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mircea_popescu: you'd have to pick something for your ada port. and there's not atm any way to pick.
mircea_popescu: more importantly there's doubts as to the suitability of the curve in question etc
mircea_popescu: obv bitcoin can't continue pulling in random code. this is an assault on sense, as far as we're concerned, and an assault on their turf as they perceive it, as far as the pr group is concerned.
mircea_popescu: it wasn't that great or anything, but it doesn't have much competition either.
mircea_popescu: it's the result of a for-profit venture of some sort, gmaxwell went on a reddit rampage explaining hopw they "found bugs" and how great the entire process is etc
mircea_popescu: decimation the lib in question was discussed in log at the time too
mircea_popescu: ascii_modem that's how i end up with stuff like ;; and xse in my history file :D
mircea_popescu: most of the benefit of touch typing comes from not moving your "frame" above the kbd.
mircea_popescu: touch typing is good if you're going to do straight typing for mintues at a time. i normally do not. i suppose you do not either, need a mouse, a this, a buffer, a that etc.
mircea_popescu: ascii_modem harem, actually. "if you have a ton of babes, doing it wrong"
mircea_popescu: this follows in the wake of a few threads mostly brought to a head by the opnessl idiocies you might wish to review phf if you've not seen them before.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=03-07-2015#1185658 << this is not merely a difference of workflow, but a difference of philosophy. we are not interested in automation, we are interested in review and responsibility. the only concern that thing is adressing is that we find a critical bug tomorrow, i want to know who to negrate.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: eh, these hirign someone to work on things deals never work out.
mircea_popescu: the roi for the first was 0, the roi for the 2nd not 0.
mircea_popescu: take the other side. i approved expenditure of ~7.5 btc on advertising as ceo of s.mg ; and of ~.25 (unreported, maybe next month i remember to put it in) on s.nsa.
mircea_popescu: see ag3nt_zero, syllogism. reductio ad absurdum. present the op with a dilemma, so he can either explain what was misunderstood or correct what he misunderstood
mircea_popescu: what's this "quantity is the determinator of quality" approach then ?
mircea_popescu: arguably intelligence is similarly of a capital good, and you have enough control of it to, for instance, contribute here. other people do not have this luxury - for instance because they agreed some employer owns it all.
mircea_popescu: as much as running your own server is controlling a capital good. not a very significant one, but that's a quantitative discussion
mircea_popescu: ascii_modem you're not going to redefine terms of art now, are you ?
mircea_popescu: even not counting the nsa etc ; pogo is a capital good.
mircea_popescu: and i agree it's a pity nobody cares enough to beat up that bum.
mircea_popescu: and he told me that he was an orphan, and that he got put by the commieus through the above grinder, and now he has a family and owns his car.
mircea_popescu: and the cab driver was looking at this bum laying down
mircea_popescu: this horrible trampling of rightrs and liberties resulted in a romania with absolutely no bums, and moreover, in the anedcodtic situation where i picked up a cab from the train station
mircea_popescu: no place on earth was ever such an openm insult to the human spirit as north america is these days.
mircea_popescu: these idiots gave it all back because they gotta be jwz.
mircea_popescu: leaving aside the inept spin they published, why the fuck are we pricing things in dollars.
mircea_popescu: "Note that the roughly 50% of the network that was SPV mining had explicitly indicated that they would enforce the BIP66 rules. By not doing so, several large miners have lost over $50,000 dollars worth of mining income so far."
mircea_popescu: i dunno when it became fashionable to be infantile, but i'm getting pretty sick of it.
mircea_popescu: because yes, we're fucktarded enough to not notice what's proposed here is a closed f2pool - antpool loop. they're over there in their own parallel universe.
mircea_popescu: no, i mean, sure, maybe x will happen. but then again maybe x won't.
mircea_popescu: "I shook hands with the man I did most of the talking with and they took off... I was a little shooken up but realized I made a big mistake! I forgot to shake the black police detective's hand... shit!!!"
mircea_popescu: one day, someone WILL mine a version 1 block that WILL stick.
mircea_popescu: best i can discern, this is not only legitimate, but will be the ultimate end situaiton
mircea_popescu: if that costs 25btc then any chip alf wants costs ~50 cents
mircea_popescu: <punkman> gernika, maybe write up your process/mods << also a good idea. submit to mail list, now you can.