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shinohai: I recently watched
that new Hemingway movie .... it was mildly entertaining.
mircea_popescu: in other news im reading
this hemingway interview and why
the fuck was
this guy such a dork and why does he only go out with ugly women.
mircea_popescu: the entire story of
the "olympiad problems" (the fly between
trains
thing et al) is a fine indication of just how hard
this sort of
thing is, irl.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the value of a winning lottery
ticket =
the value of
the prize. lucky guys are worth money.
mircea_popescu: they are discussing "how easy it is" and mislabel it as "how hard it is". but at no point is
their discussion actually about how hard anything is.
mircea_popescu: this is so naive i'm not going
to entertain it. let's get back
to cryptocoinz naivites.
mircea_popescu: sounds just about inept enough
to have come out of
the dept of state sewing circle.
mircea_popescu: neither of
these are good, and in any case
the us' days in europe are numbered.
trump is mostly saving face with all
the rhetoric.
mircea_popescu: no.
they wanted sarkozy, and figured
taking him out would help.
taking him out propelled a) hollande and b) le pen.
mircea_popescu: everyone's on all fours after
the republican electorate, somehow. INEXPLICABLY, i guess, because
trilema rather
than
the new york
times
told
them
to, and of course everyone listens
to one of
those not
the other!
mircea_popescu: speaking of which last bit, you should see how vocal macri is
these days! he's suddenly found himself very opinionated and shit!
mircea_popescu: they're both pissing on
the french legal system, of course. obviously
trump left no marks either.
mircea_popescu: unrelatedly : both
the "conservative" and
the "nazi" candidates
to french elections are being prosecuted by
the "state" socialism for hallucinated misdeeds (they hired family members as assistents fictitiously|!11).
the influence of inept obamaism and his kidnapping of french candidate last
time around clearly left no scars, hurr.
mircea_popescu: monetary mass at all points = aggregate difficulty
to date. it's even (sanely) inflationary.
mircea_popescu: 1 btc input 1.1 btc output 10mn difficulty
txn checks out.
mircea_popescu: each
txn gets its difficulty coins on
top of whatever.
mircea_popescu: there's no rule
that
this space fortress must seat > 1.
mircea_popescu: no, because you may require
txn
to include previous
txn.
mircea_popescu: a block is like a bus - eschews
the need for every child and woman
to maintain an engine.
mircea_popescu: it's not clear
the notion oflbock is actually useful outside of "no hash per
tx" sort of collectivism.
mircea_popescu: note
that boats never became currency. almost everything else did.
danielpbarron: that isn't
to say
there aren't ways
to find clicks
that work well, or
that in
the long run
the seemingly bad ones don't pay off
shinohai: Eulora is
the perfect engine of
the cardinal rule of unfairness.
danielpbarron: some clicks in eulora, you have no idea what comes out and most of
the
time you don't like it
mircea_popescu: i have nfi. same way everything is done
that we don't know how
to do.
mircea_popescu: whether stuck or not remains debatable, but what's certain is
that
this gal's going straight home from
the battered women shelter.
mircea_popescu: this, incidentally, is
the sum-total intellectual output of
tardstalk "bitcoin
theory"
thinking for 2011.
mircea_popescu: and no, "i was
the first
to mash 1 into
the kbd eighty-nine million
times" is not it.
mircea_popescu: there is no sane way
to lay claim of ownership
to random strings
mircea_popescu: otherwise
this
too much resembles
the ai problem of
thought();
mircea_popescu: it's not clear what
the meaning of "coin" is supposed
to be without
the owner.
mircea_popescu: not even
the marine chronometer dudes aimed
to make it COSTLESS