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mircea_popescu: Other issues with ZKP include the RSA private key used to initiate the accumulator, which must be trusted to be destroyed by the generating party.
<< for the record, this isn't "other issues". this is enough to render the entire thing a joke.
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=26-05-2015#1145932 << the problem with finance isn't "that there exist numbers" but "that there exists unknowns". fixed inflation is not fundamentally different from zero inflation just as long as the inflation is known. which of the two is more convenient (and it's purely a matter of clerical convenience) reduces to a discussion of whether humanity is an ever-expanding cancer or a c
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 27-05-2015 05:04:30; asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu unrelated to anything, but for the classicz translation olympics:
http://dpaste.com/0BP7BQQ << this time, not mine. but obscure, and very l337
ben_vulpes:
<asciilifeform> [01:32] rather, it is a u.s. aircraft carrier - which simply happens to be made of earth
<< girl and i both lold
hanbot:
<Adlai> it's only information if you care about it
<< that'd be a great creed for #bitcoin-assets-candyland
BingoBoingo: Big trades seem fine. Not all that common. Tis information. Small trades though... like
<assbot> [HAVELOCK] [AM100] 55 @ 0.00005229 = 0.0029 BTC [-]
Apocalyptic:
<mircea_popescu> anyway : mirrored moduli will necessarily have a factor of the form 0x00000001000000000000000100000000000000010000000000000001000000000000000100000000000000010000000000000001000000000000000100000000 // how so ?
mircea_popescu: if it does, you know all those factors are in keys. if it ends up equal to y, y
< x... you've excluded some.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "unclaimed funds would be reduced by 25% per month until there was no balance."
<< somebody skipped stochastics 101 i take it.
ben_vulpes:
<cazalla> which is why i stay and suffer
<< bail with the bairn?
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> well aintcha a little bush hero :D
<< lzlzoll
ben_vulpes:
<cazalla> fwiw i dont think anyone needs to be taught to cook
<< nah man it's applied thermo, it must needs be taught or learned through experience
mircea_popescu:
<trinque> matter-of-fact-ly
<< only a problem in places which insist on pretending like there is or should be a difference between money and politics.
ben_vulpes: "The net result was that all Bitcoin nodes (lightweight and heavyweight) on the local Wi-Fi network were unable to connect to any Bitcoin nodes except for the local node, which they discovered via DNS."
<< and this is an argument for dns in core *how*?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes> not depreciation?
<< this is a particularly cogent question. the us fudges EVERYTHING, including the actual expenditure on infrastructure through, counting depreciation, counting future "financial costs" etc etc etc. half the political machine in the us works on pork contracts, which are all "infrastructure". that famous bridge in alaska was not even 1% of 1%.
mircea_popescu: Michail1> Heh. He likes to talk, but rarely in channel. His English is getting way better than it was only 6 months ago.
<< i wonder if anyone ever studied the interplay between so called "immigration" law and "scamming".
decimation: asciilifeform: lulz >
http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/07/03/thawing-out/ < That?s a further deterrent to the study of these books, given that many of them are undeniably more complex than their literary predecessors. Bely?s Petersburg, for example, is a masterpiece considered by many critics to be a precursor to the postmodern novel, but it?s a behemoth of a book that requires a linguistic and mathematical genius to fully comp
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=25-05-2015#1144917 << the idea is that key/identity maintenance is expensive, and so people don't generally want to do it unless needed, which reduces to, unless some woman spent 9 months with it in the oven and then what came out was smart enough to bother. if you want to / need to pgp, use either of our sigs.
☝︎ mod6:
<@assbot> Key 9974C0B2 / "Grubles
<wdanny863@gmail.com>" successfully imported
<< apparently, only one 'b'.
kakobrekla: unrelated "Also you can look at my address in (website hidden) maps and then enable streetview and it will show you exactly the correct spot."
< "(website hidden)" is auto censored google link on airbnb
ben_vulpes:
<ascii_modem> pure noise imho
<< aye, but let people /ignore assbot themselves
BingoBoingo:
<kakobrekla> as stated, there is enough interest with a small rebellion on top - so they stay
<< Maybe raise the limit? Perhaps 1BTC is nao too small and spammy, but 100 BTC is ok.
☟︎ assbot: Key 9974C0B2 / "Grubles
<wdanny863@gmail.com>" successfully imported.
assbot: Key 251E74D6 / "Peter Geschel
<peter@geschel.de>" successfully imported.
pete_dushenski: "In the next 5 years, half of computer science students will become women, which will lead to more female founders and CEOs."
<< i lolered
mod6:
<+kakobrekla> anyway, let me know if anyone else cares for trades being in this chan.
<< i like it, but maybe im just old school
pete_dushenski: "What kinds of programs constitute malware? Operating systems, first of all."
<< ayup.
chetty:
<<< likes having trade activity here
trinque: "Crucially, Iraq is labeled as an integral part of this “Shia expansion.”"
<< this provides context for the recent change in US-Saudi relations
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> [15:09] note that after the (recent) waco massacre, the criminals (waco police) blamed the... OWNER OF THE PIZZA JOINT.
<< aha i didn't follow this one. link?
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> BingoBoingo what, srsly ?
<< Yeah, also apparently really popular among the colored folks
trinque: "yes but..."
<< see, I'm the reasonable Paul
mircea_popescu:
<mats> last time they had a real program was with the F-18 in the late 70s iirc
<< word.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: o.o junior's starting his failed bids for presidency career early ?!
<< Baby Paul is actually kind of one of the frontrunners. Also less cool than his father for sure.
Apocalyptic:
<mircea_popescu> it's not in the standard they're the same size, is it ? // I confess I have no idea what the standard says
Apocalyptic:
<mircea_popescu> this is true, but you have no guarantee you will only be handling keys generated by your own generator. // afaik this is not related to handling keys, the snippet mats pasted is key-generation related
gribble: isaackl was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 4 days, 4 hours, 25 minutes, and 36 seconds ago:
<isaackl> mircea_popescu: and how do you prefer to communicate? all through the channel?
gabriel_laddel: even then, they'll most likely ask you about just adding it on top of osx/windows
<< yeah, this is in part why I'll have to target individuals
gabriel_laddel: and you can sell computers preloaded without needig big investment, if you find a niche where you can considerably improve their process
<< this is true.
gabriel_laddel:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=22-05-2015#1143981 << It seems to me that the question is, "why have people selling computers preloaded with their software failed (Apple does this, but their computers are braindamaged, a failure by 'design')?" Interpretation: all companies in this space occupy a position in "uncanny valley". If you look at e.g
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 21-05-2015 04:44:16; mircea_popescu: " more mice than meaningful social roles. With more and more peers to defend against"
<< that's the hot core of failure.