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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.
mircea_popescu: Landgull there's no hard and fast requirement that what happens is perceptible. this in the general. there's also no requirement that what is perceptible is perceptible to you (ie, any arbitrary agent). the expectation that you personally would understand what happened in x or y complex political situation is, to me, highly comedic.
mircea_popescu: except this situation only exists in sid meyer's "civilisation"
mircea_popescu: the golden crescent has its own centrifugal dynamics, what.
mircea_popescu: you figure if al pacino makes a movie for new line cinema, nlc is doing HIM a favour by this ?
mircea_popescu: historically, saudi kingdom was well established and independent back when wolves ate more people on the us east coast than people killed wolves. politically, the us has ~alkways~ been the bitch in the us-saudi relationship.
mircea_popescu: next you're gonna tell me the us exists by serving tenochtitlan
mircea_popescu: Landgull where you got the idea that the saudites came to power serving the us ?
mircea_popescu: a minority that actually organises its ascendancy over any majority is the supreme good.
mircea_popescu: Landgull as you age you'll notice that organizing anything is too much effort for most minorities, and in general what they do is try to ride waves, like flies plowing.
mircea_popescu: which created, actually did create, an ethnic subset, with its own fenotypical and cultural particularities
mircea_popescu: i'll take ukrainian girls and usian machinery as it used to be and bid both let me be.
mircea_popescu: Landgull romania is culturally close to things that no longer exist, not have existed for a long time. romanian is the closest thing to spoken latin still left around.
mircea_popescu: "Thin privilege is uploading a picture of yourself that takes under 1 minute to render"
mircea_popescu: overeager young males with significant socialisation deficit.
mircea_popescu: much like the flea market works. cheapest half-and-half to be had in the lands, but you won't get any pornstar poon there.
mircea_popescu: so yes it is much cheaper, in the sense that if you're cheap it's cheaper and if not it can't be done.
mircea_popescu: the bar to effectual interdiction can be as low as a dozen armed trained hands.
mircea_popescu: "Orangutans are among the most forceful of mammals. Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) exhibited aggression in almost 90 percent of their copulations, including when the females were not resisting. A possible explanation for aggressive behaviors in primates is that it is a way for males to train females to be afraid of them and be more likely to surrender to future sexual advances."
mircea_popescu: arguably they do the same thing, with the means their limited intellect allows them to try and employ. or to quote :