mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes but they didn't know this then.

mircea_popescu: incidentally, anyone know the ancient watt meter ? two pendulums with coiled wire.

mircea_popescu: there can not exist such a thing as a perfectly homogenuous bar of steel for the exact reason there can not exist a perfectly detailed etch on its surface.

mircea_popescu: there's plenty. dilation, unhomogenity of material, necessarily imprecise workmanship, errors compound

mircea_popescu: sure, i guess.

mircea_popescu: clocks worked imperfectly even then.

mircea_popescu: ha!

mircea_popescu: !#s antikythera

mircea_popescu: (this incidentally is fascinating to the historian of computing because obviously analogic computers work on crankboxes)

mircea_popescu: there may be several ways, but differential won't do it.

mircea_popescu: iirc that averages. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: iirc it was "experimental"

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-23#1757357 << this is an iffy point m'lord. i have a slavegirl that washes the floors ; the floors is where the cockroaches go. should she be punished ? ☝︎☟︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-23#1757354 << this is so. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-23#1757338 << you know you're supposed to plan these for yourself so you yourself can then execute them! if you can't do it for yourself, what hope has any peon working under your management ? eh ? ☝︎☟︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-23#1757329 << nah, gribble auth was mostly fixed last split ; then gribble was going to be upgraded and never actually was. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-23#1757327 << this is a solid concern also. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: "oh, my real identity hasn't even started yet!111"

mircea_popescu: the pompous idiocy of the zek, i swear.

mircea_popescu: then again, in due time you'll disover the ~other~ thing was a waste of time, odds are.

mircea_popescu: indeed ; nobody here is interested in your tulpas.

mircea_popescu: there's no such thing as nude birth nor there yet was in the history of the world. everyone's born with some shit between his eyes.

mircea_popescu: no man is born without identity. if that man is woman she gets tits eventually ; if that man is not woman at very least has parents, some kind of history...

mircea_popescu: that may be, but ~nobody will think very much of you without an actual identity.

mircea_popescu: !!rate blazeme8 1 noob

mircea_popescu: blazeme8 ah, no ratings. aite, lessee... what do you do, other than "downtime rocks" ?

mircea_popescu: this poor guy is going to now be highlighted every time noob asks lol.

mircea_popescu: blazeme8 http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-22#1756668 ☝︎

mircea_popescu: !!key blazeme8

mircea_popescu: !!up blazeme8

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-23#1757320 << hey, i played with what must've been 38G! boobies last night, and the girl carrying them in the world was all shy and had never seen herself liek, prancing naked around the house. fuck yea latin america, pais de los tetonas lecheras! ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-23#1757317 << amusingly that was never discussed in practical terms. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: e clumped together into the monster we have now.)

mircea_popescu: (if memory serves the original split, design choice made late 1990s, was due to either suspicion or reality that either sign or decrypt possibly leaked bits ; the idea of separate keys is not even bad, necessarily, but this does NOT say anything positive about a clunky, ad hoc, untransparent and machine-automagical key hierarchy system. so basically, people probably will have at least two keys in tmsr-rsa, except they won't b ☟︎

mircea_popescu: so in re http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-23#1757315 which is on the face very sane, we are in fact in the situation of an undesirably very complex policy already. yet another examplke of what tmsr-rsa is intended to fix. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: gracias shinohai

mircea_popescu: so in practical nonsense as grandfathered in, we posited already an equivalency so that if 1. something signed by 2FB7B452 and 2. somethinf decrypted by 16B8E32E then therefore 1 = 2 in terms of cryptoproof strength.\

mircea_popescu: then to add insult to injury "picks the right one" also "automatically" at "any time"

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-23#1757314 << the principal fucking problem with the rank nonsense we're using is that idiocy of "subkey". consider mine : if you encrypt to 2FB7B452 which ~is~ my key, gpg will nevertheless encrypt to 16B8E32E. because gpg will use the master as sign-only and create a "decryption" key "automatically". ☝︎

mircea_popescu: custom.

mircea_popescu: pretty great myself!

mircea_popescu: how goes.

mircea_popescu: !!up blazeme8

mircea_popescu: here's a thing for the mechanical engineers in da hous, ben_vulpes asciilifeform and who ye might be : given two driving pegs A, B, how do you turn a spoke C such that it realises the DIFFERENTIAL A-B ? ☟︎

mircea_popescu: !!up neur0

mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2017/the-day-of-failure-trilemma/#selection-167.163-167.231 basically.

mircea_popescu: i see.

mircea_popescu: oh.

mircea_popescu: i thought the state of new york/federal budget were mostly funding his flailing.

mircea_popescu: pedophilia should not imply bad taste.

mircea_popescu: what, cuz he fucked that ugly azn kid his dumb wife imported for the purpose ?

mircea_popescu: who the fuck thought this schmuck may be permitted to waste the celluloid ?

mircea_popescu: in other news, woody allen is like the WORST diletante moviemaker ever.

mircea_popescu: as per thomas, i'll repent later when it costs me nothing anyway.

mircea_popescu: eh, i'm sure he'll be fine. eastern church a lot less hysterical, and besides, what's the big deal ? female slavery was the tradition anyway.

mircea_popescu: whose ?

mircea_popescu: :p

mircea_popescu: aha

mircea_popescu: i c. will want to hear what trinque says on this.

mircea_popescu: so you can sign with it but not decrypt ?! ☟︎

mircea_popescu: !!key joecool

mircea_popescu: what is primary key here ?

mircea_popescu: i dun recall what the procedure is, does it let you !!register the new one ? (as in, spits out a v string ?)

mircea_popescu: you can change it if you still control it yes.

mircea_popescu: iirc was the bigger one back when

mircea_popescu: dude what ever happened to this other roger ver ?

mircea_popescu: !#s "micon"

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-22#1757228 << long term it's inevitable. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-22#1757219 << no, i know. it's just... funny ; they thought it was a joke. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the null hypothesis being, i guess, that by now it's 100% falsified.

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-22#1757217 << amusingly, there was an always-naked, almost-spherical, older dude at bsas bdsm club. harmless, really, just wanted to spectate from a corner and jack off now and again ☝︎

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-22#1757216 << it's the question though, i don't see any sort of self-delusion path that'd incentivize the behaviour. quo fucking prodest ? ☝︎

mircea_popescu: danielpbarron your memorabilitiem was sent earlier.

mircea_popescu: r41n so how did you avoid pantsuit trap ?

mircea_popescu: a

mircea_popescu: like laying utp cable and shit ?

mircea_popescu: doing what ?

mircea_popescu: do you work ?

mircea_popescu: r41n http://btcbase.org/log/2017-11-12#1736549 ☝︎

mircea_popescu: trinque it is rare that od'ing neighbour is replaced with improved version.

mircea_popescu: by mass, people "with an idea" and "a team" looking "for venture capital" are neither smart nor young nor actually part of a team or sitting on an idea nor anything else. it's a popular activity, so they're by and large ~= man on the street.

mircea_popescu: similarily and in the same vein, most waitresses in LA planning their acting career are neither hot nor young.

mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2012/and-another-one-bites-the-dust-bitmarketeu/#selection-99.0-99.63 sorta deal. it's very fundamental this, "they told us this is the premiere science and engineering place IN THE WORLD!!! how come we can't compete with an average teenager ?"

mircea_popescu: what is, very much deadbeat 30yo+ couldn't make tenure, by bulk. a case of "your friennd wioth blood sweart and tears" nonsense.

mircea_popescu: not in the sense of what is.

mircea_popescu: you think of sv in terms of what the andressen-graham-etc scammers ADVERTISE

mircea_popescu has observed this, 3 idiots around a table, "hey, we were educated at $ivy-league, we should be able to come up with something".

mircea_popescu: generally they end up cloggiong the start-up "market"

mircea_popescu: "what's worse than being really really dumb ? being a really really smart american."

mircea_popescu: good thing nobody told the subretard kids, they still chase it as a life choice.

mircea_popescu: !!down sofiababy

mircea_popescu: man this is getting tedious.

mircea_popescu: anything good ?

mircea_popescu: aaand in other hot chicks hardware, http://ucanr.edu/blogs/anrnews/index.cfm?tagname=google.org

mircea_popescu: or is it by now entirely fossilized carrot of vhs-usa

mircea_popescu: do they even give out tenures anymore ? ☟︎☟︎

mircea_popescu: that must suck.

mircea_popescu: i thought everyone around the dc cancer was a federal employee.

mircea_popescu: (leaving aside how maryland.gov uses a cert that doesn't cover maryland.gov lol)

mircea_popescu: in other lulz, did anyone know GS-* folk captive at work are stuck interneting via https://data.maryland.gov/browse ?