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mircea_popescu: b) i do not regard
a modulus with
a new comment pasted in as "same".
mircea_popescu:
a) it becomes no longer obvious for enemy whether key is or is not = key he wants to look for.
mircea_popescu: that's not really related is it ? all i'm discussing is
a) fingerprint and b) armorer format.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ideally tmsr rsa, such as for eulora etc, uses
a fp and armored base90 as above. so there!
mircea_popescu: problem is you want
a modulus-comment association no ?
mircea_popescu: yeah this entire "id of rsa key" thing needs
a fix. i imagine sha512 of tmsr standard is the only way to go.
phf: i suspect that phuctor work has increased attention to gpg both on wrecker and on attacker side. no way that short-id collision would've been
a thing without phuctor
mircea_popescu: in another life, /me got
a lot of mileage out of an old painter's table for this purpose, checking civil engineering designs.
phf: asciilifeform: proper ergonomics is
a novel thing for me, as documented in logs
mircea_popescu: he has
a point in that horiz scanning is better in humans than vertical. so if indeed he does something like
a stoick trader, 3x2 2x1 etc.
a111: Logged on 2013-12-22 16:56 asciilifeform: 'what people want is
a function of what they learn is available. e.g., do Americans want three-ring binders, and Europeans four-ring binders? or do they want binders and take whatever number of holes they come with? or do they want something that can help them organize their papers and take whatever is available? or do they really want
a less cluttered office and ease of storage and retrieval of the infor
mircea_popescu: there's nothing intrinsically unswappable in
a laptop. just, manufacturers elect to be idiots.
mircea_popescu: if someone came up with the sane idea of making
a 1m x 30cm laptop, whence the screen unfolds and turns 90 degrees, i'd probably consider that item au par with
a desktop.
PeterL: you can have
a computer without
a keyboard (gets instructions from network or other devices),
a keyboard without the computer connected does not do much thinking
mircea_popescu: what the computer does without
a keyboard is digestion, not thinking.
mircea_popescu: if detached from your head you'd also be
a lot more portable.
mircea_popescu pictures woman flying around with tip of boeing in her snatch, "YES! YES! HARDER!" for
a visual.
☟︎ PeterL: it is convienient to have phone/texting/camera/music streaming/log reading all on one device in
a pocket
mircea_popescu: mno. "cardildo is not
a thing. did you want
a car or
a dildo."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform wouldn't i make
a great soviet shop keeper ?
mircea_popescu: unless you were asking for
a desktop, in which case make your own.
PeterL: android sucks. is there
a better alternative?
mircea_popescu: they actually run
a java machine on an android-os phone ?
mircea_popescu: seems like
a parallel world, of middle eastern aziz's dwelling in immitation cubicals, running java machines on their "engineering" desktops...
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I'll wait
a couple hours and prolly give it the Roundup Xtend treatment. Lotta little lulz around this.
thestringpuller: like the episode were beavis runs head first as fast as possible into
a brick wall thinking he'll bust through
mircea_popescu: people generally like to think faust is
a story about someone else. just like they pretend italian cinema is about, you know, that place in europe, and they're ruled by hollywood nonsense. as if that's how things fucking work now.
danielpbarron: (forgetting for
a moment that pride in ~anything~ is already wicked)
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron this is your choice to make. but be aware that there's
a perfectly valid interpretation of that joke where the dying man is actually proud of the competent ho on his side.
danielpbarron: at least in the line i quoted, it ends with the husband getting killed. It's better for
a man to die than for him to live with his wife taken by another. (2 Samuel 11)
mircea_popescu: so he waves them out, to be with his wife of lo these many years, and, taken by
a stray thought, he asks her
mircea_popescu: and he has seven sons. six of which - big, strong, beautiful men. the seventh - well,
a repugnant hunchback, like that "marketing director" version of mircea popescu.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron yes. if she's not married, and wants to have kids, some sort of arrangement will have to be made. this has
a cost. if she is ALREADY made the fix is already in. this is
a value.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-16 16:12 mircea_popescu: the principal avenue for avoidable bodies is precisely this - guy scores chick above his station, she imagines it's obvious he'll share he imagines it's obvious he won't, then she scores guy above her station because being married to someone else is
a significant bonus to high level guys ; then the husband gets uppity, gets warned too late, slaps her arround and then next week gets killed.
mircea_popescu: hitler ? need i name hitler ? the fucking point of fuhrerprinzip was "every woman in germany is
a whore."
mircea_popescu: think about it for
a moment. you'll know
a few hundred people. if you're the emperor most of them will be whores for the simple reason that whores know more people than i dunno, soldiers.
mircea_popescu: the principal avenue for avoidable bodies is precisely this - guy scores chick above his station, she imagines it's obvious he'll share he imagines it's obvious he won't, then she scores guy above her station because being married to someone else is
a significant bonus to high level guys ; then the husband gets uppity, gets warned too late, slaps her arround and then next week gets killed.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it's
a natural trap that ; men don't take what women blather five minutes before being smacked too seriously ; women don't tend to land the bomb earlier than it's obvious they're getting smacked.
a111: Logged on 2013-07-27 16:08 ThickAsThieves: "Jack had been due to speak at the 2013 Black Hat cyber security conference in Las Vegas next Thursday, August 1st. He was allegedly going to present
a method of wirelessly hacking
a pacemaker"
mircea_popescu: oh since i'm thinking about it : there's two specific items tmsr wants to bring to the field of probate reform :
a) no juridical person beneficiary. no government, ngo, corporation, trust etc may obtain as much as
a farthing from any succession. physical persons only. b) no tax or fee of any kind may be levied against succession.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: heh. aaand
a trb node is at height 419220 for absolutely no reason ; 50+ connections, stable etc.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-14 19:41 asciilifeform: mats: mircea_popescu will drill you
a new arse for this contention (though i still do not grasp why)
phf: holy mother of logs is the only holy thing for
a citizen of tmsr (unless they are, of course, danielpbarron)
phf: i feel like tmsr needs
a bard, whatever happened to vexual
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i guess. ironically - the govt really should luv
a "riot" in this sense. those are its people, should just go with them.
phf puts on
a yarmulka and starts dancing
mircea_popescu: (likbez : ant worker is not genetically distinct from ant queen. epigenetics (mostly, env factors - as in feed) make the fenotypical distinction. consequently yes, whole anthill, as far as its underlying mechanics go, is found in each worker ant, all you have to do is sequence the dna and explore the possibilities. that such is currently
a computationally prohibitive task is not relevant to the discussion.)
mircea_popescu: "Studying individual ants will never (one can safely say never for most such situations), never give us an idea on how the ant colony operates. For that, one needs to understand an ant colony as an ant colony, no less, no more, not
a collection of ants." aaaand we lose interest.
mircea_popescu: much easier to pull off in places that had historically insane restraints on land development which just went away.
a lot harder to do in places which are increasingly insane.
mircea_popescu: but the idea is that you want to be 10-20 years early to the party. much like you know, if you're gonna rent out fuckspace at burning man, best go there
a day early park the van right.
mircea_popescu: it's complicated, esp in the states. in romania much more trivial
a point, growth pattern of cities quite obvious.
phf: for
a person who dreams of sleep ad libitum you sure snore
a lot
trinque: someone sacrifice
a virgin to the chaos god
gribble: Error: "tlsb" is not
a valid command.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i don't dispute that with care, and expert handling, even
a stock trabant might, on perfect roads, safely drive 100km/h briefly.
pete_dushenski: bicycle doesn't need spoilers at that speed but trabant does ? this is
a problem.
pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: except if you had spoilers on
a trabant, you'd be forced to ask 'why do those need to be there' to which the answer is 'oh because the car is dreadfully engineered and will lose stability and traction above 50mph'