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mircea_popescu: i see little in there other than "agend desperate to create personal raport as attempts to control teh public venue aren't working for ununderstood reasons that look scary."
mircea_popescu: there's not even any need to specify it actually contains definitions. the quality of the definitions distinguishes a good implementation from a bad one and that's all.
mircea_popescu: dictionary = "exhaustive list of all the symbols in a conventional symbolic space, with adnotations."
mircea_popescu: it's not a book, it's a list. and it doesn't have to be alphabetically sorted.
mircea_popescu: leaving aside that there's no etc allowed ; A BOOK ? why the fuck is it a book.
mircea_popescu: "a book containing the words of a language alphabetically arranged, with their meanings etc"
mircea_popescu: and the problem is even more visible in dictionaries (as definitions are simply the specifications of words). never is it the case a dictionary manages to not include extraneous nonsense in the soup
mircea_popescu: i defy you to find a spec anywhere in use in the shitstack today that manages to not include things it really has no business specifying.
mircea_popescu: that's how you end up with small programs that do clear things and without a userbase that "has come to expect"
mircea_popescu: that's the main task of spec work : avoiding doing anything as much as humanly possible.
mircea_popescu: complex specs are in no sense better. the only thing a very complicated spec shows is that the designer did not understand the overwhelming importance of not specifying.
mircea_popescu: adlai still. even people with good indedices, what are they going to put in there ? can't make it half the book.
mircea_popescu: the_scourge generally the advice given to noobs is to read the logs for six months to a year.
mircea_popescu: adlai the same process ruined me for books. i'm like "fucking paper no grep"
mircea_popescu: trinque the thing is tho, by now "free" is wholly captured.
mircea_popescu: not nearly as orthogonal as all that, for that matter.
mircea_popescu: <adlai> you'll have a hard time finding a private trainer to subject you to them << not if you're a woman, wink wink
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in their defense, they can actually use it
mircea_popescu: hard times in the international diabetes federation :D
mircea_popescu: but weren't stupid enough to accept the balancers as their own currency.
mircea_popescu: ie, earlier european governments understood the problems of unbalanced trade, and invented balancers.
mircea_popescu: they did, kinda. cowries played the role in africa that opium played in china
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform note that merely the fact of exchanging "Shiny" for "cunt" might well be reported as "monetary shiny" by some people and 'loads of fun whee' by some others.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a word in your ear about "cowrie shells" : it is possible they were ever used for money. it is also possible libertard anthropologists created the pious fraud of "retarded non-white peoples also have some semblance of intelligence".
mircea_popescu: at the time the pound was on the receiving end of german rape.
mircea_popescu: aww coin telegraph goiung teh way of what was the one they kept pushing, that was supposedly big ? also coin something
mircea_popescu: !v assbot:mircea_popescu.rate.the_scourge.1:33e0ab5465f7642a6e1ae13ba6bbb73a29cd777a865ced5b2dfb9dd7a56197ab
mircea_popescu: the_scourge what do you do for a living, and what sort of education do you have basically.
mircea_popescu: the suspicion being that perceived brilliance in other fields may be more the newspaper memory hole than his own merit.
mircea_popescu: trinque quite exactly. accidental central planning and laika is alone in the control center.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller you ever read that crooked timber tyhing about the bezzle was in log yest ?
mircea_popescu: which is why i don't particularly mind gavin trying to create a scamcoin, nor whatever "public oppinion" support he may muster.
mircea_popescu: as soros proved for the benefit of the bank of england.
mircea_popescu: you can always derive a profit by attacking unmonetized goods, or rather ; by exploiting the false claim of anyone putting forth an unmonetized good as money.
mircea_popescu: the wardens are dead. the invisible hand however... myeah.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin stable state is where > 50% of all energy generated on planet earth goes to mininmg.
mircea_popescu: sorta like redditard'd go "see collected manga works" or w/e.
mircea_popescu: or whatever, five centuries of macroeconomics discussions.
mircea_popescu: more generally, that nothing other than bitcoin can really exist
mircea_popescu: all the others are derivatives of its monetization, they can't have their own.
mircea_popescu: the generals are that you can have only one monetized good
mircea_popescu: define bitcoin ?! any and all blockchain based, mining enforced, elecrtronic currencies.
mircea_popescu: the_scourge the notion that anyone works on bitcoin or in any manner relevant to bitcoin outside of this channel is laughable on its face.
mircea_popescu: name should be based on the actual world not on the current
mircea_popescu: im neither. i'm a fucking guelph. that's a white flag you see behind, and the battle is for imperial immediacy not bs.
mircea_popescu: jurov o splendid, i got a mod notice and everything. i like how this works.
mircea_popescu: you can also stick a fork in "representative democracy" equally done.
mircea_popescu: part of why we're here is exactly that : making paper money impossible -> making the welfare governments impossible -> making the "public oppiunion" impossible -> undo the numerous errors of the 20th century.