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mircea_popescu: it has exactly zero to do with women specifically, and the whiny pretense to the contrary has only one indicaiton :
mircea_popescu: when i want to make tea rather than coffee, i acquire the skill of putting the righjt fucking thing in the pot.
mircea_popescu: when i don't want to be shocked by the mains power, i learn which bits to put my hands on.
mircea_popescu: this has nothing to do with women. when i don't want to be treated like a fucking retarded tourist and charged 2 to 5 x everything, i learn and use the fucking local language.
mircea_popescu: in general, whenever one wants to deal with the world on one's own terms, one's required to take aditional training, and ALSO be talented.
mircea_popescu: dub: so one half of our sepcies should require additional training to protect its ass from the other half? << yes.
mircea_popescu: princessnell: feminists have again come full circle: attacking a beauty queen for insuffiently supporting patriarchy << they're spinnin' so fast they could be weaving wool.
mircea_popescu: so am i right in assuming the only career worthy of a man named brandon billings is... bill collection ?
mircea_popescu: the average redditor's porn stash is bigger than the blockchain
mircea_popescu: mthreat well that for sure lol. fucking trilema is bigger than the blockchain
mircea_popescu: smickles: I have taken over the bitcoin corp in eve << how much shit was in the hangars in the end ?
mircea_popescu: mthreat i don't recall, what's theirtotal data store ? yotabytes ?
mircea_popescu: nubbins` well if you've microstored the blockchain, they are, yes.
mircea_popescu: there were some people looking into crystal doping storage
mircea_popescu: sorta like the smell of "we burned down 5000 hard drives. hopefully ALL th customers kept good backups
mircea_popescu: (there's this very distinctive vinegary scent of "o shit we just lost this warehousefull")
mircea_popescu: nubbins` i know people who go into seizures just fgrom the smell
mircea_popescu: nubbins` that's the old nitro stuff. modern film no lonmger has the problem
mircea_popescu: if you mean silver coloidal, it's utter shit. read up some time on the trouble hollywood has archiving, what itcosts,
mircea_popescu: nubbins` it's more one of those "let's inject some power into otherwise worthy projects geeks had been dilligently holding afloat with a cuttingboard and a spatula over 30 years"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Ms Boring forgot to make the distinction between the two Erik ventures << yeah not particularly inspiring.
mircea_popescu: nubbins` it strengthens the quality of debian's signatures for instance.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: storing bits that never need to flip again ought to be technologically simpler - on basic physical level - than the normal kind. << this is a good point, and i imagine within the decade we will have special blockchain ssds being made.
mircea_popescu: benkay: i'm highlighting that in a worst case scenario it's not a problem and also as Mats_cd03 and i have and keep pointing out - not a problem to begin with even. << what happens to you once gb blocks ?
mircea_popescu: it's the fucking scriptures you understand, if we all manage to lose the chain at the same time we're fucked.
mircea_popescu: diametric> mircea_popescu: thats probably a good idea to start doing. perhaps keep it on a usb stick on my keys or something, gets updated when i plug it in. << or on a 4 redundant raid array, under concrete.
mircea_popescu: benkay: you don't need a blockchain to accept/send btc. << not to mention the coinbr thing. he really doesn't need the blockchain at all.
mircea_popescu: Namworld says " Assuming we reach saturation of usage", I read " Assuming we reach saturation of usagi" and i'm all like "wtf is he on about, i'm all saturated"
mircea_popescu: hdbuck well what makes you think you have any sort of a vantage point ?
mircea_popescu: as the world and everything else was meant to work in the first place.
mircea_popescu: instead, bitcoin favours centralism in the hands of unelected and unaccountable, unrepresentative lords.
mircea_popescu: oppose the ~wrong~ sort of centralism, ie, centralism in the hands of the more or less representative, more or less elected representatives of "people" as in, reddit derps.
mircea_popescu: hdbuck: benkay : well, some argue that the more the blochain size increase, the less people would actually download it to use bitcoins. other also argue that it would give more power to supernodes, centralising bitcoin, which was something that bitcoin was suppose to oppose. >> bitcoin was never intended for "people" in the sense of reddit derps, and bitcoin was never intended to oppose centralism. it was intended to
mircea_popescu: diametric: I have to admit, its annoying getting a fresh copy of the blockchain in a new client, even though I have the space, and I have 75Mbit internet, it still takes over 2 days. << i keep a master copy like the holy fucking scriptures. which is what it is anyway
mircea_popescu: Namworld anyway, ask them if they use saphire or not. the answer will be informative.
mircea_popescu: at any rate, silicon on insulator, and especially on 28nm, is ANYTHING but low cost.
mircea_popescu: as large as your batch can conceivably be, you'll sell it, either full or quarter.
mircea_popescu: the advantage of making both "in the same batch" is quite unclear, not like you'd be stuck with batches of like, 3 full and 7 1/4s
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, it's unclear to me what exact benefit would this be. if you can make 1 th asics, you can sell 1 th asics.
mircea_popescu: course so far that's correlated moreover negatively over the history of bitcoin miner manufacturers
mircea_popescu: and anyone can trivially be charged a fee for finding out when x bet resolves : he sends a bet to a virgin address
mircea_popescu: that's ok, question that aren';t worth betting on aren't worth answering.
mircea_popescu: punkman oracle service cost is unbound is the problem.
mircea_popescu: nubbins`: y'know, i think bitcoin has actually soured my opinion of the concept of an "idea" << actual business experience in the company of actual business people has soured you on infantile bullcrap. neither bitcoin nor ideas particularly involved.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: idk, i'm not in the 'everything should be free' camp. << but the camp is "nothing should be amazon"
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: l.o.l. << don't do something merely stupid. do something spectacularly stupid instead!!! and don't even mention the actually sane alternative, that's gonna hurt your feelings so it doesn't exist.