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mircea_popescu: if two numbers of lengths l1 and l2, with l1 and l2 < N are multiplied, and the result is less than l1+l2 bits long, then it has overflown.
mircea_popescu: to put it another way, two N-bit items muliplied so they yield a M bit result, where M < N, overflowed the buffer.
mircea_popescu: 1x * 1y will never result in a 0y no matter what happens!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform isn't it the case that if the result was 0-led you'd know the product had overflown ?
mircea_popescu: i thought this was the reason computers EVEN USE binary in the first place.
mircea_popescu: ahem ? if the product of the leading q bits isn't equal to the leading q bits of the result, you have overflow.
mircea_popescu: conceivably he might also explain how to make a gentoo that works, and in the process of trying find out a few things for himself.
mircea_popescu: graybeard, perhaps not entirely objectionable. ~the iota of value in the whole pile of idiotic kids trying to bypass mp's "talking about bitcoin doesn['t make you part of bitcoin" by hanging out in ##crypto and pretending like they know maffs.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i invited steve arnold aka sarnold over ; plox to voice / explain how to register his key if i'm not around.
mircea_popescu: it's not just passive stupid. it's organizedly and layeredly stupid
mircea_popescu: see, bukharin who idiotically will not go to china to hang out with a 30yo deng xiaoping also pays $9 a month "for his team" to github.
mircea_popescu: o check it out, github has a "pricing" tab i never noticed before. $9 per user per month ? really ?
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, le pen has a lengthy list of other-provinces-generals to name in various places once she wins. such roman empire.
mircea_popescu: not somebody is an imbecile, like adlai et al, to actually dose themselves.
mircea_popescu: which is a perverse sort of reminder : taking the usg seriously, IN ANY WAY, is what the usg lives off if.
mircea_popescu: at any rate -- it is worth pointing out that the original "charges" proferred by the sops terrorist organisation were dropped ; the current "sentence" stems from posturing around a youtube video the guy made discussing said "charges".
mircea_popescu: ”The U.S. government decided today that because I did such a good job investigating the cyber-industrial complex, they’re now going to send me to investigate the prison-industrial complex,” he said, thanking the government for providing “free food, clothes and housing as I seek to expose wrongdoing by the Bureau of Prisons officials and staff and otherwise report on news and culture in the world’s greatest prison sy
mircea_popescu: the pretense to be taken seriously is so fucking lulzy by now. i expect next is a shoe banging moment, yes ?
mircea_popescu: from the monkeystan link : "Ms. Luz Lujan, his BOP contact, refused to provide him with copies of program statement rules". but ofcoars. and "ms" luz lujan is going to do no time for this, because hey, good soviet.
mircea_popescu: ps things were always thus; but there is a particular danger when a party has had too much power for too long: its members cannot compete to attack the enemy so they attack each other instead. If future commentators identify a "missing generation" of politicians who were in their twenties during the Thatcher years, this will have been the cause."
mircea_popescu: to briefly revisit kochanski, "I was subsequently elected to the post of Research Secretary of the Bow Group, which meant that I was the general editor of its published papers from 1989 to 1990. My abiding impression of the foothills of the Conservative Party at the time is of a world where people eyed their friends suspiciously and if they saw signs of possible talent then they knifed them before they became a danger. Perha
mircea_popescu: no, no, bukharin got sent to buy the marx archives from the french socialists.
mircea_popescu: (incidentally, he was very popular with xiaoping, who was 30 at the time. why was he not in #china ?)
mircea_popescu: so this barrett brown, was he sent with... whatever, pick a 20yo slightly slack-jawed beauty to beijing, whence he returned to the us "because he can't live outside of the great satan" ?
mircea_popescu: eh, dude got shipped to paris young slut in tow. utterly asking for it.
mircea_popescu: i can't deem the instrument valid, no matter what the (known terrorists) say.
mircea_popescu: if i kidnap your sister and say she's signed marriage contract which is why you can't see her no more, your inference is what exactly ?
mircea_popescu: heh. according to whom, this ? he can't talk to "the media".
mircea_popescu: o, right, because the criminal gang will tell you what to say.
mircea_popescu: anyway, to get back to the history of the dodo bird : enoch did in the 1970 election about what trump did in the 2016 election. except enoch did not get the prime minister job (same dork hath got perpetuated, by the same exact swamp for the same exact sort of reasons).
mircea_popescu: it's an argument often found in the hands of the socialist / statist , that single men make mistakes which deliberating bodies might have avoided. this is a ridiculous argument : for every case of that there's ten thousand cases of mistakes them bodies make single men would have readily avoided.
mircea_popescu: a richard might have had, perhaps. he certainlt found the ~equivalent in the saxon-norman dispute. but no body of man ever can.
mircea_popescu: anyway, this is the fundamental limit of "democracy" in ~any sense~. no sort of consultative body, no matter what kind or type, would have ever fallen on the correct solution cca 1939, which was to say to hitler "hey, you seem like a strapping young chap, tell you what, each dog must have his day says our poet. would you like india ?"
mircea_popescu: but to quote napier, which is why i even linked him, "So perverse is mankind that every nationality prefers to be misgoverned by its own people than to be well ruled by another."
mircea_popescu: the overflow of all the "i'm too lazy to work, and i have twittering to do rather than thinking" is certainly in the way.
mircea_popescu: sadly the same process was stopped short in congo, and in india, and generally.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless : a whole population of redskins disappeared over a coupla centuries because, day after day and year after year, each individually made their choice : would i rather work and think, or would i rather die ? and they chose to die, and they died, AND THEY ARE NOT MISSED.
mircea_popescu: aha. but i was for the sake of argument going to the outer edges of the perhaps unlikely.
mircea_popescu: imagine a belgian congo the size of all india! virtually no indians left today, etc.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yep. and with germany acquiring india the whole lebensraum thing'd have been gone out of anyone's mind.
mircea_popescu: point being it'd have worked closer to a sort of nepal / taiwan / whatever than to a sort of north korea.
mircea_popescu: and besides, tiny island of shit, nobody wants and nobody cares.
mircea_popescu: but then again, zee prussians always had a higher view of englishmen than of russians.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, england would have fared a lot better if it made a humble peace with germany cca 1939, than as it did making a gaudy, and empty, alliance with the only true enemy of humanity, and human liberty.
mircea_popescu: that's the only practical point in all of this. yes england was a piece of shit slated for the garbage heap anyway, sure. but there can not be such a thing as an ally of the us.
mircea_popescu: basically, englidiots permitted their "allies" to airstrip one them.
mircea_popescu: "That tragic and intractable phenomenon which we watch with horror on the other side of the Atlantic but which there is interwoven with the history and existence of the States itself, is coming upon us here by our own volition and our own neglect. Indeed, it has all but come. In numerical terms, it will be of American proportions long before the end of the century."
mircea_popescu: in other words - it's not like there wasn't ample warning. there was. the fucktards of #england failed to act in the proper manner.
mircea_popescu: the right to shrug my shoulders and think about something else. What he is saying, thousands and hundreds of thousands are saying and thinking – not throughout Great Britain, perhaps, but in the areas that are already undergoing the total transformation to which there is no parallel in a thousand years of English history." et al.
mircea_popescu: "I can already hear the chorus of execration. How dare I say such a horrible thing? How dare I stir up trouble and inflame feelings by repeating such a conversation? The answer is that I do not have the right not to do so. Here is a decent, ordinary fellow-Englishman, who in broad daylight in my own town says to me, his Member of Parliament, that this country will not be worth living in for his children. I simply do not have
mircea_popescu: if you employ them you might have relations with them outside of facebook (which is assault!!!) and they may be grateful or in any way develop positive feelings for you (which is abuse!!11)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it is verboten, in today's reich, to employ anyone.
mircea_popescu: the woman he mentions (corinne camilleri-ferrante) died a few years back. the guardian has an empty, google spam page on her name.
mircea_popescu: there's a difference across the atlantic, conservative/republican aren't ~same, so on.
mircea_popescu: truth be told it's very common for large groups of people to do ~no thinking whatsoever.
mircea_popescu: "In its early years the Group produced a few carefully researched papers, which the Conservative Party really had to take notice of because no-one else in the Party gave the impression of doing any thinking at all." << he's talking of the republican party in the 80s, ie, that supposed golden age of reaganism. and he's not right, either.
mircea_popescu: but since we're doing etimologies or what was it, apparently uppity tortilla (who was living independently for incomprehensible reasons) set his apartment on fire, and other than being kicked out is being prosecuted by a bunch of people who claim he owes them money (again).
mircea_popescu: really, bitfinex has a nonzero volume ? truly, btcchina deals in bitcoin now ? will miracles never cease ?
mircea_popescu: reading those "volume" figures is such a lulz in and of itself.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger basically what you're saying is that you disapprove of fiat pseudolaw being applied, when obviously the republic is the only sovereign. which, yes, is not a controversial point.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo all in all the first hundred aren't as much of a lulz shower as the first dozen seemed to imply huh.