mircea_popescu: also i find now that the webternet is retarded. investopedia definition for instance is pretty nonsensical. i guess pinoy everywhere.

mircea_popescu: i've yet to see a start-up engage actual labour, in the classical sense of this term.

mircea_popescu: i didn't mean it that way. i meant, all items must be reduced to TWO scalars.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'm more concenred about obviously-not-working in practice. same principle as phuctor, really.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no i'm not discussing here "a way to community consensus". the question is quite specific : given 12 passes, tell me how much strength i lose adding a 13th.

mircea_popescu: basic cryptoquestion i do not expect an answer to : is there a way to evaluate strength loss by hash pass in a scheme where otp is hashed and the hash used as next pass otp, for N passes of this ?

mircea_popescu: yeah when she pops in i'm sure.

mircea_popescu: i'm also not entirely certain a symmetric cypher or perhaps hash-and-rehash scheme won';t be better.

mircea_popescu: well... i guess specifics of this will be tied to specifics of that.

mircea_popescu: fucking spanish imperative i never get it right. escribe y toma, is it shinohai ?

mircea_popescu: totally, if it's by invitation only i'll feel sooo fucking special.

mircea_popescu: why don't they showcase that then i wonder.

mircea_popescu: now i wonder if he had to sit facing the wall.

mircea_popescu: nowadays a rather banal observation, but i guess not quite as crystallized in 2012.

mircea_popescu: i gotta stop drinking. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: fuck, i linked it again didn't i.

mircea_popescu: what the fuck am i re...

mircea_popescu: i guess it depends on machine to a more significant degree than i thought.

mircea_popescu: shinohai did i see you in game ?

mircea_popescu: "why am i reading this ?" "you linked it!" "oh..."

mircea_popescu: oh i fucking linked this didn't i

mircea_popescu: lol why am i reading this.

mircea_popescu: PeterL ironically, the reason i'm convinced it's genetics is that of the (~half dozen) girls i encountered with the problem, ALL hated nordic fish

mircea_popescu: yes but... i tried lactate. i tried glycosulphate. i mean... holy shit, what, does it come as part of a chunk of protein eight miles long, to count ?

mircea_popescu: i'm pretty sure it's the gut, myself, but then again wtf do we know.

mircea_popescu: i mean... ammonium citrate. useless. but just how complex does this coordination have to get ?

mircea_popescu: intuitively, you'd think "oh well, there's these many oxidative presentations of iron, i've tried them all, time for you to say goodbye to life". yet, chiken liver works. bloody steak somewhat but not as greatly (and only with proper red wine anyway, so clearly oxidative pathway)

mircea_popescu: i have nfi, but it's quite fascinating indeed.

mircea_popescu: the piddly coffee i drink, drowned in milk as it is, has ~0 effect i can discern.

mircea_popescu: what IS a very bad analogy however, that i let pass though i shouldn't have, is the fucking iron pill. you don't know this, because insufficient exposure ; but i run a farm of women my whole life and let me tell you that a) pernicious anemia is still a fucking thing. unlike syphilis that isn't since antibiotics, pa is, iron pill or no ; b) iron pill doesn't work worth a shit. every fucking time i'd try every glycosulcinate, f

mircea_popescu: o noes, "i increased my capacity". well... i can increase the "capacity" of my house circuitry right now, just short the fusebox.

mircea_popescu: it's like talking to bitcointalk i swear. "x works ; y doesn't" "no y is not the devil" "nobody said it is" "but it could work" "has it ?" "i dunno" "then wtf are you on about ?"

mircea_popescu: i can dose your daughter/sister/wife so she can party "like an animal" on the basis of seeing her naked and knowing how long the party lasts. that's what "speedballs work" means.

mircea_popescu: motherfucker. if the problem is "go ten miles" then the fucking combustion engine works in that i can tell you a fucking fuel qty value.

mircea_popescu: i can buy by the kg if need be, and i'd like to find a way to classify assym cyphers meaningfully. say a number.

mircea_popescu: so what problem will i be able to solve if i take how much dextroamphetamine ?

mircea_popescu: i dunno whence "the devil" comes from, but that aisde, the point was that speedballing does work, if with miserable side effects ; whereas smartrophine or w/e the shit is hoped to work, by a certain demographic.

mircea_popescu: i'm sure it's what made them.

mircea_popescu: we've moved from "i'll make this music better by increasing output volume" heavy metal fan approach to "i'll make this music better by speeding up the tape". welcome to the rap game yo!

mircea_popescu: you seriously imagine it's a matter of "if i just increased the voltage of the south bus, i'd have twice as much ram" ? what is this, 15yo-overclockers-anonymous ?

mircea_popescu: then i don't think much of your biological model of rationality, either.

mircea_popescu: "the performance of my inflamatory cascade has been enhanced. asa result i am not going to die from this beesting"

mircea_popescu: yes, but we were discussing it in the context of your "i wanna solve theorems"

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think you deeply misunderstand this technological item, the silicone tits.

mircea_popescu: i didn't realise that was the angle.

mircea_popescu: i have no idea what your symbols are typical shorthand for.

mircea_popescu: i dun think much of your historical model.

mircea_popescu: so then, both the safe and the ethically required position is "i guess i aren't, let me see the best i can do"

mircea_popescu: at least that's what i think, who even knows.

mircea_popescu: also, the same fucking thing with the "bright" young "finance" minds (which, btw asciilifeform , is the deep reason i dun think much of "performance enhancing" - these idiots, not those idiots) : yes the job is very... metaphysical, in the end. yes some accomplished metaphysicians use various "performance enhancers", ever since the day they were priests and shamans.

mircea_popescu: personally, i blame the english language, which is why all the various knocks it got.

mircea_popescu: if, quia absurdum, i were to take a 13 yo and call her a slave and a slut, and ordered everyone in the harem to be deferential to her majestic slavish sluttery, the girls would do it, but the 13 yo STILL wouldn't feel accomplished, or be happy, or anything. on the contrary, it'd poison her life.

mircea_popescu: the only thing i regret is that they're not pretending to be you know, boxers. drug lords.

mircea_popescu: i can't summon teh interest.

mircea_popescu: they had some interesting teamwork items that i intend to lift.