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mircea_popescu: "nah. if it were, we'd be paying someone to do it for us."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform as i said before, it's a kudge to fix another kludge. we don't really wnat any of it.
mircea_popescu: a collection of yous is going to run exactly noting into exactly nothing.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell phillipsjk "run into the ground" ? lay off the pipe, man. you don't have enough disposable income to cover my harem's feminine hygiene products bill.
mircea_popescu: jurov: any canadian around here pls - are corporations' annual reports public? and where? << if listed as a stock yes. if not, no.
mircea_popescu: <metsuno> The constant openness of this channel, and everyone on it, freightens me slightly. << so it should.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski: ^for the non-romanian-speaking poker players among us << sheeit check that out
mircea_popescu: felipelalli: asciilifeform: your engine is pretty smart, thank you. :) <<< mmm win :D
mircea_popescu: there's like 100 of them in there, that should be pretty wild to run
mircea_popescu: i gotta say ... that's some gnarly shit. is this how sql actually works ?
mircea_popescu: not in bitcoin, not in the world, not in any sense. they're here for feedstock and no more.
mircea_popescu: i know this stupid shit works for the low information voters that constitute the libertard america. figure it out : these people do not actually matter.
mircea_popescu: s actually in israel working for the other side in those same elections, not to mention the mess in the ukraine.
mircea_popescu: really, usg : hire smarter people. i know that obama was wildly successful by promising a bunch of losers unprecedented financial incentives to voice for him, and i know that for that reason it WORKS for him to do all sorts of patently idiotic shit, like most recently claiming that inviting the president of israel "breaks protocol" because it could be seen as supporting a side in the coming elections, while his staff i
mircea_popescu: "here's how we extrapolate data in the past to create a dataset which we arbitrarily call historical, on which we extrapolate a future. and here's how we've fixed it all to look a certain way. no matter that anything put through this mixer would look like a golf club, including most random distributions"
mircea_popescu: this is like... the "global warming" consensus all over again.
mircea_popescu: so... a) correlation = causation ; b)i've doctored the data so correlation = the causation i wish to see.
mircea_popescu: gambling bubble of 2012/2013. This has only a minor effect on the 2014/2015 portion of the data."
mircea_popescu: heh, the gavin idiots. "The chart below illustrates the growth in the number of transactions per day along with Bitcoin's market cap1. There is a strong correlation between the two variables2. If the correlation continues to hold, it suggests that the 1 MB blocksize limit may also limit Bitcoin's future liquidity and adoption. 1I've plotted the number of transactions excluding popular addresses to remove the on-chain
mircea_popescu: the bitcoin-derp community is very... how shall we put this politely...
mircea_popescu: <trinque> I think I'd die laughing if Karpeles was actually involved << his being *completely* uninvolved is improbable on the face.
mircea_popescu: <fluffypony> under 4 months from hire to fire << progress.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> chumpatronics aside, they also have the more pedestrian objective of creating GBs of turdsactions that bob about in mempool indefinitely, blowing up memory footprint in non-mitigable ways << in any case that unpleasant side effect.
mircea_popescu: <jurov> in fact, since earth is noninertial frame, even atomic time depends on latitude <
mircea_popescu: jurov: lol what word... Serenissima Cryptokyriarchy << or Cryptokickyourbuttocracy why not.
mircea_popescu: davout, fluffypony < i don't think bitcoin reference supports either nlocktime or multisig.
mircea_popescu: and im negrating anyone ever hiring him, on general principle.
mircea_popescu: in case it's not clear, no anything authored by hearn may ever be merged into anything. i don't care what it is. the dog learns to shine shoes or do carpentry or whatever, but he does not work wioth computers anymore.
mircea_popescu: "The BIP was authored by Mike Hearn who also provided the implementation for Bitcoin Core."
mircea_popescu: hings necessary to implement this functionality in a secure fashion are already in place, which Bitcoin Core should have done as well."
mircea_popescu: "btcd won’t be supporting the command because it is completely unauthenticated and insecure as pointed out numerous times on the initial pull request. In response to these concerns, a section entitled “Authentication” was added to the BIP which attempts to address the concerns by simply calling them out along with some potential modifications that could happen in the future. However, we prefer to wait until the t
mircea_popescu: the woodcollector guy spending weeks producing 10s of k's of words a day on the topic of nothing at all being the prototype for how that works.
mircea_popescu: and a lot of political entrenchment and noncontent sprouting for pages.
mircea_popescu: but if you let people off the street do system design you get systems designed by people off the street.
mircea_popescu: trinque: I'm starting to itch for a sqlite+deturdolatedbitcoind experiment <<< wha happened to deedbot ?
mircea_popescu: "how i challenged buffett and won millions in the process"
mircea_popescu: anyway, if i end up winning that thing it'll make a pretty great story. enough for an autobiography at any rate.
mircea_popescu: "and i'm going to take two weeks of and carry on regardless, because the "all" on the field was really nothing at all."
mircea_popescu: "Like so many of you, Paul and I have left everything on the field. We have given our all to this campaign. I so wish that I had been able to fulfill your hopes to lead this country in a different direction, but the nation chose another leader."
mircea_popescu: by next year it's going to be completely gone, and the muppets ready to be sent against a wall again.
mircea_popescu: all that article needed was a thick red "Idiot who was going to make the first best and greatest election website. He failed."
mircea_popescu: 27k words, no mention of "website", no mention of "software", wikipedia relevant as ever.
mircea_popescu: al gore, after being a total muppet, did he go commit sepukku quietly somewhere ? nope, still there, still doing substantiall the same thing. romney, after his beyond ludicrous failure with his "super duper website' thigee, did he quit ? nope... still there.
mircea_popescu: you can distinguish the usg agents from the random muppet by this simple pretense : once gavin's ideas are crushed in the open, does he continue as if nothing happened ?
mircea_popescu: you won't know until someone brings some white stuff indoors.
mircea_popescu: at least before getting a fucking alternative up and running. like the "white" walls that are just about puke gray.
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