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mircea_popescu: the expectation ot make an os and not have to write drivers is the sweet sort of innocence usually reserved for coed sluts.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform bitcoinfs ends up with bitcoin-hdd-firmware.
mircea_popescu: trinque not only that, but anything other than all is kinda indefensible in practice.
mircea_popescu: this much is true. it's also not really the part in dispute.
mircea_popescu: but "what to index" is like "user decides when to breathe"
mircea_popescu: the problem with this is that it's not really open to his decision. see something like "user decides what checksum" is eminently user-able.
mircea_popescu: and the differential is in fact so immense and not even linear, that restrained toolset is huge gain.
mircea_popescu: this is the very important point here - every feature in the toolchain makes programming easier but ~everything else~ (generally here referred to "fit in head" but easily expanded to writing correct tests, maintaining, even KNOWING WHAT BLEW UP when something blows up!) much much harder
mircea_popescu: the wallet ~is~ that, yes. problem is humanity doesn't mesh well with computability. ppl want a wallet./
mircea_popescu: trinque my comment is re a more general case, not just txn, because i am confident you'll end up stuck with a more general problem in practice.
mircea_popescu: the reason we want ~one~ is that we don't want to find we can't maintain two.
mircea_popescu: davout completely amiss. if you try to rubify this, you will end up with the kubinetes situation. "nobody knows how this works".
mircea_popescu: somewhere there, 12 to 25tb worth of indices for a 1tb worth of blockchain.
mircea_popescu: trinque you will have to store NlogN data ; and n is like tb
mircea_popescu: trinque if you manage to get alf to not do that, let me know what you did.
mircea_popescu: which is why no english-speaking, quora-and-stackexchange, wikipedia-and-tedtalk "entrepreneur" can create value.
mircea_popescu: in the case of most modern bright minds, b is "hidden" under the rug and so they don';t think correctly about their environment
mircea_popescu: you add 50 hours of b, so you made a very bad trade-off.
mircea_popescu: davout there are two different items here. a) how much first-time development work is saved (which your proposal addresses) and b) how much maintenance is required to then maintain the infreastructure that saved first-time development work. in the case of bitcoin, b) is the important factor because it scales exponentially : when a is 100 hours, b is 10k hours, substracting an hour of a at the cost of 50% less b means in fact
☟︎ mircea_popescu: davout the objection, to be clear, is that too much maintenance. that's the true cost here.
mircea_popescu: davout it'd help if there were a good design, how's that.
mircea_popescu: and i have nfi how anyone fucks these 100lb, tits smaller than mine twists. anyway.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hm i hadn't considered this. you mean the tiny girls are for tiny guys ?
mircea_popescu: kinda why the bitcoinfs discussion has been steaming on a low fire for like a year now.
mircea_popescu: i recently enjoyed a very credible thai whore. it was quite unsettling ; i never felt so much like i'm fucking a little boy in my life.
mircea_popescu: even that aside - there's no "propagation" excuse in this usecase.
mircea_popescu: let user pick checksum. this is the only right way to do this.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes iirc the discussion at the time ended with me pointing out it should be made arbitrary to user's choice.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no, i complain that you construct a problem that necessarily may not have a solution.
mircea_popescu: this whole "humans are inferior ; aliens come ; but humans still manage to somehow" is rank nonsense, not how things play out, nor how things should play out, nor how anyone wants them to play out.
mircea_popescu: that's broadly the idea - "mommy, what should i do if johnny wants to plug my virgin ass ?" "don't let him ?" "what if i can't ?" "you can" "what if magical alien from afar comes and he has magical powers and i really can't ?" "oh, no, HIM you spread for."
mircea_popescu: if you do this - you may not anymore deny the other implications of magical unicorn. such as you know, someone eating jam and shitting whole plums.
mircea_popescu: but it contains a counterfactual of the nature of magical unicorn.
mircea_popescu: listen, randomly transmuting the magical unicorn into magical octopi etc isn't going to work.
mircea_popescu: your life, in ALL its respects - !!!!IMPORTANT!!! NOT IN SOME RESPECTS YOU AGREE TO !!!!IMPORTANT!!! - is not certain.
mircea_popescu: nor can you extract guarantees. there's no guarantee stamped on gravitaqtion iether.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you proceed from this very strange place. nobody owes you any guarantees.
mircea_popescu: yes, i'm aware various magicks are readily transmutable.
mircea_popescu: one who comes with magical unicorn alternative can not thereby pretend to invalidate the rest of the magical unicorn implications.
mircea_popescu: deindustrialization dun enter into this ; de-"personalization" as personhood is currently misrepresented in the west however - does.
mircea_popescu: we're discussing what software runs on black box. you propose "hey, it's trying to cut gangrene in such a way as to do maximal damage to enemies". yes, this may be, as a generous interpretation. the more common interpretation however is to say there's exactly no cutting.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the less generous one is as set out in "apple could buy russia"
mircea_popescu: anyway, you're right in that the "free world" is significantly impeded in sane / reasonable reaction by the unwarranted, wholly baseless conceit that "all people matter", so they can't go on tv and tell every woman she has a week to find a master after which will be packed on catle ship and auctioned off in iran.
mircea_popescu: and as per
http://trilema.com/2016/and-they-wont-fucking-yield/ the absolutely imbecile generation STILL wants to pretend the conversation is about how racist it is to not allow faggots to "marry" ; rather than about how idiotic it is to pretend russia is an enemy and africa's an ally ; or that deindustrialization is a reasonable response to anything.
mircea_popescu: the ~entire thing is just how much the chinese want to and can convince the russians that significant and sufficiently humilatory concessions will be forced out of the us side so they forego actually taking scalps.
mircea_popescu: the sad truth of the matter is that the us has spent the past few decades giving most initiative away. the fate of the world is not significantly decided in washington at the present time.
mircea_popescu recalls roman emperor who did this exact thing, had an uncharacteristically smooth rule thereafter.
mircea_popescu: but the truth is, this is perfect time for trump to rid himself of the best and brightest of the "progressive" nigger set.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo that members of various the various states' college of electors < since we're on it
mircea_popescu: the russkis are prolly going to double-tap anyway owing to fears of "who knows, maybe the dysfunctional shielf works".
mircea_popescu: not really how that game is played. argentina is an entirely agricultural shithole, nukes go after industry.
mircea_popescu: if anyone wants to evacuate to ba i'll get you a place to stay.
mircea_popescu: so actual man made global warming by jan 15th is a respectable 1% or somesuch as it stands right now.
mircea_popescu: iers, except maybe one in china sea. at which point obama may or may not launch the nukes.
mircea_popescu: anyway, to be fair here : the russians have no interest in waiting ; putin might be uncharacteristically meek, but in general a half dozen us ambassadors starting with the resident in manilla within the next week-10days is perfectly possible. at which point obama actually having the gall to call natl emergency and set aside the transfer of power is not entirely inconceivable. after which the russians WILL sink all the us carr
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: if you're even vaguely familiar with the victim it's pretty evident.
mircea_popescu: the stakes are pretty high, us itself is trying to pivot to an ir middle east. doesn't look like they have enough non-retards in the whole foreign service to pull it off, but hey.