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mircea_popescu: like the housewives, you know, "oph, i don;t care about the crisis, my husband does all that money stuff" "orly ? shut up and sit down, goose."
mircea_popescu: ascii_field they don't care now in the manner they don't care about how well oiled their rifle is.
mircea_popescu: jurov the way you use the cow's teat is not the alpha and omega of what the cow teat is.
mircea_popescu: punkman it actually DOES order events to some degree based on time.
mircea_popescu: unless you discover a more precise clock, and keep it from the enemy, such that you can exploit his misclicks and take his women
mircea_popescu: and think "hey, my clock can keep time within two hours, how would those newfangled financial traders and hedge funds render me destitute on the cointinent my fathers conquered ?!?!?!"
mircea_popescu: think of time as capital, and think you're that anon president that opposed hamilton
mircea_popescu: the only new thing in the world is the history you didn't know, and the only thing that's worse than what we have today
mircea_popescu: basically he could be in government : he's decided to externalise the cost he can't bore
mircea_popescu: no, we're friends with hilbert, and i don't think it's a bad idea, either.
mircea_popescu: all sorts of possibilities are here, provided you don't go into geographical details
mircea_popescu: but you've not nailed something down. you just hope saint hilbert may.
mircea_popescu: you know the recourse to complexity is an academic habit.
mircea_popescu: anyway, took down (as folklore) by one alexandru donici in the 1800s
mircea_popescu: you are aware of the complexity that introduces in say an attempt at mathematical provability re the entire shenanigan ?
mircea_popescu: oinly to discover that indeed such devils do exist. him.
mircea_popescu: you know, when the holy paladin marches into the forest to kill the unseen devils that have been upsetting the natural order of the land
mircea_popescu: depends how you define it, but there's also the problem of "you're the lizard, bob."
mircea_popescu: not sure that can be arranged. prolly can be made to appear it was arranged, but...
mircea_popescu: not that bitcoin doesn't centralize, a little. but this is criminal.
mircea_popescu: because it is game theoretically advantageous to have a central scheduler.
mircea_popescu: i am maybe not the first but definitely not the last to admit when satoshi did the dumb. nevertheless, here he did no such thing. there is no alternative known to literature, and you can't fault a man for not coming up with a novel star.
mircea_popescu: back at sad farm, there's really little we can do with the bitcoin as it is, other than acquiesce to the filth of human notions of time.
mircea_popescu: do not let me stand in between you and greatness. but until the day you shit out that magic, it's no magic time.
mircea_popescu: not so negotiable. anyway, you DO need the sampling, and that fucks it all up
mircea_popescu: moreover, this retarded version of farming is more like, "Farming done by bacteria colony. doubles every time there's food."
mircea_popescu: you're basically proposing we do a "your rent is a tenth of your income or more, forever. and you play the lottery daily."
mircea_popescu: the chance to die approaches infinity much before you even get a third halving
mircea_popescu: this dies, because you will find a random block which is 00000000000000000000000000000f and game over.
mircea_popescu: there is no way to distinguish between a block mined at difficulty x that came out with 9 leading zeroes and a block mined at difficulty 1 that came out randomly with that many zeroes.
mircea_popescu: didja miss the line where i said you can't have a statistical sample of one ?
mircea_popescu: anyway. the problem of time (as you rightly observe) is a larger problem than anything bitcoin solves
mircea_popescu: yes i realise. but at least these are our evil nodes rather than obama's evil nodes.
mircea_popescu: ok, how about this alternative : put a special time server on the pogo itself, have the pogo sync its time from the list of approved upstream sources.
mircea_popescu: it is not your fault, or mine, or his, that "the time" does not come engraved in the wave fucntion you know.
mircea_popescu: yes, but you didn't care much for it. usb timer dongle thinger
mircea_popescu: anyway, not that i'm saying this must be done or anything. but i do not think it'd be the end of the world if it has to be.
mircea_popescu: the only correct solution to the problems of humanity is killing all the people.
mircea_popescu: it's not that i don't appreciate your intellectual purity. it's merely that things must be made as correct as possible and no correcter than that.
mircea_popescu: so yes, the rifle regiment wouldn't survive cavalry charge from the side. alrighty then, put them on a hillltop.