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mircea_popescu: topynate quite. consider, just for the sake of conversation, the situation of a child who rfound his father's musket.
mircea_popescu: moreover, whether it does or might isn't the point. the point is, can you prove it doesn't have such nature ? because unless you can, speaking of it as a quota is iffy.
mircea_popescu: that'd be ONE way it could have such universal nature.
mircea_popescu: topynate well, consider that we can alter the value of h by altering the units of measurement. suppose all alteration of the 1mb block limit reduces to similarly a mere change in the units of measurement.
mircea_popescu: in this sense the argument can be brought that while the early block limit as implemented by miners (using 60% of the 1mb blocks) WAS a quota, the actual 1mb block size is not a quota at all,
mircea_popescu: but it does meet your definition. "a binding limit on how much of something is made". it is binding, it is a limit, and it is on how much ofsomething can be made.
mircea_popescu: understand that immutable systems are VERY dangerous in principle. your world is mutable.
mircea_popescu: besides, the same selective memory thing that was deliberately put into deedbot works here as well. some dead chains will be forgotten before others.
mircea_popescu: topynate now let's thrash this out. can you define "quota" ?
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mircea_popescu: regrind, to be perfectly clear, is the act of making a tree out of patches instead of keeping them linear. this is a known efficiency-of-search trope, and i shouldn't have to explain how distributing the patches out saves work when i'm pressing 3 years later and want to read the whole string of patches from genesis.
mircea_popescu: "oh boo hoo, i am too important and gmaxwell to fucking fix things, here's my useless code that everyone's going to be stuck with forever"
mircea_popescu: "Also, I heard that people are more willing to help animals than other people. Thus the donations to a pet rescue fund can be seen as the upper estimate of how donation to the webpage capture project would perform."
mircea_popescu: i can make as many fuckwhores.vpatch as i want, but only one can end up in any given tree.
mircea_popescu: i bought things so small you could carry them inside your nostril.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo best slutwear thing in buenos aires, by a large margin.
mircea_popescu: it's inconceivable without seeing it. like 20 sq feet affair that was maybe five foot tall, you had to go in two fucking steps. and then the actual shop, down a steep flight of stairs, another 30 sqft or so i guess.
mircea_popescu: so i've just been shopping in the tiniest shop i have ever seen.
mircea_popescu: also, the timing as presented by the node is not terribly reliable.
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag> chances are you simply aren't looking. << grep exists you know.
mircea_popescu: obviously. why not be useless to the bitter end. power rangering ftw!
mircea_popescu: i dunno what it is, i've never seen it before trb myself, nor a really good one since.
mircea_popescu: oddly enough i don't get blackholed nearly as often as you do o.O
mircea_popescu: last time i did it it went flawlessly. the time before that, i took three tries because i fucked up twice.
mircea_popescu: gotta make a bot, that'll say "hey dummy... you only put the sig in!"
mircea_popescu: jurov really can't be expected to baby people sending stuff WRONGLY for the rest of his days.
mircea_popescu: splendor of splendors. and if we can somehow merge the eating so both the current model and an error-passing irc bot based method exist...
mircea_popescu: yaya. but lxr is still pretty good, and a good basis for vtronic same-thing
mircea_popescu: review the letters, the reason calculus was invented as well as documented has everything to do with newton being part of the b-a of his time, going under the name "lion's claw" and ~0 to do with the happenstance that some derp battling hygiene wore a hunk of metal now and again for a hat.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: science has no country. the pretense to the contrary is not unlike some derps sitting on reddit going "people whose names start with m are more great than people whose names start with i because mp > indiancandy so THERE!11"
mircea_popescu: einstein comes up with "god doesn't roll dice", switzerland gets +1, newton comes up with calculus "great britain" gets +1 ?
mircea_popescu: sort of like counting the fucks over your life. odds are the most times you fucked the women you liked least. it's how it works for most people.
mircea_popescu: punkman i dunno how much i credit this accounting approach.
mircea_popescu: up to 1-200k a day it can keep going. that's finally a relevant metric worth considering.
mircea_popescu: lol so the redditard/tardstalk/whatever idiot parade settled on "we know better than mp because random derp said we do" ?
mircea_popescu: and as a side wonder, i wonder how many people even knew iowa was a state.
mircea_popescu: i wonder if rand will spend the next 50 years with a tiny rabid fanbase and a few %s each election.