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chetty:
<mircea_popescu> ahahaha "Waco police claim the violence could have prevented if Jay Patel, the operating partner at the independently owned Waco franchise, had simply banned the Confederation of Clubs from meeting there"//of course that would work, would have happened at the place down the street instead.
williamdunne: doesn't mean rocks didn't fall before, but it does mean it wasn't called gravity.
<< this is exactly what I mean
williamdunne: When you yourself might end up a piss poor person?
<< being well off isn't left to chance
chetty:
<justJanne> I took several undergrad classes in politics, macroeconomy, and political philosophy, I know what I'm talking about ;P//OH MY
chetty:
<justJanne> When your parents are so piss poor you have to work as a child to not starve.// some might consider that an advantage
williamdunne: Some people said, before, people should be held responsible for the decisions of their ancestors, they can even be punished for them.
<<< who actually said this, I'm curious about the justification
punkman: justJanne: I mean, a startup in my city sells FPGA clusters that can be used for that (or for crypto mining), and the NSA bought 256 clusters, each should be enough to break AES256 in 2 weeks.
<< lolwut
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> which iirc don't even exist in the us.
<< 100's still exist here
BingoBoingo:
<justJanne> davout: and what about volunteer librarians? They too?
<< I am a librarian. Volunteering without compensation is a violation of my professional ethics.
BingoBoingo:
<justJanne> Bit that's not the case.
<< Why do the Greeks and Spaniards work longer hours and yet Krautenvacations are longest vacations?
ben_vulpes:
<justJanne> If you want total anarchy, go to somalia, they live it.
<< lol u and somalia
assbot: Logged on 19-05-2015 06:28:51; mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-05-2015#1137583 << yes. and it only works for as long as there's free herring in the scania straight, or for as long as kennedy is ein berliner and airlifts food for free, or for as long as the north sea oil lasts, or for as long as insane luck rolls keep going. otherwise, fuckall, german peasants were the most unfortunate wretches throughout the intermediate pe
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> ben_vulpes also must give people rope to hang with, it's a tandem process.
<< maybe next cycle i can refrain
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu>
<justJanne> Currently the food production of the world could support 10 billion people.
<< that's not the point. sure, food could be produced to feed 10, 100, one trillion. does not mean anyone wants more idiots running around. too many as it is.
<< Speaking about agriculture. Lots of fallow fields this year.
ben_vulpes:
<justJanne> williamdunne Don't want taxes
<< so what and whatever
ben_vulpes:
<justJanne> trinque: you guys said you wanted a place where "no man rules over other men", no taxes, no government, no controls, no streets.
<< source or seriously get the fuck out
mircea_popescu:
<justJanne> Currently the food production of the world could support 10 billion people.
<< that's not the point. sure, food could be produced to feed 10, 100, one trillion. does not mean anyone wants more idiots running around. too many as it is.
ben_vulpes:
<justJanne> Why not?
<< needs some context
ben_vulpes:
<justJanne> mats: DS9-Star Trek is pretty much real.
<< aha she thinks scifi's real
ben_vulpes:
<williamdunne> Objectively speaking stealing from people is bad
<< nope, stealing from my enemies is grand.
ben_vulpes:
<justJanne> danielpbarron: unless you lose it all, and have no money and are starving
<< people who should starve should starve
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=19-05-2015#1137583 << yes. and it only works for as long as there's free herring in the scania straight, or for as long as kennedy is ein berliner and airlifts food for free, or for as long as the north sea oil lasts, or for as long as insane luck rolls keep going. otherwise, fuckall, german peasants were the most unfortunate wretches throughout the intermediate period between first
☝︎☟︎ decimation: "Stats canada provides superior-quality reports to private enterprise."
< what private enterprise provides reports on derpy bureaucracy?
mike_c:
<+justJanne> Assuming no corruption,
<< this is where we enter star trek land?
ben_vulpes:
<justJanne> your phone will burn through your clothes. And then ignite everything around it, before becoming a blob of molten lava
<< israelis came up with this one iirc
mircea_popescu: trinque:--std=c99 kicks on __STRICT_ANSI__ which affects whether __USE_MISC is defined in features.h
<< such a great explanation of wtf is wrong with all this shit.
ben_vulpes:
<jurov> ben_vulpes: but yes, hacking on the source is best in your homedir. only after it compiles there, feed to portage
<< this first
justJanne:
<insert short rant about ALSA only allowing 44.1kHz and 16-bit audio here>
mircea_popescu:
<justJanne> gnutella has as much chances of mainstream adoption as Gentoo has
<< ouch-zing-ouch
mircea_popescu:
<justJanne> so everything that is not 0 is automatically true
< ?
justJanne: mircea_popescu: the overall question is to implement the
< operator
justJanne: the question was to implement the
< operator on int with boolean logic
assbot: Key BC41ABB9 / "Marcel Hernandez (1MA)
<e6990620@gmail.com>" successfully imported.
mircea_popescu: in other news, "In the newt species Notophthalmus viridescens, males carry out a courtship behavior called amplexus. It consists of males capturing females that do not want to mate with them and using their hind limbs to grasp the females by their pectoral regions."
<< check out the newt pua!
ascii_field: 'The yeasts could be locked in secure laboratories, worked on by screened employees. Sharing them with other scientists without government permission could be outlawed.'
<< what even.
ascii_field: 'It doesn't work when Nadia Heninger goes to sell Phuctor before Stanford - Nadia Heninger doesn't own Phuctor, and the actual owners are very much present and very much capable to bitchslap her into oblivion.'
<< actually, 'crime pays.' chick gets a phd and cushy sinecure, etc.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "Or perhaps they did that stupid human trick that never fails: If you have excess funds, procreate until you no longer have excess funds, then share the funds equally until you all die."
<< afaik this was never done in practice, outside of easter island. not that women everywhere didn't endlessly & forever try. but anyway, re the ancient women broken strat discussion, THIS is a fine statement of the problem.
trinque: "In closing, for the tl;dr / eli5 / etc crowd : this article is not for you. Go back to doing the dishes, we'll wake you up once you need to buy a new flag."
<< fucking glorious.
Apocalyptic: ascii_field, can you comment on
<Apocalyptic> "for after we demonstrate that one could 1) sign with the dud key" wait you can sign without fully factoring N ? this is news to me
assbot: Logged on 13-05-2015 21:42:17; asciilifeform: re: '21' etc >> 'The cornerstone of the strategy as presented would have been the release of consumer products that would turn power from wall sockets into bitcoin through the widespread dissemination of bitcoin mining chips.'
<< -somebody- clearly reads the 2013 #b-a logs.
Apocalyptic:
<ascii_field> at least one falls under the classical 'generated and correctly signed with dud key' // is that key at least a classic RSA key, meaning its modulus consists of only 2 prime factors as opposed to the case discussed yesterday ?
mircea_popescu: ehh, diddled php implementations
<< obviously i mean pgp not php.