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mircea_popescu: i hope your machinery is built out of hammer resistant materials,
mircea_popescu: omfg fuck this shit. outsiders do not wish a lever or care for one.
mircea_popescu: "Should the outsiders gain authority, they have no real power, because they do not know how to work the levers to operate the machine."
mircea_popescu: heck, the way usg is going, this is actually becoming more and more true each decade.
mircea_popescu: decimation it is pretty lulzy in its self-referential dementia.
mircea_popescu: god help whosoever is held in high regard by "persons of even mid-level status".
mircea_popescu: to "discredit yourself" in the estimation of boring old aunties and so forth is exactly what cool is all about.
mircea_popescu: who the fuck wants to "credit himself" with the retarded ?
mircea_popescu: otherwise we'd be working accounting on excel spreadsheets.
mircea_popescu: well of course. problems down the road is what we signed up for.
mircea_popescu: if you think bitcoin is currently supported by people using bitpay to buy coffee, that is squarely your problem
mircea_popescu: looky here : a) mpex makes more money than the entire faux & pretend ecosyustem of coinbases and whatnot. those COST, a shitton of money, for the services they fail to provide.
mircea_popescu: their job begins and ends with rejecting bad blocks. they are in no way involved in deciding what that means.
mircea_popescu: this is why miners are NOT actually seated at the table.
mircea_popescu: in other words, they can go hang, won't be noticed, won't be missed.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla a loss of 90% mining power relates to blocks taking a little over an hour, not a month.
mircea_popescu: last i heard davout was looking for ways to programatically exploit the shitcoin
mircea_popescu: a shining moment of "buying ibm gets you killed" is more valuable than asia.
mircea_popescu: the mass slaughter of a large contingent of people who act as if "doing what everyone else does is safe", and who lose millions at it is the best thing that can happen.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i am very excited about this actually happening.
mircea_popescu: as eulora tips say, "a willingness to learn is not mandatory. neither is survival."
mircea_popescu: and the same people will be selling the farm three to six months down the road.
mircea_popescu: so yes, zombies. just, make sure you identify the necromancer driving them correctly
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla that's fine. they also have to make money somehow.
mircea_popescu: but in any case : money talks. not "power rangers" and not the 0.3% ROI miners. and if moneys says fuck you everyone goes home and tries something else for next year's costume party.
mircea_popescu: i imagine so would you : a bankrupt field of miners best chance to buy cheap mining rigs for a long time
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla i welcome the verification of this theory in the field.
mircea_popescu: i would expect a stuttering engine to go on stuttering until discarded.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field get a load of this : three days of random, odd internet behaviour, discussed here publicly, which then went away by itself. i did nothing to the server, i asssume neither did you.
mircea_popescu: shinohai aha cool then. no spurts or weird disconnects or anything ?
mircea_popescu: i think i said this before, but in any case bears repeating insistently : larger blocks are a complex discussion that will involve many and numerous benchmarking. it's not the simple matter idiots make it out.
mircea_popescu: decimation prolly. who the hell knoiws why people vote
mircea_popescu: impossible to discern how much is a case of "the missionary used a word to best describe what he saw" and "we have created a structure through normal function". anyway, minor point.
mircea_popescu: ie, is it equivalent to saying "one of the terrorist people" or to "one of the lordship" ?
mircea_popescu never bothered with it, but is this luo people an internal or an external identity ?
mircea_popescu: i do know it is upon the proponent to ~prove~ rather than just assert that the tools we developed to discuss and analyse the "terra irredenta" movements in italy cca 1800 are also applicable or meaningful in black africa.
mircea_popescu: but it may mean the map doesnt work for describing it./
mircea_popescu: decimation gotta bear in mind that "ethnicity" is not a thing, just a word we use for the thing. it's a map. that a map is flat and a place is round does not mean the round place has no geography
mircea_popescu: this isn't a lego car where all the pieces match shinohai
mircea_popescu: for one thing, it's not clear what "ethnicity" without a written culture would be.
mircea_popescu: the french just started using it cca 1800 as if, and nobody really discussed the matter.
mircea_popescu: decimation i am broadly unconvinced the concept of ethnicity makes any sense in africa.
mircea_popescu: i guess she does look distinctive enough, and since presidents are more about looks than actors... myeah ok
mircea_popescu: "asian" is about as descriptive as "the country of earth"./
mircea_popescu: mats i mean i could see it in usage like "e transilvanean de-ai nostri", ie, "he's one of ours". but that's for a minuscule and very culturally coherent ethnic group.
mircea_popescu: i gotta say i absolutely am loving the choices of women to put "in tech" the enema's makin'.
mircea_popescu: she's even better than that fucktardina chick that sunk hp
mircea_popescu: oh nm, 30k of which some actually did 20 euro alrighty.
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.shinohai.1:69e4bc8a9153033824d3eb9343ba203c5b7eedd3510b7067e202e06cf4531194
mircea_popescu: ah. just a buncha stupid kids "trying" like the entire world were a kindergarten and "best effort" were a thing and really, we're just playing here.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field what is "the very important business" a reddit chapter seeded and mostly fed by usg's own something awful crew would conceivably be doing iyo ?