mircea_popescu: ie, there's an allowance the olympic lizzards make for each country to participate. many of them spend many times more on their teams ; but for shitholes from the country of africa it's actually lucrative in the sense of, pay fiddy bux to local derp to spend a week in a hotel for the first time in his life ; cash in on the olympic committee millionz.

mircea_popescu: shows what a vibrant space one'd have without the usg.mpaa idjits

mircea_popescu: as you might've noticed, i'm the opposite of a micromanager.

mircea_popescu: i so deeply don't give a shit WHY some failure failed.

mircea_popescu: god it was a riot.

mircea_popescu: tho to be honest mercedessen seems a better plural

mircea_popescu: "peter john I am giving a testimony of how i become rich and famous today... i was deeply strangled up by poverty and i had no body to help me, and also i search for help from different corners but to no avail. i see people around me getting rich but to me i was so ashamed of my self so i met a man on my way he was very rich and he was a doctor so he told me something and i think over"

mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> "a drop" is pipette-able though.

mircea_popescu: "a drop" is pipette-able though.

mircea_popescu: alternatively, a man may be whipped for one item he produced not meeting what his master told him to produce. this means the item was specified.

mircea_popescu: anyway, to put it in the harshest term : a man may be shot for one item he produced not being identical to another item someone else produced. this means the item was standardized.

mircea_popescu: mno. EITHER "the standard library" is not the standard library ; or ELSE your mips is a chunk of charcoal and you've got down syndrome to be trying to program on it.

mircea_popescu: when standard lib (which dun belong on a microcontroller)

mircea_popescu: yeawell. not much of a meaning.

mircea_popescu: the latter makes some specific comments as to some points of interest - "the meat should be between some sort of bread". the former specifies every single aspect of the item, including a complete chemical composition etc.

mircea_popescu: if you say "bring me a mcburger" you are asking for a standard item. if you say "bring me a burger" you are asking for a specified item.

mircea_popescu: specification and standard are also different processes. a specified item is evidently different from a standardized item.

mircea_popescu: does not. french is specifically the one culture language which does not have a normative, academy-produced dictionary.,

mircea_popescu: still. when we discuss language - the alphabet is the only standard. the dictionary is not a standard ; nor aspires to be a standard.

mircea_popescu: seems your notion of a standard unduly includes both a and b

mircea_popescu: a standard for 1 inch nut does not a) specify material b) enter into considerations of what levers to push on what type of cnc mill

mircea_popescu: not what a standard is.

mircea_popescu: thinking the dictionary "a standard" is exactly the level of ignorance one displays thinking "the blue earth internet icon"

mircea_popescu: "this text is non-compliant, replace letter ? with a proper letter and resubmit" - right

mircea_popescu: it's a guideline.

mircea_popescu: dictionary is eminently NOT a standard.

mircea_popescu: the #1 rule a standard must pass is BEING SMALL.

mircea_popescu: the EXACT opposite of a fucking standard.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and the much worse point of this is - WHAT THE FUCK is a "standard lib" supposed to be thaT DOESN'T fit on microcontroller. what the fuck standard is this standard, utf-standard, the antistandard.

mircea_popescu: or for that matter, that old "fuck you and netbase" http://trilema.com/2014/ubuntu-is-a-worse-piece-of-shit-than-ms-dos-ever-was/#selection-145.0-145.98

mircea_popescu: points a through i === foss.

mircea_popescu: answer h) yet there's a new team maintaining the item i) except it's unclear exactly who exactly how and to what exact purpose or standard"

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform point being : "a) here is a package of open source software that b) worked great c) for a lengthy, unclear and unverifyable past interval d) maintained by an intelligent but dour and otherwise busy party that e) is well respected but no longer much involved f) yet you could ask q of them if only you could find out how to ask an intelligent one g) which is pointless anyway because you can't make much sense of the

mircea_popescu: yeah well. they were a major yahoo sorta thing, years ago. aol-owned outfit.

mircea_popescu: in other lulz, "Detroitiscrap.com finally shut down. - Niggermania.NET" << apparently there was a detroit lafond.

mircea_popescu: (and for the governance-minded log reader : yeah, the above is literally me in my capacity as ceo making a strategic choice that puts the best interest of shareholders second, after the interest of the republic. it literally subsidizes republican research at the expense of s.mg's bottom line. not only is this common in my practice - i hold it to be both required and unavoidable, and if "that's not how you'd run a corp" you're

mircea_popescu: there's also a subtle point here, which is : that if we indeed use a otp-and-hash scheme, this in fact puts whatever hash scheme we use to work.

mircea_popescu: anyway : the rsa/otp scheme is also bw-wasting, up to a factor of 2 if no hashing, or otherwise depending on how many hash passes, with 20 it's just 1.05 ie 5% more bw etc.

mircea_popescu: yeah there are some advantages. but half second is too much to delay a game message for encryption, and you won't be able to fit two passes in .5 s

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you understand that if you never hash them, you might as well not use them at all and simply rsa the actual message back and forth. as appealing as the idea is in theory, it's not workable in practice because even with a game as relaxed as eulora, it'll still be too laggy.

mircea_popescu: PeterL reusing an otp straight makes bothering with the whole scheme kinda pointless ; hashing an old otp to generate a new otp is perhaps dubious, but in widespread use. (it's more or less what a "deterministic" wallet is, for instance)