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mircea_popescu: Thing 2. We're trying to create an actually statically linked, weaponized bitcoind that's suitable for the pogo.
mircea_popescu: Thing 1. We're trying to reduce bitcoind to a form where it's actually worth cutting trees to print it ;
☟︎ mircea_popescu: actually, this is probably long overdue and a major public service. so i ordered teh gals bring cognac and i shall proceed
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but the spots on my spleen were because we can't seem to pin this down for five minutes.
mircea_popescu: do what you can, when you can, you got a lifetime ahead o you.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i appreciate the sentiment, i really do, it's pure love "oh im sorry i couldn't do more". fine, but don't let it consume you.
mircea_popescu: i dun think anyone was really going "hey, alf is not doing enough works!" or anything ?
mircea_popescu: after all, soviet armies even are a thing because the reason prefers to sleep, or how was that quote.
mircea_popescu: and as always is the case in life, if one doesn't manage to make one thing work, one'll sooner or later meet the same thing later on, with worse downside and less upside.
mircea_popescu: neway. voluntary is voluntary. has its upsides an' its downsided.
mircea_popescu: iirc they were disinclined from getting servers even, for yet
mircea_popescu: eh, relax wouldja. do what you can and let others do what they can and that's the whole story.
mircea_popescu: in other news, ima make myself some romanian style pickled cabbage!
mircea_popescu: nothing, least of which me, keeps you from running your own hoisehold soviet army style or any other style.
mircea_popescu: if i cared what kenyans value anything i might ask them. as it is, they don't even get a voice in blockchain size.
mircea_popescu: anyway, to put the thing in more distant, and thus perhaps more comprehensible terms even if you'll likely not be able to resist the temptation to crush naisl with the microscope : "what is the value of rsa to kenyan ?" and "obviously all this 'crypto work' is general 20yo cunt good looks" to kenyan.
mircea_popescu: neither of these approaches is actually meaningful, you're just murking up the material.
mircea_popescu: you asked me. if you weren't looking for an answer, wh yask me ?
mircea_popescu: your notion that "oh, what is my participation in B's cool worth" is akin to the dumb polack chick in A going "what are my good looks worth, i can't make hollywood rent control"
mircea_popescu: there is today a group of people that do so and so with encryption and bitcoins and etc. their history will be the controlling factor for an entire generation [of mostly chinese and russian speakers], who'll go about calling themselves the MP of cmpany X, because ceo is uncool now. this is part B of comparison.
mircea_popescu: there was once a group of 20something chicks that lived in so and so apartments and did so and so deeds and things. their history became the controlling factor for an entire generation of english speakers, who went and got rachedo's and so on and so forth. part A of comparison.
mircea_popescu: you can't be in this cast if you can't make rent. and no, wondering "What my youthfull good looks are worth" does not work with that show
mircea_popescu: you're approximately in the position of a 20something woman who wants to be part of the cast of friends but doesn't have the rent.
mircea_popescu: you can't sell it. if you keep it functioning well and in good shape, you can have an empire on the basis of it.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field about the same that the us court system is worth.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field god damned weren't you going on about how it needs sbcl machine bla bla ?
mircea_popescu: punkman kinda what i was proposing, a progressive scale. imo the way i stated it is better pr, but whatevs.
mircea_popescu: there is no reason under the sun to process, manage, consider or in any way interact with subdollar transactions.
mircea_popescu: seems it is saner to be paid in money than in time, to me.
mircea_popescu: i suppose if you prefer i can instead make it a time rule, and be like "bets under 0.0001 are paid in a year. bets under 0.01 are paid in a week"
mircea_popescu: which will come back to me, and i have to sit on it, and create more dust to payout.
mircea_popescu: think that i have to keep SOME dust over here while idiots get aggitated because "o noes it's been 25 hours" so im now creating more dust
mircea_popescu: it is not worth my time to handle 10k satoshi txn for less than 10k satoshi. this is a fact.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field so you hate them, that's fine, but you can't impugn the whole subdiscipline just because idiots somewhere
mircea_popescu: currently this CAN work as an extraction engine - it costs me more to make the payouts than i take in.
mircea_popescu: it's also a problem of cost. dust txn impose a cost on us.
mircea_popescu: kakobreklaa it will discourage people from sending them.
mircea_popescu: neither of which can be read reductionistically to "petrochem".
mircea_popescu: and my examples were around genome research and biosynthesizer identification
mircea_popescu: no. speaking of catalythic chemistry. as a thing. which it is.
mircea_popescu: aka "let's ignore what's being said and run off with one marginal example of the broad category discussed".
mircea_popescu: "In its classical form the BZ reaction consist of a one-electron redox catalyst"
mircea_popescu: this inspires me! tonight ima have one girl write nickserv on her pubis, and the other chanserv
mircea_popescu: ever since qm reduced macro tm to the status of macro tm
mircea_popescu: it is merely the experimental verification of the theoretically obvious
mircea_popescu: but by your very definition this is not a fundamental result.
mircea_popescu: this is like complaining electric engineering didn't invent any new type of electron.
mircea_popescu: it never happened in chemistry. it was always physics.
mircea_popescu: you've still not defined your "fundamental" "actula thing"
mircea_popescu: i don't care you sat on your tatched roof in mongolia and thus "dreamed" of skyscraper.