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mircea_popescu: trinque kinda hard to see past all the schoolyard verbiage and the "requests for public comment" and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: what exactly has yellen done to make you think it's a "we" ?
mircea_popescu: i am saying that while some people in the us have some money, your association with them seems tenuous. it's always a good idea to ask THEM if they feel "we" towards you. obviously you feel "we" towards them.
mircea_popescu: my clothes have a bank account. inasmuch as they can't get off me and i have a bank account :D
mircea_popescu: and moreover, bitcoin's the dominant word word money word, whatever you mean by those.
mircea_popescu: so wait, "we" do ? are you sure the people holding the money are aware you're including yourself ? got a license for it ?
mircea_popescu: you mean, United States the Maternity Hospital, as in country ?
mircea_popescu: if you're gonna call something a country, you'd best have a definition of what that means. apparently your definition's all feeling, in which case... what's to say.
mircea_popescu: it's about as much a country as the soviet union would have been, if it were run by quisling.
mircea_popescu: i am saying that one should have to be about as clueless as obama to imagine the us a country. how is it a country ?
mircea_popescu: like the soviets in the 80s, turks sold them all sorts of banal shit at 130-150% because ...
mircea_popescu: was done that same day, apparently failed to properly announce ?
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla oh i'm sorry. service was briefly interrupted because the fucking beast kept needing apache restarted. but i'm done fucking with it.
mircea_popescu: "fugitive disentitlement doctrine" ahahaha that's rich. incidentally - it's how england became a dutch colony, they "deemed the king to have abdicated by fleeing"
mircea_popescu: how's the "Broken with varnish" thing go, i didn't actually keep that thing
mircea_popescu: wouldja rather dig into fixing it or just have scoopbot do it kakobrekla ?
mircea_popescu: if anyone wonders why the 20mb maxtors were encased in fucking steel armor... well...
mircea_popescu: o shit, the old days when drives actually had mechanical failures of the mechanical sort.
mircea_popescu: ftr, i didn't follow the logic of that entire conversation.
mircea_popescu: but the concept that informs herr meir is one node up from the medievalist thing as noted
mircea_popescu: it existed, with a slightly different intension, in medieval kabbalism
mircea_popescu: ascii_field you have to understand : the phrase as such is mostly used as a certain jew-libertard term of art.
mircea_popescu: which is to say - do not swear, spit or ejaculate insite , go to heaven.
mircea_popescu: at any rate, the guy's notions of HOW EXACTLY one'd go about fixing the world are what's at issue. much like a large swath of reform retards - in both judaic sects, xtianity and mainstream - he was the mechanicist persuasion.
mircea_popescu: (yes dear chitlins, there is deep philosophical disagreement behind the entire jew massacre - it's not the conveniently packaged "acts of an unhinged mind". german idealism and jewish materialism clashed, and the jews lost.)
mircea_popescu: he was a congress poland jew, fully imbued of the entire "messiah will come if we garden the shit out of this world" stuff that resulted in the gassings
mircea_popescu: hitler at least was wrong. this guy - he's the pinnacle of evil, unredeemable and unworthy of redemption.
mircea_popescu: i hope he gets fucking burned at the stake, for his guild - the greatest guilt that there can be - choosing to be a cog in the wrong machine.
mircea_popescu: the fate of the us libertard is ~exactly~ what it was going to be, except fifty years ago they laughed at "o that could never happen" with all the imberbity of idiocy, and today they're all "nobody could have foreseen"
mircea_popescu: they didn't seem to care all that much about "discussion and analysis" or "due process" or "scientific method" back when those were pointing and laughing at their idiocy, from global warming to fad cures to the whole heap of dumb they live in. but now, suddenly... they wish to be saved by the icons of some sort of wisdom that they never had anything to do with, not anymore than the pigeons shitting on statues are part
mircea_popescu: o yeah, totally worthy of intellectual sympathy this, trotksy raped by stalin's gonna get all my walmart cards.
mircea_popescu: instead of now when we're fucking each other in the ass ???"
mircea_popescu: his objection entirely reduces to "hey libertards, wasn't it great back when we were opressing the conservatives, you know, those rednecks *rolleyes*
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes in particular i find this schmuck objectionable, and quite worthy of everything coming to him, because much like the thief who's not one bit sorry he stole, and terribly terribly sorry he got caught,
mircea_popescu: lol ok. /me fails to manage to care, or summon any respect or interest, for the opinions of poltrons.
mircea_popescu: "This isn't an accident: I have intentionally adjusted my teaching materials as the political winds have shifted. (I also make sure all my remotely offensive or challenging opinions, such as this article, are expressed either anonymously or pseudonymously)."
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes the idea is to try and avoid splits in the actual codebase.
mircea_popescu: eh, 0.8+ is the kindergarten. if it splits the total loss is ~= two fatties and a stray dog.
mircea_popescu: and then two yerars later 0.00001% happens and the chain is split.
mircea_popescu: worst case scenario here being where you get it 99.9999% right, and then everyone thinks you got it,
mircea_popescu: ascii_field yes, but this is the most delicate part of the chicken's spleen.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field baking the thing into the hardware is exactly equal to import usg.h
mircea_popescu: (if you do the math, 100 ms for a full bitcoin sig check thing is about where it is)
mircea_popescu: but i suspect that common hardware takes well over two minutes to verify a 1mb block full of txn, which is to say 1500 or so of them.
mircea_popescu: for that matter, a maximal 1MB block should be designed and tested against on a variety of systems just to see.
mircea_popescu: and i will note that the 28 seconds figure is merely an average - plenty of blocks actually do take minutes to check.
mircea_popescu: it's just a rougher implementation of the "verify 1 in x" concept.
mircea_popescu: the "after block x only sync because gavin has said magics about block x" is NOT much better.
mircea_popescu: "increase your verification speed tenfold by only checking one block in ten!!1 how to make money renting out the space inside your nose!" etc
mircea_popescu: we complain about the meagre attempts at natural language shanonizing , but what of the poor computers ?
mircea_popescu: "it works" "can you explain why or how ?" "above my pay grade, i just paste stuff and hit f9"
mircea_popescu: my mental notes were more on the lines of "o look, it's clear that the author understands what his code does" and "o look, there's actually a reason for this stuff to be here"
mircea_popescu: trinque i read his stuff for curiosity, i was so wtf'd. "this doesn't look like www code..."
mircea_popescu: ascii_field listen, can you add a json for the stats which outputs url of newest found pore ?
mircea_popescu: but really there's no excuse not to have the small ones in.
mircea_popescu: kinda what my "universal keys" idea was trying to do, for "well chosen" so to speak small primes.
mircea_popescu: you really should poison the P with first 10k primes or something.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile le chien andalou still stands, or to quote herr orwell... "Clearly, such people are undesirable, and a society in which they can flourish has something wrong with it."
mircea_popescu: i struggle to find any value in any of his productions, and you certainly don't even know what they are.
mircea_popescu: so now... nobody would have disagreed at the time that his madonna whore complex is "wholesome" - their exact words.
mircea_popescu: forget the thousand, take the hundred. lazar meir, since we've discussed him earlier, had some very strange ideas about good, and constructed a very crazy united states. forcing a point it could be said that he is the architect of today's woes in the hinterlands, exactly like lincoln is the architect of the black poverty and racial tensions.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: except very good books are lost and very bad books still read.