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cads: Truth: "A man kicks a topless Femen activist, as she raises her fist to protest against Islamists in front of the Great Mosque of Paris"
cads: femen is a feminist group waging things such as a "topless jihad"
cads: ThickAsThieves: I love how us bitcoin analysts use such powerful technical indicators as... rocket ships :)
BingoBoingo: They even use guinea as a slur in The Godfather.
BingoBoingo: ThickAsThieves: In these parts I actually hear Jew'd about as often as Gyp'd
BingoBoingo: Some are more and less offensive on different sides of the atlantic. Spaz is fine in 'Murica and a Offensive in Britain. Cunt is the reverse (except when dealing with slants as a full rotation is out of the picture)
benkay: i use commie as an insult. it confuses people.
dub: as a nigger I don't find it offensive, not a faggot so hard to judge
mircea_popescu: if i were surounded by douchy us twennysomething as a woman young enough to wish to get laid... frankly i dunno i'd find the time to write
mircea_popescu: such as get drunk at party, fuck, don't remember much in the morning ?
mircea_popescu: would this be one of those ambiguous episode kids get involved in that are currently mislabeled as "rape" in the us ?
Namworld: What's the issue with someone making a living as an artist?
mircea_popescu: do you think it's wrong or weak for someone to make a living as an electric engineer specialised in pottery ?
cads: I think that's very cynical, and more of a moral issue.. do you think it's wrong or weak for someone to try to make a living as an artist?
mircea_popescu: there is no such thing as an attention econonmy.
mircea_popescu: there's no such thing as a "view" and consequently nohing there to count.
asciilifeform: at least, as i recall.
cads: mixed reviews from the critics alternately called it an awesome work of feminism and art, or skeptically denounced it as 'porn, not art'.
cads: despite being arguably non-pornographic (hosted, as it was, on youtube), the 9 videos in the series got 20 million views
cads: asciilifeform: you say that we want the 'opposite' of rsa (public decrypt, private encrypt), but... this is just the same as giving the public the private key and keeping the public one secret.
cads: asciilifeform: I'm confused as to the sense in which the encryption algorithm cannot be derived from the encryption algorithm
mircea_popescu: there's no such thing as "interwoven"
mircea_popescu: stop losses are usually offered as a best-effort thing, not as a guarantee
asciilifeform: even predominated. Actually, so far as he could judge, the majority of people in Airstrip One were small, dark, and ill-favoured. It was curious how that beetle-like type proliferated in the Ministries: little dumpy men, growing stout very early in life, with short legs, swift scuttling movements, and fat inscrutable faces with very small eyes. It was the type that seemed to flourish best under the dominion of
asciilifeform: "On the far side of the room, sitting at a table alone, a small, curiously beetle-like man was drinking a cup of coffee, his little eyes darting suspicious glances from side to side. How easy it was, thought Winston, if you did not look about you, to believe that the physical type set up by the Party as an ideal-tall muscular youths and deep-bosomed maidens, blond-haired, vital, sunburnt, carefree - existed and ☟︎
cads: so joseki is a two part encryption decryption function E, D such that in some sense "the encryption algorithm is not the same as, and cannot be deduced from, the decryption algorithm."
asciilifeform: cads: i reinvented the concept, as probably just about every maths student has, when first reading about Paillier's Addition and thinking 'what if you glue this to OISC - 'jump if zero' - machine.
asciilifeform: eh, it might as well be already
asciilifeform: (if cosmic rays are insufficient, someone might be so kind as to pump some ionizing strange through your server. or merely turn up the thermostat in the cage. etc.)
asciilifeform: or something as mundane as the hardware.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you mean as a hesse reference ?
asciilifeform: (as discussed in a turd of mine, http://www.loper-os.org/?p=1390 and elsewhere)
asciilifeform: that is its primary function, with the students as an afterthought (read: source of cheap labour)
mircea_popescu: "what, you have not implemented bitcoin as a term project ? you're defunded. 100%"
mircea_popescu: as in a sane world no uni with a cs department could have done anything else in 2013 as a term paper
asciilifeform: as described by herr mold.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Well so far it is at least two mistakes on Gox's part leading zeros and txid as database primary key.
benkay: the flaw is in people using the txid as a bookkeeping device which satoshi explicitly warned against iirc
benkay: anyways, this malleability thing as mentioned above is not really a flaw, cads.
benkay: this is true of π as well.
mircea_popescu: (because you see, everything is in the torah, including the birthdate of your future wife you;ve not yet met, as well as the name of her secret lover)
mircea_popescu: (ie, as to the message processed)
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla because then somehow (?!) the bitcoincharts avg came out as 537
ThickAsThieves: ^ decent argument as well
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves no particular requirement one can't just trade as is you know ?
Bugpowder: as do i
mircea_popescu: novel as in "never made before" or novel as in "never spoken of before" ?
asciilifeform: as far as i could tell, the last fellow who pondered a related question was mr. t, when he coughed up the ac motor.
mircea_popescu: like you know, trade as a happening.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Of course. Who really wants to use their acquaintance Brian in that way at all. Everyone knows their Brian will just flag everything as a scam and tell them to STFU n00b.
mircea_popescu: and deposits just as soon as lemme see
mircea_popescu: Bugpowder the bot just as soon as it manages to talk to bitcoincharts
benkay: and maybe in retrospect it's not so much a shorting as entering into an option to spend some time if the guy leaves us alone, delivery of which he'll take when/if he delivers
ThickAsThieves: good as mixer or a zippy refresher
mircea_popescu: (or, as a progre would put it, "self-respect")
deadweasel: 'ycombinated minds' as mircea_popescu aptly put it
Namworld: There's already BTC-e to not be tracked. They don't require any verification as far as I know.
Namworld: You CAN select to buy 100 dollar of BTC. The exchange already finds the lowest asks and gets as much BTC as possible.
pankkake: as far as I know btc-e does things properly
deanclkclk: as oppose just stating random things..state in what instance I'm a "too fucking stupid"
deanclkclk: and in some cases..they can get more dollars ..as in the case of the trader and more btc in the case of the buyer
mircea_popescu: deanclkclk i guess as mpoe-pr would say, see here : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=124441.0
mircea_popescu: sure. and i see no problem with that, as you know, conversation.
mircea_popescu: Dolchstoßlegende is the notion, widely believed in right-wing circles in Germany after 1918, that the German Army did not lose World War I but was instead betrayed by the civilians on the home front, especially the republicans who overthrew the monarchy. Advocates denounced the German government leaders who signed the Armistice on November 11, 1918, as the "November Criminals" (German: Novemberverbrecher).
mjr_: went public on the pink sheets...as i was recommending bitcoin companies do a year ago
mjr_: but i plan on using it as a private consulting company for btcshares.com
asciilifeform: could just as well calculate the life of a somali pirate, or oil driller.
asciilifeform: accident stats. a debatable figure, could be off by as much as 10x.
francis_wolke: asciilifeform: To clarify, I'd imagine that anyone with enough money / power would be interested in the possiblity of radical life extension (Peter Theil, MP, Satoshi) if / when the tech is there. As such, if I were smart enough to create btc, I'd certainly team up with the most powerful country, so that if the tech does get 'there', I'll be ready.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i thought we were strictly discussing secrets as "man in the street" affairs.
asciilifeform: francis_wolke: as for the absence of 'modern manhattan project', let's attack that one head-on
mircea_popescu: as things progress the complexity of ideology grows and so grows the number of boxes in which we put balls. soon enough you have no box with over X balls.
asciilifeform: the necessary human material is no longer readily available. just as the metals with which the SR-71 was built no longer are.
asciilifeform: and depends as much on herd psychology as anything else.
asciilifeform: there is a 'fuck things up quite a bit' switch, possibly. (as described in my old piece)
asciilifeform: this goes back to the 'what is control' question from earlier, as well as MP's recent discussion of 'owning a cow'
Duffer1: my experience is obviously subject (as was my initial statement) but i don't see anyone trying to reverse these trends
asciilifeform: and there is never any question of turning them loose (that'd be the end of organized civilization as a concept) but change of masters.
mircea_popescu: this happens all the time. there are 1000s of bankruptcy courts all over the world hearing millions of cases as we speak.
mircea_popescu: the fact that the bulk of the live humans are about as stupid today as in 3000 bc has little bearing
asciilifeform: describing 'power' as a scalar is naive. there is power to destroy, for example, which is arguably held by whoever controls the satoshi mega-hoard
francis_wolke: benkay: As for why RLE requires state support, if anyone gets *anywhere* with RLE, spooks are going to show up on their doorstep. They may not be required for the actual innovation. The only question is - where do you want them to hail from?
francis_wolke: benkay: As for why RLE requires state support, if anyone gets *anywhere* with RLE, spooks are going to show up on their doorstep. The only question is - where do you want them to hail from?
pankkake: "too fragmented to act as a cohesive whole" it doesn't have to
francis_wolke: Apocalyptic: Personally, I'm digging life, and would like to continue it for as long as possible.
francis_wolke: c renewal, a recreation of the social universe -- in Babylonia, during the same ceremony in which the king reenacts his godMurduk's creation of the physical universe. The history of debt and sin was wiped out, and it was time to begin again. But it's also clear what they saw as the alternative: the world plunged into chaos, with farmers defecting t
francis_wolke: Over the next several thousand years, this same list -- canceling the debts, destroying the records, reallocating the land -- was to become the standard list of demands of peasant revolutionaries everywhere. In Mesopotamia, rulers appear to have headed off the possibility of unrest by instituting such reforms themselves, as a grand gesture of cosmi
francis_wolke: these proclamations by raising a torch, probably symbolizing the sun-god of justice Shamash, whose principles where supposed to guide wise and fair rulers. Persons held as debt pledges were released to rejoin their families. Other debtors were restored cultivation rights to their customary lands, free of whatever mortgage liens had accumulated.
francis_wolke: The designated occasion for clearing Babylonia's financial slate was the New Year festival, celebrated in the spring. Babylonian rulers oversaw the ritual "breaking of the tablets," that is, the debt records, restoring economic balance as part of the cyclical renewal of society along with the rest of nature. Hammurabi and his fellow rulers signaled
mircea_popescu: sooo... anyone want to guess as to the guy's bitcointalk name ?
BingoBoingo: Vexual: Yeah. But he is good at deception. That is how he uses all of these high tech weapons while hiding he is almost as rich as Mircea.
Vexual: zef as
ozbot: Ellen Page Comes Out As Gay: 'I Am Tired of Lying by Omission' (Exclusive) - The Hollywood Reporter
mircea_popescu: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ellen-page-comes-as-gay-680563
asciilifeform: moiety: probably a counterfeiter's shop, as well as whatever else they did.
ThickAsThieves: as in cant access the bitcoincharts data that is accessible?
Willdude123: The lmgtfy thing didn't really work as one was not expecting to google that
mod6: 2FA key was written down on paper as "backup". << 2FA ftw lawl
mircea_popescu: wikipedia deletes page because people who didn't like obama used it as an example.
pankkake: the best trackers - as in best content and spee- usually don't do that