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mircea_popescu: i nfact, they don't actually trust each other enough to share... ips
mircea_popescu: this is illusory, my well placed flies on the wall tell me.
mircea_popescu: pretty much every amateur thinker / world saver captive in english as his sole language would benefit immensely from reading balzac. whereas the clueful might really enjoy the elegant display he makes of things.
mircea_popescu: it's quite simple : if you're old but somehow "owner", you will get so fucking raped you'll deplore the protections of that "ownership".
mircea_popescu: he also has an excellent depiction of the exact mechanics of inheritance in eugenie grandet
mircea_popescu: the casual, obvious manner in which he treats this otherwise subtle point really stuck with me. 1800s! man got it.
mircea_popescu: one of them dominates, but takes care the other one (some widow, buncha incompetent losers) doesn't outright go out of business
mircea_popescu: anyway, he has a story about doesn't matter what, in which the setting is that two groups have licenses to print newspapers in some small town
mircea_popescu: he's worth a read, man had a knack for comprehendingsocial science.
mircea_popescu: the most important point of military strategy is that a weak position which the enemy doesn't invest is not really weak in any sense. this is the meaning of napoleon's "never interrupt"
mircea_popescu: have a special, encrypted protocol. fix the "magic hole" issue too
mircea_popescu: to make sure : your notion of "paying" includes "peers that relay txn that are worthy of going in our pool", correct ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: looky : there are parts where we may... ever so slightly... deviate.
mircea_popescu: dPriority += (double)nValueIn * nConf; << seems it does
mircea_popescu: the reason you can not see the substance of the future should be apparent.
mircea_popescu: it's not fucking magic, yo. utterance is not the glue that makes it stick.
mircea_popescu: but it goes all the way to the fucking celts, you knoiw, "you never had iron tools. everything you say, and everything you think you mean or stand for is therefore invalid"
mircea_popescu: and it stands. no man can look you in the face past that, for he's a sort of a toy.
mircea_popescu: for kids born in the 80s when talking to their parents it's "shut the fuck up, you fucked women in a single hole your entire life"
mircea_popescu: every generation has this, an overpowering, indomitable reason why the previous one fails to matter.
mircea_popescu: but that aside, naggum's via alf point re complexity being usually and generally as a safe bet the result of someone missing the thinkboat certainly stands resplendent on its own feet.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=02-08-2015#1222669 << the problem is this : you have to verify old blocks. all of them, al lthe way to genesis. if you do not, for whatever reason, you are on an alt. and if you're going to make an alt, better make it properly and deliberately rather than the idiot woman "i had too much too drink so things happened" approach.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: eulora is suddenly more advanced than the state of new york.
mircea_popescu: if jurov finally gets a proper chat system built in, and we have a chat bot that does auction lists etc...
mircea_popescu: hey midnightmagic ask me things about things will you.
mircea_popescu: heh Luke-Jr fighting a loser's battle with his "bitcoin core" matters twu faith.
mircea_popescu: or 120k of the romanian lei of the time. 50 or so salaries.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform just an exotic way to rng, is in the end what he was trying to build
mircea_popescu: so you know... some people generate their keys at the firing range. some people have a designated bat. some people make a new key after each domestic argument/divorce
mircea_popescu: what would be really great would be if your thing could somehow be made out of glass
mircea_popescu: if you're going to do this why not measure inductance/harmonics/etc.
mircea_popescu: "the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia authorized a search warrant" << for the record, this is not how it works. a judge authorises it, and im nary too enchanted by this tendency of individuals to hide behind imaginary shields.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo "as was the case with this one." << link missing ?
mircea_popescu: and a minority of tradesmen, moving goods on an abstract mercator map
mircea_popescu: most of classical london consisted of a majority of "recyclers".
mircea_popescu: decimation the difference is whether you run pinkerton or welfare.
mircea_popescu: (for the obvious reason - what do you think earth is after all. microorganism digested shit)