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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.
mircea_popescu: which... whatevs. growing up happens to the best of 'em.
mircea_popescu: there's an immense pile of people who "don't agree with mp" as if that's some sort of vanity prop.
mircea_popescu: that's what not agreeing with me usually means. that you got some horse droppings in a portion of your brain.
mircea_popescu looks for the "as mp said a few months ago", doesn't find it, doesn't give a shit.
mircea_popescu: progress is what happens when everything gradually goes to shit
mircea_popescu: anyway, the whole as is down, being worked on, dulap should be back later.
mircea_popescu: prolly went to sergent blackforce the 9th power or w/e
mircea_popescu: wyrdmantis no fucking way your name actually is "dalroverezurla"
mircea_popescu: lemme dig it up, then you can watch it then i can say something pithy about it
mircea_popescu: i'm curious if the size of that empire will allow the young and clueless mining derps be squashed by decade-old us foreign policy technology that their older, more politically central counterparts have long ago figured how to sink
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if the chinese are actually fucktarded enough to allow usg to not get its wish but nevertheless move the window in not getting it, we'll probably not only de-thread it but rewrite the whole sheband, and with a better pow algo at that.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, our friends' apparently well intended conundrum is i think illustrative for the woe betid the modern man, asked to come up with "votes" on matters so far removed from his understanding.
mircea_popescu: no argument. was just pounding the more theoretical side of things.
mircea_popescu: so it can run "this timeslicing is no longer supporterd please run upgrade"
mircea_popescu: i do not think there ever existed a "single task programmable computer" yet, in spite of convincing early ibm emulation. you either get signal processing or multi tasking
mircea_popescu: just the fact that "these pages don't get swapped" would prolly 3x the whole thing or some shit
mircea_popescu: i mean... what's the connection between core11.hetzner.de and verizon-gni.net
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dunno, seems to be blackholed somehow. the server itself is fine. the looking into continues.
mircea_popescu: fluffypony in fairness, if one did the same calculation for "artists", bellybutton lint would probably figure very high
mircea_popescu: which turns the name into "Avram takes it in the butt"