139600+ entries in 0.076s
mircea_popescu: ditions on
the matter being PoW
than originally agreed upon,
through d)
the direct avenue of refusing
to continue "non-compliant" chains.
mircea_popescu: anwyay, revisiting an ancient conversation re
http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=mining+is+a+bug : i have
to
thoroughly concede
this point
to asciilifeform .
the model is as follows : if a) a PoW system exists in which b) a participating entity can recognize work done by itself as opposed
to work done by others
then it NECESSARILY follow
that entity can, and
therefore it ALSO follows
that it eventually will c) impose further con
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: also should be a comment
there, after
the pragma "if you unban
these careful about wswap)
mircea_popescu: he has a good nose sniffing it out, but i don't believe your sicilian's "if
thumbs hurt, cut arm at elbow
to be sure" approach is warranted. next patch put a warning in
the comments an' let 'em be.
mircea_popescu: but, it wouldn't happen if foo(4,4) nor when foo(x,y) where
the VALUES of x=y=4. it'd strictly happen when foo(x,x) ie, same variable_name
mircea_popescu: i can't conceive how
this can occur. how can it occur ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i
think your response
to apeloyee is correct actually, when you call with
the same item you're fucking yourself. BUT!
a111: Logged on 2017-11-30 16:00 asciilifeform: reminds of : ''I was such a pure and
terrifying Aryan
that
they even put me in a special detachment. Its mission was
to find out how
the Jews always knew what
the S.S. was going
to do next
There was a leak somewhere, and we were out
to stop it' He looked bitter and affronted, remembering it, even
though he had been
that leak. 'Was
the detachment successful in its mission?' I said. 'I'm happy
to say,' said Arpad, 'that fourteen S.S. m
mircea_popescu: let it be clear for everyone
that pushing "cloud" and pushing "Hateful/prejudicial language/slurs = Kickban" and generally pushing
the ustardian aggenda = death.
mircea_popescu: to quote from myself, "just wanted
to let you folks know it's great fucking news your sad zombie finally croaked.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "linux journal" advertises "puppet" and some "in
their words" about "becoming a cloud native organisation".
mircea_popescu: yes but by now it is counteradvisable
to work for eg nsa if you're not poor from a purely wealth management perspective.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform by now ~90% or so of us "law enforcement" consists of "asset forfeiture".
totally not bankrupt empire.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo everything
that's not run by usg runs better
than anything
that's run by usg. you've got a better chance
to manage an airplane bombing strike by
talking
to some obscure black bloc
than
the dod.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes statistics can produce
toxic facts. it is broken like bitcoin, needs "payment protocol"
BingoBoingo: In other news it
turns out "language exchange" websites of miniscule size feature better user engagement and higher user activity
than Okcupid or
the other IAC swaps
ben_vulpes: and in other hn headlines: "five ways
to fix statistics" (nature.com) huh fascinating! i hadn't realized
that /statistics/ was broken, i was laboring under
the impression
that it was
the /heads/
that were broken.
ben_vulpes: best part is
that it only undoes
the patch, doesn't re-break macs with root passwords manually set.
phf: lobbes: hehe, you probably ran into me
testing a feature, but
that's a good idea :)
lobbes: phf aha nice easter egg with a specific search
term in btcbase.org. I'll leave it unmentioned so others may have
the joy of stumbling on it :)
mod6: I'll
try see about finding a new gnat laying around and
try
that.
mod6: ah. maybe
this one is
too old. i'll work on
that.
mircea_popescu: it conceivably was a bit of personal bitterness over some ancient story about
taping people in hotels. or any other
thing.
mircea_popescu: can't say i exactly get it either, but it wasn't
teh usians so what exactly is lefty.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well... prison life can be hard for a 68 yo whom
teh russians particularly dun like. bonus points : his lawyer "suicided" self by jumping before
train.
mircea_popescu: the guy's son somehow managed
to have
teh ICSID
tell
the romanians
to get fucked (they actually had an interpol "arrest warrant" out for
the guy)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw, if you want another vignette : dan adamescu was
this fellow, 2nd richest romanian (excluding mp, of course) in 2013.
then
the govt
took its krysha back, his company magically was now bankrupt, by 2016 he was being sent
to jail for supposedly
trying
to bribe
the judgtes in a 1e8 civil case with 20k. early 2017 had died, of septicemia, for which he had been placed in medical coma. it all begun with a knee ope
mircea_popescu: not from legal. which would make
the alien anthropologist suspect
the russkis have
the great inca, not
the usskis.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, ru "correct" is moar like "legal"
than anything.
a111: Logged on 2016-01-21 19:50 asciilifeform: when you push it,
the word правильно (CORRECT)
mircea_popescu: the above. "E1337 : i dunno how
to evaluate if you're right".
mircea_popescu: (in other news, #trilema fucking
takes
the cake in
terms of error messages.)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform some kind of uci is
the only possible solution
to "superinformation highway" potholes.
mircea_popescu: (i guess
this isn't obvious
to anyone but me, but obviously once
the item is in chan
the very first next extension is "now let it
take a list of urls in paste from user")
mircea_popescu: nothing infinite is ever practical, so
this objection is moot.
mircea_popescu: yes, large, difficult, etc
task. not however avoidable, in
the end.
a111: Logged on 2017-12-01 23:44 phf: well, scratch
that, i'm just ranting. once you have
the setup, it's a pretty smooth operation i suppose. i just don't want
to bother with
the whole backing up
the internet
thing
a111: Logged on 2017-11-30 18:58 asciilifeform: find new and new crops of fresh 'we owe everything we have
to
the great inca' nobodies ?
mircea_popescu: and
the whole fucking point is SPECIFICALLY so
that
they can't accomplish anything and get fucked in exactly
the way blacks got fucked via obamaing.
mircea_popescu: you know for a fact
that in 3-400mn walkers
there's at least a dozen or
two chicks who could have done it.
mircea_popescu: in my
topgun hs class we had a chick being chem first hand and another being either math or physics 2nd hand, whichever line was
thin.
mircea_popescu: i dunno if anyone remembers, BUT!
there was a point in earth's history when what chick said was not automatically dumb.
mircea_popescu: pretty much everything, from usenet
to "what will
the chick you pick up via irc or from a game lan party say".
mircea_popescu: two major divides : a) post cunt-is-for-fucking late 80s what with
the condoms, pills, disco scene end and b) pre internet-is-for-everyone 2005 or so
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> anyway,
there's a fundamental divide between people whose intuitive understanding of computer is "basically large phone switchboard with robotic switchmaid" and people whose intuitive understanding of computer is "squee! apple drawing
thing!" << In sixth grade computer (Apple II) was introduced
to class as drawing
thing (turtle graphics)
mircea_popescu: anyway,
there's a fundamental divide between people whose intuitive understanding of computer is "basically large phone switchboard with robotic switchmaid" and people whose intuitive understanding of computer is "squee! apple drawing
thing!"
mircea_popescu: but anyway,
the concept of "programming" in a sense other
than direct memory write was something i had
to deliberately learn against inclination. like mult
table, about
the same
time. "wtf is
this bs and why am i writing words"