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asciilifeform: as an a,b,c triplet of integers ?
mircea_popescu: as a f(a,b,c) ?
mircea_popescu: N is a small irrational.
mircea_popescu: the idea being that in principle there should exist a set a b c so as to turn any encrypted text into ~any text you wish it to be
mircea_popescu: a b and c integers. N no way.
asciilifeform: a,b,c,N integers?
mircea_popescu: select a, b and c and take N=(a + sqrt(b)) / c so that N > 1 ; N < 2. for any message M, deflate, crc and split it up in two fragments a b so that neither is larger than 2/3 of M ; to encrypt calculate a^N*b ; b^N*a and pass those.
mircea_popescu: and the genie's all "of all the dumb fucks wandering in here ever since the injuns figured out how to half'n'half a buffalo, you're easiest the dumbest fucks"
mircea_popescu: so a coupla hours later they're fucking stranded, and about to die, when this genie shows up
mircea_popescu: except they're all old and inept and ineffectual, they take this "suv" that's really running on a qcw-50 engine and take no water and whatever.
mircea_popescu: and eventually they decide to go for a ride in the desert
mircea_popescu: there's an ex-kgb ex-plutocrat dude ; there's an ex-yale ex-vc dude ; there's this dude used to run arms for rice in somalia ; and finally there's a rapper dude.
mircea_popescu: so there's a bunch of various people gangsta as fuck at the poker room of this casino of this retirement community that had originally been built in what was a us state but meanwhile was lost in some desert.
jurov: on another day, from a discussion whether one should come home to moscow: ну да. Баня, шашлык, фистинг
shinohai: ec2-52-10-144-121.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com - what a surprise
asciilifeform: 'This will create a real full node in your browser: your browser will connect to the p2p network and do all of the block verification/serving.' << l0l suuuure. ☟︎
shinohai: Peace is a busy I guy, I do say.
shinohai: Wonder if he has ever sued a hooker from clist because her snatch wasn't tight enough.
asciilifeform: 0 in 2009. With shipping and other costs, the total was less than $75, according to court records. The printer's buyer was Gersh Zavodnik, a 54-year-old Indianapolis man known to many in the legal community as a frequent lawsuit filer who also represents himself in court. The Indiana Supreme Court said the "prolific, abusive litigant" has brought dozens of lawsuits against individuals and businesses, often asking for astronomical dam
asciilifeform: 'What the 66-year-old Massachusetts man didn't know then is that he would spend the next 6 ½ years embroiled in a complicated and confusing legal dispute in Indiana over that printer, which, according to its buyer, was broken. He would find himself liable for about $30,000 in damages. He would pay a lawyer at least $12,000 in his battle to escape the legal mess. And it all started with a piece of hardware he sold online for about $4
shinohai: TIL Appelbaum is a fruit not only in name.
gernika: jurov: ok. will be a bit. I'm currently in the process of vomiting out copious amounts of Rails code.
gribble: Error: "up" is not a valid command.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: Of course this is a credibility washing exercise. Why do you think they stack the coincidences so high? To build suspicion!
asciilifeform: 'Hey there! My name is Jacob Appelbaum. I'm pretty famous for stealing other people's research and putting my own name on it. I also spend a lot of my time pretending to be a badass hacker, but actually I can only barely code. I enjoy using my social capital, influence, and power in order to manipulate other people into getting what I want. From all that, it's pretty clear that I'm awesome! However, in several communities, I'm perhap ☟︎
BingoBoingo: That was fine with the father, he now had some good choices. Next, he turned to his younger son, who was only eight years old. The boy envied his brother for all the games he could play and all of the sports he could do so well. When asked what he would like, he made one simple request. “I would like a box of Tampax Tampons.” The father was shocked, “What in the world do you want a box of tampons for?” he demanded angrily. The po
BingoBoingo: Some China from the mines: The father sat reflecting on how much joy his two sons brought to him during the year. He decided to buy them both the present of their choice this holiday season. When he asked his older boy what he would like, the son replied, “Oh boy, I would like so many things. Maybe a bicycle, or new skis, or skin diving equipment. I wish I would have them all, but any one would make me happy.”
shinohai: I wasn't sure it was lulzy enough, but may do a brief writeup before gf gets here.
BingoBoingo: shinohai: You know a better place to drop that link...
mircea_popescu: and "known" is not much of a merely.
a111: Logged on 2016-06-05 21:54 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-05#1477486 << you just calm the fuck down and load the problem in head. if it's an actual blocking thing you just naturally stop sleeping until it's resolved ; if not, head goes on into a sub thinking about it ; which will eventually return with the results. this is how most trilema articles are written.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-05#1477486 << you just calm the fuck down and load the problem in head. if it's an actual blocking thing you just naturally stop sleeping until it's resolved ; if not, head goes on into a sub thinking about it ; which will eventually return with the results. this is how most trilema articles are written. ☝︎☟︎
a111: Logged on 2015-09-12 17:13 asciilifeform: 'Unlike BitCoin or cash payments, Taler ensures that governments can easily track their citizen's income and thus collect sales, value-added or income taxes. Taler is thus a currency for the mainstream economy, and not the black market.'
ben_vulpes: "or from 30cm away through a plain mobile phone placed next to the computer" ahaha airgap amirite
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: some java codegen thinger the taler guy wrote a while ago
asciilifeform: 'We are building an anonymous, taxable payment system using modern cryptography. Customers will use traditional money transfers to send money to a digital Exchange and in return receive (anonymized) digital cash. Customers can use this digital cash to anonymously pay Merchants. Merchants can redeem the digital cash for traditional money at the digital Exchange. As Merchants are not anonymous, they can be taxed, enabling income or sal ☟︎
asciilifeform: jurov: i have had for many years a box running said item, and it has never oom'd.
asciilifeform: i wonder how many people understand what a BLIGHT niels bohr was on his field.
asciilifeform: 'Central to Mead's rescue project are a series of discoveries inconsistent with the prevailing conceptions of quantum mechanics. One was the laser. As late as 1956, Bohr and Von Neumann, the paragons of quantum theory, arrived at the Columbia laboratories of Charles Townes, who was in the process of describing his invention. With the transistor, the laser is one of the most important inventions of the twentieth century. Designed into
asciilifeform: ;;later tell jurov i recently dug up your oldie, http://therealbitcoin.org/ml/btc-dev/2015-December/000186.html , and had a thought: did we ever investigate why, e.g., 0.8+, doesn't leak ?
asciilifeform: that matters to breaking through a problem.
asciilifeform: as a kind of dope user (of caffeine) i will put it differently
a111: Logged on 2014-08-25 03:08 asciilifeform: busy as a bee << funny that they show an idiot sow scrubbing, and not, e.g, paul erdos crapping out theorems
asciilifeform not mega-expert on dopes but is aware that certain types bring about excitability and amplify existing inclinations; others - torpor, lethargy, and a sort of living death
mircea_popescu: there also isn't such a thing.
mircea_popescu: people have this capacity to imagine what's going on in their head is most important, and everything happening outside a sort of minor companion point.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i'm sure there were people in america who believed the spanish showing up to be a good thing.
mircea_popescu: "a modest proposal" had plenty of wheel ?
asciilifeform: they gave distinct impression of labouring under a notion that 'our thing will be different because we can keep the Bad People out by being Modest'
mircea_popescu: it's one of those "i'll be a man and everything else will stay as it was when i was a child".
asciilifeform: married to a broken-down husk of a thing.
mircea_popescu: well... mno ; they're not bad people, just, married to a context.
asciilifeform: american business folk have a term, 'technical debt', for this kind of horror
mircea_popescu: not really. main dev was in #b-a, invited twice to argue his thing, declined twice to do so.
asciilifeform: i could've sworn we had a monero thread
mircea_popescu: they're the same people who think islam means they get a nice wife courtesy of allah, just like that.
asciilifeform: had nfi it is still a thing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the best part of that article is random derp frothing about how "monero'd have made it impossible for egypt to be a shithole"
mircea_popescu: well, pick different abstractions i guess, because the only response stavka has for "we don't have adequate tools" is coming down a gun barrel.
mircea_popescu: if it dun feel like doing what you want, "it has nfi" ; otherwise, if there's a virus or something, it knows them like its own tits.
mircea_popescu: it's bullshit. of course the machine has fi. just... it likes to ambiguously pretend it does or doesn't, like a lazy bitch.
asciilifeform: iirc ff is a single threaded turd even.
mircea_popescu: try the experiment : open temp-mail.org in a browser let it sit for a day, then profile it.
asciilifeform: the medium has a will of its own.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'conscientious c programmer' is a mythical dragon of sorts, like 'honest bureaucrat'
mircea_popescu: this is a superclass of that.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: you can't do this on c machine, because it has, e.g., a heap also
asciilifeform: carry on not caring. but unix remains a pile of shit.
mircea_popescu: to a large extent. 7 heads or what was it.
asciilifeform: devil has a head on his shoulders, to an extent.
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo will be stimulated to learn that there is some sort of comic book convention going in washington and i saw 'land whales' last night in a train, headed from it to dinner
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> but that's nothing ; the case is still fresh in my mind when BingoBoingo made up some stupid shit about how a guy was so fat he used a stick to wipe his ass ; and other perverse defecation tales - which then became the ACCEPTED STANDARD of "what fat people do" according to "everyone" on social media. << ty, but that is credit for TOO much
mircea_popescu: but that aside, as many people use a stick to wipe their own ass as died of fan-mediated asphyxia.
mircea_popescu: shinohai and a bunch of nude selfies.
shinohai: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-05#1477297 <<< with a handy imgur album of horsefucking cartoons yet. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: but that's nothing ; the case is still fresh in my mind when BingoBoingo made up some stupid shit about how a guy was so fat he used a stick to wipe his ass ; and other perverse defecation tales - which then became the ACCEPTED STANDARD of "what fat people do" according to "everyone" on social media.
mircea_popescu: there's an ancient ro joke/sf story whereby people moved into the past "limitedly" for "research purposes", and ended up discovering that most everyone there is... them, with the actual locals a tiny minority.
asciilifeform: 'civilization' yields bug-men and cn has 5000 yrs of practice, while white man is a n00b. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: unrelatedly : de niro's so obsexed with pacino, he had to have his very own scent of a woman (dirty granpa). you should see this thing. they manage to be so weird they spend half the movie apologizing, man-to-man-talking and etc for his eventual fucking (sort-of) this teenaged slut.
asciilifeform: afaik - quite fragmentarily. a 10,000 hieroglyph vocab. of a learned cn man would scarcely qualify as literacy in a euro lang
asciilifeform: them martianfolk dun care if we give a shit. they just silently take over...
mircea_popescu: hey, i'm new. i spent most of my life not giving a shit.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu is a winner. the euro fictions ~don't~ really compile in cn.
mod6: will continue testing a bit tomorrow, and if all is well, may deploy. the log part still needs a few tweaks, but main stuff is complete.
mod6: alright, so now (still in test) but when someone [adds/edits/removes] a ticket via tb0t, those changes are propagated to the live website along with generated graphs.
BingoBoingo: Reasons Bayer > Monsanto #786 https://www.bayeradvanced.com/find-a-product/lawn-care/bermudagrass-control-for-lawns
asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu you still have a bunch of old l0gz links on your www, because didn't massage the 'log1.bitcoin-assets....' cases.
BingoBoingo: Question of the day is was the flipped bit a blink or a pause in the fiber
mircea_popescu: who the fuck gives a shit.
mircea_popescu: does it EVEN MAKE A FUCKING DIFFERENCE what comes after "and will" ?
mircea_popescu: however, if you pick employer B, you do cooking, and will be killed in a kitchen fire next month.
mircea_popescu: now, if you pick employer A, you do reversing, and will be killed in a car crash next week.
mircea_popescu: lemme ask you this. suppose for whatever reason tomorrow you gotta make a choice ; say of employer.
asciilifeform: result a whole nation flings itself at his feet'
asciilifeform: that human beings don’t only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flag and loyalty-parades ... Whereas Socialism, and even capitalism in a grudging way, have said to people “I offer you a good time,” Hitler has said to them “I offer you struggle, danger and death,” and as a ☟︎
asciilifeform: '[Hitler] has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. Nearly all western thought since the last war, certainly all “progressive” thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security, and avoidance of pain. In such a view of life there is no room, for instance, for patriotism and the military virtues. Hitler, because in his own joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows
mircea_popescu: there's this moment of manhood for homer simpson when marge bakes a pie and he says "i'm just going to chew this way, no pies better be getting in my way".
asciilifeform: a victorious mircea_popescu is made up of 10,001 young corpses where they went to the galleys and nobody cares.
asciilifeform: and then he is taken by the turks and is on a galley.
asciilifeform: i read a very distinct 'yarrrrrrrrrrrr i'ma a pirate and yer all landlubbin' scum' in mircea_popescu's earlier observations re 'negotiating position' and 'why not try not eating'