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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 ?
mircea_popescu: the reason nbc doesn't do this is because it doesnt' exist as a market yo.
mircea_popescu: "i have an idea for a us tv network - primarily targetting spanish daytime soaps and more languages programming".
mircea_popescu: he has an inflammatory reaction to particular three letter strings.
mircea_popescu: (if you're an engineer trying to solve an engineering problem of some kind, i mean)
mircea_popescu: you get some backup, they die out, end up with some money invested in you written off.
mircea_popescu: williamdunne 80% of deals work out exactly like that irl.
mircea_popescu: heck, someone came to 1st conference to demo an engine.
mircea_popescu: trinque there's tons of people who coudl demo a trade engine. including a bunch of people actually in the business, providing all the fx doods etc.
mircea_popescu: williamdunne don't be too hard on self. it's unlikley they'd have signed for actual deal.
mircea_popescu: punkman he's young, gotta work or something or go nuts.
mircea_popescu: women also miss tits on their shoulderblades. it impedes proper tango, but it might have good reasons behind it.
mircea_popescu: they're currently at a loss keeping all the ones they already have fed.
mircea_popescu: they'll refuse, and in that you'll know what the demand for more kyc bitcoin "Exchanges" is.
mircea_popescu: williamdunne so call up nsa, tell them "hey, i'm another derpy kid trying to suck of your tit, send me 10k ?"
mircea_popescu: ascii_field of course they are ? they're after all teh bitcoin users.
mircea_popescu: generally it's "the proof i am smart enough to have small projects is i nthe pudding of how i have enough money laying around to invest in them". it's how people get redecoration done and their hobbies financed.
mircea_popescu: williamdunne uh. mno ? what IS the project, that's where it starts.
mircea_popescu: the whole pogo thing was a few k's. this thing is k's of btc
mircea_popescu: ascii_field still, i tell you i don't see it. if the bitcoin userbase legitimately makes > 1mb of txn every 10 minutes, and if the miners are willing to indulge them and mine to the degree the ratchet kicks in, seems at best disingenuous to say "you can't do that because pogos".
mircea_popescu: williamdunne write something about puppies make a post on social media with links to your "campaign" ? offer things on bitcointalk ? convince me to list on mpex ? i dunno dood, you're too vague to be helped yet.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i suppose it doesn't JUST pose problems for bitcoinfs.
mircea_popescu: looky, a fixed cpu situation will always yield this problem
mircea_popescu: if you end up with 2k actually full bloicks and the state is now 1010000 bytes, you still can have blocks 50kb
mircea_popescu: ascii_field looky : blocks would only stay full if needed full. so our pogo is a piece of shit in that case, you can't expect them to accomodate us.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla in that sense iot's a step above the "magic number" stuff. not much, admittedly.
mircea_popescu: whoops... takes more than two years to make it 2mb anyway. problem solved.
mircea_popescu: let's start with some assumptions : that as is, pogos can survive for 2 years before they fill. that if blocks were to be made 2mb, they'd survive 1 year instead.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field let us calculate the actual case of the pogo, shall we ? as an exercise, mostl;y for my own edification.
mircea_popescu: just... whence will they scare up enough txn to keep filling up thousdands of large blocks ?
mircea_popescu: i can certainly see the argument in this structural sense.
mircea_popescu: the entirety of this is "if people actually really really want to see it growing", no more.
mircea_popescu: and yes it makes the future worth seeing now. /me hopes to oneday trade marscoin for venuscoin.