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mircea_popescu: maybe the blockchain that messes up seconds is a minute off over ten trillion years. whereas cesium clocks, .855% off
mircea_popescu: how about the effects of gravity! how about the effects of universe expanding! how abvout etc.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo ima try an' catch up. apparently can't sleep
mircea_popescu: sure. but perhaps it would be great at measuring economic and perhaps even social and political phenomena.
mircea_popescu: otherwise suire, atopmic clock works great for atomic physics.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that's why i laid into him. he wanted micro precision somehow magically over macro spans.
mircea_popescu: "hey check it out, as long as im measuring atom transitions by atom transitions, atom transitions do not appear to misbehave!"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform as long as that determination was made in a certain system that precludes so and so :)
mircea_popescu: such as, contracts. "rent this appartment for 50`000 blocks"
mircea_popescu: i can see a whole swathe of applications for which it would be.
mircea_popescu: we can agree that any convention is provably broken. that's by definition.
mircea_popescu: EXACTLY. same argument bolsters the "time in blocks" conventionb.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "they had to act inconsistently to maintain a certain facade of consistency"
mircea_popescu: decimation yeah, which is why we just had a cve earlier.
mircea_popescu: note, re the "replication" that recently they were stuck adding a 2nd 3rd second off midnight,
mircea_popescu: standards generally are a recent thing. but time is particularly iffy when you try to bridge what's fundamentally unbridgeable
mircea_popescu: this is like "rigurously" defining womanhood as "n individual sex acts"
mircea_popescu: even the other kind is a convention rather than a factual point at subsecond accuracy across decades
mircea_popescu: time as anything other than arbitrary convention is a hard proposition.
mircea_popescu: note that merely *thinking* you do, or "not being able to find otherwise" can trivially be replicated by the conventional model he proposes.
mircea_popescu: lol "i advise people to learn html, becausre that's a language and it worked for me. wut ?"
mircea_popescu: there's always one of these, that came in and ruined "a good thing". prollly the chinese i gues, tho you never know.
mircea_popescu: im kinda curious who will be claimed as the evil foreign invader.
mircea_popescu: it's a lot of... welll.... actually it looks a lot like liberal-radical-on-reddit, in the early stages.
mircea_popescu: nah. i happen to know what they'll do. sadly it's all in romanian, but there's dozens of articles detailing the "what do idiots who thought they were right and in power do once it comes out they were wrong and never really in power".
mircea_popescu: "Please take Econ 1. When the Federal govt prints more money and spends, you do not get much inflation when there is massive unemployment. The extra $ the government prints and distributes is spent, increasing demand for goods and services. If the govt then KEEPS increasing the money supply, THEN you get inflation."
mircea_popescu: trinque i suspect they actually understand this pretty well, which is why the vehehehery gingerly treatment of actual powers that be, and the very loud derpage around idiots asking for a cock in their ass, like schwarz.
mircea_popescu: i wonder how long until it sinks in, with the mostly empty head of obama, with the mostly empty head of blasio, with the mostly empty head of everyone else in that group of derps : that they're still alive because nobody could be bothered to kill them yet.
mircea_popescu: these aren't hard problems in any sense anymore. they're onyl still hard for retards. otherwise, the safety of "designated importants" ios a matter of public mercy
mircea_popescu: the sad fact of the matter is that the same general development that allows derps like yanis souflakis to pretend like "he can distinguish inflation from product improvement" also allows anyone who isn't a redditard and has a day's leisure to build a missile ; and anyone that isn't iran and so mentally retarded to build a nuke.
mircea_popescu: tbh, if you're going this avenue you're better off firing a home made sol-sol missile at the target than hitting them with a homemade drone
mircea_popescu: much like the pacepa defection proved the end of the romanian thing.
mircea_popescu: there's also the secret service dudes, guarding your tungsten bars an' sheit
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell teward * teward has quit (Quit: ERROR: Segmentation Fault in ZNC: admin.so: 56)
mircea_popescu: but then again, i don't know anyone but asciilifeform to both honestly and seriously propose viewing the nsa as aserious endeavour, and even he's been kinda shaken latelyt.
mircea_popescu: re thye whole "Source Code Similarities Between NSA Malware and 'Regin' Trojan " : the cause is quite obvious but somehow not found by the ever-brighter hn collective. that is : nsa outsourced the production. the way that ball got dropped is embarassing to them, and its very existence even more embarassing.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform tornade ? sounds like toynode, except also descriptive.
mircea_popescu: guy's obviously got his own agenda, but hey, won't be able to say he wasn't exposed to the sane set of ideas.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's how the accessbility stuff sails in.
mircea_popescu: trinque: why the fuck for example do I have some daemon running for accessibility << generally that's because if you need it you can't turn it on, so it has to be on by default. you can turn it off obviously.
mircea_popescu: i wonder how prevalent this actually is. as opposed to interested parties trying to create a niche for their ngos.
mircea_popescu: "MOSAC - a charity which supports the non-abusing parents and carers of abused children - says a third of all calls to its helpline are from women who believe they have been groomed into conceiving a child."
mircea_popescu: mats actually this is a mental condition in humans, and the desire of squids and generally cephalopodes exclusively.
mircea_popescu: the nine women - three men island + slavery would have probably icmb'd the other one within a few generations.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the main factor destroying that experiment is that they don't allow violence.
mircea_popescu: however, this MAY be like saying that illiterate cultures are the norm, and to find successful literate cultures you either have to turn to ancient history, remote outskirts or capitalist fiction.
mircea_popescu: "Most cultures worldwide are patriarchal – to find examples of successful matriarchal societies you either have to turn to ancient history, remote outskirts of the world or feminist fiction. "