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mircea_popescu: you're not about to tell me the block limit is actually part of ada,
mircea_popescu: this defeats the whole purpose of VARIABLE sized blocks
mircea_popescu: explain this to me. how do i write ada-bitcoin with variable-sized blocks ?
mircea_popescu: you know "me", i'm a coder. i'd do anything rather than think.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so i gotta write my own malloc every time
mircea_popescu: tbh i like the new rested ny-steak&snark mike_c much better than the tired one!
mircea_popescu: and as an added benefit i'm no longer the young man i used to be, doing 100+ articles/month like 2010
mircea_popescu: mod6> bunch of us have been learning scheme and Ada << hey, time spent retooling the shop is still work
mircea_popescu: anyway, ima be taking the sluts to a nude promenade, bbl.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, the site's nto even picked as of yet.
mircea_popescu: no, really, their efforts and value are not for a second in question. but the bridge to absolute "a well designed mathematical mechanism" has not yet been made
mircea_popescu: anyway, alf : we share in teh ideals. lemme convict the man for wearing down the rails deliberately after i see the superconducting magnetorail in operation.
mircea_popescu: but that was so long ago perhaps the monastery has meanwhile been rebuilt upside down ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform last i checked with the learned monks, they didn't even have a FUCKING CIPHER
mircea_popescu: gavin has nfi idea ; but generally - this stuff is hard, and the people who grok it damned few if extant at all.
mircea_popescu: a very poor understanding of actual finance and actual economics, as much as it is the direct cause of floundering of the formerly great american empire ; is also directly evident at work in bitcoin and among the geeks.
mircea_popescu: troubles you met how, by following the blowups of the fix he did for the problems he did see ?
mircea_popescu: but it is altogether unclear the problem can be at all FIXED.
mircea_popescu: while the man wasn't the bright and fresh messiah we all would have no doubt preferred,
mircea_popescu: if this won't be enough instruction to be as slutty as you can as young as you can get your cunt wet...
mircea_popescu: smart folk are difficult to persuade to give a damn about anything other than onanism.
mircea_popescu: at the time it was politically expedient to not admit the possibility ; even as it loomed.
mircea_popescu: it may get a run for its money 3-4-6 halvings down the road. maybe even one for each.
mircea_popescu: your idea with (indepoendent miners very threadbare + sybil) is much higher latent heat than the (miner cartel) situation.
mircea_popescu: in reality however it odes not - because it collapses into a state of even lower energy even faster.
mircea_popescu: yes, it's true that the naive view of bitcoin network rapidly collapses into your view, on the basis of your theory.
mircea_popescu: but for now, the miners yet have the upper hand, as long as that lasts.
mircea_popescu: you understgand this "? yes sybil problems will be incredible once that goes away
mircea_popescu: to a measurable but in any case low tolerance. sure, 0.000001% hash won't matter.
mircea_popescu: how c and d can both stand is a very curious thing indeed.
mircea_popescu: it seems to me any operative model for this dispute will have to be a) item that does something ; b) which would be restricted to members of a priviledged class ; c) which the item is purported not to be a member of ; d) while admitting the priviledged class was necessarily aware of the behaviour and tolerant of it.
mircea_popescu: identify the pairs in this example for my benefit cuz i dun see any relation ?
mircea_popescu: (for the curious, the primitive technology was, dumbass plane shading microwave towers. same thing the germans used to fire their rocket plane munitions in ww2.)
mircea_popescu: just... you know... "how did actor plane end up in us controlled airspace ?" "well... they were in on it" "so it was a us plane" "uh no.. it was NOT REALLY." "mk ?"
mircea_popescu: that saying would be in no way distinguishable from this other theory.
mircea_popescu: it ~could~ be argued that what they shot down was an ACTOR plane acting the part of being a fighter jet in a film about serbs.
mircea_popescu: as you know - the serbs, using very primitive technology, shot down an "invisible" fighter jet.
mircea_popescu: i would expect it to be dissolvable on purely formal grounds, because the whole thing is nothing other and nothing more than a nominal attempt. but dunno why this isn't obvious.;
mircea_popescu: there is an outstanding issue ; i dunno how much you actually still credit the (separate network - not miner cartel) theory. i dunno how to approach that to make it plain to you it holds no water. tho it necessarily doesn't.
mircea_popescu: the fact of teh matter is that the forum's not there yet.
mircea_popescu: (there's also a difference between asking admiral lord nelson what color are his flags ; or how his cannons work ; and asking him why he put the ships in a line ten apart. but this for another time.)
mircea_popescu: but there's a space between what your quote shows and what "futility-cum-insubordination of a footsoldier asking anything" means.
mircea_popescu: well now. alf's easily disposed of : bitbet did in fact go into such receivership ; i have little doubt ben_vulpes is doing things. so that's that.
mircea_popescu: also, i see absolutely no reason why log continuity would be disrupted ?!
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes there's really nothing wrong in asking anything.
mircea_popescu: but if you approach the matter fundamentally, it quickly balloons.
mircea_popescu: phf> asciilifeform: how's conversation links going to work? << this is actually a rather complex problem. i suspect they well might not work at all.
mircea_popescu: shtylman had an exchange that was "hacked", all sorts of ridiculous pretentious bs. wore a derpy hat ; was supposed to be some sort of white kid genius.
mircea_popescu: zhoutong is one of the people involved in the bitcoinica scam ; he was supposed to be some azn child genius.
mircea_popescu: chaangnoi aka goat aka 1k other things is some derpy wanna-be living in thailand and for a while doing whatever dubious coolie business in and around glbse. mostly pirate-related scammerships.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin_charlie is actually recently famous for the whole "this is what they don't tell you" thing.
mircea_popescu: gavinandersen is the "experts agree" derp from last year.
mircea_popescu: dproberts i imagine is to be the derpy guy with a "drugs market" that couldn't sell a bag of coke ; also ordered some "murders for highre".
mircea_popescu: anyway, for the curious minds among the new folks, let's run through that list. jared kenna for a while ran the 2nd largest btc/usd exchange. ran off with the piggy, started a real estate development with it, had the unmitigated audacity to try coming back into bitcoin, because hey, "community" is worth a bowl of soup a head.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incredible, shoe reference in article even!
mircea_popescu: phf> generative vines that grow based on how much space there is << word.
mircea_popescu: if we had an artist in attendance he could make you curlicues