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mircea_popescu: W is, I hope you’re enjoying your new computer. It stands for Social Justice Warrior, which to a normal person sounds like someone who fights for justice and cares about all human beings, and to conservatives like the devil himself. The implication that they then must support injustice seems to be lost.
mircea_popescu: 3. The group is of the opinion that their work was being overlooked because of their politics, and that the Hugo ballots and winners of the last several years were only awarded due to leftist politics and the racial/sexual/gender identities of their authors, not quality. The tenor of the call to arms was explicitly and often resoundingly political–“this is your chance to hurt SJWs.” If you don’t know what an SJ
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> entirely transparent project to reduce hiring costs << moar like, entirely transparent admission that "well, mp said he's killing us, we're as good as dead, might as well give up"
mircea_popescu: not because economy's dead and whoever has "investors" to connect them to the printing teat can simply dictate terms.
mircea_popescu: decimation yea, i'm sure THAT's why they don't negotiate.
mircea_popescu: except, of course, english is about as relevant to tanzania as korean to the us.
mircea_popescu: hey look at that. tanzanian kids read about as well as us kids.
mircea_popescu: Like many other African countries, Tanzania has made huge strides in expanding basic services like health and education. The primary school enrollment rate, for instance, is officially at 94%. But “unofficial” statistics suggest the quality of those services is often quite poor.
mircea_popescu: But in the spirit of thumbing one’s nose at government overreach, here’s a sampling of unofficial, but highly reputable statistics about Tanzania that might explain what’s going on.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo you care enough about coinbase to write up this latest lulz ?
mircea_popescu: "oh we shall send people in #bitcoin-assets as per standard counter-actor and sabotage procedures to be made within hours and laughed at all the way to the front desk."
mircea_popescu: so are we gonna call teh usg ops "tiki taka" ? seems adequately derpy...
mircea_popescu: i mean people would come with their freshly baked cookies for a dusting...
mircea_popescu: jurov "PDFs/PPTs or it didn't happen." was pretty good...
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo nah, you ever seen what happens if you accidentally a bag ?
mircea_popescu: speaking of which, i have nfi why they don't use cocoa powder to disperse crowds.
mircea_popescu: "your honor, this man is totally innocent of what the police did to his house."
mircea_popescu: hmm so the ~90 i paid for it isn't really THAT outrageous.
mircea_popescu: punkman wasn't the "management engine" an intel thing ?
mircea_popescu: seems teh usg-consensus pretty much is to make amd extinct.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field have you seen the recent "gamer desktops" recommendations btw ? nothing but intel.
mircea_popescu: as teh expression goes, "relax, you have plenty of time. tomorrow - you die."
mircea_popescu: like i've been waiting, on many things, for many years.
mircea_popescu: we explain the problem, publish the measuring tools, let people declare themselves retarded.
mircea_popescu: not among which, the opnion of reddit, the headers of miners etc.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, before any sort of change, like say a block size increase, this will have to be measured
mircea_popescu: we don't care atm, because we know experimentally the system as deployed is stable.
mircea_popescu: and the bitcoind allocation scheme isn't a jewel or anything.
mircea_popescu: which obviously differ from your coder heuristics. but differ to our benefit.
mircea_popescu: in general, going by the "never one single bug in kitchen, and noting that bdb locks are a resource of the kind that pointers are, just one easier to exhaust, i propose this as likely, on the basis of my business heuristics.
mircea_popescu: but do you mathematically see the proof where it never would ?
mircea_popescu: that gavin [pretends like he] doesn't know such is exactly why the verbiage as to the retarded boy in one of my articles debunking the nonsense.
mircea_popescu: currently the 1mb limit is blessfully keeping THIS (among its many sisters) under the water.
mircea_popescu: note that this is one of the majorest issues lurking in the "larger blocks"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: by the time you're entirely exhausted, i broadcast some more txn and mine a block with them.
mircea_popescu: i also broadcast 50k 150 byte txn. these go in your pile, and on fresh memory.
mircea_popescu: so i broadcast 50k 140 byte txn. you allocate these, they fail, you deallocate them. before you had time to go through the lot however,