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mircea_popescu: avram iancu is a romanian folk hero. famously a guy answered "describe in brief the life and activity of avram iancu" task by writing down the letter R
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo im not putting a biology section in there!
mircea_popescu: it does give me a taste of a very old yet apparently not forgotten "you are not expected to understand this" day at special math studies group within gifted kids hs. which is hopefully a ghood thing.
mircea_popescu: make sure you reload it sometime tomorrow just in case i actually wake up with any ideas.
mircea_popescu: sorta like being a name in flying cca 1920, everyone's got a throught for you.
mircea_popescu: what do zerohedge, rooshv and whatever have in common ? a live interest in bitcoin
mircea_popescu: i am the only "political prisoner" on the list so to speak.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo or since some guy came in here and apologize about something vague
mircea_popescu: felipelalli im not entirely sure what the fake node count does tbh.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo he prolly loaded it during a ddos bout or something
mircea_popescu: "The latest Tweets from Andre Infante (@AndreTI). FutureTech editor at MakeUseOf. Game developer. Future savior of humanity. New Mexico."
mircea_popescu: nt, and more than a little gratified that his blog seems to have shutdown in the ensuing mess."
mircea_popescu: "Ironically, this is the second time I’ve run across Popescu in my writing. Popescu is a member of a group who call themselves “The Bitcoin Lordship,” who opposed a necessary increase in the Bitcoin block size for some very silly and shortsighted reasons. I remember thinking that he in particular was an ugly combination of paranoid, narcissistic, and downright mean. I now feel somewhat vindicated in that assessme
mircea_popescu: the blonde without a piece of paper saying breathe and the usian without his cockhead in his own mouth would just fall over and die.
mircea_popescu: i wonder who the fuck ever looked at her and thought "hey, i want her"
mircea_popescu: anyway. they sorta-read ba, mostly indirectly, and pretend like they're their own item. which is... you know, most people out there anyway.
mircea_popescu: none of the names mentioned belong to anyone of any consequence, in bitcoin or in their immediate communities.
mircea_popescu: "people like mp who don't have to retract shit on a daily - or even decade-ally - basis would be at an unfair advantage!11"
mircea_popescu: "imagine how nervewracking it were if you had to stick behind what you say! as a politician no less!"
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's fascinating what preoccupies people at any given juncture.
mircea_popescu: you can tell by all the breadcrumbs the use of pgp is so insecure it's outright spurious.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they say knowing what's needed is half the battle!
mircea_popescu: ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued."
mircea_popescu: "I was the middle child of three, but there was a gap of five years on either side, and I barely saw my father before I was eight. For this and other reasons I was somewhat lonely, and I soon developed disagreeable mannerisms which made me unpopular throughout my schooldays. I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary
mircea_popescu: (which is why people fuck their secretaries. you really can't be any good unless intimately acquainted)
mircea_popescu: a well trained woman to whom you can say "do so and so" and she can and does.
mircea_popescu: they exchange pictures and isn't it adorable what did the mean people say blablabla.
mircea_popescu: now it's like the fucking women took over, everyone's in the "mommy community".
mircea_popescu: except at the time everyone was a scientist in their garage
mircea_popescu: that there's so precious little intellectual effort dedicated to the topic is prolly the saddest manifest of a dead culture.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, there seems no possible question that the nakamoto paper is a (tenuous) footbridge rather than any sort of wall.
mircea_popescu: ah, i'm disorganised. from literary criticism to actual agriculture
mircea_popescu: orwell for that matter displays it plainly, which is among the few facts pleading in favour of his intelligence.
mircea_popescu: i think anyone with a serious interest in human thought has a corner they use just in that manner you describe.
mircea_popescu: two extant problems being alf's provability and my economics/scam thing.
mircea_popescu: i think ironically the "basic bitcoin" exercise has illustrated we're not yet in a theoretically-complete position. damned close but not there.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, is there an academiwank dedicated to programs that prove properties of themselves ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there is something there i think but not usable as is
mircea_popescu: i thought all southern dishes that are fried are fried in groundhog fat.
mircea_popescu: it was rigurously defined and understood long ago, and we're not adding anything
mircea_popescu: also hanbot has it : idempotence IS fundamental to bitcoin. but unlike shit like sybil attack, or pgp, which were scarcely used or thought about before we came around,