asciilifeform: proof was not generally understood and he "had a duty to dig out the truth of the proof". ' -- pediw.
asciilifeform: 'In September 2006, Yau established a public relations website, which disputed points in it. Seventeen mathematicians, including two quoted in the New Yorker article, posted letters of strong support. On October 17, 2006, a more sympathetic profile of Yau appeared in The New York Times. ... The article stated that Yau had alienated some colleagues, but represented Yau's position as that Perelman's
asciilifeform: how many, incidentally, 'coke machine' prisoners in ye olde britain? anybody ever even counted?
asciilifeform: pretense of non-snooping is ~expensive~ -- good parallel-constructors don't work for minimal wage.
asciilifeform: 'you have entered the rape pit, 5 cents / hour' vs 'this is a sanatorium, no rapes in past 150 yrs, honest!1!!!'
asciilifeform: shinohai: in fact d00d is more of an 'honest crook' than, e.g., crapple, goes straight to 'my crock of shit is porous and censored', rather than pretenses of 'resistance'
asciilifeform: ' I'VE NEVER sailed the Amazon, I've never reached Brazil; But the Don and Magdalena, They can go there when they will! ... Oh, I'd love to roll to Rio Some day before I'm old!' (tm)(r)kipling
asciilifeform: SCHOOL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES Birkbeck, University of London << lel
asciilifeform: incidentally jurov mit released, back in '90s, its lispm sources (the ones licensed by symbolics, ti, and lmi for megabux) under similar license.
asciilifeform: good Bitcoin then sucks for current Bitcoin, it is no different from Novacoin or whatever flavor of the week failed altchain.' (mpoepr)
asciilifeform: 'It's ok Jeff, if this new thing will have to be the Real Bitcoin then this new thing WILL be the Real Bitcoin. Point blank: money will never tolerate the sort of crap that has been pouring out of devtroop for the past while. I don't care you(*)'ve been dorking around with it for years and nobody told you it's wrong, that doesn't make it right, that just makes the little coven irrelevant enough. If current Bitcoin can't be made into
asciilifeform: (optional fine-vernier -- if enemy has turned off his cities, and no radio -- reverts to classical inertially guided notion of where it is)
asciilifeform: long before 'hotspots' etc , in '80s su, there was a prototype warhead that pinpointed final leg (descent) by map of radio spectrum
asciilifeform: the radio is esp. interesting -- if you are anywhere near civilization, you can get a fairly accurate idea of exactly where, with a directional antenna and one of those pc radio dongles.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the truly mega-seekrit maps today are magnetometric, gravimetric, radio background, etc
asciilifeform: (at that point, decades-old gear, even)
asciilifeform: and so asciilifeform played with various fragments of some of the gear, as a boy.
asciilifeform: asciilifeform's father, in ye olde su army, had a job in map-makin'
