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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i thought the reason was petro->chickenfeed conversion and economics of scale.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-20 21:06 mircea_popescu: the fundamental mechanic being that you have animals which you gotta mate and then raise the eggs and you can get varying stuff out of the eggs and etc.
trinque: mircea_popescu: gameboy
asciilifeform: i actually have ~0 idea what specifically supports the 'mainstream' commercial existence of the ipad. (as in the old ebay thread with mircea_popescu , it turns out that asciilifeform's uses for various items are often quite nonstandard )
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Acts of Gord : Love the Gord , Fear the Gord: <http://www.actsofgord.com/>; Acts of Gord - The Book of Annoyances: <http://www.actsofgord.com/Annoy/>; Acts of Gord - The Book of Apocalypse: <http://www.actsofgord.com/apocalypse/>
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: was 'casual came' at any point -- in its ~commercial~ ( vs tetrises, alexey pajitnov ) phase of life -- ever anything other than this ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu
asciilifeform: and this reminded me, did mircea_popescu ever write a piece re the 'radium girls' ? the ones that licked the brushes and rotted. they are brought up as darlings of the 'unions' era, 'wurker's rights', etc. but in actuality they not only licked the brushes but painted own lips, nails, jewelry, etc.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'd own a dump truck with a crane -- if had where to keep it.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-20 03:49 mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes it occurs to me, btw, that the scam whereby people who were holding jobs shares were converted to cook shares is one of the cruelest things in nature.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: even there, 0 reason for lan to be anything but GB
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: no GBe -- not , imho, any kind of router.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Maybe. Serious intl incident material!
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: introducing the nonsensical 'original throughout' device ( nobody else, incl asciilifeform , had ) does not help mircea_popescu's argument
asciilifeform: if mircea_popescu wants to inhabit a mental universe where 'there is no such thing as original technology' and xerox parc circa 1970s is exactly same thing as microshit today -- i can't possibly stop him.
asciilifeform: i'd genuinely like to know what mircea_popescu takes issue with in this thread
a111: Logged on 2017-03-20 17:21 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform peons don't enter into it. the sort of captives in the consolidated shit of their own head who ask for a "solid, useful knowhow item" and then IMMEDIATELY retort "it isn't innovative" when such is presented, however... those doods have problems.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-20#1629499 << as i understand 'innovative' is a barf trigger word for mircea_popescu , but i don't know of a more appropriate word. if q is re 'what useful things did you lift from microshit', and someone suggests 'fat16', i can only answer 'it was not innovation, did not originate from the loins of microshit.' ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu leases entire city blocks and probably operates in somewhat different planet.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: HOUSES have ~100% occupation, where i live.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sometimes they showed up almost immediately ! as in, next day i call and 'oops sorry it was already snapped'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: directx is simply a fruit of collusion with the gpu vendors, i see nothing innovative about it
a111: Logged on 2017-03-20 01:02 Framedragger: mircea_popescu: oof, max fat32 size is 4gb, with a maximum of (to the tune of) hundreds of millions of files (less than 1bn); there's also exFAT of course, etc., but eugh
a111: Logged on 2017-03-20 01:03 mircea_popescu: i don't recall being as pissed off with fat32 at any point throughout the 90s as i've regularly been hence.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-20 01:00 mircea_popescu: we ~might~ even wish to see fat32/
a111: Logged on 2017-03-20 00:58 mircea_popescu: also, we are not at wall : we saw ext4 ; did not see ext2 ; did not see reiserfs.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: to be fair, anyone who didn't liquidate a week before jobs' illness hit the rags is a derp who got what they deserved
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: bezzle land corporate structuring is just sad on every axis
ben_vulpes: old hat for the mircea_popescu's
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: pardon me but the side of your /what/?
trinque imagines ben_vulpes standing atop a fixed shitter patriotically, like the bum in mircea_popescu's parable
a111: Logged on 2017-03-19 23:43 mircea_popescu: it's not a bad thing, not among people who love each other.
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: oof, max fat32 size is 4gb, with a maximum of (to the tune of) hundreds of millions of files (less than 1bn); there's also exFAT of course, etc., but eugh ☟︎
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> also, we are not at wall : we saw ext4 ; did not see ext2 ; did not see reiserfs. << for sure. i think we're just getting started baselining these prototypes.
Framedragger: (yeah mircea_popescu afraid i won't have time re. those other two till quite a bit later)
a111: Logged on 2015-11-05 22:00 mircea_popescu: actually, this is probably long overdue and a major public service. so i ordered teh gals bring cognac and i shall proceed
a111: Logged on 2017-03-19 02:01 mircea_popescu: how slow can it be lel. modern camera films hdtv.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-19 01:35 mircea_popescu: rigol prolly fine.
mod6: mircea_popescu: ah, cool thx :]
a111: Logged on 2015-06-12 20:43 mircea_popescu: anyway, ascii_field, how does one check cardanos without an oscilloscope ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there are ~no echoes etc at the 10mhz the thing worked at.
asciilifeform: i.e. 'we know about mircea_popescu's nuke, invent a magical bunker for us to hide in'
a111: Logged on 2017-03-18 12:34 mircea_popescu: and here's something to amuse alf with : https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6__KPOV4AA0_AK.jpg
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: many thanks (added a trivial answer just to properly ack). ok time to sleep before blabbering again, mein gott
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: i'm probably doing sth wrong but now one of the two replies i just posted is marked as awaiting moderation and the other doesn't; sorry if i broke some bytes
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2016/gossipd-design-document/#comment-121602 (hey thread wasn't finished) :)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: phuctor gets crawled every ~10min, looks like
a111: Logged on 2017-03-17 12:37 mircea_popescu: 99% of sacral fractures are because woman fell flat on her ass like idiot instead of falling on side like nature hardened body to do.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sooo did it superconduct ?
a111: Logged on 2017-03-17 12:46 mircea_popescu: as it happens i am not about to trade my insanely selected (not just http://trilema.com/2017/the-story-of-the-scared-slut/ should plainly indicate that scarcely a girl in a million makes it past my gates) toys for ... what the fuck for, $random-kid ? That's not for my sluts to do, that's for the 0 value redditards. for them, it's actually +ev. my girls have immensely more important shit to do, such as... everything else. the
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: yeah, point taken. summer is approaching, and with it, more time "i promise guyz"
asciilifeform: i'd picture that there is not enough friction to grip. but if mircea_popescu has demonstrated experimentally -- i'll believe him
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: how's that work? you need friction to have grip, neh?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: those folx tend to have some... very interesting.. notions re physiology
asciilifeform: they'd laugh at mircea_popescu's thin glove.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-17 12:37 mircea_popescu: 99% of sacral fractures are because woman fell flat on her ass like idiot instead of falling on side like nature hardened body to do.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-17 12:46 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-17#1628626 << i don't see this at all. if you fuck a woman "normally" and she's not on the pill, you will obtain 8 kids in 10 years. you will also obtain an extremely shriveled woman, because like it or not females are essentially the cotyledon of children. biology is merciless and the ultimate empire, it dun care one whit your girl is smart and pleasant and worships you, it just cares to push o
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: where's the surprise in this. airplane sits most of the time on parking lot, same as bulldozer, same as harem
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> on occasion. yes with teeth. i also pluck their legs and let them die. in general i torture a good half of all mosquitoes. << i like his enthusiasm. im usually content to simply smash them like @ c3. but, hey, i gotta try this.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-15 00:29 mircea_popescu: pretty fine example of exactly why warren was so vocal (item was strictly a barony created so elizabeth warren could be barron OF SOMETHING). this cfpb item spent 55mn on "renovations" of its hq, ie more than the gsa spent that year on everything the usg owns ; spent immensely on travel (which is not something they do). the chairman is supposed to not be removable by the president except "for cause" (meanwhile that got strick
asciilifeform: the mosquitoes here in mosquitolandia are large, but apparently not quite the size of mircea_popescu's ( though at c3 i saw a great many mosquitoes, but 0 bit ! some sort of incompatibility..? )
a111: Logged on 2017-03-16 22:55 mircea_popescu: yeah, i have nfi why teh putin isn't flooding the usg with red notices for usgtards.
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davout: mircea_popescu: not really because i'm not particularly interested in discussing pruning from a position where i'm somehow supposed to defend it
asciilifeform: this was the subject of mircea_popescu's keccak article
asciilifeform: davout : mircea_popescu has it. your hypothetical 'pruned' utxo set is one bitflip away from ???.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the thought process is that every clever kid wants to 'и рыбку съесть, и на хуй сесть' (tm)
davout: mircea_popescu: nobody's asking you to trust someone on his word, to each his own chain copy
davout: mircea_popescu: how is it nonsense if i have personnally verified the chain?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i'd say that the idea is impossible in the general case.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: even in your demurraging scheme , you would not thereby be able to safely recycle tx id.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: demurraging coin fails the berlin wall test.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-27 16:56 mircea_popescu: but the correct trb-i might just as well end up this situation where block reward is 1mn bitcoin, and it dies within 1mn blocks. so all mining does is produce ~ a lease ~ on a chunk of bitcoin. and the value of old bitcoin is monotonically decreasing over their lifetime.
asciilifeform: davout, mircea_popescu : a 'pruned' bitcoin ~= usd.
ben_vulpes: Framedragger: what mircea_popescu said: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-16#1628240 ☝︎
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> you can extract packets but basically end up re=implementing gpg.
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: ah ok, i guess the issue is that the sig is part of binary blob, need to convert it, etc, hrmh
asciilifeform: my nodes, for instance, reorged in different places than mircea_popescu's
davout: mircea_popescu: seems coinbase needs same address but also same extraNonce to compute to same hash, you probably overestimate the actual txid collision count
asciilifeform: it is going on the conveyor mircea_popescu .
a111: Logged on 2017-03-16 17:19 mircea_popescu: even later on, coinbase C2 with same hash as C1 is introduced in block 3.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it's an absence, not a presence, of code, how do i point to an absence ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: revisiting the boojum: block 500,000 has coinbase B. it was spent, many cities are built on the outputs, time passes, world forgets. yeas later, dr. evil mines a block ~600,000~ , now again having B. ( he does not need to know any keys for this, can just copy the tx. ) then he sets his minetron to start again from 599,999. succeeds in orphaning block 600,000 . reorg fires. B now gets removed from the index db ! and a
asciilifeform: ^ do you see a check for previous existence here, mircea_popescu ? because i don't...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: also it is not clear to me that reorgs actually handle this case
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: got it !
asciilifeform: but possibly now mircea_popescu sees what asciilifeform meant by 'trbi is much EASIER problem than working-trb'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not related, but gotta ask before mircea_popescu goes back to sleep, (believe or not) i just today noticed that duplicate coinbases actually existed.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: there was a name for this, 'kitchen intellectuals' ☟︎
asciilifeform: but mircea_popescu is stingy re the concretes, and asciilifeform likes concretes.
asciilifeform: i won't argue ' asciilifeform knows Moar Fact from reading völkischer beobachter than mircea_popescu from spy network ', that'd be riotously stupid
asciilifeform: if mircea_popescu had said 'you won't learn the mechanics of su collapse by reading pravda or decrees of politburo' i would grudgingly agree
asciilifeform: cabs. and at one point worked in dire shitholes of various descriptions. but what point is there describing any of it, mircea_popescu will still insist that 'none of it describes the Actual anthill, you gotta have a private intel agency of 10,001 cutthroat sluts to know Reality!11'
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: that's a new one. not too long either if i skip translating the 102 comments
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: sorta like the block!111
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 0.067 sec. btw is the avg, 0.123 was fluke.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: well that's merely the mechanical process, no tx index queries, no scriptolade use.
asciilifeform: as per old mircea_popescu essay
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: mircea_popescu seems to use 'marriage' to refer to just about any poorly thought-through, short-sighted plan