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mircea_popescu: oh bonus points : moving us embassy
to jerusalem. such lulz.
mircea_popescu: first he has
to get
them
to "win" and proclaim
their victory pluriously.
then
they hang.
mircea_popescu: but hey, it's ok, because it'll be an improvement. according
to
themselves. consensus! hurr!
mircea_popescu: he'll simply abandon it at
that point, except discoursively, and it'll forever be "hey i
tried
to fix
things but
the swamp wouldn't let me". in any possible strategic evaluation of
the situation,
the best outcome for
trump is exactly what's happening.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-10 13:59 mircea_popescu: people's savings
through misleading promises and "investment" funds. And so on." part b, which is lulzy.
mircea_popescu: it's a blow
to
the justice system more
than
to
trump. but hey,
the pantsuited opposition can't possibly consider
things, so
therefore
they can't possibly exist.
mircea_popescu: really ?
they'll
take it
to
the supreme court ; which is understaffed, and will conceivably deadlock 4-4.
this will also be a blow
to
trump ? why, because it is strictly impossible for
the weimar republicand its institutions
to be perceived as ineffectual and effete ?
mircea_popescu: and in
the same vein, "The judges’ vote is a major political blow
to Mr
Trump, whose early days in power have been characterised by a difficult relationship with
the judicial branch of government."
mircea_popescu: in other lulz,
the fake news apparently believes australia === malcolm
turnbull ; even as it firmly believes usa != donald
trump. how
the fuck is it
that committing
the usg
to liberating australia from
the unwelcome and illegitimate socialist leadership is
to be confused with "war on australia" ? when
they invaded europe it was "war on hitler" not "war on europe"
adlai: oh sorry,
that line got pebkaced. it seems wrong
though, shouldn't a miner want
to both increase
the amount of work
the others do (validating
the new block), and reduce
the chance
they have
to do reorg work?
davout: adlai: "And
there is also no incentive for Mike
to forward
to Molly a block
that Miner Mary just solved and sent
to him."
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: No biochar experiments, composting meat breeds clostridium, and
the way
to dispose of bones is bleaching
them in
the deser sun and selling
to
tourists
mircea_popescu: suddenly i don't need
to explain why all "police" resources are expended
to fight "war on drugs" even as kitty genovese dies in a pool of her own blood. cia wants drugs as its own domain, what.
mircea_popescu: as everyone ever involved is aware and occasionally points out, "the reduction in violence,
theft, and fraud is incidental
to
the protection of
the royal forest".
mircea_popescu: that's how it appeared, and
that's
the only
thing it's for.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-10 14:20 davout: as he formulates it doesn't strike me as a fundamental issue,
the miner of a block ~is~ properly incentivized
to broadcast it as widely as possibru
mircea_popescu: "Most institutions which have undergone a lengthy cultural evolution, such as law (which lowers vulnerability
to violence,
theft, and fraud)," <<< i gotta say,
the ubernaive reinterpretation of reality in
the hands of armchair nonviolent "scholars" is endearing.
to be plain : law ENTIRELY exists so
that
the concept of forest may be enforced without
the depletion of
the villages.
mircea_popescu: (to revisit
the beatings : beating both mother and daugther for misbehavious by either mother or daughter is
the historically deployed and
theoretically correct approach ; what
the "red pill" dudes call "branch swining behaviour" in
their AWALT booklet is both proof
this is so and its direct result - it selected over
the years for a certain
thing,
the anthropological concept of "female community")
davout: and in other news, french citizens are now legally permitted
to read
the logs
mircea_popescu: the much more obvious "beat all females until
they all stop whining" being "off
the
table" for incomprehensible "reasons".
mircea_popescu: basically
the reason
the state in
the leviathan acception of statehood as commonly understood
today EVEN EXISTS is
the fear of early greeks
that all
the neighbours may get
together secretly and ostracize
them,
mircea_popescu: davout he stated it in
the particular.
there's no actual incentive for miner x
to
tell miner y specifically. which creates a very
toxic situation, which
then presents all of itself an incentive for cartelization.
davout: as he formulates it doesn't strike me as a fundamental issue,
the miner of a block ~is~ properly incentivized
to broadcast it as widely as possibru
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-02-10 13:59 mircea_popescu:
to do
that
that preserves bitcoin's design goal." (part a, which is correct)
mircea_popescu: phf what's
the relevancy of
the hardware details in
the example given ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: basically, "bitcoin has clearly proven
that what libertards
thought
they understood about money and finance is pure global warming claptrap, so in conclusion here's a restatement of
the global warming claptrap and proposals
to fix
the world so it is more like
the claptrap!"
mircea_popescu: people's savings
through misleading promises and "investment" funds. And so on." part b, which is lulzy.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "The biggest flaw is
the fixed issuance cap. Ideally,
to make bitcoin useful as a currency,
the supply of BTC in circulation should expand at a rate slightly greater
than
the increase in
the volume of payments, forever.
Then
the value of 1 BTC would slowly decrease with
time.
Then no one would want
to hoard it.
Then
the value would be stable enough for use as a currency.
There would be no bitcoin peddlers
trying
to get other
mircea_popescu: to do
that
that preserves bitcoin's design goal." (part a, which is correct)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "To be fair,
the economic flaws are mostly justified because
there seem
to be no
technically sound way
to fix
them. For example,
there is no incentive for Miner Mike
to forward
to Miner Molly
the
transactions
that he received from Client Charlie. And
there is also no incentive for Mike
to forward
to Molly a block
that Miner Mary just solved and sent
to him.
Those flaws need
to be fixed, but AFAIK no one has figured out a way
phf: i've not used it from a cellphone
though, i don't grok
the whole concept of a shell on a device without keyboard
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-10#1612714 << is handy, but i can't bring myself
to replacing safety critical ssh with it. i've had plenty of opportunity
to
test it
though, and it's best option for when you're
trying
to connect
to server over a public wifi running over cell network off a generator
☝︎ mircea_popescu: in other lulz, google query : "am12ani și îmi bag lucruri în pizdă ce se poate întâmpla" (literally, "i am 12 yo and i stuff
things in my cunt, what can happen")
mircea_popescu: especially if
they were
the shinbones of
these idiots.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-10 05:27 mircea_popescu: "Parse Server •Server was Rails at first (with 24
threads max. concurrency) with very little
throughput per server (~15–30 requests per second) •The server was later rewritten in Go.
The open-source Parse server is written Node.js and lacks many functionalities of
the original Parse server in Go." <<< holy shit, can you believe
the idiocy ? "we wasted a bunch of money doing stupid shit because we
truly believe"
mircea_popescu: fun fact : in french shin and flute are
the same
thing. because...
they are
the same
thing.
ben_vulpes: i am reluctant
to consign material from which i may yet extract $use
to
the public pit
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: you know how photosynthesis reduces electron energy by lowering its potential down gradually
through a series of steps?
mircea_popescu: from experience, once
the pig farm goes over 500 heads, bone furnace becomes worth it.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i doubt you actually get enough bones
to make
this worthwhile
thinking about ; but if you do - make your own bone ash! put in garden!
ben_vulpes: i'd be satisfied if
the bones were rendered unattractive
to pests.
mircea_popescu: but, dogs aren't bone eating machines.
they just crack
them
to get
to
the marrow. you still get stuck with
the bone.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i have been
thoroughly
terrorized by
the fud around passing bones
to dogs
mircea_popescu: no system will ever compost bones. you need a furnace for
that
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: even i can only scour so much off
the bones
mircea_popescu: the correct way
to handle meat waste is
to beat
the women.
ben_vulpes: i suppose
the smart
thing
to do is make a highly reduced stock?
mircea_popescu: bacteria
that digest meat also digest people ; bacteria
that digest plants (and dairy) don't.
ben_vulpes: what might handicap
the meat/dairy handling?
mircea_popescu: understand,
the definition of septic
tank / latrine isn't "where people shit", much like a fridge isn't "the hole in
the kitchen wall food comes from". if meat goes in,
then it's a latrine, nqa.
mircea_popescu: mmm,
that part is kind-of dubious, but i guess it depends on how your latrine's set up.
ben_vulpes: smells,
turning, meat/dairy as feedstock
to boot
ben_vulpes: aight, next pile of nuttery
to riddle: anaerobic composting of food waste
mircea_popescu: because plants aren't all
that different in
this respect. if you wish
to add something
to
the soil, carbon's
the absolute worst choice.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes as a rough heuristic for
this matter, if you were
to be locked in a room, would you prefer
the room contain a large lump of cake or a large lump of people ?
ben_vulpes: coal is not
the hydrogen-rich rock dug from ground now?
ben_vulpes: wood out of which one burns
the various
tars.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes
the microbiology involved is anything but settled. from
the lengthy human experience on
the
topic, coal is a miserable substrate for a garden.
ben_vulpes: you gotta burn
the gas off, so i have nfi where
the "good for co2 metrics" comes from
mircea_popescu: dumbest idea i ever heard. and oh look, wikipedia explains "it's under investigation for carbon sequestration". so
they're going
to get you
to ruin your garden
to make
their meaningless metrics go
the way
the cult decided
they must go. and someone somewhere is buying into
this ?!