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mircea_popescu: at this juncture having options is the right move. let user decide.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform tell you what, m-r as found in gpg, with its "12" that are really 11 witnesses is worthlessly useless.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: esthlos look through the various FFA items as pasted by asciilifeform first ; to get an idea what the item is like. so you don't have to wait till he's finished publishing it all
mircea_popescu: actually, lenstra supposedly made it actually run. initially it was very high order polynomial.
mircea_popescu: given n > 2 and a coprime to n, n is prime only if (x+a)^n mod-congruent x^n+a (mod n)
mircea_popescu: you know, three indian kids got a godel prize a decade ago for the first ever primality test that's deterministic, polynomial and unconditional
mircea_popescu: some crandall fellow supposedly "implemented" it, but apparently out of unpublishable sticks of gum arabic.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, anyone wanna implement agrawal-kayal-saxena ? esthlos ? apeloyee ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and yes i'm aware damgard extensions and whatnot, but not impressed.
mircea_popescu: or rather 4.6e-10 as the case may be, since you need two.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman should prolly add a comment in there pointing out to people who are making keys for serious use that 1e-10 is really not nearly good enough.
mircea_popescu: seems a gratuitous (but not readily computable) degradation of the 4^-k outer bound.
mircea_popescu: anyone with a good reason why magic number should stay ?
mircea_popescu: in other news : the mpi m-r implementation has a fixed witness at 2.
mircea_popescu: and in other lulz, i myself wasn't making a current bitcent an hour until sometime after 2010. ie, quite recently.
mircea_popescu: this is the true meaning of being wealthy, when your wealth stays wealthy for longer than the world stays active. they run out of puff afore you run out of dosh
mircea_popescu: and as bonus lulz, we'll never know whether i would have actually paid the whole length or not.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes you don't understand how self-determination works!!1
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes this is why artificial intelligence will never be able to compete with the genuine article.
mircea_popescu: or as the orthodox tradition says, "durerea-i ziditoare"
mircea_popescu: move into the pain not away from it. pain is good for you.
mircea_popescu: the result is a matter of necessity in those circumstances.
mircea_popescu: nothing interesting can happen on mfc because mfc is composed of a) the people there who b) operate under the delusion they may make choices.
mircea_popescu: anyway, anyone actually can be bothered to check teh cam ? is she actyually logreading ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dun believe everything you read! sofiababy how do you reason ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and your proof to the contrary being... ?
mircea_popescu: who, other than being a major fascist supporter, was also a guy reputedly so smart, some woman wrote to him to propose having babies on the theory she's so pretty.
mircea_popescu: everyone's a nerd deep down. way the fuck easier than being a miner deep down.
mircea_popescu: sofiababy do your best. you also don't know how to fuck, but you do your best and it works out.
mircea_popescu: who knows. maybe they think you're the only smart camho on mfc.
mircea_popescu: o hey, so here's a deal, read out the log to them. i'll pay you say a bitcent for an hour.
mircea_popescu: sofiababy hey, do you have voice on your cam thing or just video ? can you talk to the virgins ?
mircea_popescu: which is why the whole "men will do anything to get some" social fiction, with it's attendant "surprises" of the thoroughly fabricated sort, "i can't believe far far away somewhere in like japan they don't". gotta mask the bitter truth that ~woman~ will do anything to get some. literal anything.
mircea_popescu: let it be stated that the deep root of the whole "prostitution is unfeminist" current stems from about the same place as "it's in poor taste to sell them lost in the desert water at extortionate prices".
mircea_popescu: ry because the race must perish without her travail: if the risk of death and the certainty of pain, danger, and unutterable discomforts cannot deter her, slavery and swaddled ankles will not. And yet we assume that the force that carries women through all these perils and hardships, stops abashed before the primnesses of our behavior for young ladies."
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-12-18#1753038 <<->> "Men, on the other hand, attach penalties to marriage, depriving women of property, of the franchise, of the free use of their limbs, of that ancient symbol of immortality, the right to make oneself at home in the house of God by taking off the hat, of everything that he can force Woman to dispense with without compelling himself to dispense with her. All in vain. Woman must mar
☝︎ mircea_popescu: hung out with restaurant owner guy, got a sampler. old monk seemed best
mircea_popescu: that's a thousand dollars with an annualized growth rate of 328% eh. NOT BAD
mircea_popescu: "Eventually if you keep buying you either run out of money or run out of looking like a sucker." ahaha.