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mircea_popescu: the plural invalidates the point, derps. what fucking dictatorS ? how's that shit supposed to work ?
mircea_popescu: lol @ scam foundation's bfl-pushing rag whining "bitcoin dictators"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's a very simple calculation really : 1 block out of 24 * 60 / 10 = 1/144 of total hash
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla> i have been running mine for 2 years are are as good as new as far as i can tell << good bearings, less wear, last longer.
mircea_popescu: "i am in bitcoin, i just don't know anything about it. like those people from new york that dunno what the chrysler building is!"
mircea_popescu: <mod6> ben_vulpes: it basically shouldn't ever happen, but it could and since; no means yes, yes means anal. << lol io like how he thinks.
mircea_popescu: so in "weird of the crowd" news, eulora player just bought an auctioned package from s.mg for 140, split it up, and barely managed to recoup HALF the cost.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> that was where she lifted the interesting part. << lol nicely put, what meaning is contemplated ? "she [metaphorical person] lifted her skirt, rather than shoes and sleeves and whatnot random insanities" "she [interlisp author] stole the good bits for once, rather than dubious ux or w/e"
mircea_popescu: (in fact, the lulzy otp discussion last week was EXACTLY re proven absence of meaning)
mircea_popescu: you can prove that meaning is impossible, just not trivially.
mircea_popescu: it can be, but it's a much tougher nut than generally understood.
mircea_popescu: i don't see what drawing the matrix adds, either. arguing to ignorance alfie ?
mircea_popescu: but allowing one rotten apple in rots the set, and allowing one lazy slavegirl ruins the lot and so on.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and its network effects. which are never well accounted for.
mircea_popescu: this shit just doesn't work and is certainly no solution.
mircea_popescu: actually, let's cut the discussion to a particularly comfortable example : the internet was "going to open up human knowledge". instead it has created the WORST fucking style of prose the english language has ever known. tedious, humourless but contrived, inept and coming up short in all measures, from cracked to wikipedia the language is bleeding. there is not more knowledge but less, and even its clothes are haggard
mircea_popescu: the "we are living in best possible world" argument is broken by definition.
mircea_popescu: now how do i, as a third party, resolve this dispute ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform for the sake of argument, consider this issue : <asciilifeform> but the hamilton thing is garbage. ; hamiltoninc : "Here are some properties and features that make 001 unique: Always number one when put to the test."
mircea_popescu: for that matter, the move from asm to c/basic HAS resulted in shittier programs throughout.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile medicine goes through the same process as we speak, and the deleterious effects are pointedly obvious.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla while he is stuck in a very hard to defend middle, still, i gotta say this "code generators" line you're arguing has a lot in common with the "betterment" that was to come from autocading all architecture.
mircea_popescu: "hey, at least i don't live in the projects. i choose who rapes me!"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo> In absurdly popular subreddits, /r/vandwellers/ has 26,000+ subscribers << i suspect living in a van will be the new middle class in the us.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla 17 Inman Street Cambridge,Massachusetts02139, 1-5mn revenue, 10-20 employees. looks like one of the [very numerous, usually derpy] some-guys-on-mit-campus-incorporeted-a-something deals.
mircea_popescu: hey, they wanna be on qntra let them use our advertising platform.
mircea_popescu: (actually - this is a pretty well represented subculture, contrary to what intuition may be telling you)
mircea_popescu: actually a sort of commedia could be made where a fake bitcoin internet group attacks the hollywood fake hospital they use in films, and encrypts their made up records to be recovered upon payment of large sum in scamcoin.
mircea_popescu: (incidentally the fucking point of myelin is to not conduct. it's the dielectric in the arrangement.)
mircea_popescu: anyway, most latin speakers in the history of that language learned it as adults.
mircea_popescu: derivation on the other hand is how you obtain lesser from less, or beautiful from beauty, so it's prolly what you were after.
mircea_popescu: verbal flexion follows tense, aspect and number accord with the nouns. it also applies to adverbs in some languages. noun declension follows case and number. these are grammar rules.
mircea_popescu: there's also derivation, when stems are altered to fit concepts.
mircea_popescu: * asciilifeform back from maths library, opens book, finds letter 'to reader' circa 2001, inviting to talk to some long-gone prof merely for being interested in the text << sad huh.
mircea_popescu: so not only is my beard half white, but here i sit basking in the glory of the writings i used to write. such is old age!
mircea_popescu: i should enter the prophecy competition with that. where's randi when you needi.
mircea_popescu: "The only thing that could devalue it, of course, is if I had a change of heart. I confess that I do, some mornings I wake up exhuberant and the ten million seems to me more like a billion soon."
mircea_popescu: right, nasdaq, vircurex, whadda hell's the difference.