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mircea_popescu: a math machine is one where you define bitcoin max coins and the sum works properly and the series converges to 21mn
mircea_popescu: an engineering machine is one where you define bitcoin max coins as it's defined, and you end up with a max equal to 20999999.9769 btc.
mircea_popescu: " people don't like them, but it is also possibly the case that they've gotten as close as possible." <<< we're in exact agreement, here. no alternative known, and not likely possible.
mircea_popescu: "mod is not definable here because hey, abstract types. nevermind, > is defined, fuck abstract6 types".
mircea_popescu: mk, we have to [re]do that discussion in depth, i guess.
mircea_popescu: so i don't have to point out to you that yes it is, "even" "mod" etc.
mircea_popescu: there's some shoddy solutions for the first. chiefly, c. people don't like them, but it is also possibly the case that they've gotten as close as possible.
mircea_popescu: there's fundamentally two ways to approach computing : as an engineer and as a mathematician.
mircea_popescu: recall what our dispute (of sorts) re ada ended up resolving as ? "hey man - it may pretend it's not like c - but it's like c".
mircea_popescu: honestly a proper modern fortran would prolly be worth the time to make. this specifically means upgrading it more towards derive than towards haskell
mircea_popescu: "the web" as a sort of google-run itunes store ? in the grand tradition of the bbs archive ?
mircea_popescu: "continue rtunning background apps when chromium is closed" thing takes the cake. nigga, say wut ?!
mircea_popescu: oh, don't tell me, i could "save setings online and access them from any browser"
mircea_popescu: popups to translate pages "not in the languages i speak" ? wtf does it know what languages i speak
mircea_popescu: shares a bar for url and search ? "click here to log what you type in url bar which we now call omnibar" ? there's no way to see cookies, all you can do is "obliterate" items, and limited to "from the past...." so you can't actually purge the shitbag ?
mircea_popescu: see alfie, metrics. they make any reality more palatable.
mircea_popescu: in any case he held top bid for a longer interval than the eventual winner is likely to :D
mircea_popescu: i have a trilema article all ready for when this finally happened, went to bed expecting to publish it this morn... no dice...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i dunno, www world is enamoured with "metrics" and whatnot
mircea_popescu: there isn't any air for the whole "oh i did nothing wrong" contribution.
mircea_popescu pictures various groups frantically trying to gather more liquidity while the +1 btc bit bought them a little time etc
mircea_popescu: they'll make any payments sometime after microsoft-loses-license-o'clock.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> 'More than 40% of Americans who borrowed from the government’s main student-loan program aren’t making payments << incidentally... i own a coupla of these.
mircea_popescu: right so technically speaking, time of last bid + 1 hr, and last bid is at 10:33 ie right now
mircea_popescu: is it past the end ? what's the cutoff, 1 hr from 10:28 art ?
mircea_popescu: but all in all this is SO MUCH like eulora auctions i can't fucking believe.
mircea_popescu: im so fucking curious what are the limits of the various parties involved and if any whale lurks lol.
mircea_popescu: o wow look at that, pete - znort - davout three way free for all! lol.
mircea_popescu: anyone cares enough to see if whoever's left at paymium wants to do a qntra interview ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: let's study why people who live off the dole don't build the empire that was.
mircea_popescu: and the inept robber and the underpaid policeman also engage in "the same kinda stuff"
mircea_popescu: PeterL sounds like the usual cocky bullshit infantile idiots with a useless degree and too much reddit exposure spout.
mircea_popescu: davout> tl;dr: FROM_UNIXTIME() yields localized strings, not GMT <<< time implementation is dumb. see also
mircea_popescu: perhaps. now the counterfactuals clause is certainly kicking in
mircea_popescu: under a thin veneer of bullshit he hides all the socialism you could possibly wish for.
mircea_popescu: i am not discussing that he was ineffective, ie, an engineering question. i am discussing that he is evil, ie, an ethical question.
mircea_popescu: that has exactly nothing to do. i don't like in that way.
mircea_popescu: anyway. the more rms i read the less i like him. the more i think about rms, the less i like him.