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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.
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.gernika.1:eb318647a108e0be29f9865dd2fdfb67a3b866e012eab068bab5f31c1d2db831
mircea_popescu: <punkman> "Después de encontrar una vulnerabilidad grave en el sistema de voto electrónico a #MSA estan allanando mi casa, los de delitos informaticos." << in case anyone else missed it, this country is mostly a parody.
mircea_popescu: a gallon of water makes half hour's mist, protects the plant if there's any air draft at all
mircea_popescu: almost as if someone was holding off hitting the muppets over the head with a 2x4 until b-a crowd had its ducks lined
mircea_popescu: which, in terms of parachutes.. .you gotta admit... perfect timing
mircea_popescu: this is exactly the sortt of situation the entire deterministic thing he was crowing about is meant for.
mircea_popescu: superficially it seemed reorg blocks like it did in 2013, but maybe deeper than that. have not yet gone too deep into
mircea_popescu: i still dunno why they do it. i've not yet managed to unstick a stuck one from last night
mircea_popescu: just some nodes have trouble unsticking, which as i said above, great place to test our new block manip tools etc.
mircea_popescu: punkman meanwhile hanbot used to grow cherry tomatoes on her windowsill.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron are yuou up to date ? what's lastblock ?
mircea_popescu: yeah, if you agree to make unedible crud you may have better control.
mircea_popescu: the town was fully of blooming magnolias and i never saw a single artichoke plant outside of my garden
mircea_popescu: punkman i had problems with, "artichoke does so well here, it actually STAYED GREEN THROUGH WINTER, suppoirting an inch of snow on its upturned broad leaves. meanwhile, magnolia sapplings grow < 1inch per year and will never flower"
mircea_popescu is mildly impressed at alf's lineage in any case. my grandparents were teachers and whatnot, but great-grandparents deifnitely farmers.
mircea_popescu: <punkman> wait until you try to debug plants << he has a point there. tho in fairness iirc alf debugged mice at some point.
mircea_popescu: and yes, most men died before seeing the thing they were working for. historically, to date.
mircea_popescu: there is no reason to expect any better in this new field. it is, after all, a field.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform just sayin, humanity was built by originally trudging the muck with no tools.
mircea_popescu: fuck you, your grandparents were farmers. it's how this fucking world works.
mircea_popescu: yea, i get it, may mean that this makes your fate be to muddle in the dirt, piling up data for your kid, who maybe might do it.
mircea_popescu: dude, how about you actually get some data first omfg.
mircea_popescu: until we know exactly wtf to do about relayers, about miners now, there is no point. the prototype's still prototypin'.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but this situation is why im so cold on your ada idea. sure, you go put all the god damned effort into writing a fully correct, fully specified implementation oif an... broken idea.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i don't envisage as much as an inkling of a solution. just more stuff to worry about.
mircea_popescu: punkman right. hence all the "We don't give a shit" verbiage here.
mircea_popescu: atm the split is .999 - .001 or somesuch. this will change monotoniucall;y the other way
mircea_popescu: really the % of income "just known" vs "information acquired" is the proper measure.
mircea_popescu: hard to convey what the changes in dynamic such a thing brings.
mircea_popescu: if as much as 66% comes that way and the other 33% has to be found out about... o baby.