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mircea_popescu: " revealed to much lulz that many miners were using a simplified form of verification when they were
selecting blocks to build off of which lead to splits when it turned out "soft" forks aren't so soft." << " revealed that many miners were using simplified (and dysfunctional) chain verification, to abundant lols and chain splits. Turns out "soft" forks aren't all that soft!" ?
mircea_popescu: $myrows = $wpdb->get_var('
SELECT comment_ID FROM '.$wpdb->prefix.'comments WHERE comment_author_IP = "'.$_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"].'" and comment_approved = "spam";');
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform heh. should be
SELECT comment_ID FROM $wpdb->comments
mircea_popescu: eh, the ones that start in engineering / actual work roles usually end up "managing" a project/team, not really
selected for chen minjness.
mircea_popescu: so apparently reddit has
selected for this large-ish population of chicks that want to post selfies "anonymously". because they're THAt desperate for male attention and THAT incapable of handling male presence.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: distinctly reminescent of 9yo me writing "utility programs" consisting of pre-
selected arbitrary aditions and their results.
mircea_popescu: you can just
select a chunk of trilema it'll give you an url id
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform we have the power to standardize the iron, maybe, through the process of
selection.
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: moreover, post-world effect. i'm much better off picking up
select 19yo children from otherr people than making them de novo.
mircea_popescu: and there the problem starts : given the same sack of whatever pounds' worth
selected from the city dump, two different people will not make the same item, same order "lists of assets".
mircea_popescu: yeah. in the process doing what agriculture is all about - improvement by
selection.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes, but not to all :) to
selected gurlz.
mircea_popescu: today ?
selected to be dumber than the average house cat!
mircea_popescu: yes, in 1999 there was ~no way to know wtf was on the web, and so search engine traffic was not
selected for being dumber than the average lawyer.
mircea_popescu: the site is eminently crawleable, page contains a reference to people who interacted with a key AND a
selection of random keys.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes neutrons are interesting for the reason explained in alf's link : they only exist as result of activity of a
select set of materials/conditions
mircea_popescu: i dunno, this being unknown unknown. but as an example : take hard porous material (say, metallic carbide), cut into thin slice, heat to 3k, pour melted glas on top, let some of it find its way through necessarily open pores (ceramic is thin),
select from the results usable fibers.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform was this discussion re street performers and why they suck, street takes all and keeps no-one so ends up
selecting for shit.
mircea_popescu: understand - at some point in my life, "owning a computer" as opposed to a speccy, or a video game console, was a social
selection bar SO HIGH that out of my entire preppiest-school-in-town it
selected for TWO PEOPLE.
mircea_popescu: they are both
selected for dullness, arguably of distinct kinds, but ultimately very much the same : they're the sort women want to raise their babies [if not to make their babies].
mircea_popescu: very. first - guy is specifically un
selected. second - guy is specifically
selected.
mircea_popescu: however - it turns out high infant mortality is absolutely necessary for males to even consider starting a family. if there's 0 natural
selection going on in the litter the task of extracting unworthy worms from the wailing woman's clutches to bang their head against a rock is just too damned demaning and ultimately not worth the hassle.
mircea_popescu: PeterL i dun know that the "
selection of assets" was ever the criteria.
mircea_popescu: and if you can't talk to women - BE MORE
SELECTIVE AS TO THE WOMEN YOU TALK TO!!11
mircea_popescu: whore is a lot more
selective, similarly, and demanding, similarly.
mircea_popescu: i mean, make him a user, give it
select priviledges, done.
mircea_popescu: but i imagine davout has been taking notes on how to do this ; and for sure a good question in any future receiver
selection will be "what have you learned from bitbet liquidation process"
mircea_popescu: more like a "people responsible enough to understand the difference between 'people on tilt' and 'voices of reason'". otherwise i enjoy talking with a wide
selection of folks. women, even!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and so, this is the end for this particular irc channel as a venue for tmsr. the irc festivities are moving over to #trilema ; with a more
selective lordship list and improved tools all around. you're welcome to join - but leave the fiat mind behind, lest it drag you too back down into the swamp.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "Fix the motherfucking code before you have to be fired. To recap : a. If I want to make 1 Mb txs I make 1 Mb txs ; b. correct inputs are
selected to feed the outputs as if a human or better was doing the
selecting." << also march, as fate would have it.
mircea_popescu: 2015 europe had 5mn live births.
selected for suckage. add 5mn from outside, idem
selected, suddenly it looks like it is.
mircea_popescu: demographically it's rather lulzy, tho. take europe : it went through three to twelve generations of this negative
selection, 0 reproduction from higher value individuals, depending how you count the generations. and, woe of woes : BEFORE, the better tatars came raiding, and raped. so it fixed things, for a century or two.
mircea_popescu: i suppose to be cracked the same way all of them get cracked - guy with immense downlist and very well connected gets off his lazy, stupid fiat-ass and goes through the wot
selection process. then has enough spots specific and high level enough to interest the locals. seems a tall order.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (en passant : solution 3 is readily apparent, and it begins with
selectively beating your children - the runts to death ; and then continuing in this manner. and there's plenty more.)
mircea_popescu: congrats, you've formed a theory about a
selection of the facts on record.
mircea_popescu: ie, humans have a very lengthy,
selected ability to centralize against the possibility of a nice world.
mircea_popescu: that's tghe problem here. something wasn't good for an entire week that suddenly became good. this
selective-bitcoin is in no sense bitcoin,
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the first set was ~arguably~ due to the malleator magically failing on
select txn
mircea_popescu: a) a majority of miners (ie, pool operators) on the bitcoin network conspire together to
selectively deny valid transactions
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> anyway i specialize in making some
selected subset of it actually WORK. << this much is true, yes. but you have a finite number of hands!
mircea_popescu: i don't care. if it doesn't
select correctly on a href anchor it's so broken it wouldn't qualify as a browser in 1995.
mircea_popescu: i've been spending the ~week since the various
selectatron discussions meditating on the problem. i do not believe javascript is rescuable. not withstanding all the effort derps put into it, javascript is fundamentally a broken idea that for this reason can never be useful.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: now, that such misery would be
selected for and bred into the population by the ineptitude of "state" and "government" is merely unfortunate.
mircea_popescu: course i have nfi why anyone involved in that would
select women by other criteria than fertility.
mircea_popescu: the
selection effect is quite active, esp in the older days.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you know, not ot be an asshole, but anything past brief inserts is pretty noisy to anyone but the
select few who happen to read the language/
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you never said, does trilema
selection as updated work for you asciilifeform ?
mircea_popescu: perfectly legitimate and certainly useful behaviour - not least of all because automated systems as well as most people will
select X out of a set of A=B=C=D, X = A+i.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform technically speaking, the s-box cipher crapolade is an ellaborate exercise in reusing
select parts of otp
mircea_popescu: besides, the same
selective memory thing that was deliberately put into deedbot works here as well. some dead chains will be forgotten before others.
mircea_popescu: PeterL there's a
selection of different people there but ok.
mircea_popescu: yes but which flags are used for which kind of messages, how we
select the kinds, that sorta thing
mircea_popescu: well we're not there yet, so far just asking how you designed it / how you
selected the list etc.
mircea_popescu: any idea what these are ? how they were
selected ? etc ?
mircea_popescu: phf the truth is that it'd be great if there was a way for reader to
select what text he's referencing. but if it can't be made to work then we can't really use it.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes does the
selection work on trilema for you ?