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mircea_popescu: i didn't have what to argue against it back in 2016 or w/e it started (not that i didn't see it coming, either) and i've not found anything hence. so...
diana_coman: sure, log in is a liability,fine; so no login, but it doesn't follow no online
diana_coman: jurov, admittedly I never used CoinBr so don't know much of its previous online presence but I always thought "online" for such a thing meant mpex-style i.e. anyway gpg-based , no?
diana_coman: asciilifeform, I don't know if anyone asked - I've stated it in the blogpost in clear just the same
asciilifeform: fwiw i liked ar as a coupla-day thing, but can't picture it being so great to have to get on a plane erry time want tooth filled , buy some irons, etc
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-29#1890613 << in any approach, this is roughly the issue in vzla also : socialists tryna hard to discuss their internal problems, wholly owned and entirely due TO SOCIALISM in terms of external influence. trotsky was "fascist" don't you know, and maduro is "authoritarian" and whatnot. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: similarily they don't WRITE anything. su had samizdat BECAUSE REASONS. argentina doesn't have it, nor does it have said reasons. because NO NEED to. might as well pass legislation to forbid cattle the making of stalin jokes.
spyked: apologies for the feedbot join-part spam. the latest outage has helped me discover a subtle bug in pm message delivery; feedbot checks whether a nick is online using the ison irc command, and it didn't handle the corner case when the ison response is empty.
asciilifeform: at asciilifeform's local uni, even decade ago engineering, maffs, etc. were ~solid china ( + a bit of india ). these days even moar solid -- evidently they didn't get the memo yet, that miami is full
BingoBoingo: I see no reason they and Mexico wouldn't
BingoBoingo: Noriega wasn't really sitting on much other than CIA friendship before getting stuffed into a hole
asciilifeform doesn't know
asciilifeform: imho newton/leibniz is esp. good parallel here, as even if one takes shannon to be the discoverer, you can't actually build a reasonable otptron without j. von neumann's debiasing method
Mocky: wasn't it shannon with the otp proof?
asciilifeform: i suspect it's exactly like the 'well-understood that you mustn't write own crypto' idjicy.
mircea_popescu: i confess i'm mildly concerned when i don't see these "well understood" shits.
asciilifeform: ( jobs, evidently, didn't spring for the 25ppm xtal.. )
mircea_popescu: the original said "The French don't like being famous for their incapacity of being on time ? Let them fix their watches somehow to the same hour, so they quit going about Paris, apparent adults, with half hour's delta among what their watches show. " and i'm willing to attest even as late as LAST DECADE this was a factual state of affairs.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i can't resist to bite : what's 'non-narrative' fiction ?
mircea_popescu: the fucking gall of these imbecile schmucks, then turning around going "oh, you shouldn't amateur"
mircea_popescu: just don't hurt yourself.
phf: i don't understand how anyone can read the logs with one eye, this shit's exponential: i'm behind on ffa, so the recent work on e.g. gcd or miller-rabin is particularly slow going.
phf: unfortunately i failed to make careful note of various vpatch appearances. there's been some by people other than asciilifeform and diana_coman where the author didn't explicitly request a btcbase upload. so if anyone's explicitly missing a vpatch that they want to be up on btcbase, please leave note with me, privmsg also works
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I'm digging through stuff and apparently Israel doesn't have a strong opinion on Vzla regime change is the US isn't going to have a strong opinion on Syria regime change seems to be the sentiment.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Could be China doesn't publish their national security export restricted list?
asciilifeform doesn't have 1 here, given as never yet perceived any pressing need for such thing
diana_coman: anyways, I'm not pushing this strongly as "this is how I actually think it was" - as I said previously, I don't think I know enough to have much to say either way
mircea_popescu: much like lenses, really, the difference between a very expensive and a very cheap glass wasn't substantial, both made of polished glass. but much different in implementation, made of complicatedly boiled glass hand polished over months or not.
mircea_popescu: well, what doesn't starve you edifies you or how did it igo.
asciilifeform: answr't^2.
mircea_popescu: answer't.
asciilifeform: iirc we ~did~ have a thread where 'why didn't they make a chronometer that can be stuffed up arse, for constant temp' tho.
diana_coman: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-26#1890228 sadly I don't have proof for it ☝︎
asciilifeform: ( e.g. don't ask the golden fish to 'explain turbulence!' )
asciilifeform: and hey, asciilifeform is not even the worst horse in that gluefactory, the 1000 btc or whatever it was i calculated then, is still coupla orders of magnitude smaller than that d00d we had who 'couldn't do' until he had orbiting station with solar sail or what was it ( kanzure ? )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: can't seem to dredge it up in O(1). feel free to cite the summary tho, if writing a piece to laff at asciilifeform , who is big boy and wont cry
a111: Logged on 2019-01-26 08:58 diana_coman: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-25#1889973 -> didn't rummage as too late yest but woke up this morning with this: when a= n-1 step 2.2 aka y=a^r mod n becomes y= (n-1)^r mod n; using for instance binomial expansion you have (n-1)^r = n^r + rC1*n^(r-1)*(-1)+rC2*n^(r-2)*(-1)^2+....+rC(r-1)*n*(-1)^(r-1)+(-1)^r; since the whole thing was "mod n", of all those terms you are in fact left with only the last one, aka y = (-1)^r mod n ; r is odd so
diana_coman: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-25#1889973 -> didn't rummage as too late yest but woke up this morning with this: when a= n-1 step 2.2 aka y=a^r mod n becomes y= (n-1)^r mod n; using for instance binomial expansion you have (n-1)^r = n^r + rC1*n^(r-1)*(-1)+rC2*n^(r-2)*(-1)^2+....+rC(r-1)*n*(-1)^(r-1)+(-1)^r; since the whole thing was "mod n", of all those terms you are in fact left with only the last one, aka y = (-1)^r mod n ; r is odd so ☝︎☟︎
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> lol what die. i dunget the whiners, either, what sorta office inmate wouldn't kill for month of vacation ( even unpaid ) << Maduro's Venezuela has some pretty sweet beaches now forbidden to USG.blue according to intel.
asciilifeform: lol what die. i dunget the whiners, either, what sorta office inmate wouldn't kill for month of vacation ( even unpaid )
asciilifeform: from asciilifeform's surface inspection, place wasn't exactly swarming with either. then again mebbe they all were in the fu ajedrez
BingoBoingo: Registration doesn't close until the 31st or they get enough paid interest. In the interim I'm mulling over the opportunity cost of the tournament versus a pupper versus more cheese.
mircea_popescu: don't you need a henry first ?
BingoBoingo: Here in Uruguay we have grass and grass means cows, or rats in locations the cows don't fit
mircea_popescu: aaanyway, i dunno if specifically should or shouldn't be included in mp-wp, but it's certainly there published to be coopted if useful.
mircea_popescu: you also don't have naked women. but fuck me if im going to start budgeting my visuals now.
mircea_popescu: yeah, wasn't the us in state of emergency since the 70s ?
diana_coman: certainly, but that was precisely what they kept "avoiding" at all costs; e.g. http://ossasepia.com/2018/12/10/my-talk-of-bitcoin-at-reading-uni/#selection-213.0-213.61 and their strongly-dearly held idea that "contracts can't be broken" pretty much
diana_coman: perhaps a combination of "I'd much rather NOT have this responsibility so passing it to some abstract group/network HAS to be great" and "all people are ~same and X is a crook therefore all people are crooks therefore can't trust someone"
diana_coman: this "trustless" echoes some students' insistence that it's "better to not have to trust someone" - I couldn't quite get to the root of it
beetcoin: asciilifeform, of course we have to trust that our CPU isn't backdoored unless we start our own fabrication facility. Bitcoin isn't perfectly trustless because of that, i'm just saying it should be the goal of governance
a111: Logged on 2017-06-15 18:26 mircea_popescu: in the end the question comes down to, do you feel like a man, or do you feel like a woman ? just don't lie to me or lie to me prettily ?
mircea_popescu: ie, "mathematicians know and computer dorks needn't worry" bla bla.
asciilifeform: i thought the notion being pushed is hilarious tho. 'who cares if yer litmus doesn't work on 561, it aint like you ever need to verify whether 561 is prime' etc
mircea_popescu: (i mean, i realise in the us they aren't, but w/e, nobody really gives a shit about retardistan)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform can't copyright legal proceedings, they're public.
mircea_popescu: it started like that, you realise. back in the early days of the confederacy, the us president couldn't on his own merit summon enough credit in europe to afford a meal at a decent restaurant. if the local dukes of dorset didn't invite them to their table, they'd eat poached eggs brought from home on the side of the road.
mircea_popescu: in any case, in 2011, as in 2001, as in 2021 i can say "academia romana keks" or http://trilema.com/2011/stimata-academie/ whatever ; but they can't say "trilema.com", because holy shit. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform too inept dood, what. they can't do shit.
mircea_popescu: ie, mostly tv stations perceived blogs as competition, but ~because they actually were~ competition, and winning, couldn't omit stealing their conent. and so the expression "found on the Internet" was invented to avoid saying "we suck, go read this-dood.com instead"
asciilifeform tuned out of subj when realized that can't point to a distinguishing algo between gavin, hearn, wright, et al -- they're idempotent , like electron..
mircea_popescu doesn't specifically care, pantsuit "names" are entirely inconsequential anyway.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-24 15:22 mircea_popescu: there's no option here : if they stay, maduro arrests them, "hostage situation" doesn't really wash, us stuck spending next 10 years "negotiating" with a maduro it put in a better position than kim ever was.
mircea_popescu: granted if they don't leave and maduro doesn't put them in ice, the situation's resolved the other way.
mircea_popescu: there's no option here : if they stay, maduro arrests them, "hostage situation" doesn't really wash, us stuck spending next 10 years "negotiating" with a maduro it put in a better position than kim ever was. ☟︎
BingoBoingo: Meanwhile in local news apparently they don't want people using the doors to congress as an improvised soccer goal anymore https://www.elobservador.com.uy/nota/-que-cosas-ya-no-se-pueden-hacer-alrededor-del-palacio-legislativo-segun-una-nueva-resolucion--2019123142549
mircea_popescu: stupidity characteristically doesn't learn from others' personal history -- but if there ever was an example of why the bootblack ~does NOT~ want to raise above his crepidam...
BingoBoingo: Anyways middle class housing in uruguay means maybe a garage. In Vzla middle class housing means a six car garage. The country gets poorer, but can't eat garage.
mircea_popescu: just, you know, illiterate simpletons in no sense romanian, because you can't be romanian without ready access to cultural reference, the entire nation exists of naught else.
a111: Logged on 2018-08-01 03:03 douchebag: I'm in AT&T Hall of Fame
mircea_popescu: beeecause... well... esif22 isn't the first http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-01#1838623 in the history ~of this particular scam~. nor the 100th. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2019-01-22 23:18 asciilifeform: can't wait for the logical end of this, when they cut e.g. the screen ( 'why do you need a screen, terrorist. talk to the box with mouth..' ) and eventually will ship a http://www.loper-os.org/?p=405 i expect.
spyked: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-22#1889396 <-- there is a !1list command (no extra args) that lists subscriptions for the user who PMs it. however, it doesn't work in chan and I didn't document it due to its spamminess. feedbot will reply with one rss feed per line, not sure if it would be more appropriate to list rss feeds in a paste or something. curious to hear opinions re this ☝︎
mircea_popescu: the case where "forever-and-ever" promise beneficiary actually brings action against the promiser, "they;'re supposed to feed and clothe me, porca vaca" isn't far off.
mircea_popescu: i don't know that there ever was a "conviction" that stood other than by sheer disinterest of the convicted.
mircea_popescu: wasn't he here last year with the "media company" with no dns resolvers ?
a111: Logged on 2019-01-18 17:27 mircea_popescu: that they don't do anything in particular should be self-evident, but here's some lulz re "intelligent design" :
mircea_popescu: t that his only hope at being young again is if he finds the way to shit whole prunes) that yielded the "entrepreneurial" revolution which, in short order, latched upon the imaginary http://trilema.com/2016/files-from-the-war-on-the-web-today-literotica/#selection-393.0-393.767 aka "ugc" as a fuel base to transform into prosperity died sometime since 2001.
asciilifeform: can't wait for the logical end of this, when they cut e.g. the screen ( 'why do you need a screen, terrorist. talk to the box with mouth..' ) and eventually will ship a http://www.loper-os.org/?p=405 i expect. ☟︎
asciilifeform: come to think of it , i can't recall when last saw a winblowz ad as such
a111: Logged on 2019-01-22 21:38 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-22#1889180 << why can;t it be instantiated with knowledge of its size ?
asciilifeform: ha, no, hadn't read
a111: Logged on 2019-01-22 17:17 asciilifeform: ok , having read this, i gotta laff, this is yet-another 'oh noez doesn't use usg.pki like inca commanded' 'bug'
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-22#1889222 << same here. wtf idiocy is this, thin wrapper around "o noes, people who don't like pantsuitism made websites to mock us, NO GOOD". ☝︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-22#1889180 << why can;t it be instantiated with knowledge of its size ? ☝︎☟︎
mircea_popescu evidently can't carry a discussion on artithetics, even if "general point" wins easy enough.
mircea_popescu: thus you don't really want a compiler as much as you want a (very narrowly) meta-assembler.
BingoBoingo: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-22#1889353 << Trying to find "news" today I see nothing outside the log that isn't eclipsed by the log in importance ☝︎
mircea_popescu: "alf knows how to say these 5 things he can't stand in all languages that exist or existed".
mircea_popescu: a whole raft of "dad didn't much care for arthur blair snif sniff" is readily explained by the model "dad got smart with age, kiddo was born intelligent."
mircea_popescu: in the end, "the smart don't like the intelligent" is the exact male equiv of ye female http://trilema.com/2016/the-pedoepiphany/ ; or in the immortal words of http://trilema.com/2014/millers-crossing/ " You are so goddamn smart. Except you ain't. I get you, smart guy. I know what you are. Straight as a corkscrew. Mr. Inside-Outski, like some goddamn Bolshevik picking up his orders from Yegg Central. You think you're so godda
asciilifeform: ( didn't particularly relish memorizing chess debuts, either ) ☟︎
mircea_popescu: i suppose it's still disqualified, i didn't state it in romanian.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform part of the lulz of ye olde physics olympiad in mp\s native lands and times was "identify the problem type". lotta ~fundamentally illiterate~ (hey, they liked "science", can't possibly think fiction, doh!!!) profs tryina come up with ~convincing~ "and then she said...".
mircea_popescu: but in the end, what's the rush even. trilema didn't croak yest, and so here we are, can focus on other things.
asciilifeform: but imho standardizing the pile of ??? can't possibly hurt.
asciilifeform: asciilifeform is prolly the farthest thing possible from an expert wwwist, if that wasn't already obvious. so cannot presume to say how.
mircea_popescu: item as pristine out of box has a dozen or so dimensions and subdimensions that hafta be fit into place, it's not ~really~ pret a porter (chiefly because one selling "all purpose cloth" can't sell it pre-cut)
mircea_popescu: i don't even remember ~when~ i last compiled apache.
mircea_popescu: linux kernel has a gash in itself, where "it gotta work with firmware" or "modules" or w/e the crap. 99+% percent of the time kernel crashed it wasn't the fucking kernel.