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mircea_popescu: "The one great example is IBM, which faced disruption and existential threat from PCs in the early 1990s and emerged stronger and is still a thriving company. "
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "he problem isn't a limit in general but that 1MB is so low that under any meaningful adoption scenario it will push all individual users off the blockchain to rely on trusted third parties. In essence you will probably be priced out of the blockchain and the blockchain becomes yet another network you will never have direct (peer) access to, just like FedWire, SWIFT, and other private closed transfer networks. "
mircea_popescu: ascii_field "fixed sexist pronouns in manual for use of the alcohol swab employed pre-lethal injection"
mircea_popescu: a sad fate for a race with such well recorded history.
mircea_popescu: i dun believe the web is starved of anything nearly as badly as it's starved of usable value points of comparison. neatly mirrors how those kids are starved for exemplary leadership irl.
mircea_popescu: inb4 "this github commit is worth 1k btc on a qntra size arithmetic"
mircea_popescu: are these the folks that checked and then ignored signatures yest ?
mircea_popescu: besides, what "these folks" in the general wish and what individual folks actually managed when confronted with a bloody club are quite divorced matters.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i have with my own eyes seen men hang for that.
mircea_popescu: i doubt the system couldsurvive a dozen total years of jailtime on this score.
mircea_popescu: each da jailed for contempt & disbarred is a step forward.
mircea_popescu: make prosecutors personally liable for the use of fraudulently produced "proofs".
mircea_popescu: "One particularly interesting tidbit is that when information about parallel construction in a case leaks, a special "Taint Review Team" must consult with a judge to determine which evidence must be turned over to the defense. The Taint Review team is also responsible for insulating prosecutors from evidence that would reveal the application of parallel construction methods in a case."
mircea_popescu: job not needed. they're doing their part being part of the greatest derpocracy in history.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal the most advantageous implications of the whole idea that i see probably have to do with privacy.
mircea_popescu: "When I was in Sicily, I couldn't even get a frickin' wifi login at the McDonalds without an Italian passport *and* a local registered sim. "
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: asciilifeform> when you plug a lamp into a mains socket, is that also a 'streaming query' ? << For some kinds of lamp sure. << LAMP! geddit ? roflmao
mircea_popescu: so basically the diff between betting and buying is 3% on one side, vs the risk premium on the other.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal just trying to think through the valuations of this device. it's interesting.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field do they have classified networks directly connected is ther implication there ?!
mircea_popescu: as weigh is at 90k, even should you hold all the no you can't expect to make more than .189
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal what i mean is, the value of buying 1 btc from you rather than betting 1 btc is given by the weight differential
mircea_popescu: mike_c TheNewDeal no dispute it can be done and has done. just, impediments, friction, that sort of consideration
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal but your holding is worth at the very most .189 BTC, and that if no has a 100% chance to win ?
mircea_popescu kinda interested to see this model developped, but the fact that txns have to take a time, and a risk premium on top of what's actually bneing sold seems insurmontable
mircea_popescu: this works splendidly well, on a certain crowd, creating "consensuses" and "progresses" and whatnot.
mircea_popescu: then charge for the amassed pseudoscience to be repeated in drivelly sources like the huffpo.
mircea_popescu: unsurprisingly. sara miller mccune is a reputed con woman that came up with the following scam : make up fake "peer reviewed" scientific journals, then charge variouis idiots that were stpid enough to try and carve careers out of "social studies" a few hundred dollars to publish their goop
mircea_popescu: the_scourge are you looking for the log bit about the spanish revolutionary right ?
mircea_popescu: for one thing, the fascists had better plumbing than the us does.
mircea_popescu: 90% of all available anything, towards the end of things.
mircea_popescu: do you know how much time and effort the central command spent trying to narrow it down ?
mircea_popescu: neither were any of the men involved in, say, the end of the soviet union.
mircea_popescu: why'd you expect one's finances to derive from one's politics ?
mircea_popescu: the "turn the other cheek" folk over there. the "if you as much as bother a hair of my beard I'll gouge your fucking eyes out with your own detached ribs" folk over here.
mircea_popescu: it could as well mean blog going "Fuck you, of course I fuck my students!"
mircea_popescu: whether they have or they don't have a choice today, it makes little difference.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field the notion that there exists an ending for every character doesn't hold.
mircea_popescu: "never interrupt the enemy when he's making a mistake". fortunately the internet makes so that "help him instead" remains undetectable.
mircea_popescu: "With his wiry grayish-brown hair, his tortoiseshell glasses and his intensity, Professor Lewin is the iconic brilliant scientist … he is at once larger than life and totally accessible."
mircea_popescu: well, the enemy proposes that relevancy is a matter of headcount.
mircea_popescu: fortunately, i am lazy. also fortunately, it's a job that does itself.
mircea_popescu: if i weren't so lazy i guess i'd organise a special cell to create these derpy "controversies" about every single intellectually productive us person and have the academia "sever ties" with them.
mircea_popescu: "Institute revokes emeritus title, removes online courses of popular physics professor who starred in viral videos"
mircea_popescu: probably they're in the path, but not being defaulted to
mircea_popescu: remarkably, wikipedia manages to write however many words on poe without mentioning the guy was batshit insane.
mircea_popescu: obviously the garbage composter will take either just as happily, and so would the toilet.