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mircea_popescu: and i do mean this. nobody. tom cook isn't a fucking ceo, and if i replaced him with hillary's daughter there'd be no perceptible difference anywhere.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i am not entirely sure that ability to distinguish wasn't more of a symptom of the cockroach working than anything else. "i can distinguish tarantula that bit me from tarantula that did not" is scarcely a quote after linnaeus.
asciilifeform: at one point it was possible to distinguish, at the very least, dextro- from laevo-rotary cockroaches - e.g., the 'ten things canned ammo vendors don't want you to know! and the forty methods of instant prayer healing with colloidal silver!' -- vs -- 'save AFRICA!!1 from climate!'
mircea_popescu: but be this as it may, i can't distinguish nor am i inclined to distinguish j supran's pretense that he engages in "science" from random wanna-be-trilema online publication's pretense that it describes "the mainstream" from random wonderdiet late night cable sleazemarketer's "salvation cuisine" from any of the rest of the gunk. they are exactly the same thing, and the word to denote them exists already. barbar.
asciilifeform: and rome went to china. it ~didn't take.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the importance of cutting short the gypsy's pretense that he lives in an alt-country ; the grubfilth's pretense that he has an alt-hygiene, the neoprotestant's pretense that he has an alt-religion (discoivered it himself, he did!) and so on is key. a "vegan" is not someone who "has an alternative cookbook" but an imbecile who doesn't know how and what to eat. and so on.
mircea_popescu: chick that has no fucking idea she should wash isn't part of "the unwashed culture", she's part of nothing.
mircea_popescu: you can't speak of "the native culture" for exactly this reason. the indians have no culture, and inasmuch as they do not, they're not people.
asciilifeform: t
asciilifeform: https://archive.is/zElXA << in other lulz, mr.t utters the Officially Unutterable !
asciilifeform: you can't simply 'administratively' declare a tree to be a chain. gotta specify a linearization that works on ~all~ possible states of the tree.
asciilifeform: they aren't marked as 'outside' tho
mircea_popescu: whatever it retains outside the blockchain aren't blocks.
asciilifeform: and noshit.jpg, they hate the d00d -- closest thing mr.t's wot has to a brain
asciilifeform: on one hand, yes pigs squealing. on other - they aren't actually in a meat yard, nobody's rendering'em
asciilifeform: in re mr.t lulz, 'Trump will continue his losing streak if he keeps Bannon at his side, WSJ says in blistering editorial. Hits against President Donald Trump's senior counselor Steve Bannon are circulating Tuesday morning, with “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough saying it's “hard to find a more villainous historical figure this side of Stalin or Hitler.'
mircea_popescu: trinque i don't think i ever went to a cinema with a girl that wouldn't take stuff off. not past the age of 13 in any case, or as an independent agent, or however you put it.
asciilifeform: well yes. and they're still there, and will be there next year, because mr.t doesn't, evidently, own a magical Wand of 1937
mircea_popescu: wasn't that obvious ?
a111: Logged on 2017-02-20 00:22 danielpbarron: https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-one-very-strange-year-at-uber >> they said that I didn't show any signs of an upward career trajectory. I pointed out that I was publishing a book with O'Reilly, speaking at major tech conferences, and doing all of the things that you're supposed to do to have an "upward career trajectory", but they said it didn't matter and I needed to prove myself as an engineer.
mircea_popescu: and before anyone attempots the historical gambit, "but mp, that's not what it is, but it's what they thought in 1960", gimme a break. that's what INEPT AND LAZY BUT AMBITIOUS GIRLIES thought. much like poor people think "rich people can;'t be happy", as a cheap and useless psychological defense.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the notion that nature isn't stylish can only come out of somebody who has put absolutely no work whatsoever into studying nature. half an hour in the microbiology lab should permanently disabuse one of the notion.
asciilifeform: 'Some moron "optimizes" a feature of a text editor that is written in javascript and requires hundreds of megabytes of memory to open an empty file. Hackernews recommends you switch to this editor, or away from this editor, or anything, just switch. Whatever you're doing isn't what they're doing: fix it. In accordance with Federal law, one Hackernews implemented the feature in question in Rust.'
asciilifeform: likewise, in sect. 6 i ought to have explicitly stated that Z is a sig that covers not only I,O,C,F,Q but also T. perhaps this is evident to alert reader - but ought to have been explicit.
asciilifeform: specifically, in section 5, where we have T'_i = H(T_i) ought to read instead : T'_i = H(A'_i+T_i).
asciilifeform: in the original text, a leaf signs ticket that was made from H(T(H(T(....))) . this is disastrously wrong, because it does not cement the relays' payment addrs into the final signed tx
mircea_popescu: same exact nonsense, "i'll talk about things i don't know"
mircea_popescu: they can't mature on their own ; nor can they construct a working society on their own. this is neither shocking nor worth the mention.
asciilifeform: imho it is not unreasonable to ask that kid save up his coinz until tx fee doesn't dwarf his payload. just as it is not unreasonable to ask chick to grow before qualifying for mircea_popescuation.
mircea_popescu: the girlies that didn't get to see deepthroat but worshipped "stars".
mircea_popescu: to make the story round, alf : there is ample record, not just re antinisca nemour's stinky feet, but in general regarding the women of the 70s and before. they didn't wash. what i have to deal with today in say http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-08#1537246 is the tail end of a half century process that BEGAN with exactly this, "sharing the fruits of industry", in this case hollywood, with people unfit to make the wot lists. all ☝︎
mircea_popescu: yes, well, all it needs to show is that it is a problem. you don't get to unproblem it.
asciilifeform: aaah yes. wasn't this the earlier thread, where we determined that we already have a 'proton decay' going, and that the usable lifespan of a blockchain is -- likely -- finite ?
mircea_popescu: but the fixation on collecting the dust is quite akin to the fixation on "collecting the water" in a spaceship, or for that matter with the fixation on "retaining the atmosphere" on planet earth. venus, see, didn't so much care about its dust.
asciilifeform: now you ~could~ boil the thing in nitric acid, try to recover it. but most folx don't -- and sleep well at night
mircea_popescu: all the rest, that he used boost, or bdb or qt, or that he doesn't know how to design or that he scratched his name in the lens can be fixed
mircea_popescu: you can't go around picking some random parts of your spec to disavow. you put it in there.
mircea_popescu: there isn't a "this is a 4th roll of this cask - must fill" field in your protocol.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-28 11:56 mircea_popescu: to demand miner makes a certified statement to the effect of "offset 0xa to 0xb in block y is reserved for txn 0xc" is putting a constraint on this p2p system the likes of which it can't conceivably bear.
mircea_popescu: yeah, there is. the fact that node can't reproduce miner but miner can reproduce node.
mircea_popescu: wouldn't you rather i finish first ? 4/5 done
mircea_popescu: in fact most usecases that don't reduce to "we know each other so really we don't need bitcoin in the first place" fail to be served by your scheme as it is.
mircea_popescu: fenses a la "he didn't really do it, someone else did, and he's unloved!!1"
mircea_popescu: b) i point and laugh at some idiots. they demure. i ruin their shit. they bitch and whine. i now have to specifically go on the hunt for nodes that DON'T lend an ear to the idiots bitching and whining ? on my own time & dime ? why the everloving fuck. the entire fucking point of even having cryptocurrency in the first place is so that i can rape eth, and flaunt the rape, and nobody can do jack shit other than flimsly psychode
mircea_popescu: and if i try to meet some... they don't roll anything down... a day later finally someone rolls something down and so i put my txn in and it... doesn't get included. wtf is this shit ?
mircea_popescu: a fifth, major point is that the current ~ten minute blocks are predicated on loose coupling of "casks" (current situation can be deemed to be that all miners roll infinity of casks at all times to all comers, and all pubkeys are nil) and no negotiation whatsoever occurring either downward or backward. the dual-negotiation system you propose instead a) has never been tried in practice (which practically reduces to "can't work
mircea_popescu: to demand miner makes a certified statement to the effect of "offset 0xa to 0xb in block y is reserved for txn 0xc" is putting a constraint on this p2p system the likes of which it can't conceivably bear. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform re your piece (you know if you had intelligently published it ON YOUR OWN BLOG i could have left a comment there instead, and in a year or whenever this were to be reviewed we wouldn't have to go grepping the logs like idiots) :
ben_vulpes: i don't much know about paths out, but hatred is definitely the fuel for the torch i use to burn a moat around my tiny castle.
mircea_popescu: eh she couldn't have been that fucking retarded.
mircea_popescu pictures trinque in beatles uniform, "michelle... i don't speak the language... but i can perceive the hole..."
trinque: I don't speak the language, man, but I saw the lollipops
asciilifeform: don't goto bed yet folx...
mircea_popescu: "bitch, i bet you didn't even get your cock sucked until i taught your mistress how."
mircea_popescu: there's no general rule two bit crack whore can't do an epic strip number.
BingoBoingo: phf: You aren't missing anything. The problem is your brain is working.
phf: i don't understand weird al. it's some weird post-hippy take on klezmer, but i feel like i'm missing something, some kind of intermediate step
mircea_popescu is moderately surprised amontillado wasn';t even mentioned.
mircea_popescu: it's almost as good as "you can't tell who sent who what"
a111: Logged on 2017-02-27 21:41 asciilifeform: actually i know an algo that does this. will post it later, if it isn't obvious to mircea_popescu et al after a few minutes' thought.
mircea_popescu: there's a lot of cunt, beer, tv etc given away for free every day ; doesn't make these not markets.
asciilifeform: wasn't referring to the d00d with the cock ring, but to 'i have control of an addr with btc in it, and willing to pay the market rate fee, mine my tx' arbitrary martian.
mircea_popescu: but to be clear - if you are "civilian" you shouldn't be speaking.
mircea_popescu: nobody you don;t know is your friend, wtf globalism bs is this.
mircea_popescu: but yes, all metaeconomic motivation. i wouldn't call it ccountereconomic. much like me treating the whores well in the 90s contrary to male ideology of the time was not countereconomic.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-27 22:04 mircea_popescu: i certainly don't keep nodes for "our democracy", as discussed recently.
mircea_popescu: i certainly don't keep nodes for "our democracy", as discussed recently. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: because there isn't a third.
trinque: why am I relaying txn to 99% of people who aren't going to do a damned thing with it
mircea_popescu: kinda what the whole mempool does, reduces the wallflower problem. (irl, girls don't dare go up to boys lest other girls think them sluts, and boys don't dare go up to girls lest other boys think them losers)
mircea_popescu: either his rigs don't cost money, in which case it's a proof-of-reddit coin a la doge, or else they do, in which case stfu you're not invited to the party.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: afaik you couldn't.
asciilifeform: trinque: just don't be surprised when other nodes drop you
trinque: but I don't see what any of that benefits
asciilifeform: actually i know an algo that does this. will post it later, if it isn't obvious to mircea_popescu et al after a few minutes' thought. ☟︎
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-27#1619276 << well you wouldn't allow someone to appropriate the value of the tx, but of the tx's context. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: these aren't much worse than metal.
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-02-27#1619262 << "plastics" in current practice is a very different material from "plastics" in the 1970s soviet standards book understanding. it ain't no longer pvc, plexi & pp/pet. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: wouldn't it though.
trinque: that doesn't follow from what I said.
trinque: doesn't really answer the question
trinque: miner doesn't want my fee?
asciilifeform: incidentally mircea_popescu's algo doesn't force miners to ~relay~, necessarily, blocks
mircea_popescu: deeply unfungible, like people, these txn. 15yo can't fuck 5yo.
mircea_popescu: can't say it's directly evident what.
mircea_popescu: this will necessarily mean that the woman does not own her body, in some sense and to some degree, when discussing cunts ; and that i don't know what the fuck unpleasantry, when discussing bitcoin.
asciilifeform: 'don't lend more than it'd cost the debtor to have you plugged'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: orlov phrased same lemma with different pieces -- '90s ru produced a dictum, 'don't lend more than it'd cost the creditor to take a contract on you'
asciilifeform: danielpbarron: i can't speak for others, but i'd have 0 interest in a bitcoin where you can cause someone's coin to evaporate by disrupting his net connectivity for a decade or two (e.g., by imprisoning)
mircea_popescu: nobody, and consequently... they aren't. but this isn't a market, it's a war.
danielpbarron: the transactions and addresses wouldn't need to contain info about the expiration. the nodes would know when it expires based on when it was first mined into a block
mircea_popescu: it's not so far clear that there can't exist a sensible, and protocol-explicit method to close a market around the fundamental problem of uxto
mircea_popescu: because what is must be a certain way, whereas what isn't yet can be any way whatsoever.
mircea_popescu: this is a truth of the same level of, "a ship needn't carry a shipyard"
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: just to make it absolutely clear, i don't see a long-term future for satoshi's turd. all of my work on trb is to be regarded in same light as the neutron-absorbing armour on 1970s sov tanks -- something with which to prolong the life of the crew ~slightly~ so that it can drive over freshly-nuked ground and last a few hours of shootout.
mircea_popescu: please don't tell me you aim to reimplement jfs in btc ;/ way the fuck cheaper to just use one.
asciilifeform: (i.e. 'these writes don't count until X is also written')
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the piece needn't be found as such. a large portion of the us-mexico conflict of the 1980s was over silver. which was good money in china.
a111: Logged on 2015-02-14 17:42 mircea_popescu: unrelated datapoints. half energy available \being used to mine bitcoin makes bitcoin safe for humans (safe in the sense of, won't be overrun by the altcoin problem)
mircea_popescu: wouldn't you say.