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mircea_popescu: which ties in quite hysterically into the romanian expression "Fara numar"
mircea_popescu: but anyway : usd is currently trying to use money without numbers.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` nothing's anything and if you have a business obama made that business
mircea_popescu: eh, he has a skeleton of good points, on which he plants the usual bs.
mircea_popescu: this is why we're here. cause the superset of your shit is the way to clean your shit out of this world.
mircea_popescu: yes derps, "money" as in usd is a social construct. money as in bitcoin is not a social construct.
mircea_popescu: apparently the eater-of-worlds interepretation of bitcoin got some pretty high level people involved.
mircea_popescu: lol @hearn : "So: money is not a mathematical construct. It’s a social construct. The fact that Bitcoin uses some fairly basic maths to coordinate social decisions over the internet doesn’t change that."
mircea_popescu: the exact way reliability is implemented depends more on the context neh ?
mircea_popescu: and, for that matter, the very people in the more "advanced" economies are by now exactly industrial products.
mircea_popescu: industrial products are industrial products. all of them. without exception. exactly the same thing.
mircea_popescu: sort-of like seeing footballers trying to reason about medicine. that's what this entire "buncha derpy kids + some usg moles debating bitcoin" looks to me : like a bunch of nfl picks got parachuted in senegal, and are now trying to get themselves cured of tb
mircea_popescu: for the record : a node can do this currently, if a node feels like doing this currently. whether we like it or not is immaterial, really. some miners tried it historically, but it's generally speaking dumb an' so it never caught on.
mircea_popescu: not that i think the replace by fee idea is worth implementing, but the reasons given are lulzy.
mircea_popescu: "It’s absolutely essential for buying stuff in shops. A currency that can’t be used to buy a newspaper on the street is not going to be seen as a real currency by the man on that street." << again and again with this nonsense. what the "man on the street" sees or doesn't see, accepts or hates, whatever the fuck is entirely unimportant.
mircea_popescu: lol at these kids. vandalism, racism, chauvinism et all. the bad words of a new generation.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in fairness, there's 0 price sensitivity from 1 to 10k. pleads against octosite being too useful.
mircea_popescu: anyone know a fast and painless way to make subtitles for a youtube ?
mircea_popescu: there's ample room in there to count by row, and keep reserves etc.
mircea_popescu: in any case about 1/4 of the total capacity of a ssd is not actually shown the os.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform how tiny ? afaik the controlling factor limitng memory atm is that they can't make it thinner than it is because single layer silicone and tunelling becoems a thing.
mircea_popescu: Chillum that was more of a "we want this hardware to last 25 months exactly" marketin thing i thought
mircea_popescu: how the fuck do they measure charge without altering it
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so random ssd question for you. aren't the reads destructive just as writes are ? how come not if not ?
mircea_popescu: so this difference between us is enforced in a way you can't ignore.
mircea_popescu: he has a boss in rh who has a boss who has an orlov who has an etc. six strings long, the flea circus.
mircea_popescu: i doubt poettering for isntance as much as saw a whiff of a whiff of that.
mircea_popescu: it's just that moot subcultures at the end of their rope spew singlemindedness as a natural fermentation product.
mircea_popescu: and no, i don't propose that there's an actual office somewhere directing this braindamage.
mircea_popescu: here's this monstruous pile of serious problems in dire need of a solution, and here's the transgenderqueer crowd fixing pronouns and breaking the scant few things that almost work.
mircea_popescu: and for that matter, the parallels between usg-poettering "working on" linux and usgavin "working on" bitcoin are utterly striking.
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> this is how i learned the tar ecosystem is actually a fucking nightmare << it's reallty very very bad.
mircea_popescu: "hello concierge ? yes i need a new room please, this one is full of shit."
mircea_popescu: i hate to break it to you nubbins` but this is really not normal.
mircea_popescu: it's a halfway world, right ? i hope you survive the indignity :)
mircea_popescu: because, poor ex-billionaire mp doesn't know how to be a ex-billionaire correctly, like whatever frail us schmuck.
mircea_popescu: ima have to cart bricks of cash to the hotel nao. and i will.