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a111: Logged on 2017-12-19 02:52 asciilifeform:
to round out
the crackpottery : i've described what is more or less a working variant of ye olde warcrime,
the multiverse coin
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes look into
teh whole medieval history.
two salient points : a) "honor", especially "why would it be said
that
the enchroaching of king into chivalry
through pretense of fons honorum actually destroyed it" ; b)
tenement, especially in
the sense of subinfeudation.
ben_vulpes: although perhaps
that is
the only
thing
that will eventually differentiate
the
trilema fiatists products
ben_vulpes: ohey have we finally arrived at
the solution of each laird maintaining
their own premined coin?
mircea_popescu: broadcast nevertheless is
the ~only economical way
to clock.
mircea_popescu: i suspect quartz hating is because obsoleting
the last remnant of pre-socialism
tech,
the mechanical movement.
mircea_popescu: women ~generally make children, but
that's only 3e12 cells or so.
mircea_popescu: consider, making a clock
that works equally well over 1e20
time units,
mircea_popescu: now,
the accomplishment here is
that it
tied a
theoretical model
to future development in reality.
mircea_popescu: machinery
that behaves as intended over a large range of inputs impresses me.
this isn't mandatory for anyone.
mircea_popescu: name item, man-made or natural,
that presents
this property.
mircea_popescu: you do not encounter a phenomena where you go from 1
to 1e20 smoothly.
mircea_popescu: the fact
that blocktimes
today are SO DAMNED CLOSE
to
the range intended 8 years ago in spite of diff going up 1e20 is unmatched.
mircea_popescu: it scaled remarkably well, much better
than expected really ; and much better
than expectable.
this exceedingly close coupling between model and reality isn't,
to my knowledge, seen before in human industry.
mircea_popescu: i clearly remember gushing in
the log many years ago, but can't seem
to find. anyway : difficulty worked.
mircea_popescu: i don't mean here what rando-idiot
thinks
those are. i mean
the actual article,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform up
to a point. if
they came up with say riemann falsification , you'd care.
mircea_popescu: in all factuality we wouldn't have wot were
there not pow.
mircea_popescu: maybe "any" is
too strong. but if one can
take decision based on it,
there's
the evident problem
mircea_popescu: but it'd seem
that in point of fact what is needed is a reliable description of all factual existence.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-18 23:33 asciilifeform: after 5yr of
thinking about it daily, asciilifeform still has nfi what even ought
to be asked of a pow !!
mircea_popescu: but i suspect as implemented it is blind peculiarization of more general concept
that needs unearthing.
mircea_popescu: anyway, one approach might be
to a) create a scalar worldfunction and b) force reference
to
the discrete value of it. which is what pow ineptly
tries
to do.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but
this just makes us a larger mp, you understand ? girl going "hail master, i am yours
to command" does not resolve
the problem.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-19 02:51 phf: first pass line reduction of diffutils, from 300407
to 50312
trinque: yep, my reaction has been
to invest in node-deployment
tooling, more nodes, idiot IP blocking and all
that
mircea_popescu: this sad is dissected in logs last someone mentioned
this. which might've been me, last year ish
mircea_popescu: the sad fact of bitcoin relay network is
that it actually forces people who aren't
to nevertheless act like idiots.
mircea_popescu: trinque
the only known pill is keeping large pile of secretly connected nodes, measuring who mothballs you and why, sending assassins over,
trinque: this along with
the
transparently obvious sybil logs I posted
the other day
trinque: I'm simply unable
to
transmit
transactions at
times;
they show up in no other mempool.
mircea_popescu: no it's not a solution. it reduces
to "bring your own missing parts of
this bitcoin"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in which vein : nothing wrong in principle with
the idea (of all-coins-given-at-t0) but you will have
to solve
the problem of
time.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-19 04:09
trinque: obviously I'm looking into it, but I would like
to hear what other people are seeing on
their
trb nodes.
mircea_popescu: this alt-granpa pistol is no replacement for
the actual item
mircea_popescu: that's
the iffy
thing about blocks. not so much
the "work", but
the metronome.
mircea_popescu: the problem with "no
time", see ? it's
that now... no
time!
a111: Logged on 2017-12-19 03:37 phf:
trick question, why do you need a signal handler in a differ?
a111: Logged on 2017-12-19 02:51 phf: first pass line reduction of diffutils, from 300407
to 50312
mircea_popescu: by
the
time you ask "why would anyone choose
the wrong color bits" you've moved from protocol
to promise.
mircea_popescu: so if at
t0
the chain is C, and at
t1 large owners decide
they don't like C and retroactively create C' ?
mircea_popescu: yes. but when you encounter
two different chains, how do you choose one ?