asciilifeform: trinque: you would barf an entire barrel if you saw what i eat from.
asciilifeform: evidently trinque is considerably better at what he does, than i am, this is not really disputable
asciilifeform: it is very easy, rent still due even if 0 takers.
asciilifeform: then there was another episode, a few yrs ago, with automatic reversing of winblowz exes. that time several friends went broke ~with~ asciilifeform .
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: robotic liquid handling.
asciilifeform: ( again i have nfi whether because-idiot, or because-socialisms, or some combo of both. )
asciilifeform: there was a thread, where asciilifeform described how more than once he took a major open problem, and actually solved, and as result went broke.
asciilifeform: now that i think about it, if i were mircea_popescu , ffa would have gone more than simply twice as fast, it takes considerable time to reload the problem into head , after a long dive into the saecular sewers
asciilifeform: if mircea_popescu says this -- i'll believe.
asciilifeform: that depends on whether goal post would have moved also in half the time, neh.
asciilifeform: entirely possibly enough to get to same place in half the time.
asciilifeform: ftr i spent more time, hour for hour, on ffa in past yr than among the heathens.
asciilifeform: iirc trinque also works in the saeculum.
asciilifeform: trinque: concretize for the thread plox ?
asciilifeform: the microscopies, etc are paid for with the fiatola that asciilifeform 'cheated' the beast out of by rejecting mortgagism, 401kism, etc.
asciilifeform: ( ftr the latter estimate turned up to be undershot, discussed in later thread )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: where's the contradiction ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: out of curiosity, what contradicts ?
asciilifeform: ( could suppose that asciilifeform is poor because idiot, or because lives in socialist paradise, or some combination, orthogonal to discussion )
asciilifeform: and in general i dun expect any of it to be paid for, there is no tradition of any such thing. but i do have the possibly naive expectation of the work not to be shat on.☟︎
asciilifeform: i dun have any notion that ' mircea_popescu oughta pay for the mpi ' , it was made without any such agreement. ditto the serpent archaeology etc.
asciilifeform: and asciilifeform is not rich, does not have the option to 'not waste time in fiatland'.
asciilifeform: and this answer is, asciilifeform's landlord doesn't take payment in s.nsa ownership shares, only in old-fashioned dubloons. and they're due every single month.
asciilifeform: i could attempt to answer what i ~think~ is the question
asciilifeform: as for asciilifeform , he would actually prefer if mircea_popescu shot straight and said 'hell no i won't pay for no stinkin' software', rather than the peculiar ritual of having a contest, then to proclaim the submitters as a whole 'self-indulgent indolent' and then in the end to take s.nsa crypto lib and use for phree anyway☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: yea, observe, danielpbarron's fiatola FG sale still 0 takers
asciilifeform: the implication of 'had to do some things' is 'but instead sat' neh ?
asciilifeform: ( what's the use, incidentally, of a cramershouptron, without sane rng ? )
asciilifeform: and instead sat around uselessly , and wasted time making and selling rng in the meantime also, lol
asciilifeform: i do however take exception to the 'indolence'.
asciilifeform: requires a very selective reading of the logs, to say that they are not. but i won't argue over mircea_popescu's contest, it was written in such a way that it oughta have been quite obvious that the bounty will not be paid.
asciilifeform: i suppose i oughtn't be surprised, that everyone answers then 'why not in a month'
asciilifeform: the 'self-indulgent indolence' of implementing in a year+ what usg academitards could not do in 30 years
asciilifeform: and i take exception to 'what i don't like about how the past looks'. looks entirely proper to me, and imho well-supported by the log material.
asciilifeform: made originally ( as amply described in the logs , at every step of the way ) for universal numbertheoretical ciphrator.
asciilifeform: for what did mircea_popescu think ffa is made ?
asciilifeform: so this perhaps answers mircea_popescu's 'where the hell was c-s'
asciilifeform: in the process of writing one on top of my mpi, i realized that the approach is unsound, and will eventually get people killed. so went straight to what became ffa.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it was signalled five ways to pluto. or, say it now, did mircea_popescu think that cramer-shoup remained unimplemented because 'lazy self-indulgent idjits' ?
asciilifeform: and 'uses the components of elgamal' and 'leaks like a sieve if we use koch's routines, via side channel' required additional pedanticism somehow ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu even showed symptoms of having actually read the c-s orig paper, and presumably knew that it is a numbertheoretical cipher.
