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mircea_popescu: you know how it goes, if you're
the kind
to miss out on it you'd have missed out on it if you went
to college just as well.
boolcrap: well as long as i didnt miss out on it by not going
to college
trinque: prolly saw all
that educational material on
the superior black seed or w/e
boolcrap: her parents must be proud, now
they know how shes spending
their hard earned money
boolcrap: maybe
the dentist gave her
too much
trinque: all
these damn kids
that can't handle
their drugs
these days
boolcrap: guys, do you like funny
things?
trinque: from what I've been
told, Iraq was "patrol here and wait
to be carbombed" for many
boolcrap: yeah ive heard stories like
that as well ;o. I'll never understand
boolcrap: i often wondered if my grandfather would have liked
to play wolfenstien
boolcrap: i bet you never
thought you would see
the day
boolcrap: i really have it i even plugged in
the disk it was on
boolcrap: that explains why its gone, its in
the groundhogs belly
boolcrap: it has been lost, along with
the mans pride in america
BingoBoingo: OSHA IS going
to have a shitfit over
that shitfit.
mircea_popescu: because nothing quite says prestigious luxury like a full option package where
the leotard anti-matches
the car paint.
trinque: pow, right in
the supremacy!
trinque: winner for least flattering ass grab of all
time
mod6: thanks for all
the help, much appreciated. :]
shinohai: o7 mod6
thanks! nice address
this month as always!
mircea_popescu: we eventually migrate
to sane bitcoin and
that's
that.
mircea_popescu: anyway, not like
the problem isn't both well understood and well solved.
mircea_popescu: moreover,
the important point is, "where are
the
true large edges of
this item".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform at
the
time part of
the discussion was "making larger blocks".
BingoBoingo: apparently whatever derp developed >bitaps.com chose
the wrong PR strategy and
their block explorer et al are now instaspam'd
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Just shop for lumber and stone slabs.
Teach
the
tot carpentry.
☟︎ pete_dushenski: asciilifeform: if only your father had died in kaunas parachuting like he was supposed
to, you'd be free of such burdens. alas.
mircea_popescu: no,
today has been
the day of giving nice fellows a hard
time, let him suffer.
pete_dushenski doesn't want
to appear ~too~ useful, lest ben_vulpes become overly attracted
to
this end of
the continuum
mircea_popescu: just as every other "expert" opinion
they ever came up with
to date.
mircea_popescu: and
the cavallier "oh, we'll just introduce subdivisions" nonsense pushed by
the prb folk utterly fails
to consider
the implications
mircea_popescu: consider for a second here :
the year is i nthe future,
the world is numerous planets, a single satoshi is worth
trillions in
today's money. literally, enough
to buy a larger
town.
mircea_popescu is
too lazy
to dig up
the
trilema piece holding exact figure (no, it's not
this, a little lower)
mircea_popescu: was part of a larger discussion cca 2015ish of
the problem of unboundness in bitcoin. even as it stands currently - you can end up with 2100000000000000 discrete items
to keep
track of ? really ?
mircea_popescu: until
the coinbase halves, you can only use 50 btc ;
then 25 and 12.5 etc.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: iirc we discussed
this in
the logs. recall,
the no-splittable coins ?
mircea_popescu: anyway,
this xerocopy argument, while at first convincing, readily recurses into a restatement of
the children argument above ; but it is flawed because, as granma wittily observed, "cartile nu cer demincare" ; ie books need not be fed.
mircea_popescu: lol asciilifeform you should prolly write
those articles.
mircea_popescu: i count self as perhaps middling student of recursion, as a soon
to be 40yo.
there's a lot
to it, what do you want from me.
mircea_popescu: also
there's a major problem with abstract criteria. i for instance don't grasp recursion.
mircea_popescu: but you do have more control over
the matter
than over entropy source.
mircea_popescu: (amusingly,
the reverse is impossible : black people ever so often end up with entirely white kid, because slavery.)
mircea_popescu: simple criterion : you can not guarantee you will never get
the number 7. you can guarantee you will not have mulatto kid.
pete_dushenski: maybe child is crapshot
too far, but it's a matter of degrees
mircea_popescu: actually matching
the japanese gender split of literary production and japanese political situation over
time is bound
to be shockingly instructive.
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: winrar can write poems just fine. samurai seemed
to at any rate
mircea_popescu: and who's gonna write
the poems ? women only ? literature by females results in
the collapse of
the empire.
pete_dushenski: create
tension, conflict, and competition in
the brood, let winrar emerge
therefrom
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: granted, but sultan had whatever 200 pups, a couple were fit for higher life, so why not mp, sultan of
tmsr ?
too many castles needed
to house
them ?
mircea_popescu: if we are
to learn anything from
the history of
the 2nd millennium, is
that marrying performance and lineage is suicidal. so fucking costly a stupidity, in fact, as
to sink monarchy, ie,
the most perfect form of social organisation possible.
mircea_popescu: problem is biology has no intention of defending you. reversal
to
the mean is
the controlling phenomenon
there.
pete_dushenski sees
that he's going
to be defending biology now, it's so sure it's
the wisest against
two such opponents
mircea_popescu: i mean, i see
the point
to a certain degree,
the street in practice DOES select, for
the worst. but i
think he just meant "crapshot" rather
than proper, street scum.