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mircea_popescu: im not having any right now, im sitting an' derping at computers. i had one earlier, in her ass.
mircea_popescu: i just dropped 5 lbs of steel handcuffs on 4 lbs of laptop
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski runny colors are pretty much the identifying mark of this here cunt
mircea_popescu: cultpeas are fucking m&m's that have spent thirty seconds in a chick's cunt.
mircea_popescu: he's gonna end up a sort of Bertrand Levy of the republican times.
mircea_popescu: Despite their references to the successes of King Louis XIV, both of these books are still yoked by the exact same horse-blindering Churchillian reverence for all that is broad-franchise democracy, and in particular it’s always-in-tow little brothers, socialism and inflation. << this guy.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller it's like 4pm wtf are you on about lol
mircea_popescu: his "fu guise i'm going home" megapost looks like it had outside help
mircea_popescu: nmot the thing to do while your house's on fire, but otherwise...
mircea_popescu: also, arguing with idiots is, like figure skating, a sport.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` anyway, you're basically doing what fluffypony was doing on reddit : total waste of your time, subjectively,
mircea_popescu: nubbins` well, as the alternative usage spreads the article will become easier to read.
mircea_popescu: and also we're using rape to refer to sexual intercourse now.
mircea_popescu: what, i can't take a libertard word and redefine it to cash in on their investment ?
mircea_popescu: (numbers entirely arbitrary, hafta look at actual code to get actual numbers)
mircea_popescu: ie, if the network thinks block 2 is mined at 12:00, and your clock thinks it's 17:55, and then block three is, according to the network, mined at 12:11 but your clock thinks it's 18:22 you'll have a problem.
mircea_popescu: basically the bitcoin requirement is that your time is within ~10% ish of itself. so you can travel at up to 30Mm/sec.
mircea_popescu: decimation no, the ability to keep time within about a minute of what your previous idea of time was when the previous block was mined.
mircea_popescu: decimation not completely ignored, but one minute disagreements don't matter.
mircea_popescu: decimation actually that tracing is why bitcin was designed so time isn't a concern
mircea_popescu: <decimation> asciilifeform: also I suspect the 'productive' who didn't like living next to ru have already left. << quite.
mircea_popescu: nothing is worse for a good project than poorly selected new contributors.
mircea_popescu: no, it is NOT because of "inflated expectations". it is because of the barnacle effect. the world consists of a productive minority and a leechy majority. once a small elegant system becomes known, the previously uninformed majority now has a gradient to inform it. so they swarm the 2nd system, and barnacle it to all hell.
mircea_popescu: "The second-system effect (also known as second-system syndrome) is the tendency of small, elegant, and successful systems to have elephantine, feature-laden monstrosities as their successors due to inflated expectations."