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mircea_popescu: they both engage in making predictions, which are about as interesting and useful.
mircea_popescu: the names of the places they'll never see. what exactly is the difference between an academitard and a housewife watching discovery channel i shall never know.
mircea_popescu: but hey. professional scholars. all that fits in their head are names.
mircea_popescu: then stolfi wonders whether i want to be this or that title. as if a title is in any way useful or related to me.
mircea_popescu: because "people" of the pale complexion have allowed themselves to be trained in such god-awful conformity, and the space of possibilities has lain fallow for so long, to be shat into by alf's smirking plumbooker, that it's getting fucking filled.
mircea_popescu: what is the difference between ntp telling you what time it is and *tp telling you what to observe ?
mircea_popescu: (yes, there's a smartness of the dumb, like there's a richness of the poor and a cleanliness of the filthy and honesty of politicians and so on and so forth.)
mircea_popescu: it is the smartness of the nor merely dumb, but unrescuably so.
mircea_popescu: they simply say things that bear an impredictable (to them first of all) relationship to reality.
mircea_popescu: then, of THOSE POOLS it turned out that ~50% are too confused to even lie.
mircea_popescu: for students of the bitcoin protocol actually interested in learning how it works, create a list of all block hashes, calculate implied difficulty on that basis, compare to actual difficulty at the time and calculate variance etc. nice graphs to be had.
mircea_popescu: in that difficulty is a statistical measure and statistics of sets of one is undefined.
mircea_popescu: i suppose we progressed from moore law's to this noore law.
mircea_popescu: shinohai unrelated things tho. a tx is a tx, it charges by byte.
mircea_popescu: might have been 0.00001 what they paid, i dun recall. look at the backlog should be obvious
mircea_popescu: which has the excellent side effect of taking the piss out of all the redditard "unbanked" who were used to pay 0 fees.
mircea_popescu: punkman there's some derps putting in like 1mn txn for 1 btc total fees.
mircea_popescu: yeah, basically, whenever the market forces do what they expect they're all market-force-y, and when the market forces tell them to go dangle they're all democaca-y
mircea_popescu: "Market forces will prevail and miners will have to adapt." loller.
mircea_popescu: everyone that thinks i should have creme fraiche and strawberries, make your blocks v 1337
mircea_popescu: everyone that thinks i should have smoked cheese and salmon breakfast, make your blocks v 666
mircea_popescu: "o hai folks i'm talking from day after tomorrow. time is moving by really really too slow!!!1"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform re the entire timing discussion : suppose the pogo gets started always with a realtime switch, -time=14blablabla, and after that gets its time from the most recent block it accepts and checks for next ones being within +-7200 seconds.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform uh. the one published actually encompasses the first fork. i have other chains (also historical) that aren't wedged, but i had thought yours passed that point ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: because bitcoin is secured by mining which happens irl and the difficulty of mining is set on the basis of irl entropy.
mircea_popescu: very useful, this network that takes 5 hours to confirm txn
mircea_popescu: just as long as we put THE REAL TIME as a txn in every block, pogos can be fine
mircea_popescu: <mike_c> markets break over the stupid leap second << no they don't.
mircea_popescu: because humanity is humanitarian and similar windows-powered bullshit.
mircea_popescu: he thought that everyone will run one and so it'll be too noisy to follow them.
mircea_popescu: why is pogo connecting to anything but good nodes again ?