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mircea_popescu: adlai for the record it's not exactly "security theatre".
a large list of ingredients goes into what exactly makes me disdain X item ; that's definitely one of them.
adlai: it should be ~unique each time you run the rng, but if your 'entropy' source is
a piece of data (public key), doesn't your rng turn into
a p-rng?
mircea_popescu: well... truman vs roosevelt does fit
a weevil vs cockroach sort of profile, to my eye
mircea_popescu: this is like saying that the replacement cockroach was also
a cockroach.
mircea_popescu: well, not
a great fan of roosevelt, at any rate. nor muchly loved by the "comedians" of his era.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> just horizontal . << The decadent life of
a Saint!
mircea_popescu: anyway, wouldn't it be nice if /patches/ includes
a list of all heads ?
mircea_popescu: ah. it is
a public disservice though, people reading through eg, one of the trilema pieces you linked, might wish to know that there's something on loper related to the discussion.
mircea_popescu: do you have
a check that
A and B count is at least payload bytes ?
mircea_popescu: "To make use of such
a key, the owner hashes the payload being signed, and for each bit that is equal to 0 in the resulting hash, reveals the original pre-hash string from column
A, whereas if it is equal to 1 he reveals
a pre-hash string from column B." << this is the RIGHT THING.
shinohai: With
a V-genesis and all asciilifeform ... impressive stuff
mircea_popescu: i generally park the girls on
a circle
a few miles around the local university campus.
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: i know i'm using heathen-wp but is there not
a checkbox in the settings in wp-mp for emoticon switch-off (if that's the smileys you mean) and comment indentation ?
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: also, i'd humbly suggest ch add at least one layer of embedded replies. also, one excellent habit that i picked up from mp was to answer any and all comments on the blog. it's
a two-way street this internet thing and responding with something as simple as
a "cheers" is encouraging for readers.
pete_dushenski: "According to
a news release from the public safety office, freshman Tristan Rettke was charged with civil rights intimidation." << not charged with mocking the gorilla-gendered students ? weird. i guess there's
a lot of ways to cut the phony pie.
pete_dushenski: eu-expansion capital. it's all to evident that, like the romans in palestine or usd as world reserve or facebook as #1sm, it's
a temporary occupation.
pete_dushenski: diana_coman: my take on the eu-ification and commie blockiness is the same and quite disjunct from the catholic era : it's that the latter day ("tomorrow is
a latter day", anyone?) implementations are superficial and have no particular bearing in the locality. in the same way that having modern art and architecture looks identical worldwide is nauseating, so too is the token clean street in whatever
diana_coman: well, at the end of the day that IS the local character; previously it was the all-the-same blocky/stocky/commie townhalls, what; previous to that it was the catholic cathedrals etc; really what you deem "local character" vs "uberglitz, eu-ification" is just
a matter of personal preference I'd say; I was suggesting you visit Panevezys precisely because that IS more of the "local" character than the well-groomed Kaunas at the en
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: aha. glanced at it. some people know how to hold
a grudge, what can i say.
diana_coman: but you know, they are in the end in quite
a pickle because "lithuanian" would be what, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, right?
diana_coman: hmmm, I think you are reading into it from
a predefined perspective really
pete_dushenski: diana_coman: it's true that the over-polished vilnius area is scarcely larger than
a football pitch, but it's still
a chunk of real estate devoid of the character of the rest of the country. eu-ification for all! rationalism uber alles! it's
a shame, yes, but mostly for the inconsistently - the partial transplant - like the handsome black man with
a single emaciated white arm surgically attached where his
diana_coman: vilnius got
a total makeup when it was eu cultural capital thing (and yes, several locals complained to me that it's worse for all that polish) but the uberglitzed area to my mind is just the very-very small bang-centre: cathedral and that molehill they call the castle
pete_dushenski: iirc i drove through pranvezys on the road back from vilnius to riga but didn't really stop. spent
a bit more time in klaipeda and area
a111: Logged on 2016-09-28 15:08 mircea_popescu: dubious, because the "basic necessities"
a la mchappy meal never needs to cost anything, which is why it's two dollars ; and actual food is already going into
a spiral.
pete_dushenski: diana_coman: aha. i've heard similar horror stories and given that it'll be
a family trip and that i'm NOTPOOR(tm)(r), i'll probably be looking at deals to the mainland and ~cost-effective~ proposals to the isles. the customer "service" and baggage issues that have been relayed to me previously were similarly cautionary.
diana_coman: fwiw pete_dushenski I flew with Ryanair and I would advise against them unless you are either
a. desperate b. really curious of how
a plane can feel like the old-times local bus for local peasants, chicken and other animals combined; they have the most obnoxious "service" I ever saw filled with loud and frequent "offers" to buy all sorts and *advertisement* in the cabin; not to mention interesting fees such as "fuel fee" (I wou
shinohai: In U.S. and
A. they treat horses like we in Kazakhstan treat our women. They feed them two times
a day. They have them sleep on straw in
a small box. And for entertainment, they make them jump over fences while being whipped.
mircea_popescu: the notion that females under 30 would be allowed to NOT be vaginally inspected once
a month is scandalous.
mircea_popescu: and doctor visit is
a fine idea.
a) gets her used to stranger hands up her snatch ; b) pills do have side effects.
ben_vulpes: 50+ different institutions would be nigh-impossible for the right to organize
a defunding of
ben_vulpes: one of the wotpaste header stars is now
a link
ben_vulpes: like fuck i'm going to give
a shit about mis-encodings somewhere between os x, tmux, this retarded terminnal application, and linux locales
mircea_popescu: the problem with the political notion of "primitive" is that well, it's the "global warming" from before global warming. there ~is~
a scientific notion of primitive, but it's deeply political inconvenient (such as, primitive society uses hieroglyphics rather than alphabet. making the chinese primitive.) wheres the politically convenient version ("guys in next town over are primitive, because our footbal mascot is
a beaver and
mircea_popescu: but in principle you must have
a gfx card, and 256mb of ram.
mircea_popescu: these are very deeply disjunct modes. i'm sure [they like to think] telling us teenager that "honey, never mind what the other girls say, you should have self esteem" works for her. from experience it ~works, for
a little anywya. but doth not work for subsaharan chick. at all.
mircea_popescu: you can see this in
a million places. normal human being eschews reading an announcement, in favour of asking person at the desk personally ; usian "pleasure of white" zealot eschews interacting with this "because there's nowhere to read what to do and have to talk to people"
Framedragger: but this reminded me of clastres' "society against the state",
a set of essays on "primitiv kultures". the latter use all kinds of mutilation'y things to do interesting stuff, e.g. if one breaks
a law, that law is inscribed on the flesh of the person having broken it; etc.
Framedragger: i guess that twitter acct thought it was funny that FGM could be anything other than bullshit. at the point of lol'ing at those tweets i took this as
a given
mircea_popescu: note also that what "things are used to represent" is very rarely
a valid concern.
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: hm. on actually closer inspection, that thing's easier to parse if one reads till end of extract. one of the points is that the notion of female genital mutilation is used to represent african tribes etc. as inferior culturally, sexually, etc.; thesis seems to disagree with this portrayal of that tribal culture. this does indeed not sound original. but, i guess you're right, it's more like meh, and not
a lol-worthy outrag
mircea_popescu: and we get to
a) cut one enemy out of process ; b) build one friend into process.
mircea_popescu: arguably about as tenuous
a basis in reality (what is "
a processor" ? really ?)
Mariono: i saw
a thread on bitcointalk
trinque: the cop was in
a nervous sweat when he came to my door asking if I knew anything
trinque: it's like living on
a cheap TV set. my neighbor's door - when kicked in two weeks ago - broke like balsa wood right along the only (soft) metal in the door, at the "lock"/"latch"
mircea_popescu: whereas the us is
a french colony through and through.
mircea_popescu: back in 2005 i ate on the boston wharf ; bill came in
a hundreds. today they come in the thousands.
mircea_popescu: dubious, because the "basic necessities"
a la mchappy meal never needs to cost anything, which is why it's two dollars ; and actual food is already going into
a spiral.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: back before bitcoin fucking banks were like,
a major core ; these days, they barely count on the level of gardening.
mircea_popescu: yes it's
a calender, ie keeps the pasta in. but if you dump it in the sewer, don't expect you'll fish it out later and contents edible.
mircea_popescu: i know for
a fact i registered corp/bank acct/paypal etc while in costa rica.
mircea_popescu: it's like boys in clubs, all they really wanna do is rub on you
a little. if that.
mircea_popescu: one obvious explanation would be that the accts in question belong to
a derp who has agreed to "handle comissions for international firm"
Framedragger: this relates to the "not
a bank if no rsa in relevant wot" point.
Framedragger: next time i'm desperate for cash i'll make
a markov bot which will include those keywords, and will spam research funding agencies.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-27 22:32 pete_dushenski: man alive flights to ireland are priiiicey. more than oz even. /me will be waiting for
a deal like
a good jew.
scriba: slugs, shaped like various animals, e.g., pig, out of
a tank, and by the choice mircea_p
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-27: [13:14:42] <asciilifeform> ACTION woke up from dream where we had 4th conf. this time, at mircea_popescu's house, which turned out to be
a gigantic repurposed office park, wunderwaffen in every room, even the nazi 'Glocke' neutron generator; we sat in
a great hall and drank mead and thanked odin for the gift of valour; then went to the tank room and each pulled gigantic sea
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-27: [20:57:23] <asciilifeform> it missed
a line from me.
trinque: ben_vulpes: man, last job I had to interact with some guy who was doing
a dissertation on... some python/postgresql CMS
ben_vulpes: > some of us even teach web dev in
a graduate cs program
BingoBoingo: Anyways, pregnancy is just
a particular kind of cancer.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Not just theoretically. Just
a challenge to get baby out.