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floog: okay,
that makes a lot more sense now
mircea_popescu: that "abstract art" work we shall call
the colors of factorial.
mircea_popescu: lettuce create a bitmap image 1024px wide, 32 bit color depth, so
that each factorial is followed by a white line, and each pixel from left
to right contains 3 bytes of data.
mircea_popescu: actually, let's save on
teh upload and
tell you
the plan :
daffadil: "Friendship" is just a
transient software patch
that we install on one another.
BingoBoingo: To be fair, V is
the premier
tool for anti-social networking
floog: im
trying
to understand
the purpose of V.from
the python code it seems like some sort of interpersonal network
tool, but
that's about as far as i've been able
to get
floog: some dude who found your blog and found
the conversation interesting enough
to lurk
mircea_popescu: well jhvh1 look into
the official coindash slack channel
then
mircea_popescu: outbrain eagerly awaits
the brainchild of mit, or,
to quote, "She does stink. And she should quit. But I don't want it
to be because of me. It should be
the
traditional route. Years of rejection and failure until she's spit out
the bottom of
the porn industry."
mircea_popescu: next step on ethereum's fascinating journey being "the one weird
trick hacker used
to make 74
trillion"
mircea_popescu: and if it doesn't work, it'll just be case #517 or whatever
the count is at of self important ustard dorks.
mircea_popescu: so let
them. if it works we needed a new bitcoin anyway.
user705: true but
they certainly can
try
to cut off
the nose
to spite
the face so
to speak
mircea_popescu: bitmain can either make bitcoin miners or not make bitcoin miners.
this isn't evben a choice -- for as long as
they can
they'll make, and once
they become irrelevant
they won't make. whether
they also whine with it or not... who cares.
mircea_popescu: and not because it would be racist
to
try ; but because
they are impotent.
user705: Bitmain seemed pretty serious with it's footstomping
though
mircea_popescu: but
they, both joint and several, can't possibly influence
the world.
mircea_popescu: jane reddit may care, or at
the least pretend
to care what bitcoin client joe reddit uses, in obvious exchange of joe reddit pretending
to care about "that one
time she was almost raped".
mircea_popescu: but at any event -- i do not care what bitcoin client joe reddit "uses". he has no money in
the first place ; and even if he had money he has nothing interesting
to do with
them. sloshing
the payola back and forth from one usg pocket
to another is scarcely worth wasting paper, let alone bitcoin ledger.
mircea_popescu: mahahahaybe a few of
them will actually manage
to find a job instead of dicking around online, but it seems unlikely. who wants
to employ an idle ustard and what useful could
they do ?
mircea_popescu: far as i can
tell, people who can't retain employment will whine about it for
the next
two weeks as if it were a
thing,
then
the date will come, nothing whatsoewver will happebn, and
they'll just move on
to whining about some other pie in
the sky
user705: how would
the endgame unfold?
this "soft" fork will just become a hard fork. right or how would it unwind?
mircea_popescu: i
thought wediditreddit was ~weekly eveny anyway, in
their own little cesspool.
user705: so with bigger blocks vs smaller blocks
the clusterfuck will be epic
mircea_popescu: so, ample opportunity for
the entrepreneurial -- start a pool
that's not a scam, if all others are, or you perceive
they might be.
user705: to
the pool
then on
to individual miners
mircea_popescu: at least afaik
they've not yet built up
the cheek
to pretend
to change
that part.
mircea_popescu: i'm not sure what you're asking. if i send a bitcoin
to someone, no
third party can do anything
to it.
user705: unfortunately
true. have
to work hard
to change. mining now is an unprofitable venture. but with
this fork would coinbase
transactions be impacted? no right? but pools would pay out from
that so how would it work when it all unwinds?
mircea_popescu: well, "social media". usg's astroturf for its own sheeple. much like you know,
the notion
that "embargo of russia" or "recapture of mosul --
two weeks starting in 2016",
the sort of ideas with no further substance
than "i really watch
too much
tv"
mircea_popescu: the notion
that 1 august bears any relevancy is entirely borne out of spending
too much
time on social media.
mircea_popescu: user705 you would mine
then as you mine now. if you're pool mining, select a pool
that isn't scamming you
then , just as you would now.
user705: how would one mine on
the correct chain or would it not be possible because of pools?
a111: Logged on 2015-12-28 18:09 mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-12-2015#1355361 << quite. all
this verbiage about how "oh lalala, if miners stop enforcing X fork
they will be excluded" fails
to account for
the fact
that unlike
the various PRBs,
TRB does NOT actually implement any of
the soft forks. so no,
they won't be "excluded". nobody will notice
they stopped.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the paradigmatic "soft fork" is "we will not mine
transactions involving 1Terrorists address". permitting any other one is simply going
towards
this at whatever pace and from whatever distance.
whaack: the idea
that segwit is safer because it is a "soft fork" is nonsense. during a hard fork one can vote with
their coins. soft forks are a sneak attack
to add a new rule on
the part of
the miners.
mircea_popescu: sanity apparently doesn't hold up well
to insistent stupidity.
mircea_popescu: kinda why
the entire fake media exists in
the first place.
user705: the instinctual understanding is
that hardfork is obviously bad but
the way
this new softfork was being sold I guess I got bamboozled a bit
BingoBoingo: Hence going all
the way back
to 2013 scammer Luke-jr
BingoBoingo: Ah,
then perhaps read older Qntra
too? Not much has changed since 2015. Enemies of Bitcoin simply cycling
through new names as old ones burn credibility
user705: that's why I decided
to finally go
to
the source
mircea_popescu: just
the periodic herd wank on
turner's captive cow sites.
mircea_popescu: nor has
the matter been seriously considered by actual
thinkers.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> very acultural world,
this anglotardlandia. << AHA, not even AGRIcultural anymore
mircea_popescu: inexplicably, as
the dorks made a lot of noise about it
then and have studiously pretended
to have forgotten all about it ever since, as if
that's how
this works now.
user705: hmm I read a lot of
trilemma must've missed
that one
user705: is
that still considered
to be a block size increase and
therefore will lead
to a lot of pain for many?
user705: but what is your view on just
the segwit part?
user705: the hard fork
that was proposed by idiots who claimed
to be
the economic majority but forgot
to sign
their BTC balances
to actually prove
that is obviously a non starter
mircea_popescu: you'll have
to unwrap
that into something
that makes sense. say what ?
user705: is your view on
the segwit lite
that seems
to be bandied about as
the solution same as segwit2x which is just outright wrong?
user705: what be
the proper way
to ask questions
user705: cool pop in here for first
time and MP is here
mircea_popescu: consider
though, how easily it flips on its head. mp recommends blogging, which was fashionable like cameraing was at some point, but no longer. and "you can't film everything stays
the same", and "but
the noise is distracting" morphs into "but i am afraid my well hidden shortcvomings which nobody can otherwise observe may be exposed" and who's
teh anticultural nao.
mircea_popescu: "but you can't film everything" "of course not" "the noise is distracting" "Youi'll get used
to it" "but why!" "you'll see."
mircea_popescu: sure, culture is not intended
to be either a prison or an answer (these haven't yet been unglued). nevertheless,
the young man who does not understand why have cameras in
the bedroom when mirrors suffice is
the fundamental anticultural agent.
a111: Logged on 2016-01-21 19:49 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: when i was a small boy, my elder brother
taught me a lesson once:
mircea_popescu: bs "what is
the point of star maps, you can just look out
the window".
mircea_popescu: anyway, for
the record, "oh, and what is
the use of storing 500mb when i can calculate
this in seconds" : because, dumbass, you might want as we wanted
TO HAVE SOMETHING
TO COMPARE YOUR CALCULATIONS
TO.
mircea_popescu: "really ? factorial
table ?" "no i meant, fanfic about simpson episodes" "ah ok
then"
mircea_popescu: either should be fine. hex less space, decimal easier for
total noobs.