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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."
mircea_popescu: "the people" are simply stupider than they were even twenty years ago.
mircea_popescu: yes, he is not as powerful, or moreover, power works differently in foss.
mircea_popescu: the much sadder thing is linux decaying proportionally, and linus is still there!
mircea_popescu: but then again i put amsterdam in portugal once befoar, so...
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it really hurt them, that one. because well... back in 2011 the notion that we come when we please, fuck whoever we want, and leave was novel.
mircea_popescu: Pierre_Rochard: ^ definitive proof b-a is not a cult << butt...butt... we promote hate ?
mircea_popescu: check it out, in the pacific islander nation of the US, virgin brides must first fuck the mullato in chief.
mircea_popescu: "19yo girl sent to prison for 4 years over her decision to marry someone Obama doesn't care for"
mircea_popescu: Moore matched the sentence prosecutors requested for Conley
mircea_popescu: Judge Raymond Moore handed down a four-year sentence, but announced from the bench that she needs psychiatric help. "I'm not saying that her decisions were all a product of mental illness... But she's a bit of a mess," said the judge. "She has no history in the criminal justice system. She is very young.... Teenagers make dumb decisions a lot."
mircea_popescu: mats yeah seriously, i think since carlin died rock is actually teh king o' comedy
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: live in seoul for a year, count the number of snot rags you turn black, and tell me we can keep doing this forever << entirely different matter eh ?
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: mp you know the logical conclusion to come of this is that i am somehow you, yes? << it is actually quite logical if you think about it. you're clearly part of this bizarro cult that consists of not being fucking niggers. and there's AT MOST one person that may conceivably even be interested in not being a fucking nigger at all.