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mircea_popescu: country of fat stupid people with government issued money. of course everything will end up marketing.
mircea_popescu: <Adlai> who needs documentation when you have live support << what's this, camwhoring for geeks ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform at the time the 4096 ounce bag should have been enough for everyone.
mircea_popescu: and someone coding in windows and without much of a clue about programming as a theoretical discipline.
mircea_popescu: in the case of the world, the existence of people that pump out stupidity.
mircea_popescu: in the case of the blockchain, the existence of nodes that pump out bad info.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=31-05-2015#1149136 << the latter point is correct, for now. but, much like us being here makes live marginally harder for now, yet the presence of punishment for idiots provides them an incentive to either get killed or get fixed, just so putting that in there pre-pogo provides an avenue for the network to purge itself of idiocy.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: and gold standard != deflation for the record. not anymore than diarrhea = transpiration
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=31-05-2015#1149130 << notwithstanding that the dudes in question are probably illiterate, gold standard does in fact not work for a large array or reasons. this exercise is not unlike an attempt to deride qm on the grounds that the various twerps making money out of govt grants in physics academia could not explain it.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform eh, whatever, random derp trying to sell books or whatever by "being controversial"
mircea_popescu: sinaia (the old royal winter residence) is also nearby
mircea_popescu: well check out piata sfatului, maybe go on the skylift thing
mircea_popescu: williamdunne only about 100 miles or so, shouldb't be more than a coupla hours.
mircea_popescu: plebs infesting the world are the biggest problem everywhere pretty much, except china
mircea_popescu: it's not that decent and even excellent places don't exist - they certainly do. but romanians are unreliable and southerners are unreliable ^ 2, and so they keep changing.
mircea_popescu: i could never stand bucharest. i think i spent a total of a week there in my entire life. shittiest town in romania. so i really dunno.
mircea_popescu: don't use the scummy people trying to trick tourists into using their "cabs" at the airport ; insist the masseuse actually sucks you off ; avoid street food
mircea_popescu: what's with all the extra vowels people seem to need ? am i too swedish or something ?
mircea_popescu: and the harmonic series has, of course, no closed form solution
mircea_popescu: where name fragment is a 32 character match across the users textfield
mircea_popescu: can it somehow be structured to serve that purpose ? as a dump it's ok for now because it's short, but by the time the entire db is processed it will be a gb or some shit. maybe make it a list of entries of the format "name fragment", "first 32 characters in base 64'd modulus"
mircea_popescu: i don't think anyone had before a way to "check all the keys i've signed" on one page.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ideally bw_threshold, dc_threshold, bad_block_penalty, per_minute_salary could all be settable via config file.
mircea_popescu: then it could allocate 1/n of its available bandwidth to each available peer, and disconnect peer under a threshold
mircea_popescu: say something like : every bad block received, -10 points. every minute where connection is kept at 80% of its allocated bw or over, 1 point. every hour score decays 1% towards 0, be it either positive or negative.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: with a time decay, with a penalty for sending bad blocks and a positive for sending good blocks at a good speed.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in other news at 10mn hits / 7mn pages may 2015 stands as trilema's largest month. tananana.
mircea_popescu: that city exists primarily because of its renowedly incredible ability to diffuse social tension.
mircea_popescu: which is a sad state of affairs given the history of new york
mircea_popescu: which makes the police become more aggressive which increases the perceived need of the plebs to act tough,
mircea_popescu: cazalla nah it's just, as the gulf between society and government widens, the ability of society to maintain social order decays. people start taking it upon themselves to provide for their own security, the most vulnerable groups (foreign language speaking, poor immigrants) overstot, which induces negative reactions in the public,
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the article misrepresents what's going on. this is quite likely "broken windows" ideology.