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mircea_popescu: dude danielpbarron you were way behind in the logs huh.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> it is a solution to 'real people and spamming scum try to occupy limited space together' << yes, but the "free market" solution is "make people solve it on their own cpu" whereas you propose "solve it for other people on my own cpu". yes, if we can limit the market we don't need it to be free. but if we could make it free we wouldn't need to limit it.
mircea_popescu: yeah but what i'm saying is that this mmm and the 1990s historical item aren't much related
mircea_popescu: for that matter - i don't even have any objections, which is more of a journalistic achievement than a pulizer in each hand.
mircea_popescu: certainly a lot better than the last time i read an article on zero hedge.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's a review of the "best possible construction"./
mircea_popescu: "This is probably the first large scale opportunity to see whether unrestricted market forces actually do optimize a supply curve" << major point incidentally.
mircea_popescu: "everyone else i'm giving tictacs, but since you ask privately, here is the REAL quantum mechanics"
mircea_popescu: because what, he's gonna give them the REAL math in private ?
mircea_popescu: in general, the sure mark of a stupid yet pretentious student is, their desire to talk to the prof "privately".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform because you'd tell something else than what's in the log ?
mircea_popescu: (just like if major attorney firm loses major trial - it's not because the paralegals sucked)
mircea_popescu: fwiw, my entire intel thing is fundamentally a fork off ib intel.
mircea_popescu: (the "retail bank" where you go talk to a person you don't know that doesnty know you is really no different from mcdonalds "cuisine". irl, banks work a lot more like tailors)
mircea_popescu: makes the social media froth even less comprehensible.
mircea_popescu: this, incidentally, seems as best as i can determine the consensus in actual us finance.
mircea_popescu: Despite the fervor in the Bitcoin community, the odds are against Bitcoin XT. "This is not the first attempt to create a better Bitcoin, but I believe Bitcoin has such critical mass of resources devoted to it that it is unlikely anybody would abandon it for an incremental improvement,"says Gil Luria, an analyst at Wedbush Securities. "None has gotten much traction."
mircea_popescu: the us' been learning to milk ever more roachy roaches for decades now.
mircea_popescu: of course it sinks at the juncture where the cows are actually cockroaches.
mircea_popescu: but the 100 dollar expenditure on "students" / redditards is absolute genius. get the fucktards to believe "nothing else exists", have cows for the rest of your life.
mircea_popescu: seriously, i can buy a cpu that outpuits cpu cycles at 500 a second over five years for 500 bucks
mircea_popescu: but it's basically "some adults are giving free chickenfeed so let's take that and overturn the world!"
mircea_popescu: iirc someone explained it on reddit - they get 100 dollars worth free if they prove they're students or some crud.
mircea_popescu: if it bothers you can always drop aws connections at the firewall level
mircea_popescu: so they got butthurt, and are prosecuting a local that was involved in their rape, they think.
mircea_popescu: from something that used to be a world power and a major empire.
mircea_popescu: this resultd in their selling an item for less than it was worth. because they had no idea what it was worth. becxause it's not theirs - they merely inherited it.
mircea_popescu: the slovaks are incompetent fuckwits. this, because there's so few of them it's cheaper to pretend like they're a country than to seek someone else's administration.
mircea_popescu: and the nonsense says that both the theoretical position you seek to defend is rubbish, and that the la times article you seek to defend it with is both rubbish and wouldn't defend it even if it weren't, and the it were defensible.
mircea_popescu: there must be active extermination, not just, "get them fat and shut in".
mircea_popescu: really, reddit as a concentration camp for shitheads is not nearly going far enough.
mircea_popescu: best thing ever. let them have the retard mass that success brings in. socialism deserves its fruits
mircea_popescu: leaving probably r/buttcoin as the schellign point, which honestly...
mircea_popescu: theymos tried to salvage reddit through doing what he wouldn't do to save bitcointalk three years ago ; this failed to work, reddit-bitcoin shattered.
mircea_popescu: #bitcoin-assets weathered it fine. the bitcoin foundation mailing list weathered it fine. the old mailing list is practically dead for any useful purpose.
mircea_popescu: incidentally : the only thing this faux controversy has actually shown, is that the antiquated model of governance inherited by the power rangers from satoshi plainly does not work.
mircea_popescu: point was agreed to before i think. which is how the discussion re what pgp implementation must be like got started.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: yes, but there's a difference between statistics and redditart say-so.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform which reminds me, apparently monero does just fine with the oak. somehow.
mircea_popescu: certainly the two major groups that stand to win from harming bitcoin are govt shills and the idiots they cater to.
mircea_popescu: if anyone's bored, here's a simple job : take all reddit accounts > 1 year old that are in favour of xt, count the ones who weren't also active in some other historically failed fork attempt.
mircea_popescu: pretty amusing how on some basic demographics, all the various groups doing various "better bitcoins" come out drastically in support of bitcoin-xt. it'd seem the people who agree bitcoin needs "improvement" is 80% the people who already agreed with this, unsuccessfully.
mircea_popescu: historically, X never happened. I believe X will happen now, because I think so.
mircea_popescu: I see the current block size debate in similar fashion. It seems almost inevitable that we will get bigger blocks (probably with XT) because the alternatives will not work well enough, soon enough."
mircea_popescu: "Some time back altcoins were thought to be potential challengers to BTC. But as time went on we realised that BTC was never going to be removed from the throne.
mircea_popescu: "public education" and "we should encourage more people to get into high paying tech jobs".
mircea_popescu: they assume it's ok to "require networking" because it makes X thing easier and "who would ever want to run without networking"
mircea_popescu: they're "nobody would ever want" level implementation.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell wyrdmantis ssd is irrelevant in the discussion. "memory pages" is also irrelevant i nthe discussion. apparently it's not that person's field either.
mircea_popescu: usually happens when it eats up all the memory doing long number manipulation. give it a few hours and try again