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mircea_popescu: just like you can go make yourself a house on the prarie. it won'
t have running water. and all the whitegoods will work poorly fed from canister.
punkman: sure, but why can'
t punkman use v for non-b-a project?
mircea_popescu: (really, V chiefly exists because we put other thibngs together a while back, and we didn'
t at the time know yet this is how it'll come out.
mircea_popescu: a) twitter is a piece of shit web 2.0 item. they are probably hacked by 4 different teams as we speak and they don'
t even known
mircea_popescu: anyway, i can'
t be arsed to, but it takes anyone five minutes to create a twitter accouint, link it to a dead website and say "dear mircea popoescu" on it
mircea_popescu: well, it's denominated in one euro increments, and i don'
t think he ever had outstanding enough to payu for even one year of college
antonosika: asciilifeform: hypothetically - as long as there is only one suggestion, from an impostor or not, for what account to make a payment to AND the contract finalises, wouldn'
t a future delivery contract state that a payment should take place?
assbot: Logged on 22-08-2015 15:41:34; trinque: I recall discussion of removing the timestamps, but didn'
t find a conclusion there
ben_vulpes: yessir, but i don'
t think i implemented it correctly in my vdiff
punkman: asciilifeform: I don'
t see it
punkman: asciilifeform: and it wasn'
t?
mircea_popescu: technically money, in its circulatory form (ie, currency - to distinguish from the money as unit of account, for instance) was coins and bank-notes. coins are now disused, for entirely practical reasons ; and bank-notes come in those two flavours. moving from one to the other isn'
t THAT big a leap.
mircea_popescu: "pretty miss dutchess found by peasants - they didn'
t get to keep her"
mircea_popescu: i don'
t know that ever in the history of civilisation was fine art a bearer document.
mircea_popescu: won'
t take 10 years, at how condensed timeframes are now. used to be 35-50.
mircea_popescu: and they are responsible and shall hang for the decisions they didn'
t make.
phf: (was it in the logs, guy brings authentic X "passed through family", gets accused of stealing, because "you're poor, so can'
t possibly have X")
mircea_popescu: who went by the "why should something be a standard if what it says is, we don'
t get any and stfu"
mircea_popescu: what, still doesn'
t work ? NO MATTER!!!1 for we "learn from mistakes"
mircea_popescu: no matter! we "learn from mistakes", ie, claim that "socialism wasn'
t actually tried" and try again. the same thing. this time, we're printing people.,
mircea_popescu: what, you can'
t just print more money and the expectation to the contrary sinks early sopcialism ?
mircea_popescu: why ? why, because the redditar of 1600 thought himself blessed to "waste his life away" being a "from X's circle" at the very best. whereas the redditard of 2000 thinks his life too valuable to invest in anything. he is now a thinking man, don'
t you know, an intellectual - everyone's an intellectual that has computers, suddenly - and a tiny little Kitschhochadel in his own right!
mircea_popescu: see, these kids is the fundamental reason a) ru young women are well fucked (well means more than just a lot) and b) the chechens aren'
t isis.
mircea_popescu: you do this because you don'
t recognise the fundamental tension, and so examples in one line cloud your estimation of the other.
ag3nt_zer0: ok, don'
t really have an opinion on him myself, but I thought that film was quite entertaining... like a cinematic hall of mirrors or something
mod6: yup yup, i recall. just trying to make sure i'm on the right track so i don'
t waste everyones time :]
mircea_popescu: incidentally, isn'
t this also strictly wrong ? wasn'
t it the case that the whole village ate ~the exact same dish~ every day forever ?
mircea_popescu: (it rhymes in russian because it's russian. a language from 1700! it needn'
t rhyme in english, unless we're going for faux-peasant wisdom)
mircea_popescu: but i don'
t mean copacetically like. i mean like like one's supposed to like art : un coup fumant. if she came off the toille you'd have no choice but to drop everything and marry her.
mircea_popescu: i don'
t remember any classical nude i like the face of.
mircea_popescu: this is like, "it doesn'
t work if i come back home and there's TWO almost dressed blondies waiting for me"
mod6: the hashes don'
t match.
trinque: yep, that seems perfect, and I don'
t know how it could be simpler.
trinque: I recall discussion of removing the timestamps, but didn'
t find a conclusion there
☟︎ mircea_popescu: s just they don'
t amount to much traffic wise, even when piled together, which is how i've never noticed before.
punkman: "Motherboard was given a contact email address for The Impact Team by an intermediary. After reaching out, the hackers replied with a message signed with the same PGP key posted with the Ashley Madison dumps. " << of course they couldn'
t provide the signed replies
punkman: "1/3 of pictures are dick pictures and we won'
t dump."
mircea_popescu: all us tinfoil hats with our crazy notions about how shit that doesn'
t exist doesn'
t exist.
phf: so to continue this archaeological dig, GPG 2.6 clarifies the usage of 2 octets. reads the header, reads the rsa ciphertext, decrypts rsa. rsa contains a digest of some fields from header and the body of message. so first thing he does next is check the first 2-octets of digest againts the 2-octets in header. if the two don'
t match program bails with "Error: RSA-decrypted block is corrupted. This may be caused either by corrupted data or by usin
mircea_popescu: i wasn'
t at any point contemplating "rsa encryption = rsa run once over the message herp"
phf: so for the curious it doesn'
t look like 1.4.19 uses the two-byte hash value anyway. it reads it from disk, it populates it during sign and it can write it to disk, but no actual logic done using it
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform either you make me an infinitely rigid girder or i don;'
t want anything to do with you.