asciilifeform: 'The elected Zionist leadership under David Ben-Gurion detested the two "dissident" groups. First, because they prevented it from conducting the policy it considered right. Every time a compromise with the British authorities was under discussion, they undertook some spectacular action against the British, such as the blowing up of the British headquarters in the King David hotel, the murder of Lord Moyne or the hanging of two Britis

asciilifeform: in other veryveryolds, https://archive.is/PQIyo << moar re the 'altalena affair' , for aficionados

asciilifeform: lolly

asciilifeform: re whitening, it might be interesting to apply 'dragonfly fpga' to 'distinguish sha'd bitstream from nonsha'd'

asciilifeform: 'i dun seem to get off the ground by flapping arms, thereby flight is impossible for man'

asciilifeform: of 'symmetric ciphers' also ('i cannot break, therefore strong!!')

asciilifeform: 'whitening' and all the other sins, flow from it

asciilifeform: phf: 'not exploring it enough in hopes that it somehow holds true' is in fact the essence of bad rngology

asciilifeform: ( think of adc sampling artifacts as similar to the pixel moire you see when old vhs camera filmed room with crt display.. )

asciilifeform: phf: and by dac i meant of cource adc, lol

asciilifeform: ( linux malignantly does The Wrong Thing here )

asciilifeform: danielpbarron: re /dev/random, see also http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-13#1669632 ☝︎

asciilifeform: danielpbarron: http://nosuchlabs.com updated with link to your piece.

asciilifeform: neato danielpbarron !

asciilifeform: oh hey

asciilifeform: well, 1 corpse, the trigger man

asciilifeform: "several" hit << notice, 0 corpses. psyop.

asciilifeform: the talkers -- will hear, see, read on front page of völkischer beobachter..

asciilifeform: the competent folx, you will generally never hear about, unless firsthand

asciilifeform: ( https://archive.is/RFrcx )

asciilifeform: s is that it's much more likely to be more talking." Bonderman, who is a founder of private equity firm TPG Capital, an Uber investor, shortly after wrote an email to Uber staff to apologize. In his resignation statement that followed on Tuesday evening, Bonderman reiterated his regret...'

asciilifeform: from same rag, 'Uber Technologies Inc director David Bonderman said on Tuesday that he has resigned from the company's board following a remark he made during an Uber staff meeting that was widely seen as offensive to women. "There's a lot of data that shows when there's one woman on the board, it's much more likely that there will be a second woman on the board," Huffington said. In response, Bonderman said: "Actually, what it show

asciilifeform: tru

asciilifeform: for mircea_popesculandia

asciilifeform: in the sense where it was the beginning of 50 yrs of su yoke

asciilifeform: than asciilifeform's

asciilifeform: well mircea_popescu's 1942 was a little different neh

asciilifeform: mega-unsurprise

asciilifeform: asciilifeform, like ~all of the other boys he knew, wanted nothing more than to be in red army, ideally circa 1942 or so

asciilifeform: ( see old thread )

asciilifeform: lol, could have been , at one point was starving and volunteered

asciilifeform: oh hm earlier meant to link to https://profilib.com/chtenie/24163/valeriy-grigorev-obrecheny-na-podvig-kniga-pervaya.php -- b00k re ~peacetime~ aviators, with almost same title (though the other is more well known, this was specific to thread)

asciilifeform: ( not famous )

asciilifeform: e.g. asciilifeform's grandfather

asciilifeform: http://militera.lib.ru/bio/reshetnikov_vv2/index.html << mega-b00k on subj.

asciilifeform: something like 70-80%

asciilifeform: they very often sacked cadets.

asciilifeform: prolly dun have to lose 10%, but with su iron -- is what they lost.

asciilifeform: xor.

asciilifeform: i suspect that you can choose b/w 'realistic training conditions' ( e.g. worst weather, iced runways, live fire, overrevving, overceilinging, spins ) and everybody-lives

asciilifeform: (because how)

asciilifeform: often not ordered quite in time.

asciilifeform: tradition was that a man ought not unless so ordered.

asciilifeform: part of what did it was the reluctance to catapult

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: no can do with su iron

asciilifeform: *chandeliers

asciilifeform: with frescoed chandelies.

asciilifeform: general idea : the 'packed sardine herders' want the old world -- forgotten. the one that built the flat asciilifeform grew up in -- built 1907, 4 metre ceilings

asciilifeform: the ones where ~anyone worth the mention has 'hired help', etc

asciilifeform: esp. the pre-1940s ones

asciilifeform: the old films.

asciilifeform: sorta why they quasi-banned them

asciilifeform: see also also, http://btcbase.org/log/2015-09-07#1265005 ☝︎

asciilifeform: but i did not go an' see, no

asciilifeform: i thought he bought an 'old money' 19th c thing

asciilifeform: the 1850s d00d probably would barf before even entering sorry hovel : 'where is the pasture ? whaddayamean quarter acre of shitmud ? '

asciilifeform occupies entire 'standard american' house and has it at this point mostly packed like nazi sub

asciilifeform: hey even asciilifeform barely fits

asciilifeform: ( the mega-originator of genre!! )

asciilifeform: lol why not also include anabasis.

asciilifeform: konsensoos!!!

asciilifeform: 'Thousands of dreamers and schemers and developers who populate the cutting edge of computer science, most of them young, had invested in the DAO. This was real money, a quarter of a billion dollars, their money, meant to build a better version of the world, and every cent was at risk.' << gold

asciilifeform: plug embrasure with yer arse, for clitler ? for soros ? srsly ?

asciilifeform: possibly is why asciilifeform is not in a nato army. ☟︎

asciilifeform: fwiw i can't picture serving in a nato army and NOT deserting and/or going to enemy at the first opportunity.

asciilifeform: ^ winged phrase, this one, mircea_popescu ☟︎

asciilifeform: !#s right to marry her dog

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-14#1670157 << see also >> http://btcbase.org/log/2015-08-19#1244654 ☝︎☝︎

asciilifeform: 'The sluggard believes | he shall live forever, If the fight he faces not; But age shall not grant him | the gift of peace, Though spears may spare his life.' ( havamal , bellows' translation )

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-14#1670156 << 'die not the straw death !' (tm)(r)(odin) ☝︎

asciilifeform: and the spring's running down.

asciilifeform: the inescapable picture is that ww2 was the last time euro civilization's clock was wound.

asciilifeform: aaaha, the ~last generation-of-people-worth-talking-to

asciilifeform: by the time i got to usa, most of the people worth talking to, were dead.

asciilifeform also

asciilifeform: though with emigres it was somewhat complicated, some of them were (how does one even say this in english?) 'serving out their pay'

asciilifeform: noshit.jpg

asciilifeform: it was serious problem because the ~hardware~ was costly and ever in shortage -- rather than new d00dz

asciilifeform: which, i suspect, is as it should be ☟︎

asciilifeform: as in, specifically splat -- not counting anybody who died of vodka, motorcycle, etc

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-14#1670195 << modern figure for su peacetime pilot attrition was, iirc, ~10% ☝︎

asciilifeform: whereas academics ( esp. -- unsuprisingly -- emigre academics ) invariably penned 'how much it sucked, how oppressed' etc

asciilifeform aficionado of genre

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-14#1670194 << i don't know of any su-world mil autobio that ~wasn't~ a 'what fun we had' ☝︎☟︎

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-14#1670140 << aaaaaand that is how we got merkel germany ☝︎

asciilifeform: https://archive.is/9AZcm << meanwhile, the forkwarz folx. '...the Bitcoin industry came to an agreement in New York...' didjaknow!! ☟︎

asciilifeform: a sound card rng is considerably better than... none at all. but this is all that can be said for it. ☟︎

asciilifeform: ( there is an old thread where mircea_popescu mentions it; asciilifeform at one time also used )

asciilifeform: incidentally at one time quite a few folx, incl. some of the people here, used sound card rng

asciilifeform: which puts him ahead of the entire 2005-present crop of derps

asciilifeform: at least in sect. 7 he admits that one oughta be able to switch it off prior to tests.

asciilifeform: phf: ... or where the author elaborately justifies 'whitening'

asciilifeform: phf: notice how the discussion of DAC artifacts omits... the clock

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-14#1670142 << this is pure gold, ty for posting, phf . it's rng-nonsense from back when folx were posting ~erudite~ nonsense, rather than the regular redditola snore ☝︎☟︎

asciilifeform: 'get married, grow taller'

asciilifeform: aaha but i was speaking of the very threadbare usian world asciilifeform actually lives in, vs porn plumber planet

asciilifeform: plenty to go from , from welding also -- a crane operator can support 2-3 fucktoys

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: noshit.jpg

asciilifeform: i might even have it filmed, collecting dust.

asciilifeform: i mean literally. as in , as erlehmann described.