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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't have the proof it is, but that's irrelevant. you don't have the proof IT ISNT.
mircea_popescu: that was the point of all those galois fields discussions recently.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you don't know it's ACTUALLY different ; the expression sounds different, but there's a clear modulo space / elliptic curve relation.
mircea_popescu: discrete curves, diophantine equations, it's all the fucking same.
mircea_popescu: and this isn't a joke : the "distinction" between rsa and ecc, whereby "ecc is faster" or "has longer effective key" is bs. ECC is exactly RSA in polar coordinates, if either fails mathematically both do.
mircea_popescu: to recapitulate for the noobs : the converse of "we have no strong security models for hash functions" does ALSO imply that we CAN NOT DISTINGUISH THEM.
mircea_popescu: that's nice, but tell you what, 1880 airplanes all failed if one did. and one did. any one.
mircea_popescu: well how. if hash function is preimage weak, they all will be.
mircea_popescu: this idea is not akin saying "if you are worried about your gallon jar breaking and spilling your rum, use 4 quart jars". works irl.
mircea_popescu: i don't get it. so instead of one item with the above three problems, i now have three, and they're hashed together. so ?
mircea_popescu: lmao "atenCOIN is rebranding to blablaBITCOIN". oook ?
mircea_popescu: it's a good thing the human rights crowd informs us "everyone wants to be and is an individual", because from experience i'd never have arrived at the idea.
mircea_popescu: quite exactly, it's never futurism as the 1920s artistic blaseness. it's always "i will r entrepreneurize" or "i will marry well" or such, translated in the new paints.
mircea_popescu: phf just about same here. i particularily enjoy situations where the "group expert" in "new trends" brings bitcoin to the group. particularily if 20something female.
mircea_popescu: local orcs have their own homegrown equivalents of graham-style "entrepreneurship".
mircea_popescu: idiocy is not really cross-cultural in this strict formal sense.
mircea_popescu: all this "conference" bs is much a subleaf of that, for the loser/womenz to try hand at.
mircea_popescu: !!withdraw 0.02092825 1134zUnfvDRKrmkALRuUuseJfzMKZBYzgv
mircea_popescu: !!withdraw 0.02092669 1E6MZ18LocVz4bLVTroKdpC9HTjzmiGaKe
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo ftr, 5-6-7 kva per rack is about standard.
mircea_popescu: trinque we're just poking fun at hong-kong style english names. super-extra-effort-pizzeria
mircea_popescu: i gotta then "hey, i paid, it was not credited, here's the details" bla bla.
mircea_popescu: suppose i'm buying 30 bux worth of dildos online. me : "do you take btc ?" "sure". turns out it's via mycelium/bitpay/coinbase, and the above applies.
mircea_popescu: most processors want to see a txn within 15 mins, and most users have no idea they can set that interval to more sane values.\
mircea_popescu: to bring coal to the forest fire : any way you can think of to make micropayments instant ?
mircea_popescu: trinque i very much dun think so. not in the feed atm, and never saw such before.
mircea_popescu: this one actually got killed by 98% alcohol flood. book couldn't crush it.
mircea_popescu: there's these hydrocephalic ants, i kid you not, peasized heads atop tiny ant bodies
mircea_popescu got a two inch wasp mounted as part of permanent wax museum yest. 5 mm worth of stinger, this bitch had, and the weirdest antennae.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo has a history of poking fun at the tards, so he's more than welcome.
mircea_popescu: i thought just usual "Branding" idiocy at the time. but a novel theory just presented itself.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform was balticservers back when i got dulap originally.