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mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves that's simple, "have your girls recommend"
mircea_popescu: if you dump them when they get annoying you're stuck with a bunch of pleasant women.
mircea_popescu: see, if you dump them when they get 20 you're stuck with a bunch of annoying teens
mircea_popescu: why not just dump them when they get annoying, age-irrespective ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: VanCleef i thought the freudian/jungian approach was poo = moneys.
mircea_popescu: and generally everyone else, when you're talking to them.
mircea_popescu: you may not suggest that. i have to suggest it, when you're talking to me,
mircea_popescu: but there is such a thing as an examen de maturite which keeps the children away from human society.
mircea_popescu: the path is 1) you prove you're able to think ; 2) you're entitled to your own viewpoint.
mircea_popescu: no, everyone is not entitled to their own personal viewpoint.
mircea_popescu: it's been covered to death why " it's impossible to call it one way or the other" doesn't work and doesn't hold, over the years
mircea_popescu: <VanCleef> yeah its official <psterryl> until someone points to some legit evidence or a statement from LMB/neo/danny
mircea_popescu: yeah generally a pragmatic approach works better. there are more things we want to believe in than can be done.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell benkay asciilifeform you've been mentioned ^
mircea_popescu: unless they're taking a microscope to the box, who's to say what's in there ?
mircea_popescu: ahh, remember the days when am was derping about "having 30% of all hashing for a year"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not even. more builders went out of business than stayed in.
mircea_popescu: MisterE it's a theory. it's not outrageously or massively wrong, but im not too persuaded.
mircea_popescu: "large concerns" that thought they had access to the latest widgets expected to come out... november 2012 are mostly bankrupt today
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform how about the people who "invest" despite negative roi ?
mircea_popescu: the reason, of course, is that bitcoin is worth three to four degrees of magnitude more.
mircea_popescu: nearly as prolific as bitcoin miners they will never be
mircea_popescu: tg2 you realise people wouldn't build the ram as part of the asic do you ?
mircea_popescu: in fact you can allow life on a 1 wide grid couldn't you
mircea_popescu: the mining difficulty parameter is not some arbitrary zerofill
mircea_popescu: you can have difficulty scale as... the size of the field.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell benkay "One cannot issue ratings until one is rated oneself. This is a useful feature that prevents a lot of misuse of the system. If scammers cannot stuff the WoT database with their sockpuppets, they cannot artificially inflate their ratings. Granted, the mechanism is weak and easily gamed, but the simple presence of a barrier reduces much malfeasance." this made no sense. you know it made no sense. why
mircea_popescu: then again, at least for life there are purely math algos
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform basically, a huge lot of control instructions somehow
mircea_popescu: actually, as a purely academic point, does anyone know a hash that is genuinely cpu-favourable ?
mircea_popescu: and wd on the citroen! it may be a trabamborghini, but it's the french trabamborghini.