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asciilifeform: 'any periodic noise that makes it through simply reduces the bits/byte number of the entropy and gets smeared out by subsequent whitening' << is he serious? gotta be trolling
mircea_popescu: punkman so what's happened to the bot ? dead ?
mircea_popescu: the whys and wherefores taking a leak on your girl is nice.
assbot: Moment de intimitate-n baie pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
undata: "They also take issue with the assertion that fluid mechanics is unfairly neglected because it deals with "feminine" fluids in contrast to "masculine" rigid mechanics." << there are such feminists here in Portland
mircea_popescu: the idea that if you allow i dunno, the gardening club to be stupid the stupidity will sit there contained is beyond naive.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i didn't think the irigarists were designing electronics. or... are they
mircea_popescu: lacan, you understand me ? the original "i cnat raed here's some words because words"
mircea_popescu: also famous for being the only idiot ~lacan~ threw out for being an idiot.
mircea_popescu: "because it privileges the speed of light over other speeds that are much more important to us"
mircea_popescu: understand, us college is unlikely to mention that, too busy talking about irigaray and the rest of the worthless fuckwits
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform how are they to know ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: they can crack open a copy of, e.g, 'horowitz and hill' (1980) - it doesn't bite
asciilifeform: rng << it is so easy to build a proper rng, the astonishing part is that there are not 500 people selling them for fifty cents.
mircea_popescu: diametric the original, gentlemanly internet is a fucking curse to the current internet.
mircea_popescu: nevermind that they broke it in the first place.
mircea_popescu: yeah, yeah. how's this different from the politicians ? they're also "fixing it"
diametric: mircea_popescu: its comically bad. basically they reused the popen feature when using -o with a pipe, when omitting the -o option and instead deriving it from the url..
mircea_popescu: open fucking source. a billion eyes, yo. then next you know, everything is a piece of shit.
mircea_popescu: diametric different i take it from any of the other 50 or so similar issues over the years ?
mircea_popescu: borther #2 doesn't think anything of this working for no good money bs, takes a loan, goes on a trading trip, a year later he's back, pays off his loan, has enough leftover to marry.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ok, something like this : two brothers, same age, both wish to get married. this takes money. brother #1 goes into an apprenticeship, money's not good, but it slowly adds up, one year later he's saved enough.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you familiar with the theory of constant improvement ?
TomServo: ;;later tell nubbins` any interest? << I'm interested. Will it be another sight unseen deal?
asciilifeform: 'we're making entropy - not a full random number generator, something to feed it' << ???!??
mircea_popescu: saves me from having to repeat myself :)
mircea_popescu: here's a handy tool :
johntraveller: imo moldbug’s most interesting writing is on the history of progressivism, and how it evolved from puritanism
mircea_popescu: and im not even sure what nrx is. this chick that follows these things pointed it out here, but i don't think it's been followed up.
assbot: Stage n: Bitcoin exists. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
mircea_popescu: i have in fact not followed either for any interval at all. these other guys do, maybe decimation is the local authority on yarvin. asciilifeform used to have a battleship or w/e it was called in his leaky snowglobe.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, is this "traveller" thing some sort of reference, because i keep seeying it.
johntraveller: @micrea_popescu hello. yes, lots of good stuff. good to have my opinions of ethereum/altcoins/etc seconded
mircea_popescu: hello there.
johntraveller: @mircea_popescu thanks, I just came across your blog via your comment on xenosystems
thickasthieves: coinfire.cf went back online via bitcoinvps, now they are ddos'd
assbot: On Tue, October 28, 2014 6:00 pm, Paul Campbell wrote: On Wed, 29 Oct 2014 10 - Pastebin.com
mod6: lol, the ole right hook to the nose
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i did, they answered (both guys), seemed reasonable enough, gave them a link to here.
asciilifeform: thickasthieves: and i vaguely recall that mircea_popescu was thinking of writing to them. no idea what came of that
assbot: Logged on 28-10-2014 12:47:11; asciilifeform: undata: onerng.info << best lulz! this calls for a mini-review.
assbot: Nathan Cirillo-inspired racism 'experiment' ends with punch to face - Latest Hamilton news - CBC Hamilton
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nubbins`: say, i'm thinking about doing another run of posters, this time pgp-themed. any interest?
nubbins`: not set up for multi-deed bundles yet, but should be a trivial change
assbot: Logged on 29-10-2014 01:16:56; nubbins`: also if anyone is curious, the following links may be of some use as a quick and dirty deed verification system:
nubbins`: didja see the links i posted yest?
mod6: ya, ben_vulpes & I need to try to figure it out too
nubbins`: wanna test a deed ;/
mod6: looks that way
mod6: ah yeah. thx
assbot: 15th blown, other statements. pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
nubbins`: as are my casascius custody chains, although that's more my decision than anyone else's 8)
nubbins`: my s.mg ssw was signed in this fashion as well
mod6: was just checking these things too see what was done recently. for instance, with s.bbet the IPO was clear signed by one party, and then that clearsigned doc was then clearsigned again by a second party.
mod6: looks like the keyid's are correct, just not linked to the correct file
mod6: <+jurov> mod6 you mean the Signed links? << yeah
jurov: mod6 you mean the Signed links?
mod6: html links point to wrong/non-existant files.
mod6: was mp the only one to sign s.qntr?
RagnarDanneskjol: http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/bitcoin/Pseudonymous%20secure%20computation%20from%20time-lock%20puzzles.pdf [Pseudonymous Secure Computation from Time-Lock Puzzles]
RagnarDanneskjol: thickasthieves still buried - yea, I missed few days and dont think I'm ever gonna get through it -esp with any given link prompting hours+ sidetrack journey.. might have to declare lawg bk
thickasthieves: wtf is this bullshit with, we sending you a letter, but now that youve read it you dont have freedom of speech?
thickasthieves: fwiw, i'm sensing a major disturbance in the force, re SEC letters, coinfire DMCA takedowm, COindesk waiving their hands saying 'these are not the sec letters yer lookin for'
thickasthieves: lol my irc client isnt even caching how far back i am now that i scrolled down
assbot: What is the common thread connecting bitcoin WoT fixation, MRAs, PUAs and trolling? It’s quite peculiar how those cluster.
punkman: was looking at Conformal's stuff, foun this https://www.cyphertite.com/plans.php
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> punkman: would it be terribly onerous to get deedbot to certify that multiple documents signed by different people are in fact the same document and that all of the signatures verify? <<< this is not conceptually possible tho.
thestringpuller: !up tryphe
assbot: Last trade for HMF on HAVELOCK was at 0.00200157 BTC [-]
assbot: Last trade for AM1 on HAVELOCK was at 0.1242 BTC [-]
undata: that was apparently too long a line, meant to be one.
undata: altcoin, this reveals the real reason: avoiding the fucking government, not economics.
assbot: BitBeat: Bitcoin 2.0 Companies Respond to SEC Rumor: We’re Clean - MoneyBeat - WSJ
undata: http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2014/10/28/bitbeat-bitcoin-2-0-companies-respond-to-sec-rumor-were-clean/ "He added that anyone who purchased newly issued XCP with bitcoin did so through a “proof of burn” method that renders the incoming bitcoin unusable, ensuring that no material benefit passes to Counterparty or its owners." << Regarding the recent conversation with TheNewDeal on BTC burn ->
ben_vulpes: lol now that i spell it out parties should deedify seperately.
ben_vulpes: and the parties should all deedify independently.
mod6: so in this case, ben.sig & mod6.sig, each yields a PGP armored message, that's just a signed file that can be verified.
ben_vulpes: perhaps this is academic though
ben_vulpes: the cleartext of multiple versions of the same contract can be compared to each other
mod6: each party will want to name ``out.sig'' something different obv.
ben_vulpes: that will *both* check the signature *and* show you the signed blob.
ben_vulpes: if each party runs gpg --output out.sig --sign --armor thing-to-sign.txt, you can run gpg --decrypt out.sig on the blob
ben_vulpes: implementing the mailing list hack you suggested throws a digest error.
ben_vulpes: mod6 and i have burnt approximately an hour total trying to pretzel gpg into the correct contortions, and it's not working for us.
ben_vulpes: punkman: would it be terribly onerous to get deedbot to certify that multiple documents signed by different people are in fact the same document and that all of the signatures verify?
asciilifeform: this is going to turn into actual work quite soon (when we start snipping tissue that must be replaced, rather than merely cremated)
asciilifeform: i might like to, say, do a little bit of actual work tomorrow.
ben_vulpes: and interrupt this roll you're on?
asciilifeform: i've been saving the death of macos for last, such that we can determine that its removal does not bork *bsd
decimation: should be pretty similar to bsd, assuming user supplies paths to all dependencies
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: then perhaps you should do the honour of shooting it in the head
asciilifeform wonders who, if anyone, would shed a tear for macos
asciilifeform would like to snip macos next
ben_vulpes: and all i have is borrowed borrowed borrowed leased and micro-sharded hardware on which to put it
ben_vulpes: all i want is to surface these text files to the internet :(
ben_vulpes: the amazon key-value store jurov backed therealbitcoin.org with
ben_vulpes: i did the s3 thing
asciilifeform: 'suppose every program can be shortened by a line, and contains a bug. therefore all programs can be reduced to one line - which does not work.' - ??? ☟︎
asciilifeform: if only this could continue!