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mircea_popescu: heh im bashing that baby stuff. alf huffed the right paint this morning :D
mircea_popescu: one is code, the other standard. it helps me nothing that you've made one small if this makes the other huge.
mircea_popescu: even before wot issue considered : there's two branches to corectness.
mircea_popescu: punkman only if "standard format" doesn't expand at pre-compile time into "here's a debalanced tree of 547657698 "standards""
mircea_popescu: yes because it sucks lol. if you're happy with that much.
mircea_popescu: i do but i don't recall why i wasn't so hot about that.
mircea_popescu: this strikes me as the same fundamental insanity of "we'll replace bdb with leveldb in the sense that WE KEEP BOTH!!1".
mircea_popescu: yes but fuck that, we have a protocol that then imports json ?
mircea_popescu: incidentally, why the fuck does bitcoin have json support ? do we actually want this ?
mircea_popescu: what i took it to mean was that if he's gonna load his head with shit, would rather do two things than one and reload
mircea_popescu: punkman certainly a worthy attempt, even if mod6 prolly won't be able to put it in current release.
mircea_popescu: this with a view to better semantics, or with a view to reinstate gui ?
mircea_popescu: didn't he end up basically rewriting sendmail because sendmail sucked ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform actually may want to write him a letter, iirc he was also all about fits in head but arrived there on slightly different path
mircea_popescu: guy's brilliant, hard to argue with that. but yes, seems he's being slowly ground to paste by "teh system"
mircea_popescu: of course they're busy fucking around doing nothing much. but hey, gosplan!
mircea_popescu: actually a proper history of early mining would be a most respectable endeavour for a serious, diligent historian at this point.
mircea_popescu: there were, up until early 2013 or so, more dead runs than live.
mircea_popescu: asicminer had a fully blown up run. so did bfl, twice iirc.
mircea_popescu: of the people who scammed their "investors, at least half, to two thirds, were scammed in turn, by their "providers".
mircea_popescu: easy to reinterpret what memory salvaged of the midden of history, but if you were there and saw the missing 95% from that story...
mircea_popescu: more or less. really, esp early on, it was just blindly flailing.
mircea_popescu: iirc the overall "delivered asic, all cores working" was in the <5% zone.
mircea_popescu: very fucking hard making jokes about bitcoin codebase, seeing the state it's in.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform let the guy do something useful wouldja. step at a time.
mircea_popescu: well, depends. the large nato round is really like the hunting .308
mircea_popescu: well yes. 39 is the old ak/sks russian thing. nato has a bigger one.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and that's on the modest 39mm. pretty much a thing of the past, everyone doing 51 now amirite. so 2x that.
mircea_popescu: seeing how it's about 2kj per bullet, we find that each enemy combatant takes ~1MWh in bullets only!
mircea_popescu: people keep mocking hollywood marksmanship. mostly because they've never been in a warzone.
mircea_popescu: dja know that the AVERAGE ammo expenditure per enemy killed is in the 2mn range by now ?
mircea_popescu: but, at this juncture, augustus' memoirs are recomended re-read. might explain the vecchio rotinculo much closer than before.
mircea_popescu: and they do not wish to be not because they somehow give a shit about brutus and brutish jealousies.
mircea_popescu: ironically, the people who could be caesar ie emperor and pontifex max uniformly do not wish to be, so much so it's almost a heuristic.
mircea_popescu: they had more dynasties than americans had sexual partners.
mircea_popescu: your idea that "5000 yr egyptianreich" is not unlike a 1900s victorian idea that "5000 yr chinareich". wut ?
mircea_popescu: which is why they keep inventing academic honors for the emperor. they work admirably, don't they.
mircea_popescu: king can not invest by staff. he doesn't have a staff to give.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i have no idea how to formulate this better than to refer you to the (oft mentioned, by me) worms dispute.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, this is a flattering if incorrect representation. like saying "unfortunately whale did not have enough evolution mojo to grow wings". yeasure.
mircea_popescu: anyway, in the expression of the castrated subhumans that nevertheless are intelligent enough to notice the problem, this is usually called the "knowledge problem", ie poor state can't acquire and process enough information to make a reasonable gosplan.
mircea_popescu: i am immune to it, it depends on me. this creates a certain situation of power in the field.
mircea_popescu: problem being, they don't actually help, just serve to alienate me further.
mircea_popescu: which is why all the red square nuclear bomb displays and etc. obligate pompousness.
mircea_popescu: the argument against gosplan is exactly the argument against "hi guise i am ceo".
mircea_popescu: while you personally may not be inclined, i am, and without me it dies.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, the argument against gosplan is that "fuck you".
mircea_popescu: the problem here is that both ox and chickens are separate from the thing they pull.
mircea_popescu: nope. it's the "brain resides in skullbox not spread out throughout cells like mitochondria".
mircea_popescu: anyway, there was a bank holiday on monday. in the us. some black speechmaker dude
mircea_popescu: Azelphur notsure why you're not using the assbot wot anyway.
mircea_popescu: worth your time to research it for your own sharpening, it's all pretty clever.
mircea_popescu: arrived at through a lot of experimental as well as theoretical effort.