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mircea_popescu: Framedragger afair it had a deal back in 2010ish ? with twitter too ; then twitter backed out, was a bit of a scandal, then i gues fb backed out quietly.
mircea_popescu: they got a problem don't they ? missing out on most of the shannonized / markov chained "content" production these days
mircea_popescu: in other news, google search can't actually see inside facebook can it.
mircea_popescu: that'd be pretty good, muslims never had an airstrip one.
mircea_popescu: maybe uk joins syria, iran and labia in new commonwealth.
mircea_popescu: heh. treaties aren't binding more than you know, greek debt is
mircea_popescu: anyway, so what'll an independent uk do ? petition to join puerto rico ?
mircea_popescu: but i mean, the predictions throughout are a complete joke. newcastle predicted 66/33 actual 50/49
mircea_popescu: in fairness i had no idea of this whole bejojo thing, so.
mircea_popescu: aha, but enemy hasn't, for a while, then we started talking about it and welll...
mircea_popescu: there's ~one ethereum trader and ~one ethereum miner, in the sense there's ~one person in any set of clothes. some mites etc also there, but they generally "don't count".
mircea_popescu: clinical pcp is a lot more boring, in general, but not universally.
mircea_popescu: anyway. the best point in the entire piece is the observation that probabilistic models are much better at making sense of linguistic evolution. for this reason alone they're prolly worth looking into.
mircea_popescu: "an adult who paid attention in calculus does in fact know billions of numeric facts (for example, that one says 45345333×54353453=2464675425984849 rather than 95). these facts must somehow be encoded in the brain."
mircea_popescu: "And yes, it seems clear that an adult speaker of English does know billions of language facts (for example, that one says "big game" rather than "large game" when talking about an important football game). These facts must somehow be encoded in the brain. "
mircea_popescu: i'm in the enviable position of not really needing a cv for anything.
mircea_popescu: nono, that never happened. hanno boeck published it first!
mircea_popescu: an identity crisis with generous sidings of inferiority complex if i ever saw one.
mircea_popescu: "if man had kalash, why'd man stop at orlando gay bar"
mircea_popescu: i am actually suspecting something like this exists in ethereum, but meh, not worth the chase atm.
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's mostly "cloud" bullshit anyway, so don't regard any of this as peculiarly reliable info.
mircea_popescu: which they intend to CHANGE anyway, so it's a bit iffy to bake for the idiots.
mircea_popescu: anyway, they use some shit supposedly memory hard, whatever.
mircea_popescu: it's not altogether clear anyone bothered to bake one yet.
mircea_popescu: "yes, under arbitrary restrains you propose on random particular avenue, things can't be done" tm.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the top article contains comment saying guy got 17mh on one core out of 5 on modest card.
mircea_popescu: understand : ethereum pretends to be 1/10 of btc financially, while it is 1/10`000`000 hash-wise and outright 1/infinity technologically.
mircea_popescu: it's almost like the seeds of disaster are by now epigenetic, the population carries them like the swine carry ascari lumbricoides.
mircea_popescu: how the ever living fuck, they're not smart enough ?! they're not educated enough, not experienced enough,
mircea_popescu: "anyone who ever gets 51% can fuck up this historical item worth this many mn coins. hurr!"
mircea_popescu: end up stuck forever defending nuclear waste under heavy guard.
mircea_popescu: this, incidentally, is EXACTLY what technology debt means. apply bullshit "fixes" as MIT & co bright minds produce,
mircea_popescu: they can do whatever they want. 51% means they don't get to have an opinion.
mircea_popescu: let's follow this. so i mine the next block. 49% guy mines the 2nd. i build on mine.
mircea_popescu: (it went up by about 4x since last year. hardware's the most expensive part of a scamcoin.)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ethereum difficulty is, if memory serves, ~50TH. so about half that.