verisimilitude: In any case, I appreciate having a Free Software Ada compiler, so GNAT is better than nothing, don't you agree?
verisimilitude: So, this first project you mention is an Ada-to-HTML software; that's interesting, as I've given some thought to something similar, but I'd need to build a proper Ada parser before anything else.
verisimilitude: I may write a half-hearted and brittle implementation of this, first, but I'm also not too fond of the WWW anyway, so it would largely be viewed by me as wasted effort.
verisimilitude: Alright; I seem to recall there being an earlier iteration that seemed more auditable than this current one.
verisimilitude: You're very convincing, with your criticism of ``whitening''. So you rightfully believe the device should return the entropy directly, which is easier to audit.
verisimilitude: I'm largely ignorant of the keypair generation algorithm, but what do you think, asciilifeform, of performing this algorithm by-hand, so that a complex and faulty implementation won't be an issue? Is this infeasible for a human to do?
verisimilitude: So, I suppose the next best thing is to use an old machine that wouldn't reasonably be compromised, then. I appreciate your answer, asciilifeform.
verisimilitude: I believe I've already read that, but I'll take another look.
mike_c: asciilifeform: can you do me a quick favor and see if that paste above verifies for you
mike_c: you might not have the mpex key in your ring
mike_c: that signature is mpex, not mine
mike_c: it verified for bingo, so should be good
BingoBoingo: mike_c: If you could GPG sign your instructions to me, including your math on how you propose to value what the statement declares, it will be greatly appreciated.
mike_c: BingoBoingo: i can resend my note with a sig, but basically all I said was "whatever you think best, and please require a signed message if we get to the point of sending coin"
mike_c: the math was merely illustratrive, but I can resend
BingoBoingo: mike_c: I would just like to see that all in wrapped your GPG signature since you would like coin if the outcome is decided in your favor.
mike_c: yup, will be delivered momentarily
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I use jurov in his capacity as a broker. I arrived a bit later than you did.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I saw that in the mod hopper and could not discern if it is spam or a product of profound confusion
mike_c: from what I remember, funds were dispersed and the shares just never delisted
BingoBoingo: mike_c: ty, I will assemble your submitted materials for deeding.
mike_c: also, BingoBoingo, if you care to diff you'll note there is no visible difference between statement that verified and what I sent you earlier.
mike_c: so don't know if it was some encoding snafu or what, but certainly nothing other than technical issue.
BingoBoingo: I'll admit the possibility of error on my part, but I suspect something munged something.
mike_c: just wanted to put that out there for the logs :)
mats: little mention in western papers to recent chinese history, of how huaren were significant contributors to sun yatsen’s dismantlement of the qing, and how they might be a problem for beijing
mats: managing the southerners and protests in guangdong will be a challenge
mats: anyway, beijing benefits from having a consolidated bureaucracy, a state surveillance system so vast, complete, and never before seen in human history. xjp may rule for another 20y, they have the benefit of wealth and great patience, while the west thinks in fractions of a year and state planning that rarely survive four
mats: if i had to guess what their greatest challenge will be in 20y, it wouldnt be collision with the west but their age demographics problem with old folks, and india’s comparatively much younger, poorer, and angrier population
mats: curious what you all might think about the above
mats: modi seems to be struggling to stay in power, with hindu populations in decline and muslims on the rise, the run on kashmir is interesting and idk enough about india to understand what his big picture, if any, looks like
mats: it will be interesting to see how china reacts to this demographics shift, particularly as the current ruling elites - significant # who i believe learned ru as their second lang, as i loosely recall LKY saying once in an interview - age out and the new breed educated in the west and may be en/de/fr second lang speakers, come to power
mats: i suspect familiarity will have bred contempt in many, not unlike how mormons are sent out to spread the word and experience the deep loathing the world has for them, returning to the fold in 2y never to leave the faith or communities again
mats: and i wish to issue a correction, traditional chinese is in fact still in regular usage in hk, they teach it first and folks get concurrent education in putonghua. i used simplified in correspondence with govt officials and got trad back in some cases, but machine translation between the two is flawless in my short experience so it didnt matter
mats: im still getting over how small and young taiwanese (well, asians) in general look, i guess i got trained on bigger models in usa. one chick i know who is about 5ft7in and maybe 120lbs had been referred to as fat three times within my earshot and its kinda still mind boggling, like the idealised tw woman is actually a 90lbs female that looks 14y/o
adlai: mpex always had, and probably always will have, a certain je-ne-sai-quoi of being an almost-entirely hand-cranked system, with only the bare minimum amount of automation
adlai: e.g., the one and only time that MP and I exchanged private messages, was for a bug report: one of the internet-facing machines got setup with a clock 24 hours in the future
adlai still can't help but wonder what exactly went on in the minds of the people behind [the software behind] all those market orders that traded against scalpl's limit orders
adlai: even if you claim that scalpl traded only against other scripts... e pur si muove?
adlai: e.g., let's say mircea ran a dozen bots on dummy accounts, just for fun, to livetest trading algorithms; leaving these running, after a feedback-suppression bot has arrived, is rather like an animal looking at a bleeding cut and saying, "the bloodflow is quite negligible, maybe i'll send platelets tomorrow"
adlai: i guess mircea is just so unimaginably rich that mike_c's hundred-and-change btc is pocket lint, and my meagre takings ... the lint from the pocket lint's pocket
adlai wishes mike_c and BingoBoingo fruitful and efficient proceedings !
snsabot: Logged on 2019-12-24 13:27:04 mats: it will be interesting to see how china reacts to this demographics shift, particularly as the current ruling elites - significant # who i believe learned ru as their second lang, as i loosely recall LKY saying once in an interview - age out and the new breed educated in the west and may be en/de/fr second lang speakers, come to power
snsabot: Logged on 2019-12-24 13:53:06 mats: im still getting over how small and young taiwanese (well, asians) in general look, i guess i got trained on bigger models in usa. one chick i know who is about 5ft7in and maybe 120lbs had been referred to as fat three times within my earshot and its kinda still mind boggling, like the idealised tw woman is actually a 90lbs female that looks 14y/o
mats: in tw for a couple months
mats: and god no they dont do that anymore, been decades
mats: id be surprised if theres anyone alive who experienced it
snsabot: Logged on 2019-12-24 14:39:58 adlai: even if you claim that scalpl traded only against other scripts... e pur si muove?
snsabot: Logged on 2019-12-24 14:43:59 adlai: e.g., let's say mircea ran a dozen bots on dummy accounts, just for fun, to livetest trading algorithms; leaving these running, after a feedback-suppression bot has arrived, is rather like an animal looking at a bleeding cut and saying, "the bloodflow is quite negligible, maybe i'll send platelets tomorrow"
snsabot: (trilema) 2019-05-22 asciilifeform: ( there was a fascinating film clip i once saw, where raccoon was shot in the spine, in such a way that only bottom half paralyzed; and he happily attempted to eat own spilled guts. i could not help but remember rms and his 'toe jam'... )
snsabot: Logged on 2019-12-24 14:44:57 adlai: i guess mircea is just so unimaginably rich that mike_c's hundred-and-change btc is pocket lint, and my meagre takings ... the lint from the pocket lint's pocket
shinohai: So lightning network is powered by sparks of static electricity in dry and powdery dusty lint-of-pocket-lint. Got it.
shinohai: it's the "layer" atop prb that allows instant microtx's
shinohai: it only works because of the multisig gavinism ... you make addy using that method and both put random btc amount there, then supposedly you have "open trust channel" with that addy 4 lyfe
shinohai: (to best of shinohai's understanding, a fake ledger of some sort records these pseudo-tx's then broadcasts them to main chain after fact.)
snsabot: (trilema) 2016-12-30 asciilifeform: the fallthrough case is 'true'.
shinohai: It isn't argument, it's lulzcoin mirror of how *folx keep recreating lint*