuit may prove in hindsight.
mircea_popescu: veblen goods are goods which exhibit reverse price relation (demand increases as price increases, as opposed
to how it normally goes).
mircea_popescu: that it explains it does NOT reduce
the insanity of it however.
mircea_popescu: because
that's what #5 does, practically : it offers a model
to explain and understand
the otherwise insane, and otherwise never explain, luxury behaviour.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "This, mystical domination, is easily
the prettiest girl in school. She’s
the most unattainable,
the most lust-worthy,
the most drool-inducing" << you know what veblen goods are ?
pete_dushenski: i want
to say... plumbing. but i'll confirm. i know someone who knows him.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu:
the impressive and simultaneously worrying aspect of
the bb-pgp biz is
that
the owner was a former
tradesman who apparently
thought
to himself "hey, you know what
the market needs, properly encrypted messaging!"
assbot: Logged on 30-04-2015 13:00:33; pete_dushenski: apparently he has some large contracts already, something in
the order of $6mn per year and no employees.
Pierre_Rochard: “For people
to say black lives matter, and for
the crowd
to shout back ‘U.S.A.,’ which is upholding a system
that is oppressing black people, I
think
that
that is problematic,”
assbot: Logged on 30-04-2015 04:41:10; asciilifeform: <mircea_popescu> ah, installed nginx, yeah << on
top of apache again ?
mircea_popescu: "rsa. use for
text. rsa/aes. use for anything
that's not
text."
jurov: one of my first job as admin were email servers. and from
the beginning it was like "plz
to raise limit on attachments" "plz why
the email did not arrive yet" "plz why is
the internet slow cant you, you know set some priorities for
traffic"
jurov: explain
that as an admin
to your CEO what
that stuff means and why
mircea_popescu: anyway, optimal
thing would be user specified, and full rsa option.
jurov: and? so
the optimal
thing would be
to parse
the email and encrypt some parts by rsa and some by aes or what?
jurov: well, you live on
the sane planet where people send only
typed
text by email and other
things by other channels
mircea_popescu: but obama and
the rest of
the blackberry users
type... 500k wpm ?
mircea_popescu: naggum,
through
the magic of shoving lisp up his ass,
types 180wpm
jurov: in
this case it's not moore's law but bandwidth. you can't have megabytes/second with rsa, or if you do, battery dies
mircea_popescu: funny how moore law is always
there
to justify doing something stupid, never
to justify doing
things like "rsa all
the way - we can afford it now"
mircea_popescu: jurov gpg does
the same
thing, yeah, but
then again
that was
the 80s.
jurov: iirc pgp/rsa is computationally expensive, so it's only used
to establish rsa keys
pete_dushenski: i dun follow
that part at all.
the pgp/rsa makes sense but where aes comes in is anyone's guess.
mircea_popescu: do
they do
the "rsa encryption of an aes symmetric key"
thing ?
pete_dushenski: though
the private master key is generated on a desktop.
pete_dushenski: "For maximum security, our BlackBerry PGP encryption service utilizes AES 256 bit PGP encryption with a 4096 bit RSA key format." << also uses session keys, but
these are presumably generated on
the phone, so...
pete_dushenski: apparently he has some large contracts already, something in
the order of $6mn per year and no employees.
☟︎ pete_dushenski: i e-mailed him, he recommended using
the blackberry 9900 (2011 vintage) or earlier
pete_dushenski: "A man embarrassed in his circumstances, and conducting
them imprudently, likes best
to continue in
the dark; he will not gladly reckon up
the debtor entries he is charged with. But on
the other hand,
there is nothing
to a prudent manager more pleasant
than daily
to set before himself
the sums of his growing fortune. -J.W. von Goethe" << lovely quote btw.
Pierre_Rochard: originally dislocated while mountain biking,
then again from skipping rope
Pierre_Rochard: thanks, will do! I’m getting surgery on my right shoulder in a week, so I need
to get some dictation software haha
Pierre_Rochard: agreed, building something
to explain was
the first step, now
the real work begins
pete_dushenski: we need
the "explain it
to me like i'm 5 years old" approach
Pierre_Rochard: exactly, and I’m assembling an abrams
tank, now I need
to write up
the user manual
pete_dushenski: "look how much more effective
the pointy rock is
than
the blunt round rock!"
pete_dushenski: sort of like how a pointy rock was state-of-the-art
tribal warfare 50,000 years ago.
Pierre_Rochard: that is
the current state-of-the-art in bitcoin accounting
Pierre_Rochard: the sub has its own set of books, you need
to roll
them up into
the parent company’s,
there are adjustments
to made (like of
the parent is lending money
to
the sub)
Pierre_Rochard: pete_dushenski: or at least make reasonable bookkeepers out of you, I couldn’t call someone an accountant if
they don’t know how
to do a multi-entity, multi-currency consolidation
Pierre_Rochard: davout: I floated
the idea last year - I’ve used a lot of different accounting software and never been satisfied - none of
them use acccounting
theory as
the spec
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davout: ;;later
tell Pierre_Rochard /me is pretty interested
☟︎ davout: ;;later
tell Pierre_Rochard do you have some background
to share regarding your accounting software? probably missed it if it has already been discussed