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mircea_popescu: loper-os.org/pub goes to loper-os.nfshost.com/pub/ if you care.
mircea_popescu: pre bitcoin nobody had any fucking idea what computing even is supposed to be.
mircea_popescu: anyway. at least in romania's 90s, the life of a young theoretical physicist was ~90% derive and the rest chicken scribblings of the kind you mention.
mircea_popescu: but yeah, i was explaining to the 5yo plane composition and shit.
mircea_popescu: it actually was so good the baby brother of a friend mostly wanted to "play derive" when he visited.
mircea_popescu: anyway. the notion that you can get a computer to "do your derivation" is exactly like the notion that you can get a computer to "do your thing"
mircea_popescu lived with the exact same problem, even in the old days of derive.exe
mircea_popescu: nah im not surprised. derivation notation is fucking pn
mircea_popescu: "oh, i couldnb't afford to live here if i had to rent"
mircea_popescu: and hiding the cost of real estate from yourself (i don't rent, i own!) is just bad business
mircea_popescu: the many loltraps of real estate ownership, or why you can't really own "as an individual"
mircea_popescu: lol i don't give that much of a shit. but i also wouldn't want to own.
mircea_popescu: it's about, if i had to guess, 20khz. and prolly was there before but w/e, 8khz or somerthing
mircea_popescu: and it goes on after you turn it off, for like 5 minutes
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, this isn';t that. you turn on the water, and five minutes later the whole thing bellows. no banging.
mircea_popescu: and one unlucky repair, even one just-such-weight faucet can make the whole thing an organ)
mircea_popescu: (for they unfamiliar : old pipes in old buildings have, like any other rigid formation, resonancy frequencies.
mircea_popescu: in other news, this building is easily 200 years old, the pipes are certainly solid steel, and they got the curse
mircea_popescu: which is fine, whosoever can do whatever the fuck they do, but this voting braindamage...
mircea_popescu: heck, give fathers back the power to shoot toddlers that don't obey commands, see the "demographics problems" end overnight.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: so why'd they shoot the toddler BingoBoingo ? was it the "officer felt his life endangered" or was it "toddler didn't obey comamnds"
mircea_popescu: i get it, you leech and wish to complain about how the content you leech is packaged. this makes sense in your alt-universe ?
mircea_popescu: how to bother people, entry #985468546 : pronounce adult as "a dolt". insist.
mircea_popescu: and i guarantee you they'll continue to have all the "market share" they had before : 0 actual users, a few confused people with their quarter btc and otherwise, the whole might and noise of the usg.
mircea_popescu: broomstick fires first, speaks after, it's a land of magical puffery over there.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform gotta say something to salvage the pretense.
mircea_popescu: (dry-deepfry is so fucking retarded i have nfi why anyone even does it tbh)
mircea_popescu: mats you need one of those wire whisks. get the water to boiling, lower them into the water, give them ~90 seconds. take out, let them drip fully, then deepfry.
mircea_popescu: "helps you better understand the role of mp in shaping the 21st century"
mircea_popescu: maybe the guy should rape some teenagers ? apparently it's how you get shit done in the queen's realms.
mircea_popescu: in general, as it has been correctly observed and oft repeated, the simpler the gun, the worse for the state.
mircea_popescu: that obviously reduces to a ram farm, but at least ram is a degree of magnitude more commodised than gpus.
mircea_popescu: if you think about it, unless you have a nvidia farm you're trying to find a use for, your pow has no business being a recursive hash and shouldreally be a lot more like what phuctor's doing
mircea_popescu: a bitcoin purified of ec bullcrap could do some pretty splendid factorisation-based pow.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, the hash-and-nonce approach to pow originally proposed is quite obviously hackery.
mircea_popescu: it's not like he doesn't KNOW what he's doing oir anything.
mircea_popescu: check out gavin from 2011 : "What's the extra CPU cost for recovering the public key? Current bottleneck for bitcoin transaction processing is the CPU cost of ECDSA signature verification, not disk space or bandwidth, so saving bytes at the expense of more CPU is not the right thing to do."
mircea_popescu: odd how selective stupidity is. it'll only do its stupid thing where it doesn';t stand a chance, but will avoid where it'd work.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform funnily, the "corner silver market" was the opposite mistake. ie, "we'll make thius a 500 bn system for no reason"
mircea_popescu: same is true of monets, but the exponential's going the other way
mircea_popescu: this is the point easily missed. "oh, bitcoin is a 5 bn dollar system". no it's fucking not lol.
mircea_popescu: you think the fucktards writing "gawker" and all its clones are getting paid ? thjey aren't. they do it because i won't take them to work for qntra, and they imagine that if they persevere they can somehow prevail without needing to actually do the hard work.
mircea_popescu: people in the camp work for a) promises of future and b) mortgage-and-meal tickets.
mircea_popescu: " whatever other things the rogue's gallery of stoolies, shills, miscellaneous usg vermin got in reward for their collaboration, coin does not appear to be among them" <<< ahahahaha. fucking DOH. not even usg is this fucking stupid. albeit this is not deliberately, just, the low level idiots have no access to any btc and the high level doods know better. but for that matter : usg employees don't even get fiat.
mircea_popescu: but by the time one talks forks to that level, some sort of much different bitcoin would be on the table anyway. with ring signatures and various other items.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, it's plenty applicable, if one talks forks.