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mircea_popescu: hey, they didn't say steel dome yes ? iron, sorta-worx.
mircea_popescu: wtf do you do all day in cascadia, not buying drinks for artistic adolescents ? what is their life work, not this crapolade ?
mircea_popescu: i mean, she arrived in the mail. she came everywhere else.
mircea_popescu: he's added a third to his harem, she came in the mail.
mircea_popescu: they may butcher some random "foreign" dorks, especially if they're defenseless in an urban setting.
mircea_popescu: what's with the horses anyway ? don't tell me the russkis think themselves don cossacks or somesuch.
mircea_popescu: i've yet to find a hitler servant that fucked anything.
mircea_popescu: hopefully he doesn't decide to fuck any of the interns or anything.
mircea_popescu: the dispositive criterion for the matter is the counterparty function.
mircea_popescu: whence it comes is not really my concern, for all i know it is running a charity on mars for poor usian children.
mircea_popescu: (to be perfectly clear - most of the eth budget went to propping the exchange rate, nothing else.)
mircea_popescu: the sort that pay for the bullets that cut holes in retarded us-born kids' heads.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the loss was extracted in the field of battle, and came as actual, isis-equipping dollars.
mircea_popescu: but in any case - ethertard budget exceeded 50mn in 2016 ; and these are turkey dollars. this is more than the aggregate expenditure across all software branches in the united states in that year.
mircea_popescu: the currency of the reich is, as the original hitler well observed, a sort of sweat.
mircea_popescu: moreover, the strategic profile is not symmetrical : the initative is strictly not with hitler.
mircea_popescu: mp can afford to lose however much mp volunteers to lose ; the exposure profile is not symmetrical, hitler keeps having to go all in.
mircea_popescu: then hitler tries to make "his own bitcoin", and pumps the battery, which mp drains at his leisure. but it is HIS, hitler figures, so he changes it. and changes it. each subsequent change resulting in erosion of his grasp over the battery in question. the wind blows the other way.
mircea_popescu: to which mp reacts with
http://trilema.com/2014/an-era-ends-today-a-new-era-starts-today/ ; which is notable in the form, but not in the result. hitler gets to do his usual manipulation, and "win", but a) hitler is stuck denying the venue where he won exists, and this hurts him so bad he spends a year trying to get kakobrekla to eventually agree "fiat is a better deal" and whatever other "modern science & democracy" nonsense
mircea_popescu: so far the winds are not too favourable. consider the situation in the field : hitler has ~exactly one trick~, and it is the following trick : you know i shall fall, and i know i shall fall, and we both know we both know, but here's the thing -- the market can stay liquid for longer than you can stay solvent, especially if the liquid is liquid shit from my liquid shit pump. so come, take positions on my sotck exchange, reflec
mircea_popescu: that "and them only" trailer is mostly why we haven't had the pleasure. just as soon as hitler figures out how to remove it, he WILL burn his citizenry into a crips, as he always does.
mircea_popescu: no, actually - a forest fire that singes every ~law abiding~ participant and them only.
mircea_popescu: this is a best case view not supported in practice (by which practice we mean the repeated etherape, symbolic as it is of the chances of the premier science and technology institution in the world in front of a loose assemblage of things that don't, supposedly, exist.)
mircea_popescu: that's why the "pistols" discussion ends up where it does
mircea_popescu: this sort of thing allows nonconforming txn to be put in!
mircea_popescu: which is the type of thing alf is usually loud about, and all thinking men concerned :
mircea_popescu: and if you are one of those who can summon the mental energy to convince yourself this [sort of thing] is accident rather than mens rea, you have my admiration.
mircea_popescu: typical-underhanded-do-the-opposite-of-what-it-seems-to-mean
mircea_popescu: there should be a word for computer code that does the opposite of what it "appears" to be wanting to do.
mircea_popescu: but as far as software design and business risk planning goes, importing any prb means locking in a certain future loss.
mircea_popescu: sooner or latter prb WILL be unwound. this is a certainty. just a matter of when.
mircea_popescu: davout trb does not implement any of the prbisms. this means that ANY innovation included by the power rangers is a "while it lasts" thing, and building on top of it is setting one up for tears.
mircea_popescu: to mine a block you must have decided what it contains a long while in advance.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there is no such thing as "immediately mine".
mircea_popescu is going to start recommending people go to barren islands after all. turns out boredom is promotive of sanity.
mircea_popescu was pretty impressed with davout 's bitbet liquidation tx.
mircea_popescu: well technically spits it out, it shouldn't insert by itself.
mircea_popescu: no, actually, trb should apply the above scheme EXACTLY like how v applies patches : you populate a wot with acceptable addresses
mircea_popescu: and incidentally "knapsack" problem is a fucking overstatement. here's a very simple strategy : 1. sort available inputs by size ; 2. if current step != last step, select first input that is smaller than tx going out else select the input right before that ; recurse to 1.
mircea_popescu: davout this is pretty much agreed upon, provided you mean by the words what we mean by the words.
mircea_popescu: yeah just parser failed to return anything in the $controversy construct
mircea_popescu: is there something being discussed or we just shootin da breeze ?
mircea_popescu: well, dunno about "than anyone else" in that very general form, but certainly more than you'd expect or he'd have hoped.
mircea_popescu: he's written more webfacing stuff than ~everyone else. he has teh red army spirit.
mircea_popescu: of course random dorks go on about how no such labs will go out of business through the unlikely avenue of delivering what is clearing 1mn/year worth of services out of <1k/month, but hey.
mircea_popescu: phf yes, but a fine approach to answering "what is the basis of alf's value as an engineer" is pointing out that he runs phuctor on the phuctor box, which fails to cost 5k/mo.
mircea_popescu: jurov trilema db never crashed, in 9+ years and however many quintillion queries.
mircea_popescu: to go into trinque 's mullings about the meaning of things and items.