BingoBoingo: Emergency meaning, in the headlines wall and 30 days after three weeks furloughs
BingoBoingo: In other news, it looks like Trump agrees with OMB on the furlough thing per http://qntra.net/2019/01/trump-cancels-pantsuit-vacation-party/ Agreeing to turn the government back on for 3 weeks and then declaring emergency
diana_coman: i.e. which exact para in the book or wherever are you puzzled about
diana_coman: hm, not off the top of my head
diana_coman: well yes; but I was struck by why this particular thing to latch on; perhaps "easiest" and the approved anti-whatever or something but anyways
asciilifeform: mostly unrelatedly -- while diana_coman is awake -- diana_coman can you think of why vanstone et al give n - 2 upper bound for m-r witness ? cuz by theorem, it's good through n - 1
diana_coman: certainly, but that was precisely what they kept "avoiding" at all costs; e.g. http://ossasepia.com/2018/12/10/my-talk-of-bitcoin-at-reading-uni/#selection-213.0-213.61 and their strongly-dearly held idea that "contracts can't be broken" pretty much
asciilifeform: ( naggum also had a thing re 'for fucks sake clean up the kitchen' )
asciilifeform: folx wanking over hypothetical 'moar trustless' protocols etc. while happily snarfing up openssl , cpp, etc., are a peculiarly anglotardian sort of head-stander
a111: Logged on 2017-08-30 19:59 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-08-30#1706369 << how about focusing on your own fucking problems! clean up that pizza wrapper! cook for fucking once. go out and walk that misfortunate dog of yours. instead of pretending to "solve" the problems of distant others for the transparent reason that you can avoid having to confront not having done ANYTHING in a whole decade this way.
diana_coman: perhaps a combination of "I'd much rather NOT have this responsibility so passing it to some abstract group/network HAS to be great" and "all people are ~same and X is a crook therefore all people are crooks therefore can't trust someone"
asciilifeform: diana_coman: by same token, a perpetuum mobile is also 'better' engine, dun need to fuel it. the 1 problem is that where do you get one.
diana_coman: this "trustless" echoes some students' insistence that it's "better to not have to trust someone" - I couldn't quite get to the root of it
asciilifeform: beetcoin: consider, the 'bitcoin komyooniti' had full decade nao to remove the 'wtf do these cpp turds even DO in all possible boundary conditions' from the list of unknowns. and did they ?
beetcoin: asciilifeform, of course we have to trust that our CPU isn't backdoored unless we start our own fabrication facility. Bitcoin isn't perfectly trustless because of that, i'm just saying it should be the goal of governance
mircea_popescu: no problem, i suppose for as long as they keep feeding you, you'll keep vegetating in yourself.
beetcoin: what is the problem?
mircea_popescu: does deliberate, stubborn stupidity pay something, somewhere ? or is it just the internal "satisfaction" ?
beetcoin: Bitcoin having the property of trustlessness means that you may use it without trusting anyone
beetcoin: but it's even clearer now that the purpose of governance is to optimize for trustlessness
beetcoin: i was never a big-blocker, idk if being perceived that way was the origin of our dispute in 2015
beetcoin: well, in 2017 we saw that the governance model was resistant to miners signalling for a doubling of max block weight
a111: Logged on 2015-02-10 21:16 beetcoin: bitcoin is not a democracy? what is it then? an oligarchy?
a111: Logged on 2017-06-15 18:26 mircea_popescu: in the end the question comes down to, do you feel like a man, or do you feel like a woman ? just don't lie to me or lie to me prettily ?
asciilifeform: characteristically, even ~these~ used to be moar interesting, imho -- back when the breakage was at least sometimes subtle
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2017/the-boundless-burden/#selection-139.48-139.184 which is to say "since i'm gonna get pinned down and have a parasite injected ~ANYWAY~, might as well blablablblabla" and so on.
mircea_popescu: nevermind kids never being taught how to write a fucking legal document in school. how about they be taught HOW NOT TO BRING FEMININE ARGUMENTS.
asciilifeform: or for that matter the current husk of djb.
mircea_popescu: ie, "mathematicians know and computer dorks needn't worry" bla bla.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lotsa examples of these zombies, e.g.,
mircea_popescu: looking into the intro/outro derpitudes, it looks like the nobus-encryption afficionados in usg.blue that survived the clinton era are looking to build "scientific basis" for ulterior nonsense.
asciilifeform: i thought the notion being pushed is hilarious tho. 'who cares if yer litmus doesn't work on 561, it aint like you ever need to verify whether 561 is prime' etc
mircea_popescu: and it even begins with the usual pantsuit signature, "as an X", huh.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the abstract claim, "one random round of fermat provides same error probability as 32 rounds of m-r" is pretty striking.
mircea_popescu: 99.99x% of all those who interacted with the object online had never before perceived the functioning of these mechanisms to any degree. romania has ~0 civic education in the school system and so on. even the modicum of "teach dork to write a formal application" or w/e they used to do in home ec was abandoned.
mircea_popescu: anyway, item did what such items do, in the us too : it blew a hole in the party-that-the-guy-was-fronting's skirts, and he retired.
mircea_popescu: so did they -- went in 2nd, right AFTER the sitting ro president's salutation and right above what they judged as the top economiasm.
asciilifeform: hm i must be thick.. what was the orig complaint about
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i meant re the orig stolen trilema piece
mircea_popescu: (i mean, i realise in the us they aren't, but w/e, nobody really gives a shit about retardistan)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform can't copyright legal proceedings, they're public.
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in 'holy fuck, i thought we hit rock bottom but then heard a knock from below' lulz, http://www.loper-os.org/pub/mcleod/index.html << 'professor of engineering' tries to argue in favour of old-fashioned , carmichaelizable primality litmus ~instead~ of m-r, on acct of the 'rarity of carmichael #s' .
mircea_popescu: it started like that, you realise. back in the early days of the confederacy, the us president couldn't on his own merit summon enough credit in europe to afford a meal at a decent restaurant. if the local dukes of dorset didn't invite them to their table, they'd eat poached eggs brought from home on the side of the road.
mircea_popescu: in any case, in 2011, as in 2001, as in 2021 i can say "academia romana keks" or http://trilema.com/2011/stimata-academie/ whatever ; but they can't say "trilema.com", because holy shit.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform too inept dood, what. they can't do shit.
mircea_popescu: which puts us in the following amusing relation : the romanian academy perceived that not only i'm the competition... but have the upper hand.
mircea_popescu: ie, mostly tv stations perceived blogs as competition, but ~because they actually were~ competition, and winning, couldn't omit stealing their conent. and so the expression "found on the Internet" was invented to avoid saying "we suck, go read this-dood.com instead"
asciilifeform: this is almost as hilarious as the 'mathematical' conferences that happily ate perl-generated 'paper' etc
mircea_popescu: (romanian academy published a book in which it included the fraud complaint i issued against their at the time sitting head as "found on the Internet", an expression at the time famous in ro for being used by various derps)
asciilifeform tuned out of subj when realized that can't point to a distinguishing algo between gavin, hearn, wright, et al -- they're idempotent , like electron..
a111: Logged on 2019-01-24 15:19 BingoBoingo: Well, overnight alt-President invited the US Embassy garrison to remain over Maduro's expulsion order
asciilifeform: tru. who, incidentally, is the current gavin? i admit, lost track, dun follow subj actively
asciilifeform: iirc they already tried ~that~ ( gavin ? )
mircea_popescu: it'll be a pretty funny decade, ustards crowding retarddit to coordinate wikitardia articles about who's the "real" president of the most serene republic &c
BingoBoingo: Well, that's Nancy Pantsuit's latest failure to engage Trump in the shutdown. Exactly the sum Trump wants to start walling, but restricted to more Boeing camera/drone/robodog wank in the tradition of Dubya
mircea_popescu: they got that world-famous logician anyways, VIRTUAL WALL
asciilifeform fixed the obv. mistakes
asciilifeform: ^ ftr, the added cost of the piecewise-defined (correct for all possible inputs of N and Witness) , vs. yesterday's 'naked' variant, is <0.001s (on std test iron.)
asciilifeform: mod6: plox to lemme know asap if you observe anyffin out of the ordinary on yer rk.
feedbot: http://qntra.net/2019/01/another-round-of-bmc-exploits-hit-x86-64-and-ibm-openpower-servers/ << Qntra -- Another Round Of BMC Exploits Hit X86-64 And IBM OpenPOWER Servers
BingoBoingo: Wank, but that picture is so good http://archive.is/hG8vN (Yes, pichis sleep sheltered against the major state bank)
a111: Logged on 2019-01-24 15:22 mircea_popescu: there's no option here : if they stay, maduro arrests them, "hostage situation" doesn't really wash, us stuck spending next 10 years "negotiating" with a maduro it put in a better position than kim ever was.
mircea_popescu: in other mildly concerning news, i notice that there's a header-article relation developing. if there's naked girls ima pen a frisky article, if there's a serious doctoral mug ima pen a serios theoretic piece, yet i swear i have no idea at the onset (the box where i put things in dun load the header, for one). it's sheer coincidence, yet it seems to have held for the past 3 or 4 pieces!
lobbesbot: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: thinking about it (since i have to, translation oblige), http://trilema.com/2016/the-chosen/ is probably the one claim to fame of http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-23#1889542 item.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you ever read http://trilema.com/2012/evolutia-onlinautului/ incidentally ? i suspect i should translate it, precisely explains (in a SEVEN year vintage piece) the problem with eg naggum's efforts, and other fundamental things.
BingoBoingo: Maybe Pence at all saw how well destablilizing the neighorhood works for Israel?
mircea_popescu: granted if they don't leave and maduro doesn't put them in ice, the situation's resolved the other way.
mircea_popescu: so they leave.
mircea_popescu: if they leave, derpy imaginary president has to explain it. experience shows he WILL, and the "followers" WILL swallow whatever he says.
mircea_popescu: there's no option here : if they stay, maduro arrests them, "hostage situation" doesn't really wash, us stuck spending next 10 years "negotiating" with a maduro it put in a better position than kim ever was.
mircea_popescu: 0 bombs fly roflmao, what, so there can be a case of us ambassador hung in bolivar square ?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I imagine they remain so the bombs can fly after Maduro sends the moving trucks
mircea_popescu: because they found the perfect thing to hang tyhem over, maduro can just arrest them and bye-bye posturing.
BingoBoingo: Uruguay's official line on the situation so far is "We're fucking Uruguay, this is out of our weight class" though individual politician statements take every possible position.
mircea_popescu: haha, which do they do ?
BingoBoingo: Well, overnight alt-President invited the US Embassy garrison to remain over Maduro's expulsion order
a111: Logged on 2019-01-18 17:04 mircea_popescu: but anyway, in the us the strictly only avenue left to the dnc is to "pretend" to "ignore". if they engage they get crushed. the party's already gone as a going concern, for which reason : the only way an imaginary party can continue its imagined hold on worldly things is through "ignoring" them.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo if they progress to no it also, it'll be quite the gain for the femstate. in the vein of http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-18#1888200 of course, which just happens to be a perfect fit for them.
BingoBoingo: ^ For the same mouth different messages out of each side files
mircea_popescu: hanbot bwahaha, THEY GUTTED YOU LIKE A FISH!!!
feedbot: http://qntra.net/2019/01/airstrip-one-courts-lost-their-it-and-claim-no-cyberattack/ << Qntra -- Airstrip One: Courts Lost Their IT And Claim "No Cyberattack"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "He/She/You can == Puede" << no you belongs there.
feedbot: http://bingology.net/2019/01/24/terminal-pantsuit-discourse-no-there-is-no-we-in-si-se-puede/ << Bingology - BingoBoingo's Blog -- Terminal Pantsuit Discourse: No, There is No "We" In "Si se puede"
asciilifeform: in so far as anyone can tell, it's troo, and then 64bit witnesses suffice for 4096bit candidates. but not only relies on riemann, but dun win anyffin in ffa, where very small and very large number eat same cpu.
mircea_popescu: which is also why there exists such a thing as m-r witness sets, ie sets of witnesses guaranteed to not be false up to a certain value of candidates
mircea_popescu: much like in the case of usual gcd -- checking a random number for divisibility with 2 provides a much larger benefit (eliminates 50% of candiates) than checking a random number for divisibility with 15,485,863, which only eliminates 0.000% of candidates.
mircea_popescu: specifically because density is uniform, if you ~only~ check say 64 bit numbers as witnesses (ie, nothing smaller than 2^63) there's a set of composites < certain limit that'll pass ; whereas if you only check 1-63 bit numbers (so the same ~number~ of numbers) there's a set of composites that'll pass, but they're LARGER than the same limit.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: in that can check result with pen ? or canya think of some other reason..?
asciilifeform: when we sit the thing down on a microcontroller with mask rom, or some other similar iron, it will be important to be able to spot-check the m-r and determine that for some input known only to you, it actually behaves as m-r.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu et al : plox to lemme know if ~any~ part of this is unclear, cuz this is rather important moving part
asciilifeform: one oughta be able to feed any valid, per the theorem, witness, up to n - 2 , and get the expected output.
asciilifeform: per the proof, it is seemingly harmless ( a carmichael number has 1/4 of the integers as 'liars' ) but what it does is to prevent simple manual test with small numbers , which is imho quite typically kochian
a111: Logged on 2019-01-09 00:19 asciilifeform: in other noose, constant-time stein-gcd aint so bad, 1msec (2048bit operands) , 6msec (4096bit) , 21msec (8192bit), 81msec (16384bit)
asciilifeform: this means that the gcd pre-litmus is an unambiguous win ( and you also dun leak anyffin if you terminate after X flunks the pre-litmus and you go an' get a new X)
asciilifeform: naturally each new X is pumped from FG, rather than kochian increment or any such thing
asciilifeform: ( for n00bz, m-r is montecarlistic for probable-primality but deterministic for compositeness, i.e. if outputs 'composite' then you have in fact a composite )
asciilifeform: must point out tho that you dun leak anyffin if you terminate the m-rism for X after first failed shot.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-11 17:30 asciilifeform: btw per asciilifeform's chalkboard, the physical cost of constanttime m-r is ~equal to that of (2 modexps of the given width) x (number of witnesses) .
mircea_popescu: keks of all time, the imaginary "civil society" is gonna benefit from ustardation.
trinque: these people never heard of iraq?
BingoBoingo has been explaining to people wishing for "humanitarian intervention" that they need to be very careful what they wish for
a111: Logged on 2018-10-11 17:08 asciilifeform: !Q later tell phf i recently found that lcd panel made by (defunkt) 'pixelqi co', pq3qi-01 , is still sold by chinese ( i have nfi if clones, or old stock ), ~100 $ ea; the thing toggles from 1024x600 colour/backlit into a 3072x600 greyscale reflector thing, worx with various lappies ( sadly not x60, it's a 16:9 )
asciilifeform: meanwhile, in thread necromancy -- the http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-16#1863154 + http://btcbase.org/log/2018-10-11#1860677 item gets 5 hrs on 1 charge if light is enabled, 7 if ambient light only ( for nao, runs ancient gentoo )
BingoBoingo: Well the kid has to learn sometime
Mocky: being chucked into the air?
BingoBoingo: Is that Chimichurri Raptorson in the Trilema header today?
BingoBoingo: Meanwhile in local news apparently they don't want people using the doors to congress as an improvised soccer goal anymore https://www.elobservador.com.uy/nota/-que-cosas-ya-no-se-pueden-hacer-alrededor-del-palacio-legislativo-segun-una-nueva-resolucion--2019123142549
mircea_popescu: stupidity characteristically doesn't learn from others' personal history -- but if there ever was an example of why the bootblack ~does NOT~ want to raise above his crepidam...
mircea_popescu: then they told him he can be president! and he believed. and... unending http://qntra.net/2015/11/obama-at-asean-money-overwhelms-ideas/ misery, cockpuppet for every passing putin.
mircea_popescu: that poor guy, incidentally. first they told him he can be university professor! and he believed. and, unending misery, can barely read, yet has to "teach" constitutional law.
a111: Logged on 2014-07-19 03:16 mircea_popescu: so, this poor unfortunate soul found herself living her parent's dream : an assistant professor! at the prestigious ubb no less!
BingoBoingo: TBF, when Obama got stood up in the "Yes, we can" meme in English, I doubt anyone meant "yes we can" to actually that instead of "Yes he can", but English has been broken for a while
mircea_popescu: no explicit we either, but at least puts all the accents in the intended places, it's just how you communicate the notion in spanish.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo honestly i'd expect the least ambiguous rendering of "yes we can" would be "si que podemos!"
BingoBoingo going to be digging anyways because the CNN "yes we can"-ism is begging for a blog post
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you have any fucking idea what the context was for http://btcbase.org/log/2014-08-11#790980 anymore ?
a111: Logged on 2018-01-09 17:18 mircea_popescu: but what do i know, i dun have fifty +1/+1 green beret cultural experts on the ground to write me briefs.
mircea_popescu: right, si is ambiguously yes and if, therefore "if it's permissible" is perfectly valid translation.
mircea_popescu: rather.
asciilifeform: ye olde 'petrostans are macroscale version of bankrupt lottery winner derp' hypothesis
BingoBoingo: But, now Canada loses money on the oil sand anyway
mircea_popescu: this is their exact future, decade or two down the road, now that they've blown their chance.
BingoBoingo: Anyways middle class housing in uruguay means maybe a garage. In Vzla middle class housing means a six car garage. The country gets poorer, but can't eat garage.
BingoBoingo: Anyways, the recent history of Vzla is informative with respect to the US's future, competing with Argentina. As recently as the 1990's Vzla was a rich Germany. Chavez cut it down into a starving Ukraine. Maduro heard the people asking for more socialism and is giving them exactly what they want. Now USG is set to make a Somalia.
BingoBoingo: I promise, all I did was kill the links. Yes its spam, but lulzy.
mircea_popescu: lol, what is hidden internet. congrats to the orcs!
mircea_popescu: "TOR is a software that with a utter enormous vivid concealed allows you to latibulize from prying eyes the exemplary shooting go together you do and did on the Internet." ?!
BingoBoingo: Either way, those noodles came from somewhere
mircea_popescu: well, either it turns lulzy or fizzly.
BingoBoingo: I'm seeing photos of freeways full of people in Caracas, but it is hard to tell how many kilos of dry noodles they are getting for showing up
BingoBoingo: In clarifications, the Tres Cruces rally is to support other president, other Vzla president is in Caracas doing color revolution
mircea_popescu: there was a whole bunch of these, incidentally, http://trilema.com/2010/extemporal-la-venerologie/ tells the story of some other rando "blogger" (they seriously went about pompously http://trilema.com/2011/cred-ca-pe-alocuri-se-exagereaza/#selection-67.167-67.602 -ing all over the place ) who failed to make the distinction between contraception and venereal disease prevention, and then "got upset" when mocked for it.
mircea_popescu: just, you know, illiterate simpletons in no sense romanian, because you can't be romanian without ready access to cultural reference, the entire nation exists of naught else.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform meanwhile found it : http://trilema.com/2009/visurat-s-a-dat-de-goala/ (notable for saying "yesterday at [film festival] i saw two films. one was "the happiest girl in the world" and i found myself in there. i laughed, i felt a bitter taste in the mouth, and i realised i might end up like that", and then FAILING to make the connection with http://trilema.com/2017/alexandru-osvald-pastorel-teodoreanu/#footnote_17
lobbesbot: BingoBoingo: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: memorable because he came to trilema conference before #trilema/tmsr/bitcoin even, and impressed the girls with his "manly" odours.
mircea_popescu: and in YET OTHER obscure lulz (that i suspect only hanbot is equipped to appreciate), http://visurat.ro/
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in yet other lulz : https://issuu.com/craps/docs/fa2014 ( A Family Affair : Bull & Female Sale )
mircea_popescu: beeecause... well... esif22 isn't the first http://btcbase.org/log/2018-08-01#1838623 in the history ~of this particular scam~. nor the 100th.
mircea_popescu: first fucking thing on the scam's landing page being "* Note: The base commission is set to 50% to reduce affiliate fraud from newbie affiliates. After 90 days and 10 sales you can request to be moved to 60% commission tier."
mircea_popescu: so the dood's businessplan is, 1. get a list of websites ; 2. while $list do curl -e "esif22.zcodesys.hop.clickbank.net"; done.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in lulz : trilema gets referral spam from "esif22.zcodesys.hop.clickbank.net" ; the unpacking is : https://zcodesystem.com/affiliates.html (some "betting" scam) is being pushed via clickbank (principal affiliate clearhinghouse) by some guy whose code is esif22. the idea is that if (naive) webmaster clicks (or publishes his referrer list for others to click) the clickbank item will count a click "sent by" this esif22
BingoBoingo: But I'll get the updates. Dude's apparently not even setting his pulpit up in the Pope's designated spot in Tres Cruces
mircea_popescu: MRExtreme 52M Dom "Hi LordMP, I will be travelling to Costa Rica with my slave. Do you have any (kinky) tips ? Have a nice day MRExtreme" LordMPofTMSR "You can start with the customary six months of log reading ; other than that specific channel I have nothing to say to uppity plebs."
mircea_popescu: meanwhile at the lulzfarm,
BingoBoingo expects something like http://bingology.net/2018/12/17/the-expocannabis-an-executive-report/ minus the vendor booths and condensed into an hour or so
BingoBoingo has seen other less acute USG.BLUE productions here
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Thinking on it, but unlike yesterday, there's a growing pile of material to be Qntra'd today.
BingoBoingo: In other news one of several competing "Presidents" of Venezuela (Think Iraq's Chalabi) is going to be holding a rally across from the Tres Cruses Shopping and National Bus Terminal here in Uruguay
a111: Logged on 2019-01-22 23:18 asciilifeform: can't wait for the logical end of this, when they cut e.g. the screen ( 'why do you need a screen, terrorist. talk to the box with mouth..' ) and eventually will ship a http://www.loper-os.org/?p=405 i expect.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-22 20:11 mircea_popescu: spyked is there a way for one to list what rss he's subscribed with feedbot ?
spyked: http://btcbase.org/log/2019-01-22#1889396 <-- there is a !1list command (no extra args) that lists subscriptions for the user who PMs it. however, it doesn't work in chan and I didn't document it due to its spamminess. feedbot will reply with one rss feed per line, not sure if it would be more appropriate to list rss feeds in a paste or something. curious to hear opinions re this
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in other great accomplishments of the scots, "the highland schottische is a partnered country dance that apparently originated in Bohemia."
mircea_popescu: if you construct a "regime" out of the thin veneer of pop-socialism, myopic as all get-out and with all the intellectual prowess of earthworms, what the fuck do you expect permanence.
asciilifeform: there's precedent -- e.g. the fella who tried to plug brezhnev, actually got out when su ran out -- after doing 30yrs in phonebooth-sized oubliette
mircea_popescu: the case where "forever-and-ever" promise beneficiary actually brings action against the promiser, "they;'re supposed to feed and clothe me, porca vaca" isn't far off.
asciilifeform: the mamies win their appeals cuz there's 100mil of'em and system aint set up to send ~all~ of'em downriver, there aint enuff clinks to house'em all. whereas 'terrorists' in the 'supermax' there's a coupla dozen of, and i've yet to heard of 1 being cut loose on appeal
mircea_popescu: and thus therefore of fucking course the manner in which tlp described welfare courts working in 2003 is how general court works in 2019
mircea_popescu: cuz of course pseudo-rational process of fat female niggers stomped out rational process of traditional law, rather than the other way around,
mircea_popescu: that was 2003 or so. in the intervening 15 years the principle expanded out of the empire of inner city mammies / "social workers".
asciilifeform: iirc he was discussing rando hobos, rather than miscreant cacheted by personal decree of obummer tho
mircea_popescu: "show" has a very specific legal definition: whatever the judge feels like that day. I have been involved in thousands of these SSI cases, and to describe the system as arbitrary is to describe Blake Lively as "fair.""
mircea_popescu: also ""You"= your doc who fills out a packet with specific questions; and maybe a lawyer who processes the massive amounts of other paperwork, and argues your case, and charges about 20% of a year's award.
mircea_popescu: to quote the prophets, "Fortunately, your chances of being awarded SSI are 100%. ("Not for me!" Again, it's not for you.) You may be awarded it on the first try; you may be denied and then get it on appeal; you may need an SSI hearing before the judge; or you may apply five or six times and finally get it after ten years. But if you are persistent, you will get it."
asciilifeform: ( tried to present the obv. fact of tor diddlage, was thrown out on 'national seekoority grounds' etc )
mircea_popescu: i don't know that there ever was a "conviction" that stood other than by sheer disinterest of the convicted.
mircea_popescu: it's kinda how ~any decision in http://trilema.com/2013/the-sops-or-what-might-you-expect-from-government-clerks/ goes.
asciilifeform: at least Officially. naodays gotta wonder whether was 'technicality' or not
mircea_popescu: went by "rabite" back then (if memory serves, before discovering "white supremacist" via usg's free housing services)
asciilifeform: aite then
asciilifeform: ( or are they same.. )
mircea_popescu: wasn't he here last year with the "media company" with no dns resolvers ?
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: uy1 temps in-range, for 8th day; and so at all times other than when that battery's charging
a111: Logged on 2019-01-18 17:27 mircea_popescu: that they don't do anything in particular should be self-evident, but here's some lulz re "intelligent design" :
asciilifeform: seem to be particularly interested in exterminating 'xp', which was porous & bsody but at least not then included keylogger straight off the install , just yet
asciilifeform: re microshit 'os' in boxes -- seems like they see primary competition currently as being... old versions of own shit. ( recently they demonstratively had a d00d jailed, not even for 'pirated' but for selling at flea markets ~old winblowz~ disks )
mircea_popescu: which brings http://trilema.com/2013/the-state-banking-and-bitcoin/ very much to mind.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if you upturn an old lappy, you can see whether it was bought orig in gringolandia, and had the winblowz tax, they stuck little stickers on'em
asciilifeform: ( today even 'os tax' is paid largely from usg coffers, when they buy tetristrons for the desk jockeys )
asciilifeform: re microshit 'just is' -- iirc the inflection point was some time in late '90s, when they switched to being fueled entirely by 'os tax' on all konsoomer pc irons, and dispensed with the pretense of 'folx make choice to buy os, in cardboard box'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sovok 'ads' were typically of 'agit' variety -- stern lenin face with 'lenin bids you to keep yer lathe clean and reduce workplace fatalities' etc
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform even in sovok days, advertising on the "government line" of moscow subway was geared thusly.
mircea_popescu: today seems (outside of orclands, where they're retarded) just on par with what it always was, "suppose you get a real job"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there are some ads that dun even pretend to make sense from commercial pov, and are strictly 'behold the glory of the great inca'. i used to ride the train erry day, it would as often as not be covered in ads for lockheed, grumman, etc, with photo of latest $trillion will-get-stuck-in-erry-canal boat, submarine, etc
mircea_popescu: there was a brief interval, 90s to maybe 2005, when parent might have been even enthusiastic over kid's "entrepreneurship" declarations.
mircea_popescu: so nobody seriously perceives the need to even think about such things. advertise microsoft ? to whom and why ? microsoft ~no longer does anything~, it "just is".
mircea_popescu: t that his only hope at being young again is if he finds the way to shit whole prunes) that yielded the "entrepreneurial" revolution which, in short order, latched upon the imaginary http://trilema.com/2016/files-from-the-war-on-the-web-today-literotica/#selection-393.0-393.767 aka "ugc" as a fuel base to transform into prosperity died sometime since 2001.
mircea_popescu: the truth of the matter is that the great clinton dream (it made it even into "primary colors", whereby clinton explains to a group of "worried" workers [worried about the fact that their standards of living are strictly unmaintainable post-imperialism] that their only hope at continuation is through some kind of [unspecified, because unspecifiable] "skill acquiring" -- with all the sweet air of doctor who tells cancer patien
asciilifeform: can't wait for the logical end of this, when they cut e.g. the screen ( 'why do you need a screen, terrorist. talk to the box with mouth..' ) and eventually will ship a http://www.loper-os.org/?p=405 i expect.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re crapple, it's become a rich generator of lulz : their current strategy seems to consist of, per iteration of product : 1) cut an essential component (e.g. headphone jack) , and declare 'fashionable' 2) double price
asciilifeform: strangely enuff, there are still ads for intel
mircea_popescu: they kinda gave up, became abstract "tech" with google an' apple.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i suspect direct theft, tbh.
mircea_popescu: sometimes i sit here and regret the days i was wriging 2-3-5 articles/day on trilema. then i read one of those, and it's always, "o cute, 1/10 of an article".
mircea_popescu: o yeah, i recall now! at the time, microshit (panicked no doubt over euro-bureaucracies going linux-ish) was media-buying massively. in ro campaign was "be smart".
asciilifeform: ( you can tell by the 'kindergarten' colour palette )
asciilifeform: iirc there's a large collection of these somewhere, bsods photo'd 'in the wild' on bank atm's, etc
asciilifeform: iirc we walked the subj in detail some time in '17
asciilifeform: btw, imho it's a good example of 'ffa-style' narrowing of problem domain ( there is no good reason for ancient tx to be rewritable )
asciilifeform: i used it to prototype the o(1) tx index thing (also posted, but dun have the logptr handy atm)
mircea_popescu: that's quite the diff.
asciilifeform: ^ it -- worx, and as described above, with the diff that it requires pointerism to be enabled.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-06-06#1666647 << the original item, for thread-compleeetness
asciilifeform: it gotta actually enforce the 'copying this thing is an eggog', trigger the death procedure when it goes out of scope, etc
mircea_popescu: now the question is, if you only need this specifically once, why do you need ada to do it for you
asciilifeform: ( there's a range of things you aint allowed to do with a controlled type, chiefly to copy it )
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's very similar to cpp 'destructor' aha. with the diff that ada forces various limitations re the item, to prevent various cpp-esque lulz
asciilifeform: mmap is 1 of the few nice things in linux , lets you e.g. map a 1tb segment and store as file, and will actually 'sparse' store etc.
asciilifeform: obviates a good number of scenarios where otherwise you'd want to use a db system.
asciilifeform: lets you have e.g. the trb indexer thing, as ordinary array, etc
asciilifeform: observe that 'M' knows when the end of its life comes, and gets synced to disk (if applicable , i.e. was mapped r/w) and properly cleaned up, without any such abortion as a 'free' statement a la c
feedbot: http://bimbo.club/2019/01/philosophical-transactions-for-the-months-of-october-november-and-december-1714-part-v/ << Bimbo.Club -- Philosophical Transactions. For the months of October, November, and December, 1714. - Part V.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform http://trilema.com/2010/pe-ei-pe-mama-lor/ << ever read thgat one, incidentally ? 10 bux tax on fastfood to balance out the externalized costs they dump on health budgets (and to signal to women they'd better drop the act and start cooking daily) ; and 500% excise on windows for stupidity.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-22 17:17 asciilifeform: ok , having read this, i gotta laff, this is yet-another 'oh noez doesn't use usg.pki like inca commanded' 'bug'
a111: Logged on 2019-01-22 15:17 asciilifeform: the only case i discovered so far that demands it, is mmap ( the map ~must~ know when it is about to go out of scope )
mircea_popescu evidently can't carry a discussion on artithetics, even if "general point" wins easy enough.
a111: Logged on 2018-01-03 16:05 asciilifeform: but in very unrelated lulz, https://archive.is/bON1p >> 'It’s a bit absurd that a modern gaming machine running at 4,000x the speed of an apple 2, with a CPU that has 500,000x as many transistors (with a GPU that has 2,000,000x as many transistors) can maybe manage the same latency as an apple 2 in very carefully coded applications if we have a monitor with nearly 3x the refresh rate.'
asciilifeform: esp. when iron is big enuff that folx fall into the sin of perceiving cpu cycles & bytes of ram as 'infinite' and phree