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mircea_popescu: might as well take a discussion of "dilution is medicine" and write a sci-fi work about how a universe with this would look like.
mircea_popescu: wilbns so outright i see the following problem : you discuss ethereum at the maximal outskirts of what its proponents presnet it as. this is not unlike taking a ponzi schemer's "idea" and pretending it would be a central bank, then discussing how "it regulates financial flows". rank nonsense.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo they don't drag their lifeless, smelly corpses to a hole and pour anhudrous calcium carbonate on themselves. do they.
mircea_popescu: wilbns on what is this einstein reference based, other than "it'd be cool" ?
mircea_popescu will temporarily suspend his disdain for medium to read this one. lettuce see.
mircea_popescu: given that the alternative is "raise an army", and given that "iof you raise an army, might as well sell the captured women into slavery and cultivate poppies", people who don't particularly like the sight of moaning, chained women and heroin addicts have little choice.
mircea_popescu: it never found any utility, whcih is why you've not heard of either except in the way one hears of the once great hittite empire
mircea_popescu: ascii_field "natura" in there is "the immediately observable", not the subatomic. there's a reason cardano rng uses electrons not whores moaning.
mircea_popescu: and the fact that life exists continually proves they're really very bad passwords.
mircea_popescu: the fact that life exists on earth is, to me, proof that "fuzzy passwords" are a crock.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla seems it doesn't have enough colors maybe ? i get whole fields of multiple; speakers same color.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, i am not prepared to defend this technically. i just have a manager's eye is all.
mircea_popescu: but once we get a sane allocator for pool, like discussed here, you can add the hash.
mircea_popescu: ianae, but i think the lemon could be squeezed by an actual expert.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field for instance : blocks come from the mempool, mostly. when a new block is presented, the thing checks all sigs. but it had already checked most of them for mempool.
mircea_popescu: incidentally re pogo and cpu - i am well persuaded the problem is in how the software checks sig, not in the cpu limit.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but sure, could be. just like there could be useful cpu that's passive cooled. sometime.
mircea_popescu: i don't either. was not discussing the present day politics of it at all. merely, the principle of the matter.
mircea_popescu: if your train goes through "brain worm" alien land, you want the bomb.
mircea_popescu: they are not, and i can't stand the us trend of taking out the brake in question.
mircea_popescu: if this were the case, trains without an emergency brake would be worth more than trains with.
mircea_popescu: you will note howevere, that while any particular political organisation may be opposed,
mircea_popescu: this is a meaningless question. it can no longer be valued.
mircea_popescu: like a bit of plastic to prevent falling cows from pushing it
mircea_popescu: and the sum total of what i said is, of all the approaches considered i've seen, none includes a fucking cap over that button.
mircea_popescu: this is the balance of the sane part of the "increase block size" side.
mircea_popescu: because of the network effects it can in point of fact be the case that each byte in the 1.3 thing is worth more than in the 1.0 thing.
mircea_popescu: but it is certainly possible, and byu some analyses likely, that your option is either a) you sell 1 mb at 1 per byte, or else b) you sell 1.3 mb at 1.1 per byte.
mircea_popescu: if i sell at 20, will sell 1, and make a profit of 20, and the remaindert will be worth 20k.
mircea_popescu: if i sell at 10, i will sell 10, and make a profit of 100, and the remainder 90 will be worth 9k.
mircea_popescu: you run into the following (purely saccounting, and thus purely psychogenic) problem :
mircea_popescu: if you have a shop, which is your own, which holds a merchandise, which is your own, which is in demand, which is not your own,
mircea_popescu: the reason i ask if you kept shop, ascii_field, is the following :
mircea_popescu: ascii_field "you can have more paying txn". you ever kept shop, ascii_field ?
mircea_popescu: intellectual discipline is not an academic ideal. it's a way of life.
mircea_popescu: you understand how science is done yes williamdunne ? you form a theory to test. you go test it. systematically. you either come to a conclusion which precludes further testing, FOR REASONS, or you keep on going.
mircea_popescu: mno, iot' a cost inflicted on the network, at a possible benefit to it
mircea_popescu: then write a blogpost to defray your mental costs with it.
mircea_popescu: must be at least a dozen in london by now, i lost count.
mircea_popescu: williamdunne you tried pitching at one of the incubators you got there ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field this, as a principle, is in no way argued against. it is exactly true. the proposal is that as restrained, it would not be harmful.
mircea_popescu: williamdunne your main enemy is this crowd of people who agree and encourage to make friends. they can be very damaging.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i dun have any objective whatsoever here. i am merely surveying a field.
mircea_popescu: williamdunne any of them senior regulators / senior officials / anything other than people you met at a conference that hadn't got there on a first class ticket they bought and with two personal cocksuckers and a chef ?
mircea_popescu: like, your gf can suck your cock to stick you with her offspring * forever ?