phf: moscow universities had explicit quotas for the applicants from the -stans, but it was probably not as obvious elsewhere
phf: my mom had one of those "papa escaped the purges by burning all paperwork but life got tough when they took our governess" piano teachers, who would lament about being forced to teach peasants and brown folk, not on racial grounds as much as "you have to have a bidet in your house for 3 generations, before you can touch a piano"
mircea_popescu: phf also wasn't so visible in moscow. what was it, 15% ?
phf: mircea_popescu: turns out that i have a very skewed perspective on life in su
phf: unrelatedly i was wondering if gpg passwords are promisetronic. how do they even work? there's some symmetric encryption scheme used to encrypt the privkey, or can passwords be somehow integrated into rsa scheme?
phf: it's a combination of passphrase mangling (by default sha-1) to derive the key, and symmetric algorithm (be default aes-128) to encrypt the privkey. i don't think we had any discussion about this..
mircea_popescu: phf they're pretty shitty. tmsr pgp should prolly use a better scheme
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: $bzprtnr wants to know how to wholly replace /dev/urandom with $entropyfile to make gpg key with all speshul bits
ben_vulpes: would be neat to dispense with linux' entropy estimates, etc
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a111: Logged on 2017-02-03 05:46 phf: it's a combination of passphrase mangling (by default sha-1) to derive the key, and symmetric algorithm (be default aes-128) to encrypt the privkey. i don't think we had any discussion about this..
a111: Logged on 2017-02-03 06:10 mircea_popescu: phf they're pretty shitty. tmsr pgp should prolly use a better scheme
mircea_popescu: in other news from the lands of the retards, it is now impossible in argentina to buy normal male underwear. all they have on sale, ANYWHERE (because yes it's 10mn strong, but no there's no five distinct shops, just 10k clones of the same one) is male stripper underwear. because hey, faggots won the culture war or some dumb shit.
mircea_popescu: i suppose i should actually be doing this, accost young men, go "hey, you're a little bitch faggot, aren't you ? do you know what we do to little bitch faggots ?" while waving machete around.
mircea_popescu: then have him drop his pants to check, and cut off his penis once the inevitable COLORED ; WEIRD pair of GIRL panties shows up.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-03 06:44 ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: $bzprtnr wants to know how to wholly replace /dev/urandom with $entropyfile to make gpg key with all speshul bits
deedbot: pete_dushenski voiced for 30 minutes.
deedbot: peterl voiced for 30 minutes.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-02 17:39 mircea_popescu: oh and for the aspiring statisticians, here's a question : given that there's 40 different trilema headers, and one's picked each day randomly, how many days needs one visit trilema in order to have better than 50% chances of having seen all of them ?
PeterL: I suppose there are more elegant ways of solving the problem
PeterL: (actually, first I solved it in excel, then I thought it would have been simpler to write a python function, so I did that )
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski what happens when k = n+1, do your fractions become overnumerary ?
mircea_popescu: PeterL what happens when k = n+1, do your fractions become overnumerary ?
PeterL: k is never n+1, range starts at 1 and stops at n
mircea_popescu: in which we find python uses () incorrectly : it's inclusive on the bottom and exclusive on the top ? shouldn't it be [) then ?
mircea_popescu: but anyway, PeterL , in fair trade : do you know what a poisson distribution is ?
PeterL took a stats class in college, but that was many years ago
mircea_popescu: poisson was actually a doctor, and clasically his thing is applied to the question "if on average the er sees six patients a day, what are the odds of it seeing 74 this monday morning"
jhvh1: shinohai: The operation succeeded.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-03 15:41 mircea_popescu: in other news from the lands of the retards, it is now impossible in argentina to buy normal male underwear. all they have on sale, ANYWHERE (because yes it's 10mn strong, but no there's no five distinct shops, just 10k clones of the same one) is male stripper underwear. because hey, faggots won the culture war or some dumb shit.
trinque: they're ruining gender expression for everyone
shinohai: So it appears Theymos is now calling for Satoshi's coins to be destroyed.
mircea_popescu: i am unsure about that part ; left to their own devices female gender expression is what you see in 1970s pornos.
mircea_popescu: there's apparently a whole lot of hair rubbing on the abdomen.
mircea_popescu: shinohai remarkable how many craws teh satoshi manages to stick into huh.
shinohai: Oh wait, seems this was published roughly 8 months ago ... but had not heard him speak this retardation.
mircea_popescu: one year seems a reasonable polling interval considering the relative importance of the object.
mod6: That's just what it is, nonsense. Nonsense from scammer scumbags.
mircea_popescu: ~same as an island full of monkeys going "and if the spanyards come and burn down all our houses ? WE MUST BUILD SPANYARD PROOF HOUSES"
shinohai: No one expects the Spanish inquisition
mircea_popescu: "THE VERY MATERIALS THE SPANISH WILL FOR THE FIRST TIME BRING !!1"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the only possible follow to the idiocy is, of course, the usg declaring that it HAS!11 qc, and the ustards also believing.
mircea_popescu: if it worked with the "sorry we didn't know it was invisible", then why not quantum something
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you're apparently unfamiliar with how the usg works ?
mircea_popescu: i dunno ; the "two weeks to take mosul" worked even better than that.
mircea_popescu: the only thing they handed over was a) own arsehole and b) pellets of dollar bills.
mircea_popescu: (nobody seems to remember, by the way, that the downing of the f117 "invisible" wasn't JUST THAT. the serbs had also CRACKED NATO CODES. the fucking serbs. there's barely enough of them to play football.)
mircea_popescu: in other news * Your host is verne.freenode.net[185.30.166.37/8001], running version ircd-seven-1.1.4 is an utter piece of shit, disconnected me what, a dozen times past few days ?
a111: Logged on 2017-02-03 17:48 asciilifeform: guilt,” anti-feminist organization. When NYC Antifa began to share information about members of the group with their employers (in many cases leading to job loss), McInnes urged the Proud Boys to attend an Antifa concert and ‘wreck the s–t’ of the ‘f–gots.'”'
mod6: <+jhvh1> shinohai: Time since last block: 1 minute and 47 seconds << I'm not sure who is the admin for this one off hand, but is there any opposition to adding the current block height on there along with the time?
ben_vulpes: trial is marvelous expansion of moloch's reach
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: carmack had to show up, new employer was on trial.
ben_vulpes: nonparticipation is "all our assets are in btc, get fucked"
ben_vulpes: obviously not a possible route for zuckerberg.
ben_vulpes: at this point the obvious rejoinder is "if not in wot -- tentacle"
ben_vulpes: by virtue of it being fiatola, the possessor is a tentacle?
thestringpuller: or maybe carmack is man who couldn't control own monster he created and killed him
ben_vulpes: always a shame to see people trading unhedged.
ben_vulpes: i'm not the kind of guy who "just wants to keep making video games", so i'd never have stuck around in the first place.
ben_vulpes: it's not "fuck you money" if you can't actually say "fuck you".
ben_vulpes: even if carmack is still extracting the remainder of his golden handcuffs at facebook, does the penalty impact him terrifically, beyond the decline in asset value of fb stock?
ben_vulpes: what is anal virginity, rights to code produced by a carmack?
ben_vulpes: 'like' how? isn't the yc racket a straightforward "give us a large fraction of your eyeballcorp for a pittance and some quite likely useless advice"?
ben_vulpes: or did i miss out on yc making bank from all of the devs the rights to whose work they now own a fractional slice of
ben_vulpes: huh turns out the individuals are on the hook for damages, i missed that on the first pass.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-03 19:08 mod6: <+jhvh1> shinohai: Time since last block: 1 minute and 47 seconds << I'm not sure who is the admin for this one off hand, but is there any opposition to adding the current block height on there along with the time?
shinohai: "We have prepared $100 million USD to kill the small fork of CoreCoin, no matter what POW algorithm, sha256 or scrypt or X11 or any other GPU algorithm. Show me your money"
http://archive.is/gHLrS
shinohai: Someone wants to be mircea_popescu
mod6: shinohai: ah, cool! yeah, no worries or anything. just was a thought.
shinohai: "To create a point of order against legislation that makes women sick again."
shinohai: We are currently working with law enforcement on our website. The violent hate-filled people who did this will be brought to justice."
ben_vulpes: "It's obvious that this put hundreds of thousands of people into a state of great discomfort," << discomfort lol
jhvh1: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
mircea_popescu: sooo apparently freenode is under standing orders to disconnect this box
ben_vulpes: the subterfuge grows ever more obvious
mircea_popescu: these dorks are barely qualified to partiicpate in highschool./
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: kicked by nick? ip? other fingerprinting?
mircea_popescu: i dunno, i guess i should be impressed or something ? in any case i aren't ; grow a pair, come be slaughtered like pigs already wtf.
ben_vulpes: message displayed in chan is "ping timeout: 260 seconds"
ben_vulpes: i don't really want to know any more about the irc protocol than i already do
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the box pings alright. but hey, "can't hear lalala".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform cooperation from counterparty is certainly giving out ips.
mircea_popescu: hey, "law abiding" right ? all it takes for the empire of rogues to exist is a bunch of law abiding dorks.
mircea_popescu: and in other lulz, there's apparently a city in pennsylvania called "california", which has a university, which is called... california university. in pennsylvania.
mircea_popescu: i imagine they have a dentist specializing in bucktooth palleatives with a fabulous practice
hanbot goes to said uni's site, sees "vulcan information portal", leaves
shinohai: This made my day: "Thanks, @SatoshiShinohai, my feed is now Bitcoin, Bitcoin, Trump, Bitcoin, Trump, pussy"
scriba: Logged on 2017-02-03: [19:20:50] <asciilifeform>
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-03#1611054 << i'd be curious to read what a hypothetical 'nonparticipation' would look like -- carmack no-shows, judge awards default? carmack burns own factory, a la 1918 ? or which.
mircea_popescu: but yes, very much "creature of system". what's usg oligarch to do ? not like he has any value to anyone else.
scriba: Logged on 2017-02-03: [20:21:11] <ben_vulpes> what is anal virginity, rights to code produced by a carmack?
mircea_popescu: it certainly follows that if my pet takes a liking to someone else i'll shoot it, wtf is it my pet for ? there's no pet divorce.
scriba: Logged on 2017-02-03: [21:05:19] <shinohai> Someone wants to be mircea_popescu
mircea_popescu: who the fuck is "btc.top" mining pool ? did they put the toomim brothers back in the vat, took them out as green lantern or something ?
mircea_popescu: "Zhuoer, who speaks in broken English, therefore his quotes have only cosmetically been modified to make them grammatically sound, tells CCN that he learned" << epic ethic flavour! minorities know best!
shinohai: Suddenly all these new Chinese mining pools coming the fuck outta nowhere.
mircea_popescu: is chinese better than romanian in terms of symbological ethnicality though ? I GUESS TIME WILL TELL!
shinohai: Since I came to #trilema, I trust few people who can't speak more than one language.
mircea_popescu: monolinguals make great draft horses and naught much else.
scriba: Logged on 2017-02-03: [22:13:54] <asciilifeform> 'Swedish Deputy Prime Minister and Climate Minister Isabella Lövin appeared to mock the Trump administration with a photo of herself surrounded by women as she signs a climate law.'
a111: Logged on 2014-02-15 19:34 asciilifeform: i can make 1TH look like 1,000 1GH lamers. and so can you, and so can any spammer.
shinohai: Recall the `Classic` team did this already.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the main problem with the world in general is this cloud of university plankton.
mircea_popescu: i guess as per your "i can trivially pretend to have a 1TH man through employing 1k 1GH chickens" but still.
mircea_popescu: here's the scoop : if you're a nobody-professor-of-something-or-the-other you aren't above the average barrista. there is legitimate need for many many girls working the bar, working the pole, working the spotlight, working the suckers, working the cock etc.
mircea_popescu: there is NO need of twenty "professors of philosophy".
mircea_popescu: meanwhile all the panglossen are entirely wasting the baron's cheese.
mircea_popescu: Project Management Officer at EDF Région de Marseille, France Ingénierie mécanique ou industrielle
mircea_popescu: Précédent EDF, The University of British Columbia Enseignement
mircea_popescu: and no, there IS NO fucking reason british columbia should even have a refurbished adult theatre which it pompously if pointlessly calls "university"
shinohai: What a waste of a perfectly good Adult theatre
mircea_popescu: it is not physically possible for the barren fucking wastes to have such a thing as a university much like it's not possible for a two inch songbird to have "an erect penis"
mircea_popescu: shinohai 84f71d7bcf48a9ba5602ff7292237e8c3a07a9c7711837645764ba1773ae8854