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mircea_popescu: yes but the next patches fail to reference the genesis.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this can't press ; 846f (genesis) is not used subsequently ?
mircea_popescu might have just made the world's subtlest point about recursion.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-21#1587182 << speaking of this, here's a question for the eager : a diophantine equation is a multivariate polynomial, something like ax+by^2 = 0. the question is : given an arbitrary finite set of known-good equations, can you use recursion to decide whether an arbitrary equation in the same variables is good (has integer solution) or no good ?
☝︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: (we'll skip over the entire "waka" incident for the sake of public morals.)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: all this would have been avoided if a) people correctly observed that roy fielding is fundamentally incapable of having ideas, through not being in the wot.
mircea_popescu: something ; and the decerebrated mechanism will try to shoehorn it in, python 3 style, because IF THEY DO NOT, then academiatardism collapses altogether. they are if you will the academia fans, expending their own labour to support the fiction they enjoy.
mircea_popescu: davout i am fwiw satisfied the problem is as follows : that fielding schmuck is an academitard. therefore publish or perish. meanwhile for incomprehensible reasons people decided to name some obvious item "rest" and reference him, as if he had anything to do. this created the basis for an academitard position for him, and put him in the publish or perish wringer. so he came up with the other thing, because gotta come up with
mircea_popescu: ok. and in order to make b, you must have c's hash, yes ?
mircea_popescu: so let's examine this theoretically. in order to make c, you must have a's hash, yes ?
mircea_popescu: i suspect there's another protocol issue at stake here.
mircea_popescu: "since the link was no longer displayed, the spambots are deterred!"
mircea_popescu: "oh light of the heavens, divine dove, bring me a glass of water" "honey, i lost you at dove. you want an omlet ?"
mircea_popescu: “My heart! The light of my eyes! You are the heroes of Iraq, may God protect you. My soul, my heroes! But for God’s sake get out of the street and take cover from that sniper!” << bwhahaha this is just how arabic goes, too.
mircea_popescu: from context looks like it's prolly worth ~sergeant in iraq. which is not altogether a bad estimation of respective valor.
mircea_popescu: three stars epaulettes as seen in 2nd pic would conventionally indicate a us lieutenant-general, which is paid as an O[fficer]-9, 2nd highest.
mircea_popescu: like how much money is paid to various military positions in the us.
mircea_popescu: reviewing the travail d'americain the sysadmin puts in, it should come at no surprise that the us last won a war when the europeans ran the effort for them,\
mircea_popescu just checked, o-9 pay grade is from 14.5k to 18k A MONTH. it is literally a better deal to be an entry level sysadmin working in pasadena than a lieutenant-general working in baghdad.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (and check out the uniforms, everyone in iraq is O-9 ?!)
mircea_popescu: (i suppose also lulzy, that the front wheel cover has hinges, whereas the back one is screw-mounted. why not the other way around ?)
mircea_popescu: in these parts of the world it's un travail d'argentinian.
mircea_popescu: (of all the weird therein included, it's of particular amusement to me that they do have the slant, but that they evidently introduced it graphically rather than numerically. nobody did the math required to see how that front apex should go ; it's just there because "that's how tanks look", forget blast flow simulations etc.)
mircea_popescu: "In a new photo report purportedly released by the Islamic State, an ISIS suicide car bomber attacks Iraqi forces in the Intisar neighborhood of east Mosul, Iraq. The photo report was released on ISIS terrorist channels on December 22."
mircea_popescu: of the printed mail-order-catalogue sort, because apparently nobody cares about twitter and myspace over there natch.
mircea_popescu: in further news nobody cares about, "4 million letters of 'empathy, support' dropped on Mosul". this thing, which was a) going to be a war that b) was going to take two weeks twelve weeks ago (and then a month, and then two, and here we are) has now degenerated in a fucking spam offensive.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: Framedragger well, maybe that'll make someone somewhere believe these matter! usg doing its best to support teh economy.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform let's take the simplest cycle : a->b and b->a ; to do this, a must contain the hash of b ; and b must contain the hash of a. how do you propose to accomplish this ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, it may feel a bit tedious/stupid/etc to keep workign these basics, but it'll pay off in time
mircea_popescu: as alf says, what happens should be all ulterior bits should fall off.
mircea_popescu: but the idea was, put just alf in wot, cut a seal midway, see what happens.
mircea_popescu: mod6 yeah, if it's a (2 sigs) -> b(2 sigs) -> c(1 sig) -> d(2 sigs again) then it's a valid press.
mircea_popescu: ie, if someone can close a cycle, it's not time to negrate, it's time to get a better hash.
mircea_popescu checks, the only time i even said the word it was used as a noun.
mircea_popescu: anyway, he probably WILL hate this place, what with his bizarre notions of ethics etc. but whatevs.
mircea_popescu: you have this much sticky and have to pick who "other people" to stick.
mircea_popescu: getting "other people" to work for you is the exact above problem.
mircea_popescu: (failure in resource allocation went from simple "tin women" to - google, or for that matter mit, can't figure out who to hire anymore.)
mircea_popescu: anyway, idlewords guy is pretty much spot on as to how exactly silicon valley / "vc" etc world goes away. "Ray Kurzweil, who believes he will never die, has been a Google employee for several years now and is presumably working on that problem. There are a lot of people in Silicon Valley working on truly crazy projects under the cover of money." this is pretty much it, the byzantines found their way towards byzantinism, will
mircea_popescu: yeah, try again i say, but leave the vpatch rename the seal just.
mircea_popescu: now then, leaving aside the offensive inferiority complex women/nonwhites have towards white males : the guy has a point (mit media lab, which apparently got new leadership, a little smarter - and a little less female - being where ethereum retardation is hatched). the jwz is by now radioactive, a bunch of kids who can't subdue a girl their age, let alone a herd of adult women, want things to be about how it's ok to go around
mircea_popescu: iction, generalized AI, we wouldn't have to worry about all the messy stuff like politics and society. They think machines will just figure it all out for us."
mircea_popescu: Joi Ito, who runs the MIT Media Lab, said a wonderful thing in a recent conversation with President Obama: "This may upset some of my students at MIT, but one of my concerns is that it's been a predominantly male gang of kids, mostly white, who are building the core computer science around AI, and they're more comfortable talking to computers than to human beings. A lot of them feel that if they could just make that science-f
mircea_popescu: ahahaha ok this is great. "since hyperintelligence is a real threat any entity which develops hyperintelligence would be so taken with this threat that it would be forced to spend all its time filling obscure wikis with bad fanfic to prepare the other intelligences to deal with the singularity. you know, much like that bizarre faggot."
mircea_popescu: anyway ; i dunno that it makes any sense to push this further ; otc logs, what else, we're going to do cypherpunk bbses too ?
mircea_popescu: mod6 force is to be deployed as it becomes evident it's useful to deploy it, not randomly everywhere.
mircea_popescu: so it's entirely possible you were curious about bitcoin, wandered in some chan or another, never thought more of it.
mircea_popescu: there's an easy mistake to make here where we look at the past and presume it's the present. gotta recall at the time most people (myself included) did not even regard the matter as serious enough to warrant permalogging.
mircea_popescu: confirmed, there's a hole in my log for the 12th. asciilifeform apparently you didn't merely meander in, but managed to do it when i was off.
mircea_popescu: mod6 remember that time someone put a mega sdice order in and flooded the book ?
mircea_popescu: phf omfg you'\re right, i just made contact at first ; only started using it from august.
mircea_popescu: yeah but you would have shown in chanlists which you do not.