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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: easily into the multiple millimonets, for a typical case
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re: workfunctions, there was once some theoretical work concerning 'non-outsourceable puzzles', i.e. mathematical magic preventing the formation of pools by allowing any pool participant to silently and untraceably claim the entire block reward. but i cannot recall if this went anywhere other than academiwankery. ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3icef3/leaked_btc_foundation_digest_2013_complete_with/cufbrx6 << cockroach squirms
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: here >> http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1352 << he bought my 'dukedom'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: funnily enough, i encountered gogulski entirely by chance, elsewhere:
jurov: http://www.explo.yt/slush_on_xt.png a little kek
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3icef3/leaked_btc_foundation_digest_2013_complete_with << they luvv it
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: neato!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: https://www.reddit.com/r/litecoin/comments/1qvgld/a_leak_in_the_bitcoin_reddit_shows_private << lulz
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'single task' in the sense of there not being a timeslicer
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: thing is, none of this is even worth thinking about until items like multiprocessorized sig validation are a thing
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the nic knows how to dma, recall.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: best kernel improvement is to single-task the thing
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: see log. traceroutes all fall into neverneverland
asciilifeform: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3ibh95/coins_stolen_from_mycelium_wallet_how_do_you << lulzies
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: don't know why i bothered, but https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3icef3/leaked_btc_foundation_digest_2013_complete_with
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu http://dpaste.com/17SQB7H.txt
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu 'network is unreachable'
assbot: Logged on 25-08-2015 02:13:39; mircea_popescu: care to put some selections on your blog ?
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu dulap is down - whole machine.
assbot: http://wiki.bitcoin-assets.com/irc_bots/assbot
assbot: Logged on 25-08-2015 01:22:58; mircea_popescu: either &lt; or something. esp <--- is a comment.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i'll be puzzling over that quiz for a bit. wonderful fun!
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell pete_dushenski not really my jam.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: now you are #1
BingoBoingo: the 1418 is pretty weak though mircea_popescu, better fix that
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: There surprisingly hasn't been a qntra DoS that I have noticed since the XT'ening
BingoBoingo: <felipelalli> mircea_popescu, just buy 5000 nodes and stop with this joke, please: http://www.xtnodes.com/ << But that wouldn't be very shiny and chrome
felipelalli: mircea_popescu, just buy 5000 nodes and stop with this joke, please: http://www.xtnodes.com/
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'if i say it three times, it is true!' (tm) (r) (lewis carroll)
BingoBoingo: Win http://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--GsVkysXZ--/c_fit,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/1400215357088099761.png
hanbot: http://dpaste.com/0W7W8YJ (in which ./Configure --prefix=$OURLIBS no-dso no-shared threads linux-x86_64 && make && make install_sw; , heh)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and if you got any more of these, they are prolly likewise enjoyable.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: surely
mircea_popescu: https://www.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/comments/3i8dbn/8_failing_bitcoin_businesses_desperately_demand/ lol
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> ahahaha. broke fat louse has rulesets ? << They have the strictest rulesets sinc ethey aren't getting fucked outside of an accident. They pretend scarcity of opportunities is standards.
hanbot: in latest ml adventure, rotor-test2 for i686 makes a static bitcoind that gives sigill w/ LC_ALL=C (and won't run w/o it): http://dpaste.com/0J6HXAH
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> think, how would massive_turd exist ? << shared with unreasonably personally WoTed person
mircea_popescu: think, how would massive_turd exist ?
asciilifeform: where he perhaps gpg --decrypt ..... ... >> massive_turd.txt
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: dafuq's that
assbot: Logged on 27-05-2015 18:05:40; ascii_field: i keep pet. other people, if they like, can keep livestock
asciilifeform: what's mircea_popescu's corner? economitronics of the 1880s ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: all of this reminds me of a secret pleasure of mine - reading 'electrician' scientific publications from the era of heaviside
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ask the 'coq' folks
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: specifically prove ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it has to be touched, somehow. because the notion is doomed to come into play
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'a'+'c' - 'what facts can or cannot be mathematically proven about a computer program? and when?'
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> catfish is shockingly not much eaten here. << If they are too big to eat (i.e. Mississippi river) still ought to be fished for the challenge.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Also how are the catfish in Río de la Plata? Probably ought to check that out before leaving hardware B-A
mircea_popescu: mike_c honestly i suspek your intuition is certainly correct. more money to be made teaching this than 90% of the stuff taught online. "be a better you" or w/e.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> asciilifeform the reason rawls is in there is because it gives perhaps the best approach for average derp to touch his derpitude. the reasoin no discussion of scamming is in economy is because i do not believe it is in there. << belongs in Biology
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sybil and mitm are entirely orthogonal concepts
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: that's rather like saying that locust is not an agriculturally-relevant organism, no ?
assbot: Logged on 25-08-2015 01:18:04; mircea_popescu: lemme see if anything occurs. ima keep it open for a little bit see if i become suddenly unhappy with b overnight, then ima set it in stone an' give out some symbolic prizes for first completors.
BingoBoingo: ;;later tell pete_dushenski You're the car guy. Any thoughs on compact pickup trucks with crazy lift kits?
pete_dushenski: via https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/chinas-hard-hit-rust-belt-reflects-the-countrys-economic-woes/2015/08/24/d5d82752-45bf-11e5-9f53-d1e3ddfd0cda_story.html
assbot: Logged on 24-08-2015 19:39:24; mircea_popescu: ;;google average salary in china
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'c' (or 'd' ?) - 'what information is conveyed by a cryptographic signature ?'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'c' (or 'd' ?) - 'describe what is steganography, and name a successful and a catastrophic instance of its use'
hanbot: doubtful, mike_c
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'c' (or 'd' ?) - 'distinguish 'fail-safe' and 'fail-deadly' mechanisms. give a common example of each.'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'a' - 'what is idempotence ?'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'm trying to form a mental model of the how+why of certain quiz items; for instance, why is rawls in there, but not, e.g, 'describe what is a bucket shop'
Adlai: mike_c: well i guess i should leave then!
Adlai: mike_c: "a job", implying somebody pays you... sounds more like an enterprise
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'd' - 'what is a man-in-the-middle attack'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: water in sahara, air in orbit, entropy on ibm pc...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this is kinda what literacy is about, i think
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not just this! gotta have access to arithmetic, even!
mircea_popescu: mike_c did you put < in there ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not strictly biological; e.g., winblowz virii qualify
mike_c: mircea_popescu: you want comments here or in trilema?
mircea_popescu: mike_c kinda its main utility.
Adlai: mircea_popescu: Econ#5, "programmatically-issued"?
asciilifeform: i do wish that mircea_popescu were right about this, it would make for an interesting mathemagical mindfuck
Adlai: mircea_popescu: don't worry, so does satoshi :P
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> let me put it in these terms asciilifeform : if you actually need the concept of random to have bitcoin, this reduces to a situationb of "whosoever has priviledged access to random owns bitcoin". << An Vexual has most priviledged access to most random
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how the fuck can one say 'it functions' if i can divine all of your keys
BingoBoingo: In other news http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/education/organization-withdraws-mu-s-library-science-program-accreditation/article_c7fd93a1-db92-5035-9f29-f31d3408db93.html << The reason was the program's abysmal job placement
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you can't nondeterministically create the addrs, OR the nonces, you're fucked
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: function ?!
asciilifeform: https://i2.wp.com/imgs.xkcd.com/comics/random_number.png << everybody knows it's 4!!!1111
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: without concept of randomness, it is impossible to explain why it is that what the idjits did was idjotic
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: or hard to explain the 'android incident' etc
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: eh sure you do
Adlai: mircea_popescu: well shit, now any shmuck that reads the logs can do so. sorry bout that...
Adlai: mircea_popescu: re #1, AG /= DAG
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is hands-down the part 'b' lecturer, aha
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: some suggested items, in no particular order, here goes,
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: spiffy quiz piece
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: but i have given up trying to fit some kind of earthling logic to mircea_popescu's moves
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0816/7387/products/RigaSpratsAdro160g_large.jpeg?v=1428892909 << them
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: rigs is a holy place to me, but only for so long as the golden little tins keep a'comin'
asciilifeform: pete_dushenski: i can't picture him choosing to walk usg earth again
assbot: Logged on 24-08-2015 17:27:24; mircea_popescu: it was originally interesting, "check it out, the kitsch version of us collapse, 20 years early" but eventually one has enough.
trinque: mircea_popescu | a which reminds me, trinque make sure pete_dushenski blog is only rss'd like randopmly one in 5 << lol, we'll see how it goes
asciilifeform: mod6, ben_vulpes, mircea_popescu, et al:
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu hm
thestringpuller: wassup pete_dushenski