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mircea_popescu: nevertheless, this is
a flattering if incorrect representation. like saying "unfortunately whale did not have enough evolution mojo to grow wings". yeasure.
mircea_popescu: anyway, in the expression of the castrated subhumans that nevertheless are intelligent enough to notice the problem, this is usually called the "knowledge problem", ie poor state can't acquire and process enough information to make
a reasonable gosplan.
mircea_popescu: i am immune to it, it depends on me. this creates
a certain situation of power in the field.
Azelphur: started to get really annoyed when I had the choice of taking money out of my cold wallet or taking
a loan from my parents to make rent over christmas - not cool :/
Azelphur: if it was just missed payment by
a few days I'd be cool with it, heck I was fine with it up until about 2 weeks late, stopped working when it was
a month late, and public -10 has only happened after 3 months late
Azelphur: mircea_popescu, yea I know, dude is very good at excuses, as I say it has been 3 months, and even if he has sent
a bank transfer it's still only for
a small percentage of total owed
mircea_popescu: anyway, there was
a bank holiday on monday. in the us. some black speechmaker dude
Azelphur: but yea, officially looking for new work now. Hopefully it's
a good move and I'll get paid
a little more (and at all :P)
punkman: mircea_popescu: yeah I get
a new cert on bitbet, issued 2016/01/21
punkman: you were working with him for
a while though, right?
Azelphur: whoops, he said he'd pay me an installment of £1000ish on Monday, then said it was
a bank holiday and that he would send it out Tuesday, ignored me till yesterday where he claimed he had sent it out, but honestly he has said it's sent so many times and it didn't arrive I don't trust it any more
shinohai pops cork on muscadine wine even though it is 7
a.m.
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 05:53:27; mircea_popescu: maybe 1% of the cost of
a block,
a day ?
punkman: "KNC are in
a similar holding pattern, awaiting production of their 16nm ‘Solar’ chip, with astonishing claims of 0.07 J/Gh, They no longer sell to the public either."
punkman: "Bitfury recently announced their 28nm, 0.2 J/Gh offering (with some impressive efficiencies claimed) but have declined to inform us when they will be available, either-ways they do not sell to the public anymore. They also alluded to
a 16nm chip with efficiencies as low as 0.02 due out later this year."
punkman: once the next price run up begins, there will be
a frantic scrabble to re-power all the mothballed rigs lying around."
punkman: "It has been quite
a while since any new hardware became available, it is reasonable to assume that most small miners will have recouped the majority of what they initially outlaid for the hardware, and are now disinclined to continue ‘supporting the network’, whilst incurring unnecessary cost. So: MegaBigPowers ‘land-grab’, to acquire all this idle hashing power seems like
a smart move. As,
☟︎ mircea_popescu: arrived at through
a lot of experimental as well as theoretical effort.
mircea_popescu: this is
a very neat way to solve an otherwise very thorny economical problem, and it will figure prominently in the future.
mircea_popescu: very simple mechanism to ACTUALLY improve your insurance : make
a pool which pays 25.25 btc for the first block it finds each day.
☟︎ ben_vulpes: did anyone ever run the numbers on what it would naively cost to lease the hashpower required to mint
a block
a day?
thestringpuller: always imagined some d00d with access to nuclear power building
a reactor on some island and using all the power for mining
gribble: Error: Something in there wasn't
a valid number.
mircea_popescu: "Hypothetically, according to Robert Engelman (Worldwatch institute), in order to prevent collapse, human civilization would have to stop increasing emissions within
a decade regardless of the economy or population (2009)."
ben_vulpes: that has
a lot of assumptions on mining chip efficiency boss
mircea_popescu: by the time it gets to 50%+1 all these approximations will be
a lot less approximative
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: schooled me rather hard on
a good example around c3
ben_vulpes: approximation is
a nifty wunderwaffen.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: what was the calculation you ran to determine the hashpower necessary to nail
a block more or less every 24 hours?
ben_vulpes: writing software fills
a boy with hate.
mircea_popescu: "here's
a logline. it's from fuck you o'clock. you're welcome."
mircea_popescu: and for the love of christ implement either rolling or else
a maxsize for files or something.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (speaking of which - de-stupidification of the logging process would be
a fucking blessing already. debug.log, srsly ? how about error.log mempool.log connect.log blocks.log for starters ?)
mircea_popescu: 0^61, which is one hell of
a coincidence that it should allign so right now! (same results can be expressed looking at the schwarzschild radius, too). )
mircea_popescu: (the problem, in the simplest terms, is that for h to be constant energy and spacetime must stay coupled. as such, it's impossible to have an original singularity (aka the big bang) seeing how everything solves neatly for
a radius of 0, yielding
a pretty field of 0's and
a pile of nondetermined constants. conversely : in planck terms, the age of the universe is about 10^61, its radius about 10^61 and its energy about 1
mircea_popescu: so far the score's about
a trillion to 0 the other way.
mircea_popescu: this conception of "novelty" is not so dissimilar to creationist's conception of darwinism. "he said my auntie's
a dog!"
mircea_popescu: it's
a visual joke. imagine me saying "hmm, i wonder how best to do this" whille scratching the top of my head
mircea_popescu: now, whether
a natural tongue or one surgically bifurcated is
a change worth the mention... well... i suppose we must leave this up to the inventor.
mircea_popescu: trinque well, an argument can be brought that yours are
a lot more cleaved. like, you know, you can separately desire to lay with the woman as in cuddle, to lay with the woman as in fuck her brains out, to lay with the woman as to impregnate her and so on. whereas poor simple he, just lay with the woman.
trinque: why is the egyptian man's desire for food,
a place to shit, and women to fuck different from mine? and if it isn't, whence this idea that my motivations are manifold (and advanced!), his few?
mircea_popescu: possibly
a contributing factor in my distaste with the damned things.
mircea_popescu: eh, period in my life, i'd go to
a party and inexorably leave with
a half sack of books.
assbot: Logged on 23-01-2016 01:09:02; mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=22-01-2016#1381724 << if anyone in afghanistan etc were not fully employed in countig rocks and fucking goats thus managing to find their way here, i'd definitely finance
a project to fly
a quad to
a drone and use the old komet trick
mircea_popescu: it isn't up to them. some people dont' care. some do. they can't change this anymore than you can be
a woman.
mircea_popescu: not like photons went you know what ? this planck constant's boring, let's get
a new one.
mircea_popescu: "Whether 'tis nobler in the mind, to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take up arms against
a sea of troubles and by opposing, end them ?"
mircea_popescu: (if for instance your aim is "population", mind that they started on
a very narrow base. hard to beat.)
mircea_popescu: then they'll rant and rave about "dupa ce i-
a cheltuit vor merita sa devina muncitori ! Nu mai au nici o scuza ca au devenit saraci!"
mircea_popescu: two step process :
a) make everyone ACTUALLY carry the burden of being the lord he was seeing himself as and b) allow the scum to shirk away.
mircea_popescu: so, if that guy fucks up, as no doubt he will, his distress is merely amusing from
a societal pov. and perhaps instructive., but mostly amusing.
polarbeard:
a tx debugger sort-of-fits in my plans
polarbeard: I wanted to instrumentalize trb
a bit, btw
polarbeard: I would have to implement
a hash table in bash
ben_vulpes: in the meantime, try to understand why we use 'v', and why your failure to do so has lead me to stomp on the ground like
a petulant child.
ben_vulpes: and for the umpteenth time polarbeard /why/ split the damn patches and introduce
a million new dependencies?
ben_vulpes: the dependency chain of "well i work for satan because i got this useless phd that i got because i had
a masters i didn't know what to do with because i got
a bachelors that i similarly didn't understand the purpose of because i was told to go to college and" it never fucking ends and i don't really give
a shit about the root cause for whatever retardation.
ben_vulpes: this is like me giving
a shit about what gavin and company do and derp about on reddit.