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mircea_popescu: i kinda have high hopes once the foldable screens come into their own
mircea_popescu: nobody there to stand up and tell them where to stick that shit /
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform re previous imgur : wtf is that kindergarten shit.
mircea_popescu: Bitcoin 0.8.5 or later is required << apparently p2pool is asshats.
mircea_popescu: WWE, was previously known as the "World Wrestling Federation" or "WWF" from 1979 to 2002
mircea_popescu: they basically rebrand it each decade, so 10yos can all have their own.
mircea_popescu: "and suddenly, totally out of everyone's left field, chtulu"
mircea_popescu: mebbe i make an android sexbot to come to your place and disturb your thoughts
mircea_popescu: gribble auth no longer used/required for assbot voice.
mircea_popescu: bless his soul. "bitcoin is bad because no government to inflate it, no government to posture about it, no government to tax it".
mircea_popescu: dude where would we be without bitcoin experts that built their expertise on ignorance!
mircea_popescu: ll fork the network to keep it. Eventually, the network will cease to have utility because it will be too small and then it will die. The three specific things that will ultimately kill Bitcoin are the limit on the number of coins, the lack of any kind of value anchor, and the absence of compulsory transaction fees. "
mircea_popescu: "Having said that, the main reason I've never heard of him is probably that I mostly ignore Bitcoin current affairs, because its design flaws will eventually kill it. The key ideas behind the technology are epoch-makingly brilliant, but the trouble with any distributed P2P system - the thing that kills most of them in the end - is that for any given design flaw, there are people who benefit from it, and those people wi
mircea_popescu: that can't be a problem because internet doubles every year
mircea_popescu: mod6 actually this would be a good datapoint to compute. find out the sum total of orphans to date.
mircea_popescu: mod6 but a) a block can no longer be an orphan once the block at the height it disputes has its coinbases spendable ; b) the sum total of orphans to date isn't, if memory serves, 8gb.
mircea_popescu: jurov: i should prolly make a bot << it's been up to date ?
mircea_popescu: Adlai generally a good indication that all he does is smoke pot, and watch dudes firing guns and chicks doing yoga in yoga pants on youtube.
mircea_popescu: point being, whoever finds something fundamental and builds his mental representation of life on top of it is going to act like someone who's built his mental representation of life on top of it.
mircea_popescu: politicians about lying, journalists about being stupid, on it goes.
mircea_popescu: alternatively, you should see how passionate self-mutilating idiots are about "transgender"
mircea_popescu: jurov: regardless of if it is the case, is it feasible ddos scenario to generate lots of orphans for old blocks? << yes.
mircea_popescu: mod6: so we /might/ need to add something similar... but im not positive that this is actually the issue yet. << i don't see how concurrent chains would cause memory outages.
mircea_popescu: it all depends whether you're waspivorous or shitflyvorous
mircea_popescu: i can see the point anyway. the wasps are a compliment to the grapes and the flies to the dead donkey.
mircea_popescu: the balls are a complement to your cock ; the wow's you hear are compliments to your cock.
mircea_popescu: adlai meets girl at party. she drags him to upstairs bedroom. they go at it. after a while, she's "adlai, this fucking sucks!" and he retorts calmly
mircea_popescu: it produced ~400 clicks in 24 hours. which i imagine it's about 100% of everyone that set eyes on it.
mircea_popescu: speaking of which : because somethingawful forums keeps driving people to trilema, i started a banner campaign there.
mircea_popescu: Adlai: he's still here, paybase/hashnest logo everywhere, giving out free polo shirts at their booth, kickoff party had a giant paybase logo on the side of the hotel << because "advertisin fixes everything" "we're creating awareness".
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski of course, they might not like you anymore.
mircea_popescu: xanthyos: TomServo: care to play monopoly? we can use our own boards and everyone gets to be the car << i always play the hat!
mircea_popescu: kinda why it's the job of parents to send the popular girl to live naked with the pigs for a summer , and respectively force the acne boy to dance naked in gay bars the same summer.
mircea_popescu: there's this ancient observation that bright young lads do not "choose their field of research", they merely go with the first direction where they happen to have some success.
mircea_popescu: too many people dislike them, so they'd never make it.
mircea_popescu: actually i guess it's mostly "pr" now. same deal, "you need css for your website, you need tanga slips for your barbie"
mircea_popescu: which is why teenaged girls with little sex experience but nice tits and barbiedoll face tend to go into "fashion design", whereas fat dudes with an acne problem tend to flock to busienss school.
mircea_popescu: all it takes there is one. one jobs for everyone from samsung to chinaxxx to make ipads
mircea_popescu: in hierarchical situations, once ford decides to order his lieutenant to mine a hill because he sees rust on it,
mircea_popescu: note obviously that all this applies to flat, ie, non hierarchical situations, like what to wear.
mircea_popescu: 15 boys like this. if 9 girls hate it, it'll become a "civil rights" issue, but happen anyway.
mircea_popescu: consider how it works. take an island of 100 people, of which 5 boys and 6 girls under 30, 10 boys and 11 girls under 40. now, one day the fashion is for girls to wear clothes with a hole over left nipple, so it's always exposed.
mircea_popescu: right, but the headcount that'll NEVER wear them is large enough
mircea_popescu: which is why the notion that social discussion is argument driven is just so much rubbish. which is why conde nast wants reddit and the new york times moved to publishing pics and tweets.
mircea_popescu: if the fashion looks like it doesn't have the steam, backlash prevails.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform you don't understand how social works work. so : if anyone can get one, it's ok. if it becomes apparent not everyone will have one, it's not.
mircea_popescu: i guess once bitcoin fails i'll run a slavegirl harem / art collective.
mircea_popescu: shoot a bullet hole through mirror, take your pic, title the result "glasshole through looking glass with hole"