asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i only ever worked in godforsaken usg labs.

asciilifeform: $MAXINT for rusty iron, but not a penny for hiring folks

asciilifeform: because how do you budget for that.

asciilifeform: incidentally, ~no lab ever hires a reverser to build a new interface.

asciilifeform: no upgrade, ever.

asciilifeform: mass spec is the worst, came with isa card

asciilifeform: we had both, and yes win98

asciilifeform: ah!

asciilifeform: PeterL: was it a mass spec ?

asciilifeform: ^ his final one.

asciilifeform: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/14/Harrison's_Chronometer_H5.JPG

asciilifeform: ^ his prototype

asciilifeform: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/09/08/article-2034658-0DC6E85C00000578-158_634x628.jpg

asciilifeform: !s longitude

asciilifeform: it cuts both ways.

asciilifeform: was rebuffed by royal society for ~decades~ because... not in wot. ☟︎

asciilifeform: the one who eventually - in his 80s - awarded longitude prize

asciilifeform: everyone knows the story of harrison, the watchmaker ?

asciilifeform: aha, royal society, etc.

asciilifeform: and monasteries certainly did not ~breed~ thinkers

asciilifeform: (per momotaro.)

asciilifeform: i suggest that the craft of producing mircea_popescu henceforth be referred to as momotronics. ☟︎

asciilifeform: i saw a win98 box once, uninfected, i shit thee not. it was connected to an alarm system, in a closet, no net connection, for decade.

asciilifeform: secondarily - via warez.

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: typically browser 'driveby'.

asciilifeform: same rubbish, but 'modest'.

asciilifeform: etc.

asciilifeform: not immortality - live extra day.

asciilifeform: not gold, copper.

asciilifeform: modern alchemists are 'clever' and try to claim small things.

asciilifeform: more prosaic

asciilifeform: (well, he had astrology, same diff.)

asciilifeform: like, e.g., kepler's.

asciilifeform: funkenstein_: my billz are 100% paid by 'alchemy'.

asciilifeform bbl

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo ^ qntra ?

asciilifeform: http://www.wptz.com/politics/first-on-cnn-us-plans-to-publicly-blame-iran-for-dam-cyber-breach/38444226 << in other lulz.

asciilifeform: trinque has it.

asciilifeform: ideally you would never have to transmit whole tree, right

asciilifeform: we have NO auto-merge for a REASON.

asciilifeform: also 'regrind' is familiar in the heathen world under the name 'merge'

asciilifeform: it took me a week of ??? and radiating high-energy frustratrons at mircea_popescu to fully grasp this point.

asciilifeform: this is key.

asciilifeform: which others can CHOOSE to pollinate from.

asciilifeform: in YOUR tree

asciilifeform: theer is only 'included by YOU'

asciilifeform: yes.

asciilifeform: and leads to prb.

asciilifeform: where mircea_popescu argues that there being ~any such thing~ as a shared-by-all checkpoint is a Bad Thing

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-02-2016#1411334 << thread. ☝︎

asciilifeform: we had a brutal but iirc conclusive thread about this

asciilifeform: unfortunately yes.

asciilifeform: funkenstein_: longest chain SIGNED BY FOLKS YOU APPROVE OF

asciilifeform: (maybe ants are not the best example, but ~the mold on the cheese~ is. mold is necessary and useful in the RIGHT PLACES)

asciilifeform: and it anyone knew how to build an antproof kitchen, he ~would~.

asciilifeform: they are parasites.

asciilifeform: because the ants are not the purpose of the kitchen.

asciilifeform: funkenstein_: i suggested 'longest chain with sigs S1, S2, ... Sn' earlier.

asciilifeform: maybe he did it SO FOLKS WOULD ASK!111

asciilifeform: and i will say, for last time hopefully, i have nfi !11

asciilifeform: but for some reason folks keep asking about it.

asciilifeform: none of MY either.

asciilifeform: maybe he hit the button with his elbow, what.

asciilifeform: srsly i have nfi, ask him.

asciilifeform: i have nfi btw why mircea_popescu sent a 0fee.

asciilifeform: pay, pay.

asciilifeform: the kitchen, regardless of what ants may think, was NOT built as an ant restaurant.

asciilifeform: ants are welcome to choose which crumb on the floor to eat. BUT it had better be INCONSPICUOUS and they had BETTER stay out of the refrigerator.

asciilifeform: funkenstein_: if miners can pick and choose who gets to use bitcoin, like you pick dinner guests, bitcoin is broken.

asciilifeform: !s a miner problem

asciilifeform: it emboldened the fuckers for... what we see now.

asciilifeform: that are VALID BITCOIN.

asciilifeform: i.e. that the collective of miners CAN exclude certain tx. ☟︎

asciilifeform: it set a precedent for miner censorship.

asciilifeform: ftr i still see the high-S thing as a deplorable compromise

asciilifeform: i even was starting to think that i'd have to write my own malleatron.

asciilifeform: it was still in limbo when i woke up.

asciilifeform: only took 3 days for somebody to malleat it, huh.

asciilifeform: yay!

asciilifeform: did that tx confirm yet ?!

asciilifeform: nubbins` !

asciilifeform: funkenstein_: i dunno about your planet, but on mine it is state of the art.

asciilifeform: there's at least two full platoons of asciilifeforms for every mircea_popescu .

asciilifeform: and i'm not even a mircea_popescu !

asciilifeform: what's the failure rate for making mircea_popescus ?

asciilifeform: one of the items in the room is an hdd with half a TB of ru text.

asciilifeform: oh there is a trick

asciilifeform: i have about 1/2 of it.

asciilifeform: this is sad but true.

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: trinque: everything that is ~actually worth reading~ would fit in a large room. ☟︎

asciilifeform: by counting yer bonez

asciilifeform: hell, they will learn it by themselves

asciilifeform: teach the survivers, maths.

asciilifeform: what else to say.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu has the canonical advice, i cannot beat it, have 1000 children, beat'em within a mm of their life, kill the dumbest 9/10th

asciilifeform: or are you stuck in womb.

asciilifeform: fix shiva so lispimage persists !

asciilifeform: conquer !

asciilifeform: go, do !