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mircea_popescu: NOT being guilty of that probably scores you high for psychopathy or some shit, because that's the thing with socialization : being a very far outlier in your environment, even if you are right by some measure, still makes you a very far outlier.
mircea_popescu: ah, it didn't feel out of place. it was just... you know, trying to point out this is a very bad measuring stick. "fish is wet" well... it'd better be.
mircea_popescu: this is like "earth is carbon based so species there are probably breathing oxigen and retaining water" "i'm guilty of that". doh ?!
mircea_popescu: word. wants a) masturbation but b) that looks like work. there, el consumidor, fully described.
mircea_popescu: "Reality is too boring, and world events too complex, too overwhelming, and, frankly, too not about me. We want entertainment, diversions, that look enough like social policy analysis that we don't feel too guilty discussing them ad nauseum. We want masturbation that looks like work. "
mircea_popescu: god generally works on the conception angle. thank the women if anybody.
mircea_popescu: "The women with depressed, unhelpful husbands did not report lower levels of marital satisfaction; rather they were maintained at high levels. One interpretation of our data was that the women's more negative memories of their fathers served the function of minimizing (or denying) their husbands' failure to be as helpful as needed. If this is all that can be expected of men, then I can no longer recall my father so po
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "you set the chess table any way you want and it's checkmate in 3."
mircea_popescu: "you design and build the battleships and whatever else you feel like doing anyway you want to - we'll beat you to shit with them."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no see, that's the beauty of it. yes that's right, and it never occured to me before that could be a good thing.
mircea_popescu: i mean yes, it DOES seem to be simply miserable typing in openssl, they have nfi what ints even are over there
mircea_popescu: no see, i know that. but these are really bullshit answers obviously.
mircea_popescu: for that matter splitting a 31 bit paload in a 32 bit envelope into "odd/even" or "upper/lower" is, intuitively, the same damned thing. or should i say "from a theoretical, numeric persepective". why does it make a difference ?
mircea_popescu: its not that i suspect the holy grail is spirited there. i just don't grok what it does is all.
mircea_popescu: because i don't now, as i didn't in 2013, understand this.
mircea_popescu: what i want to know is, what is the mathematical significance of narrowinfg the S space.
mircea_popescu: (this is really why this is such a triviality. so min er x no longer accepts old style txn ? costs fifty cents to put a muxer in between)
mircea_popescu: maintaining backwards compatibility is one thing, maintaining backwards delusionality is another thing.
mircea_popescu: it'd be nice if that functionality was available. it eminently is not. tough and who doesn't like it knows how to get in the wot and start crac kin.
mircea_popescu: at no point was the promise made that one can rely on pre-loaded tx
mircea_popescu: on github. the thing is social media for derps. they comment because their food is late, there.
mircea_popescu: heck, the guy's pull request got, rather symptomatically, 0 comments.
mircea_popescu: so in that sense... if there's a superclass fix, and we find it, good. if not, entrenching around this seems a waste of time.
mircea_popescu: but the way which, whether it delegitimizes anything or not, nevertheless serves bitcoin, to do the switch, is by making sure that the proposed solution actually is a good solution for the proposed problem. there's a lengthy history of narrow, poorly tho9ught out, unreviewed and borderline nonsensical "solutions" that had to be reforged and then re-reforged, even 3-4-5 passes.
mircea_popescu: in any case, i see little value in the political thinking proposed. im not even sure it's all that political.
mircea_popescu: o hey not bad, guy gets to go to costa rica hang out with the other lamers on "what's left after divorce" budget
mircea_popescu: we had a discussion about how bip 62 is not particularly controversial last spring iirc.
mircea_popescu: more importantly : the entire malleability / bip 62 / sipa chjanges (such as linked) are 2013 material.
mircea_popescu: in any case : the actual significance of this switch in crypto terms could benefit from a review.
mircea_popescu: i dun see it's imposed by anything but the dubious quality of code writing employed throughout this project.
mircea_popescu: but the reaosn they weren't is specifically that we knew that it's early.
mircea_popescu: the idea is, at no point should it have made anything else anyway, at least as far as anyone knew.
mircea_popescu: i doubt enforcing low-s encoding of ecdsa is avoidable.
mircea_popescu: i think this is how it works with women and ass grabbing too.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile righyt here, expert C in field p says something so outrageously stupid (and it's not just one thing - all his forays into finance and investing read like he's a vocational school most likely to succeed from kharkov) in e that it's actually...endearing.
mircea_popescu: here's a puzzling fact. in some cases, expert A in field a saying something stupid in field b not only turns me off on A, but sometimes even makes me reevaluate his expertise of field a.
mircea_popescu: there is no inflation, if there it is two, maybe three years out at the earliest. This is massive deflation before your eyes, not even including the outstanding credit card balances and other personal loans which will never get paid, especially when the jobs start evaporating."
mircea_popescu: "I'm putting myself on the record (not that I haven't a dozen other times on this site):
mircea_popescu: they make like 500bux for the journalistic integritits.
mircea_popescu: it probably served half the teens in romania by now, if numbers have any meaning.
mircea_popescu: that article is lulzy - it was the 2nd most read article each month since pretty much its publishing
mircea_popescu: now, if only they had sane people in charge, doling out those missed paycheques.
mircea_popescu: because near-everybody there, like everywhere, is also an imbecile.
mircea_popescu: people love to assume that means "for the better", because it briefly did and people are idiots.
mircea_popescu: you entertain the delusion that your child is like you, which is true in unmobile societies.
mircea_popescu: incidentally : given that ~30 million americans are homeless AT ANY GIVEN POINT, and given that the life expectancy of the homeless is not terribly good, say 5-10 years, do compute the odds of your child being homeless during his lifetime kthx.
mircea_popescu: the executive difference being that you get sent to prison, but go to teh street.