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mircea_popescu: which is why that ancient trilema article about my encounter with the aliens and the discussions re the nth roman empire and the perennial nature of the english language
as well
as more recently
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-10#1612893 and the coal in soil discussion.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: it's only the people in the middle who have alternative,
as it were.
mircea_popescu: well, perversely, it either presupposes THAT or else
as the more commonly the case in socialist states (really argentina is what the us was aspiring to be with ronald mcclinton) that they have 0 business to do anyway. in which case not being able to do particular subset x of the pile of things you weren't going to do anyway somehow stands out.
diana_coman: but that supposes one actually has some businesses going from a to b, some aim
as in going exactly to b etc
mircea_popescu: every dick and jane's expectation that "we did it reddit" is the faint echo of, man walked on the moon and generally speaking drove a wedge forcing a reevaluation of the celestial peerage. "
as eternal
as the nile flood" is no longer equal to "
as eternal
as the tide".
mircea_popescu: the latter spinner is spun from the former, but only
as much
as absolutely strictly needed.
mircea_popescu: the "real" spinner, which consists of turning the soil into dust to produce chinese real estate ; this is "farming" and "real estate development" and "mining" and etcetera. such
as the soy production in argentina, now and again lulzed at in the logs. dudes totally gutted this place.
mircea_popescu: the chinese are at the same time pumping out manufactured goods. this is infinite quantity,
as much
as you can take, no problem.
mircea_popescu: the chinese are also willing to pay ~a little~ for umd services, namely, the stamping of "this chinese guy is
as good
as the best white man" on foreheads of their second sons.
mircea_popescu: so, the chinese are willing to pay for real estate ; either in the form of actual land, or in the form of distilled land
as soy, mineral rights, etc. there's basically an infinite demand for this, they'll buy it all up, whole planet, no problem.
mircea_popescu: he doesn't actually need to do anything. all he needs is a good excuse
as to why he isn't. so far - they're providing him it.
mircea_popescu: way this works is
as an empowerment engine. all trump has to do is keep a steady stream of loud but idiotic fixes coming ; for the judiciary to reject.
phf: same
as "no reason" why can't have byte equivalent binary from multiple compilations
mircea_popescu: and consider -- he's selling the supreme strength of NOT having a bunch of these useless dorks employed
as... a weakness.
ben_vulpes: plus that master stroke of "anti human trafficking" + instantiation of the gendarmerie-
as-municipal-officer-coordination-office recently
mircea_popescu: meanwhile gramps goes along with the charade, "for
as long
as they think i watch tv, what can they break"
ben_vulpes: i am spectacularly unqualified to opine
as to how it might happen this time, so i wonder.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's only silent in their idiotic gui perspective ; otherwise if you run it like sane people in cli it barfs
as quoted.
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: 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"
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".
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: 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,
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: "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
ben_vulpes:
as i said, uninterested in full breakdown.
ben_vulpes: smells, turning, meat/dairy
as feedstock to boot
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 ?
mircea_popescu: that's the historical
as well
as correct solution for that problem. spread it out before a storm.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes do they sell calcinated bone
as a fertilizer where you live ?
ben_vulpes: unrelatedly, BingoBoingo have you ever messed with "biochar"
as soil amendment?
mircea_popescu: "
As there was no mechanism for concurrency control (except for minimal support for things like counters), applications were often inconsistent" << then people wonder why us ships don't work.
ben_vulpes: you have to identify
as "a coder" to even consider the stuff
mircea_popescu: by now nobody actually has the faintest inkling of a clue
as to how computers actually run. at all. whatsoever.
mircea_popescu: "Partial updates were problematic
as small updates to large docs got “write amplification” when being written to oplog" <<< aaahahahaha.
ben_vulpes: near
as i can tell, and it tripped my retard alerts fast so i didn't invest much in determining how it works, someone used that to make a "database
as a service" for mobiledevz
mircea_popescu: IT DOES NOT. it's not just that "traction - 1mn apps, largest with 40mn users" means ~same
as zip
mircea_popescu: the pain and suffering echo chamber resultant is supposed to come
as a surprise i guess ?
mircea_popescu: the problem with cultural appropriation
as a content generation strategy is that it only works if there's a fucking culture in the first place.
mircea_popescu: oh and in other lolz, i am apparently the first to have come up with "fakettorney"
as far
as google's concerned.
mircea_popescu: holy shit the "this poem is not
as cryptic" note is shocking.
mircea_popescu: "Boston University's Charles River Campus is cancelling daytime and evening classes on Thursday, February 9, 2017
as of 6:00 AM. All academic and administrative activities (e.g. classes, seminars, student activities and meetings) that are scheduled to take place are cancelled." << global warming gave boston a winter storm the likes of which was rarely seen.
mircea_popescu: bwahaha. "just
as hot
as back home, except lots and lots of animals to save!"
mircea_popescu: i mean suppose what'll now forever be known
as the phf problem : you find yourself stranded in tijuana with a drunk slut in bed. you want to buy breakfast. wut do ?
trinque: perhaps sensible to leave it to choice here
as well.
mircea_popescu: of course in principle deedbot could work
as it works now, take any url, if shoe fits it pays.
mircea_popescu: anyway, apparently melania trump worked
as a high end escort, sez daily mail ? i never had the pleasure, but seriously, wouldn't you WANT a president whose daugther is keen ?
Reuel: Also, in the spirit of what you guys are doing, I'd guess Ubuntu would not be the prefered system to run a bitcoin node on for serious use, do you have suggestions
as to what to use?
mircea_popescu: "E tiravan la donas e tozas e molhers e venc tot dreit la peira lai on era mestiers." how about that! what fucking magic is this, i wonder! you mean to tell me it's possible to KNOW THE FUCKING SOURCES
as opposed to n-th hand idle commentary of no value or import ?!
mircea_popescu: the universal cure for it,
as deployed by the french king, is raising special forces cavalry dedicated to raping the daugthers and castrating the husbands, and billeting it with the families in question.
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-07#1612175 << if we're sticking to unix, should really be able to specify which random device to use, with /dev/random being fallback. of course they Solved it on Plan9 (tm), you can bind whatever endpoint
as /dev/random in your process
☝︎ shinohai: I can see it, and yes 21co sees it
as well
thestringpuller:
as of current looks like there are no TRB nodes responding
mircea_popescu: aha. otherwise dumbest thing ever, really, chopper
as battle machine ?!
mircea_popescu: mno. hooker fucks, soldier fights.
as the hooker fucked so the soldier fought.
mircea_popescu: who ... fucked once more, and allowed them to stay on, to get fucked more
as the need may arise.
mircea_popescu: but in other butthurt, from thenewrepublic fake news outlet : "The term “fake news” outlived its usefulness almost
as soon
as it became common parlance, and is perhaps only valuable now
as a marker for whether journalism that paints President Donald Trump in an unflattering light has reached his desk." ie, "our arm outlived its usefulness just
as soon
as the enemy broke it off our shoulder and started beating us in the he
mircea_popescu: chains for the poor, whippings for the poor, feed children
as little
as they can bear and send them away from their mothers
as soon
as they can wlak, to slave in the house of another.
hanbot: <asciilifeform> it may even be that ~most~ rsa keys, such
as presently exist, are cheaply breakable. << i'd've thought accessibility only via some other means precluded cheapness. but anyway, interestingk.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-14 21:44 asciilifeform: 'Lol this is easily the best "unhappen" yet. So
as the story goes, a secret key that exists and is regularily updated since 2006 suddenly — but deliberately! — gets a shared factor in 2016,
as part of a didactic exercise which consists of doing euclids and other calisthenics.
As a sub-plot thickener, it is for the first time announced that it takes 11*10/2 operations to obtain a 600+ digit prime factor in Berlin, which is somewha
a111: Logged on 2017-02-07 12:54 mircea_popescu: incidentally, anyone actually looked into the "so called judge", james robart ? turns out he's a proper judge
as opposed to the glorified court clerks the us has been replacing the judgeship with ; pretty famous in seattle for tearing down seattle's ban on strip clubs.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, anyone actually looked into the "so called judge", james robart ? turns out he's a proper judge
as opposed to the glorified court clerks the us has been replacing the judgeship with ; pretty famous in seattle for tearing down seattle's ban on strip clubs.
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