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mircea_popescu: he can shoot 60 losers for me just as well as he can push paper for dimon.
mircea_popescu: problem is those idiots are equally willing to die for all causes.
mircea_popescu: what is that, smile from within a basket, torso aside ?
mircea_popescu: or what is the idea, ima give dimon food because [???] ?
mircea_popescu: their mommies are too old to leave food in front of door.
mircea_popescu: yes, but what will their printed pokemon cards actually do ?
mircea_popescu: problem is -- nobody in current generation has what to retire on. so im guessing dimon will get a job to pay for their 401ks or w/e they need.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and while the bonuses can still be financed out of idiot retirees nesteggs, will continue to idem shit.
mircea_popescu: this excursion among the hallucinators has been pretty entertaining.
mircea_popescu: buying jpm is a bad strategy about half the time, and bitcoin overperforms dimon by about 1000% EACH SINGLE YEAR
mircea_popescu: i wish to fucking know, at what point has buying bitcoin been a bad strategy ?
mircea_popescu: "Will bitcoin ever be a safe investment or always a gamble? - The boss of JP Morgan was unequivocal about bitcoin at a recent conference in New York: the digital currency was only fit for drug dealers"
mircea_popescu: dontchakno, we maybe forgot all about it, could think coinbase relevant somehow.
mircea_popescu: "Coinbase and the Power of Bitcoin Exchanges - Many fondly remember their first Bitcoin transaction. It likely took place on Coinbase, one of the first exchanges to serve the Western marketplace" in continuing lulz.
mircea_popescu: what they were trying to say was that they... lost... again. the little bch for btc tit for tat left btc in tatters and their dwindling supply of btc ever thinner.
mircea_popescu: and in continuing lulz, "Bitcoin price is up but top Wall Streeters aren't on board"
mircea_popescu: and so to the "curious" pretending they "have no proof" as to why and wherefore trilema is more widely read than the entire pantsuit media edifice, washpo, nytimes to the last campus libel piece TOGETHER : consider that there exists exactly one venue in the world that explains, and has been explaining that why during this interval.
mircea_popescu: momentarily back to
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-10-06#1721672 discussion, i must say i'm reasonably impressed that ~none of the "public discourse" in jew/faux media includes the "nobody can understand WHY"/"such INCOMPREHENSIBLE" mandatory verbiage of five years ago.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: seems a good indication of merit, that they've put the effort into persuading the original poltroons into hiding it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform as it happens i actually want to rescue the (classic) keccak implementation from the obvious nist-driven oblivion.
mircea_popescu: anyway, if anyone can cough up a manner to evaluate, any particular scheme, or even a comparison of a pair, i'm of course all ears.
mircea_popescu: the categorical alternative (literally what gpg does now) fell on the grounds of "at least we don't need aes" ; the obvious "cut R into bits and use each" seems to my eye weaker, tho who even knows.
mircea_popescu: basically the scheme is, you rsa a random bitfield, then you expand that into as much otp as you want by doing recursively Fi = hash(bitfield + Fi-1). there's a limit on i, obviously, which can be set to 1.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: hang on, ima actually publish the discussion fragment.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform spam filtered by hard is how filtering always works and worked.
mircea_popescu: given up on the whole dao nonsense, have they ? why are they still here, why the gun still unfired in their lap, why the brahms not playing ?
mircea_popescu: "In case you did, i hope this will be a lesson to you. Stop trading obscure tokens/coins!" << if THIS is "the lesson", then one wonders wtf is supposed to be the "ethereum value proposition" ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in fact, whole reason i'm even willing to do w/o email is that there exists this alternative thaty's so much better.
mircea_popescu: and especially as reinforced via wot/trilema voiuce model, i expect this may endure.
mircea_popescu: yet whole point of "asym key encryption" is -- encrypted comms without prior key exchange. this specifically says "between anon parties"
mircea_popescu: asym key is specifically for this usecase. you--well known publisher ; me -- secret identity with the goods. i can safely send them to you.
mircea_popescu: did we do ? i'd have expected we had but log doth not return
mircea_popescu: and in other random dribbles : i was going by teh sabana park (huge park here), noticed they had cut down some rainbow eucaliptus trees. so i had car stopped and... got a chunk for the trunk.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "coronary was BECAUSE SHE WAS FAT, and NOT because she was an excited fat person someone drove a car into" ?
mircea_popescu: hopefully Framedragger is polyamorying with female sysadmins.
mircea_popescu: phf` im not implying anything, and certainly not about you!
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo lol because i totally need 1gbps to talk to the rest of the pinoys or w/e"
mircea_popescu: phf` that wouldn't be a problem in principle. just has to be done.
mircea_popescu: i don't expect overnighting is the point. what's the point is that there's little difference between a colo you email to and run of the mill "dedicated servers" hosting.
mircea_popescu: phf` well, strawman came from trying to discuss a rather unconstrained by actual data universe of possibilities.
mircea_popescu: so in this sense : an unmanned operation behind a maybe-porous wall is not in any sense useful.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: if i wanted that i could have it for the same coupla hundy or w/e. heck, apparently they'd even do it for free if we don't make fun of them for it.
mircea_popescu: on the other hand, this "your raid needs new hdds hurr" thing is not flying. i don't need to "hire" a "colo" for them to re-do the whole cherryservers bs for me, now do i.
mircea_popescu: but yes, sure, my ideal world would be for you to live there and assemble them yourself, and go to colo and install self, and document whole thing on your blog.
mircea_popescu: but it is VERY specifically NOT "oh, whoever anon herp"
mircea_popescu: i dunno that it's wash dc specifically, or alf specifically.
mircea_popescu: unless we have a ~trusted~ engineer on the actual ground there, we will be shipping from wherever it is convenient to ship. but items originate with us, not with randos.
mircea_popescu: phf` except we ship boxes, as i understood the design, not for them to stick hands in our parts.
mircea_popescu: but there is a huge difference between intelligent sovereignity and soviet idiocy.
mircea_popescu: i don't even care, sure, if they have their own state courier they're trying to prop up in this way, more power to them, we'll use it.
mircea_popescu: phf` i am speculating. but there must be a way to get machiens there for it to work.