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greenspan_fan: as
a (possibly out of date) counter example, I could point to the manhattan project
greenspan_fan:
a few posters of rosie the solderer and voila, you've got your asics
greenspan_fan: if you model leaks as
a poisson process, they're actually pretty air-tight
jurov: greenspan_fan: you imagine tsmc can and will reject all orders for 2 month or so just cause usg drops
a billion?
mircea_popescu: ok so. they spent
a trillion "Dollars", but those trillion dollars could not have bought
a trillion one dollar ringdings
greenspan_fan: for far less than
a billion I could commission enough asics to make the network mine, for all intents and purposes
greenspan_fan: mircea_popescu I think we're
a year or two out before the hash rate reaches escape velocity
greenspan_fan: if I had the resources of the us govt, and I wanted to wreck bitcoin at all costs, I'd start w/ outlawing its use for payment, and impose penalties for anyone in my jurisdiction who has
a bitcoin wallet
mircea_popescu: greenspan_fan but
a) they're not inviting him anywhere, because wherever they are so is he already
mircea_popescu: more importantly : your average kid on reddit could not survive if i teleported him to
a random place on earth.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell mike_c here's the actual data : since jan 1st mpoe bot has quoted 7192 times, for
a total book exposure of 62930 minutes, = ~43.7 days (out of 51.4) so like 85%. of these in turn 7 (so like 90%) have been since the 14th, ie since the signal divergence.
greenspan_fan: I don't even really know how the us economy functions, but it does, after
a fashion
greenspan_fan: P2 (P1, A1): There's
a good chance of government regulation/interference occuring, which, depending on the effort involved, could lead to subversion of the valuable aspects of bitcoin
greenspan_fan: A3: The folks on reddit constitute
a reasonable sample of the voting public, from which "popular will" is derived
greenspan_fan: he (and his suspiciously low desk) aren't on your side. They might not be against you, but it's still not
a great idea to do your best to hand over control to the first guy with
a title and incipient back problems who comes along
greenspan_fan: it's
a marginal risk w/r/t bitcoin, but jeez, one wishes everyone could just get w/ the program w/o all these false steps
greenspan_fan: if there's
a big enough push, the government can/will step in, regulate everything they can regulate and exterminate everything else
greenspan_fan: because that is
a universe I would like to live in
greenspan_fan: (before the analogies diverge too much) the problem is is that it completely misses the point about how there's now
a fundamentally different way of acquiring food
greenspan_fan: it's more like, if you went picking berries and wandered upon
a mcdonalds
mircea_popescu: if she finds
a new type of berries, you really expect her to run home and come back with
a new type of berry bag ?
mircea_popescu: jurov you going to go for
a "what they think they see is not what is there thus no recognition could have taken place" ?
mircea_popescu: sure. lawsky will probably invent
a whole new way of fucking women in your office
greenspan_fan: if you tell all the churchgoers to stay indoors it might make
a difference
mircea_popescu: take the great plague. what difference does the church pronouncement against
a great plague, or for it, or about it
benkay: this waffling about the legality of bitcoin by places thailand etc are just going to delay its recognition as
a thing by the big institutions
greenspan_fan: it's more something that you read about for the ideas, rather than because it's
a complete and fleshed out theory
greenspan_fan: I can't even find
a keyboard that has the greek alphabet in it
benkay: there being
a relationship between abstraction power of words and the number of maintained in brain on mental horsepower.
mircea_popescu: that's why the scapegoat is NOT
a "horrible crime" in
a 1700s culture, but quite fucking required, sane and reasonable.
mircea_popescu: and
a whole slew of things such as group selection, and marginalisation, etc
greenspan_fan: additionally, people reinforce their belief on correct predictions and the people who are bad at thinking in terms of
a-->b tend to starve vs. write almanacks
benkay: oh man but this system has
a horrible problem
mircea_popescu: but it IS
a better fit than the modern climate science.
mircea_popescu: so
a bunch of derps cca 1700 who are desperately aware of farming, cause their life depends on it
mircea_popescu: let's say that we are chemical machines which fit
a very primitive lua.
mircea_popescu: not knowing you can do complex poly fitting means you'll just draw
a line through the datapoints
benkay: intimately. i did
a spot of modeling when building
a wafer host for
a wager probing mfgr.
benkay: i don't really expect accuracy on predictions of the behavior of
a really complex multidimensional set of oscillators and dampers (see: planetary processes of weather etc) with totally unknown coupling from
a set of modelers whose heads gotta be up they asses much less
a book from
a ways back
mircea_popescu: im not
a geologist employed by
a venture fund trying to buy siberian lands, so what do i care about the water table et all.
benkay: mircea_popescu i was going to bring up water table problems but just freeze
a berm around your mining works el oh el oh el
benkay: wrong with
a beautifully normal distribution on some wrongness axis
Vexual: im surely feeling
a fiddle coming on
Vexual: yeah well i dont have
a pssport
kakobrekla: anyone with half
a brain is not there.
greenspan_fan: like I mean, once you have
a certain amount of information about the users inferences between two addresses becomes much more accurate
kakobrekla: You have been banned by
a forum moderator. You may appeal here: banappeals-w6pquw43@theymos.e4ward.com .
greenspan_fan: idk if it's completely fungible; you can analyze the blockchain, right? and idk if there's
a mixer that you can trust.
Vexual: KRS-One that stream would be
a lot more interesting with godzilla
Vexual: hey its
a mac, AusBitBank should go and steal it!
Vexual: not with
a copper hull
Duffer1: you can get
a finished one on ebay i'm sure dirt cheap
Vexual: as
a prequal to treasure island it's disappointing
Duffer1: i get an error message whenever i try to upload
a pic to imgur
Duffer1: i'm at
a total loss, what could possible prevent me from uploading images to imgur or photobucket or tinypic..
Vexual: i was just gonna say i feel like i should be sitting by
a campfire 10k yrs ago
mircea_popescu: decimation more like, it's your duty to live in
a sane world.
mircea_popescu: you don't want to keep the job where he
a) isn't smarter and b) can't cope.
decimation: so the boss has
a right to ensure the slaves are in order
mircea_popescu: suddenly you have
a society in which censorship is not at all absurd, but quite logically sound and flowing from what the people do.
mircea_popescu: i mean, take the notion of censorship. you consider it unbearable to be told to shut the fuck up, keep your bitching to yourself and disperse right now. but... you DO keep your thanking to yourself as
a matter of course, as if it's ordained from on high.
decimation: yeah, being
a good master (husband, employer, etc) is hardass thankless work
mircea_popescu: now, stealing her and trying to get her dressed is the best exercise
a young boy could possibly attempt.
mircea_popescu: suppose
a guy who is older than you, and better than you, and smarter and more connected and cultivated and powerful than you has
a number of slaves, among which this absolutely breathtakingly stunning young lady.
mircea_popescu: i know the general opinion is that omg copying is bad or w/e, but i don't hold it. any painter worth
a shit was made by copying the old masters in his own hand. it's how you become
a good writer, rewrite fucking hemingway
mircea_popescu:
a rare day when what you thought mp meant is what mp actually meant.
Vexual: seriously, don't make me laugh too much or ill have to pay some faggot surgeon tho render me unconcious and tke
a knife to my nether regions
decimation: Karpales should be arrested by the UN for being
a fat fuck
decimation: there are probably many actual bums who would be happy to protest for
a few coins
Vexual: nor coin with witch to pay for
a roof
mircea_popescu: i mean, he'd be camping somewhere else if not there, not like he has
a house or anything.
mircea_popescu: mike_c that looks less dumbfoundingly no fucking way-ish. i ordered some data extracted i'll have something in
a little
decimation: I wonder if someone makes
a decent LCD-based serial terminal
decimation: apparently in March 1991 IBM divested their hardware manufacturing to
a company that became Lexmark
Vexual: that had
a keyboard connector
decimation: surely the springs on
a 30 year old keyboard are starting to wear?