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a111: Logged on 2016-12-20 13:32
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes is that paste on your binary star ?
pete_dushenski:
mircea_popescu: internet census is right up there eh ? the irony of that one little study making such a dent in a world awash in 'data' and 'research' where n=43 is otherwise sufficient grounds for public policy decisions... never fails to amus.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-01 02:04
mircea_popescu: happy bday mod6
mod6: <+
mircea_popescu> btw mod6 ben_vulpes trinque re the whole db/fs etc discussion, anyone recall the symlinks method / proposed tests ? << yah, im trying to dig this up now actually.
a111: Logged on 2015-06-24 21:05
mircea_popescu: punkman because a) when i first asked, their idea was "buy a mug" ; b) the link i finally fished out did not include any reference either i or fluffypony found (see it in logs) - they have A DIFFERENT unlinked page for this purpose
davout:
mircea_popescu: could match me too
davout:
mircea_popescu: takes ages to load, i'm 33 and what is this
davout:
mircea_popescu: what about it?
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> twas on qntra earlier << Nah, shinohai dropped link and loled but no submission was found yet
mod6: <+
mircea_popescu> mod6 that "separate config file" references what i recall as a previous discussion. << aha, now i recall. I think the suggestion was that one could, from a config file, turn checkpoints on or off, or add new ones if they wished.
mod6: <+
mircea_popescu> mod6 got al ink ? << i'll dig it up once im caught up here...
mod6: <+
mircea_popescu> and so we are back to the original bitcoinfs. << aha
mod6: <+
mircea_popescu> ben_vulpes iirc the discussion at the time ended with me pointing out it should be made arbitrary to user's choice. << there was a whole public discussion on this at the time. and at that point, i backed away from it.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-19 20:16
mircea_popescu: writing drivers is two things : a) write the fw ; or b) call nvidia faggots on a mailing list.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-19 20:30
mircea_popescu is open to financing some degree of old hardware buying for share in ownership. re the above g5 sort of thing.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-19 19:57
mircea_popescu: davout there are two different items here. a) how much first-time development work is saved (which your proposal addresses) and b) how much maintenance is required to then maintain the infreastructure that saved first-time development work. in the case of bitcoin, b) is the important factor because it scales exponentially : when a is 100 hours, b is 10k hours, substracting an hour of a at the cost of 50% less b means in fact
jhvh1:
mircea_popescu: 10**12 * ln(10**12) = 2.7631021115928547E13
jhvh1:
mircea_popescu: 10**12 * log(10**12) = 1.1999999999999998E13
a111: Logged on 2016-12-19 19:38
mircea_popescu: let user pick checksum. this is the only right way to do this.
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> yes but you're also experimenting with "interesting objects these people" and it's gonna get you in hot water with 'em. << See steps 8 and 9
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: and the rules were changed to permit these busted transactions?
a111: Logged on 2016-12-19 17:36
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes managed to fish it out. so : incorrect txn validation leading to improper coin generation was found on august 6th 2010 ; the fixing version is 0.3.10 (15 aug). because block validation rules change there, i'd expect all blocks prior to that date to not work in any sane eatatron.
ben_vulpes:
mircea_popescu: what was the root of this fork?
mod6:
mircea_popescu recalls publishing the correct value somewhere (it's not exactly 21mn "bitcoin", it's a satoshi count.) << iirc was a trilema post
mod6:
mircea_popescu: ah. now that's an interesting argument.
BingoBoingo: <
mircea_popescu> do they pump white smoke off the chimney if his dick is on the right side ? << Election by Throckmorton's Sign!
a111: Logged on 2016-12-19 14:15
mircea_popescu:
https://www.quantcast.com/stackoverflow.com << in other lulz, the merchandise&media consumption affinities of "independent", "scientific" and you know, "advanced-civilised-progressive" ustards are pretty lulzy
a111: Logged on 2016-12-19 13:37
mircea_popescu: hand operations not worht it
a111: Logged on 2016-12-09 01:44
mircea_popescu: ~if i am~ a drug dealer and i burn down your house, you'll what ? file a police report ? go on the local news network with a teary eyed "no one could have predicted that if i get pissy with people who break the law for a living i might end up with a burned down house" ?
phf:
mircea_popescu: csail (mit ai lab then) published "ai memos" from 1959 to sometime in early 2000s where they described a lot of "firsts" in computing in general. scheme spec was published by sussman and steele, lisp 1.5 compiler (first "self-hosting"), lisp machine architecture, etc. most papers are not so much ai as computing in general.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-09 12:51
mircea_popescu: also the enslavement of the general population, murder, rape, arson and jaywalking.
Framedragger: one day i fear of
mircea_popescu going into recursive loop by being outraged by wikipedia definitions, using other terms to show his point, and then finding those terms to also be ill-defined on wikipedia. :)
a111: Logged on 2016-12-17 23:40
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's kinda lulzy the barrett dude never showed up, seeing how we're actually doing all he aimed to do a lot better w/o really trying. but hey, such is the power of the inept.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-17 23:11
mircea_popescu: incidentally asciilifeform : actual usecase for FUCKGOATS in eulroa play : because the current mining software uses random to position the miner, the quality of the rng generator decides how likely you actually step outside of the coords you are. ie, if your rng is biased, you're more likely to go outside.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-17 18:44
mircea_popescu: mod6 you gotta get a blog. how am i gonna link a dpaste in 6 months ?
Framedragger:
mircea_popescu: don't think that's nonsense - it's simply introducing a bias into choosing "which direction - left or right - should i prefer", no? or do you mean that it's not "realistic" and would look stupid? (maybe...)
a111: Logged on 2016-12-17 13:25
mircea_popescu: this didn't seem worth the evaluation so i passed it) a "pyramid of science" pecking order may well be involved, in the sense that "oh, we learned null sets in kindergarten" and phf's english, while formally fine, does not actually serve him well enough to convey this difference i don't suspect. g) what's "das man" ? h) how did ph
a111: Logged on 2016-12-17 13:25
mircea_popescu: id they said nothing or this ? c) the principle "if you're going to say i'm a dog explain why!" is sound, but this is sadly not always possible. an eminent example of a class of cases when this isn't possible is when someone says something in direct and seeming wilful contradiction of logic. d) statements about you by others are statements about the world-you object as perceived by them not about the i-you subject as perceive
a111: Logged on 2016-12-17 13:25
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-17#1584804 << dawg, this in-general commentary style is very confusing to me. parser fails pluriously and compiler identifies the following problems which for your convenience have been packed separately : a) the whole "[lowered into] pederasty" concept is used improperly. given alf's incessant usage this is understandable, but mind that alf tends to very finely abuse terms at the very edge of m
Framedragger: asciilifeform: for my education, so the way to make yoke test work is that the 'master' part outputs its clock via the reset pin? (this is prolly what
mircea_popescu meant but it's new territory for me).
a111: Logged on 2016-04-10 13:15 adlai: ;;later tell
mircea_popescu submission for trilema movie reviews: Inside Man
a111: Logged on 2016-12-17 18:26
mircea_popescu: but the point of deedbot is to contain signed matter intended for human hands ; it is why the signed matter intended for machine processing is a separate mechanism.
mod6:
mircea_popescu: yeah, makse sense.
jhvh1:
mircea_popescu: 889/231 = 3.8484848484848486
a111: Logged on 2016-12-16 18:18
mircea_popescu: if girl a sees girl b drop a vase girl a thinks girl b is clumsy ; if girl a sees girl a drop the same vase girl a tihnks the vase is slippery.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-17 15:19 Framedragger:
mircea_popescu: so you'd then perhaps say that, maybe, a transperson is doomed to not be able to reconcile i-you and world-you, and it is tragic to that person (but that *pretending* as if one has integrated the two in that instance is very stupid)?
Framedragger:
mircea_popescu: so you'd then perhaps say that, maybe, a transperson is doomed to not be able to reconcile i-you and world-you, and it is tragic to that person (but that *pretending* as if one has integrated the two in that instance is very stupid)?
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2016-12-17 14:19
mircea_popescu: (moscow psychology is famous for discovering that the city of moscow had the greatest concentration of sufferers of sluggish schizophrenia in teh world!)
a111: Logged on 2016-12-16 18:18
mircea_popescu: if girl a sees girl b drop a vase girl a thinks girl b is clumsy ; if girl a sees girl a drop the same vase girl a tihnks the vase is slippery.
a111: Logged on 2016-12-17 13:25
mircea_popescu: id they said nothing or this ? c) the principle "if you're going to say i'm a dog explain why!" is sound, but this is sadly not always possible. an eminent example of a class of cases when this isn't possible is when someone says something in direct and seeming wilful contradiction of logic. d) statements about you by others are statements about the world-you object as perceived by them not about the i-you subject as perceive
a111: Logged on 2016-12-16 18:17
mircea_popescu: what some psychologists then turn around and measure as "integration". but in any case, it's trivially evident that ~the world~ may be good or bad, but not the subject. observable at all scales, from the freeranged girlfriend of your choice to the us propaganda discussing aleppo/mosul.